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Paperback in very good condition. One or two signs of light exterior shelfwear. The page block is lightly marked. Pages are clean; all text is clear. CM Used
Rara mappa che illustra il Teatro della guerra russo-turca (1768-1774).La mappa si focalizza sui territori situati sulle coste settentrionali e occidentali del Mar d’Azov e del Mar Nero e della Crimea, ovvero Bulgaria, Romania, Moldavia, Ucraina (allora parte della Polonia) e Russia, che si estendono fino ad Astracan e al Mar Caspio.La mappa è tratta da carte manoscritte realizzate a partire dall'ultima guerra russo-turca che si è svolta tra il 1735 e il 1739. In alto a destra si trova il resoconto dettagliato della guerra precedente, con l’indicazione delle date importanti, delle battaglie e di altri fattori che hanno portato all’attuale situazione politica descritta dalla mappa. La carta illustra le nuove città e i forti costruiti dai russi, lungo il Dnieper e il Don, e nelle città di Orel e Samara.Acquaforte con coloritura coeva dei contorni, più volte ripiegata, in buono stato di conservazione. Fine example of this rare map illustrating the Theater of Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774).The map emphasizes the territories located on the north and west coasts of the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea and Crimea, namely Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine (then part of Poland) and Russia, extending to Astracan and the Caspian Sea.The map is drawn from handwritten maps drawn up since the last Russian-Turkish war which took place between 1735 and 1739, most notably New Servia, territory bordering the new Russian-Turkish border in Ukraine, which was won by the Russians during this war. At the top right is detailed accounting of the prior war, setting for the important dates, battles and other factors leading to the current map.The map illustrates the new cities and forts built by the Russians, along the Dnieper and the Don, and in the cities of Orel and Samara. Copperplate with original outline colour, usual folds, good condition.
9 pages, including 2 in-text sketch drawing and an in-text sketch map. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. Howell, an adventurous mountaineer and photographer, was the first to climb Iceland's highest elevation of Hvannadalshnúkur in 1891 and the first to lead a walking-party across the glacier of Langjökull in 1899. Later in 1901, he would lose his life in fording the Heraðsvötn, District Waters, a broad, swift and deep river which flows through the valley of the Skagafjörður. This is a captivating and detailed account of his adventurous mountaineering expedition and the first successful ascent of Öræfajökull, 6400 feet in height, the highest peak in Iceland, also with references to his previous attempt to unravel the secret of the mountain in the summer 1890 and the accounts of two other unsuccesful attmeps in 1794 by Mr. Paulson and in 1861 by Mr. E. T. Holan and Mr. Shepherd. Frederick W.W. Howell, would record Icelandic and Faroese landscapes, farmlands, towns and its inhabitants in a remarkable series of photographs, depicting the beginnings of change taking place to a long traditional way-of-life now virtually extinct. He was also the author of "The Pen Pictures of Iceland."
Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked green cloth boards, very slightly dusty page edges, bumping to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped with rubbing to edges, piece missing from upper front and top of spine and chips and nicks to edges. 128pp. Fictional account of two young people visiting Czechoslovakia in the 1950s, the places they visit, the social life they find there and much more in this account which provides an introduction to the country when it was still part of the Soviet Union.
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Very minor edgewear to jacket, otherwise like new. AD Used
ix + 409 pages, notes, references, index. eng
Hardcover, 1st edition in plastic protected unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
xxix + 602pp.with 75 ills., 24cm., cloth, dustwrapper (bit used), else VG, X71402
Hardcover and dust jacket are sound. Pages are clean, binding is tight, and text remains clear throughout. T Used
22 pages, plus black and white photographic illustration. Includes 2 sketch maps. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. A contemporary description of southwestern Somalia under Italian rule, shortly after the Anglo-Italian Juba River Treaty was signed. The author recounts details in the demaraction of new boundaries in the old Province of Jubaland, including the 'International Boundary' and the 'Western Boundary of Italian Somaliland'. With details on transport, labour, demarcation and survey instruments used. Also included is a report by Assistant Commissioner of the expedition, E. H. M. Clifford, entitled 'Notes on Jubaland', which focuses on the topography.
No dust jacket. Hardcover. Second edition. Faded and edge - worn boards with several stains, marks and scores. Spine is faded, worn and rubbed. Spine ends and leading corners are worn and bumped. Minor penned marginalia on front endpaper. Creasing on lower leading corners of pages 225 - 228. Slight bumping on lower leading corners of a few pages near front of book. Binding is sound. Text is clear throughout. AF Used
Stories: The Great Porcupine Fire; Asking for Trouble; Singing Our Way Through Europe; Feats of Indian Fakirs; The Wyoming Outlaw; Worms that have Turned; Our Township; The Road-Makers; A Californian Lion Farm; Vanished Ivory; Pieces of Eight; Bird of Bad Luck; Two Collisions. Average wear. Book
109 pages. Author offers his fascinating and prescient views of what would befall Europe soon after publication of this work. Foxing to endpapers and edges. Somewhat above-average wear to book. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A worthy reading copy. Book
Clean Copy
Ex-library copy with usual discard stamps, call numbers and pocket. Light discoloration to spine. ; Looks at the colonial history of Greece in Southern Italy and Sicily, and the development of a culture rivalling that of Greece itself, and the relations of Greeks and native peoples. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 504 pages
Minor rubbing to DJ. Old price to DJ. ; Looks at the colonial history of Greece in Southern Italy and Sicily, and the development of a culture rivalling that of Greece itself, and the relations of Greeks and native peoples. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 504 pages; Special edition for Sandpiper Books.
Library stamps on page edges, FEP and first page, library stickers on the spine and FEP, slightly worn cover Ex-Library
Vg. no dj. 1 inscription to ffeps. clean throughout with no annotation. Barbara Ward writes on the future of Europe and of the possibility of an association of European states - as she saw it in 1948. 234pp, frontis map
A sound publication with clean pages and clear content. Foxing of page block.
184 pages. Index. Glossary. Profusely illustrated with black and white pictures and line drawings. "Many of these stories of shooting and fishing are told in the words of men like George 'Wigger' Hailstone, Bert Weldon and Bill Benstead, who remember going in search of wildfowl on the flooded washes in their gunpunts in days when a good shot from the gun might result in a hamper of plovers or duck going off to Leadenhall Market. Rough fellows they were, but they loved their sport and they loved the washlands." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. Slight lean to spine. Book
8vo., First Edition, with 48 plates of coloured paintings, and numerous illustrations and maps throughout; cloth, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. xvi, 392. Plus 16 unnumbered pages of illustrations, printed on different paper, bound in the text. With numerous halftone photographic illustrations, 12 maps and charts (some full-page); notes, bibliography, list of fatalities in the Death Strip, index. Hardcover, black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket. ~ First edition. Over the last decade Hilton, a journalist and writer who has now had over thirty books published, translated into eleven languages, conducted hundreds of interviews since the Wall came down, with leading world politicians as well as the American and British military, East German border guards, and ordinary people. Their memories are expertly interwoven here into a remarkable, seamless narrative. A fascinating document.
Hardcover, 1st edition in plastic protected unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Newspaper review clipping laid in by previous owner. Spine foot lightly scuffed. Clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
Exhibition catalogue. Very good condition paperback. 51043. eng
1 sketch map, silver gilt lettering to spine. Minor creasing and slightly wear to edges of dust jacket, very lightly rubbed tail of spine, previous owner's name on FEP, text and illustrations are clean, bright and tight throughout. Used