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ria9781418175719_inpN/A. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; N/A unknown
2009DADAX1418175714University of Michigan Library 2009-04-28. hardcover. New. 6.00x0.44x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. University of Michigan Library hardcover
1418175714.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1985mon0003599644Univ of Tokyo Pr 1985-09-01. Hardcover. Good. . Univ of Tokyo Pr hardcover
2013w210630271Cambridge 2013. 341pp. Slightly over sized hardback with glossy illustrated boards no DJ VG no names or markings index chapter notes references maps drawings photographs plans of sites tables Maritime Networks in the Mycenaean World . Hard Cover. Very Good. Cambridge Hardcover
1911021515Los Angeles: University of California 1911. FIRST EDITION first printing. Early 20th century full blue buckram hardcover with gilt lettering on the spine. Embossed name on the National Audubon Society on the title page. Archive tape restoration to the title page. No previous owner's names. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. First Edition. Full Buckram. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. University of California Hardcover
20042091202133206554Toho shuppan 2004. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Toho shuppan paperback
20024600Adelaide: The Friends of the Library of South Australia. As New. 2002. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Edited by Valmai Hankel & Mark Gilbert Introduction by Valmai Hankel The text has been edited from versions published in the "Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Vol 31 1861" and in "Explorations in Australia. The journals of John McDouall Stuart during the years 1858.1862" edited by William Hardman London 1864.xxviii 64pages last blank fold out map frontispiece. Olive green buckram boards with blind embossing on front & rear boards title in gilt on spine. A New Copy.; 225 x 150mm . The Friends of the Library of South Australia hardcover
1929065405New York: Coward-McCann 1929. Full blue cloth binding. Clean and unmarked. Map endpapers. Pale foxing to prelims and title page. 329pp. Lacking dj. -- Author was an American journalist and activist best known for her reporting on and support for communist movements in the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. She wrote over 30 books and varied articles. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Coward-McCann Hardcover
1878W1292London: C. KEGAN PAUL & CO. 1878. x 237 pages. First printing of Stevenson's first book a description of his experiences traveling in Belgium and France. The edition is reported to have been limited to only 750 copies and few copies in collectible condition come on the market. In an early twentieth century 3/4 blue morocco binding by Riviere & Son; gilt ruled spine with 5 raised bands; gilt spine decoration and lettering; top edge gilt;. The book is clean and tight with very minor rubbing of leather and slight toning of pages. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible-Fine-/No Dust Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Walter Crane. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book. C. KEGAN PAUL & CO. Hardcover
1920501237<p>"V. Stefansson" in black fountain pen ink on pictorial American Geographical Society letterhead Ottawa Ontario Canada July 9 1920. 8 1/2" x 11"; 1 page; very good. Together with the original typed envelope stamped and postmarked Ottawa Ont. July 9 1920 with two stamps. To Dr. William C. Thro East Northport Long Island New York "Dear Dr. Thro: If I were only in New York I should take instant advantage of your invitation to visit you on the Long Island coast but I shall be spending most of my summer in Canada with only an odd visit to the city. I shall look you up in the fall or whenever I come to be regularly in New York. I hope both you and Mrs. Thro have a delightful summer. V. Stefansson." Stefansson 1879-1962 American ethnologist/explorer/author; lived amongst the Eskimo 1906-07; Canadian/Alaskan Arctic expedition commander 1913-18; consultant to Dartmouth College's Northern Studies program 1947-62.</p> unknown
192553796London Oxford University Press 1925-29. Royal8vo. 2 orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering on spines. Containing 33 25 original offprints published in various periodicals in various sizes published between 1921-29 some with plates and textillustrations in the fields of geology zoology geography hydrography glaciology etc. hardcover
19701702London: Spring Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. First Thus. Hard Cover. xii 337pgs colour frontis; many other illustrations dust jacket is faded on spine and front.; 285 x 220mm . Spring Books hardcover
1995EXNW00005New Haven & London: Yale University Press 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth gilt-on-black titles on spine black endpapers lxvi 291 pp 25 ff plates not in pagination including 4 oversized folding plates footnotes index. Light soil to fore-edge else fine. DJ has two tears with creasing to top edge of rear panel; in Brodart archvial cover. The Vinland map believed to have been drawn in about 1440 shows the Old World Iceland Greenland and the coastline of northeastern North America. It was discovered bound in a volume with a manuscript copy of the Tartar Relation "an account of Friar John of Plano Carpini's mission to the Mongols from 1245 to 1247." This volume contains facsimiles of the map and the Relation a transcription and translation of the Relation history and description of the manuscript by Marston a study of the map by Skelton and an interpretation of both by Painter. The preliminaries include essays by Wilcomb E. Washburn on the controversy surrounding the map Thomas A. Cahill & Bruce H. Cosko on forensic studies of both and antiquarian bookseller Laurence C. Witten II on his acquisition of the map in 1957. Shipping weight 6 lbs. Revised Ed. . Fine/Fine. 30 X 23½ cm. Yale University Press Hardcover
22430No place or date. 8 x 12 cm illustration of a ship in polar waters cut from book or periodical with bold signature at bottom right: 'V. E. Fuchs 1968'. Laid down on piece of white paper. In fair condition but with slight bleeding of ink from signature towards foot of paper. Accompanying the item is an unsigned typed note by the recipient of the autograph on a 4to piece of paper. It reads: 'Antarctic Crossing The autograph of Sir Vivian Fuchs The first crossing of the Antarctic continent was completed at 1.47 p.m. on 2 March 1958 after a 2158 mile trek lasting 99 days from 24th Nov. 1957 from Shackleton Base to Scott Base via the Pole. The crossing party of twelve was led by Dr. now Sir Vivian Ernest Fuchs born 11th Feb 1908 As you can see in the picture it is of the R.R.S. Shackleton and that is why I got Sir Vivian Fuchs to autograph it.' Anthony Tucker in his Guardian obituary 13 November 1999 summed up Fuchs's achievements: 'Famous as the leader of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1957-58 during which he met Sir Edmund Hillary at the South Pole and carried out research which established the existence of a huge continental land mass beneath the polar ice cap Sir Vivian Fuchs . was one of the great adventurers scientist-explorers and expedition organisers of our time. He was director of the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey from its creation in 1947 and from 1958-73 the continuing director of its successor the British Antarctic Survey BAS. His life spanned a period of massive transition in the nature and purposes of exploration.' No place or date. unknown
1932E0047136 pages with 12 plates including frontispiece folding map and index. Royal octavo 10" x 6 3/4" in vellum Over brown boards with gilt titles. Deckle edges. This is the Account of the First Expedition of Don Diego De Vargas Into New Mexico in 1692. This is the first modern printing and contains a facsimile of the "Noticia de la Recuperacion." Translated by Irving A Leonard. Publications of the Quivira Society volume III. Number 628 of the limited edition of six hundred sixty-five copies.<br /><br />Sigüenza was born in Mexico City in 1645 the youngest of eight siblings. He was related to the famous baroque poet Luis de Góngora. He studied mathematics and astronomy under the direction of his father a Peninsular who had been a tutor for the royal family in Spain. Sigüenza entered the Society of Jesus as a novice August 17 1660 took simple vows August 15 1662 at Tepotzotlán and left the society or was expelled in 1667 or 1669. On July 20 1672 he was named to the chair of mathematics and exact sciences at the University of Mexico and was ordained a priest the following year. He was chaplain of the Hospital del Amor de Dios now Academia de San Carlos from 1682 until his death. He was well-known in the colony as a man of science. He was also a poet non-fiction writer historian philosopher cartographer and cosmographer. Such was his prestige that the French King Louis XIV tried to induce him to come to Paris. He published his first poem in 1662. In 1671 he published an almanac. In 1693 he published El Mercurio Volante the first newspaper in New Spain. At the hospital he became a close friend of Juan de Alva Ixtlilxochitl who put at his disposal a rich collection of documents of his ancestors who included the historian Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl and the kings of Texcoco. In 1668 Sigüenza began the study of Aztec history and Toltec writing. On the death of Ixtlilxochitl he inherited the collection of documents and devoted the later years of his life to the continuous study of Mexican history.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Some darkening to and slight staining to spine else a very good copy. Quivira Society hardcover
51581Leiden E. J. Brill 1901-1986. Large 4to ca. 33.0 x 27.0 cm; more than 1200 plates 188 in colour including lithographed and chromolithographed plates some etchings and photographic plates. Partly original printed wrappers partly blind wrappers. = Very rare complete set of the results of the largest oceanographic expedition in Indonesian waters which are renowned for their unsurpassed biodiversity. The expedition was initiated and lead by the Dutch biologist Max Wilhelm Carl Weber 1852-1937. "On 1 November 1898 the Siboga was officially commissioned and left for the Dutch East Indies the same day. On 7 February 1899 the ship arrived in Batavia and sailed on 11 February to the naval port of Surabaya on East Java. After the final preparations there including the removal of all other armament the expedition to investigate the marine fauna and flora of the Indonesian Archipelago as Max Weber described it began on 7 March 1899. When the Siboga returned to Surabaya on 26 February 1900 at the end of the expedition the ship had crossed an area of 1200 miles 1900 km in a north-south direction and 1500 miles 2400 km in an east-west direction covering a distance of more than 12000 nautical miles 22000 km. map of the route of the Siboga In total 181 fishing trips were made with the trawl or dredge during which depth measurements were also taken. In addition other types of nets such as the trawl were used at 103 positions and bottom samples were taken at 96 positions. Although the expedition was primarily focused on the deep sea of the Indonesian Archipelago shallow waters coral reefs and beaches were also investigated. And Weber and his companions also made regular land excursions during which they did not fail to search if appropriate sometimes successfully for scientifically unknown species at local fish markets! The expedition journal includes a total of 323 so-called measuring stations i.e. sea and land locations where the applicable observations catches or finds have been formally recorded. During the expedition a number of times a port was called at for provisions and bunkering of coal but also to send the already collected specimens preserved and packed in glass jars and zinc boxes to the Zoological Laboratory of the University of Amsterdam. There as Weber was later able to ascertain to his great joy they always arrived virtually undamaged. The enormous catch of zoological botanical and geological material that the Siboga Expedition yielded was the work of four scientists. No fewer than 61 scientists 54 zoologists 4 botanists 2 geologists and 1 hydrographer from 10 countries subsequently examined and described the collected material over a period of many decades. The results were published in 148 monographs or 'Livraisons'. The first appeared in 1901 the probably last in 1986." Dutch Wikipedia. Nearly 50 percent of the species described are new to science for example 131 new species of fishes. The Siboga results include even more species than those of the famous Challenger Expedition. Arguably this is te most important Dutch contribution to oceanography and hydrobiology ever. Published over a very long period and therefore rarely found complete. Papers are in German English or French. Three plates in Part 72 in photostat. Some wrappers slightly damaged a few with some staining to the interior otherwise a very good set. Not in Nissen which is downright ridiculous. unknown
1936066463Tokyo: Hokuseido Press 1936. Full cloth binding with decorative fan illustration on front. Prior ownership markings to prelims and to rear flyleaf. 253pp. Jacket is good only rubbed and chipped along edges offered now in a new mylar cover. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6" - 8" Tall. Hokuseido Press Hardcover
192926494Edinburgh And London: William Blackwood and Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Foredge and top edge of pages have minor spotting/foxing otherwise a very good copy. ; 190 x 130mm; vi 317 pages . William Blackwood and Sons hardcover
192379983London: Cassell and Company Ltd. 1923. Pages clean and bright with occasional light spotting foxing on endpapers cracked gutter between photo plate and page 183 but no detachment light sunning to spine and some shelf wear to boards binding firm. First Edition. Hard. Very Good. 8vo. Cassell and Company Ltd. Hardcover
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