1 562 résultats
4to 11" - 13" tall; 176 pages
Endpapers and edges browned ; A journey around the globe at a time when getting around was much harder. Including a detailed chapter on Fiji ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 337 pages
Fuller title: OUR NEW WEST. Records of Travel between The Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. Over the Plains-Over the Mountains-Through the Great Interior Basin-Over the Sierra Nevadas-To and Up and Down the Pacific Coast. With Details of the Wonderful Natural Scenery, Agriculture, Mines, Business, Social Life, Progress, and Prospects of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia;and Of the Life of the Mormons, Indians, and Chinese. Published by Subscription Only. 524 p. Illustrated with 14 plates including Frontis engraving and map. Offsetting from frontis onto title page. Age stained. Lacks rear fly leaves. Large 8vo. 225 mm. Original full cloth binding. Spine, corners worn with loss. Hardbound. Good. W7
8vo. 8 pages, plus 2 full page sketch maps and photographic plate illustrations. 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. Significant for its early account of biodiversity in the now protected "Coral Triangle" of the Pacific, Cheesman's succinct and well illustrated primary source reveals highlights of an entire year of entomological research on little-known islands of the Pacific, just north of the Dampier Strait, in Papua New Guinea, on behalf of the Natural History division of the British Museum. The splendid coral reefs of Mayalibit Bay, limestone mountains and formations, a wealth of exotic vegetation, mangrove swamps, fauna and reptilia are but a few features examined. On the volcanic Mount Nok she set up camp, where she interacted with native inhabitants of small villages, remarking on their language, education, and on previous feuds with "Bush Tribes.' On Japen island she first establishes camp on Mt. Baduri, from where she collects samples and observes birds. before relocating to two other locations. In the tropical forests for six months, many samples were acquired, and a remarkable storm was documented.
8vo [22 x 15 cm]; xx, 364 pp, 2 color folding maps (one of Australia, other of New Zealand), folding table of population, commerce, geography for each Pacific island. original pictorialdecorated cloth, spine bit faded, very good clean copy, partly unopened. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. With much on Australia, with different chapters by experts in their fields, including different regions, aboriginals, fisheries (by Aflalo), Tasmania, the lost Tasmanian race, but also chapters on New Zealand, the Maoris, women of Autralasia, New Guinea and islands of the western Pacific.
pp. x, 365, (7)[Publisher's catalogue] + Frontis, full page drawings and folding map of the Fiji Archipelago. Inked ownership. First signature slightly dampstained. Slight age staining. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, worn, stained and spotted. Hardbound. Early American edition of a classic on life in the South Pacific. Constance Frederica 'Eka' Gordon-Cumming (1837-1924) was a travel writer and painter. She was born in Scotland, the 12th child of a wealthy family. She taught herself how to paint, and had help from artists visiting her home, including one of Queen Victoria's favorite painters, Sir Edwin Landseer. After spending a year in India in 1867, she became interested in travel. Gordon-Cumming was a prolific travel writer and landscape painter who traveled the world, mostly in Asia and the Pacific. She painted over a thousand watercolors. Miss Gordon-Cumming received much criticism from male writers of the era, perhaps because she did not fit in the traditional Victorian role of women, as she often traveled alone and unaided. . **PRICE JUST REDUCED! TRAVEL/3 DC14
DJ tanned and with light chipping. ; Written by the Swedish adventurer who lived in the South Pacific ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 304 pages
8vo; 256 pages
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Two corners a bit worn. Former owner's name and brief notes on front free endpaper. ; Travelling to the Islands in 1916 took longer but was no less rewarding upon arrival. An upretentious look at Hawaii over a century ago. Top edge gilt ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 181 pages
The book describes the 19551956 Norwegian Archaeological Expedition's investigations of Polynesian history and culture at Easter Island, the Austral Islands of Rapa Iti and Raivavae, and the Marquesas Islands of Nuku Hiva and Hiva Oa. Visits to Pitcairn Island, Mangareva and Tahiti are described as well. By far the greatest part of the book tells of the work on Easter Island, where the expedition investigated the giant stone statues (moai), the quarries at Rano Raraku and Puna Pau, the ceremonial village of Orongo on Rano Kau, as well as many other sites throughout the island. Much of the book's interest derives from the interaction of the expedition staff, from their base at Anakena beach, with the Easter Islanders themselves, who lived mainly in the village of Hanga Roa. 361p. illus fold-out maps. Book
Gilt spine lettering faded. Light wear to spine ends; Maps in endpapers show the trek of author Humphrey, who meandered through the region and recorded his observations. Green decorative boards with gilt lettering and pictorial design; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 306 pages
Light wear and small chips to DJ. Price clipped; Author MacQuarrie was a colonial administrator for the British government assigned to the island of Vanikoro. His adventures must be read to be believed; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 261 pages
Fine German Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm). In German. 44 p. Operative Entsendungen [and] der Nachschub im russisch-japanischen Kriege bearbeitet aus Grund von Aussatzen des 'Russischen Invaliden'. (Beiheft zum Militar-Wochenblatt 1909. Erstes Heft). First Edition. Operational postings and the supply in the Russian-Japanese War (Supplement to the Militar-Wochenblatt 1909).
Light wear and chipping to DJ ; Two years of study of the Kurelu peoples in New Guinea off the coast of Australia with the Harvard-Peabody expedition. Dedicated to Michael Rockefeller, who was part of but sadly did not live to see the completion of the expedition. Stated book club edition to copyright page, photo sections at front of book and after page 160; 8vo; 256, xxxii pages
Light wear and chipping to DJ ; True life stories of ten people who sought fame and fortune while pursuing their dreams in the Pacific ; 8vo; 383 pages
The peoples and customs of Papua as seen through the eyes of an artist ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 230 pages
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Slight wear to cover. 8 1/4"w x 10 3/4"h. 76 pages. Black and white photos throughout.
pp. vii, 222 + Large Folding Statistical Map of The United States and Territories. XLib stamps embossed in blind on title page, page 51 and page 222. Tall 8vo. Original full faded purple cloth binding. Extremities bumped. Very slight loss at head of spine. Hardbound. Very good. JUN5 BOX 1
310p. + Plus maps. Uncut and unopened. Title page ruled in red. Penciled ownership of John C. Schmidt (York, Pennsylvania). 8vo. Original full red cloth binding. First edition. Nice copy. Putnam Weale is the pen name of Bertram Lenox Simpson (1877-1930). This book is an "Insider's view of the growing turmoil in East Asia following the World War I, the Russian Revolution and the collapse of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance Treaty, imperialism in China, roles of Japan, Britain, United States and Canada, etc." **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WWI 5
8vo., First Edition, with 24 plates on 12, and 3 full-page maps and a double-page map in the text; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first full and detailed account, and now quite scarce.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 18 plates on 8, several maps and charts, and a full-page diagram in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Albeit fifty years on, a well-written and dramatic account of Hezlet's command of Trenchant, including the sinking of the Japanese cruiser Ashigara (the largest enemy warship sunk by a British submarine in WWII). Includes a roster of the ships' company 1943-45.
in-8°, 325 pp., croquis, broche, couverture imprimee. Bel exemplaire, non coupe. [DV-18]
Barcelona, Herederos de Juan Gili, Editores, 1916. 4to. mayor; 2 hs., 660 pp. Con 379 ilustraciones fotográficas y mapas entre el texto. Encuadernación original en tela estampada. La parte correspondiente a América Meridional es enteramente obra de Blázquez, Bibliotecario Perpetuo de la Real Sociedad Geográfica.
Barcelona, Imprenta de los Herederos de la Viuda Plá, 1850. 12vo.; 432 pp. Encuadernación en piel marbreada, de la época. Tras la obra de Cobbett y ocupando la mitad del volúmen se halla la traducción de la Disertación leída en Roma en 1830 por el Cardenal Wiseman que recoge interesantes datos sobre las Misiones en la India e Islas del Pacífico. Dicha traducción fue abruptamente titulada por los hispánicos editores como "Esterilidad de las Misiones Protestantes para la conversión de Infieles".
