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Features: Henry Plummer's Second in Command - a responsible member of the Oregon Volunteers degenerates; Booze, Bets, and Babes - Gay and Gory episodes on Whiskey Row, Prescott, Arizona; Bad Water and Bad Indians - conflict between sailors and natives on the Pacific Coast; Mesa Negra's Golden Statues; Camel Driver in Colorado? - Jacob Acabajal's gravestone is a puzzle; The Blue Roan Mankiller - outlaw horse in Idaho; Mormons versus Navajos - Pipe Spring; The Mysterious Old Woman; Legend of Coyote Peak; Frontier Freighter; and more. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Please note: Bits of writing on front cover and moderate quantity of writing and high-lighting to contents, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
in-8°, 310 pp., ill. en noir, cartonnage ed., jaq. ill. Bel exemplaire (papier jauni). [MI-3]
4to [28 x 22 cm]; 208 pp, 51 color plates from painting by Lee M. Steadman, other color illustrations from photo, bibliog, endpaper maps. original cloth (hardcover), dj, fine clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author found over 400,000 fossils of extinct species on the Galapagos islands and presents some interesting findings related to evolution. The fine illustrations stand on their own merit. An appendix lists the resident species of reptiles, mammals, birds.
folio [36 x 28 cm]; 2 volumes, 171; 187 pp, 138 fine color plates, bibliog., pictorialendpapers. original cloth, gilt lettering, dj's (short tear, price clipped), fine set in original gilt-stamped cloth slipcase (which is lightly rubbed at corners). A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Volume one focuses on the discovery and early visitors including Herman Melville, Charles Darwin, Joseph Slevin and William Beebe. Volume two is based on Porter's journal as he explores these islands. A magnificent production with superb photos by Porter, who is considered the premier nature photographer of the 20th century.
large 8vo [24.5 x 16 cm], xiv, 239pp, frontis, well illustrated from photos, pictorial eps, index. original cloth, dj (chipped at edges, tears), bookplate removed from blank endpaper, very good, clean throughout. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. By the well-known American plant and seed collector; he had a tropical garden in Florida named after him. This book includes numerous fascinating photos, mainly of plant life but also of the native peoples, throughout the Malaya archipelago and related islands. Fairchild and his party were the last Americans to visit the Celebes and the Moluccas before the Japanese invaded in 1940.
large 8vo [24 x 16 cm], xiv, 239 pp, frontis, well illustrated from photos, pictorial endpapers, index. original cloth, silver title lettering on spine and front cover, minimal rubbing to edge, else fine clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. By the well-known American plant and seed collector; he had a tropical garden in Florida named after him. This book includes numerous fascinating photos, mainly of plant life but also of the native peoples, throughout the Malaya archipelago and related islands. Fairchild and his party were the last Americans to visit the Celebes and the Moluccas before the Japanese invaded in 1940.
102 pages. Features: Build a Momentum Circuit; Structures for Outdoor Railroads - Part 6; Kitbash an 0-6-0 Switcher; Modifying a Delton Boxcar for the Denver, South Park & Pacific; A Report on the 1995 National Gauge-One Steamup; Two Cincinnati Railways; The Columbine City & Dogpatch Railroad; Build a Work Train - Part 2; Slow Those Runaway Trains; Small Cars for Small Railroads - Part 1. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
138 pages. Features: Create more realistic models; Nothing fancy; Modify your Bachmann sid-dump ore cars; The Bourg Le Reine Railroad; A tale of two cabooses; Building the Colorado & Pacific; Steam on the garden pike; Lowering Aristo-Craft's streamlined passenger cars; Garden railway design & construction. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
138 pages. Features: Crewchester; Thunderer; Rewiring Aristo-Craft's Pacific; The Gopher Canyon Line; Build Your Own Resistance Solderer; A journey through an English country garden; Build a little caboose; hiding an ugly fence with gulapata. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
102 pages. Features: Mick Spilsbury's Garden Railway; California's garden railways; Richard E. Cooper's Garden Railroad; Roadbed for Cold Climates; The Story of a Journey; The Table Saw - Part 7; Jack Verducci's Crystal Springs Railroad & Lumber Co.; Acoma No. 5; A visit to the South Pacific Coast Railway; Second Generation Garden Railraoding - Part 5; The Clear Water Filtration System; Getting started in Garden Railroading. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Numerous photogravures, mostly from the early 1960s, tell the story of these tribespeople of New Guinea, virtually untouched by "civilization"; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 184 pages
pp. vi, 440 + Plus Frontis and color lithographs by Vincent Brooks. Foxed and age stained. 8vo. Original full cloth binding embossed in blind. Front board decorated with gold picture of a man on a raft. Spine lettered in gold and decorated with a ship and a sea gull. Head and tail of spine slightly worn. Binding ticket of Leighton Son and Hodge. Hardbound. TRAVEL/8
8vo [23 x 15.5 cm]; xii, 456 pp, 8 fine lithographed plates, 7 being hand-colored, other tinted, other engraved illustrations from drwgs, the plates drawn by J. Wolf, W. Fitch, George Angas (4 are botanical, others animals, birds). original blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine title lettering, cloth faded and rear internal hinge repaired, old inscription on title margin dated 1861, interior clean and near fine, excellent plates. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Ripley 26. Ferguson 6929. Wood 231: 'An interesting account of the author's observations on the flora and fauna of Australasia, in which birds figure large, at least half of the 23 chapters containing references to them'. The book contains an extensive chapter on the platypus, which the author here calls a water mole, together with a hand colored plate of same. Fitch, who painted the botanical subjects, was one of the most respected botanical artists of his time. Other subjects are by artists G.F. Angas, Thomas Baines and Joseph Wolf, each a highly respected and important natural history artist. An important contribution including marine biology, ornithology, bird migration, plants including those with agricultural application, botanic garden, medicinal remedies, etc.
8vo [23 x 15.5 cm]; xii, 456 pp, 8 fine lithographed plates, 7 being hand-colored, other tinted, other illustrations from drwgs, the plates drawn by J. Wolf, W. Fitch, George Angas (4 are botanical, others animals, birds). later sim. leather, gilt title lettering on red leather label, new endpapers, lightly foxed on few leaves, else clean, very good+ copy, well-bound. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Ripley 26. Ferguson 6929. Wood 231: 'An interesting account of the author's observations on the flora and fauna of Australasia, in which birds figure large, at least half of the 23 chapters containing references to them'. The book contains an extensive chapter on the platypus, which the auithor here calls a water mole, together with a hand colored plate of same. Fitch, who painted the botanical subjects, was one of the most respected botanical artists of his time. Other subjects are by artists G.F. Angas, Thomas Baines and Joseph Wolf, each a highly respected and ijmportant natural history artist. An important contribution including marine biology, ornithology, bird migration, plants including those with agricultural application, botanic garden, medicinal remedies, etc. The last chapter describes overland routes from Sydney to Southampton. Included is a loose clipping from a periodical on the New Guinea Ant Eater with illustration.
(Codice BO/0036) In 16° 79 pp. Prima edizione. Con una tavola a colori fuori testo. Legatura in cartone rosso, titolo e filetti oro al dorso, nastrino. Ottimo stato. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA
Gavutu and Tulagi Harbours Surveyed by Lieut. F. C.C. Pasco, assisted by Lieuts. C.E. Stainer, R. Aylen and K. Mackenzie-Grieve, H.M. Surveying ship "Dart" 1902. Gavuta Harbour surveyed by Lieuts. B.T. Somerville and S.C. Weigall under the direction of Commander A.F. Balfour H.M. Surveying ship "Penguin" 1895. London Published at the Admiralty, 5th Feb. 1904, under the Superintendence of Rear Admiral Sir W.J.L. Wharton, Hydrographer. Small corrections: 1929. Folded. Autore: Admiralty Charts. Luogo: Gavutu and Tulagi - Salomon Islands - Pacific Ocean. Anno: '900. Tecnica: incisione. Dimensioni: 645x837 mm
Le premier article relate une anecdote survenue à la cour d'Angleterre. Un « Sauvage de l'isle d'Otaïty » y avait été présenté au Roi, non sans avoir été auparavant longuement instruit d'un compliment qu'il devait faire mais qu'il ne put restituer « le pauvre Sauvage avait tout oublié ». Selon l'auteur de l'article, il reconnut alors dans l'assistance l'explorateur Joseph Banks « qu'il avait vu dans son isle et l'aborda avec les signes de la plus grande satisfaction ».
12m0 [19.5 x 13.5 cm]; vi, 7 - 232 pp, frontis, 2 maps, 12 illustrations including full-page. original pictorial gilt and blind-stamped cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and cover, spine ends worn, bit chipped, very good, clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Taylor 115. Hill II, 433: 'Pearls of wisdom. . . description and travel'. Based on the author's travels to the islands of Mare, Fate, Eromanga, Fortuna, Aneiteum, Lifu, toka, Uea, New Caledonia, Pines, Tana, includes descriptions of peoples on each island.
123p. Illustrated with numerous maps. Large 4to. Original printed wraps, damp stained. WORLD WAR II BOX 4
Madrid, Imprenta de Don Miguel de Burgos, 1828. Folio; 202 pp. Ejemplar carente de mapas. Cubiertas originales en papel impreso.
In-16 p. (mm. 163x92), 3 volumi in 2 tomi, mz. pelle coeva con ang., fregi e tit. oro su tassello al dorso, decoraz. a secco con fregi e tit. oro, tagli blu, pp. XIII,247;266; 275; ben illustrato f.t., come da Indice, da un ritratto dell’Autore e da 10 (su 11) tavole che raffigurano usi e costumi degli indigeni + una carta geografica relativa alle “Isole Washington” (gruppo di isole al N.U. delle Marquesas nell’Oceano Pacifico del Sud, scoperte dal Cap. Ingraham del brigantino ‘la Speranza’ di Boston, 1701). Questo giornale contiene “la descrizione delle isole del Capo-Verde, delle coste del Brasile, della Patagonia, del Perù, del Chili e delle isole Gallapagos; nonchè una relazione del gruppo delle isole Washington, delle maniere, costumi e foggie di quegli abitanti, ecc.”. Tomi XXXII-XXXIV della “Raccolta de’ viaggi.. nelle varie parti del mondo.. dopo quelli di Cook, e non pubblicati fin ora in lingua italiana”. Lieviss. aloni sul vol. 1°; manca l’Indice delle tavole nel vol. 2°; altrimenti esemplare ben conservato. .
3 volumi, cm. 18, brossura editoriale, pag. XIV, 246 (su 248: manca ultima carta di indice) più ritratto in b/n; 267 più carta geografica rip. e 4 tavole f.t.; 274 (manca l'ultima c. con elenco delle tavole) più 6 tavole f.t. (manca la n° 4). La carta geografica riguarda le Isole Washington. Collana "Raccolta de' viaggi più interessanti eseguiti nelle varie parti del mondo, tanto per terra quanto per mare, dopo quelli del celebre Cook...". Ottimo esemplare.
Note. Come nuovo
PERFETTO, MAI SFOGLIATO. LIEVISSIMI SEGNI DEL TEMPO. Informazioni bibliografiche Titolo: Gli esploratori del Pacifico: da Drake a Cook e La Pérouse Collana: Volume 2 di Grandi avventure di mare Autore: Angelo Solmi Editore: Novara: Istituto geografico De Agostini, 1985 Lunghezza: 224 pagine; [23] c. di tav. : ill. ; 24 cm Soggetti: Narrazioni di viaggi non limitati geograficamente, Oceano Pacifico, Storia, Esplorazioni, Scoperte geografiche, Nuovo Mondo, Magellano, Australia, Nuova Zelanda, Giava, Oriente, America, Abel Tasman, Olandesi, Spagnoli, Portoghesi, Inglesi, Hawaii, Tahiti, Illuminismo, Selvaggi, Indigeni, Cinquecento, Seicento, Settecento, Marion, Passaggio a Nord-Ovest, Cina, Giappone, Gilbert, Raleigh, Capo Horn, Cavendish, Davis, Frobisher, Baffin, Henry Hudson, Schouten, Roggeveen, Dampier, Bougainville, Du Fresne, Bligh, Pocahontas, Padri Pellegrini, Antartide, Stati Uniti, Geografia, Natura, Storia moderna
Tela c/sovraccoperta, cm13x19, pp 335 (17); una tavola all'antiporta, una cartina ripiegata e un disegno al tratto nel testo. Coll. Il Cammeo #124.
