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1900417056Gera-Untermhaus, Köhler, (1900). Fol. M. 48 chromolith. Taf. VI, 384 S. Mod. Lwdbd. 2 Taf. durch Zusammenkleben leicht beschäd.
1782PHO-2047Paris, Chez l’auteur, rue Saint André-des-Arts, Froulé, Nyon, Barrois, 1782, 1 volume in-4 (25x20cm), demi basane (19ème) dos lisse orné avec auteur, titre et tomaison en pied, XV-4ff.-317pp., 64 planches (80), frottements, début de fentes en pieds, coins et coupes usés, 4 planches déchirées, manque pages 87 à 90, 2 planches incomplètes, qlqs planches mal pliées, manque les 2 cartes, mouillure par intermittence, qlqs salissures.
1955702749Schaffhausen, Selbstverlag, 1955. Gr.-8°. 338 Seiten, 1 Blatt, 112 Tafeln auf 56 Blättern. Orig.-Leinen. Minimal angestaubt.
24 pages. Features: Dramatic one-page colour photo of America's Sputnik blowing up on launch pad at Cape Canaveral; Nice one-page colour-photo Campbell's Vegetable Soup ad; Wonderful four-page feature on the Community Farm of the Brethren at Bright, Ontario includes fourteen photos; Photos (one in colour) of "Bran", the Irish wolfhound and regimental mascot of the Irish Regiment of Canada; Photo and brief write-ups of Sylvia Murphy, Joan Fairfax and Joyce Hahn; Behind the Scenes at the CBC - costume-making for CBC productions - includes nice colour photo of Bill Yule and June Sampson - please note that 1/3 of the second page of this article has been removed and is not included; Wow! One-page colour team photo of the Stanley Cup Champion 1957-8 Montreal Canadiens, featuring captain Maurice (Rocket) Richard; Four amazing photos of the Xavantes tribe of Brazil - taken as part of Rolf Blomberg's trip; Photo of Canada's top horseshoe pitching team, W. Faint, G. Miles, E. Crawford and L. Cruise; Wow! - one-page colour pin-up photo of Frank Sinatra!; The MacKay family of Toronto's Forest Hills Village bands birds - ten photos with write-up - son Barry MacKay went on to become a well-known naturalist and artist; Back cover 1958 calendar features large charming colour photo of baby girl in pink bonnet Average wear. Unmarked. Centerpage and covers holding by one staple. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue.. Book
Pages 180-262 plus 16 pages of ads. This is a particularly excellent issue jammed full of fascinating accounts. Features: Terrible Experiences in the Arctic - a whaling schooner is crushed by ice and its crew exists on moss and snow for nearly a week; Amat Sik - Hero of the Singapore Mutiny - he avenged the killing of his employer, an English officer; The Trade Guilds of Constantinople - article with truly amazing photos; The Yaqui Luck-Piece; My Brumby Hunt; When Everything Happened to Me - hauling timber in the 1870s; Salving (Salvaging) Fifty Million Pounds' Worth of Shipping - fantastic photo-illustrated article on some of the 500 ships saved by the Admiralty Salvage Section in WWI; The Sun Dance - photo-illustrated account of a trip to Alberta, Canada to witness the Sun Dance, an annual festival of the Indians; My Dashes fro Freedom - Lieut. E.H. Garland's account of how he escaped from 12 German prison camps in WWI - article with illustrations and photos of the Holzminden Tunnel; ; In Search of Gold - John A. Jordan in East Africa; Our Disastrous Cattle Drive - tale of an horrific Australian cattle drive; Fascinating photo of a "Tramps' Hotel" in the fashion of a jail - they are required to break a quantity of rock for use in road construction before they can leave; The Kaiser's Girls - a tale of 'amazing political intrique and cold-blooded devilry' from German-occupied Russia; The Serpent Garden of Butantan, near Sao Paulo, Brazil - photo-illustrated article; My 'Roo (Kangaroo) Hunt with the 'Flying Gang' - hunting on the banks of the Murray River; With the Ortolan Trappers - photo-illustrated article on how these birds were caught; and more. Half-page photo ad for the Granliden Hotel of Lake Sunapee, N.H.; Lovely illustrated one-page ad for Canada Steamship Lines - "Shooting the Rapids of the Historic St. Lawrence in 1819"; Uncommon ad for "Tobacco Redeemer" by Newell Pharmacal inside back cover claims to help smokers kick the habit in 48 to 72 hours. Covers detached as one, but present. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A wonderful vintage issue. Book
2008cdb11New York: Rizzoli International Publications Inc. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket and illustrated slipcase. 2008. First edition thus. Green hardback cloth cover. 390mm x 310mm 15" x 12". 670pp. 1008 colour plates. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. . Rizzoli International Publications Inc hardcover
1872038272London: John Van Voorst 1872. Book. Illus. by Keulemans J. G. frontispiece. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. pp. xii 231 pages; frontispiece plate"A Flamborough Trophy Fulmar Petrel." by Keulemans. Green cloth boards very good with a little general wear scuffed to the top and bottom of the spine binding is firm. Contents clean and tight the front endpaper is worn along the hinge but does not affect the binding bookplate belonging to Charles Francis Wyatt of Broughton Rectory Oxon a well known collector of the late 19th century two newspaper cuttings dated 1899 1888 tipped onto the front free endpaper. Ref: Ballance p203; Freeman 817; Mullens & Swann p.144. Charles Francis Wyatt 1820-1906 was rector of Broughton Oxfordshire and an antiquary. John Van Voorst Hardcover
41011LONDON THRESHOLD/HARRAP1987. LIMITED TO 350 COPIES SIGNED BY PETER OLNEY THIS BEING NUMBER 65. TEXT BY OLNEY AND INTRODUCTION BY SCOTT. WITH 60 VERY FINE TIPPED-IN FULL PAGE PLATES IN COLOUR A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON JONES APPENDIX GLOSSARY INDEX. OBLONG FOLIO BOUND IN HALF BLUE LEATHER OVER BLUE CLOTH. A NEAR FINE COPY - THE GILT TITLE ON THE SPINE HAS FADED THERE ARE A FEW FOXING SPOTS. THE BOOK WEIGHS 5.3 Kg SO POSTAGE AT COST. LONDON, THRESHOLD/HARRAP,1987 hardcover
37534EDINBURGH LIZARS 1837. FIRST EDITION TWO VOLUMES. VOLUMES 7 AND 8 OF JARDINE'S NATURAL HISTORY. WITH A TOTAL OF 64 HAND-COLOURED PLATES NUMEROUS WOODCUTS. FRONTIS. OF BRUCE WITH A MEMOIR. NICELY BOUND IN HALF RED LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS MARBLED ENDPAPERS T.E.G. MINOR WEAR TO TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINES. FIRMLY BOUND AND VERY CLEAN. A HANDSOME COPY. UNCOMMON. EDINBURGH, LIZARS, 1837 hardcover
198114453NY: Abbeville Press. Fine. 1981. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Limited edition bound in green leather and signed by both authors. Slightest shelf rubbing lower left on the front. This will take extra postage; it is a large heavy book. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Signed by Author . Abbeville Press hardcover
1978108583Pion Limited, London & Johnson Reprint Corporation, New York, 1978. 54,5 x 36,5 cm ; Halbleder
Pages 385-424. Features: This Tourist Business of Ours - is it a billion dollar ballyhoo? - photo at Radium Hot Springs; Painted Mountains - Cameron Lake of Waterton National Park; Camper - Respect the Weather!; White Water - photo-illustrated canoeing article by Grey Owl; Memories of Flashing Streams - the trout run big in Cape Breton; "A Big Bee" Brings Pipe of Peace - wonderfully photo-illustrated article describes how treaty money is paid, land is dealt, etc. with Ontario's Native peoples; Blackbird Blizzards; When You're Lost in the Woods - using your watch as a compass; Birds for the Prairie Shelter Belt; With Our Junior Fire Wardens; Trailing the Clouds on Horseback - the life of Rocky Mountain Guide Old Man Logan; Jack Miner's Mail Bag; A Bird Sanctuary in Nova Scotia - by John W. Piggott; Forest Business in British Columbia, by Hon. N.S. Lougheed - includes amazing half-page photo of fallers, their long saws and massive fallen timber; ; Black Bass Furnish Hot Weather Sport, by Ozark Ripley. Nice two-colour ad for C.I.L.'s Dominion Ammunition inside front cover. Canadian National ad inside back cover promotes big game hunting in Canada. Nice ad for Western Super-X shotgun shells on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
19101387AGO. O., o. Vlg., ca. 1910. Mont. Chromolithographie unter Leinen-Passepartout mit 2 Metallösen im oberen Rand. Bildgrösse: 60 x 81 cm. Blattgrösse: 70 x 90 cm. (Kanten der Leinen-Einfassung sowie Ecken berieben u. stellenweise etwas fleckig).
135739aaf(Paris, Draeger), (1976), 45x30 cm., 64 planches en couleur, (num. de 1 à 64), planches non reliées, étui originale avec titre doré.
839CGKol. Lithografie. Bildausschnitt: 25 x 29 cm.
1959035375London: British Ornithologist's Union 1959. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo 18 x 25.5 cm. Uniformally bound in the publisher's bright red cloth binding gilt vignette of an Ibis to the front board with some blind stamped detail. Bindings have some signs of silverfish damage to the surface of the cloth on the spines bright gilt lettering to the spines corners are a little bumped/rounded binding firm. Contents clean and tight a few spots to endpapers of volume 102 only otherwise unmarked. A great deal of interesting article photographic plates and charts within. A clean run of nine volumes 1959 to 1967 inclusive. Heavy set so a little surcharge may be required to cover the cost of using a courier service please enquire for more details. British Ornithologist's Union Hardcover
1901020302Edinburgh: Printed for Private Circulation 1901. Illustrated with three plates large octavo pp xiv ii 203 the top edge gilt the other two edges age-toned a few slight thumb/reading creases a few neat pencil notes in the margins the page listing the illustrations is foxed the endpapers age-toned the name of the original owner on the presentation page has been gemtly removed otherwise very clean internally blue cloth with only very slight signs of use. The Oates-Selborne copy with the bookplate of Robert Washington Oates. VERY SCARCE. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Printed for Private Circulation Hardcover
33575LONDON MADGWICK HOULSTON & CO. LTD. 3 VOLUMES IN VERY GOOD CONDITION COMPLETE IN GREEN DECORATED BOARDS. EACH VOLUME HAS A PREVIOUS OWNER`S STICKER ON INSIDE FRONT BOARD. 36 ILLUSTRATIONS BY JAMES ANDREWS. VOLUME 2 HAS A PRINTED ADDRESS ON FEP. LONDON, MADGWICK, HOULSTON & CO., LTD., hardcover
26449OXFORD PHAIDON 1980. 1ST EDITION. LIMITED TO 200 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 16. SIGNED BY PETER SCOTT. FINE COPY QUARTO LEATHER OVER GREEN CLOTH WITH MATCHING SLIPCASE OXFORD, PHAIDON, 1980 hardcover
38045PETERBOROUGH LANGFORD PRESS 2009. 1ST EDITION. A FINE COPY IN GREEN MARBLED BOARDS AND HALF GREEN LEATHER OCTAVO. LIMITED TO 205 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 20 AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE. CONTAINED IN A GREEN SLIPCASE WHICH HAS SOME FADING. PETERBOROUGH, LANGFORD PRESS, 2009 hardcover
1893036996London: Bemrose & Sons Limited 1893. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo. pp. vi 239 frontispiece plate and fold out map five further plates fine. Cloth binding very good with light rubbing this appears to be a slightly later binding. Contents clean and tight patterned endpapers original endpaper tipped in with James Fisher's signature and an inscription " from F. B. Whitlock Beeston Notts england 11 Dec. 1893" otherwise unmarked. A clean very good first edition. The Author Whitlock was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to 11 years in prison. Loosely inserted is a facsimile of the £100 reward poster. Bemrose & Sons, Limited Hardcover
1893037264London: Bemrose & Sons Limited 1893. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper "The Editor 'Natural Sciences' With the Author's compliments Beeston Hall 11 April '93" pp. vi 239 frontispiece plate and fold out map five further plates very good corrigenda slip tipped in. Publisher's textured green cloth binding with gilt lettering very good with a little light wear. Contents clean and tight original patterned endpapers. A very good clean copy inscribed by the author. The Author Whitlock was convicted of embezzlement a wanted poster was published and eventually he was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Bemrose & Sons, Limited Hardcover
3776PARIS, Letellier - 1790 - 3 Volumes In-8 Bien complet - E.O. - Reliure d'époque plein cuir fatigués, coiffes, queues et coins usagés - titre et filets dorés - T. I : Préface VII, 454 & IV pp, Grande carte dépliante 75 x 50 & 2 gravures dépliantes HT - T. II : 432 & III pages, 3 gravures dépliantes - T. III 463 pages, très fortes traces d'humidité- Ce dernier volume contient le "Faunula helvetica" ou catalogue des quadrupedes, oiseaux, amphibies, poissons & testacés de la Suisse, mis en ordre, & présenté felon le système de LINNEE: avec des renvois à la Zoologie Brittanique de MM. PENNANT, aux ouvrages de M. BRISSON d'autres auteurs - Ouvrage bien complet et RARE.
49301Edition originale de 1875.Petit in-8 demi-relié.182 p.Demi-chagrin à 5 nerfs.Bon état.