Amazons (5 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait, circa 1800. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid engraved portrait, printed in circa 1797. Mounted and ready to frame. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase an attractive and decorative engraved portrait.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Frontispiece map drawn by Steven Spurrier [mis-spelt Stephen on the title-page]. First Edition. 8vo. [201 x 135 x 30 mm]. 349, [1] pp. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in light brown morocco, the covers with a gilt fillet border extending across the smooth spine with the points of the compass, across the centre a series of gilt gouges and blue, black and yellow fillets, following the pattern of the endleaves, with the "Swallows and Amazons For Ever" block and date on the front, the spine lettered in gilt, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt fillet, the turn-ins with a gilt roll, multicoloured chiyogami endleaves, double-page coloured map endleaves bound in, gilt edges. [4139] London: Jonathan Cape. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith,1930 [With] Swallows & Amazons. Frontispiece, 27 plates and vignette tail-pieces by Clifford Webb and a map by Steven Spurrier. First Illustrated Edition. 8vo. [201 x 135 x 36 mm]. 349, [1] pp. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in light blue morocco to match above but with a different pattern of gilt, black and red gouges and fillets, following the pattern of the chiyogami endleaves, double-page coloured map endleaves bound in. London: Jonathan Cape, 1931 [And] Swallows & Amazons. Frontispiece, 23 full-page illustrations and vignette tail-pieces by Arthur Ransome, with help from Miss Nancy Blackett and a map by Steven Spurrier. First Ransome Illustrated Edition. 8vo. [201 x 135 x 33 mm]. 375pp. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in light green morocco to match the above but with a different pattern of gilt, green and blue gouges, following the pattern of the chiyogami endleaves, double-page coloured map endleaves bound in. London: Jonathan Cape, 1938 With contemporary ink signature on recto of the frontispiece. The three volumes are housed together in a slipcase lined with felt and covered in lichen cloth with a black morocco opening and black ribbon.…

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Cloth. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Octavo, [two volumes], 351pp [32pp ads]; vi, 423pp. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spines, illustration stamped in gilt on front covers. Red endpapers. Binder's ticket on rear pastedown endpaper of Volume I. Spine ends and edges rubbed with some loss of cloth, corners bumped and worn, light soiling to covers. Slight lean to text block of Volume II. Light foxing to preliminary and ending pages of both volumes and fore edge of Volume II. All illustrations present, including 1 fold-out Map of the Amazons (3 cm tear along top edge with light wear along fore edge). Volume I lacking Preface, Table of Contents and List of Illustrations, appears to be a publication error. No notations except for the previous owner's name written on front endpapers. In Volume I, endpapers and text block cracked in a few places, but binding is sound, also a few chips and tears along page edges. (Sabin 3932a) (Wood 225) A good example of this travel account to the Amazon rainforest. First edition of The Naturalist on the River Amazons by noted British naturalist and explorer Henry Walter Bates. (illustrator). …