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Zustand: New. In English.

Single Sheet. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. RIEVAULX ABBEY, AN ETCHING BY W W MCCARTY, 1877 AFTER THE PAINTING BY THOMAS GIRTIN VERY GOOD CONDITION, MOUNTED AND READY TO FRAME, WE PACK VERY WELL, SPLENDID VALUE. Thomas GIRTIN (illustrator).

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Printed in Ripon by John L Linney and sold by William Harrison, Ripon. Folio. Original plain wrappers with quarter cloth spine. Publisher's label to front wrapper. pp. 6 + 8 tissue-guarded copper plates. Pages generally nice and clean. Some foxing but this is mainly to the tissue guards and two of the plates but this is mainly to the margins. Spine slightly creased. Wrappers a little nicked and rubbed to the edges but in very nice condition overall. An exceptionally scarce account in original wrappers and the first copy that we have ever handled in very good plus condition overall.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Black Cat Luck - Story related by John McAgee, a Texas cowman; The Fete of "St. Muslin" - Annual festival in Tarare, France to honour M. Antoine Simonet, inventor of Muslin which is made in local mills - article with photos; Exploring in Central Barzil - Part III - A small English expedition explores the Amazon's forests and studies the native peoples; The Signalman Baboon - Photo-illustrated article about "Jack", a baboon who assists his crippled master, James Edwin Wide, in operating railway signals and other important tasks at Uitenhage, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Among the Bohemians - Photo-illustrated article on the peoples of the little-known young Republic of Czecho-Slovakia; The Three Angleteers - Part II - The continuing adventures of three bored Englishmen who travelled in Europe; Msimba Konguo's Curse - A curse is put on an Irish trader by a native headman in Nyassaland; Marooned! - A strange and romantic story of the South Seas, reminiscent of the old Island days when unscrupulous traders did much as they pleased; Treed By a Bison - Many sportsmen consider the Indian bison a more dangerous opponent than the tiger; Beating Our Way - Two young men surpass a hobo at his own game of getting free train rides; A Hundred Dollars a Day - Salmon Fishing Off Vancouver Island - long photo-illustrated article by Charles Greenwood; The Watching Eyes - A tale from the South African constabulary of Mangwere; My Volcano Trip - Climbing La Nevada, an active volcano near Toluca, Mexico; A Bunch of Keys - A traveller's story of an odd little adventure in Boston, MA in 1911; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Wood, Stanley L.; Webb, Arch.; Reynolds, Warwick; Abbey, S.; Prater, E.; Cameron, John; Soper, Geo.; Elcock, H.K.; Waters, D.B.; Woodville, R. Caton; Robinson, T.H.; Lloyd, S. (illustrator).…