Barclay h v (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Limited Edition. Lyon, MS: The Derrydale Press, 1993. Limited edition, one of 2500 copies printed. Rich midnight blue bonded leather/leatherette printed in gilt with color illustration mounted on the front cover, all edges gilt, attached ribbon bookmark.Fne condition, looks and feels new and unread, tight binding, clean pages, no names or other markings. . Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. 280, 68 col photos, 311 text figs (line drawings). . PB. NEW. . Key to the larvae of the families and major subfamilies of beetles present in the British Isles, short summaries of the morphological and ecological characteristics of each taxon, guidance on collecting. [9781800628298].

Zustand: Good. 1st edition. Quarter pigskin over buckram, G+. x+46pp, 20 tissue guarded plates, printed on handmade paper with deckle edges, LIMITED to 125 copies this being copy 49, original pencil illustration by the artist on the limitation page, leather rather rubbed & worn to the spine, corners bumped, undertermined stain to the contents page. Ex libris Michael Holdway, with his memorial bookplate ( Lt Michael HH Holdway, Royal Engineers, killed in mine explosion, Qiryat Moskin, Palestine 1947 ), Ex Natural History Society with their ink stamp, a fair copy. Attractively produced guide to the game birds of Britain & North America with brief ornithological details on 6 groups of brids & an essay on shooting in the respective countries. 700 grams.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 562-676. Features: In the Khalifa's Clutches - part IV of Charles Neufeld's ordeal; Impressions of Pekin - sensational photo-illustrated article; Two Loves Affairs, and How They Ended - Colonel Hervey Tryon falls headlong into a deep well of garbag; The Hook-Swinging Ceremony as I Saw It - Rev. Joshua Knowles describes a South Indian pagan festival in which devotees have hook placed in their flesh before they are swung into the air at the end of long poles - with photos; A Desperate Plight - travails of Captain H.V. Barclay in the arid Australian interior; The Great Grottos of Han - photo-illustrated article on the marvelous caverns near Han-sur-Lesse in the Belgian Ardennes; Held by An Octopus - Herbert Perkins explains how he was grabbed from out of the water; Shooting the Reversible Falls - photo-illustrated story from St. John, New Brunswick involving Xavier Francis and Louis Mitchell; Life in an Italian Village (near Pallanza); On the War-Path with Redskins - a retaliatory raid of natives is recounted by J.W. Schultz, a Rocky Mountain guide who was married to a Blackfoot and lived among them in Montana; The Fantastic Carnival at Pangau in a remote part of the Austrian Tyrol; Twenty-Seven Days in an Open Boat - Part II - the castaways are finally rescued, but in ghastly condition; Naia, The Witch of Rochefort-en-Terre, in Brittany - photo-illustrated article; Through Italy in Bedouin Dress - photo-illustrated account; One Thousand Miles on Mule-Back - Part I of this photo-illustrated article of the amazing journey of Mabel Penniman from New York to London via Central and South Amerca; The Bogus "Rush" at Coolgardie - photo-illustrated of a fake gold rush in Australia as told by John Marshalll of Kalgoorlie; Photo of women coal heavers in Dresden; Full-page photo from Kelsey Creek, California showing a river of fish three feet deep - with no water!; Photo of Tunisian camel fight; and more. Average external wear and soiling. Few pencil markings. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this excellent issue. Staniland,k C.J.; Pearse, A.; Symons, W. Christian (illustrator).…

1st Edn. xix 433 pages, TEG, 4to., illus with colour plates, photogravure, monochrome and half tone plates, the colour plates from drawings by E Caldwell the photogravures, Frank H Wallace. Bound in the publishers full brown morroco, gilt title to upper board some foxing to the blank end papers. Limited to 600 numbered copies, this being numbered 517, issued in a 4-volume set with volume number to the spine or singerly as this volume with no number to spine. A sumptuous production. The authors write from personal experience and knowledge, Lt Col Kennion on the Big Game Of Persia, H.F.Wallace on China, P.B. Van Der Byl on India, Douglas Carruthers on Syria, Arabia, Asia Minor Russia etc. J.G.Millais describes the big game of America, + Barclay adding a chapter on Mancurian Tiger, a vg copy. Czech 45. …