Brian roberts ed (7 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. As photographed, in perfect condition with no signs of use; xii + 191pp; of which pp. 39-134 are Wilson's illustrations, presenting more than 300 individual drawings and coloured paintings, followed by notes on each illustrations and relevant extracts from Wilson's journals. Edward Wilson was a member of both of Scott's Antarctic expeditions, acting as medical officer and zoologist, and, on the 2nd expedition, chief scientist. His very detailed illustrations presented here are the first ever sketched of the vast majority of these birds. "Dr Roberts, himself a leading authority on the birds of the south polar regions, has edited and arranged this volume from the standpoint of one who has an intimate first-hand experience of the Antarctic.In the introduction Dr Roberts provides a short memoir of Wilson, together with an assessment of his abilities and motives as an ornithologist and artist, and an account of his methods".…

Hard Cover. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG-. First Edition. G/VG-. 8vo. original blue cloth (cloth dampmarked, endpapers slightly offset and marked, else internally clean) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, edges rubbed and nicked, closed tear to lower panel, slight delamination along upper hinge); pp. 192 (last blank), with numerous illustrations, including several watercolours. Heavy item (1.75 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A good reading copy. …

First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial laminated boards (hardcover); issued without dustwrapper. A tight, clean, and unmarked copy, about Fine. Appears new.

Zustand: Very Good.

Zustand: New. Indonesian Notebook contains myriad documents by Indonesian writers, intellectuals, and reporters that provide the largely absent Indonesian perspectives of the 1955 Bandung Conference and of Richard Wright's activities there, adding new depths to the understandings of the conference. It also includes a newly discovered lecture by Wright. Editor(s): Roberts, Brian Russell; Foulcher, Keith. Num Pages: 286 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; GTJ; HBTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 545. . 2016. Illustrated. stationery. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. A scarce and fascinating handbook offering strategic intelligence on the Nordic country, an excellent resource on Allied perceptions of the Arctic during the Second World War. Iceland, a scarce handbook on the strategic intelligence of the Nordic country during the Second World War. No. 504 in (Restricted) Geographical Handbook series, with the series edited by Brian Birley Roberts for the Naval Intelligence Division. A copy belonging to the British Council Library. Originally for official use only. In the publisher's original light blue cloth. Contains all eighty-one photographic plates, numerous in-text diagrams and maps, as well as a colour folding map of Iceland to the rear pastedown pocket. Collated complete. Originally employed by the War Office to research cold climate equipment, Naval Intelligence would employ him to gather information on strategic strongholds of the Arctic region during the Second World War. Occupied by Allied forces in 1940, Iceland became an important training and economic outpost that was regularly targeted by Axis U-Boats. In the publisher's original light blue cloth, a copy formerly belonging to the British Council Library. Externally, slight fading to boards, heavier to the spine. The odd faint mark to boards and slight spotting to spine. Library number inked to spine. Slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. End papers are mostly bright and clean with a couple of faint marks. British Council bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Library stamps to title leaf, including to verso. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. Various (illustrator). book.…