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Hardcover. Zustand: V. Good. The Master of Elphinstone (illustrator). 160 pp. Strong green cloth boards, worn but sound., w. label title to spine. Label worn & faded. Spine slightly bumped top & btm. Illustrated endpapers. Lt foxing on front & rear pages. Inscribed by the author on half title page. No.158 of 500 numbered copies. Coloured frontispiece. Title page w. b&w line drg. Dedication. Foreword, (written from Oflag VII C, Germany. 1 September 1941). Contents. List of illustrations. List of tailpieces. Illus. w. attractive b&w drgs. Coloured illus. opp. p.80. General notes at rear. Shooting, (vermin, pheasant, partridge, duck, etc.).

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. The Master of Elphinstone (illustrator). Reprint. Hardback. Rought Shoot. Previous owners name to inside cover. Foxing to end inside covers. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Contents: Foreword. Shooting Ground. Vermin. The Partridge. The Pheasant. Duck, Woodcock and Snipe. Moorland Shooting. Shooting Plans. General Notes. Illustrations. 160 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Zustand: Good. Siege of Sebastopol 1854-5 (Ex. Military Command Library), 1859.Journal of the operations conducted by the Corps of Royal Engineers. Part 1 by Captain H. C. Elphinstone, R.E.Publisher: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, London.Binding: hardback cloth.Description / Condition: Ex.library copy of the Military Command Library, London with stamps/marks apparent in places. Edge wear/tears to boards & spine with some scuffing and marks in places. Inner hinges a little loose. Light foxing/wear to pages.Please see pictures for further information.

4° (ca. 29,8 x 22 cm). 2, VI, 299, 1 S. mit 6 lithograf. Tafeln. Original-Leinenband mit starkem Feuchtigkeitsschaden. Gestempelt u. nummeriert, beide Innengelenke fast gelöst, Titelblatt u. Seite I/II lose. Innen meist sauber, Blätter teils an der Bindung fleckig. Schnitt gebräunt, abgegriffen u. angestaubt. Vorsätze fleckig, Einband stark fleckig u. bestossen mit Beschädigungen. Versandkosten wegen des hohen Gewichts innerhalb Deutschlands EUR 5,00 (versicherter Versand).

With notes of a visit to the Gold District. London; T. & W. Boone; 1851. First Edition. Octavo, contemporary calf-backed cloth boards, armorially stamped; pp. [ii], 102 (last blank); folding map (partially hand-coloured, a little toned) showing the location of the goldfields; (first four leaves slightly foxed; otherwise fine and clean); top edge gilt, others uncut; a very good copy. Rare. The first eyewitness account of the goldfields. Erskine, better known for his Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific, visited Australia in 1851 and wrote this account of the discovery of gold in New South Wales on his passage back to England. He made a personal excursion to the new discoveries, or diggings, as he refers to them at Summer-hill Creek and the Turon River. His dated notes of this journey form the appendix to this volume which commences with a brief account of the earliest discoveries of the 1820s and earlier, and continues with a detailed account of the discoveries from the late 1840s onwards. The map is adapted from Mitchell's map and information from H.M.S. Acheron and drawn up by Captain John Lort Stokes for the Author. This was the first eyewitness account of the goldfields and is particularly rare in this first edition. A second edition was published in 1852; this is also of considerable rarity. Ferguson 9461 (collation inaccurate). Provenance : Sir William Stirling, noted historian, politician and collector, his bookplate to front pastedown, and with a typewritten summary of his life loosely inserted. Australian Book Auctions, 2005.