Colonel henry yule (14 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Published by Kraus Reprint, 1967. Octavo. Hardcover. Volume II. Book is very good with spotting to page ends. Great copy of this history title. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Published by Kraus Reprint, 1967. Octavo. Hardcover. Volume I. Book is very good with spotting to top and vertical page ends. Great copy of this history title.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1984 (fourth edition)/ 1903. Octavo, xlviii, 1021 pages. Papered boards a little marked, sunned and rubbed; edges slightly marked; small ink blot on the half-title (offset a little onto the facing page); a very good copy.…

Cloth. Zustand: Good Plus. Complete in 4 volumes. Books measure 23x15.cm. Collation, xxiii,[1],318pp, xii, 367pp, xv,269pp, xii,[2],359pp, complete with plates, folding maps, as index. Bound in original publishers blue embossed, gilt cloth. Cloth rubbed, bindings stained, one volumes slightly bowed. Bindings in good firm condition. Internally, browning to endpapers, occasional stamp. Pages in good clean condition. A good set. Size: 8vo. …

TITLE CONTINUED: With the Addition of New Matter and Many New Illustrations. SECOND EDITION 1875, FIVE PAGE INK HAND WRITTEN LETTER SIGNED BY YULE to COLONEL (LEWIS) PELLY, author of "Journal of a Journey from Persia to India through Herat and Candahar" seeking information for this work. 2 volumes, complete set, 8vo approximately 220 x 145 mm, 8½ x 5½ inches, 2 frontispieces, portrait and Great Armilary Sphere, extra pictorial title pages, text printed red and black and dated 1874, 16 maps, 6 folding, 14 full page plates, 3 folding, 2 in colour and 1 heightened in gilt, 35 full page text illustrations, approximately 78 text illustrations of various sizes, pages: Volume 1, xl, [ii], 1-139 (Introduction), followed by Additional Corrigenda (1 tipped in slip), 1-444; Volume 2, xxi, [ii], 1-606 including index, bound in full vellum (probably a presentation binding), gilt lettering and decoration to spines, gilt pictorial covers with coat of arms of Marco Polo, gilt cross to all pastedowns, all edges gilt. Spine of Volume 1 slightly dusty, strip of pale browning to pastedowns and endpapers to both volumes, occasional pale foxing, but mostly bright clean text, a very good tight set, no loose pages. Book of the Marvels of the World, in English commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Italian explorer Marco Polo, describing Polo's travels through Asia between 1271 and 1295, and his experiences at the court of Kublai Khan (Wikipedia). If interested in this item please send for more images of the letter. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. …

Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. The beautifully illustrated second edition of Colonel Henry Yule's discussion of the travels of Marco Polo, richly illustrated throughout and with folding plates and maps. The second edition of this work, first published in 1871.Complete in two volumes.Scottish Orientalist and geographer Colonel Sir Henry Yule correlates the famous travels of the Venetian Marco Polo with their present day locations, clarifying his routes by identifying the medieval geographic place names used by Polo and his transcribers, and matching them with their present-day locations and names.With has a frontispiece and illuminated title page to each volume. With numerous vignette and full page illustrations to each volume, and with sixteen further plates and folding maps - many in colour - to volume I, and a further sixteen to volume II.Collated, complete.With the stamp 'Supplied for Public Service' to each title page, and the stamp 'Ex Libris C. Parfit' to title page versos and final leaf of each volume.Rebound in calf, with endpapers renewed.An impressive biography of the remarkable figure. Rebound in full calf, with endpapers renewed. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Stamps to title page recto and verso, and to final leaf of each volume. Pages exceptionally bright, with only the odd spot to text block fore edge. Very Good Indeed. Nor Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. 1st Ed Thus. First Edition Thus. clxii,410pp, xviii,525pp, two octavo hardcover volumes in green cloth, beveled board edges, gilt titles to spine with gilt coat of arms to front boards, folding map to inner pocket front of v2, ALL PLATES PRESENT. mild rubbing and wear to fore-edge corners, mild chipping and loss to v1 cloth spine ends, some separation at top and bottom ends of front edge of backstrip of v1 yet remains solidly attached, pages open easily at a few points in v1 yet binding and rear hinge remain solid and strong, v2 lightly chipped at top end, small sign of starting top rear inner hinge v2 yet binding solid and strong, all boards lightly worn but clean, bookplates to front pastedown of both volumes, interior text and images clean. (DBell).…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. The second edition of Colonel Henry Yule's discussion of the travels of Marco Polo, richly illustrated throughout and with folding plates and maps. The second edition of this work, first published in 1871.Complete in two volumes.Scottish Orientalist and geographer Colonel Sir Henry Yule correlates the famous travels of the Venetian Marco Polo with their present day locations, clarifying his routes by identifying the medieval geographic place names used by Polo and his transcribers, and matching them with their present-day locations and names.With has a frontispiece and illuminated title page to each volume. With numerous vignette and full page illustrations to each volume, and with sixteen further plates and folding maps - many in colour - to volume I, and a further sixteen to volume II.Collated, complete.With the former owner's inscription of B. Dickinson, dated Feb. 1910, to each front free endpaper, and with the 1877 inscription of H. J. & E. Gore to a front blank of volume I.With the former owner's stamps of Argentine Egyptologist Ricardo Augusto Caminos to the leaf following the title page of both volumes. Caminos worked on number of Egyptian and Sudanese excavations, including those about to be flooded by the Aswan Dam construction. His former London home is now the Ricardo A. Caminos Memorial Library of the Egypt Exploration Society, containing approximately 20,000 books, journals, and pamphlets on Egyptology. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with rubbing to rear boards. Front hinges strained, with volume I hinge a touch tender, and volume II hinge firmly held. Rear hinges strained but firmly held. Inscriptions to front free endpaper, and front blank of volume I. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, with instances of light spotting to page perimeters. Former owner's stamp to leaf following letterpress title page to each volume. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. The second edition of Colonel Henry Yule's discussion of the travels of Marco Polo, in a beautiful half morocco signed binding by Bayntun. The second edition of this work, first published in 1871.Complete in two volumes.Scottish Orientalist and geographer Colonel Sir Henry Yule correlates the famous travels of the Venetian Marco Polo with their present day locations, clarifying his routes by identifying the medieval geographic place names used by Polo and his transcribers, and matching them with their present-day locations and names.With has a frontispiece and illuminated title page to each volume. With numerous vignette and full page illustrations to each volume, and with sixteen further plates and folding maps - many in colour - to volume I, and a further sixteen to volume II.Collated, complete.From the library of W.A. Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey, with his morocco bookplate to the front pastedowns. William Foyle founded Foyles bookshop in 1903 alongside his brother. He purchased Beeleigh Abbey during the Second World War, an impressive twelfth century monastery in Essex. Beeleigh housed his library, one of the largest private libraries in England. In half morocco signed bindings, with cloth covered boards. Externally, excellent, but with light marks to back strips. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, with only the odd spot or light handling mark. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

First edition of Yule's important work which correlated Polo's travels with their present-day locations. Octavo, two volumes. Bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt ruling and vignettes to the front panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers, with maps and engraved illustrations many folding and in color. From the Adventure and Exploration collection of James Stephen âSteveâ Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown of each volume. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the World. Fossett was also one of sailingâs most prolific distance record holders set the Absolute World Speed Record for airships with a Zeppelin NT in 2004. He received numerous awards and honors throughout his career including aviationâs highest award, the Gold Medal of the Fà dà ration Aà ronautique Internationale (FAI), which he was awarded in 2002. Fossett disappeared on September 3, 2007 while flying a light aircraft over the Great Basin Desert, between Nevada and California. In near fine condition. First editions are uncommon. Venetian merchant and explorer Marco Polo's travels were first recorded in his Livre des merveilles du monde (Book of the Marvels of the World, also known as The Travels of Marco Polo, c. 1300), a book that described to Europeans the wealth and great size of China, its capital Peking, and other Asian cities and countries. Centuries later, Scottish Orientalist Henry Yule's most important contribution was in clarifying Polo's routes by identifying and matching the medieval geographic place names used by Polo and his transcribers with their actual present-day locations and names. …