Evans john et al (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9780415306454.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. Text in French. 460pp, with charming, often pointed, colour vignette illustrations throughout. One of a deluxe, limited edition of 1000 copies. Quarter bound in leather over brown cloth-covered boards, with gilt titles on spine. 16mo. Ex reference library, with call numbers on spine and library stamps discreetly on endpapers. Boards a little marked. Some mild stains on text block edges and first and last few pages, else neat, clean, bright and tight. A rather neat and solid copy, albeit ex library, a tactile feel and stunning, cute illustrations. Describes, humorously and with wit, Great Britain, and the people who in habit her, for the French. Beuville; Brenet, A; Hilpert, J; Liozu, Jacques; et al (illustrator). …

Original publisher's green paper-covered boards, gilt title spine, pictorial dustjacket, large 8vo: frontispiece, 240pp., over 115 illustrations & plans, 7 coloured plates, maps, list abbots of Dore, chronology, seals Dore Abbey, Scudamore Family tree, chapternotes & references, index. Copy from the library of Albert Heijn. Very fine copy. With signature author & dedicated to dr. & mrs. Heijn.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Thick 4to; hbk; yellow cloth spine; illustrated board covers rubbed at edges; all 8 colour plates present, but the frontis is detached, and very worn at edges, and a couple have a chip In the white surround; cracking to cover hinges; large book, excess postage outside uk; ; 4to 11" - 13" tall. Illustrated by T H Robinson; Shilton; W. P. I. Et Al (illustrator). …

Zustand: NEW. Crandall, Reed; Severin, John; Badilla, Carlos (illustrator).

Hardcover. Small 4to. pp 277. Black and white photo illustrated dust jacket with green lettering. Original publisher's green cloth boards with gilt lettering at spine. Illustrated in black and white. Slight looseness at spine, clean and unmarked throughout. Minor signs of age to dust jacket. Overall very good indeed.…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of this scarce collection of sermons, contributed by a series of noted clergymen, and bound in crushed half morocco. The first edition.Illustrated with decorative borders.Volume one out of two volumes, with this volume including parts 1-27.A very scarce collection of sermons from a host of noted clergymen, including the Archbishop of Canterbury. This volume includes twenty seven sermons from the likes of J. W. Gleadall, John Jackson and many others, in the hopes to preserve the sermons which are usually preached and lost with no record. Bound in crushed half morocco. Externally generally smart with rubbing to the extremities, spine and joints, and the odd slight mark to the boards. Hinges cracked but firm. Internally firmly bound with bright and clean pages with only the odd minor spot to the blanks. Very Good. None stated (illustrator). book.…

SOFTCOVER. Zustand: AS NEW. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Issued without a dustjacket. 1st Edition. 4to in colour printed stiff glossy card covers, unpaginated, approx. 72pp on various types of paper, 47 works shown all illustrated in colour . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread and unmarked copy ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

London: Printed for the Society of Antiquaries, 1873 Society of Antiquaries of London. January 1873. Wrpps, 8vo. 47pp. 6 plates, several text-illustrations. With contributions by John Evans, Colonel A. H. Lane-Fox, Augustus W. Franks, and others. An ex library copy, wrappers worn. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[O].…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Pages 90-176 plus 24 pages of nice ads. Features: My Rest-Cure - experience on a house-boat in Kashmir; The Saving of the "Cardium" - what happened with this oil ship caught fire with 12,000 tons of benzene aboard; The Hinton Murder Case, and George W. Pendleton; "Little Woman of Flame" - what happened with two solitary white women took up farming in East Africa; Photo of steeplejack Jack Hassler climbing a building in Philadelphia; "My Strangest Experience"; The Lifted Veil, part 6 of a strange story of two British officer POWs in Turkey; The Temple of the Tapirs - an exciting trip into the wilds of Mexico; "Draw Poker" - a detective recounts a New York story; Among the Bolshevists - an R.A.F. officers interesting sidelights on the operations against the Bolshevists in North Russia - with great photos; Into the Unknown - part 2 - chasing mountain outlaws in New Guinea; A Cowboy Adrift; A Kedah Buffalo-Fight - photo-illustrated story of this little-known Malay (Malaysian) sport; Photo of huge (dead) gorilla in the Cameroons; Anthropop-Apology; The Long Arm of the Law - murderers who were detected years after their crimes; The Battle of Ludlow - strikers battle state militiamen in the Colorado coalfields. Covers detached but present. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Somerfield, T.; Hodgson, E.S.; Sheldon, C.M.; De Walton, John; Sutcliffe, J.E.; Whittaker, W.G.; "Robin"; Elcock, Howard; Small, A.G.; Wright, Frank; Wood, Stanley L.; Prater, Ernest; Paxton, R.B.M.; Morrow, Albert (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 102-196 pages plus 32 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mutiny of the "Ziba" (part I) - a brutal captain and mates are murdered by their crew; Among Head-Hunters and Cannibals - great photo-illustrated article on some of the experiences of Captain W. Sinker who for years cruised the South Sea Islands in command of the Melanesian Mission steamer "Southern Cross"; The Rivals - two men were in love with the same lady; The Bluffing of Din Mahomed - a rascally Indian postal worker is brought to justice; The Runaway Train - story from a branch line of the C. and N.W.R.R. in Nebraska; My Adventures in Sarawak (part III) - adventures of the Rajah's bride amongst 'the lovable little people'; Hona's "Tapu" - what happened to to men who attempted to brave the curse of a Maori chief upon a rich gold-reef; An Unlucky Ride - in New Zealand a man sets of on a perilous 120 mile journey to see his lady, only to arrive late and offend her; Our Travels in Safari-land (part I) - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Cecil-Porch) travels through British East Africa; The Night-Watchman's Story - an 1885 tale from the steamer 'Bengal Tiger' shipping from Paducah, Kentucky, as told by Ernest Prentis; Penelope Visits Finland - holiday jaunts to the 'Land of a Thousand Lakes"; Parker's Lesson - a 1913 story of a young man from Cambridge who went to Nigeria with ideas of how the natives should be handled; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Gordon, Alexandre; Evans, Treyer; Pride, Sid; Somerfield, T.; Evison, G. Henry; De Walton, John; Holloway, W.H.; Elcock, H.E.; Wigfull, W.E.; Webb, A. (illustrator).…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. A very scarce selection of pamphlets pertaining to geological and archaeological research, bound together. An interesting and very scarce collection of extracts and addresses extracted from various geological and archaeological journals. Bound together in one volume.In half calf with cloth boards and a red morocco spine label.Final pamphlet ('On Some Primitive Ornamentation Found on Prehistoric Pottery') loosely inserted.Comprising the following:'The "Flint Implements" from Drift, Not Authentic. Being a Reply to the Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man' by Nicholas Whitley (1865)'Address Delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London, On the 19th of February, 1875' by John Evans, Esq., V.P.R.S., President of the Society (1875)'Notes on Indian Ants' by James Rothney (1889)'The Nation's Glory Leader, by Identifying the British People with the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel'. A Weekly Journal, Edited by Edward Hine [Vol. VII. No. 219] 'Israel's Destiny' by J. Harris James. Chapter VII (1879)'Report on the Excavation of the Earthwork Known as Ambresbury Banks, Epping Forest' by Major-General A. Pitt-Rivers, F.R.S., President of the Anthropological Institute [From the 'Transactions of the Epping Forest and County of Essex Naturalists' Field Club'] (1881) - Complete with three plates, including one folding and one coloured.'British Archaeological Association. Winter Session, 1887, in London. Notes on the City Walls of Chester, Historical and Constructive' by Sir Jas. A. Picton, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A., President. Being the opening Address of the Session, delivered November 16th, 1887. - The only other listed copy states 6 full-page plates, some colour, two folding, which our copy lacks.'Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the Epping Union Rural Sanitary District, for the Year 1884''Architectural Gems from Ely Cathedral, and the Monastic Buildings' (c1860 according to British Library)'Isurium' By Andrew Sherlock Lawson, Esq., Delivered at the Meeting of the British Archaeological Society, Leeds, 1864 (1881)Untitled and undated seven-page pamphlet on Durant's 'History of Essex'.'On Some Primitive Ornamentation Found on Prehistoric Pottery' by B. Winstone, Read 7th April 1897 In half calf with cloth boards and a red morocco spine label.Externally, smart, with minor damp to the spine head and tail and board corners. Internally, final tract is detached and loosely inserted, otherwise firmly bound. Pages are generally bright, with occasional scattered spotting throughout. Offsetting and contemporary inscription to 'Architectural Gems' title page and contemporary annotations inscribed to the untitled seven-page History of Essex pamphlet. Pages to 'History of Essex' pamphlet worn, with a few tape repairs. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…