Joel s polack (7 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. With Notes Corroborative Of Their Habits, Usages, Etc., And Remarks To Intending Emigrants, with numerous cuts drawn on wood. DJ. Minor foxing to the page edges; cover faded slightly at the spine. 288 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: New with no dust jacket. 1.4 lbs 2 x 7.5 x 4.9 Inches; xvii, 340, xviii, 288 pages; Facsimile of the 2 vol edition of 1849 which was published by James Madden. Publisher's green cloth, new.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 1/4" chip to cloth at head of spine. 1/2" split to cloth at head of rear joint. Some bowing to corners of boards. Gutters intact at hinges. 3/4" tear in edge of folding map. 4" triangle cut from corner of front free endpaper. Moderate rubbing and fading to spine.; Volume One only. xxxiv, 288 pages + frontis (folding map) + one plate. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. In-text wood cut illustrations. "The favourable reception given by the public to my narrative of Travels and Adventures in New Zealand, has induced me to present in like manner, a more systematic description of the manners, customs, habits, and usages of the singularly interesting people, comprising its inhabitants, at a time when general attention is fixed on that country, as offering an emporium for industry, capital and commerce." - from page one of the preface.; 8vo.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Neatly rebacked with most of original cloth spines laid down, and endpapers renewed. Small loss of cloth along edges of corners of boards, and small 12mm loss of cloth alond edge of front board on volume one. Folding map in volume one with moderate foxing, a 50mm tear with old paper tape repair, and a 25mm tear. Overall a nice set.; Two volumes (complete). Volume One: xxxiv, 288 pages + frontispiece (portrait of Tangieri) + 1 folding map. Volume Two: [2 (blank)], (iii)-xviii, 304 pages + frontispiece (portrait of Hauputu) + 1 plate (Parramatta, facing page 1). Both volumes: Gilt and blind-stamped green cloth boards. Gilt lettering and decoration to spines. Rebacked with original spine cloth laid down. Page dimensions: 191 x 117mm. All page edges gilt. In-text illustrations. "The favourable reception given by the public to my narrative of Travels and Adventures in New Zealand, has induced me to present in like manner, a more systematic description of the manners, customs, habits, and usages of the singularly interesting people, comprising its inhabitants, at a time when general attention is fixed on that country, as offering an emporium for industry, capital and commerce." - page one of the Preface. [Reference: Bagnall 4588 - "An expansion of the Maori chapters in the earlier book ["New Zealand: Being a Narrative . . ." (1838)] in which Polack attempted a systematic description of Maori social life and customs [. . .] of greater interest for the specific incidents and personalities encountered on the author's travels [. . .]"; Hocken, p. 85 - "Illustrations and observations valuable and original, with copious details of all that relates to the native race."].…