Johnston lieut col (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. Joint split with spine laid down, chipped at edges; rubbing to edges and bumped corners; front endpaper torn; owner signature second endpaper, two bookplates, one for Frederick Wm. Zimmerman, one for Alfred I. Exberg. Hinge starting lower 2 inches at title page, but cord binding holding firm. First folding map of New Mexico with tape repairs to back; degrees of foxing in general to text pages and plates from mild to moderate, occasionaly heavy, yet many pages and plates remain relatively clean. ; Original brown cloth, and paper spine label; 4 sketches; 26 plates; 10 of 12 botanical plates called for, also lacking 2 botanical plates called for in appendix. Abert's report with 23 of 24 plates, lacking Pueblo de Santa Ana; 2 folding maps. Conforms to Wagner-Camp 148: 5. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 614 pages.…

First Edition. First edition, American issue, 8vo, pp. 307, [1]; frontispiece and 42 illustrations from photographs on 30 plates; fine copy in original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine, and in a near fine and uncommon dust jacket with two or 2 tiny breaks at the extremities. Sir Thomas Reginald St. Johnston (1881-1950), was a British colonial administrator, physician, author and British Army officer. "From 1907 to 1917 he served in various judicial, medical and administrative appointments in Fiji . In 1919 he was posted to the Falkland Islands as colonial secretary, and in effect acting governor as Sir Douglas YOUNG was about to depart on retirement leave . He had a distinguished career in the West Indies thereafter: as colonial secretary in the Leeward Islands (1920-25), administering Dominica, Antigua and St Kitts/Nevis on various occasions between 1925 and 1929" (Falkland Biographies). …