Kirby r editor (19 Ergebnisse)

Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good. 144 pp. White soft cover in dustjacket. B&W images throughout and colour plates. Internally clean and bright. Some darknening to dustjacket but otherwise in VG condition. 0854880666 Small 4to.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 222 pages. 8.00x5.50x6.25 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket Volume 2. (exploration, ethnology, travel, south africa) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 222 pages. 8.00x5.50x6.25 inches. In Stock.

Volume 36 in the Van Riebeeck Society's First Series. 8vo; original cloth; pp. (xii) + 253, incl. index; some plates; illustrations in text; folding map. Edges, endpapers and outermost leaves quite foxed, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good to very good condition. "There are in the history of South Africa few official expeditions about which less is known than that of Dr. Andrew Smith to the Zulu monarch, Dingane, in 1832. The reason for this probably lies in the fact that the real motive for the expedition, which had very far-reaching results, was as far as possible kept secret, and any official report that may have been made by its leader was either delivered verbally or, if written, was treated as confidential and therefore never made public. No official reference to it is to be found in either our South African Archives or in the Public Record Office in London, and no report of it exists in either institution.".…

Van Riebeeck Society First Series, Number 34. 8vo; original pale cloth, with black lettering to spine, and publisher's device in black to upper cover; pp. (viii) + 228; few plates; folding map. Endpapers and outermost leaves somewhat foxed, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good condition. "This book owes its inception to the fact that in July, 1944, my friend and colleague Mr. Ernest C. Chubb . happened to show me a manuscript ., the journal of a surivivor from the wreck of the Grosvenor, a sailor named William Hubberly. . The Hubberly journal . presented me with something quite new, a day-to-day account of the vicissitudes of one group of castaways, told with such circumstantial detail, particularly with regard to the topography of the country passed through, that I was convinced that a critical examination of it would make it possible for the route followed by the unfortunate people to be traced completely, and for the first time.".…

Softcover. 4th thousand. xvi, 111, [1] p.: 21 pl., fold. map (torn); 23 cm. [the Community was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1913] Good, dampstained, in dull orig. green wrapper, yapp edges.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 350 pages. 8.80x6.00x1.10 inches. In Stock.

Softcover. 1st thousand. xvi, 111, [1] p.: 21 pl., fold. map (torn); 23 cm. [the Community was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1913] Good, dampstained, in dull orig. green wrapper, yapp edges.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 293 Pp. Black Cloth, Gilt. First Edition, 1976 (Preceeding The 1977 Uk Edition), In Dj Priced $8.95. Fine In Unworn Near Fine Dust Jacket (Tiny Tear At Top Of Front Flap Fold).

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 532 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st pap/psc edition. 703 pages. 10.50x8.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 187 pages. 9.25x6.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 211 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 414 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 2nd edition. 478 pages. 10.25x7.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 226 pages. 9.50x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 158 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Good. 8vo. 14 x 21.7 cm. 6 volumes. Uniformly bound in contemporary half caramel calf with gilt spine and 2 leather labels. Very good. 124 bizarre engraved plates.OCLC Number 145901578.Notes:For the most part a reissue with new title pages, of "Kirby's wonderful and scientific museum," later "Kirby's wonderful and eccentric museum." which was published at London from 1803 to 1820. cf. British Museum Catalogue. Vol.I: viii + 476pp.; Vol.II: 490pp.; Vol.III: 434pp.; Vol.IV: 432pp.; Vol.V: 428pp.; Vol.VI: 492pp; Indexes in each volume (except for Vol. I which has a "Contents" at the front of the volume instead). B/w engraved frontispieces & plates. A six-volume compilation of accounts of notable eccentrics, freaks (human and otherwise), inventions, etc. - though the entries seem slanted towards the subject of the more unusual aspects of humanity. Some of the hundreds of subjects covered include: extraordinary animals, ballooning, bizarre punishments, boiling fountains, child prodigies, cross-dressers, dwarfs, extraordinary burials, conjuring, eccentrics,foxes, ghosts, giants, gypsies, hermits, long-livers, mermaids, misers, odd crimes, pygmies, self-crucifixion, strange murders, ventriliquism, visions, witches. The work was produced by R. S. Kirby, a London bookseller, who had had worked for one Alexander Hogg, publisher of a similar cabinet of curiosities, the "Wonderful Magazine and Marvellous Chronicle" which appeared in parts in the late eighteenth century. The two apparently worked together in the early years of the nineteenth century on another "Wonderful Magazine", until Kirby allegedly purloined not only Hogg's ideas, but much of his work, producing his own "Wonderful Magazine." A lawsuit followed, but Kirby continued to publish, producing his "Kirby's Wonderful and Scientific Museum" in parts between 1803 and 1820. Provenance Jean-Claude Carrière (1932-2021). …