payton e w (13 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 240 pages. Ex-university library book; tight book; pages yellowed; very good otherwise. The jacket has some wear and tear, missing a piece of the spine. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sociology & Politics; ISBN: 0292711042. ISBN/EAN: 9780292711044. Inventory No: 207231.

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

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

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

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

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Zustand: New. In.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 462 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

HARDCOVER. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover edition. 368pp.+folded map. 20 original illustrations by Payton. full leather octavo hardbound. tight binding. marbled pastdowns and page edges. front board starting, but solid, boards worn, sharp corners, ornate details on backstrip. interior clean throughout.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A 12mm tear to cloth at head of spine. 12mm tear at tail of spine. Some foxing to text pages. Folding map at rear has some foxing and a 12mm tear to margin. ; x, [2], 368 pages + frontispiece + 19 plates + 1 folding map. Blue-green cloth boards with gilt illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 203mm x 135mm. Contents: Melbourne to Dunedin; Things in General; Dunedin; Christchurch and Wellington; A Coursing Match; The Wairarapa to Auckland, via Napier; Auckland; Auckland Province; A Picnic at Hunua; Waiwera; Ohinemutu; Rotomahana; Ohinemutu to Taupo; Taupo to Napier; Auckland to Lyttelton, via Nelson; Lyttelton to Invercargill; Lake Wakatipu; The West Coast Road; Wellington to Whanganui; The Whanganui and the King Country; The Whanganui and the King Country (continued)l Taranaki; Labour; Sport; The Native Race; Social; Appendix: I. Eruption of Tarawera; II. Rotomahana Revisited; III. Statistics of the Colony. "Early in 1883 I left Melbourne for the 'promised land' of New Zealand." - page 1. "Why, this is just like England!" remarked one of our passengers, in a half-disappointed tone. "Only better," growled out an old colonist. "Why, what the nation did you expect to see here?" continued he; "ten thousand naked savages in battle array on the beach, probablty, jabbering Choctaw or some Polynesian dialect, eh? You've come to the wrong place, you have! Skipper, take this man up to Auckland, and ship him off to the Society Islands - that's where he wants to go! We're civilized here." - page 3. [Reference: Bagnall 4501: "he spent much time travelling in the King Country, the Volcanic Plateau and the South Island which journeys are herein described with chapters on the Maoris, labour etc."] ; 8vo.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. E. W. Payton (illustrator). First edition. A wonderfully illustrated journal written by English artist E. W. Payton regarding his three years spent travelling New Zealand in the nineteenth century, with illustrations by the author. First edition. Bound in the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Illustrated with twenty plates and a folding map.Collated, complete. The work of English artist and photographer, Edward William Payton, known for his artistic depictions of New Zealand. Payton arrived in New Zealand fin 1883, travelling far and wide across the country, making sketches of the countryside and the local Maori people. 'Round About New Zealand' contains Payton's notes and sketches from the three years he spent wandering around the country, taken from the diary he kept. Bound in the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Externally, very good, with some bumping to the extremities and rubbing to the joints and extremities. A few small tears to the spine head and tail. Hinges are a touch strained, but holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with a few areas of light scattered spotting. Heavier spotting to folding map. Frontispiece is detached but present. Ink inscription to title page. Tear to tissue guard to p112, with a few of the tissue guards lacking. Very Good. book.

First edition. Octavo. pp xii, 368. Plates from the author's own artwork. Folding map at rear. Dark green buckram gilt.Some foxing to the map and, lightly, elsewhere. Corners of covers slightly bumped. Very good indeed.