Prof j w van dervoort (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. THE WATER WORLD BY PROF. J.W. VAN DERVOORT 1883 WELL ILLUSTRATED. Please find on offer here: The Water World, or The Ocean, its Laws, Currents, Tides, Wind-Waves, Phenomena, Mechanical Appliances, Animal and Vegetable Life by Prof. J. W. Van Dervoort. This medium-sized hard cover book (6 x 8 ½ x 2 inches, 480 pages) was published by the Union Publishing House of New York, Boston, Cincinnati and Atlanta dated 1883 and apparently the First Edition with the same date on title and copyright pages. It was Sold only by subscription and one can imagine itinerant salesmen carrying it out to the farms and villages of the States, much to the amazement of people who rarely if ever even were able to go to the oceans. The list of illustrations includes 22 (full-page, blank on the reverse) plates. I did notice that at least one of those plates was not present although there is no sign that it was torn out or even ever there and could have been missed in the printing. The page edges are full gilt all round. Condition: This book is in very good condition. The hard covers are slightly bumped on the edges and corners but still very presentable, particularly at the spine. The book is unmarked and the pages are clean and bright throughout, without toning or foxing. The front hinge is partially torn and the rear intact with a tight and sound binding. This book is not ex-library or a remainder.…

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. blue cloth cover with decoration in black and gilt shows minor wear. pages tanned and clean.

Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Union Publishing House, New York. No date (1886). 512 pgs. Maps. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. Bound in Victorian water themed decorated cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine and the front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (small stain present to the rear board). Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Foxing is present. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A Popular Treatise on the Broad, Broad Ocean, Its Laws; It's Phenomena; Its Products and Its Inhabitants; Graphically Describing Its Currents, Tides, Waves; Its Whirlpools, Water-Spouts, Typhoons and Trade Winds; Its Coral Reefs, Pearls, Shells, Sponges, Fisheries; Its Animal Life, Minute and Mammoth, From the Butterflies of Sub-Marine Forests and Meadows, to Sharks, Whales and Sea Dragons; with Chapters on Steamships, Light-Houses, Life Saving Service, &C. , &C. , &C.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…