R sowerby (30 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfie…

Zustand: Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, Aug. 31 (SALE item)* 364 pp., hardcover, ex library, else text clean and binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 2nd Edition. Second (enlarged) edition with 5 maps. D/W slightly tatty along top edge with tears, creases and pieces missing, also generally dirty and stained, spine worn. red boards turned at spine ends. Eps have fair sprinkling of foxing spots and contents (including…

Zustand: Fair. 1865. No Edition Stated. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Half leather bound to brown boards, with gilt lettering. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with peeling to leather. Notable sunning to s…

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. A first edition biography of this British explorer raised in China, in an unclipped dust wrapper. Written by R. R. Sowerby, author of two novels on Cumbrian market town Kirkby Stephen and one on Castle Sowerby. The Sowerby family was a British fami…

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. A biography of Arthur de Carle Sowerby, a British naturalist and explorer raised in China. Written by R. R. Sowerby, author of two novels on Cumbrian market town Kirkby Stephen and one on Castle Sowerby. The Sowerby family was a British family of natura…

Edition unknown, circa 1925, small 4to, 235 x 190 mm, 9¼ x 7½ inches, cloth backed boards. 12 enchanting colour plates on thick board pages including upper and lower covers. Upper cover by Sowerby (2 little girls with baby rabbits) plus 3 others by her (girls feeding robins, 2 children with ducklings, baby on mother's knee). Oth…

Hard covers, dust jacket. Zustand: Fine. V.g. 1st edition. Jacket chipped, internally fine. Inscribed by the author on ffep. Biography of an explorer of China in the early years of the 20th century, and a descendent of the notable 18th century botanical artist James Sowerby. The author was a farmer, solicitor and also a descende…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 4to. 215 by 165mms. Unnumbered page. Circa 90. Frontis by Sowerby in colour and 10 more full page colour plates, 4 full page b/w and many b/w illus in text throughout. Original publisher's orange textured boards lettered black at the spine with a full size colour illus onse…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Language: English. English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth, the second edition vol. IX, cloth hardcover, 22.5 x 15 cm, 110 pp + 262 full-page hand-coloured etchings, only foxing on the first 4 pages and the last 4 pages, ov…

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, unpaginated. Very Good Minus Condition. 36 volumes, complete with the three supplemental indices bound in Volume 36. 33 of the volumes are in the original brown calf leather, with all of the front and rear hinges cracked but intact. Spines have gold lettering on red background with five bands. S…