robert dampier (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Privately owned, unmarked text, spine tight, printed boards with light wear to extremities, previous owner's embossed name stamp to first fly leaf, Ships airmail from Berlin Bookshop bxn60.

1st edition. Landscape 4to. x + 131pp. B/w. portrait frontispiece and illustrations, map. Original pictorial boards backed with brown buckram, gilt lettering to spine. In glassine d/w. With the signature of Ann Savours Shirley. ISBN 0870221760 US$20.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Oblong format hardcover, brown paper over boards, brown cloth-backed, with printed illustration to front cover and black lettering thereto, facsimile signature of author in gold. Rubbing along bottom edge, none to top. A chipped stiff plastic jacket has done its job well. Profusely illustrated, including endpapers, with notes, index, bibliography. Edited by Pauline King Joerger, and with 36 drawings strewn throughout. The author writes of the task of Lord Byron to return the bodies of King and Queen Kamamalu who both died in London of the measles in July 1824, to their homeland. Dampier was then only 24 years old and accompanied Lord Byron as artist and draftsman. 131 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Condition Notes: Glassine dust wrapper chipped at the top corners and tail of the spine. The contents complete, clean and tight; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over quarter-bound brown on pale brown boards with gilt & black titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 8¾" x 11" (1.6 kg); pp 131; Index; Edited by Pauline King Joerger; Includes: Black & white plates; Maps (1); Frontispiece portrait; 2-column text; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #192898 ||.

oblong 4to. 21 x 27 cm, x, 131pp., printed in double-columns, frontis portrait, map & 36 illustrations (primarily full-page), faix leather-backed brown illustrated boards with gilt Dampier facsimile signature in gilt, fine. (Tr). ~ A journal of English artist, Robert Dampier (1799-1874) who joined the H.M.S. Blonde (Captain George Anson Byron), as artist and draftsman on its voyage to the Hawaiian Islands (1824-1826).

Half leather. Robert Dampier (Illus.) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st ed., quarto, original half-leather with marbled boards, later spine with raised bands and gilt. Complete with all 15 aquatint plates including folding frontispiece view of the great Volcano at Peli, folding chart of the voyage, map, views. Previous owner's bookplate fep.Some scattered foxing and toning mainly to edges of first two plates and edges of other plates (apart from the foxing to the large folding frontispiece, the remaining images themselves are clean), foxing also to final pages of Appendix. Corners lightly bumped and rubbed, leather title label scuffed top edge. From the library of book collector,George John Dupuis, with his Heraldic bookplate (Suffield, 1839) to inside front cover. Very good condition. Describes the voyage to the Hawaiian Islands to return the bodies of King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamamalu, who had died of measles on a visit to England. The Blonde was captained by George Anson Byron, 7th Lord Byron and the cousin of the poet. The crew included the botanist James Macrae, the naturalist Andrew Bloxam and the artist Robert Dampier. The ship's party visited a volcano and the place of death of Captain Cook, and the royal tomb. from which they took "almost all that remained of the ancient deities of the Islands". The book was compiled by Maria Graham, another cousin of Captain Byron, from the records of the ship's chaplain Richard Bloxam. The folding 'World Map' by J&C Walker and the plates described below image, "From a drawing taken on the spot by Robert Dampier".