The old shekarry (20 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 308 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No dust jacket as issued. 1st Edition. First Edition, title page dated 1874 and with Chatto and Windus advertising catalog dated April 1874 bound in rear. Clean and tightly bound with gilded titles. Light chipping at spine ends and slight shelf wear. The contents show minor wear and some penciling. This copy is from a 19th Century private lending institution, the Mercantile Library of New York City. There is a handwritten number and Mercantile Library stamp on the title page, endpapers and some of the internal pages. There are no external indications of the library's ownership. Remains a nice and tightly bound copy.…

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Gilt on backstrip and covers. Illustrated covers. Very worn. Bumped corners. Slightly loose binding. Some foxing throughout. Internally fair. No date circa 1890. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1250grams, ISBN.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. xlvi 587pp hardback, green cloth decorated, extremities rubbed, some light scattered spotting, 180 illustrations including frontispiece.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 528 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Second edition. 8vo large. 3/4 leather, gilt decoration on spine, some wear to corners, spine edges and top. small splits to spine top/tail edges. Inner hinges cracking but covers firmly held by strings. bookplate (Treverbyn Vean) on front pastedown and po name on ffep. A little damp to eps, minor foxing to eps/title, otherwise clean and bright. Book.…

Book Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Frederick Warne, 1880. 2nd Edition . Very Good/No Jacket. ppxiii, 295. Octavo. Red cloth binding with gilt buffalo illustration to front and gilt lettering to spine. Rubbed about edges, heavily worn at ends of spine. Binding loose about page 130-143 but not completely so. BW plates. Text block is gilt edged. Ex-lib stamp on FEP. Minor spotting on title and contants pages. No publication date but probably a second edition published after 1880. Plus-ca-change begins with description of refugees in 1864 being driven around the Black Sea into Turkey. Condtion: G-VG.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Original Green Half-Calf Gilt. Illus. with 180 illustrations. Top edge gilt. No date - but 1880s(?) Previous owners' names in prelims. Some slight wear to corners and along hinges, but this is a nice, clean, bright copy.

Frederick Warne. 1890. Large 8vo hardback, early edition. Brown cloth decorated in black and gilt. xlvi, 587 pages plus [4] pages adverts. Very well illustrated. inner hinges visible but sound. Gift inscription. Edges of pages foxed otherwise a clean and sound copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good-VG for age. New Edition. Red cloth, fr. with black lettering and illustration, gilt lettering to sp.; spine relaid, lettering very faint and short but flush split to centre, back has discoloured patches, corners all rubbed to various degrees and some edge rubbing in places, not quite as bad as all this sounds and front, if a little darkened around the edges, remains quite attractive, t.p. + short Introduction (recto only) + Contents (recto only), neither paginated + 294 + 48 (pub's May 1874 catalogue), numerous un-numbered engr. ills throughout, occ. full page or nearly so; impressed ex.lib stamp of Derek Gair Gibson (eminent pioneering British cardiologist, 1935-2021, who was also a book collector), above erasable pencil date to new front end-paper, tiny early sig. top half-title, nearly imperceptible tear repairto top edge Introduction leaf and small triangular chip top inner corner of Contents leaf, otherwise no obvious faults. Clearly centred on India ('shekar' or more commonly late 'shikar' being Indian term to refer to hunting) and inc. a full page engraving of an Indian tent 'or marquee', covers on medicine, guns, cooking, harnesses and hunting other relevant topics. The large pub. catalogue also has numerous ills. and is of bibliographic interest in its own right. Apparently rare. 13 cm x 18 cm. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Dust Jacket. Cloth split along half of lower joint. Short tears to cloth at head and tail of spine. Prize inscription " for best-written Exercise" on front endpaper, dated 1885. Hinges broken, with wide separation to the gutter at the front hinge. Adhesive tape stains to front hinge. Heavy foxing to plates. One plate detached with small chips and tears to margins. Binding shaken and loose.; xii, [2], 314 pages + 8 plates (including frontispiece) + [24] pages advertisements. Brown cloth boards with gilt and black decoration. Page dimensions: 175 x 118mm. All page edges gilt. Hunting,including Africa and India. Contents: My First Steeple-Chase; A Rogue Elephant; Tiger Shooting in the Dehra Doon; Elephant Hunting in the Terai; A Trip to the Sacred Shores of Gunga; An Expedition to the Source of the Ganges; Cashmere; A Run for Life; or, the Fox's Account of a Sharp Burst; The Two Chargers, "Le Diable Rouge" and "Desert-Born"; The Voyage - Madeira and Teneriffe; The Gambia; Sierra Leone and Cape Palmas; The Gold Coast; Lagos; The Bights, the Oil-Rivers, and Fernando Po; The Gaboon; The Country between the Gaboon and the Nazareth; The N'Gobai and the Adjacent Country; The Kroo Coast and Prince's Island; Pencillings in Austria.; 12mo.…

Zustand: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition. Spine rubbed with titles missing. Tape repairs to several pages of volume II. Contents firm and bright. 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). xxxii, 333pp; xiii, 295pp. Line drawings. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. Black hardback half-leather cover.…

pp. (viii), 294. Many text wood cuts, some full-page Contemporary half calf, an early rebacking with the old spine relaid, with the book-plates of Bibliotheca Piscatoria [Robert Clarke], William Scott Curtis, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, with the latter's impressed and perforated stamps on the title, top edge gilt, a nice copy with interesting provenance.…

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1865 Third Edition. 8vo. xxv,660pp. 7 tinted lithographs, appendix, errata slip. Some spotting to plates, old spine restoration retaining the original backstrip, a good copy in the publisher's green cloth. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[L].…

pp. xii, 520. 5 tinted, sepia lithographs. Binder's cloth, small stamp on title and verso of the plates, a good copy.

pp. (viii), 294, (ii), 32 Catalogue. Many text illustrations, some full-page. Original cloth gilt, uncut, spine faded and a trifle worn at the ends, joints intact, contents clean.