Townsend c et al (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,200grams, ISBN:0948476001. …

Zustand: Very Good. 371, . A4. PB. Vg: Small tape mark to inner hinge. Errata sheet pasted in. . Occasional Paper on Systematic Entomology No. 7. [9780565011222].

Zustand: Very Good. 371, . A4. PB. Light soiling to spine, o/w Vg. Occasional Paper on Systematic Entomology No. 7. [9780565011222].

Paper covers. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st edition. Covering the Ranunculaceae and Cruciferae (Brassicaceae) plus a number of smaller families, this is illustrated by full-page line drawings, roughly one per genus; pp. 628-1199 pp., additional t.p. in Arabic. Weight: 1 Language: English, Arabic & Kurdish. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair-Good. First edition. Oblong quarto (9 1/2 x 12"). 46 leaves. Modern 3/4 burgundy cloth over decorative paper covered boards. [1] leaf (of 2) (List of Illustrations), 45 (of 46) leaves (Plates). This atlas volume was published to accompany the two text volumes (missing in this offer) of "Reports to the Secretary of the Treasury, in Relation to the Condition of Sea Life on the Fur-Seal Rookeries of the Pribilof Islands and to Pelagic Sealing in Bering Sea and the Pacific Oceans." It presents 45 (of 46) b/w photographic reproductions of several rookeries located on two of the Bering Sea Islands, and documents the gruesome methods employed in the late 19th century for killing fur seals. The photographs numbered 42 to 46 are rather graphic and depict the seal killing that took place at St Paul Island on July 1895. 29 of the 45 photographic plates contained in this atlas are folded (some multi-folded) and linen-backed. Back cover water-stained. Title page is missing. Plate 40 is missing, as well as the folded part of plate 41. Sporadic water-staining along outer margin of plates (not affecting photographs). Closed tear at lower margin of plates 42 to 46, with more water-staining along edges. Binding in overall good- to good, interior in fair to good condition.…

Quarto (290 x 230 mm), embossed green leather decorated in gilt (upper board detached and lacking backstrip); title leaf with later family member's inscription identifying the original owners of the album as 'Janet and William Howard, Alma Plains - Dalkey'; containing a total of [82] albumen print photographs - [73] in carte de visite format, [9] in larger cabinet card format - and [1] small tintype photograph, all window-mounted (i.e. they are removable); the majority of the sitters are identified either on the album page or on the verso of the photograph, sometimes accompanied by a brief biographical note (the annotations are in a mixture of nineteenth-century and more recent hands); many of the families appear to have a connection with the Alma Plains district and were apparently associated with the Church of Christ: surnames includeHoward, Lawrie, McLachlan, Barr, Gore, Cope, Wilson, Good, Judd, Woolcock, Watson and McGregor; numerous South Australian studios are represented, including those of EdwardFarndell, Townsend Duryea, Edwin Marchant, Spicer Adey, Otto von Hartitzsch, George Freeman, Rushton & Just, and Stump & Co.; a small number of the portraits are by Scottish studios; the photographs are all in good condition, and the album leaves are clean and free from foxing, (some occasional tears to the window mounts).…