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Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Oslo, The Author, [1988]. Quarto, [viii], 335 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs plus 10 full-page plates and 3 tipped in addenda leaves. Synthetic cloth; a fine copy with the dustwrapper lightly creased, sunned and rubbed. With the bookplate of Grattan Wheaton [OAM], his ownership signature and date of purchase.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Oslo, The Author, [1988]. Quarto, [viii], 335 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs plus 10 full-page plates and 3 loosely inserted addenda leaves. Synthetic cloth; foot of the spine very slightly bumped; a near-fine copy with the dustwrapper a little rubbed and creased. With the ink inscription: 'From: Cape Horner' - Aust. | March 1990', with the further pencilled gift inscription: 'John Frayn | from Jason Hopton'. Former WW2 RAAF pilot Jason Hopton was 'a founder of the Cape Horners Club, later Cape Horners - Australia, in Adelaide in 1959' (Trove).

Zustand: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy rexine cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 4to 11'' x 9''. Contains 335 [x] printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. In Fine condition, three addenda sheets loosely inserted. Member of the P.B.F.A. SAILING BOATS (Yachting).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 178 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (engraved frontis of Lee Boo looking at himself in a mirror) ; 14 cm. 10th edition. marbled boards with rubbed edges. some foxing to endpapers. 'Prince Lee Boo was one of the first people from the Pacific Islands to visit Great Britain. When the China trader Antelope, on a voyage to China for the East Indian Company, was wrecked on the island of Oroolong in Western Palau in 1783, its survivors, including Captain Henry Wilson, spent three months on Palau.'.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Holloway, Cyril; Sutcliffe, Norman; Tennant, Dudley; Wigfull, W.E.; Wightman, W.E.; De Walton, John; Sindall, A.W.; Leigh, Conrad; Holloway, Cyril; Sindall, A.W. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 169-252 plus 28 pages of ads. Features: Chink-Running - an account of the illegal smuggling of Chinese over the U.S. border from Canada via the Detroit River; Slippery Wiley's Luck - Mr. Wiley returns to the scene of his prior crime to con money from more victims in Australia; The Mysterious M'Zab - A description of a little-known country in the heart of the Sahara where, although the French are the nominal rulers, the people actually obey the edicts of a secret Government of their own - great photos; "Ning We Pulls the Strings" - A story of Colonel Mackenzie's inimitable Chinese detective; Our Gatta - a most amusing tale of a native regatta from West Africa; The Longest Canoe Voyage on Record, by John H.E. Nolan (Part 3 of 3) - with several photos; Murder Paul Jaworski is permitted to read advance copy of a magazine serial before being executed for his crime; Feather's Folly - a stirring sea yarn from Newfoundland; Seeing America on Thirteen Dollars - Carl N. Taylor describes his four year adventure which began when he was sixteen; At the Eleventh Hour - Racing A Dying Prospector in the Belgian Congo to British Territory for the sake of his life insurance policy; The Human Tiger - a man planning murder in Perth Australia sees his plan go wrong; A Break in Routine - a true story from a Commissioner of Police in Uganda. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Small tape reinforcements to each end of backstrip. A sound copy of this engaging vintage issue.

First edition of this contemporary report of the sensational arrest, interrogation and trial of 'trois Anglais' (actually an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman) accused of abetting the escape of the Comte de Lavalette on the eve of his execution by the restored Bourbon regime. Lavalette had been one of Napoleon's inner circle, but had refused exile on the restoration of the monarchy and was sentenced to death. 'On 10 January 1816 Wilson was instrumental, in conjunction with Michael Bruce and Captain John Hely-Hutchinson (later third earl of Donoughmore), in the escape from Paris of Count Lavallette, who, condemned to death, had escaped from prison by putting on his wife's clothes. Wilson passed the barriers in a cabriolet with Lavallette disguised as a British officer and conveyed him safely to Mons. He sent a narrative of the adventure to Earl Grey (reprinted in the Gentlemans Magazine in 1816), which was intercepted. He was arrested in Paris on 13 January. The three Englishmen were tried in Paris on 2 April and sentenced on the 24th to three months' imprisonment' (R. H. Vetch in Oxford DNB). 8vo (200 × 110 mm), pp. 236, plus engraved frontispiece with 5 portraits. Slight worming to gutter towards head throughout, not affecting any text. Early quarter calf, brown morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Spine slightly abraded. A good copy.

Folio, 2 pp. Fair, on aged paper, with a few short closed tears to extremities, and carrying traces of previous mount on reverse. On behalf of the Lords of the Admiralty Croker grants the Admiral's request for leave of absence to two individuals following 'the Naval Occurrences at Yarmouth'. In same hand as letter on reverse: 'Captain Hawtayne Quebec Two Days | Mr Forster, Chaplain Roebuck One Month'. Docketed on reverse '26 July 1810 | Admiralty | signifying acknowledgement of Letter of yesterday's date reporting Naval Occurrences and direction to grant leave of absence to Captain Hawtayne of the Quebec & A Forster Chaplain of the Roebuck for one Month'. Later in the same year Hawtayne and his frigate the Quebec would capture the French schooner the Jeune-Louise.