Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 1108073662 ISBN 13: 9781108073660
Anbieter: Prior Books Ltd, Cheltenham, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Like New. Reprint. Bright and clean, firm and square, just a few very minor rubs and bumps. Hence a non-text page is stamped 'damaged'. Despite such this book is actually in nearly new condition. Thus it looks and feels unread with contents that are crisp, fresh and tight. Now offered for sale at a special bargain price.
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Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1014599253 ISBN 13: 9781014599254
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2015
ISBN 10: 1331824036 ISBN 13: 9781331824039
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 440 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Mär 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 137897557X ISBN 13: 9781378975572
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.
Verlag: LEGARE STREET PR Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1013690672 ISBN 13: 9781013690679
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1018513183 ISBN 13: 9781018513188
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: LEGARE STREET PR Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1013608569 ISBN 13: 9781013608568
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Feb 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 1376915081 ISBN 13: 9781376915082
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1013349636 ISBN 13: 9781013349638
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1018504575 ISBN 13: 9781018504575
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Aug 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 1340251442 ISBN 13: 9781340251444
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 1108073654 ISBN 13: 9781108073653
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This 1784 two-volume work by zoologist and traveller Thomas Pennant describes the wildlife of northern America, Europe and Siberia.
Verlag: London: Printed by Henry Hughs, 1784-85., 1784
Anbieter: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Kanada
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2 Volumes. 4to. pp. 5 p.l. (incl. list of plates), cc, [5]index, 185; 1 p.l., [187]-586, [12]index, [1 leaf]errata. 2 engraved title vignettes, 2 folding engraved linen-backed maps & 24 engraved plates (incl. frontis., 1 folding). An attractive set in early 19th century paneled russia by Winstanley of Manchester (ticket in both vols.), gilt inside dentelles, rebacked (light dampmark to inner margin at beginning of Vol. I, plates offset, occasional hint of foxing). First Edition of a classic work on the natural history of the northern regions of America, Europe, and Asia by one of the outstanding naturalists of the eighteenth century. The greater portion of the work is devoted to the animal and bird life of North America, with sections on California, Nootka Sound, Alaska, Hudson's Bay, Baffin Island, the Newfoundland fishery, Labrador, Cape Breton and Nova Scotia, &c. Also included is an account of the progress of discovery along the west, north and east coasts of Canada. Pennant himself never visited the regions described, but relied on information derived from the accounts of explorers (Cook, Hearne, &c.), communications with other learned zoologists, including Peter Simon Pallas, ad on specimens supplied from various private collections, such as that of Mr. Andrew Graham of Hudson's Bay. The text is attractively illustrated with a series of fine engraved plates. As is often the case, the present set is offered without the separately published Supplement (1787). Arctic Bib. 13291. Cox II 20. Casey Wood p. 516 & Freeman 2963 (both incorrectly calling for 23 plates). JCB II 2992. Lada-Mocarski 38. Sabin 59757. TPL 573 (also without supplement). Wickersham 6822-23. cfLande 1389.
Verlag: Henry Hughs, London, 1784
Anbieter: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, USA
hardcover. Zustand: very good(-). Engraved frontispiece in first volume, both title pages with engraved vignettes, 23 full-page b/w plates, 1 folding. 2 volumes (lacking, as usual, the 3rd volume supplement published in 1787). Short 4to, contemporary speckled calf with ornate gilt spines (joints starting; pages generally clean but cropped close at fore-edge; plates are somewhat toned with offseting on facing pages). London: Printed by Henry Hughs, 1784-1785. A good usable copy of this classic book. The work praised by Cuvier as valuable to naturalists "gave a "condensed view of the progress of discovery" along the northern coasts of Europe, Asia, and America." The title is misleading, as the book covers Norway, Scotland, Alaska, Canada, California, Greenland, and Nova Scotia, concentrating particularly on new species of birds. Illustrations include a rare plate and t.p. vignette of moose after paintings by George Stubbs. "For this work [Pennant] received information from George Low and other Scottish naturalists, and from Sir Joseph Banks, who had visited Newfoundland." -- DNB. The work was translated into Dutch, French and German. Wood, p. 516.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1784
Anbieter: Mats Rehnström Rare Books SVAF, ILAB, Stockholm, Schweden
Zustand: Very Good. London, H. Hughs, 1784-1785. 4to. Engraved frontispiece,(2),CC,(14),185 pp. & 8 engraved plates, one of which is folding + (2),187-586,(13) pp. & 15 engraved plates. With engraved title page vignettes. Two volumes, contemporary full calf, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled in gilt, with red and green morocco title labels lettered in gilt. All edges yellow, and with gilt ruled edges. Joints a little cracked and weak but holding, head of spines nicked with slight loss. Title page of volume I with old repair to outer margin. Some light marginal browning and occasional dust-soiling. With Gunnar Brusewitz's signature. Nissen Die illustrierten Vogelbücher 713. Anker Bird books and bird art 397 for the second part. Wood An introduction to the literature of vertebrate zoology 516, not mentioning the frontispiece. Sabin A dictionary of books relating to America 59757. First edition, a second edition was published in 1792. The present set is offered without the separately published supplement of 1787, and which included two folding maps. This is the author's most important and famous work on the natural history of the northern regions of America, Europe, and Asia and covering quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, and insects. The work was at first "intended to bear a title indicating a study of the fauna of King George's dominions in North America. However, about this time the American colonies separated from the mother country, and the author adopted the above rather misleading caption" (Wood). The work is thus focused on North America, with separate sections on different parts of the continent including California, Alaska, Hudson Bay, and Baffin Island. Other sections are devoted to Scotland, the Orkneys, the Faroe Isles and Greenland and the "Icy Sea", or the Arctic Ocean. Pennant never travelled the regions himself, but relied on information derived from the accounts of others. Among his sources were James Cook, Peter Simon Pallas and, according to Anker, Samuel Ödmann. The text is illustrated with engraved plates by P. Mazell after George Stubbs, Moses Griffiths, P. Brown and others. Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) was a Welsh naturalist, writer, and antiquarian. He was born and lived his whole life at his family estate, Downing Hall near Whitford, Flintshire in Wales, and authored numerous works on natural history, together with his noted travelogues. Along with Latham, Pennant was the leading English ornithologist of the day. Gunnar Brusewitz travelled the Arctic waters on an expedition with the Swedish icebreaker Ymer in the summer of 1980 and wrote and illustrated a vivid book-length account of the journey in "Arktisk sommar" (1981).
Erscheinungsdatum: 1778
Anbieter: Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB., Cromford, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1778 Book Hardcover Very Good Fourteen quarto volumes, bound in half brown Morocco and tan buckram the endpapers are thin card with one-sided sugar-paper finish The set was given as a gift in March 1926 (ink inscriptions on each first leaf, and several have also the pencilled inscription "Rebound Sept 1925" Blind-embossed raised bands and decorative "cartouches", titles in gilt, publication dates in gilt at foot of spines, ranging from 1778 to 1801 Top edges red-speckled, other edges untrimmed in most volumes many maps and plates, some folding, some hand-coloured in outline A very clean, noble and stoutly-bound set, some foxing in particular areas, chiefly, as usual, to early and late leaves and plates This is a preliminary listing Detailed collation to follow or on request Inspection is invited (by appointment, please) Obviously a VERY heavy set, which would cost some £200 or more to send safely outside the UK An extra charge may also need to be made for inland postage or carriage.