Covered Wagon Days
New York: Grosset & Dunlop, 1928. Hardcover. pp.274. 6 coloured plates. Collection of 31 articles on the early American West by various authors. An interesting book.
New York: Grosset & Dunlop, 1928. Hardcover. pp.274. 6 coloured plates. Collection of 31 articles on the early American West by various authors. An interesting book.
USA: Public Affairs. paperback. In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as it looks from a new perspective: with the evolution of the Muslim community at the center. His story moves from the lifetime of Mohammed through a succession of far-flung empires, to the tangle.....
London: Longman, 1861. Half Calf. With four lithographed plates, folding map & illustrations. Contemporary half calf binding. Some foxing. Neat gilt crest stamp on front board. A good copy.
London: Griffin, Bohn and Company, 1885. Half Morocco. Frontispiece, plates and folding geneology. Some foxing to the prelims. Contemp half morocco. With neat gilt stamp on spine & front board. A handsome copy.
London: John Dunton, 1692. Full Contemprary Calf. pp. frontispiece, [xviii], 477, blank, [16 - Alphabetical table]. Original pitted calf with blind stamped decoration and later spine neatly integrated. An interesting work, handsomely bound in which is reviewed a number of books on a variety of subjects including Lockes' philosophical essay.....
London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1888. Half Morocco. 3 volumes. vol 1 1486-1691, vol 2 1691-1795, vol 3 1854-1872. Half morocco and boards. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Gilt decorated spines. Neat gilt stamp to front boards and bottom of spine. A handsome set.
London: Albion Press. Hardcover. 2 vols. c 1815. Full tree calf. 2 Boards detached but spines imoressive. . A comprehnesive 2 volume work with numerous full page illustrations.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1873. Decorated Cloth / Gilt. pp 124. Folding map of the North Island, Original decorated blue cloth bevelled boards, front hinge cracked and repaired. top section of half title page torn, otherwise good. A fair copy with 14 interesting plates, complete, including images.....
Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1862. Half Morocco. 3 vols in one. Contemp half morocco binding, some wear to spine. A nice copy.
Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1860. Half Morocco. pp. 320 Contemp half morocco binding. Some wear to spine, but else a nice copy.
London: Henry Colburn, 1819. 3rd Edition. Half Calf. vol. 1 only of 2 vol set. pp. xv, 375. Complete with fold. engraved map and 6 full page aquatints.
Banks Peninsula, NZ: Arbor Press, 1996. 1st Edition. Orig. Cloth. pp. 129. Coloured frontis portrait tipped in. Original burgundy cloth. No. 67 of a numbered edition of 200, handset, printed and bound by The Arbor Press, Robinsons Bay, Banks Peninsula.
Dunedin: J.Wilkie, 1895. Original Printed Wrappers. pp. 40, [4]. Plates incl portraits, fold map at back. Ex lib stamp front cover and ep. Cover rubbed, worn but interior good. NZNB U18. Rare.
London, Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney: Cassell and Company, 1928. Hardcover. xxxiii [1] 253 pp, frontispiece, 7 plates, Original cloth, and dust wrapper. Edition from The Seafarers' Library, with an Introduction and notes by Capt Alfred Dewar. Uring was a British seaman and trader, sailing in the Atlantic and American and.....
London: Fisher Unwin, 1884. Half Morroco. Photographic frontispiece and plates. Contemporary half morocco. 8vo. Neat gilt crest on spine and front board. A very good sound copy in early binding.
London: Allen, 1888. Hardcover. Pp. 418. Frontispiece portraits and plates, complete. Contemporary half morocco. Neat gilt stamps on spine and front board. A well bound copy of this interesting and entertaining work. A handsome copy.
London: Lovat Dickson, 1937. First Edition. Original Cloth. pp.386. Frontispiece (portrait), plates. Cloth slightly marked, else good.
London: Sampson Low, 1879. Pictorial Cloth. pp. xix, 432. Frontis, plates/engravings throughout. Celebrated Travels and Travellers series. Decorated cloth binding with gilt titles. A rare Verne work.
London: Chapman, 1885. Half Morocco. Contemp half morocco. With neat gilt stamp on spine & front board. A very nice copy.
London: William Blackwood, 1886. Original Cloth/gilt. pp. 127. Very attractive original brown cloth binding, gilt titles, decorative frieze on front boards.
London: Sampson Low, 1878. Half Morocco. pp xii, 452. Frontispiece. Title page foxed. Contemporary half morocco. Fine gilt crest stamp on spine and front board. A handsome copy.
London: Bogue, 1880. Half Morocco. pp xiv, 332. Frontispiece. Two neat gilt stamps to front board and spine. A handsome copy of this rare work in contemporary binding.
London: Murrary, 1905. Original Decorated Cloth. pp xiv, 361. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations. Original decorated cloth, lightly discoloured. Neat gilt stamp on front board.
London: Ward Lock, 1887. Half Morocco. With frontispiece & 2 folding linen-backed maps. With contemporary half morocco binding. Neat gilt crest stamp on spine and frontboard. A very handsome copy.
London: Blackwood, 1810. Decorated Cloth. pp xiv, 288, 32 (adverts). Complete with coloured frontis, map and plates. Original decorated cloth. With fine gilt stamp to spine and front board. A very nice and complete copy.