A Descriptive and Historical Account of Various Palaces... English and Foreign
London: Wyatt, 1810. Full Calf. Complete with 16 engraved plates (some foxing). Original diced calf, later sympathetically respined. A very nice complete copy.
London: Wyatt, 1810. Full Calf. Complete with 16 engraved plates (some foxing). Original diced calf, later sympathetically respined. A very nice complete copy.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1887. Half Morocco. pp xv, 453. Frontis, illustrations, folding maps. Half morocco binding. Raised bands, gilt titles / decorations to spine. Neat gilt crest to front board and lower spine, no other markings. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Foxing to frontis and tp, all else clean.....
London: Murray, 1883. Half Morocco. With plates, some coloured. A fine binding of contemporary half morocco. Neat gilt crest stamped on spine and front board. Complete.
London: Cassell, 1894. Cloth, Orig. 3 vols. Plates & Illustrations. Bound in contemporary original cloth with all edges gilt. Heavy volumes will require additional postage.
London: Macmillan, 1905. FORREST, A.S. Full Calf / Gilt. pp. xiii, 287, frontis, 8 col. illus by A.S.Forrest. Travels in the West Indies and Caribbean. Prize binding, New Plymouth High School Taranaki. Minor foxing to text, plates clean. Marbled endpapers and page edges.
London: Alston Rivers, 1908. Orig. Cloth. pp lx, 651. Plates and maps including large, folding, coloured map of Canada. Very good green cloth binding with gilt titles and neat gilt crest to front boards. Top edge gilt. A very nice copy of this rare book.
London: P. S. King, 1903. First Edition. Original Cloth. Pp. 355 + ix + 29 pp ads, first edition, complete with 8 coloured maps, 29 black and white plates, original brown pictorial cloth hardcover, gilt and black lettering on front board and side, Gilt neat stamp on front board and.....
London: Arnold, 1899. Hardcover beige cloth. Frontis and plates. Original cloth. Gilt crest on front board and stamp to title page. A good complete copy.
London: Cassell and Co., 1883. Half Calf. pp. xii, 216. Frontis: folding map of India. Half calfand boards, gilt spine titles. Tidy ex-lib gilt stamp on front boards. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Minor wear at extremities.
London: Greening & Co., 1900. Cloth. pp 294, map and illustrations, red cloth binding with gilt, in good condition, a very nice copy.
Christchurch: Canterbury Progress League, 1921. Original Pictorial Wrappers. pp.[20] folded to 24x18cm, illus., maps. Cover title. Slight wear on fold. Interesting Canterbury work promoting immigration. Rare. NZNB C183.
London: Sampson, 1879. Half-Morocco. pp.vii,360. Early contemporary half morocco, neat gilt crests on spine and front board. Carnegie (1835 - 1919) the famously wealthy Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist made his money in steel. Noted for his philanthropy, and education and life philosophies, he wrote this account of a world trip.....
London: John Murray, 1902. Fourth Edition, Rev. & Enlarged. Original Cloth. pp.vi,545. Names in ink on fly leaf, spine sunned, else good. Missing fold-out map.
London: S. Piper, 1830. Half Morocco. Pp. xviii, Frontispiece, engraved title, 16 plates, some on India paper (foxing occurs on the margins of these plates). Contemporary half morocco, aeg. A very good large paper copy with a handsome spine.
London: Rodwell & Martin, 1820. Disbound. 60 engraved frontis and plates (1 missing: pp.55: Convent on the Grand Bernard) & 1 engraved tailpiece. Disbound. Some staining throughout.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1950. Reprint. Green cloth binding with gold gilt lettering. 276 pp. This volume is bound in green cloth, and is lettered in gold gilt. There is a gold symbol of Australia with a compass on the front cover. This volume has numerous photographs and maps of.....
London: Lovell Reeve & Co., 1863. Half Calf. Complete with 7 maps (2 folding coloured), 9 plates (8 coloured). Contemporary half calf binding. Neat gilt crest on spine. A good copy.
Edinburgh: Constable and Company, 1831. Half Morocco. Vol I, pp xviii, 284, tp vignette, folding map; Vol II, pp xii, 308, tp vignette. Constable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Publications in the Various Departments of Literature, Science, & the Arts. Vol LXVI and LXVII. Half morocco binding. Raised bands and.....
Cincinnati: H.C. Hall, 1882. 1st Edition. Cloth. pp x, 221. Fine Maori portraits. Rare Albertype plates of early NZ and Australia - 11 of 12 plates. Illustrated endpapers. Spine faded and worn - slight marks on cloth and wear to edges, otherwise good.
London: For T. Cadell Jun. & W. Davies, 1801. Fourth Edition. Half Calf. 3 volumes bound in one. Half calf and marbled boards. Slight loosening of front hinge. 2 maps missing.
London: Waterlow & Sons Limited, 1899. Hardcover. Pp.317; Frontispiece folding plate of Kalgoorlie mines. Inscribed with the author's best wishes, dates 1899. Plates, Original red cloth, slightly darkened, some wear. An excellent informative work on the gold mines including Australia and New Zealand.
London: Richard Bentley, 1851. Orig. Cloth. pp 310. Blindstamped blue cloth binding with gilt palm tree to front board. Small split to top of spine. Inner hinge worn but binding still strong. Rare.
London: Harrington, 1788. No Binding. Creased across image 2/3 down, minor pale staining mainly in margins. Interesting map showing Arabia, the desert, the Nile from Alexandria to Nubia, Red Sea. Loose on card behind mylar. 50 x 40 cm.
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1884. Half Morocco. 2 Vols. Edited by C.M. Yonge. Frontispiece portrait. Contemporary half morocco. Two neat gilt stamps to front boards and spines. A very good, handsome and complete set of this rare work covering his experiences in the Napoleonic War, the revolution of 1830, time.....
London: 1687. Hardcover. Prelims lacking 1 leaf from preface. pp [2] 291, [2] 200, [2] 114 [4 alphabetical table] Three parts. Frontispiece portrait laid down with early script in the margin. Original front board detached, back board and spine attached. Complete work with portrait and 3 plates. First English edition.....