colored frontis portrait (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. A crisp, clean, tightly bound hardcover copy appearing unread, presenting light shelf wear only, bund in glossy pictorial hardcovers ; 349 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Colored Frontis Portrait (illustrator). Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Colored Frontis Portrait (illustrator). THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. This novel was first published in 1847 when it created an uproar. The author himself said that it was but a small mirror of what was happening, thought on a different scale, in many circles of Russian society of the late thirties and early forties of that century. Text appears bright an unmarked; very marked signs of shelfwear to boards; DJ is torn and worn. Library stamp inside back cover.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Zustand: Bien. Colored Frontis Portrait (illustrator). Raduga, Moscow, 1989. Texto en inglés. 351 pp. 21 x 12. Tapa dura con sobrecubierta de editorial ilustrada. Sin subrayados. Buen estado de conservación. ISBN: 5050024382.

Illustrated with frontis portrait, two hand-colored folding maps, and five copper plate engravings, including four hand-colored. (illustrator). Third and best edition. Small quarto. 246pp, [index]. Collated and complete. Carver penetrated farther into the West than any other English explorer before the Revolution. Like his French predecessor -Verendrye- he was seeking a transcontinental waterway, but, aside from exploring some tributaries of the Mississippi, he made no substantial contributions to geographical knowledge; his book, however, stimulated curiosity concerning routes to the Pacific, later satisfied by Mackenzie and Lewis and Clark. - Howes, U.S. Iana. [Howes C215; Sabin 11184]. An expertly restored, fine copy in custom slipcase. Period tree calf boards, rebacked with modern sympathetic speckled calf.