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Verlag: Canadian Pacific [1929], Montreal, 1929
Anbieter: Neil Williams, Bookseller, Victoria, BC, Kanada
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: NF. First Edition. Promotional hardcover issued for the Empress of Australia's Round the World Cruise in 1929. Extensively illustrated with maps and black and white photos including foldout. Fares from $2000. Very light wear except for worn lower front corner. 102 pp.
Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013
ISBN 10: 1489582185ISBN 13: 9781489582188
Anbieter: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA
Buch
Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.71.
Verlag: Ballantine Books/New York, 1986 & 1989 & 1987 & 1988 & 1985 & 1984 & 1988 & 1985, 1989
ISBN 10: 0345337727ISBN 13: 9780345337726
Anbieter: Alf Books, Menomonie, WI, USA
Buch Erstausgabe
soft cover, 64 pages, Special Book Club Edition, 8 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches, 1st edition, very good + book condition, no dust jacket, non-fiction,
Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
Anbieter: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, USA
Illustr, 5.5 x 4, glossy stiff wraps, unpag, covers a little rubbed, ink name on front cover, contents nice; with folding "Line-Up, Scoreboard, Abbreviations" sheet in front pocket. Gerhard Berger won for Team Benetton.
Verlag: Canadian Pacific: np 1929-30, 1929
Anbieter: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, USA
7 x 4.5", stapled wraps, (8)pp, covers a little rubbed and discolored else a nice, clean copy. Item gives itinerary for embarkment on December 13-14, for extensive motor car excursions throughout the city.
Verlag: Canadian Pacific: np 1929-30, 1929
Anbieter: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, USA
7.25 x 4.5", stiff stapled wraps, (8)pp, covers lightly rubbed else a nice, clean copy. Excursion to the casino.
Verlag: Barnes & Noble, 2006
ISBN 10: 0760781230ISBN 13: 9780760781234
Anbieter: BC BOOKS, APOLLO BEACH, FL, USA
Buch Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: NEW CONDITION. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: NEW DUST JACKET. First Edition, First Printing Thus. // NO REMAINDER MARK// NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKS OF ANY KIND (no names or inscriptions, no bookplate, no underlining, etc) // NOT PRICE CLIPPED// NEW MYLAR COVER// full number line including the "1"//.
Verlag: Canadian Pacific pub, 1929
Anbieter: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Illustrated by Color Cover Art Silver Trim (illustrator). Original ed. Very Good Condition, ; 102+pg pages; PAGE 21 SHOWS FULL PAGE PHOTO OF WOMAN DRIVING GOLF BALL FROM TOP OF GREAT PYRAMID, NEAR CAIRO.(NEW YEAR'S EVE). MANY FULL PAGE ILUST PHOTOS SHOWING STATE ROOMS; TOURIST ATTRACTIONS, MAPS.INTERESTING TEXT.ALL ON GLOSSY WHITE TEXT PAPER. CO ER SHOWS MAN IN COLORFUL COSTUME.
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Anbieter: S N Books World, Delhi, Indien
Buch Print-on-Demand
LeatherBound. Zustand: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1930 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 298 Language: English Pages: 298.
Verlag: London. Hodder & Stoughton/Gollancz/Heinemann
Anbieter: Libris Books, Bristol, Vereinigtes Königreich
Buch Erstausgabe Signiert
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. London. Hodder & Stoughton/Gollancz/Heinemann. 1978.1986,1988. Hard Covers. All lacking dust wrappers. A set of three memoirs from the Scottish explorer. Flood Tide has 5 maps; 20 colour and 21 black & white illustrations. It has decorated endpapers and signed with dedication 'into the mist' 1988 to the title page. Road to Elizabeth. A Quest in the Mountains of Peru has a loosely laid in compliments slip from Ridgway School of Adventure. 36 colour illustrations. Flat signed by the author without dedication to the title page. Round the World also contains many colour photographs and maps and is signed by the author's wife Marie who co-authored the book and by Ridgway 'Your Turn Next! Bon Voyage!' dated 1983. All three books are in fine condition with sharp corners, no spine wear, clean boards and unmarked prelims and text block. They all lack a dust wrapper. Happy to split these titles if preferred. Signed by Author(s).
Verlag: D Appleton & Company, New York, 1888
Anbieter: Nigel Smith Books, Gunnislake, Vereinigtes Königreich
Buch
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. New edition. Mild page tanning, light foxing to preliminaries, gift inscription on front free endpaper, binding still very firm and tight, bottom edge grubby, top and fore-edge tanned with some foxing; cover has some rubbing, mainly to extremities, backstrip is sunned but gilt still quite bright. A nice copy. No wrapper.
Verlag: [Np, 1910
Anbieter: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, USA
169pp. Mimeographed typescript printed on recto only. Quarto. Leather-backed cloth. Some wear at spine ends, else very good. A journal recording a six-month tour round the world, beginning in London during the winter of 1909. Matthews includes descriptions of towns and sights in China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and Canada. He visited many cities in Japan, staying in the best tourist hotels in such places as Nagoya, Kyoto, Shinmaizura, Osaka, Hiroshima, Tokyo, Kobe, Yokohama, giving good descriptions of natural scenery, people, industry, factories, etc. In Tokyo Matthews visited an art museum: "Mr. Okura has spent an immense sum in acquiring the huge collection of Art treasures, and resides near the Museum." Matthews was particularly interested in heavy machinery and manufacturing, and while in Japan he made a point of meticulously recording the particulars of imported American and British machinery used in factories there. From Yokohama Matthews travelled by steamer to Victoria, and also visited Banff, Winnipeg, Toronto, Niagara, Montreal and Quebec.
Verlag: n.d. circa, 1877
Anbieter: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, Vereinigtes Königreich
Manuskript / Papierantiquität
manuscript in black and red ink on blue paper (watermarked 'Thomas James Hurcott Mill 1877') in a fine copperplate hand with pen flourishes, headings in blackletter, red borders to pages, edges a little toned with some light handling marks, pp. [2], 111 (hand numbered), small folio, contemporary sea green morocco, gilt tooled borders, upper panel lettered in gilt, panels scuffed with faint red stains (spilled ink?) to upper panel, extremities worn and backstrip rubbed with fair amount of surface loss, 1cm loss at head of backstrip with split to upper hinge, all edges red, endpapers a little foxed, good. A fascinating, unpublished manuscript account of late Victorian policing in Britain and Australia, by then-Detective-Sergeant John Dowdell (1840-1907) of Scotland Yard. Dowdell's pursuit of Charles Biggs a clerk of Staveley Coal and Iron Company who absconds to Melbourne with over £340 in company funds takes him on a voyage around the world that lasts 209 days, features three train journeys, four steamships, one sailing ship, and ends with a sentence to nine months of hard labour. It is as much travel memoir as it is documentary of the advancements in international police cooperation and crime-detection. As Dowdell notes within the opening pages, a recent photograph of Biggs 'ultimately led to his Apprehension.' Likewise, it is the expansion of global trade and commercial routes (the Suez Canal having opened less than a decade ago) and increasing efficiency of steamships versus sailing vessels that allow Dowdell to reach Melbourne eleven days before Biggs, despite Biggs' ship setting sail five weeks earlier. Despite the popularity of detective fiction at the time, 'few police detectives in the British Isles published books relating to their work experience before the 1880s' (Shpayer-Makov), making this an early entry in the detective-author genre, albeit an unpublished one, and unusual in that it appears to have been written whilst Dowdell was still in the middle of his Metropolitan career instead of the more typical retired author-detective. Although there is no date on the composition, it was likely written soon after the events, given the close date of the watermark. Puzzlingly, a transcription of a purported letter to his sister appears to have been lifted wholly from passages on Melbourne in Lady Barker's 'Station Life in New Zealand' (1870), with policing references added and incriminating specifics removed: a jarring reminder that despite the upstanding image created by detectives in their writings, 'author-detectives also tended to give free rein to the imagination' (Shpayer-Makov). Dowdell also copies extensively from 'Bailliere's Victorian Gazetteer and Road Guide' (1870), filling some forty pages with facts on Melbourne and its surrounding towns; although not cited these, at least, are more clearly presented as information garnered elsewhere. Dowdell's writing is nevertheless accomplished for an amateur: often entertaining and occasionally veering into the poetic. He is greatly taken with Melbourne, declaring 'When it is considered that the City is not more than forty years old, [] it affords a striking proof of, and is a remarkable monument to what the enterprise of man [] can effect in a short time'. He provides a lively snapshot of the city and its people, remarking on the slang, fashionable society, and the trappings of a very modern city steam cranes on tracks at Sandridge Pier (now Station Pier at Port Melbourne), and telegram communications between post office officials and ships, with different coloured flags hoisted from public buildings to indicate the location of the mail boats in real time. The voyage home aboard the barque Essex is in contrast a reminder of the not-so-distant pre-industrial age, taking the traditional Clipper Route around Cape Horn in a journey of almost four months. The ship encounters storms so strong it washes 'the poultry off the deck, as well as the piggeries on the forecastle', but when the weather is fine passengers entertain themselves by catching seabirds and putting on Shakespeare. There is even a birthday party thrown for the Captain, for which the ship is festooned 'with all available flags and bunting' and Biggs, despite being under arrest, 'perched on a barrel with a concertina which he played very well'. Dowdell had a long and storied career at Scotland Yard, during which he worked under Captain William Harris and Chief-Constable 'Dolly' Williamson. He was a contemporary of future author-detectives George Greenham and Andrew Lansdowne, as well as John Littlechild, later the first commander of the Special Irish Branch. Alongside Greenham and an Inspector Marshall, Dowdell received the Order of Stanislaus from Russia in 1879 for his part in tracking forged rouble notes; according to 'The Globe' in 1887, 'the only officers in the detective service who have been allowed to receive any foreign decoration'. Following his retirement in 1887, 'The Globe' described him as 'one of [Scotland Yard's] most trustworthy and experienced officers'. ('The Ascent of the Detective: Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England', Haia Shpayer-Makov, 2011).
Verlag: Printed for S. Baker and G. Leigh, 1768
Anbieter: Forest Books, ABA-ILAB, Grantham, LINCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First edition, [4],viii,257,[1]pp., with half-title and engraved frontispiece, cont. half calf, marbled paper boards, hinges slightly cracked, head and foot of spine worn with some light worming to raised bands, marbled paper on lower board peeling, but overall internally a clean and bright copy. Of the first work Hill notes "This account of John Byron's circumnavigation is usually ascribed to midshipman Charles Clerke, who later sailed on all three of Captain Cook's voyages.". Of the second work, Byron was midshipeman aboard the Wager when it was wrecked off the Chilean coast, and he provides a vivid account of the privations endured by the survivors. The author's grandson Lord Byron drew upon the Narrative as a source for his epic poem 'Don Juan'. Hill, 311 & 232.
Anbieter: ASHER Rare Books, T Goy Houten, Niederlande
[1], [1 blank], [32], [1 blank], 417, [1 blank], [2] pp.First edition of this important and popular account of the unfortunate and famous expedition of George Anson, being considered as "the one most sought after" (Borba de Moraes). It is an account of Anson's expedition to the western coast of South America, to harass the Spanish trading territories and cutting off the Spanish supplies of wealth in this way after the outbreak of the War of Jenkins's Ear between Britain and Spain in 1739. Anson was the commander of 7 ships in 1740, including the Centurion, but soon his expedition threatened to turn into a fiasco. His squadron was battered by storms and bad weather causing damage and shipwrecks and many of his crew died from scurvy, typhus and dysentery. The remaining crew was transferred to the Centurion, the last remaining vessel, and Anson limped across the Pacific to Macao. In June 1743 he sailed to the Philippines were he achieved a substantial victory near Manila by capturing the Nuestra Senora de Covadonga, a Spanish galleon filled with gold. After sailing around the world, Anson returned to England in June 1744 and in spite of his enormous losses, he returned with large profits.Anson's voyage, being one of the greatest voyages in the history of exploration and naval warfare, laid the foundation for British voyages and exploration of the Pacific and more specific for English trade in this area. The present account, being based upon Anson's own ship journal, describing this troubled expedition, soon became highly popular in the 18th century and is even considered as "the masterpiece of descriptive travel" and "the most popular book of maritime adventure of the eighteenth century" (Hill). With occasionally a correction of the text in brown ink and the name of Mr. Sweeting (?) added to the list of subscribers. Binding slightly worn around the edges and with a few minor scratches on the boards, some marginal foxing and staining to both the text leaves and plates (especially in the first part, barely affecting the plates except the map of the Pacific Ocean which is a little more stained), folding lines of some plates (especially all three large folding maps) reinforced but sometimes still with some very small tears on the folding lines, some corners of the folding plates slightly frayed, but overall a copy of the first edition of this important 18th-century travelogue with all the plates which is still in good condition.l Alden/Landis 748/225; Borba de Moraes I, p. 38; Cox I, p. 49; ESTC T89475; Hill 1817; Howgego A-100; Kroepelien 1086; Sabin 101175 (cf. 1625).