2015, ISBN: 9781875567225

2015-01-30. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shippin… Mehr…

2015-01-30. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service!, 2015-01-30, 2.5, Australia: Atalas Editions Book. As New. Ring Folder. 1st. Four lavishly presented volumes by "Atlas Editions" containing a superb collection of glossy photographs and relevant information pertaining to a positive cornucopia of warships of the World classified under Aircraft carriers, Destroyers, Submarines and other classes of warships.A complete set in mint condition of the Atlas editions maxi card set. There are 4 ring binders each containing a numbner of cards. Each card shows a full page photo, nationality, date of commissioning, ship's history, description , technical data, equipment and history. Sections: Cruisers, capital Ships, Destroyers, Frigates, Training Ships, Aircraft Carriers, Landing Craft, Patrol Forces, Escort Ships, Auxilliaries, Mine Warfare Ships, Submarines. Stunning resource. All of our books are in the shop, and are 'real' books. We try to post the same day as the order. Descriptions are conservative. Postage rates may be lower than ABE estimate, please use Ask Bookseller a Question to confirm availability and postage cost, use [Ask Bookseller a Question] option below to confirm availability and get accurate postage quote for this item (the amount quoted is for an 'average' hard-cover book of up to 1kg in weight)., Atalas Editions, 5, Boston: Ballou, M.M., 1856. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. From Engravings. Boston: M.M. Ballou, 1856. First Edition. The February 16, 1856 issue, Volume X, No. 7, Whole No. 241. Numerous illustrations from engravings. Elephant folio size, sewn newsprint wraps, 16 pp. Better than Very Good, with very little of the common peripheral darkening, modest edge wear, a few spots of foxing. Not all that far short of Near Fine. See scans. A sturdy and handsome example. Maturin Ballou's paper was quite supple, not at all fragile, and it shows. Sharp, healthy, well-preserved. This issue contains stories, articles, and / or the diverse and now somewhat legendary engravings - here, regarding: cover article, St. Valentine's Day, with large half-page engraving; several more chapters of serial fiction by the editors, The Contrabandist - The Secret of A Life. A True Story of Southern France / with two engravings illustrating that; Paris by Night; Walking Leaves of Australia; Cathedral of St. Giovanni (Turin), with one large engraving; City of Genoa, with one large engraving; Palace of the Senate (Turin), with one large engraving; Mr. Baker's Domestic System, by Mary E. Robinson; a massive two-full-page engraving of the Deck of the U.S. Frigate Constitution at the Commencement of Action With the British Frigate Guerriere on August 19, 1812; The Black Saddle-Mare, by Horace B. Staniford; John G. Gilbert, biographical brief with portrait engraving; Wellington Hill Depot (winter engraving); Remarkable Trees, a short piece on several unusual tree species from around the world; A Lesson for Borrowers, by Mary L. Meany; and, on the back cover, a full-page engraving of Charles Mackay's poem, The Miller of the Dee, with the verse itself below it; as well as of course a number of short editorials, news pieces, poems, and ads. Please see all scans. Maturin Ballou's 16-page newsprint periodical was already a piece of American history when he, as managing editor of Gleason's Pictorial, bought that - the first successful illustrated weekly newspaper in America - from owner Frederick Gleason in 1855. lLng2, Ballou, M.M., 1856, 3, Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1937, First edition. . original cloth with gilt title lettering on spine, dj (lightly chipped at spine end, not price clipped), fine in vg dj. . 8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; x, 143 pp, frontis, plates from paintings of Journal of William H. Meyers, painted during the cruise, tables, notes, index. . Hill 463. The anonymous author was probably a petty officer with access to the ship's records so that the diary combines the accuracy and authenticity of an official log book with the informal discursiveness of a personal record (dj). It includes the earliest known account of official uniforms in the American navy. The journal contains the fullest published account of the capture of Monterey four years before the Mexican War. Herman Melville was one of the members of the crew and the work includes the first published account of his life during this period of his South Seas adventures, out of which experiences he wrote White Jacket, or the World in a Man-of War. A picture of this book is available on request by email., Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1937, First edition., 0, Australia: Angus & Robertson Ltd., 1953. Blue cloth on boards with white titles. Light white speckles to spine. Touch rubbing to bottom boards edges and to fore corners tips. Slight age yellowing and few only really faint foxing to edges. World map as eps. Clean content. B/w illustrations. Binding is VG. 243p Dj: moderate rubbing & scratches. Light dusting of soiling. Head of spine missing 2 x 3cm with brown tape repair on front & rearside and with Frigate written to head. Head & bottom edge with thin wear, some tiny tears and chips; clear tape to head & foot of flaps spine and tape repair on inside. A few tiny surface wear spots to spines seams. . First Edition. Hb. VG/VG., Angus & Robertson Ltd., 1953, 3, Sydney: Hordern House, 1998. "A Voyage Round/the World in His Majesty's / Frigate Pandora/by/George Hamilton/First Printed in 1793,/reissued with a foreword by/Alex Allan,/British High Commissioner/and an essay by/Peter Gesner,/Curator of Maritime Archaeology,/Queensland Museum/[motive: HH Hordern/House]". Australian Maritime Series Number Four. Original quarter cherry calf, marbled paper sides, original glassine dust jacket. Bottom corners slightly "bumped", some very light sidelining in pencil, else a fine copy of this limited edition. Scans available on request. Please note we only ship by airmail for orders out of UK. Offered by Winchester Antiquarian Books: selling books from a real bookshop since 1990; Our reputation is your guarantee! Size: 8x5. First Thus.. Quarter Calf. Fine/Near Fine., Hordern House, 1998, 4.5<

1998, ISBN: 9781875567225

Horgern House, 1998. Book. Very Good. hardback. Limited Edition. hardback, octavo, facsimile reprint of a work first printed in 1798, here with an additional essay by Peter Gesner. Printe… Mehr…

Horgern House, 1998. Book. Very Good. hardback. Limited Edition. hardback, octavo, facsimile reprint of a work first printed in 1798, here with an additional essay by Peter Gesner. Printed in a limitation of 950 copies and bound in quarter calf with marbled paper covered boards, the text remains clean and is unmarked, 37 + 164 pp., Horgern House, 1998, 3<

1998, ISBN: 9781875567225

Horgern House, Ledereinband, Publiziert: 1998T, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.05 kg, Kategorien, Bücher, Horgern House, 1998