Edité par Beacon Press (MA), 1987
ISBN 10 : 0807070157 ISBN 13 : 9780807070154
Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7.
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Edité par Beacon Press (MA), 1987
ISBN 10 : 0807070173 ISBN 13 : 9780807070178
Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : USED_GOOD. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.
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Edité par Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015
ISBN 10 : 1511687770 ISBN 13 : 9781511687775
Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.69.
Edité par CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015
ISBN 10 : 1511687975 ISBN 13 : 9781511687973
Vendeur : California Books, Miami, FL, Etats-Unis
Etat : NEW.
Edité par Adamant Media Corporation, 2003
ISBN 10 : 0543691888 ISBN 13 : 9780543691880
Vendeur : Revaluation Books, Exeter, Royaume-Uni
Paperback. Etat : NEW. 374 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.93 inches. This item is printed on demand.
Edité par Adamant Media Corporation, 2001
ISBN 10 : 1402194714 ISBN 13 : 9781402194719
Vendeur : Revaluation Books, Exeter, Royaume-Uni
Paperback. Etat : NEW. 580 pages. 8.25x5.25x1.44 inches. This item is printed on demand.
Edité par BiblioBazaar, 2009
ISBN 10 : 1115170139 ISBN 13 : 9781115170130
Vendeur : Revaluation Books, Exeter, Royaume-Uni
Paperback. Etat : NEW. 432 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.97 inches. This item is printed on demand.
Edité par BiblioBazaar, 2009
ISBN 10 : 1115170163 ISBN 13 : 9781115170161
Vendeur : Revaluation Books, Exeter, Royaume-Uni
Paperback. Etat : NEW. 432 pages. 10.00x7.50x0.97 inches. This item is printed on demand.
Edité par G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1900
Vendeur : Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Octavo, Volume I only (xii, 410 pages). In Good minus condition. Spine is blue with gold print. Boards in blue cloth with gold print. Wear to spine caps and corners, cocked spine, blemishes on spine. Text block has has gilt top edge. Name in ink on front flyleaf, intermittent spine breaks. Illustrated: "with map and 116 illustrations"- title page; b&w plates, folded color map at rear. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Column. 1373888. FP New Rockville Stock.
Edité par LEGARE STREET PR, 2022
ISBN 10 : 1018615385 ISBN 13 : 9781018615387
Vendeur : moluna, Greven, Allemagne
Etat : NEW.
Edité par Fez Morocco, 1902
Vendeur : Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Royaume-Uni
Etat : UNSPECIFIED. Thirty-eight lines of text, on both sides of a 12mo leaf (dimensions roughly 17.5 x 11.5 cm). Text clear and complete, good on lightly aged, spotted and creased paper. One 0.5 cm closed tear not affecting text. The penultimate page is headed '5' and the text begins abruptly. Sixteen lines (all but the last three) of the first page describe ten days spent by Bird as MacLeod's guest in Fez. He describes her as an 'altogether delightful' guest. She is 'the most intelligent woman' he has ever met, 'as gentle & womanly and almost meek in manner as one could imagine'. She is however 'possessed of an energy of mind which staggers one'. He wonders that she has been able to do '1200 miles in Morocco [she had just crossed the Atlas Mountains] burdened with 71 years, a weak spine, a split knee cap, and a partially disabled arm.' He wishes she could have stayed with him the whole summer, and hopes that if his correspondent has not met her he will do so. His assistant has departed for England, but 'it won't be so utterly lonely as I've known it - when sometimes one didn't see a European face (save one's own in the glass!) for three or four weeks at a stretch!' Sends regards to common acquaintances. In a postscript he apologises for 'the sobriety of this letter. It has no atrocities by the natives or adventures & escapes of the writer - nor anything which the proper kind of letter from Barbary ought to have. - Better luck next time I hope.' See Image.
Edité par for John Murray, '1890' [but c. 1894]., 1890
Vendeur : Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
Etat : UNSPECIFIED. 8vo (188 x 122mm), pp. xv, [1 (illustrations)], 318, [2 (publisher's advertisements)], 32 (further publisher's advertisements dated January 1894); wood-engraved frontispiece, one folding map by J.D. Cooper, 10 wood-engraved illustrations and plans, 2 full page, and letterpress tables in the text; original green cloth, upper board with blind border and central design in gilt, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, black endpapers, most quires unopened; extremities very lightly rubbed and bumped, nonetheless an exceptionally bright, largely unopened copy.Seventh edition. As Bishop states in her preface, 'I was travelling for health, when circumstances induced me to land on the group, and the benefit which I derived from the climate tempted me to remain for nearly seven months. During that time the necessity of leading a life of open air and exercise as a means of recovery, led me to travel on horseback to and fro through the islands, exploring the interior, ascending the highest mountains, visiting the active volcanoes and remote regions that are known to few even of the residents, living among the natives, and otherwise seeing Hawaiian life in all its phases' (p. ix). Bishop's The Hawaiian Archipelago is composed of thirty-one letters she wrote to her sister Henrietta and was first published in 1875; this edition follows the text of the revised second edition, which appeared in 1876 with a new preface and an appendix on 'Leprosy and the Leper Settlement on Molokal', as well as other revisions and amendments. Hawaiian National Bibliography judges that it is '[o]ne of the classic (and most often quoted) books on the Hawaiian Islands', adding that, '[i]t was immensely popular and went through many editions'. For the 1st ed., cf. Hawaiian National Bibliography 3070; Theakstone p. 23; Wayward Women p. 81.
Edité par John Murray, London, 1891
Vendeur : Bildungsbuch, Flensburg, Allemagne
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : USED_VERYGOOD. 1. Auflage. Cloth, 1st Edition, Vol.2 only, with maps, (In ENGLISH language) Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904) was an English traveller and writer. She was born in Boroughbridge and grew up in Tattenhall, Cheshire. She was a sickly child and spent her entire life struggling with various ailments. Much of her illness may have been psychogenic, for when she was doing exactly what she wanted she was almost never ill. Her real desire was to travel. She studied medicine and resolved to travel as a missionary. She visited missions in India, Persia, Kurdistan and Turkey. Her final journey was to China and Korea. Many of her works are compiled from letters she wrote home to her sister in Scotland. Binding in dark blue/light blue cloth with golden lettering on spine and front, corners slightly bumped. 409 pp., names and a stamp of previous owners, in stock, sofort lieferbar.
Edité par 1899, 1899
Vendeur : Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB), Stockholm, Suède
Edition originale
Etat : UNSPECIFIED. Pp. xii, (ii), 410, (2); viii, (ii), 365, (2). With two frontispieces, one folding coloured map and numerous illustrations throughout the text, many made from the author's photographs. Publisher's decorated gilt cloth, t. e. g., others untrimmed, lightly rubbed at extremities. First American edition. Isabella Bird (1831-1904), probably the most loved Victorian lady traveller, became the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society (1892). This narrative deals with her travels in China in 1897 along the Yangtze River from Shanghai visiting Hangzhou (Zhejiang province), Yichang (Hubei), Wan Hsien (Hebei), Nanjing (Kiangsu), and several places in Sichuan province. Her book is based on her letters and diary notes, and the illustrations are mainly taken from her own photographs. A lovely copy. Cordier BS 355. Robinson pp. 81-83. Yakushi (1984) B170.
Edité par 1891, 1891
Vendeur : Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB), Stockholm, Suède
Edition originale
Etat : UNSPECIFIED. Pp. xiv, 381; (vi), 409. With two fronts, two folding maps and 34 illustrations, of which eleven full-page. Publisher's blue decorated cloth, stamped in gilt, lightly discoloured. Bookplates. First edition. Isabella Bird (1831-1904), probably the most loved Victorian lady traveller, became the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society (1892). This account covers Bird's two-year journey through little-known parts of Persia and eastern Asia Minor. She joined Major Herbert Sawyer of the Indian Army on a rough journey from Baghdad to Tehran. After visiting the Bakhtiari tribes of south-west Persia, she continued her journey north through Kurdistan, Azerbaijan, to Trebizond (Trabzon) on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey. One map depicts her journey and the other the Bakhtiari country. Robinson pp. 81-3.