Christopher sandeman (46 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Illustrated photographic dust jacket. Brodart mylar protected. Black boards with gold sun to front and spine titling. Unmarked. Lavishly illustrated with b&w photographic illustrations. 191 pp. Fold-out map of Peru. Lovely vintage volume. Square and tight…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Yes, with plastic cover. Book is square and binding is tight. Contents are clean throughout. Donation plate on inside front cover. A few words in pencil on the ffep. Cover boards are in good shape with minimal wear along the edges and spine. Dust jacket is in good shape although the spine is lightly sun-f…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Yellow cloth over boards with gold lettering to the spine. Yellow dust jacket with black lettering and a black and white illustration of a person fording a river. Good condition. Dated 1939 on title page-no date on copyright page. 299 pages. Binding…

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Etat : Very Good. 19 pages and 8 plates and 1 fold out map. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: Octavo (Standard Book Size). Category: Royal Geographical Society;…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Limited Edition. Size: 10 1/2" x 8". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Gilt-stamped blue cloth over boards, deckled paper, wood engravings by John O'Connor. This is number 444 of a limited edition of 550. Previous ow…

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW w/light discoloration to endpapers. Gilt embossed black linen boards/NF w/light edge & surface rubs. PO name to fEP. Travel narrative of naturalist Christopher Sandeman who began his adventure unsure whether Peru was the capital of Chile, or vice…

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Rather worn and frayed. First Edition. Octavo, pp xiii, 302, fore edge slightly foxed, very slightly age-toned, cream buckram very slightly worn, in a worn and torn dustwrapper. [The author was John Hugh Smyth-Piggott, though this was not made public at the time. They are erudite and readable - full of b…

4to, x + 62pp. Original blue buckram in plain papers dustwrapper, slightly foxed. Some leaves of the text block unopened. b/w wood engraving as frontispiece, in additon to nine beautiful wood engravings by John O'Connor. One of 525 copies bound in blue blackram by the Dropmore Press. A bright, truly beautiful copy in near-fine c…

Full Cloth. Etat : Good. No Jacket. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full beige cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, modest wear, with top of the spine a bit frayed. 299pp, folding map and 29 illustrations. Previous owner's name on the front endpaper. Not exlibrary. Overall a GOOD MINUS condition book. Size: 8vo…

British first edition (per Phoenix House's "First published . . ." statement upon copyright page). 192 pages. Hardcover: H 29.5cm x L 23cm. B/w pictorial dust jacket chipped, torn, and creased; toning most prevalent along spine and front panel's right margin; broad clipping to front flap's bottom corner; dj now presented in a my…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. [x], 58, [6] pages. Plates included in the pagination. Illustrations from wood engravings by John O'Connor. Numbered 216 of the 550 copies printed. In the original blue buckram which has inner gilt dentelles. With the printed dustwrapper - this is browned and spotted. The spine…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good Plus. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Limited edition. No.173 of 550. Black & white woodcuts. Handmade paper. Extremely clean inside. Firm blue cloth boards with gilt decoration to front board and gilt titles to spine. A few very light marks to boards and slightly bumped corners. Sandeman, Christopher (il…

Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. - First Edition - Boards rubbed w/ several small dents to edges -Corners and spine ends a little crushed - Edges of text block toned and foxed - Offsetting to endpapers which are heavily foxed - Dustwrapper slightly worn - Spine ends and corners chipped w/ some loss…

Etat : near fine. quarto, 59pp, original cloth covered boards, title gilt on spine and gilt device on upper board, inner dentelles gilt, dustwrapper with wood cut illustration, top edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed, illustrated title page, wide margins, decorated initial and tailpiece, book near fine, a few marks on dw else ne…

Cloth. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First edition. A limited edition first issue of this account of a travelling botanist, with illustrations by John O'Connor. A Limited Edition, first issue. This is number 139 of 550 copies printed. In full blue cloth binding with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Print…

Limited edition, no.390 of 550 copies, 4to., pp.59, blue cloth, lettered in gilt and with pictorial emblem in gilt to front board, decorative gilt inner dentelles, handmade paper, with wood engravings by John O'Connor, including dedication page, pictorial title, 6 full-page plates, plus illuminated letter and decorative tailpiec…