Easter island (12 résultats)

1963. Art, South Pacific, Oceania. University of California, Santa Barbara. Text as part of folder, four b/w prints, very good folder and plates.

Etat : Very Good. 31 pages, 20 coloured figures. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Antiquaries Journal; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Etat : Very Good. 28 pages, illustrated in colour. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: National Geographic Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Etat : Very Good. 10 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 26 cms. Category: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Etat : Very Good. 7 pages and 7 plates. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: Quarto (25 x 19 cms). Category: Antiquity; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Etat : Very Good. 11 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17 x 24 cms. Category: Mariner's Mirror; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Etat : Very Good. 3 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Annual Register; Printed before 1800; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Unframed Print. Etat : Very Good. A single sheet print, image area approx. 18 x 28 cms. The illustrations found in leading architectural journals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as The Builder, Building News, and The Architect are masterpieces of visual craftsmanship. These illustrations capture the elegance, intricacy, and stylistic flair of the periodâs architecture. Rich in ornamental detail and atmospheric depth, they reflect not only the buildings themselves but the artistic sensibilities and design discourse of their age. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL PAGE FROM THE JOURNAL, PRINTED AT THE DATE SHOWN IN THE TITLE, NOT A REPRINT OR COPY. Category: Builder & Building News; Vintage Prints; Unframed Prints : Old. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years of taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Half-year run bound in early half-leather over pebbled cloth boards. Some edge-wear and bumping to covers; small paper label, painted over, to upper spine. Edges toned, and old library bookplate and marks to front and rear endpapers. Front hinge nearly exposed internally, at endpaper, but still firm. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome volume, and internally unusually bright and clean. Superb illustrations. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Book.…

circa 34 x 49 cm. 1 Blatt verso weiss Belebte Szene der Forschungsreisenden mit Einwohnern, die europäische Produkte bestaunen, rechts zwei der kolossalen Steinstatuen (Moai). - Gut erhalten, Kolorit wohl aus neuerer Zeit, aber gut gemacht.

LeatherBound. Etat : New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. 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. Pages: 178 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. 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: 178 Language: English.…

Etat : Very good condition. Two maps and one view on one sheet. The map at the upper left titled 'Plan of Easter Island, taken in April 1786, on Board the Boussole & the Astrolabe'. Below this, 'Views of Easter Island on a Scale of two Inches to a League'. The large map, at the right, titled 'Plan of Cook's Bay on the West Side of Easter Island .'. From La Perouse's Voyage, and engraved by Neele. Jean-François de Galoup, Comte de La Perouse (1741-1788) was a French explorer who explored and mapped the west coast of North America and visited Easter Island in 1786. Rollin, a major in the Perouse expedition, wrote of the island, "Instead of meeting with men exhausted by famine. I found, on the contrary, a considerable population, with more beauty and grace than I afterwards met in any other island; and a soil, which, with very little labor, furnished excellent provisions, and in an abundance more than sufficient for the consumption of the inhabitants." Hunt, T. L.; Lipo, CP (2006). "Late Colonization of Easter Island". Science 311 (5767): 1603-6 La Perouse explored the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), where he was the first European to land at Maui. He charted Botany Bay in Australia, and perished on a voyage while searching for the Solomon Islands. Published as the Act directs Novr. 1st 1798, by G.G. & J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row. Neele sc. Strand. No. 10. Some light foxing in lower left, faint damp mark at top margin, intruding about one half inch into 'Plan of Easter Island', not affecting its title and a fainter damp mark at left edge. Short closed tear bottom edge, just touching the word "Published". Original folds. 21 x 16 1/2", paper 21 1/2 x 17".…