Nourse j e prof (10 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Good. Used, has wear and soiling but is still in solid reading condition. Cracked binding. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. 48th Congress. 1st Session. Ex. Doc. No. 198. 164 p. 24 cm. 3 fold-out maps. 2 maps in text. 4 fold-out diagrams. Rebound in quarter cloth with marbled paper boards. Owner's label on a front endpaper.

Hard cover. Etat : Good. No jacket. Includes a stereo view image! The cover is shelf worn and slightly scratched with a small smudge on the back cover, but none affecting legibility. The edges of the spine are bumped. Binding is secure and pages are clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. First Edition. Octavo, 164pp., illustrated. A very good copy in blue cloth and gilt spine. Complete with 7 fold-out maps or diagrams, all in crisp, clean condition except for one small closed tear on the map of the Suez Ithsmus and some creasing to the final foldout plate of Amsterdam's canal ship system. Very mild foxing throughout.…

Hard Cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Hardback, gilt title to spine and illustration to front board. l, 644pp. Numerous illustrations and maps. Folding map in pocket to rear. 1st edition 1879. Ex-library copy with usual library markings. Some fraying to spine, slight fading to front board. A decent reading copy. A heavy book, additional postage may be required for orders outside the UK. (ac11).…

l, 644 pp. Maps, plates from photograph, portraits, including large folding map in pocket at rear. Folio, publisher's green gilt cloth. First edition. Hinges neatly reinforced with tissue; blank leaf at rear torn; cloth rubbed at corners and bottom of spine.

Hardcover. First Edition. Large octavo (7-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in the original decorated green cloth; 664 pages. Illustrated with 2 steel-engraved portraits, over 70 wood engravings, photo engravings, and heliotypes, 8 sketches of regional coastlines drawn by Inuits, and 13 maps, including the large folding linen-backed map in the rear pocket. Hall made three trips to the North. His ship, the Polaris, reached the farthest northerly point then attained by any vessel. This, his second visit and most extended, was published posthumously--Hall never returned from his third trip. Here is a detailed and valuable account of life among the Eskimos in the Arctic. The pages are somewhat toned with age and quite clean. Hinges cracked but tight; rubbing to spine and rear. Very Good.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. First. The Search for Franklin Continues! 1879 Government Printing Office, Washington, 1st, thick 4to, pp.l, 644, frontis w/ tissue, 1 steel engraving w/ tissue, 73 wood/photo engravings/heliotypes, 8 sketches, double-page facsimile, 11 maps (6 fldg,3 double-page), lg linen-backed fldg map in pocket, appendices, errata, gilt-dec green cloth. Cloth w/ stain top of spine on text, hinges bit tender, maps w/ orig folds & no tears, very good. Charles Francis Hall (1821-1871) was an American Arctic explorer who made three expeditions to the Arctic regions, the first two to search for records of Sir John Franklin and the last an attempt on the North Pole on which Hall died. Nourseâs massive account of Hallâs second expedition (1864-69) includes chapters on Hall's prior expeditions, the Franklin search, sledge journeys, information on the Iglulik Esquimaux, material on the fish and game of the region; and useful information about environmental and traveling conditions. This includes the wonderful, large (26.5â x 33.5â), linen-backed, folding, circumpolar map not always present. This book weighs six pounds. AB 6486.…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. First edition. Pp. xlix, 644. Illustrated with 2 steel-engraved portraits, over 70 wood engravings, photo engravings, and heliotypes, 8 sketches of regional coastlines drawn by the Inuit, 13 maps, with the large folding map in the rear pocket. Dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with gilt illustration to front board. Bookplate, scattered light foxing in margins. A well preserved copy.…

Folding map in rear pocket, double-page map, numerous plates and illustrations. 578 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's blue-green cloth, pictorially blocked and lettered in silver and gilt. Minor wear at top and tail of spine, a bit shaken, front hinge starting. Very good Folding map in rear pocket, double-page map, numerous plates and illustrations. 578 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. …