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Edité par Legare Street Press 10/27/2022, 2022
ISBN 10 : 1015908667ISBN 13 : 9781015908666
Vendeur : BargainBookStores, Grand Rapids, MI, Etats-Unis
Livre
Hardback or Cased Book. Etat : New. Recollections of an Ill-Fated Expedition to the Headwaters of the Madeira River in Brazil 2.08. Book.
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Date d'édition : 2023
Vendeur : True World of Books, Delhi, Inde
Livre impression à la demande
LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1907 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. 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. 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: 562 Language: English.
Edité par Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10 : 1015913636ISBN 13 : 9781015913639
Vendeur : THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, Royaume-Uni
Livre impression à la demande
Paperback / softback. Etat : New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.
Edité par J. B. Lippincott
Vendeur : Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Etat : Fair. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1907. 1st edition. 8vo. 479pp+frontis. B/W plates and B/W and color fold-out maps. Fair book. Moderate edgewear. Heavy soiling to the boards and page edges. Spine toned. Bubbling to the spine and rear board. Page edges and pages age toned. Rear hinge cracked. All pages dampstained. Penciled notes and markings to several pages throughout. Typical foxing throughout. Previous owner's name penciled to the front pastedown. Inquire if you need further information.
Edité par Isha Books, New Delhi, 2013
Vendeur : Bookcase, Carlisle, Royaume-Uni
Hard. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good Minus. Dust jacket edgeworn, bumped and creased in places, small chip to foot of spine, small stain to head of spine, rear cover rubbed in places, inside flaps of d-j attached to boards, boards clean, lightly edgeworn along spine edges, pp very clean and bright, quite large print, binding sound. Size: 8vo.
Edité par J. B. Lippincott, 1907
Vendeur : Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good.
Edité par J. B. Lippincott, 1907
Vendeur : Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, Etats-Unis
hardcover. Etat : Acceptable. Binding shaken, partially detached at spine. Light bumping on corners and edges. Pages clean and binding sound.
Edité par . Philadelphia & London, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1907, First edition., 1907
Vendeur : Horizon Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
8vo [23 x 16 cm]; [iv], 479 pp, frontis (port), 27 plates, 6 maps including 5 folding and 4 colored, tables, index. original blue cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, spine ends a little worn, map with short tear at fold, else a near fine solid and clean copy. Humphreys 14219: 'The expedition is the Madeira-Mamore railway expedition of 1878-91'. Welch 37. A fascinating account of exploration, especially along the Madeira River, the Amazon below Obidos and the travels from Bolivia. A picture of this book is available on request.
Edité par J. B. Lippincott, 1907
Vendeur : CorgiPack, Fulton, NY, Etats-Unis
Livre
Hardcover. Etat : Good. Dust jacket condition: No Jacket. Front endpaper split. Moderate wear to extremities. Blue cloth covers spotted. . PREFACE. FOE many years past it has been customary for an organization, known as the Madeira and Mamore Association, to hold an annual reunion at one of the leading hotels in Philadelphia. The participants were persons who, in the year 1878, had gone to Brazil under the leadership of two firms of American contractors?P. & T. Collins and Mackie, Scott & Co.?for the purpose of constructing a railway around the falls and rapids of the upper Madeira Eiver and establishing steamboat lines above and below the obstructions; so as to form, in connection with ocean steamships plying between New York and Brazilian seaports, one great system of international transportation, intended to produce a rapid development of all that vast and fertile territory drained by the Amazon and establish direct communication between the United States and interior Bolivia. There was nothing visionary or chimerical about the project which had engaged the attention of members of the association. It originated in recommendations made by Lieutenant Lardner Gibbon, U. S. N., in 1852, had been advocated by many eminent statesmen of South America, endorsed by noted German engineers, subsidized by the governments of Bolivia and Brazil, entrusted for execution to Colonel George EaTi Church, a distinguished soldier in our Civil War, failed in consequence of legal and financial complications in England, and, after careful . . . 479 pages.
Edité par Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1907., 1907
Vendeur : Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Etat : Very good. - Octavo, 9 inches high by 6 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in deep blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover and the spine. The top edge is gilt. The covers are lightly rubbed and the corners and head & tail of the spine are bumped. 479 pages, illustrated with a frontispiece, 27 plates, 5 maps (4 folding) and a large folding map at the rear. Very good. First edition.
Edité par J.P. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1907
Vendeur : Blue Skye Books, Novato, CA, Etats-Unis
Livre Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1907. 1st edition, VG+/. Book has some wear to spine ends and corners, gilt lettering on spine somewhat dulled, gilt lettering on front panel bright, light surface wear. 28 b & w plates and 6 maps (5 are folding). three appendices and index.Describes the efforts of 1878 and after to build a railroad around the heavy rapids of the upper Madeira River which joins Bolivia with the Amazon River. Bolivia had (and has) immense mineral and metal resources, the problem being extracting them at high elevations (sometimes 15,000 feet or more), bringing them out of a land-locked country to ports and the world beyond. Large loss of life in the heat and the incredibly wet terrain of the Amazon basin, a very difficult landscape to try and accomplish anything. Fascinating story, told mostly by the expedition photographer. Nice copy.
Edité par J B Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1907
Vendeur : Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : IOBA
Edition originale
Blue/gilt hardback cloth cover. First Edition. 230mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 479pp. 6 maps, including 5 fold out and 4 in colour. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Cover lightly marked. Teg.
Edité par J. B. Lippncott Pub., 1907
Vendeur : Terrace Horticultural Books, St. Paul, MN, Etats-Unis
Livre Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good, Clean, Light WEar At Extremioties, Slight Darkening At Spine Area, Signature Of Emma Ten Broeck Runk (1849-1937) September 25, 1907 At Fep. Her FAmily Member John Runk Was an Engineer Under Charles Bird s Team of Four as Members of the Mercedita (Ship), Collins Expedition on Behalf Of The Madeira- Mamore Railway of the Title (1878-1879),Octavo, bright Blue Cloth, Gilt Color Title At Cover And Spine,PP.479, B & W Frontis Of Col. George Church, Cololr Fold Out Map of South America, Fold Out Map Of The Madeira And Marmore Rivers, Fold Out Map Of The Amazon Below Obidos, Fold Out Map Plan Of The Madeira And Marmore Railway, Several B & W Photo Plates, The Madeira And Mamore Association Had Met Annually In Philadelphia As a gathering of Members Of The Expedition; The Planned Railroad WAs Built Between 1907 and 1912 and is now abandoned since 1972; Explorations y George EArl Church and The Expedition And Railway Project were Driven By The Demand For Rubber; Provenance: From the library of Dr. Thomas Lovejoy 1941-2021 an American Ecologist, Yale University Graduate and President of the Amazon Biodiversity Center in Brazil. He also held appointments at the United Nations, George Mason University, and the World Bank and received recognition worldwide for his work including posthumously from the National Geographic Society with its highest honor the Hubbard Medal. Credited with E. O. Wilson of coining the term biological diversity in 1980, he spent his life working in science and public policy.
Edité par J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia & London, 1907
Vendeur : Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale Signé
Hardcover. First Edition. 479pp. Original blue publisher's cloth stamped in blind on the front panel and the spine panel, top edge gilt. Frontispiece and twenty-seven illustrations (photographs and drawings), six maps (five foldouts -- four of which are in color and a larger one at back). A sober dedication on the front free endpaper reads: "Mother / from / two of the survivors / 10/11/07." In the late 1870s two American contracting firms, P. & T. Collins and Mackie, Scott & Co., sent an expedition to Brazil to build a railway around the falls and rapids of the upper Madeira river. According to the author, "The members of the Madeira and Mamoré Association had long felt that the true history of the enterprise and of their disastrous experience, while connected with it, was worthy of preservation. Few of the many newspaper accounts published at the time were correct and none were complete. At the same time the constantly increasing importance of executing the work they had failed to perform made it probable that a knowledge of their experience would prove valuable to those who, in the not far distant future, would inevitably follow in their footsteps." Laid in are two newspaper clippings: one from The New York Times, July 1912, titled: "Jungle Railroad, Key to Rich Trade, Cost Many Lives."; the other from The Westerly Sun, November 1983, titled: "Historic Amazon Railroad Is Being Restored." Light wear to extremities, a couple of small spots to cloth. A very good+ copy. ; Octavo; Signed by Associated.