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Año de publicación: 2023
Librería: True World of Books, Delhi, India
Libro Impresión bajo demanda
LeatherBound. Condición: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1864 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: 365 Language: English.
Publicado por John Henry and James Parker, Oxford and London, 1864
Librería: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, Nueva Zelanda
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Hardcover. Condición: Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Small tears and chips to cloth at ends of spine and at tips of corners of boards. Hinges split and reinforced with red cloth tape. Signs of label removal from front endpaper. Contemporary owner's signature on title page "Geo C. Smythe / [Coole Glehn? (illegible)]". ; x, [2], xviii, [2], 282, [2 (blank)] pages + chromolithograph frontispiece + 3 chromolithograph plates + 6 tinted lithograph plates + 4 maps (1 with hand-coloured route of Col. Smythe; 2 folding) + 2 lithograph plates. 3 in-text engravings. Original green cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, gilt sailing vessel illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 223 x 138mm. Pink coated endpapers. "The circumstances which led to my official mission to the Fiji Islands, and an account of the voyage to them by way of Sydney and Auckland, and on return to England by San Francisco and Panama, will be found briefly related in the Introduction. Mrs. Smythe's Letters, written originally to friends at home, contain a personal narrative of our cruise aomng the Isaldns, and of our subsequent sojourn at them." - from the Preface by W. J. Smythe. The illustrations are: Levuka (Island of Ovalau); The 'Pegasus' towed to her Moorings; Interior of the Great Chapel at Mbau; Mbau; Chapel in process of erection at Vutia; Navatu; Meeting at Nanduri (Mathuata); Meeting at Nakorotumbu; View of the Reef, Lakemba; Fawn Harbour, Vanua-levu; View from the Observatory, Levuka; Cocoa-nut Trees in a Storm; View from Observatory, looking towards the Wood. The 4 maps are: Map of Pacific Ocean; Map of Fiji Group; Map of Route from Navua to Namusi; Map or portion of Melanesia. ; 8vo.
Publicado por John Henry & James Parker, Oxford & London, 1864, 1864
Librería: Pennymead Books PBFA, Knaresborough, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
x + xviii + 282pp + 2 folding maps and 4 tinted chromolitho plates. 1st ed., tear to frontispiece otherwise clean in later quarter calf.
Publicado por Oxford and London John Henry and James Parker, 1864
Librería: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, Reino Unido
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 8vo. x, xviii, 282pp.Introduction and appendix by Colonel W.J. Smythe. Illustrated by chromolithographs and woodcuts from sketches made on the spot plus maps, several folding, by Arrowsmith. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Browning to end papers. A very good copy of a scarce title.