Dr g hartwig (67 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Rebound in brown leather covers with raised bands on spine. Gold lettering and bands on spine are bright. Covers exhibit very light soiling and shelf wear. Hinges are tight. Heavy foxing and yellowing starting with the ffep's and going to the end of the preface. Heavy foxing to bfep's. Text is yellowed with occasional foxing and soiling. Page 270 has scribbling in pencil around the edges of the full page b&w illustration. The rest of the text and the many illustrations are unmarked. The full page maps in the back of the book exhibit light foxing along with the yellowing due to age. "Embracing the combined results of all the explorations, researches and discoveries of modern times. with over two hundred beautiful engravings and maps." Edited by Dr. A.H. Guernsey. All books are individually examined and described. Never ex-library unless explicitly described as such.…

Paperback. Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Leather bound with raised bands to spine, gilt titles and decoration (bespoke Alleyn's School copy). General wear and rubbing to spine. Marbled end papers and text block. Alleyn's School prizegiving plate to pastedown. Foxing to prelims and less so to text. Otherwise internally in very good condition with pages free from marks or inscriptions. Please see images for details and feel free to request further information.…

Condición: Please see description. Original red buckram binding with gilt lettering. Binding a bit worn / stained, contents bit foxed, hinges weak, else a good copy.

Condición: Fair. 1888. No edition remarks. 128 pages. No dust jacket. Full bound brown leather. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are moderately tanned with visible foxing. Heavy cracking to front hinge, however binding remains firm. Mild thumb-marking present. Boards have notable edge-wear with peeling and scuffing. Visible rubbing and staining to surfaces. Moderate chipping to corners and edges. Pen scribble to front board. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Notable scuffing to edges and joints.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Bound in marbled boards with leather spine and corners. 1869 date on title page. Profusely illustrated with fold out maps of Iceland Corners of leather corners worn through on tips and small weatr to edges of leather covered boards. Illustrations and fold out map (ilustrador).…

Octavo, light blue illus heavy card boards, orange lettering to boards, gilt lettering and decorative rule to spine, deckled gilt page edges, frontispiece of tiger, illus title page, 256pp, illus - plates of animals, VG (crackled front and rear gutter, moderate soiling and rubbing to covers and spine, unsteady binding), This book is from 1887 and has strong racist overtones towards indigenous Australians.…

Three-Quarter Leather. Condición: Fair. Brown leather with black boards, gilt spine title on black plaques. Leather is corner chipped with edge rubbing, the front cover and front endpaper is free. Spine has edge chipping. The rest of the binding is bound and pages clean. F9.

8vo. xx, 524pp, frontis with tissue guard, 7 plates, text illustrations, multifolding coloured map. Original decorated blind-stamped green cloth gilt. Cloth slightly faded and stained, slight damp stain to top margin of first 65 pages.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. 8th. Numerous plates and woodcuts, pp.524, large folding map.

Leather Spine w/marblized Cvrs. No Jacket. New Edition. 548 pp+3 color folding maps, 8 chromoxylographic plates, and numerous woodcuts, front hinge is split, but attatched, covers have some wear mostly to extremeties, pages have marblized edges, last 80-90 pp have slight crease in upper corner.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. ix -128pp all edges gilt full page and text black and white illustrations throughout. The contents clean and tight with no inscriptions. Publishers green cloth with multi coloured title and Island scene to the upper cover and spine, the binding clean and tight with no chips splits or bumping.…

ix, 128pp, frontis, plates, text ills. Original pictorial green cloth gilt, aeg. Book plate to fpdep.

Half leather. New Edition. New ed., royal 8vo, two volumes in one, pp. xxii, (17)-468, 469-843, Index, (1, advert), b/w engraved presentation plate, b/w ills and maps, lacks title-page, prev owner's signature, marbled eps, waterstaining along top edge of most pages, foxing scattered throughout, half leather boards, scuffed and marked, head of spine split. Reading copy only. The book is heavy and may require additional postage. Explorers of the Polar and Tropical regions, extensively illustrated.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Longman’s Green & Co 1888 142pp.

TEXT IN DANISH, octavo, half leatherbound black heavy boards, gilt lettering/decoration & raised bands to spine, marbled page edges, illus/printed eps, xv + 640pp, illus, VG (light to moderate scuffing/chafing & fading to spine, moderate fading to marbling on page edges with minor tanning also, 3cm crack to front gutter, light to moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & occasionally throughout, ex-libris tab tipped in to recto of ffep).…

Condición: Fine. 8 chromolithographic plates, and numerous woodcuts. xx. 566. Aeg. Full leather. 5 raised bands on spine, with gilt decorated panels. Marbled front and end papers. Fine copy.

TEXT IN DANISH, octavo, half leatherbound black heavy boards, gilt lettering & decoration with raised bands to spine, marbled page edges, patterned eps, viii + 455pp, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG+ (light fading to spine, minor rubbing/chafing to leatherwork, light tanning to page edges, light occasional cracking to gutters, light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals & plates).…

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Assumed First Edition. Assumed first edition. Binding tight throughout, though hinge cracks are visible. Green boards with heavy wear to edges and spine; four inch crack between front cover and spine. Scuffing to front and back faces. Faded gilt lettering and decoration on front face and along spine. Front inside cover repaired with binding tape. Pages age toned throughout, especially at edges. Otherwise unmarked. Protective plastic covering. A volume which combines the works "The Polar World" and "The Tropical World". 761 pages including index. Extra postage required for international or priority shipping.…

Hardcover. 1872 Edition. 1872. Oversized, thick octavo, three quarters brown leather over brown fabric covered boards, with black and brown spine labels, gilt lettering on spine, and 6 bands on spine, full marbled edge. Descriptions of the polar and tropical regions of Earth, with black and white frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Very good, light wear to leather on cover.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Unknown.

Hardback. Condición: Fine. New Edition. 556pp. Full contemporary polished brown calf with gilt borders and spine. Five raised bands to the spine with a black morocco label. Illustrated with eight chromo-oxylographic plates and numerous woodcuts. Booksellers ticket to the inside front cover 'John J. Banks, Cheltenham'. Attractive marbled end-papers with matching fore-edges. Joints a trifle tender but a very attractive copy in full calf. No inscriptions. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. hardback, 8vo, xviii,427pp, 12 coloured plates, numerous woodcut illustrations, folding map, bookplate on endpaper of Robert and Evelyn Benson, text clean, binding and hinges sound, marbled edges and endpapers,gilt decorated full leather binding, spine rubbed and external spine edge slightly cracked, Good condition.…

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. New Edition. gilt-decorated green cloth, slight sun-darkening at spine, internally clean and sound, binding a little cocked, gift presentation inscription to Armagh Natural History and Philosophical Society dated 1892 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair to Good. 1st Edition. With Nearly Two Hundred Illustrations, bound in blind stamped leather, with binding and hinges tight. Covers in Fair to Good Condition, with backstrip loss to upper edge, showing edge/corner wear. The interior of the book is in Very Good ++ Condition, with the frontis-piece intact. …

contemporary ½ calf with cloth boards, spine with 6 blind tooled diamond designed compartments of raised bands, brown morocco label on two, black morocco label on four. All edges marbled. Marbled paste down and free end papers., Size : large 8vo, Contains, engraved gift page, frontis, and numerous woodcut text illustrations., Volume : 2 volumes in 1, References : Arctic Bibliography 6732, P. gift page, blank (2), frontis, title, printer?s imprint, prface v-vi, contents vii-xviii, 1-468; half title, 470-811.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Very good copy in umber cloth with gilt titles. Rubbing and edge-wear. Binding firm and square. Pages toning only slightly, with minor foxing on endpapers. Name on endpaper. Lovely plates.

24.5x16 cm. Original gilt-stamped brown cloth, lightly shelf worn, small tear at top of front joint, extremities lightly rubbed. 486, 6, 4 pp., illustrations. This work was likely issued in response to the purchase of Alaska by the United States. Published by Harper & Brothers.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1892. Red full leather with gilt Rugby School insignia to front. Raised bands and gilt decs. Attractively marbled endpapers and all edges marbled. xviii. 548 pp. B/w sepia illustration plates and b/w illustrations to text. Two fold-out map plates. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Includes Preface to the Second Edition (1874). Rugby School prize plate at front pastedown, dated 1896. Clean and bright. Binding near as-new. VG+.…

Hardback. New Edition. This lovely 1894 new edition of Marvels Over our Heads From The Aerial World by Dr G Hartwig is now in the possession of St Marys Books Bound in turqoise cloth with a stunning illustration of a balloon falling into the sea at sunset on the cover this hardback book is additionally embellished with alledge gilt Inside one finds ix 142 pages of text and 2 pages of a Select List of School Prizes at the back of the book This lovely edition features 29 charming black ink illustrations throughout the book such as the frontispiece image Balloon floating on water and highlights both the experience and the weather conditions one may face whilst travelling by air This book is in very good condition with few notable blemishes or imperfections other than some minor bumping to the cover and some very minor foxing Marvels Over our Heads is looking for a new home and would make for the perfect gift for any early aviation enthusiast. book.…