Ed helen wallis (31 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. London, Ryal Historical Society. 1994. ix+(1)+465 pages. Hard-cover. Spine ends are slightly bumped. Bookplate: Gillian Fellows-Jensen.

Hardcover. pp. xii, 273; vi, 275-564. Bound in sky-blue cloth with lettering and decoration in gilt and blind. Maps and illustrations present as called-for. Light shelfwear, bookplate to ffeps, white ribbon page marker taped to rfeps, contents unmarked, binding sound; very good in good- slightly edgeworn, spotted and sunned dustjackets, with clear tape affixed to spines, creasing, two short and one 1" closed tear to volume II. Works issued by The Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Part 2, No. 124 & 125. "Derived from the abstract retained by Philip Carteret after his voyage and the journal he compiled from it and other papers in about 1773.A collection of documents, 1756-1811, relating to the preparations, to the voyage itself, and to its aftermath.".…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Copy in red cloth on boards with gilt titl3 on cover and spine. Slight vestiges of labels on rear cover. Free of inscriptions. Clean and flat contents. Appears unread.

Hardcover. Condición: Used-Very Good. Cloth, dj. Slight shelf-wear.

Condición: VERY GOOD. 1965. 2nd Series. 2-volume SET. Blue Cloth hardcover with gilt stamping. Frontispiece. Maps. Illustrations. 564 total pages. Index. VERY GOOD. Binding sound. Text-block appears clean. Ex-library with the usual.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. no DJ. First edition. Centimetre tear up front hinge. A few chalk marks on back.

2 VOL SET, LACKS D/W, octavo hardcover (VG+) moderate crack to front gutter of vol 1; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 72 pp. ; illustrated ; 27 cm. ISSN: 0140-427X; National Library: 427690-5; 010538609; LCCN: 80-644443 ; LC: GA192; Dewey: 912/.05 ; preceeded by publication: M, the map collector, Issue no. 1-7; Dec. 1977-June 1979 ; issued from 1979-1996 ; Absorbed by: Mercator's world, with v. 1, no. 3 of that title./ No. 1-20, 1977-82. ; OCLC: 6524436 ; pictorial paper wrappers ; Contents: The Dallas Pratt Collection of maps at the American Museum, Bath / Rodney W. Shirley -- Ordnance Survey ephemera 1945-1991 / Tim Nicholson -- Churchill Fellowship to examine Drake maps / Bob Ward -- Collector's forum -- Two miniature maps of Boston found / Gunther Buchheim -- Rashi's Legacy: Maps of the Holy Land / Catherine Delano Smith and Mayer I. Gruber -- News -- An unrecorded set of thematic maps by Hondius / Gunter Schilder -- Collectors' barometer -- Collectors' marketplace -- Index to advertisers -- Forthcoming issues. List of Directors -- Mischievous rooks gather up the bargains / Jo French -- Gunter scores half century / Paul van den Brink -- Harley celebration / Valerie G. Scott -- Cartart factsimile / Zsolt Torok ; ex-lib, stamps ; crease to top corner, else VG. Book. …

Soft cover. 8vo. pp iv, 28. Black and white illustrated stapled card wraps/paperback with red lettering. Illustrated in black and white. Reprinted with corrections. Covers very lightly sunned, else content clean. Very good indeed.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Both books are very clean copies. The jackets have shelf wear and closed tears. This two-volume work presents Captain Philip Carteret's account of his remarkable circumnavigation aboard HMS Swallow. After becoming separated from Samuel Wallis's Dolphin following their difficult passage through the Strait of Magellan, Carteret continued independently across the Pacific. Despite an ageing, poorly equipped ship and a crew increasingly affected by sickness, he explored little-known waters and recorded several important discoveries, including Pitcairn Island and the Carteret Islands. Based on Carteret's journals, letters and contemporary documents, the work provides a detailed first-hand record of Pacific exploration immediately before the voyages of Captain Cook.…

2 VOL SET, FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt ship motif & blind rule to front boards, frontispieces, vol 1- xii + 273pp, vol 2- vi + pgs 275-564, illus/folding maps- not counted presumed all present, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light foxing to page edges & eps, sl creasing to edges of some folding maps) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate foxing to covers, light sunning to spines).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. As photographed; two-volume set; Hakluyt Second Series No CXXIV and CXXV. Clipped dustjackets with darkened spines and a little foxing to front edges; boards v.gd with bright device and spine lettering; both vols unmarked and internally clean throughout; private ownership; Vol I: xii + 273 + [2] + Plates I-XIV incl. maps, with 2 folding; Vol II: vi + pp275-564 + [2] + plates XV-XX incl. maps with one folding.…

Condición: Fair. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN.…

Condición: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear, tears and faded spine.

Octavo. Cloth boards titled in gilt on front cover and spine; ix, 465pp. Trivial shelf wear to boards, including some mild bumping to top and bottom edges of boards, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Near Fine. In publisher's series "Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks.".

Hardcover. pp. xii, 406; xiv, 306; xii, 309-595; x, 599-798. Bound in sky-blue cloth with lettering and decoration in gilt and blind. Maps and illustrations present as called-for. Light shelfwear, minor spotting/scuffing to volume I, slight bump to rear board on volumes II and IV. Bookplate to ffeps, with ribbon page markers of various colours and materials taped to rfeps, contents unmarked, binding sound; very good in good, slightly worn, spotted and sunned dustjackets, showing short, closed tears along edges. Works issued by The Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Part 2, Nos. 123, 128-130. "With Laing's letters are included his 'Cursory remarks on the course and termination of the great river Niger', his 'Notes on Gadamis', his only surviving letter to his wife, and the newspaper report of his death.the Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824 by Major Denham, Captain Clapperton and the late Doctor Oudney (2nd edition, 1826).Includes previously unpublished documents relating to the mission. Each volume contains a glossary of Arabic terms.".…

Hardback. Condición: nrFine. No DW. 1st Edition. Red cloth, gilt. Spine slightly faded, otherwise Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age.

2 vols: xii+564pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper, backstrip yellowed. Black and white plates and several fold-out maps A very good set. . First editions.

Hard Cover. Condición: VG-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG-. First Edition. VG-/VG. 2 vols. 8vo. original blue cloth gilt (ex-Libraries Board of South Australia Lending Library, with bookplate (+ associated crinkling) & rsm to FFE, tape marks to flypapers and boards, label stub to lower pastedown, single rsm to verso title page only, else internally clean) in dustwrapper (a triflerubbed & nicked, label/tape marks to spine, flaps a little creased, slight spine sunning); pp. xii, 1-274 (last blank); vi, 275-574, with 20 illustrations. Heavy item (1.5 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good set. …

Condición: New. The publication of this volume from the Royal Historical Society provides a comprehensive guide to the early maps of Great Britain and Ireland. Editor(s): Wallis, Helen; McConnell, Anita. Series: Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks. Num Pages: 475 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DB; HBJD1; HBTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 145 x 29. Weight in Grams: 781. . 1995. Revised ed. hardcover. . . . .…

8vo (22x14.5cm), hardback, xii + 273pp (vol I), 564pp in total. Good condition in good dustwrappers (unclipped, faded spines and edges, some foxing, small tears to upper edges, mild insect damage to upper edge of Vol. I, creased, prices crossed out at front flaps). Bumped, foxed, a tad age-toned, Fold out maps, and illustrations. Pictures available on request. Based on Carteret's own journals, and supplemented by archival documents from England and Holland, this is an account of a journey to the South Seas in 1766 to look for the Southern Continent, where Carteret was second in command to Samuel Wallis. At the Straits of Magellan, Carteret separated from Wallis, and made an independent voyage of discovery 'which has earned him the reputation of being the ablest and the most ill-fated of Cook's immediate precursors'. …

Condición: New. The publication of this volume from the Royal Historical Society provides a comprehensive guide to the early maps of Great Britain and Ireland. Editor(s): Wallis, Helen; McConnell, Anita. Series: Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks. Num Pages: 475 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DB; HBJD1; HBTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 145 x 29. Weight in Grams: 781. . 1995. Revised ed. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Cloth. Condición: Very Good Indeed. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. An interesting two volume set published by The Hakluyt Society, being an account of Captain Philip Carteret's trip to the South Seas. In the original dust wrappers. Number CXXIV of the Second Series. The work consists of Carteret's own manuscript of the voyage alongside another work he wrote with a view to publication which responded to the misrepresentation presented in John Hawkesworth's Voyages of 1773. Edited by Helen Wallis. Profusely illustrated throughout, including five folding maps. Collated complete. From the second series publication of the Hakluyt Society, publishing scholarly editions of primary records of historic voyages and travels. Including early accounts concerning geography, ethnology, and natural history. The second series ran from 1899 to 1998 and comprised one-hundred and ninety volumes. In the original cloth bindings in the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally very smart with slight fading to the extremities. Dust wrappers are smart with spotting to the wraps and the occasional minor closed tear. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot, heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good Indeed. None (ilustrador). book.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by Helen Wallis on the half title page. First edition bound in quarter leather. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn, but remain strong and sturdy. Internally, there are no other markings or inscriptions and the pages within are neat. The binding is secure. JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. xvi, 96, [2] + 16 double-page color facsimile plates; large folio (24.5 x 16 in.), dark brown half morocco, tan cloth sides, t.e.g.; printed on thick paper. The plates are preceded by scholarly essays by Wallis, Janet Backhouse, and others providing history and background on Rotz and this atlas. Also included are a transcription and translation of the text. Jean Rotz (c. 1505-c. 1560), navigator of Dieppe and royal hydrographer, wrote and addressed this work to Henry VIII. In the text portion, Rotz provides what is essentially a manual of navigational instruction, including topics such as how to use the winds of the sea-compass and how to calculate latitude by observations of the sun. The atlas portion contains regional charts of the lands and sea coasts of the world, including America and the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and Far East, the coasts of Asia and Africa, the Black Sea and Mediterranean, South America to the Strait of Magellan, and a world map in two hemispheres. A fine and fresh copy of an impressive production. Barker 244.…

Condición: Very Good. Cambridge, The Hakluyt Society, 1965. 8vo. xii,+ 273 pp.+ plates; vi,+ 275-564 pp.+ plates. Publ. cloth. Two volumes. (Hakluyt Society. Second series, volume 124 & 125.) Travels of Captain Philip Carteret at the Falkland Islands etc. Hardcover / Hardback.

Condición: New.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condición: New.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.