Edited by a c duke (4 resultados)

Cloth Bound Boards. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. Republished. 1987 Republished from the original of 1903. Size octavo, 491 pages including index. Red cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the front cover and spine and gilt arms of the Duke of Beaufort to the front cover also. Condition fine, a very clean copy.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. English language. Paperback 1981. vii+249 pages. Flat covers. SPINE HAS A LIGHT CREASE. Clean & tight. FRONT END PAPER HAS A GLUED ON RECEIPT. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref SM3. Britain and The Netherlands. VOLUME SEVEN: Church and State Since the Reformation. Papers Delivered to the Seventh Anglo-Dutch Historical Conference. Volume 7 edited by A. C. Duke & C. A. Tamse. Published by Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands. Weighs over 300g.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1894 FIRST EDITION. Two-Volume DELUXE LARGE PAPER LIMITED FIRST EDITION numbered by publisher on printed limitation page. Two volumes complete. Original orange cloth boards with gilt coat of arms on front covers, navy spines and corners with gilt lettering spines, TEG, original dark greenish navy coated EPs, untrimmed fore-edge and bottom edge both volumes. Both volumes have loss of much of the spine covering (see photos), but bindings are very solid and not broken or cracked. This set is an obvious candidate for rebacking. The covers have significant rubbing along edges and corners but the boards are relatively clean and bright with a few faint dark smudges (nothing serious). Each volume has previous owner's bookplate and small bookseller ticket on front pastedown otherwise no owner marks or writing on any pages, Some fore-edge foxing is present but nearly all pages are completely free of foxing and are clean. Each volume measures 251mm tall x 200mm (compared to 195mm tall for the regular first edition). Volume one has 494 pages, 20 b/w full-page illustrations and photos, 57 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume two has 483 pages, 13 full-page illustrations and photos, 56 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume one covers hunting in the arctic (whacking a giant walrus with an ax from a small whaling boat), three chapters on hunting in the Caucasus, a chapter on Mongolia, two chapter on hunting chamois and stags in the Alps, a chapter on elk in Scandinavia, a chapter on big game throughout Europe, hunting in Spain and Portugal, hunting in India tigers, a chapter on travel/camping considerations, a chapter on rifles and ammo, a chapter on taxidermy, a small bibliography. Volume two mostly about hunting in Africa with specific chapters on various types of big game hunting: lions, antelopes, hippos, giraffes, ostriches, rhinos, buffalo, elephants, with several chapters on South Africa including some history, a chapter on travel with Livingstone, some chapters on East Africa including special hunting considerations regarding gear, routes, etc. Volume two concludes with one chapter on big game hunting in North America (bears, wapiti, moose, cougars, bison, deer, elk, caribou, bighorn, mountain goat, antelope mainly in British Columbia, Alaska, Colorado and Pacific NW), and a brief chapter on hunting musk ox. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED. Charles Whymper, J. Wolf, H. Willink (ilustrador).…

Condición: Fine. Second edition (first published in 1995) hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains (vi), 218 pp with 84 plates on 16 and 3 full-page maps. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Housed in Fine condition marble paper covered open-fronted slip case. SIGNED by the author bookplate to the title page 'Best wishes, Norman Franks' + Colour Flown Cover Card No. 618 SIGNED by Neville Duke which is also SIGNED by W.O.A. Bunn (Royal Air Force, Abingdon) and SIGNED by Allan Wood (Empire Test Pilots School Boscombe Down, Wiltshire 27th October 1982) + SIGNED period monochrome photograph of Neville Duke stepping out of the cockpit. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).…