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Condición: Poor. Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. 16mo. Half-bound in dark red leather and red cloth (backstrip/corners). Backstrip has black and gilt bands and gilt lettering. Gilt borders on boards. Fading and wear to boards. Top third of backstrip is peeling away on left hand side. Bumped corners. Front and back hinge splits. Frontispiece with colour illustration - tissueguard intact but with large portion ripped out. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN. …

Cloth. Condición: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Hardback. No date. c.1900. 19.0 x 13.5 cm. pp. xvi, 286, (2) publisher's ads, 22 colour-printed plates. One of Allen's Naturalist's Library series. In original cloth, spine relaid, new end papers, cloth patchily faded, edge of frontis stained but plates otherwise clean.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Slight wear to spine ends. Very occasional light foxing A good sound copy.

Half leather binding. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st edition. Leather of spine badly stained, front hinge loose. Frontispiece reattached with tape. Weight: 1 Language: English.

Paperback. Condición: Very good overall. 8vo, much on volcanoes, including the eruption of Krakatoa, with a map before and after the eruption, as well as the Tenimber Islands. Original blue printed wrappers. Minor ex-lib stamp front wrapper.

Condición: Very Good. xiv, 286; xiv, 302, 41 col plates, 8 folding maps (partly coloured). . HB. 2 vols, sm. 8vo, orig. cloth, gt, minor wear; endpapers browned; edges spotted. Two preliminary leaves in Vol. II with minor loss to bottom corners. Plates clean. Vg set. Attractive chromolithographic plates by J.G. Keulemans. Errata slip tipped in facing Preface.…

Condición: Very Good. , 24 col + 318 plain plates. . HB. 6 vols, 4to, orig. cloth, gilt title and vignette to front boards and spines, aeg. Minor rubbing to extremities. Some foxing to tissue guards. Vg. First edition. Fine chromolithographic plates of eggs and plain plates of birds by F.W. Frohawk.

Hardcover. Condición: VG+ for age. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Bindings either brown boards with gilt-lettered paneled leather spines (6 vols),these all have red-speckled text-block edgesor red texture cloth with double gilt lines across corners and beside spines with gilt-lettered paneled cloth spines (5 vols), spines of these moderately sun-faded, all in VG - Fine condition being clean and unworn bar one with small nick to top spine, leather spines black along cover edges but faded to brown on spines themselves with ends typically faded slightly further, viewed as a row they appear to be virtually uniform. Each vol. has numerous colour plates inc. f/pieces with tissue guards with some variation in how these are distributed, Vol.4 of Monkeys has unfolding map, I also note that Vol.1 of Monkeys has Errata sheet before Preface regarding invalidity of the 'Hattock' iPlate (VIII) due unavailability of specimen in UK, this however seems redundant for this edition as already omitted. Inoffensive small original ownership signature stamp 'C. Vardon' to 4 front end-papers, 1 has written wig. by same owner, 1 of the 5 actually has both. Full bibliographic and minor fault details, if any, details for individual volumes available on request from serious potential customers. The illustrators are not credited but all printed by Wymans & Sons, London. A very good set of the majority of volumes in this highly regarded series some of which are very scarce. 1st ed. published 1895. Additional postage for non-UK customers likely to be substantial. 13 cm x 18.5 cm Shelf length 33 cm. Various uncredited (ilustrador).…

LeatherBound. Condición: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. 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. Reprinted from 1884 edition. 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 and contains approximately 14 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. 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. Language: English.…

2 volumes (complete). xiv, [1], 286, xiv, [1], 296 p., 29 col. plates, 8 double-page maps, red publisher?s cloth. Good set of this book with the plates drawn by J.G. Keulemans.

xiv, [1], 296 p., 7 col. lithographed pls, 8 folded maps, publisher's hcloth (outer ends rubbed). Endpapers missing.

M. 29 chromolith. Taf. v. J.G. Keulemans u. 8 doppelblattgr. Ktn. XIV S., 1 Bl., 283 S., 1 Bl.; XIV S., 1 Bl., 296 S. Rote OLwdbde. m. Rverg. Einbde. gering bestoßen u. minimal gelockert. M. hs. Rsign. Vord. Vorsätze m. Klebespuren u. Tasche für Buchlaufkarte. Gering fleckig. Mehrf. gest. (Allen's Naturalist's Library) Undatierter Nachdruck des 1894/95 erschienenen "Hand-book to the primates". - Vgl. Nissen 1407. Sprache: Englisch.…

New York: Harper & Brothers 1885. Thick Royal 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. Gilt. (xx 536 4pp.). With col. frontispiece numerous illusts. by J.B. Gibbs and 6 maps of which 4 are folded. 1st American edition complete with publishers' adverts at end. Uncut. Some marginal damp staining at beginning and end of text otherwise a fine tight copy.…

First printing. Two sheet map, of which the NLA has only the right hand sheet with the title, part of the Daisy Bates collection of maps. This map focuses on the southern coast including the capital Port Moresby, with the northern regions left mostly blank. There are four inset drawings of side views of mountains (elevations), and the border with German New Guinea is marked. Oro Province and Central Province. There are 3 insets of Owen Stanley Range, 4th of Peaks of Mt. Victoria. In 1883, Queensland attempted to annex the south-eastern corner of the New Guinea Island, fearing that Germany would take control of the entire eastern half of the island. In 1884 it became a Queensland protectorate and in 1888 it was annexed. 40 x 24", b&w, cream paper, original folds, closed tears at folds. NLA MAP RM 2717; Bib ID 1632755. With a manila envelope (10 3/8 x 8") for storage entitled, New Guinea 1889. 5: Wall case - Folded maps "N".…

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. Thick Royal 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth (spine extremities and corner points slightly rubbed). Gilt. (xx, 536, 4pp.). With col. frontispiece, numerous illusts. by J.B. Gibbs, and 6 maps of which 4 are folded. 1st American edition, complete with publishers' adverts at end. Uncut.…