jules janet editor (5 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. New hardcover in like DJ. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes authors' notes, bibliography, index, maps, and illustrations. 288 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In the summer of 1883 Belgian travel writer Jules Leclercq spent ten days on horseback in Yellowstone, the world's first national park, exploring myriad natural wonders: astonishing geysers, majestic waterfalls, the vast lake, and the breathtaking canyon. He also recorded the considerable human activity, including the rampant vandalism. Leclercq's account of his travels is itself a small marvel blending natural history, firsthand impressions, scientific lore, and anecdote. Along with his observations on the park's long-rumored fountains of boiling water and mountains of glass, Leclercq describes camping near geysers, washing clothes in a bubbling hot spring, and meeting such diverse characters as local guides and tourists from the United States and Europe. Notables including former president Ulysses S. Grant and then-president Chester A. Arthur were also in the park that summer to inaugurate the newly completed leg of the Northern Pacific Railroad. A sensation in Europe, the book was never published in English. This deft translation at long last makes available to English-speaking readers a masterpiece of western American travel writing that is a fascinating historical document in its own right. Jules Leclercq (1848-1928), who wrote twenty-three travelogues, was a judge by profession and a founding member of the Royal Belgian Geographical Society. Janet Chapple is the author of Yellowstone Treasures: The Traveler's Companion to the National Park. Suzanne Cane is a librarian and independent French translator. .

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 1st edition. 308 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Engraved frontispice-plate 'La Piété, Titlepage with the Pope's engraving; 255 pages, (1) p. 'Table'. - Richly gilt olive-brown full morocco binding with marker-ribbon; 12mo.(ca. 10,5 x 7 x 2 cm). *** RARE FRENCH LIVRE D'HEURES IN A CONTEMPORARY FULL-LEATHER BINDING WITH GILT-ENGRAVED NAME 'SOPHIE DE BRÉMOND' AT FRONTPANEL, front flyleaf with her holograph ownership inscription of the period. - *) The printed title-part 'Impériale' is 'changed' to 'Royale'(as printed in later editions) in a hand of the period. --- Binding slightly-, sharp-corners stronger rubbed; top of frontjoint split on ca. 3 cm; else a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. reprint edition. 347 pages. German language. 6.14x0.94x9.21 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 1st edition. 308 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.