schoenman helen (8 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First English Language Edition. A fine copy in good dust jacket with some rubbing and slight edge wear. No markings, no bookplate. No jacket chips. Not price-clipped. Originally published in Budapest, Hungary in 1859.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Schoenman, Theodore and Helen Benedek - Translators and Editors Ilustrador. First Thus. dust jacket is price clipped.

Hard Cover. Condición: Near Fine. A very clean and tight copy. No underlining or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 200 pp. Original brown cloth covers, very bright and clean. Light foxing to top edge of text block and endpapers. DJ moderately soiled and rubbed. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents nice.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition thus, first printing. Originally published in the author's native Hungarian language in 1859. Illustrated with eighteen drawings and maps on b&w plates. The detailed account of the surveyor's experiences, observed cultures, Native Americans, working people, animals and plant life, and more in the 1850s while traveling through California, Baja California, Mexico, and in a caravan from Los Angeles via the Sierra Nevada to Fort Tejon. Fine and fresh in brown linen with bronze embossed titles to the spine, brown-and-yellow headband and tail-band; in a fine dust jacket; original printed $12.95 price still intact to the front inner flap Octavo; 213 pages; index.

Hardcover. Condición: ex library-very good. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia For Promoting Useful Knowledge Vol. 120. xv, 228 p. 24 cm. 3 b&w illustrations. Green cloth with green label. Ex library with call number on lower spine, labels and ink stamps inside, ink stamps on text block edges.

Full Cloth. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Full cloth with copper lettering on spine. Jacket has mild shelf wear and one half inch closed tear to the back panel at the spine. Overall a EXCELLENT book in a GOOD PLUS jacket. John Xantus de Vesey (born János Xántus) (October 5, 1825 - December 13, 1894) was a Hungarian-born exile and American zoologist. Trained as a lawyer, John Xantus (the aristocratic title de Vesey was an affectation, of which he had several variations) served as an officer in the nationalist uprisings of 1848 in the Hungarian Army. He was captured and exiled to Prague, arrested again, and escaped to the United States via England. In the US he pursued a variety of occupations, including bookseller, druggist, teacher and, hospital steward in the US Army. In the army he met the surgeon Dr W.A. Hammond, who was a collector for the noted zoologist Spencer Fullerton Baird. Working under Hammond as an assistant surgeon, he soon developed an interest in natural history and became gifted collector himself. He managed to use the support of Baird and the soon to be Surgeon General Hammond, getting them to write letters of recommendation on his behalf. On the basis of these he was given a consular position in Mexico, a position he promptly lost after embarrassing the State Department by recognising a local rebelling war lord. Soon after this he returned to Hungary. For thirty years until his death in 1894 he served as the Director of the Zoological Garden of Budapest and as Curator of Ethnography at the National Museum, as well as undertaking collecting expeditions in Asia. In ornithology he is remembered as having given his name to the Xantus's Murrelet and Xantus's Hummingbird, he also left his name to several fish species. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 54 Pp By Schoenman And Balzer, + Xxv, 126 Constituting A Reprint Of Harazthy's 1862 Book "Grape Culture, Wines And Winemaking". Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket With Short Split At Bottom Of Front Flap Foldrobert Balzer's Copy, From His Estate, Although Not Marked As Such; Balzer In His Introduction Refers To His Frequent Re-Reading Of Harazthy's 1862 Book, Of Which He Had A First Edition, And How Much It Influenced His Thinking And Writing.