![Item #620567 History of British Birds. The Figures Engraved on Wood by T. Bewick [2 volumes]....](https://arundelbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
Printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & Bewick...and C. G. & J. Robinson, Newcastle and London. First Edition. Leather Binding. 2 volumes, complete as issued. A very good set in period 3/4 brown calf over marbled boards, spine with contrasting red and green morocco labels, and floral morifs in gilt..... More
E.P. Dutton & Company, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. A very good copy in original blie cloth stampe din gilt and light blue (spine faded, slight wear; a few leaves carelessly opened). PROVENANCE: With the bookplate of Walter Rutherford Peterson Jr., Governor of New Hampshire. More
Sampson, Low, Marston, and Company, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. A very good copy of this scarce big game-hunting classic. Complete with all 22 chromolithograph plates. Bound in the original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, black, red, white, and orange (some wear, particularly to spine tips and corners, small gouge..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. Early Printing. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" A later printing of the first book of its kind published in America: the primary source for the American camping and hiking in the wilderness. Two volumes in one: 405; 479pp., including indices, and b/w..... More
Richard Bentley, 1832. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. A good set of the first edition, complete with the five aquatint plates, as well as the vignettes. The bindings for this set can, at best, be described as functional, and consist of a particularly noxious shade of green imitation leather over..... More
Follett Publishing, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by noted mountaineers Jim Whittaker and Tom Hornbein, two of the first Americans to summit Everest. NOT signed by author. First edition, first printing (state), jacket complete with $4.95 price. A very good copy in a very good jacket (slight wear to edges..... More
A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed on title page by Sir Edmund Hillary and by Peter's wife June Mulgrew (who he credits in the work as co-author). After Peter's death in Antarctica years later, June married Hillary. NOT signed by Peter Mulgrew. A very good..... More
Hodder & Stoughton, 1936. First Thus. Hardcover. Signed By Author on half title: 'Best wishes from Hugh Ruttledge Feb. 1938' (no recipient's name). Ruttledge was the leader of this important (but ultimately unsuccessful) expedition, which although it did not summit, set an altitude record that stood for years. The first..... More
Printed for George Kearsley by Thomas Davison, April 1803. First Edition. Leather. Four volumes of the Pisces volumes, complete. 8vo. - over 7¾' - 9¾' 632; 463pp., with 4 engraved title pages and 189 engraved plates by Charles Heath. Each volume is uniformly bound in quarter tan calf with marbled..... More
Allan Bell & Co., 1834. First Thus. Leather. 'New Edition'. Bound in later 19th-century 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, and gilt thistle and fish designs within gilt-ruled compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers (binding rubbed). Engraved frontis, b/w illustrations in text. GREAT PROVENANCE: With the..... More
