Allen capt william (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Good+ condition in worn dust wrapper in protective cover, octavo, mid brown cloth spine with tan cloth boards, Lonsdale initial and crown in gilt on front, titles and gilt across spine, neat gift inscription dated 1962 on front free end paper, Foyles booksellers label on front end paper, one instance of marginalia - the list of winners of the Grand National stop at 1954, a previous owner has completed from 1963 to 1967. otherwise text is clean and bright and the binding firm, illustrated with a colour plate frontis piece and 69 other illustrations on plates and 5 other illustrations in text (there is a discrpancy between the dust wrapper and the number of plates called for; 334 pages including index. [QP]. Various (illustratore).…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1964). (1963) 1964 1st UK edition. Large 8vo (160 x 235mm). Ppxii,415. B/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography, pictorial end-papers. Blue boards, spine titled in red. Very good in chipped price-clipped dust-wrapper. A complete monograph on the sharks and their relatives, the skates and rays: authoritative, thoroughly researched and well-illustrated. Chapters include: Documented attacks by sharks on men, mostly on the East Coast of North America; Attacks on people on the West Coast of North America and elsewhere; Captain William Young, from his youth to the capture of his last shark; Fishing of sharks for sport, official records of catches in this field; Attempted methods of preventing shark attacks, precautions advised, official warnings; Sharks and their allies in mythology, legend, folklore, and crime; Sharks and their allies as food for man, world-wide report on Selachian cuisine; Commercial shark fishing, products other than food obtained from sharks; The origin of the Selachians and thus of the sharks, and how they are today; Sharks and their relatives, the Batoids (skates and rays), the Chimaeras, and the 'Links'; Descriptions of several species, including the Great White Shark, and the Whale Shark; Descriptions of more species, including the Lake and River Sharks, a list of the more common Selachians in North America. Appendix: Selachian cookery. .…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No DJ Issued. 1st Edition. The Niger Expedition of 1841 was carried out in three iron steamships with the objectives of making treaties with local peoples and to spread Christianity in the region. The expedition was called-off before completion due to the high mortality rates amongst the Europeans present. Complete in two volumes. I-Includes 10*illustrations and maps and 15*wood engraved illustrations and maps. II-Includes 8*illustrations and maps and 14*wood engraved illustrations and maps. I-xii, x, 509 pp; II-viii, 510 pp. Bound in recent re cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelf-wear to extremities. Endpapers have been renewed. Some light foxing, vol.I is heavily foxed to the title page and frontispiece. There appear to be several pages missing between the content and preface given incorrect page numbering, and remains at hinges. Text-blocks are sound and the pages are in very good condition. Previously held by the CMS (Christian Missionary Society) library with their stamp to occasional pages.…

First edition. 2 vols. Portrait, 2 folding maps & 15 engraved (1 folding)plates and including 1 further map., with illustrations in the text. 8vo. A very good copy in original but remainder (?)  blue cloth, gilt very slight wear to headcaps. a prize binding as attested by an inscrription on the front free endpaper  ( Ealing School  fourth Mathematics 1858) , a.e.g xviii, 509; viii, 511pp. London, Bentley, Sent to the Niger with orders to penetrate as far as possible and make treaties with the local rulers to outlaw the Slave Trade, the expedition met with considerable hardship from first entering the river. For the most part they remained healthy for the first month until reaching Iddah after which many of here crew were struck down with fever until matters were so grave that even the determined Capt. Trotter was forced to order  Capt Allen retreat to the coast while he pushed on in the hopes of reaching a healthier climate upstream.  But fever  continued too ravage the crew and by the 8th August any further progress was clearly impossible. The expedition was considered a disastrous  failure though Commander Allen cites the three  treaties signed with the most influential potentates on the river to have constituted partial success.…

First edition. 2 vols. Portrait, 2 folding maps & 15 engraved (1 folding), with illustrations in the text. 8vo. Modern half calf, one label damaged. xviii, 509; viii, 511pp. London, Bentley.