Andrew geddes bain (6 risultati)

Volume number 30 in the Society's first series. 8vo; original grey cloth, with spine lettered in blue and publisher's monogram in blue to upper board; pp. xxxix + (i) + 264, incl. index; frontis. portrait and plates, incl. folding; maps, incl. folding. Bottom fore-corners bumped; some foxing to edges, endpapers and outermost leaves, occasional fox spot elsewhere; earlier owners' name and book label to front endpaper. Very good condition. Andrew Geddes Bain (1797-1864) was "road-builder, geologist, explorer, trader, soldier, writer and artist . Utterly fearless and powerfully built, with twinkling blue eyes, he was one of the most versatile men of his day, his contributions to posterity covering many fields. An explorer who travelled far and wide, years before the Voortrekkers set out for the unknown north, he helped, through his publications, to open up the country. His humorous Kaatjie Kekkelbek is part of the national tradition, and his drawings, three of which are in the Africana museum, Johannesburg, have become treasured Africana." - DSAB I, pp. 35-38.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. 264 pages (complete). A much owned copy. The cloth covers are marked by handling, mildly worn and scuffed. Within, the guttering about the frontis and end papers are cracked. The security and facility of the book is unaffected. The contents are tidy and affable. The pages are personable, clean, clear, tight, benign, assured and comfortable. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, 1949. XXXIX,264 pp. 17 b./w. plts & 2 fold. maps. Orig. hardcover (clothbound). 8vo.- Cover soiled / (water)stained; owner's signature on first free endpaper. (The Van Riebeeck Society publications, 30).

Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, 1949. XXXIX,264 pp. 17 b./w. plts & 2 fold. maps. Orig. hardcover (clothbound). 8vo. - Ex-library copy: bookpalet & sticker on endpapers; inventory number on spine. (The Van Riebeeck Society publications, 30).

Cape Town, 1949. Cloth. With maps and plates. XXXIX, 264 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, first series, 30. - Andrew Geddes Bain is best known for his building of Cape roads and passes. His diaries, from 1826 to the 1840s, were both working journals and accounts of his experiences and descriptions of the people he encountered in the course of his work. This volume includes his chronicle of his journey in 1826 to the northern Cape.…

Leatherbound. Condizione: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. 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. Pages: 56. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1845 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. 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 Pages: 56.…