king ross major (13 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Facsimile. xv, 334pp., index, appendix, tables, ill. Coles facsimile edition of 1866 original. Book is vg, in slightly frayed and spine-faded jacket. Previous owner's name inside front. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Toronto: Coles Notes, 1974. 334 pp includes index. Facsimile edition. The natural history of the game, game birds, and fish of that country. Illustrated with plates and woodcuts. Dust jacke has some fading to spine edges, a tear and crease to back bottom edge. Looks good in new plastic cover. Lovely burgandy cloth on boards cover with gold gilt lettering. No former owner's name. Text is clean and unmarked. HC and DJ. Very Good/Good. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Notes on the natural history of the game, game birds, and fish of Canada. 334pp. Illustrated with plates and woodcuts. Previous owner's name in blue biro to head of fep. Jacket worn to edges and spine slightly faded. Facsimile of the first edition published in 1866.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: no dustjacket. 8vo pp. xv 334. "Or Notes on the Natural History of the Game, Game Birds, and Fish of that Country". Facsimile edition. book.

Decorated Boards. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Original green cloth to boards and spine with hinges, outer corners, and head and tail of spine restored; contemporary endpages. Gilt decoration to front board and to spine. Full colour frontispiece and plates throughout [all present]. Some spotting and browning to outer page edges. Some modest staining or foxing occasionally to margins; verso of frontispiece foxed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. London, 1866; poor condition; green cloth covered boards; edge and corner wear with board exposed at edges; back strip half missing including crown and foot; boards and end papers detached along with pages 323 to rear end paper; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; binding held together by its string; Ex-Library with typical stamps and markings; end papers foxed; interior clean and unmarked; 334 pages.

Condizione: Very Good. 27.5 x 19 cm. Quarto. (xviii) 334pp. 6 chromolithograph plates, 13 in-text wood engravings. Color plates comprise 3 plates of birds (grouse, prairie-hen, wild turkey) and three of fish (white fish, Masq'allonge, Black-Basse). Errata slip bound-in between pages (xvi)-(xvii). Previous owner's small bookplate (G. J. K. Wicker) on front paste-down. Moderate foxing to some of the plates. Binding a bit shaken but holding. Some fraying to tail of spine. Spotting to rear endpapers. Corners are a little bumped and frayed. Information on big game, upland game birds, and fishing. References: Bruns K49. Hand K103. Green cloth hardcover with gilt design.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. King, Major W. Ross. THE SPORTSMAN AND NATURALIST IN CANADA, Or Notes on the Natural History of the Game, Game Birds and Fish of that Country. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1866. 1st edn. Large format. xv + 334pp. 6 fine full-page colour lithographic plates, including frontispiece. Other woodcut illustrations. Original green decorative cloth, gilt. With moosehead on cover. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Near fine. Comments on moose, deer, caribou, ruffled grouse, the Canadian forest, salmon, etc., as encountered by the author in eastern Canada. Signed by Author(s).

Original Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo (royal). First edition. Original green cloth, pictorially stamped with a moose head and lettered in gilt. B&W in-text engravings and six full page tipped-in water colour plates. One integral errata slip. Sporadic pencil and ink notations. Wear on edges, small tear to head of joint, hinges starting. Roughly trimmed edges. Removed label in top left corner of pastedown. Bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron on front pastedown. Previous catalogue entry pasted to front free endpaper. Light foxing near front. Precise and exact in-text engravings are of moose, caribou, deer, and regional scenery. Plates include wild turkey, prairie hen, Canada and ruffed grouse, white fish, musqualonge, black bass. Interesting topics include: the decrease of carnivores such as black bears; the variety of hares in North America and how to tell them from rabbits; moose compared to elk; caribou compared to reindeer; eagles and hawks, passenger pigeons; the extraordinary quantity of wild fowl; fisheries of Canada, etc. Misspelling of "Mississauga" in endpiece on page 164. Very good condition, a bright, clean copy.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. Quarto. 33pp., illustrated with 6 full page chromolithographs and several woodcuts, original green pictorial cloth depicting a gilt moose head on upper boards; spine gilt, early bookplate; a very handsome copy showing minor wear; internally clean and bright; front end papers lightly foxed. The chromolithographs are of excellent quality.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. Full green leather with raised bands and gilt decorated panels. Spine uniformly color faded. Inner dentelle. Top edge gilt.1st edition, six full page color Illustrations along with 13 wood engravings. Pictorial frontispiece. ( xx) , (1 errata slip) + 334pp. Marble endpaper. Heavy stock pages. Sport, Hunting, Fishing; Color Plates and woodcuts; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 334 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition, Quarto, xv, 334 p. with errata, complete copy with the six full-page coloured plates.[verso frontis spotted], Woodcuts. Original green gilt design publishers cloth.[neat spine repair] Excellent 'Bright' Copy.

Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (wanting original paper guard), title in red and black, 5 coloured plates (all original paper guards present) and 13 engravings in the text, frontispiece and title mildly spotted; original green cloth, upper board framed in blind and blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, primrose endpapers, corners lightly bruised, joints a little rubbed at head else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of Henry Ashworth James on front paste-down and separately printed errata slip mounted facing Preface. Henry Ashworth James, of Herstmonceux Place Sussex, was father of aviation pioneer Wing Commander Sir Archibald James MC; this copy was formerly in the latter's library.