Nicolay rev (11 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. new improved edition. 8vo large. A working copy with spine leather partially detached, copious pencil notes covering front and rear endpapers and preface. Minor foxing throughout, otherwise majority of text clean. Heavy book, may incur additional postage charge. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. NICOLAY, Rev. C(harles).G(renfell). The Principles of Physical Geography being an Inquiry into Natural Phenomena and their Causes prepared for the use of Eton College. London, Edward Stafford, E.P. Williams. 1858. viii,327pp, 20cm, including 8 plates, with 5 lovely maps. Each of the maps is 19x31cm, illustrative of physical geography interests. The maps include: (1) "Map Illustrative of the Distribution of the Religious Faiths, Education Etc."; (2) "Map Illustrative of the Distributive of Animals" (also including the "vertical distribution" of animals. (3) "Map Illustrative of the Distribution of Plants." (4) "Map Illustrative of Winds, Rain, Tides, Currents, and Temperature." (5) "Map Illustrative of Distribution of Surface Rocks, Coal, and Minerals, Ocean Depths, and Great Circle Routes". Decorative diced and deckled publisher's cloth. VG copy. Lovely work.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. 12mo. Pp. 226. Frontis. illustration of the mouth of the Columbia River, two maps, one folding. Rebound in beige cloth with new endpapers, embossed brown leather title label on spine, some darkening of top edges, short tear along fold of map. Published during the height of the Oregon boundary dispute between the U.S. and Britain. Howes N151; Sabin 55251; Smith 7311; Washington 89, 57; Wagner-Camp 122c:1. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good ++. Condizione sovraccoperta: no dj, as issued. London: Charles Knight & Co, 1846. 18mo. 243 pages, 6" x 3.75". viii, 351. 12 full page illustrations (incl. frontispiece). Later "New" Edition, the first edition was published in 1836. Half leather binding, spine with 5 raised bands and gilded title and decorations. Pages very lightly browned, no damages or markings. Cover with light shelf wear. 18 letters written by the author to her family in England about her journey to Canada and her life with her husband, a lieutenant in the 21st Fusiliers. Includes information on home-making under pioneer conditions, pioneer recipes for making maple sugar, vinegar, etc. Later "New" edition (1st. edition was 1836).…

Condizione: very good. 1st Edition. 226pp. 16 mo in original cloth and pale yellow coated endpapers with wood engraved frontispiece and 2 maps (1 folding). Some minor staining on rear boards. very good Description of the early settlement, fur trade and Indian tribes of the Oregon Territory by a staunch supporter of the British side of the dispute. He advocated that the boundary between the two countries be the northern border of California.…

Leather bound. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. 12mo. (4-1/4 x 6-1/4). Pp. viii, [1], 2-351, 2-78. Frontis. etching "Peter, the Chief." Illustrated with an additional twenty etchings and a map. Full calf, gilt and blind borders on the covers, spine decorations and black lettering piece in gilt between five raised bands, marbled endpapers and edges. Corners gently bumped, edges rubbed, spine sunned, leaves clean and bright in a solid binding. A key volume in the Pacific Northwest border controversy that gave us the rallying cry "Fifty-four Forty or Fight!" Nicolay, although British, purports to present a neutral view of the matter. That said, he argues for ceding to the British land north of the California border. Following publication, the border conflict was resolved by when the Treaty of Washington (1846) was jointly signed by the US and Great Britain. Per Tweney, "this book is often found bound with a book entitled, The Backwoods of Canada .", as is this volume, although the two titles are here transposed, with the Oregon work abridged. See HOWES: O112, SMITH: 7709, SOLIDAY III: 633, LOWTHER: 430, WAGNER-CAMP: 122d.…

First edition. Very nice copy of this book printed for English youth and published the year in which the Treaty of Washington was signed, ending the dispute between Great Britain and the U.S. over title to the Oregon Country. Tweney mentions in hisWashington Eighty-Nine: "This book gives the English side of the Oregon boundary dispute, and urges that the northern line of California be the natural boundary between the two countries." Besides presenting arguments, the book is also very descriptive in the early settlement of the Pacific Northwest and rise of the fur trade. Not often found in the original cloth in presentable condition. Howes N151. Sabin 55251. Smith 7311. Wagner-Camp 122C:1. Washington 89, 57. . 15x10cm, [7], 226pp. Frontis, folding map at pg. 102. Cream blind stamped cloth with gilt spine lettering. Boards smudged, spine darkened. Prelims unopened, else clean internally and nearly fine.…

HC. Condizione: rebound, with maps. 226 The author maintains the British claim to Oregon & Washington, Nicely rebound. Original maps.

Half Leather. Condizione: Good Plus. First Edition. brown contemporary half calf leather binding with marbled boards and rebacked; lettering in gilt on dark green leather label; gilt is bright; inner joints slightly cracked; hinges are strong; frontispiece engraving of the Mouth of the Columbia River; no foxing; no browning; 226 pages; both maps [one folding] are present and in excellent condition; chapters include Description of Coast and Harbours, Trappers and Voyageurs, Description of the Interior, Native Tribes, Sketch of the Fur Trade, Settlers in Oregon etc; Bound in [as issued] is a new edition of Catherine Parr Traill's, The Backwoods Of Canada, also published in 1846 and also by Charles Knight And Co.; [her first ed. was published 10 years earlier by the same publisher]; her book "Being Letters From The Wife Of An Emigrant Officer, Illustrative Of The Domestic Economy Of British America"; 252 pp followed by [1] Illustrations list; all 12 full page illustrations are present in excellent condition; subject matters include botony, sugar-making, qualifications of a settler's wife, cultivation of Indian corn, wheat, birds, Indian Hunters, insects, climate, etc.tips are bumped and worn with boards peeking; shelf rubbing at edges; previous owner's signature and notation on f.f.e.p.…

Illustrated wrappers. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 12mo. Pp. 226. Two maps, one folding. Original illustrated wraps, internal repair to hinges, some soiling, staining to wraps, light chipping and tears to fore-edges. A volume in the Knight's Weekly Volume for All Readers series. Published during the height of the Oregon boundary dispute between the U.S. and Britain. The wrappers issue is much more uncommon than the cloth issue. HOWES N151; SABIN 55251; SMITH 7311; TWENEY 89, 57; WAGNER-CAMP 122c:1.…

Condizione: VG+. 1st Edition. DISBOUND TEXT (No covers). 144 x 91 mm. Frontispiece. (No halftitle) pages (3)-226. Map on page 65 and folding map at page 102 (has been awkwardly folded). Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.