pasfield capt oliver (7 risultati)

Hardcover,original blue cloth boards with gilt title and central motif, 228x153mm, 279pp text + 32pp adverts. fold-out map frontis, ex-Colonial library with several stamps and book plate to front end paper, small scuffed/left over paper area on spine where the spine labal was, front and rear board side edge faded and stained, corners scuffed, spine end scuffs.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. First Thus. 398pp, illustrated. '.with a further description of Madagascar by the Abbe Alexis Rochon.' Ex Juniuor NCO's Library, Brompton, has been recase using original cloth on new spine, map and one illustration (Malagasy beggar) facsimiles tipped in, generally clean and tight, good reading copy. 1kg.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. pp VIII, 398. 1st printing. Spine sun faded, otherwise fine.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. From the Translation of the Original Manuscript (1741-1771), By William Nicholson, F.R.S., 1790 , 8vo, pp.299, original red illlustrated cloth.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Reprint edn of 1790 1stedn; 8vo tan cloth spine, gilt titles, over gray bds, spine strip splitting but holding, some pages uncut, appears unread ow VG/ndj: xxxvi+636pp, 2 plates, Intro., notes & bibliography by S.P. Oliver.Narrative of the Hungarian count's military adventures in Poland, exile to Siberia, escape from Kamchatka by sea in 1771, and subsequent travels in Japan, Formosa, Kamchatka, and the Kurile and Aleutian Islands. Benyowsky claims to have landed on the Alaskan mainland. Included is an account of his unsuccessful attempt to establish a French colony in Madagascar. Benyowsky was shot by the French in May 1786 at Foule Point on Madagascar when he attempted to take over the colony. The maps and plates were omitted in the Irish edition.

1st edition hardback in decorated cloth Very Good octavo 398pp., frontis., b/w pls., fldg. map, appendix, index, Cloth rather worn & hinges tender o/w internally nice copy. Folding map & plates in excellent order.

Condizione: Good. 1897. In original blue cloth which is slightly waorn and marked. Endpapers and last page are heavily broned. Foxed, heavily in places. Unread as top edge of pages are uncut. For extra description/pictures please message us. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.