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Hardcover. Condizione: Good-. First?. 12mo. Worn extrems. Marked boards. Small hole to middle of front board Owners name to tityle page. Some marks. 1 plate missing at section XI. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback, tooled red cloth 1st Edition in this form 1888 Excellent very well illustrated Text Book on Military topography. 236pp., folding plates a number coloured, including early Theodolite, one repaired. One folding sketch close to Staff college and another in rear pocket. (no obvious listing of contents of rear pocket) A few blemishes to boards and modest stains, wear to corners and head and tail of spine. Overall good+.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Nicolson, W.C. (cover); Osmond, Edward (illustratore). First Edition. Pages xxiv, 257-320. Features: Cover illustration of Sugar-Loaf, Rio de Janeiro; The Haunted Mine - 1927 tale of a haunted goldmine in the Township of Timmins, Ontario, Canada; The Rest Cure - a sea captain's story of an unusual Atlantic voyage with a party of cowboys; Norfleet's Quest (part 2 of 2) - for three years Texas cattleman Frank Norfleet pursued a gang of confidence tricksters; Death of British Columbia lighthouse keeper Lawrence Dupuis; The Living Death - as strange 1925 a story from Mexico; The Sky-Riders - photo illustrated article about adventures of RCMP airmen maintaining law and order in Canada's vast Northern Territory; The Lawra Lion - a lion visits the Gold Coast; The Forbidden Path - two British officers in the Himalayan foothills; "Grey" - a close-up of manners and customs prevailing in the Northwest Territories of Canada near Yellowknife; First-Trippers; A Matter of Witchcraft - the strange story of a distinguished visitor who contrived to offend one of the wild tribes in the Territory of New Guinea; many nostalgic ads; The Australian Stockman - life of the drovers of Australia's vast Outback - article with photos and map; and more. Bit of pencil writing atop front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Covers beginning to loosen. Binding sound. A worthy vintage copy.

1888. Printed for Her Majesty's Stationary Office by Harrison and Sons. Hardback. Book - Good. Front free end paper detached.