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2007Best.-Nr. x-1602664145Xulon Pr 2007. Hardcover. New. 208 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.63 inches. Xulon Pr hardcover
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Best.-Nr. 0952221994. 135 pages. Wrappers ISBN: 9686191461. Text in Spanish. 1994. unknown
Best.-Nr. ria9789811914287_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism explores inter-disciplinary connections across Cultural Anthropology Geography Psychology and feminist literary criticism to develop a theoretical framework for spatial criticism. Using the sp paperback
Best.-Nr. 60854London: D. Wilson 1751. FIRST EDITION. Rare account of the British Fleet activities in the East Indies against the French. 8vo 18.4 x 11.2 cm. 1 ff. 82 pp. Bound in modern marbled paper wrappers all edges dyed red. Corner of p. 45 torn slightly affecting text generally very good. Upon the declaration of war between England and France in March 1744 a Squadron of four men-of-war under the command of Commodore Barnet was sent to the East Indies to protect our interest in this area and to capture or destroy any French ships they may encounter. "The boats called at Jaccatra and particulars are given of Java Amboyna etc. with mention of the massacre of the English traders there by the Dutch also the massacre of 70000 Chinese whom the Dutch feared were going to rise against them. Accounts are also given of Burma and Ceylon. On the return voyage a call was made at the Cape a short account of which is given." Maggs Voyages and Travels VOL. 5. PART V. CATALOGUE NO 827 1612. The voyage was a success the author records the French ships laiden with goods from China captured in the Streights of Sunda and sold as prizes to the Dutch Governor at Batavia. He also includes an interesting description of Java and the cloves and nutmegs grown there; Batavia the people and the trade conducted in this Dutch settlement. The squadron was ordered to assist Admiral Edward Boscowen to capture Pondicherry an account of this unsuccessful operation is given. London: D. Wilson, 1751. unknown
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1932Best.-Nr. BIBLIO-08323Java Head Bookshop bookseller's catalogue 1932. Limited editon of 165 copies of which 150 numbered were for sale. Cloth backed boards 8vo. 41 pp plates. 448 items. Includes nearly 150 items on Ceylon with other sections on the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago China Africa and Voyages. Boards a little marked later paper spine-label otherwise a Good unopened copy. Java Head Bookshop, bookseller's catalogue, 1932 hardcover
19714to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE. Law 1024
1987Roy. 8vo., First UK Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous plates, wanting front free endpaper; original black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Th first British edition of one of the most impressive secret war diaries to emerge from the Far Eastern theatre. An intensely moving testament by a wonderful soldier, surgeon and captive. First published in Australia in the previous year.
20028vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Harrowing account of a Dutch family's ordeal at the hands of the Japanese after the invasion of Java
18838vo., Eighth Edition, WANTING FRONTISPIECE (original tissue guard present), with engraved title-vignette, 7 plates, very numerous illustrations and 8 maps (a number full-page) in the text, folding coloured map and folding map coloured in outline (maps vey lightly spotted, mainly on blank margins); original green cloth, upper board framed in black and blocked in gilt, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, expertly recased, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, small stamp on title, and neat stamp in a few blank margins of text. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end BUT TRAGICALLY WANTING THE FRONTISPIECE 'ORANG-UTAN ATTACKED BY DYAKS'. The most celebrated work, dedicated appropriately to Darwin, by the co-discoverer of the process of evolution through natural selection. The eighth edition is based on the revised third edition of 1872. His well-known appendix on the crania and the languages of man in the archipelago includes a glossary of one hundred and seventeen words in thirty-three languages of the region. A LOVELY COPY OF A KEY WORK IN THE LITERATURE OF EVOLUTION. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19668vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities.
19898vo., First Edition, with plates and rear endpaper map; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19698vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With personal armorial stamp on front free endpaper.
19928vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Covers the unit's service in Sumatra, Java and Timor, with resulting captivity. Includes ROH.
19668vo., First Edition; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Includes bibliography.
19578vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 7 plates; handsomely bound in green full morocco, sides with gilt frame, back gilt with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
19518vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome plates by EME Glenister, and photographs by the author, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. 'A useful guide in a convenient form to the birds of a large region' (Tate p.69). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Tate, p.202.
19548vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and folding map coloured in outline, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly rubbed at extremities. 'This is perhaps the most horrifying and amazing escape during a war that was probably richer in escape stories than any war that was ever fought' (H.E. Bates). This classic account was written by the author as an expanded version of the brief outline contained in Brickhill's 'Escape - or Die' (1952). VERY SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.405
1948Folio, 12pp (one blank) with large folding plan; wire-stitched as issued, one or two small rust marks as often, lower edge light dust-soiled else a near fine copy. 'Supplements to the London Gazette' are of great value to the naval and military historian. In many cases they represent the first publicly published accounts of the engagements concerned, and normally contain excellent maps and plans together with direct transcripts from official despatches not easily available elsewhere. This supplement includes the following transcripts: Commodore J. A. Collins RN (Commanding China Force) to C-in-C Eastern Fleet 17 March 1942; Report by Captain H. M. L. Waller RAN (HMAS PERTH) 27 February 1942; Report by T. J. Cain RN (Senior Surviving Officer, HMS ELECTRA) 27 February 1942; Despatch by Captain O. L. Gordon RN (HMS EXETER) to Admiralty 1 October 1945.
1958G (no dj, lightly marked grey cloth lightly tanned on spine and edges, ex BBC Library copy with number on spine and library stamps endpapers and reverse of title page, pages clean and unmarked) octavo 281pp. First edition. 16pp b/w photographs.