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2021rif. x-1648891136Vernon Press 2021. Hardcover. New. 300 pages. 6.00x0.69x9.00 inches. Vernon Press hardcover
2022rif. x-1648894518Vernon Press 2022. Paperback. New. 300 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.63 inches. Vernon Press paperback
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
19898vo., First Edition, with plates and rear endpaper map; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
First edition, 3 vols., comprising 2 volumes of text, 8vo (202 x 125 mm) xv, 423, [3]; 348, [2], with final errata leaf to each volume, wanting the half-titles, plus 4to atlas volume (305 x 220 mm), title, 1 leaf description of the plates and maps, 18 mostly large folding engraved maps and plates, all very clean and bright, text volumes in contemporary speckled calf, double gilt fillet to covers, spine gilt, Marchioness of Downshire monogram with crown above in top compartment of each volume, minor rubbing, otherwise attractively bound text volumes in near fine condition, the atlas in the original blue paper covered boards with original printed title label on upper cover, also in fine clean condition. Rare account of a voyage to the East Indies and a description of French possessions in the Indian Ocean (Mauritius and Reunion) and of Java including Batavia, now Jakarta, which was then ruled by France. The atlas volume contains 7 maps all engraved by Tardieu and it includes a fine large map of Java (380 x 630 mm). The 11 other plates show costumes, native inhabitants etc. and include 3 fine folding views of Batavia and a view of the Dutch settlement of Keppen on the island of Timor. Volume 2 includes a substantial vocabulary of the Malay language. Provenance: Mary Hill (n?e Sandys, 1764-1836), Marchioness of Downshire and Baroness Sandys; the library of the Second Baron Hesketh of Ombersley Court, Worcestershire.
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
