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réf. ORD-8996Together with an Account of its Agriculture, Forestry, Arts and Commerce. From Travels and Researches undertaken at the Cost of the Prussian Government. With forty-four illustrations and tree maps. London. Hodder and Stoughton. 1889. Gd in-8 (168 x 249mm, dimensions intérieures) cartonnage de l'éditeur illustré or dans un style japonisant (reliure habilement remontée, très décorative), XII, 570 pages, 23 planches hors texte dont 10 en couleurs (la planche VII manque), 3 cartes dépliantes et 20 gravures sur bois dans le texte. La planche XIV a déteint sur la page opposée, pâles rousseurs éventuelles, sinon très bel exemplaire de cet indispensable ouvrage concernant l'art du Japon. Ex-libris d'un contre amiral.
réf. 451686London, Trübner and Co., 1883. Fort in-8 rel., pleine toile vieux rose, titre doré au dos bordé de doubles filets dorés, IV-496, CXL , 19 pp., qq. fig. in-t. et pl. h.-t. (dt. cert. dépl.), index.
réf. 451694London, Trübner and CO., 1888. Fort in-8 rel., demi-chagrin marron, dos à nerfs orné de filets à froid, pièces de titre et de tomaison bordeaux et fauve, plats et gardes en papier marbré, tranches mouchetées, VIII-557, 217, 22 pp., qq. pl. h.-t. (dt. cert. dépl.).
réf. 517817London, 1929. Année complète en 4 vol. in-8 brochés, 978 pp. en continue, qq. fig. cartes, plans et ill. photogr. en noir in et hors-texte.
réf. 517819London, 1928. Année complète en 4 vol. in-8 brochés, 1018-XIX pp. en continue, qq. fig. cartes, plans et ill. photogr. en noir in et hors-texte.
réf. 517821London, 1934. Année complète en 4 vol. in-8 brochés, 911-XXII pp. en continue, qq. fig. cartes, plans et ill. photogr. en noir in et hors-texte.
19498vo., Fourth Impression, with portrait frontispiece, 37 plates on 24, 4 full-page maps and endpaper maps; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled and tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, original backstrip mounted on new leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Classic account of operations behind the lines in Malaya. Mountbatten declared that Colonel Chapman and his comrades 'did more than a whole division of the British Army could have achieved'. Published three months after the first edition. SIGNED COPIES ARE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE. Enser, p.253.
19518vo., Tenth Impression, with portrait frontispiece, 37 plates on 24, 4 full-page maps in the text and large folding coloured map at end; ivory buckram, backstrip lettered in green, green top (mildly faded), backstrip lightly browned else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Classic account of operations behind the lines in Malaya. Mountbatten declared that Colonel Chapman and his comrades 'did more than a whole division of the British Army could have achieved'. First published in 1949. Enser, p.253 (recording the first edition).
20158vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
19588vo., First Edition, with 24 pages on half-tone plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19968vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A Royal Engineer in Burma. Graham & Cole M50.
20108vo., with a frontispiece and maps in the text; grey boards, ivory cloth back lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Vernacular account of the events and aftermath of two days following the atomic bomb attack. THE CLOTH EDITION IS ALREADY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION
19938vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; ivory cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
19778vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author was a young nurse fighting the Japanese in New Guinea and the Philippines. Uncommon, especially in this condition.
19648vo., First Edition thus, with 8 plates and full-page map in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Meticulous and harrowing account of the 'Death March' following the Japanese capture of Bataan in 1942. First published in the US in 1962. Enser, p.55.
19888vo., First Edition; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Graham & Cole C18 (giving incorrect date of 1991).
19548vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, photographs in the text and numerous folding maps coloured in outline; laminated pictorial boards, a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on endpapers [only]. The official, highly detailed campaign report, profusely mapped and illustrated. Not recorded by Enser.
20084to., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in blue and black, text in red and black, very numerous photographs and facsimiles (a number ful-page) throughout, and printed endpapers; laminated pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in red and black, a fine copy. Collects eye-witness accounts from 67 survivors. SCARCE.
19648vo., First Edition, with plates; blue boards, white cloth back lettered in red and blue, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, moderately age-soiled dustwrapper. Enser, p.312.
19878vo., First Edition, with 2 full-page maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO [STANLEY] GORDON COCKS WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Cocks served as Wireless Operator/Air Gunner with 75 (New Zealand) Squadron. 'On our specialised operations in Burma we had no call for w.op/gunners like you, but nonetheless you might like to read…' (author's inscription). PRESENTATION COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.209; Graham & Cole H23.
19878vo., First Edition, with 2 full-page maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With a few relevant cuttings loosely inserted. Enser, p.209; Graham & Cole H23.
19528vo., Third Impression, with tinted frontispiece and 7 fine tinted plates by Searle; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip mildly faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned on (predominantly white) rear panel and with small loss at upper edge of rear panel. Published two months after the first edition. The particularly striking dust-wrapper carries a dramatic illustration by Searle not repeated in the book. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser p.409 (recording the first edition).
19508vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece and plate; olive cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly browned dustwrapper, the latter with two short closed tears on rear panel. Waley's classic text was first published in 1921. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19898vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text and endpaper maps; ivory tweed cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in green, a near fine copy. Pacific Islands Monograph Series, No. 8.
19958vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and coloured maps throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
