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réf. 0364599219.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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réf. Krueger, MarcelIn Pristine Condition. unknown
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réf. 0364599219.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 1279433426.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1938réf. 0077802Reykjavik: Fjelagsprentsmidjan 1938. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1939 Icelandic Directory. 514 pp. Hardcover bound in original blue cloth with titles in white and decoration in red and brown. Very Good. Spine sunned. Pages have started to brown but are clean and not brittle. Preliminary text in Icelandic and English but all listings in Icelandic only. Ads printed on red and green paper. Uncommon. Digital images available upon request. Fjelagsprentsmidjan hardcover
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2023réf. __1509557121Polity Pr 2023. Hardcover. New. 192 pages. 8.78x5.67x0.87 inches. Polity Pr hardcover
2023réf. Atlantic-9781509557134Polity Pr 2023. Paperback. New. Polity Pr paperback
2023réf. Atlantic-9781509557134Polity Pr 2023. Paperback. New. Polity Pr paperback
réf. 90541860s. Item One: 12mo 4 pp. On aged and foxed paper with slight wear causing loss to a couple of words of text. On two folded 4to leaves with two pages written by Shepherd in German on the reverse. The list is undated and the intended location is not named but the voyage is a major one. Divided into sections including 'Saddles &c' 'Guns & Rods' 'Books' beginning with 'Shakespeare - Ingoldby - Golden Treasure' 'Food &c. Fortnum & Mason' including two gallons of brandy and two quarts of whiskey. Other sections are headed with what are presumably the names of fellow-travellers: 'Edginton' and 'Edminston' 'Nigretti Zambesi Cassella &c'. The 'Collecting Materials' section reads 'Cases from 35 Charles St. Middlesex Hos. Extra Knives. Cotton Wool. <> Plaster of Paris. little large Scissors. Arsenical Soap & Brushes'. Shepherd toured Iceland in the spring and summer of 1862. His account of the voyage 'The North-West Peninsula of Iceland' was published five years later. Item Two: Itinerary and list of requisites in different hand from Item One apparently for an Alpine tour. 4to 2 pp. On aged and foxed paper. Itinerary on page headed 'Chamouni 5th Sunday'. List of places days of week and number of month from 'Paris. Wednesday 7.' to 'Zermatt Sun:'. The reverse carries the list of requisites in two columns. In bottom left-hand corner: 'Poste Restante Chanouny Savoy'. Item Three: Itemised receipt in German signed by 'A. Petersen' dated 6 January 1861. Large 8vo 2 pp. Densely written with numerous entries. [1860s?] unknown
1861réf. 32889Edinburgh: Edmonton and Douglas 1861. 2 volumes. First Edition. Illustrated in both volumes with engraved maps and plans a number double-page and a number large and multi-folding collated complete. 8vo publisher's original forest-green cloth the spines lettered and ruled in gilt the upper cover of each volume with elaborate giltwork in an all-over designs showing crossed swords axes and other weapons surrounded by two of the most famous of the wise Viking sayings which were passed down from family elders oral tradition and later the sagas: "Bare is Back Without Brother Behind It" and "But Short While is Hand Fain Of Blow" xxx cciv 256; xiii 507 pp. An essentially fine copy bright and clean with very little wear the green cloth remains in very pleasing condition without fading the giltwork is strong and very well preserved the text-blocks and hinges are sound and tight a very pleasing set with only slight evidence of age or shelving at the extremities. FIRST EDITION. A VERY HANDSOME COPY OF THIS ICONIC SCANDINAVIAN TREASURE. With a long and scholarly Introduction which explains in great detail the Iceland of the period in which the saga was written. Further to the Introduction is a complete Index allowing for study of many elements presented both in the scholarship and in the saga. Njáls saga like the other sagas of Icelanders is anonymous. There are however several hypotheses about the saga's authorship. The oldest idea attested in the early 17th century is that Sćmundr fróđi wrote the work. Other suggested authors include Sćmundr's sons Jón Loftsson Snorri Sturluson Einarr Gilsson Brandr Jónsson and Ţorvarđr Ţórarinsson. The saga is now believed to have been composed in the period from 1270 to 1290. Among written sources which the author likely used are Laxdćla saga Eyrbyggja saga and Ljósvetninga saga as well as the lost sagas Brjáns saga and Gauks saga Trandilssonar. however the author probably derived the bulk of the material in the saga from oral tradition which he manipulated for his own artistic purposes. Opinions on the historicity of the saga have varied greatly ranging from pure fiction to nearly verbatim truth to any number of nuanced views. It can be regarded as certain that Njáll and Gunnarr were real historical people and their fateful deaths are referred to in other sources. Gabriel Turville-Petre said "It was not the author's purpose to write a work of history but rather to use a historical subject for an epic in prose". Njáls saga explores the consequences of vengeance as a defence of family honor by dealing with a blood feud spanning some 50 years. The saga shows how even worthy people can destroy themselves by disputes and demonstrates the tensions in the Icelandic Commonwealth which eventually led to its destruction. Any insult to one's honor had to be revenged: sometimes this includes slights which seem trivial to modern readers. From THE SLAYING OF THORD FREEDMANSON in Njal's Saga: Thrain said "We have won an ill work and Njal's sons will take this slaying ill when they hear of it." They ride home and tell Hallgerda. She was glad to hear of the slaying but Rannveig Gunnar's mother said "It is said 'but a short while is hand fain of blow' and so it will be here; but still Gunnar will set thee free from this matter. But if Hallgerda makes thee take another fly in thy mouth then that will be thy bane." Hallgerda sent a man to Bergthorsknoll to tell the slaying and another man to the Thing to tell it to Gunnar. Bergthora said she would not fight against Hallgerda with ill words about such a matter; "That" quoth she "would be no revenge for so great a quarrel." WIKI. Burnt Njal Edmonton and Douglas hardcover
réf. 1174887427.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 8965Dated from 14 June to 7 July 1862. 4to 5 pp on five loose and uniform leaves. Very good on lightly aged paper. The first leaf is headed 'C. W. S. Acc' and is initialled at the foot 'Rt C. Wm. S.' The second is headed 'Sheet 2' with the rest numbered 3 to 5. It is clear from sheets 2 to 5 that one leaf - what should have been 'Sheet 1' - is lacking. Provides a fascinating insight into the practicalities of British nineteenth-century exploration and compliments Shepherd's 'The North-West Peninsula of Iceland: being the journal of a tour in Iceland in the spring and summer of 1862' published by Longmans Green and Co. in 1867. In April of 1862 with 'certain ornithological inquiries in view' Shepherd travelled from England to Iceland on the Arcturus 'in the company of my friends Mr. H. M. Upcher of Sherringham Hall Norfolk and Mr. G. G. Fowler of Gunton Hall Suffolk'. The accounts include advances 'To Fowler' and 'To Upcher'. The first page carries columns of credits and debits including £8 0s 1d received 'from the Sale of Ponies'. Shepherd's book ends with a description of the sale of 'our stud' but does not give the total fetched by the sale. The other four pages provide itemised entries around 25 to a page for the expenditure on the trip. These include £5 to 'Frenchman and Man to row us ashore' £6 'To men who rowed to Surtobrand and took us on board the Metha' £1 to 'Boy with eggs at Holar' £14 to 'Exchange horse that fell into the river at <Reakeavik>' 3s to 'Boy for lost Tackle Bag' and on the group's return 2s 6d for 'Beer at Adelphi'. From the Shepherd family archives. Dated from 14 June to 7 July [1862]. unknown
réf. 11803On 'Landssimi Islands' telegram form. From London to 'PRODROME REYKJAVIK' on 19 August 1940. From the papers of Rev. J. C. Fulton Hood who having been Chief Chaplain British Forces in Norway in 1940 worked in Iceland between 1940 and 1941. A pencil note on the telegram see below refers to 'The Midnight Sun' the troops’ newspaper in Norway and Iceland which Hood founded and edited. He was made a Knight of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon in 1949. The telegram is in good condition on lightly-aged paper and bears an oval blue 'LANDSSIMINN' stamp. It is headed 'PRESSE PRODROME REYKJAVIK' 'Prodrome Reykjavik' being the British Icelandic Legation's telegraph address. It reads as follows: 'MOIPCB LONDON OBGS R146 77W 1902 19 = = CIRCULAR GUIDANCE STOP TIS IMPORTANT YOU SHOULD TAKE EVERY OPPORTUNITY NOW EMPHASISE CRITICAL NATURE PRESENT GERMAN AIROFFENSIVE CONTRABRITAIN SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF WHICH WILL CONSTITUTE MAJOR TURNING POINT WARWARDS STOP IF AND WHEN AS RESULT HEAVY LOSSES GERMAS COMPELLED OFFCALL OFFENSIVE YOULL THEN BE POSITIONWARDS TO POINT ITS CESSATION AS MAJOR BRITISH VICTORY AND EXPOSE GERMAN ATTEMPTS CONCEAL FAILURE BY PASSING OFF AS SIDESHOW OR MASKING WITH SPECTACULAR ADVANCE SOME OTHER POINT = EMPAX 577'. In pencil in the top right-hand corner of the telegram is the following pencil note referring to Hood's newspaper 'The Midnight Sun': 'Could Hood get this over in his paper signed C.M. 20/8'. Between July and September 1940 the Luftwaffe attacked RAF Fighter Command to gain air superiority as a prelude to invasion bombing English Channel convoys ports and RAF airfields and supporting industries; the Blitz began in earnest on 7 September. On 'Landssimi Islands' telegram form. From London to 'PRODROME REYKJAVIK' on 19 August 1940. unknown
réf. 1458211614.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1961réf. BOOKS025155IWash. D.C.:: U.S. Dept. Agriculture. Bruise to side edge else VG unmarked Hardback; owners' name;. 1961. ISBN: by S.F. Blake PART II ONLY U.S.D.A. Misc. Publ. no. 797 no DJ. ISBN: 742 pp. Catalogs: BIOLOGY. Keywords: BIOLOGY BOTANY FLORA EUROPE TAXONOMY. U.S. Dept. Agriculture hardcover
18528vo., First Edition, with a tinted lithograph as frontispiece, engraved and printed titles, and 6 tinted lithographed plates, some light spotting (mainly marginal) as often; original 'National Illustrated Library' series binding of cloth richly blocked in blind, pictorial back gilt extra, hinges cracked (but binding entirely sound), backstrip lightly frayed at head and tail else a very good, tight copy. With the contemporary binder's ticket of Leighton, Son & Hodge (who bound many titles in this series) and the contemporary trade ticket of Willmer & Smith of Church St., Liverpool. This work was translated into English expressly for inclusion in Cooke's popular series following the success of the same author's 'Woman's Journey round the World' (1852); to maintain uniformity the more expensive tinted plates were once again adopted here. In the event, the present work proved even more popular with an audience eager for information from exotic lands, and 'Pfeiffer's Iceland' became a travel standard of the nineteenth century. Abbey, Travel 161.
20038vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
