Skip to content

View From Ben Nevis by Shearer, Jas E - 1895?

by Shearer, Jas E

View From Ben Nevis by Shearer, Jas E - 1895?

View From Ben Nevis

by Shearer, Jas E

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
RS Shearer & Son, Stirling, 1895?. 1st ed? VG no dw. fold out panoramic view from the summit of Ben Nevis, approx 18 x 33cm closed, opens to 8 sections making one long view 17.50cm x 250cm. A very scarce item
  • Bookseller Bob Worth Mountain Books GB (GB)
  • Book Condition Used - 1st ed? VG no dw
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher RS Shearer & Son, Stirling
  • Date Published 1895?
Travels in South Africa, Undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society. Third Edition,...

Travels in South Africa, Undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society. Third Edition, Corrected

by Campbell, John

  • Used
  • very good
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
3rd Edition
Binding
Unknown
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Pasadena, California, United States
Item Price
NZ$337.84

Show Details

Description:
London: Black, Parry, & Co. / T. Hamilton, 1815. 3rd Edition . Full Calf. Very Good. 8 11/16' Tall. Frontispiece, Multifold Map, 8 Plates. The Corrected Third Edition .Xvi, Folding Map, 400 Pp + 8 Plates, Complete. Full Tree Calf. Newly Rebacked, Original Boards, Original Spine And Red Morocco Spine Label Laid Down Over New Backing Leather, Tips Repaired. Circa 1920'S Bookplate Of Charles M Crouse, With Motto "Knowledge Is Power" Shown On A Tape Being Pulled By A Bear From A Glass-Topped Stock Ticker. [ No Trace Of Later Bookplate "Power Is The Only Knowledge That Will Be Remembered" But Who Will Notice?]. Front Hinge Cracked But Newly Backed Binding Quite Solid. No Other Names Or Marks. Pages Clean, Large Folding Map At Front With A Single 3/4" Tear Extending From The Gutter Into Some Unprinted Space At The Edge Of The Map. Some Offsetting From Plates Onto Facing Pages.
Item Price
NZ$337.84
SPITSBERGEN - AN ACCOUNT OF THE EXPLORATION, HUNTING, THE MINERAL RICHES AND FUTURE...
More Photos

SPITSBERGEN - AN ACCOUNT OF THE EXPLORATION, HUNTING, THE MINERAL RICHES AND FUTURE POTENTIALITIES OF AN ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO

by Rudmose Brown R.N

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Llandudno, Conwy, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$532.55

Show Details

Description:
Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd,, 1920. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 1st Edition: 319pp. Illustrated with 16 plates from photos (including frontispiece) and 3 maps (including folding map at rear). Original black decorative cloth with blue lettering on spine. Minor damage to outside spine and hinges, shelfware, bumped, rubbed, very mild age toning, foxing.Contents clean. Very Good. PLEASE NOTE: This book will incur extra postage and insurance charges. Please contact us for a quote. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 131. .
Item Price
NZ$532.55
Himalayas
More Photos

Himalayas

by Shirakawa, Yoshikazu

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - 1st ed in English Fine in VG dw in VG- slip case
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$266.28

Show Details

Description:
Harry N Abrams, New York, 1971. 1st ed in English Fine in VG dw in VG- slip case (as slight fading to top and bottom of front cover of slip case). Covers the Nepal, Punja, Sikkim and Hindu Kush Himalayas. Very large format edition, cream boards with black and red titling, colour photo-pictorial DJ, in black cloth board wrap-around slipcase with Japanese-style clasps and paper title label glued to front cover. 248-full page illustrations in full colour and 6 fold-out colour plates, 6 maps and diagrams. Please note that this is an oversized and very heavy item and thus postage will be more than that quoted as default. [Neate S72]
Item Price
NZ$266.28
Report of The Exploring Expedition To The Rocky Mountains In the Year 1842 and To Oregon and...
More Photos

Report of The Exploring Expedition To The Rocky Mountains In the Year 1842 and To Oregon and North California in the Year 1843-'44. House Doc. No. 166. (1845)(1st edition)

by J. C. Fremont (John Charles); Sheffield Oil Company

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Good+
Edition
First
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Item Price
NZ$548.99

Show Details

Description:
First House edition of this famous report. 1845. Complete in original binding except for the gigantic map which is available in full size color thick glossy paper professional reproduction ($25 extra if desired). Pagination: 583 pages, 22 plates, 4 maps, all blanks present. Includes fascinating pencil diagram of oil rig on back of map. Oil rig drawing titled "Sheffield Oil Company. Warren(?), Co., Pa." That pencil drawing is the only interior writing or ownership marking anywhere in the book. Condition is a mixed bag. Original half leather marbled boards show heavy wear and looks like they were professionally rehinged in the distant past. Binding is sound. Pages show moderate to heavy toning and foxing. Some plates have weird 'dot' foxing I have never seen elsewhere (see scan). Marbled endpapers. A nice well maintained copy suitable for reading and research with a cool drawing. Howes F372; Wagner-Camp 115:2; Graff 1436. House Doc. No. 166. Feel free to inquire. Please see scans of the book you will… Read More
Item Price
NZ$548.99
Les Petits Enfants en Voyage
More Photos

Les Petits Enfants en Voyage

by Armand-Delille, Etiennette Louise Mayor & Jean Marie Martin

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition, (second or third impression?)
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Lanvellec, France
Item Price
NZ$475.02

Show Details

Description:
An attractive, didactic children's book very probably written in 1844 by the Swiss (Geneva) wife of the "co-author", a Protestant Pasteur -Pasteur de l'église réformée evangelique- telling the story of a boat trip up the Rhône river, from Avignon to Geneva. viii + 203 pp. The unusual cover page is composed of a series of vignettes.Free postal delivery worldwide.
Item Price
NZ$475.02
Yallah.

Yallah.

by BOWLES, Paul text with photographs by Peter W. Haeberlin

  • Used
  • Fine
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Near Fine
Edition
First English language edition / First printing.
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Edmonds, Washington, United States
Item Price
NZ$506.76

Show Details

Description:
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1957. First English language edition / First printing. Black cloth. About fine with one small corner crease to the front free endpaper in near fine dust jacket with only a slight amount of laminate peel that is so common to this title.
Item Price
NZ$506.76
THE DESERTS OF SOUTHERN FRANCE
More Photos

THE DESERTS OF SOUTHERN FRANCE: an introduction to the limestone and chalk plateaux of ancient Aquitaine

by S. Baring-Gould

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good +
Edition
Presumed First
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Blue Hill, Maine, United States
Item Price
NZ$388.52

Show Details

Description:
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1894. Presumed First. Hardcover. Very Good +. 2 volumes. Vol 1 - xxii, plus 296 pages. Vol 2 � xii, plus 303 pages. 6 x 9 in. Blue cloth, with gilt lettering and designs on spines, gilt design on covers. Tissue-protected frontispieces in Vol 1 and 2. Numerous b&w illustrations. Condition is VERY GOOD+, with some very slight bending to ends of spines, corners very slightly worn, some faint staining on both covers. Owner�s large bookplate in 1 and 2 (messy glue to one). Very tight, clean copies. ETS.
Item Price
NZ$388.52
Afrique: Histoire des Voyages dans cette partie du Monde, Guerres, Produits, Moeurs, Anecdotes,...
More Photos

Afrique: Histoire des Voyages dans cette partie du Monde, Guerres, Produits, Moeurs, Anecdotes, abrégé de La Harpe et des Voyageurs Modernes [Bibliothéque Universelle des Voyages, vol. 1]

by Dufay, Jules

  • Used
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Good +
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
Item Price
NZ$339.53

Show Details

Description:
Paris: Bureau de Courval, et Compagnie, 1826. Hardcover. Good +. Vol. 1 of Bibliothéque Universelle des Voyages, only. [2], 527, [1] p., handcolored frontispiece and 3 leaves of handcolored plates; 21 cm. Contemporary full speckled calf with gilt-tooled spine labels and spine decoration; gilt-rolled border on each board, which have gilt-rolled edges. All edges marbled. Marbled endpaper. No year of publication; 1826 is the year assigned in library records. Very scarce. In Good+ Condition: joints are cracked; edges rubbed; loss at edges of spine labels and along joints; foxing, heavy on some pages; otherwise clean; plates are clean and bright.
Item Price
NZ$339.53
THE POSSIBILITY OF REACHING THE NORTH POLE ASSERTED . A NEW EDITION WITH  AN APPENDIX CONTAINING...
More Photos

THE POSSIBILITY OF REACHING THE NORTH POLE ASSERTED . A NEW EDITION WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING PAPERS ON THE SAME SUBJECT, AND ON A NORTHWEST PASSAGE BY COLONEL BEAUFOY

by Barrington, Daines

  • Used
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Good+
Edition
New Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
Item Price
NZ$506.76

Show Details

Description:
New York: Eastburn & Co. Good+. 1818. New Edition. Hardcover. First printed in 1775 and 1776 as “Probability of Reaching the North Pole Discussed, ” this edition of Daines Barrington’s work includes the Appendix by physicist Mark Beaufoy. Later nineteeth century 3/4 leather over speckled paper cover boards. Spine with raised bands and gilt . (xiii) 14 to 187pp. Top edge gilt. Interior of text is tight and intact. Light to moderate foxing. Last 4 pages have a damp stain on bottom corner. Illustrated with map of the North Pole frontispiece and pictorial title page. Polar, Arctic; Fold out Map; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 187 pages .
Item Price
NZ$506.76
Himalayas
More Photos

Himalayas

by Shirakawa, Yoshikazu

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - 1st ed in English Fine in VG dw in VG- slip case
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$266.28

Show Details

Description:
Harry N Abrams, New York, 1971. 1st ed in English Fine in VG dw in VG- slip case (as slight fading to top and bottom of front cover of slip case). Covers the Nepal, Punja, Sikkim and Hindu Kush Himalayas. Very large format edition, cream boards with black and red titling, colour photo-pictorial DJ, in black cloth board wrap-around slipcase with Japanese-style clasps and paper title label glued to front cover. 248-full page illustrations in full colour and 6 fold-out colour plates, 6 maps and diagrams. Please note that this is an oversized and very heavy item and thus postage will be more than that quoted as default. [Neate S72]
Item Price
NZ$266.28
South American Journals 1858-1859
More Photos

South American Journals 1858-1859

by Peabody, George Augustus

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Edition
Limited Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$42.23

Show Details

Description:
Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum, 1937. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 209pp. Marbled boards, black spine, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, slipcase. Corners lightly rubbed, spine lettering mildly sunned, contents are clean and some pages still unopened. Slipcase is lightly edge-chipped. One of 481 copies printed on Hazelbourn paper by The Southworth-Anthoensen Press.
Item Price
NZ$42.23
A Holiday in Italy
More Photos

A Holiday in Italy

by Lucy Andersen

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
Condition
Used - Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$37.26

Show Details

Description:
Walter Scott, London, 1889 revised edition, Very Good Hardcover / no dustjacket, 79 pages, 5" x 7.5", waterstain on front board, otherwise clean and tight, inscribed by author on ffep.
Item Price
NZ$37.26
Panama
More Photos

Panama: And The Canal In Pictures and Prose

by Willis J. Abbot

  • Used
  • poor
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Poor
Jacket Condition
None
Edition
First
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Lubbock, Texas, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$172.30NZ$43.07
Save NZ$76.50!

Show Details

Description:
This book is an antique but it is in poor condition. The binding is loose and peeling off the spine of this book. The cover is worn substantially on the edged, corners and all over. The previous owners name is written on the inside front board and the front end page. The inside pages are yellowed and tanned and the page is torn. "A complete story of Panama, as well as the history, purpose and promise of its world famous canal - the most gigantic engineering undertaking since the dawn of time. Approved by leading officials connected with the great enterprise. Profusely illustrated by over 600 unique and attractive photographs taken expressly for this book by our special staff." - Panama
Item Price
NZ$172.30NZ$43.07
Save NZ$76.50 !
The Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-west Coast of America, in the...
More Photos

The Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-west Coast of America, in the Pacific and in New South Wal

by Bishop, Charles (1765?-1810), edited by Michael Roe

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good to fine
Jacket Condition
Very Good to fine
Edition
First
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 3 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$42.23

Show Details

Description:
lvi+342 pages with frontispiece, 6 maps including two folding maps, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria embossed on front cover with cover and blind stamped ruled edges with original jacket. Edited by Michael Roe. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, second series, volume 131. First edition.In 1794, Charles Bishop sailed from Bristol as master of the Ruby, a trading ship bound for north-west America. He had instructions to procure otter furs fro the Indians and then to proceed to Canton via japan and sell the cargo. During the years 1794-1802, he rounded South America to reach the Pacific coast, then visited the Pacific islands and the coasts of Asia and Australia. In the Moluccas, he sold the Ruby and purchased the Nautilus; correspondingly, the test is divided into two sections. This narrative is Bishop's journal of his voyages and relates a minor epic of adventure,… Read More
Item Price
NZ$42.23
Emin Pasha in Central Africa, being a collection of his letters and journals. Edited and...
More Photos

Emin Pasha in Central Africa, being a collection of his letters and journals. Edited and annotated by Professor G. Schweinfurth, Professor F. Ratzel, Dr. R.W. Felkin, and Dr. G. Hartlaub.

by EMIN. PASHA

  • Used
  • fair
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Fair
Edition
First American
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oak Park, Illinois, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$33.78

Show Details

Description:
547 pages. Black cloth boards; gilt lettering on spine. Spine detatched on one side. JWSC LLC is listing this property on behalf of a private collector's estate. Documentation on file indicates this book was purchased by the estate in the 1970s from (a UK dealer). Additional photos available.
Item Price
NZ$33.78
No image available

TRAVELS IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND

by WILSON, WILLIAM RAE

  • Used
  • good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Good
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Edition
1st Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$74.51NZ$63.34
Save NZ$9.00!

Show Details

Description:
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1823. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [viii]ix-xii [1]2-544. FIRST EDITION. Bound in brown half-leather over marbled boards, title in gilt within a red title piece. The first edition of the author's first book. William Wilson (1772-1849) inherited a substantial sum from an uncle, and decided to indulge his passion for travel. He travelled throughout Europe and The Middle East and wrote a series of books. This was his first, and it was the most popular, going through several editions. This is a good copy as all plates, including the frontispiece, have been excised. The boards show moderate wear, heavier at the spine ends. The front hinge is cracked. The text block is mainly clean with a few marks of unknown origin.
Item Price
NZ$74.51NZ$63.34
Save NZ$9.00 !
The Silence Of The North

The Silence Of The North

by Olive A. Fredrickson with Ben East

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Good
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Salem, Oregon, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$84.46

Show Details

Description:
By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
Item Price
NZ$84.46
Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings (1589-1605)
More Photos

Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings (1589-1605)

by William Edward David "W E D" Allen (1901-1973) editor

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used
Jacket Condition
Better than very Good
Edition
First
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780521010313
ISBN 10
0521010314
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 3 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$84.46

Show Details

Description:
2 Volumes: xxxii+368 pages with frontispiece, five folding maps and ten plates; ix+[369]-640 pages with frontispiece, two folding maps, six plates, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship to front cover. Translated by Anthony Mango. Second Series, volumes 138 and 139. First edition.By the early sixteenth century the loosely knit kingdom of Georgia had disintegrated from the strong monarch of the middle ages to a number of small states and principalities. This internal disunity made the Georgians easy victims of the power politics of the neighboring Ottoman and Safavid empires, and by the end of the century the southward drive of the Russians intensified the struggle for military and diplomatic control over the whole of the Caucasian isthmus. As a result of this struggle seventeen embassies were exchanged between the Russian tsars and the Georgian kins ruling in Kakheti during the years 1564-1605. W E D Allen and Anthony… Read More
Item Price
NZ$84.46
Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage, 1741-1747: Volumes I & II: The Voyage of Christopher...
More Photos

Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage, 1741-1747: Volumes I & II: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton, 1741-1742; The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith, 1746-1747.

by Barr, William (1950- ) and Glyndwr Williams (editors)

  • Used
  • Fine
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Edition
First
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780904180411
ISBN 10
0904180417
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 3 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$84.46

Show Details

Description:
2 Volumes: Volume 1 subtitled: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton 1741-1742 xii+333 with 8 maps, 3 illustrations including frontispiece, bibliography and index; Volume 2 subtitled: The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith 1746 1747 xv+393 pages with frontispiece, 13 maps, 6 illustrations, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship to front cover. Translated by Anthony Mango. Second Series, volumes 177 and 181. First edition.The eighteenth century saw a resurgence of hope that a Northwest Passage - that elusive target of European seamen over the centuries - might yet be found. Prompted by the Irish MP Arthur Dobbs, the Admiralty sent the Furnace and Discovery to Hudson Bay in 1741 in search of navigable passage to the Pacific. The expedition was commanded by Christopher Middleton, until his resignation in March 1741 a sea-captain in the service of the Hudson Bay Company. With his actions closely scrutinized by his former… Read More
Item Price
NZ$84.46
Touraine and Its Chateaux

Touraine and Its Chateaux

by Debraye, Henry

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good TEG
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$31.95

Show Details

Description:
London: The Medici Society, 1928. Gilt titles on quarter calf with leather labels to spine, four raised bands and five compartments with small gilt designs on brown calf leather with marbled paper sides. There is just a little light wear to spine and to board edges and a small mark to back. Internally there are marbled endpapers and pages are very clean, tight and unmarked with age darkening to map bound in at rear. Bellegarde printing in France. First published in France in 1926, this luxury edition is the first English one rather than the more common cloth bound. 156 pages and map with coloured extra title page. Illustrated throughout with beautiful sepia tint photographs. Uniform with 'The Picture Guides' series. 3. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good TEG/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Item Price
NZ$31.95