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HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

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London: John Snow. Poor with no dust jacket. 1840. Disbound. Lacking preliminary leaves and folding map. Disbound. Text block separated from boards. Joints rubbed. Boards rubbed with abrasions to cloth. ; "Twenty-Eighth Thousand". (i-ii), 154 pages + engraved portrait frontispiece. 27 small in-text wood-engraved vignette illustrations. Lacking all preliminary leaves, i.e. (iii)-ix, [1]. Lacking the folding map. 19th century half calf and blue cloth boards. Page dimensions: 232 x 154mm. Text printed in double columns. ; 8vo .

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Cambridge Univ Pr, 2010. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 628 pages. 8.75x5.50x1.50 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. A fascinating chronicle of shipwreck, plagues, cannibalism and narrow escapes from enraged natives and natural disaster, this 1837 book provides an insight into nineteenth-century attitudes towards indigenous peoples and their traditions.

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D. Appleton & Co., 1837. Hardcover. Good. . Ex-library with the usual labeling. Original textblock professionally rebound in plain brown boards. Spine repaired with clear tape. Some foxing here and there throughout, overall clean. Binding sturdy.

Published for the author by J Snow & JB Leifchild, London, 1837. Reprint, Third Thousand. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: G Baxter. Third thousand, Half leather with replaced spine, original detached spine is present, well rubbed marbled boards, worn corners, darkened end-papers, fold-out plan, plates and pages are a little darkened with occasional freckles, coloured frontis is missing, binding is otherwise sound. No dust jacket, as published. Illustrator: G Baxter. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 60717111085. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service..

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Cambridge University Press, 2010-02-25. 1. Paperback. Used:Good.

For the Author by John Snow, 1837. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Baxter, G. heavy, extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. 5th thousand. 590 Pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. They are strong and study. Internally, the front hinge is cracked. minor foxing, a previous owners inscription. Clean and complete. Tightly bound. r*18/08/2022. [Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London. Published by John Snow. 1842. 8vo., ix,[1],154p., engraved frontis portrait, numerous engraved text illustrations. Printed in double-columns, 1 folding map, creases expertly guarded, rebound in quarter brown paper over light green boards, a fine copy thus internally tight and clean (ho11.1). ~ vide O'Reilly and Reitman 7568 . This work, based on the author's stay of several years in the South Seas, was immensely popular, and was reprinted several times following the first edition of 1837. He not only gives the history of the islands, but discusses the Polynesian languages, customs, and religious beliefs.

Cambridge Univ Pr, 2010. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 628 pages. 8.75x5.50x1.50 inches.

London: J. Snow. Good with no dust jacket. 1837. First Edition. Hardcover. X, 589, ad. Folding map. Color frontis, engraved vignette on title, all plates and engravings present as called, some plates still have the tissue guard. 1st edition, second thousand. With a very interest Canadian/English provenance: the first free endpaper has a gift inscripted "Presented by Col. Forlong of 43rd Regiment to his much esteemed friend Rev. G. Cheyne. Amherstburg." The 43rd was in Canada and "went to New Brunswick in 1835, and was one of the regiments dispatched from New Brunswick to Quebec, on horse-sleighs, in the depth of the winter of 1838-39, on the occasion of the insurrection in Lower Canada. The regiment was employed in Canada until 1844, when it removed to Nova Scotia, and came home in 1846." Col. Forlong is documented with the 43rd. George Cheyne, a Scots, was the first Presbyterian minister west of London and was called in Amherstburg c1831-1834. A church in Amherstburg,… Read More

London: J. Snow, 1838. Sixth Thousand . Green Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo Large (over 7¾" - 9¾"). N/a. 1 (ad.) xx, 590pp. 1838. Sixth Thousand. 8vo. large sized. A good only copy of an important work on travel in and around the south sea islands in the earlier part of the nineteenth century. Bound in original publisher's blue-green cloth - gilt embossed to the spine (the cloth re-backed to the spine). Bound in finely ribbed cloth with a blind stamped decorative vignette to both the front and rear boards. Frontispiece of John Williams, an engraved title page, a colour frontispiece, a map and 6 other steel engraved plates - all as called for. No inscriptions. New cream coloured endpapers. The original binder's cloth slightly mottled to the spine and to the front board and shelf worn more generally with the fairly usual loss to the corners. Notable spotting to the frontispiece, title page and colour frontispiece - the map largely free from it. The other… Read More

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 6x1x9.