Dr G Hartwig (69 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Needs Rebind.Leather .Spine Strip Missing. Much Embossed Boards Scuffed, Worn Frontis W/ Tissue. Rear Board Detached. Content Tight, Rear Board Appears To Have Been Damp Along W/ Last Few Pages. No Stain, Mold, Etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Rebound in brown leather covers with raised bands on spine. Gold lettering and bands on spine are bright. Covers exhibit very light soiling and shelf wear. Hinges are tight. Heavy foxing and yellowing starting with the ffep's and going to the end of the preface. Heavy foxing to bfep's. Text is yellowed with occasional foxing and soiling. Page 270 has scribbling in pencil around the edges of the full page b&w illustration. The rest of the text and the many illustrations are unmarked. The full page maps in the back of the book exhibit light foxing along with the yellowing due to age. "Embracing the combined results of all the explorations, researches and discoveries of modern times. with over two hundred beautiful engravings and maps." Edited by Dr. A.H. Guernsey. All books are individually examined and described. Never ex-library unless explicitly described as such.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. With 117 illustrations - a fascinating and scarce volume on the fish and life that is found in the deep ocean. 160 pages in total. A school prize book awarded in 1902.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First American Edition. First Edition. . Middle of spine is faded anf spine also has a small outline from where the library sticker was. Top and bottom 1/4" of spine is missing the outside layer of cover. overall condition is good. Minor foxing on several pages. Many B&W illustrations. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Leather bound with raised bands to spine, gilt titles and decoration (bespoke Alleyn's School copy). General wear and rubbing to spine. Marbled end papers and text block. Alleyn's School prizegiving plate to pastedown. Foxing to prelims and less so to text. Otherwise internally in very good condition with pages free from marks or inscriptions. Please see images for details and feel free to request further information.

Original red buckram binding with gilt lettering. Binding a bit worn / stained, contents bit foxed, hinges weak, else a good copy. Please see description or ask for photos.

Octavo, light blue illus heavy card boards, orange lettering to boards, gilt lettering and decorative rule to spine, deckled gilt page edges, frontispiece of tiger, illus title page, 256pp, illus - plates of animals, VG (crackled front and rear gutter, moderate soiling and rubbing to covers and spine, unsteady binding), This book is from 1887 and has strong racist overtones towards indigenous Australians.

Condition: Fair. 1888. No edition remarks. 128 pages. No dust jacket. Full bound brown leather. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are moderately tanned with visible foxing. Heavy cracking to front hinge, however binding remains firm. Mild thumb-marking present. Boards have notable edge-wear with peeling and scuffing. Visible rubbing and staining to surfaces. Moderate chipping to corners and edges. Pen scribble to front board. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Notable scuffing to edges and joints.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrations and fold out map (illustrator). Bound in marbled boards with leather spine and corners. 1869 date on title page. Profusely illustrated with fold out maps of Iceland Corners of leather corners worn through on tips and small weatr to edges of leather covered boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. ILLUSTRATED (illustrator). 142 + 2pp of book adverts, well-illustrated with 29 (many of which are engravings), hardcover, bound in pictorial blue and orange clothblue and gilt lettering, Provenance: with the prize label of Surrey County Council Technical Education Committee awarded to A. Cowie of Egham Continuation School in Sept 1898', good condition, Longmans, Green, And Co., London and New York, 1894. *a delightful item focusing on weather perils and sky activities you may encounter whilst ballooning: rainbows, thunderstorms, aerolites and shooting stars ?.

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Fair. Brown leather with black boards, gilt spine title on black plaques. Leather is corner chipped with edge rubbing, the front cover and front endpaper is free. Spine has edge chipping. The rest of the binding is bound and pages clean. F9.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. Condition Very Good: Publisher's original cloth binding remains firm and square, showing only light rubbing to extremities and minor bumping to the corner tips. Spine ends are gently softened at the head and foot, with the spine otherwise clean and well-preserved. Boards present attractively with small scattered blemishes, though the decorative artwork remains bright and visually striking. Page edges retain a sharp gilt finish, still lustrous and largely well-preserved. One minor mark is present to the pastedowns, otherwise clean and tidy. Internally, the contents are clean, bright, and fresh, with the appearance of being little read. Illustrations throughout remain crisp and unblemished. Description First edition; published in London by Longmans, Green & Co. in 1893, and illustrated with 117 engravings. A Victorian popular natural history work presenting detailed observations of marine life, combining scientific description with richly engraved illustrative plates typical of the period. A well-preserved example of an attractive and widely issued illustrated science title from the late 19th century. A Victorian natural history work exploring marine life through descriptive text and engraved illustrations, intended for both educational and general readership.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 8th. Numerous plates and woodcuts, pp.524, large folding map.

8vo. xx, 524pp, frontis with tissue guard, 7 plates, text illustrations, multifolding coloured map. Original decorated blind-stamped green cloth gilt. Cloth slightly faded and stained, slight damp stain to top margin of first 65 pages.

Leather Spine w/marblized Cvrs. Condition: G. No Jacket. New Edition. 548 pp+3 color folding maps, 8 chromoxylographic plates, and numerous woodcuts, front hinge is split, but attatched, covers have some wear mostly to extremeties, pages have marblized edges, last 80-90 pp have slight crease in upper corner.

ix, 128pp, frontis, plates, text ills. Original pictorial green cloth gilt, aeg. Book plate to fpdep.

Half-Leather. Condition: Good +. Minor cover wear. Very good internally.

Half leather. New Edition. New ed., royal 8vo, two volumes in one, pp. xxii, (17)-468, 469-843, Index, (1, advert), b/w engraved presentation plate, b/w ills and maps, lacks title-page, prev owner's signature, marbled eps, waterstaining along top edge of most pages, foxing scattered throughout, half leather boards, scuffed and marked, head of spine split. Reading copy only. The book is heavy and may require additional postage. Explorers of the Polar and Tropical regions, extensively illustrated.

TEXT IN DANISH, octavo, half leatherbound black heavy boards, gilt lettering/decoration & raised bands to spine, marbled page edges, illus/printed eps, xv + 640pp, illus, VG (light to moderate scuffing/chafing & fading to spine, moderate fading to marbling on page edges with minor tanning also, 3cm crack to front gutter, light to moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & occasionally throughout, ex-libris tab tipped in to recto of ffep).

TEXT IN DANISH, octavo, half leatherbound black heavy boards, gilt lettering & decoration with raised bands to spine, marbled page edges, patterned eps, viii + 455pp, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG+ (light fading to spine, minor rubbing/chafing to leatherwork, light tanning to page edges, light occasional cracking to gutters, light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals & plates).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Numerous woodcuts and 12 chromoxylographic plates Sea creatures.

Hardcover. 1872 Edition. 1872. Oversized, thick octavo, three quarters brown leather over brown fabric covered boards, with black and brown spine labels, gilt lettering on spine, and 6 bands on spine, full marbled edge. Descriptions of the polar and tropical regions of Earth, with black and white frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Very good, light wear to leather on cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. New Edition. 556pp. Full contemporary polished brown calf with gilt borders and spine. Five raised bands to the spine with a black morocco label. Illustrated with eight chromo-oxylographic plates and numerous woodcuts. Booksellers ticket to the inside front cover 'John J. Banks, Cheltenham'. Attractive marbled end-papers with matching fore-edges. Joints a trifle tender but a very attractive copy in full calf. No inscriptions. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Good. 1st Edition. With Nearly Two Hundred Illustrations, bound in blind stamped leather, with binding and hinges tight. Covers in Fair to Good Condition, with backstrip loss to upper edge, showing edge/corner wear. The interior of the book is in Very Good ++ Condition, with the frontis-piece intact.

contemporary ½ calf with cloth boards, spine with 6 blind tooled diamond designed compartments of raised bands, brown morocco label on two, black morocco label on four. All edges marbled. Marbled paste down and free end papers., Size : large 8vo, Contains, engraved gift page, frontis, and numerous woodcut text illustrations., Volume : 2 volumes in 1, References : Arctic Bibliography 6732, P. gift page, blank (2), frontis, title, printer?s imprint, prface v-vi, contents vii-xviii, 1-468; half title, 470-811.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good copy in umber cloth with gilt titles. Rubbing and edge-wear. Binding firm and square. Pages toning only slightly, with minor foxing on endpapers. Name on endpaper. Lovely plates.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. New Edition. gilt-decorated green cloth, slight sun-darkening at spine, internally clean and sound, binding a little cocked, gift presentation inscription to Armagh Natural History and Philosophical Society dated 1892 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New edition. Two volumes in one. Royal 8vo. xx + 811pp. B/w. frontispiece and illustrations. Pages slightly browned with some occasional minor soiling. 4cm. tear to front f.e.p. Hinges cracked and tender. Original green cloth with gilt title to upper board and gilt decorated spine, rubbed and frayed to edges with loss to head and tail of spine. Ex-libris Ann Savours Shirley, with related article loosely inserted. US$58.