Benett Illus (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. illustrated re-issue edition, shows minor wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. vi, 271, [9] p. 19 cm. Frontispiece, title vignette and 49 other b&w plates. Green cloth with black, grey and gold impressing. Mylar wrap (removed for photo). A little wear to corners and spine ends. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. Light stains to endpapers and mild spotting to text block edges. Occasional thumbing and soiling to pages. Tear and crease at top of Contents page and p. 1. Original French title "Les Tribulations d'un Chinoies en Chine" or "The Tribulations of a Chinese in China." While the title was changed to "The Adventures of a Chinaman," note that "Tribulations" appears on page tops. Cover shows the characters on the junk "Sam-Yep" before a golden sunset on a calm sea. This novel contains a vast amount of general information about China and the customs described would have been of much interest to the West. Taves & Michaluk V020.

Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8.25" x 5.5"), olive green pictorial cloth, gilt. 377 pp., engraved plates. Early ownership inscription in ink on ffep. CONDITION: Good, rubbed, edges worn, foot of spine fraying, title-page a bit soiled, text toned, one slightly sprung gathering, slight damp-stains at fore-edge. First edition, first state of the large octavo American edition. REFERENCES: Taves & Michaluk V038; Myers 41.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Benett (illustrator). Illustrated red cloth with elaborate detail stamped in gilt, black, and blind, all edges gilt; pp. [4] (half-title p., illus. half-title p., title-p.), 410, [10] (ads), richly illustrated throughout. First illustrated edition. Light scuffing along joints, edges of boards, rear board; spine tips frayed. VG+, with bright gilt, tight binding, clean text block. Text in French. Lovely, and very cool!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. viii, 234 p., interspersed with plates. 19 cm. Frontispiece with tissue guard, title vignette, 41 full-page plates. Half blue leather with blue cloth. Mylar wrap, removed for photos. Gilt trim and 5 raised bands on spine, date 1887 at bottom. Gilt edges. Beautiful blue marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown for Sir David Salomons of Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells. Binding signed by John Bumpus, Oxford Street. Slightly worn extremities and leather. Foxing to endpapers, first pages and text block edge. Publisher's catalogue referred to on title verso is not included. The adventures of the mysterious Robur and his flying ship, the Albatross, written more than 16 years before Orville and Wilbur Wright's historic first flight. The book reuses a modified version of one of Benett's illustrations from an earlier work. The plate opposite p. 94 shows the Albatross hovering above a train on the Pacific Railway. This same illustration, without the Albatross, appeared in the French edition of "Around the World in 80 Days" but was omitted from the British and American editions.John Bumpus, bookdealer, was located at 350 Oxford Street, London from the early 1850s to 1935. The firm is traditionally stated to have begun in Clerkenwell about 1790 but can't be proven to exist before the name is listed in the Holborn area from around 1815. The first Bumpus overcame an insolvency only to drown himself in the Surrey Canal in 1832. His sons carried on the business and, around 1853, the second John Bumpus opened the Oxford Street branch. In 1920 it was bought by Debenhams Ltd.Sir David Salomons, 1st Baronet (1797 1873) was a leading figure in the 19th century struggle for Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom. He was the first Jewish Sheriff of the City of London and Lord Mayor of London. His Broomhill estate is now the Salomons Museum. Myers 12. Taves and Michaluk V030. First UK Edition, as well as first hardcover and first illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. iv, 377 p., interspersed with plates. 22 cm. Frontispiece and 81 other full page plates, as well as a smaller vignette on p. iv. Blue cloth with black and gold impresing. Front features Mrs. Branican en route to the ship Dolly's Hope while spine shows the bell of the shipwrecked Franklin. Mylar wrap (removed for photo). Corners and spine ends worn. Light shelf wear on lower edges. Some light soiling. A couple of signatures jutting out slightly. Inscriptions on front free endpaper. Paper browning. Small mark rear of frontispiece. Pages neat and clean. Fairly scarce Verne adventure novel with a female protagonist. When her husband John goes to sea and she loses her only child, Wat, San Diego resident Dolly Branican goes mad. When she recovers, she discovers her husband's ship was lost at sea and she is heir to a substantial fortune. Refusing to believe her husband is dead, Dolly uses her extensive resources to discover the whereabouts of her husband's ship, the Franklin. Her search leads her to Australia where her adventures continue into the interior at Alice Springs. Myers 41. Taves and Michaluk V038. First American Edition and first in English.