Bishop Mrs Bird Isabella (31 results)

Condition: New. 2007 reprint by Rediscovery Books (original 1883). SB.xvi+ 384pp with 15 illustrations ,& 2 maps ( n colour). This book essentially consists of the letters to her sister Henrietta, from Isabella L. Bird during her travels in the Malay Peninsula in the early 1880s. Despite the ill health of her youth; something that sporadically arose primarily when she was not travelling, Bird became the most famed of nineteenth century female travel writers and this culminated a decade later in her becoming the first woman to be inducted into the Royal Geographical Society.Here she provides us with a charming personal narrative of her travels and adventures in what was then a region scarcely visited by European travellers, let alone a single lady. Being the bearer of official letters of accreditation, she was welcomed by officials throughout the territory and these enabled her to gain a fascinating insight into the people, language and culture of these islands. Coming from Japan she describes her visits to, amongst other places, Hong Kong, Canton, Singapore, Malacca and Perak very much in her characteristic 'through her own eyes' style. An extensive account that must be read by anyone interested in this period and these places.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Putnam's/Murray New York &, London., 1900. 1st American edition. Folding colour sketch map of 'The Yangtze Basin showing Mrs Bishop's Route.' 2 volumes: 2 black & white photographic frontispieces and 114 black and white photographic illustrations by the author and numerous illustrations throughout the text. Dark blue decorated cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, front boards lettered in gilt and gilt stamped with an attractive Chinese pagoda style gateway motif on each volume. Volume I: xii + 410pp and folding map and adverts. fine, the covers are bright and clean and the gilt bright and untarnished The contents are sound and very clean. A very desirable copy of this important book. 22 x 14.2cm. The famous female traveller's final major work which describes her journey through China that ended in 1897. A fascinating account liberally illustrated with equally fascinating photographs that show a China now long gone. Chapter headings include: Hangchow; the Hangchow Medical Mission Hospitals; Shanghai to Hankow; The Foreigners - Hankow and British Trade; the Upper Yangtze; Rapids of the Upper Yangtze; Rapids and Trackers; Life on the Upper Yangtze; The Yangtze and Kuei Fu; New Year's Day at Kuei-chow Fu; the Opium Poppy and its Use; Notes on Protestant Missions in China. Volume 1 of 2 only, spine slighty faded A3.

Decorated Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition 1881, this the new edition 1900. 6½ x 9½" pp. xiv + 483 with fold-out map and 56 b/w illustrations. Very good / near fine in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to front and rear and gilt and black image (Mt. Fuji?) to front board. Bevelled boards.All edges gilt. Contents fine with no marks, stains, foxing, stamps or lables. No dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Octavo, Volume I only (xii, 410 pages). In Good minus condition. Spine is blue with gold print. Boards in blue cloth with gold print. Wear to spine caps and corners, cocked spine, blemishes on spine. Text block has has gilt top edge. Name in ink on front flyleaf, intermittent spine breaks. Illustrated: "with map and 116 illustrations" title page; b&w plates, folded color map at rear. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column R (ND-R). 1373888. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Volume 1 Only - Blue cloth with bright gold gilt titling to spine and front as well as a beautiful gilt decoration of a Chinese temple on front. Top edge of textblock is bright gilt. Frontispiece and 46 plates. Discarded by the Library of Congress due to a duplicate already owned. One small paper label and one small stamp on the FFEP are only sign of ex-library. This is the last published work of Bird, one of the most famous of all women travelers. For this book, Bird traveled up the Yangtze and Han rivers in China and Korea in 1897. Bird was 64 when she took this journey through a dangerous and chaotic part of China and Korea. This trip took her 13,000 km, up the Yangtze River by boat and then overland through Sichuan to Tibet. Quite exceptional for a Victorian English woman. She was the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society, an honorary fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, a member of the Royal Photographic Society and an honorary member of the Oriental Society of Peking.

Hardcover. Condition: Good - overall. First edition. This is the last published work of Bird, one of the most famous of all women travelers; she visited Australia, Hawaii, the Rocky Mountains, Japan, China, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Persia, Kurdistan & Turkey. She was the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society, an honorary fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, a member of the Royal Photographic Society and an honorary member of the Oriental Society of Peking. Cordier, Sinica, 355. Robinson, Wayward Women, pp. 81-83. Lge 8vo, xv, 557pp, with folding colored map and 116 photographic illustrations. Complete with the errata slip (browned), top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Original green pictorial cloth, spine sunned, rubbed, marked and spine tips damaged. Internally a very nice copy.

Condition: Good-only. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, pp. xv, 557, [1] + tipped-in errata slip to p.1, folding colour map to rear (creased and toned), plus numerous b/w photographic plates and in-text illustrations. Half calf, spine lettered, ruled and stamped in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards. Rubbed and scored, head of spine frayed, corners bumped and worn, front joint cracked and crudely glued, but holding. Front hinge cracked, PO gift inscription in black ink to ffep: "J. W. Bishop from E. Lloyd Edwards, Xmas 1904," numerous obituary clippings about Mrs Bishop, who had died in the year of inscription, to verso of ffep and facing recto, plus one news clipping tipped in at title page, foxed, short closed tear to 'A Sze Chuan Market-place' plate at p. 270, clipped illustration of Mrs Bishop laid in. Else, clean. Good-only A well-handled fan copy, and gift between two Welshmen, of Mrs Bishop's final book, an account of her journeys, over fifteen months and 8000 miles, in China, drawn from letters, photographs and her brief diary, which included a chapter on 'The Opium Poppy and its Uses'. The extraordinary Isabella Bishop FRGS (née Bird, 18311904) was a Yorkshire-born explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. By 1899, and her final book, Bishop's fame was fully established: she had "addressed the British Association in 1891, 1892, and 1898, and was made fellow of the Scottish Geographical Society in 1891 and of the Royal Geographical Society, to which no [woman] had previously been admitted" (ODNB). It seems likely that the inscriber was Edward Lloyd Edwards (d.1956), whose family were proprietors of the Tref-y-nant Fire Clay Works, Ruabon, Wrexham and leased Trevor Hall, near Llangollen, for three generations. His inscribee may have been fellow Welshman, John Walton Bishop (1880-1962), for many years Agent to the Dinefwr Estate (and not a relation of the author's husband, John Bishop). Half leather, marbled paper boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Later Printing. Blue cloth, gilt decoration; bookplate, minor wear, firm attractive copy; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo, pp xv 557, folding map bound in at rear. Errata slip present at p 1. Rebound in quarter red leather with the original green cloth covered boards retained, five raised bands, gilt block to spine. Original top edge gilt. Isabella Bird (1831-1904) was a British explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. She became the first woman elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society in London. Her travels took her to Africa, Australia, the U.S. and through Asia including to India, Malaya, Japan and Korea. Her final great trip took her up the Yangtze and Han rivers in China and Korea from which she wrote this, her last major book and perhaps the one for which she is best remembered. The book is in excellent clean condition, no markings, no spotting, overall grades Near Fine.

Three-quarter leather. Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition. 8vo. xi, 410, folding map; vii, 365, index. 116 illustrations. Marbled endpapers. t.e.g. 3/4 leather over marbled paper boards, spine lettered gilt with 5 raised bands. Rebacked with original spine laid on. Very Good+, front endpaper in Vol. 1 detached. Internally clean and bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 321pp, photos, in text drawings, small folding map appends. Volume 2 ONLY. Marks to rear board - pages very clean, bright & tight - no inscriptions.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of Isabella Bird's account of her travels up the Yangtze river, illustrated throughout with photographic images. Illustrated with a folding colour map, and one-hundred and sixteen photographic plates. Collated, complete.Bird travelled around China between 1896 and 1897, spending eight months on the Yangtze river. She details her journey along the river and to Shanghai, Ningbo, Hangzhou, Nankou, and Yichang.Bird includes discussion of Hangchow medical mission hospitals - where she meets a man with elephantiasis - Chinese charities, opium, and the Protestant missions in China.Widely travelled, Bird was the first woman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.Retaining the tipped in errata leaf.A smart copy of Bird's account of her final overseas adventure, the work for which she is best remembered. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with tide marks to tail of back strip, tail of front board, and tail of rear board, penetrating to pastedowns and blanks. Small splits in cloth to head of back strip. Hinges strained but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Good. book.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Ed. 8vo, blue decorated cloth binding with gilt lettering, top edge soiled, owner's name in pencil, pages starting to tan around the edges, Volume II, illustrated with engravings, index, 409 pages and folding map in the back.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Two volume hardcover set in blue cloth with gold gilt title and decoration to spines and front boards, as well as gilt to top edge of both volumes, color fold-out map present at back of Vol. I, both volumes have a touch of skewing and a bit of looseness to their bindings which remain solid, faint bowing to boards, light bumps to spine ends and board corners, some slight shelfwear to edges of boards and along hinges, light rubbing, and some slight wear to edges of some pages with shallow chips to base of Vol. I half title page, otherwise a solid Near VG two volume set.

Small 8vo. Pp. 159. With 21 woodcut illustrations (of which 13 full page) by Edward Whymper. Publisher's green cloth with gilt illustrations, lightly rubbed and spine faded. First edition. Isabella Bird (1831-1904), a much-loved Victorian lady traveller, became the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society. In 1889 Isabella travelled from Srinagar to Ladakh via Zoji-la, Leh, Sassir-la, Depsang and the Karakorum. Yakushi (1984) B169.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1898, second impression. Volume 2 of 3 with maps and illustrations.321pp with 26 superb period photographic plates and illustrations plus folding map.Very good plus condition, possibly unread as many pages untrimmed.

first edition super octavo green cloth boards with read label and gilt lettering and symbols, xv + 557pp + coloured folding map, illus, VG ( discolouration to spine and remnants of circular label, light bruising, occassional light foxing) errata slip tipped in at first page; a tidy copy of a SCARCE title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Both volumes with portraits, maps and line illustrations. Light blue cloth, gilt titles on spine and cover with black motif design. Vol 1-381pp (plus fold-out map at rear). Vol 2 - 409pp (fold out map at rear). 21 X 14cm. Rare.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Amer. ed. 2 vols. frontises, illustrations, 2 folding maps, index, xiv, 381, 409p. Original decorated blue cloth. 21 cm. Ex lib. (call letters and darkening near bottom of both backstrips; embossed library stamp on blank corner of the folding maps and in lower left corner on at least one text leaf in each volume).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 261 pages. Colour fold-out sketch map of central Korea. Tissue-protected frontisplate. Wonderful black and white photographic plates plus numerous black and white illustrations in text, complete per list on page A. Her conclusions are the result of ". a long and intimate study of a people whose isolation during many centuries renders a description of their character, institutions, and peculiarities especially interesting at the present stage of their history." - from Preface. Binding sound. Label of Rosa Fitz-George atop front free endpaper - See Wikipedia for details of this storied woman. Gilt lettering upon backstrip. Red and black decoration with gilt lettering upon front board. Fore-edge rough-cut. Above-average external soiling to boards and edges. Please note: Volume 2 not included.

Pp. xii, (ii), 410, (2); viii, (ii), 365, (2). With two frontispieces, one folding coloured map and numerous illustrations throughout the text, many made from the author's photographs. Publisher's decorated gilt cloth, t. e. g., others untrimmed, lightly rubbed at extremities. First American edition. Isabella Bird (1831-1904), probably the most loved Victorian lady traveller, became the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society (1892). This narrative deals with her travels in China in 1897 along the Yangtze River from Shanghai visiting Hangzhou (Zhejiang province), Yichang (Hubei), Wan Hsien (Hebei), Nanjing (Kiangsu), and several places in Sichuan province. Her book is based on her letters and diary notes, and the illustrations are mainly taken from her own photographs. A lovely copy. Cordier BS 355. Robinson pp. 81-83. Yakushi (1984) B170.

Pp. xiv, 381; (vi), 409. With two fronts, two folding maps and 34 illustrations, of which eleven full-page. Publisher's blue decorated cloth, stamped in gilt, lightly discoloured. Bookplates. First edition. Isabella Bird (1831-1904), probably the most loved Victorian lady traveller, became the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society (1892). This account covers Bird's two-year journey through little-known parts of Persia and eastern Asia Minor. She joined Major Herbert Sawyer of the Indian Army on a rough journey from Baghdad to Tehran. After visiting the Bakhtiari tribes of south-west Persia, she continued her journey north through Kurdistan, Azerbaijan, to Trebizond (Trabzon) on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey. One map depicts her journey and the other the Bakhtiari country. Robinson pp. 81-3.

Köln, Konemann, 2000. Small 8°, original cloth, title on spine, dustjacket. 368pp. Black/white plates and some illustrations in text, after the original steelengravings, extensive explanatory editorial footnotes, table of contents, editor's epilogue. English language re-impression after the original 1883 edition, being author's account of her journeys through the Straits Settlements, with descriptions of a.o. (:) Singapore and her development, incl. topographical notes, extensive notes on the Chinese population opium-trade and trafficking, a description of Sungei Ujong, Selangor, Perak, Province Wellesley, the Chinese in Larut, on Malay nicknames, travelling from Japan, Via Saigon and Hongkong to Malaysia. In this edition the second division of the original "the way tthither" has been suppressed in this edition. Very fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Gut. 1. Auflage. Cloth, 1st Edition, Vol.2 only, with maps, (In ENGLISH language) Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904) was an English traveller and writer. She was born in Boroughbridge and grew up in Tattenhall, Cheshire. She was a sickly child and spent her entire life struggling with various ailments. Much of her illness may have been psychogenic, for when she was doing exactly what she wanted she was almost never ill. Her real desire was to travel. She studied medicine and resolved to travel as a missionary. She visited missions in India, Persia, Kurdistan and Turkey. Her final journey was to China and Korea. Many of her works are compiled from letters she wrote home to her sister in Scotland. Binding in dark blue/light blue cloth with golden lettering on spine and front, corners slightly bumped. 409 pp., names and a stamp of previous owners, in stock, sofort lieferbar.

Condition: Fine. The Folio Society. A really fine copy in a fine slipcase. First Folio Edition. No bumped corners to either book or slipcase. No bookplates or signatures. Copy is in like new condition.

First US edition, first printing, in exceptional condition, of this account of 15 months travelling through China, illustrated with many of the author's outstanding photographs. Her books, providing Western audiences with fresh perspectives on faraway places, made her by far the most influential woman traveller of the late 19th century. Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904), writing under the name "Mrs J. F. Bishop," journeyed around China in 1896-97, including eight months spent on the Yangtze, as part of a three-year tour of East Asia. In the present work, first published in the UK in 1899, she chronicles her journey along the river westwards from Shanghai, via Ningbo, Hangzhou, Nankou, and Yichang. At Wanxian, Bird left the river and headed due west to the territory of the Miao people, before heading south to pick up the river again at Chongqing. Throughout, she displays a discerning eye for detail, immersing her readers in everything from cultural customs to the economic impact of the opening of treaty ports. "A born traveller, and a lasting inspiration" (Robinson, p. 83), Bird was part of the first cohort of women granted membership of the RGS in 1892, and in 1897 she was also made a member of the Royal Photographic Society. Additional photographs from her China travels appeared in her Chinese Pictures (1900). Provenance: inscribed on the front pastedowns, "William W. Smith, Trinity Hall, Washington PA, Feb. 20 1900". The banker and philanthropist William Wrenshall Smith (1830-1904) founded Trinity Hall as an Episcopalian private military academy for boys in 1879. Robinson, pp. 81-83; Theakstone, pp. 35-36. 2 vols, octavo. Tissue-guarded half-tone frontispieces, 116 illustrations in text, folding colour route map at rear of vol. I. Title pages printed in red and black. Original blue vertical-combed cloth, spines lettered in gilt with gilt stars corresponding to vol. number, front boards gilt-lettered with gilt vignette of Chinese city gate, top edges gilt, fore edges untrimmed, bottom edges trimmed. Cloth and gilt bright, touch of wear to extremities, internally clean and bright. A fine copy.

Condition: VG. New York; London 1891 first edition. Putnam; Murray. Two hardcover volumes in original lovely dark blue on blue cloth designed boards with gilt letteirng trim. xiv, 381; 409p. 15 illus in vol 1; 21 illus in vol 2. Bookplates removed from both volumes leaving glue marks on the dark brown end papers. A couple of areas of tape residue on rear end papers. Four blind stamps on initial pages. No other ownership marks. VG , nice condition with bindings secure, hinges not cracked; text very lightly toned but clean . As always, Bishop writes with intelligence, verve and humor - Great reading! Pictures available on request. Two volume set: