Chapman Col (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Charles Whymper (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Usual brown decorative cloth. Mild bumping to extremities. Hinges cracking at front and rear, but secure. Front end paper pasted onto inside of front cover. Otherwise clean and tidy throughout, and firm. DSecond edition of Volume II only of the Badminton Library 2 volume set on shooting.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. pp XII, 85. 1st printing. 1st owner's bookplate to FPD and details to flyleaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Charles Whymper, J. Wolf, H. Willink (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1894 FIRST EDITION. Two-Volume DELUXE LARGE PAPER LIMITED FIRST EDITION numbered by publisher on printed limitation page. Two volumes complete. Original orange cloth boards with gilt coat of arms on front covers, navy spines and corners with gilt lettering spines, TEG, original dark greenish navy coated EPs, untrimmed fore-edge and bottom edge both volumes. Both volumes have loss of much of the spine covering (see photos), but bindings are very solid and not broken or cracked. This set is an obvious candidate for rebacking. The covers have significant rubbing along edges and corners but the boards are relatively clean and bright with a few faint dark smudges (nothing serious). Each volume has previous owner's bookplate and small bookseller ticket on front pastedown otherwise no owner marks or writing on any pages, Some fore-edge foxing is present but nearly all pages are completely free of foxing and are clean. Each volume measures 251mm tall x 200mm (compared to 195mm tall for the regular first edition). Volume one has 494 pages, 20 b/w full-page illustrations and photos, 57 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume two has 483 pages, 13 full-page illustrations and photos, 56 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume one covers hunting in the arctic (whacking a giant walrus with an ax from a small whaling boat), three chapters on hunting in the Caucasus, a chapter on Mongolia, two chapter on hunting chamois and stags in the Alps, a chapter on elk in Scandinavia, a chapter on big game throughout Europe, hunting in Spain and Portugal, hunting in India tigers, a chapter on travel/camping considerations, a chapter on rifles and ammo, a chapter on taxidermy, a small bibliography. Volume two mostly about hunting in Africa with specific chapters on various types of big game hunting: lions, antelopes, hippos, giraffes, ostriches, rhinos, buffalo, elephants, with several chapters on South Africa including some history, a chapter on travel with Livingstone, some chapters on East Africa including special hunting considerations regarding gear, routes, etc. Volume two concludes with one chapter on big game hunting in North America (bears, wapiti, moose, cougars, bison, deer, elk, caribou, bighorn, mountain goat, antelope mainly in British Columbia, Alaska, Colorado and Pacific NW), and a brief chapter on hunting musk ox. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. xii, 86pp, 45 photos, sketch m, glossary, list of officers and men. 'A story about some Gunners and the famoius 109 miles of road they built from Lakhipur to Bishenpur. Wrapper has mild discolouration (sugar paper), small missings, light wear, boards habe discolouration to edges and light wear, contents are clean and tight. 500g.

Condition: leido. 1ª ed., 1ª imp. edición. cart. 188.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition. Hardback, grey/blue cloth. An account of the famous 109 mile road built by the 82 Anti-Tank Regiment RA, between Lakhipur and Bishenpur. 1st Edition 1944. 86pp., ills., appendix. Very good in rare red dustwrapper, which has a few blemishes and wear at head of spine, still very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. First Collected. Volumes I-IV, VII, VIII (6 volumes of an eventual 8), reprinting the papers presented to the Bucks County Historical Society. Uniformly bound in red cloth, spine panels lettered in gilt. All volumes show minor soiling to cloth and slight rubbing to extremities, with text block edges typically a bit tanned by age, mild rubbing to portions of edges. Vol. VIII is minimally ex-library, with call label on lower spine, F&M College (Gift of B. F. Fackenthal, Jr.) book plate mounted inside front cover. Vol. VIII shows minor loss (nibbling?) at top corner through most of text block, not affecting any text, this copy thus Good only, the set overall VG. Firm bindings, clean interiors. Approx. 600-750 pp. per volume. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Maroon Morocco. Condition: Very Good. George Lodge (illustrator). Limited edition, number 648, of 950 copies, contributions by W.R.Ogilvie-Grant, J.G Millais, Abel Chapman, and others, 26 chromolitho plates after George Lodge, numerous plates, bookplate of Alwyn Barker, ink signature to front pastedown, publisher's maroon with gilt lettering to spine and upper board, lower board very slightly bowed, a good sound copy. PLEASE NOTE: THIS HEAVY BOOK MAY COST EXTRA TO SHIP OUTSIDE OF THE UK. Size: Folio. Shooting.