Christopher Sandeman (43 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Yes, with plastic cover. Book is square and binding is tight. Contents are clean throughout. Donation plate on inside front cover. A few words in pencil on the ffep. Cover boards are in good shape with minimal wear along the edges and spine. Dust jacket is in good shape although the spine is lightly sun-faded. Edges of pages are dusty. Former library book with usual library stamps, tape stains, labels and markings. (Please note any image provided in our listings are stock photos supplied by AbeBooks and do not match the cover of the actual item.).

Condition: Good. Scarce book, especially with DJ. Jacket has significant loss to spine ends and scuffing and a bit of staining. Contents are clean and lightly age toned,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Binding tight and square, Pages are clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Illustrated photographic dust jacket. Brodart mylar protected. Black boards with gold sun to front and spine titling. Unmarked. Lavishly illustrated with b&w photographic illustrations. 191 pp. Fold-out map of Peru. Lovely vintage volume. Square and tight. With Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 192 pages, tanned. b/w illus. no jacket, spine beginning to fray,firm binding. Inscription by previous owner. Generally good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Yellow/brown cloth boards, no jacket; 299pp, light foxing on first and last pages; a signature on title page; clean, unmarked copy, firm binding. 28 b/w photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Yellow cloth over boards with gold lettering to the spine. Yellow dust jacket with black lettering and a black and white illustration of a person fording a river. Good condition. Dated 1939 on title page-no date on copyright page. 299 pages. Binding is strong and tight. No wear to covers. Pages toned, but free of writing or notes. Page edges and endpapers foxed. Dust jacket is foxed and toned as well. Typical shelf wear around the corners and spine, but no major tears or creases. Dust jacket has been clipped. Overall good condition. This book is from the collection of Thomas Lovejoy. Dr. Lovejoy was an influential ecologist, field biologist, and activist; former head of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, World Wildlife Fund, and advisor to the United Nations and Smithsonian Institution. He is credited with introducing the term 'biological diversity' to the mainstream environmental movement. In addition, he was a passionate collector of books on the natural world. He died in 2021 and we are very excited to present a selection of his books. Please browse the entire catalouge here on ABE or contact us for instructions on how to get to it. Lovejoy's name is not written in this book. This book comes with a card stating provenance, with a picture of Lovejoy. Please email with questions or to see any photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Good. Hardcover. First UK edition. Pages yellow but clean. Name on front endpaper in ink. Illustrated. Corners rubbed and bent. Edges of spine starting to fray. Spine lean.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. front endpaper torn out, front inner joint weakened. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 19 pages and 8 plates and 1 fold out map. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: Octavo (Standard Book Size). Category: Royal Geographical Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. O'Connor, John (illustrator). Limited Edition. Size: 10 1/2" x 8". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Gilt-stamped blue cloth over boards, deckled paper, wood engravings by John O'Connor. This is number 444 of a limited edition of 550. Previous owner's name in ink on front paste-down. In an illustrated dust jacket that has wear along edges, is foxed, has been preserved in a Brodart jacket. Illustrator: O'Connor, John. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 7 oz. Category: Botany; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015129.

Quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (G-) jacket v tatty; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo; 299p, plates. VG copy in G dj.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Chirstopher Sandeman (Author Photographer) (illustrator). First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW w/light discoloration to endpapers. Gilt embossed black linen boards/NF w/light edge & surface rubs. PO name to fEP. Travel narrative of naturalist Christopher Sandeman who began his adventure unsure whether Peru was the capital of Chile, or vice versa. After eight years (1938 - 1946) exploring the land, many Peruvians were lead to say 'Sandeman knows Peru better than we do ourselves." Fine photographic essay chronicling a social life and the natural world of a times past. First Edition, First Thus.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Rather worn and frayed. First Edition. Octavo, pp xiii, 302, fore edge slightly foxed, very slightly age-toned, cream buckram very slightly worn, in a worn and torn dustwrapper. [The author was John Hugh Smyth-Piggott, though this was not made public at the time. They are erudite and readable - full of botany, books, music, travel, literature.].

Hardcover. Condition: Covers Slightly Darkened. First Edition. From the library of Allan Eckert with his name stamped on front endpaper.

4to, x + 62pp. Original blue buckram in plain papers dustwrapper, slightly foxed. Some leaves of the text block unopened. b/w wood engraving as frontispiece, in additon to nine beautiful wood engravings by John O'Connor. One of 525 copies bound in blue blackram by the Dropmore Press. A bright, truly beautiful copy in near-fine condition. . First edition. One of 525 copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 299 pp. w/ index. Full beige cloth; slightly edge worn, else very good. Pages very sl. age-toned, else very good. Half-tone illus and 2 rear line maps. Travel and botanical notes along the Huallaga River, an Amazon tributary, in Peru.

Full Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full beige cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, modest wear, with top of the spine a bit frayed. 299pp, folding map and 29 illustrations. Previous owner's name on the front endpaper. Not exlibrary. Overall a GOOD MINUS condition book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition #340/550. very good in a very good dust jacket Nine Wood Engravings by John O'Connor Series: 5th of a series called the "Dropmore Essays". 4to. 59 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. [x], 58, [6] pages. Plates included in the pagination. Illustrations from wood engravings by John O'Connor. Numbered 216 of the 550 copies printed. In the original blue buckram which has inner gilt dentelles. With the printed dustwrapper - this is browned and spotted. The spine is very browned. A light smell of tobacco?

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. - First Edition - Boards rubbed w/ several small dents to edges -Corners and spine ends a little crushed - Edges of text block toned and foxed - Offsetting to endpapers which are heavily foxed - Dustwrapper slightly worn - Spine ends and corners chipped w/ some loss w/ spine head most affected - Book ow/ solid, clean and tight - xii/299 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. Sandeman, Christopher (illustrator). Limited Edition. Limited edition. No.173 of 550. Black & white woodcuts. Handmade paper. Extremely clean inside. Firm blue cloth boards with gilt decoration to front board and gilt titles to spine. A few very light marks to boards and slightly bumped corners.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. John O' Connor (illustrator). First edition. A limited edition first issue of this account of a travelling botanist, with illustrations by John O'Connor. A Limited Edition, first issue. This is number 139 of 550 copies printed. In full blue cloth binding with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Printed on handmade paper. Illustrated with nine engravings by John O' Connor. Collated complete. The work of Christopher Sandeman, an explorer and botanist who travelled widely in the Andes in search of rare plants. This work is described by the publisher as 'better described as a rhapsody than an essay [.] expresses with the feeling of a poet the underlying source of his passion'. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent with minor shelf wear. The original unclipped dust wrapper is in smart condition. Spine is darkened and spotting to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean. Many pages in the book are uncut, including the title page and limitations page. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 299. Original publisherÕs beige cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Illustrated in b/w throughout. Slight lean, otherwise very good in somewhat used, very good minus dust jacket, with some chipping at edges and slight loss.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 61 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Corners bumped. #460 of 550 copies. Illust. w/ b/w illustrations. Contents very nice.

Limited edition, no.390 of 550 copies, 4to., pp.59, blue cloth, lettered in gilt and with pictorial emblem in gilt to front board, decorative gilt inner dentelles, handmade paper, with wood engravings by John O'Connor, including dedication page, pictorial title, 6 full-page plates, plus illuminated letter and decorative tailpiece; foxing to edges, else very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which has foxing to pale paper.

8vo [22 x 14 cm]; xii, 299 pp, frontis (port), 2 maps, including one foldout, index. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering in gilt border, endpaper signature, endpaper lightly toned, interior is clean and near fine, in very good+ cover. Based on three month's travel on the Huallage River, an Amazon tributary, from its source at 14,000 feet in the Andes to Yurimaguas at 500 feet sea level and the return to the Pacific by the ancient trade route through northern Peru. The author, a distinguished gardener, discovered a new genus of plants and several new species. There is much on the scenery, native people, camp life, etc. Good illustrations including the orchid Sobralia gloriosa growing beside the Yana-yacu River. A picture of this book is available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Number 404 of 525 (550) copies on Hodgkinson handmade paper. Illustrated with 9 wood engravings by John O'Connor, 5 full-page. Blue linen, stamped and lettered in gilt, edges uncut. Lacking dust-jacket. A very good bright copy. (Nash & Flavell D14).

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. John O'Connor (illustrator). First edition. A smart limited edition work on the natural history of the Andes by Christopher Sandeman. A limited edition work printed on handmade paper, this is no. 269 of 550 copies printed.'Thyme and Bergamot' recounts the author's travels in the Andes as he searched for rare plants.The work is illustrated with six plates of wood engravings from John O'Connor, a talented woodcutter and painter known for his rural and melancholy prints.By Christopher Sandeman.Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Spine is faded. A few light marks to the cloth. Prior owner's ink inscription to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. book.