Dunmore John Editor (39 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. x+310 with 8 maps, 14 illustrations including frontispiece, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship Victoria to front cover in original jacket. Tran…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 424 Pages. VOLUME 2 ONLY. Original blue cloth boards, gilt lettered, with original dustwrapper. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: Varied Books; Featured Items; Hardback Books; ISBN: 0904180395. ISBN/EAN: 9780904180398. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked, sun-toned, and dust-dulled as with age. Remains well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 32 pgs. Subjects; Dunmore John (1923-2023). Theatre 60 New Zealand periodical. Amateur theater New Zea…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dark blue hardback in better than very good condition: firm and square with bright gilt lettering. Complete with original dustjacket, neat and sharp, not showing any tears or chips just lightly rubbed. Contents crisp, tight and clean; no pen-marks.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good in d.j. Cloth 8vo. The Surville expedition was privately funded as a commercial venture. The St. Jean-Baptiste entered the Pacific in 1769 by way of the northern Philippines, then visited the Solomon Islands and New Zealand, where she narrowly missed encountering Cook. Fine introduction…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. x, 310pp, index, bibliography, appendices, bw ills, map. Or blue cloth in jacket. Minor rubbing/light edge wear to jacket. The Jean-Baptiste expedition entered the Pacific by way of the northern Philippines, made landfall in the Solomon Islands, sail…

1st Ed., Volume 179 in the Second series. CCXL, 232 PP plus 10 plates of illustrations & maps. Fp: View of Port des Français. Cloth cover, dj a little rubbed. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 22.2 x 14. The expedition: background, participants, the ships, the instructions. then the Journal (56 pages) from Brest (August 1785) to Manill…

1st edition No. 158, in " The Hakluyt Society" Second series, translated by John Dunmore. X, 310 PP with 4 maps, plus 8 pages with 9 b/w illustrations, and the frontispiece. Fp: Ranginui, Maori Chief. Cloth covers, gilt device on front board and gilt title on spine, dj. Bookplate of Professor Adrian Horridge on front endpaper. O…

8vo; x, 310 pp frontis, plates, 4 maps, bibliog. original cloth, giltvignette on front cover, dj (trifle worn at corner), fine. De Surville sailed through the Pacific, to the Solomons, New Zealand, where he narrowly missed Cook and to Peru. Labe was his first mate. A valuable picture of a Pacific expedition in the heroic age of…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. The St Jean-Baptiste expedition sailed at a crucial time in Pacific exploration. The voyages of Bougainville and Wallis had just ended, James Cook's first voyage had just begun. Jean-Francois-Marie de Surville entered the Pacific by way of the northern Philippines, ma…

2 vols. 8vo. Publisher's original pale blue cloth gilt, in the dust-jacket. Some faint wear to jackets, generally a very good set. The Hakluyt Society was founded in 1846 in London for the publication of primary sources of exploration and discovery expeditions. They were named after Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) a collector and ed…

2 vols. 8vo. Publisher's original pale blue cloth gilt, in the dust-jacket. Some faint wear to jackets, generally a very good set. The Hakluyt Society was founded in 1846 in London for the publication of primary sources of exploration and discovery expeditions. They were named after Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) a collector and ed…