E C Williams Capt E C Williams Capt (11 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near Fine With An Owners Name To The Fep , In A Very Good ++ Jacket With Rubbed Ends Pp 226 Index Illustrations.

1947, London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, pp367, four colour plates, black and white illustrations, tan cloth spine over beige boards in dustwrapper. Small damp mark on front cover, top of spine of dustwrapper slightly pulled, otherwise good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. EDWARDS, Lionel et alia. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed limited first edition, in all 375 this being number 7 of the first ten not offered for sale, signed by the editor on the Publisher's Note and the coloured tipped in frontis piece signed by Lionel Edwards, octavo, full blue leather, light wear to corners, two small bruises on front sunning to spine, gilt decoration on front and titles across spine, top edges gilt, toning to untrimmed edges otherwise internally clean and bright, illustrated with 61 tipped in plates of which four in full colour, 368 pages. a very handsome beautifully produced volume. Heavy item (1.5kg net weight) may require additional for shipping. [QH] [QP]. Signed by Author(s).

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1860 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 42 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1860 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 48 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. . EDWARDS, Lionel et al. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed limited first edition, in all 375 this being number 162 , signed by the editor on the Publisher's Note and the coloured tipped in frontis piece signed by Lionel Edwards, octavo, full blue leather, slightly faded, pp368.

First edition. 8vo. Original pink printed wrappers, a little sunned, some edgewear but very good. 32pp. New York, Polhemus & de Vries, Williams was a Nantucket whaler who toured the United States with a painted panorama which he claimed measured over 8000 feet. (This is more than six times the size of the one at the Mystic Seaport museum.) Not only did it depict whaling scenes but apparently was accompanied by a live whaleboat and crew. Commencing in Nantucket, there follow scenes in the Azores, Cape Verde Islands, Rio de Janeiro, and then on to the Pacific Islands. It was was first exhibited in 1858 and Williams spent the next eight years touring with it. He died in 1868.   This pamphlet was produced to accompany the New York show in 1860 (that year tickets were fifteen cents). It is comprised of selective quotes from Melville, J. Ross Browne, Thomas Beale and other core whaling texts. There are sections on the whale, whaling life, Native American whaling and it also includes a short account of the wreck of the whaleship Essex.   Scarce: while reasonably well held in libraries just five copies are recorded at auction, the last in 2009.