Humpherus (14 results)

Condition: Good. VG condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear. Book has clean and bright contents.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. . Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Title - History of the Watermans Company: Volume 4. 1850-1883. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Four volumes , Volumes 1 to 3 being facsimiles of the original edition of 1887 , volume 4 is based on the author's unfinished manuscript and was published for the first time in 1998. Blue cloth with glassine dust wrappers, an excellent set.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. THREE VOLUMES 1, 3 & 4. all the have clear plastic cover fixed to front boards. volume 4 reprinted in 1999 and has ink names of relations mentioned in the books on blank back endpage.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. Facsimile Edition. This set look unread but slight bump to volume 3 and some spotting to endpapers and edges. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY GB £7.50. Packed weight 2400g.

Hardcover. Condition: Nr Fine. No Jacket. 4 Volume set, neatly bound in blue cloth with gilt titles and volume numbers on spines, clean bright and square. One or two little marks to closed page edges but internally unmarked, no inscriptions, pages smooth and clean, appearing unused. May incur additional postage charges outside Europe.

Facsimile Edition. Hardbacks. Near very good set, no d/ws. Spines cocked, faded and bumped; edge of boards dented; corners bumped; boards dusty; small sticker inside each front board; edge of pages grubby. Heavy set, will require extra postage - please email for exact postage quote and information on any available discounts.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Evison, G. Henry; Somerfield, Thomas; Thomas, W.E.; Bates,Leo; Wigfull, W.E.; Reynolds, Warwick; Peddie, Tom; Boyer, Jacques;Prater, E.; (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 180-262 plus 16 pages of ads. This is a particularly excellent issue jammed full of fascinating accounts. Features: Terrible Experiences in the Arctic - a whaling schooner is crushed by ice and its crew exists on moss and snow for nearly a week; Amat Sik - Hero of the Singapore Mutiny - he avenged the killing of his employer, an English officer; The Trade Guilds of Constantinople - article with truly amazing photos; The Yaqui Luck-Piece; My Brumby Hunt; When Everything Happened to Me - hauling timber in the 1870s; Salving (Salvaging) Fifty Million Pounds' Worth of Shipping - fantastic photo-illustrated article on some of the 500 ships saved by the Admiralty Salvage Section in WWI; The Sun Dance - photo-illustrated account of a trip to Alberta, Canada to witness the Sun Dance, an annual festival of the Indians; My Dashes fro Freedom - Lieut. E.H. Garland's account of how he escaped from 12 German prison camps in WWI - article with illustrations and photos of the Holzminden Tunnel; ; In Search of Gold - John A. Jordan in East Africa; Our Disastrous Cattle Drive - tale of an horrific Australian cattle drive; Fascinating photo of a "Tramps' Hotel" in the fashion of a jail - they are required to break a quantity of rock for use in road construction before they can leave; The Kaiser's Girls - a tale of 'amazing political intrique and cold-blooded devilry' from German-occupied Russia; The Serpent Garden of Butantan, near Sao Paulo, Brazil - photo-illustrated article; My 'Roo (Kangaroo) Hunt with the 'Flying Gang' - hunting on the banks of the Murray River; With the Ortolan Trappers - photo-illustrated article on how these birds were caught; and more. Half-page photo ad for the Granliden Hotel of Lake Sunapee, N.H.; Lovely illustrated one-page ad for Canada Steamship Lines - "Shooting the Rapids of the Historic St. Lawrence in 1819"; Uncommon ad for "Tobacco Redeemer" by Newell Pharmacal inside back cover claims to help smokers kick the habit in 48 to 72 hours. Covers detached as one, but present. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A wonderful vintage issue.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World - The Magazine for Everybody, July, 1919, Vol. XLIII, No. 255: Amat Sik - Hero of the Singapore Mutiny Turkey Holzminden Tunnel Snakes Terrible Experiences in the Arctic - a whaling schooner is crushed by ice and its crew exists on moss.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. 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. Pages: 518. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1886 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. 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. Volume 2 Language: English Pages: 518 Volume 2.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. 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. Pages: 546. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1886 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. 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. Volume 1 Language: English Pages: 546 Volume 1.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. 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. Pages: 564. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1886 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. 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. Volume 3 Language: English Pages: 564 Volume 3.

Condition: Very Good. Complete in 3 volumes, 430+53pp, 444+64pp, 466+84pp. Bound in publishers blue hardcover. All bindings in very good clean firm condition. Internally, small nick on edge of about 10 pages. Pages in very good clean probably unread condition.A very nice clean well bound 3 volume work.A25. C1 Size: 8vo.

Condition: Very Good. History of the Origin & Progress of The Company of Waterman & Lightermen of the River Thames, 5 volume set.Author: Henry Humpherus (volumes 1-4) & Jon Temple (volume 5).Volume 5 is a signed copy.Publisher: Lavenham Press Ltd, UK, 1999.Binding: hardback cloth.Weight: 3.4kg approx.Description / Condition: Light shelf wear to boards; no jackets. A nice set.Please see pictures for further information.