Lord Apsley (9 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. First Edition. A Good Plus, internally unmarked, solid hard cover First Printing. A single library stamp from 1927 is on the back of the frontis. This stamp has been heavily crossed out in pencil. The indentation is visible on the frontis. Otherwise, there are no library markings. Name and places in ink on back of frontis. #.

Hardcover/Pappeinband. Condition: Befriedigend. 227 S. Condition acceptable. Cover shows wear. Brownish paper, few pages foxed. Front hinge damaged. Numerous b/w ill. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 700.

hardbound. Condition: Good in rubbed boards. b&w illustrations (illustrator). The stories of early British settlers in Australia, interspersed with Lady Apsley's description of her travels in Northern Australia, and a chapter on sport; endpapers maps, numerous full-page b&w plate illustrations; no publishing date (Trove states 1926); med-heavy foxing to endpapers, prelims and text block, scattered foxing in text, o.w. Good; boards rubbed and with insect damage, prominent to rear board. no dustwrapper. 227pp. 8vo. Good in rubbed boards.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. 227 pages. Book is in Fair condition, there is some general wear and tanning/ageing to most pages, but still presentable.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First English Edition. (No Date--Circa 1926) 227 pp. incl. index. Full blue cloth; edge worn, else good. Pages sl toned. Half-tone illus.

Super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 227pp, illus, VG (moderately heavy foxing to page edges, slight bruising to spine extrems, sporadic moderate foxing).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1926]. Octavo, 227 pages plus 32 pages of plates and a map. Blue cloth sunned on the spine and a little marked, flecked and rubbed; edges foxed; previous owner's name in pencil on the title page; a very good copy. Not least, there is a lengthy well-illustrated account (88 pages) of their travels through the Northern Territory and northern Western Australia; Michael Terry figures prominently.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None stated (illustrator). First edition. Three very scarce Australian works including a book of Australian geography, a collection of educational children's stories and a memoir by an Australian settler. The first edition to 'Why and How I went to Australia', the new edition revised and enlarged to 'Geography of Australia and New Zealand', and a 'Junior Reader' edition of 'Easy Stories for Australian Children'.Illustrated with monochrome vignettes to 'Easy Stories', a monochrome frontispiece and many monochrome vignettes and maps to 'Geography of Australia and New Zealand'.Three volumes.Vanishingly scarce volumes, with no copies being held institutionally for 'Easy Stories'.In the publisher's original paperbacks.This set features three very scarce works about Australia. The set includes:'Easy Stories for Australian Children: A Junior Reader of Australian History Correlated with Geography' by George Sutherland, an educational work for children which includes forty-four lessons on the history and geography of Australia. Undated.'Geography of Australia and New Zealand With Definitions of Geographical Terms', an interesting and educational work, discussing the islands, continents, rivers and the general geography of Australia and New Zealand.'Why and How I Went to Australia As a Settler' by Lord Apsley, an interesting memoir written by a settler in Australia, documenting his journey and experiences. Undated, dated by copies held institutionally. In the publisher's original paperback. Externally very smart with fading to the spines and extremities, and the odd minor mark. Staples rusted to 'Why and How I Went to Australia'. Internally, firmly bound with generally clean and bright pages with the odd spot. Very Good Indeed. book.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The present item dates from 1807, the year in which Bathurst sold the celebrated Apsley House ('No. 1 London') to the Duke of Wellington's brother the Marquis Wellesley, who sold it on to the Duke ten years later. It is now the Wellington Museum. This item casts an interesting light on the initial sale. 2pp, 4to. Thirty-four lines of text. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded four times. He is disappointed that the unnamed male recipient (presumably Wellesley's agent) has not called on him. 'For several days past I fully expected to see you, as it is quite necessary that I should come to a decision about some Articles which you consider as fixtures but which I not only thought but others have assur'd are not of that description.' The letter continues with reference to 'my Upholsterer Mr Blade' and his anxiety to 'shew every attention to Ld Wellesley's wishes'. He continues: 'the sooner we can come to an Agreement the better & the delay rests with you for Mr Blade has been here every day expecting to meet you'. He will leave 'what are always consider'd as fixtures' (he has admitted 'loose Grates & the Kitchen Table' to be among them), but he 'cannot allow my servants to proceed in the removal of my Family and Furniture untill [sic] those doubtful points are decided [.] on further Examination of the Catalogue there seems so many things that I find are not call'd fixtures in the Houses I have look'd at now that I must conceive it necessary to have a person on my Side of the question which I had no thoughts of till these doubtful things encreased'.