Schweinfurth G (47 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Large quarto. In the original boards. Title on the front board. Pages are clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:

4°, 23 S./pp., 2 Falttafeln/Folding plates, 3 Abbildungen (Illustrations), Broschur (paper covers), sehr gutes Exemplar / book in excellent condition, (Separatum aus Philosophische und Historische Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin aus dem Jahre 1885), Sprache: deutsch.

PF. Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

PF. Condition: New.

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Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. 8vo, original brown cloth with text and illustration in gilt to front and spine. Moderate exterior wear, some light rubbing to edges, chipped corners. Hinges split and binding loose, text block is intact but with some exposed guttering. Pages clean, library markings to endpapers, two portraits and a map. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1300grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Book is an ex-library and has all the expected spine markings etc. It has a shaken spine w large crack between the cover and cover page, barely holding on via the netting and a few of the end pages are loose but included. Minor wear at the edges and corners, resulting in the exposure of the boards. Minor rubbing and smudging to covers. There is a slight cock to the spine and a bookplate haunts the inner cover along with the names of former owners lingering on the cover page. Aside from the items listed, this remains a presentable copy in fair condition. Pages are bright and unmarked. Book will be sold as is.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ex-Library of the Royal Institution of South Wales plate and 'Withdrawn' label. Both hinges a bit fragile. Two portraits and map present. Map complete but torn. Brown cloth with titles and writing in gilt. Nicks to top of spine. Library label to spine.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. 8vo. Red library cloth with leather spine. Secure binding. Pages clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1200grams, ISBN:

fester Einband. 25 S., 3 Text-Abb., 1 Karte, 1 mehrf. gef. Taf. Lex 8° Kart. Sprache: Deutsch.

Hardcover. 8°, Pappband der Zeit mit montiertem handschriftlichen Rückenschild, randbestoßen und berieben. IV Seiten Titel und Gesamtinhaltsverzeichnis, 836 Seiten Aufsätze, Briefliche Mittheilungen, Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft und Register. Komplett mit den 28 Tafeln, diese teils mehrfarbig und ausfaltbar. Einige sind gelbfleckig, ebenso Vorsätze und Titelblatt. Alter Stempel eines Vorbesitzers auf dem Titel, ansonsten noch gut erhalten. Aus dem Inhalt: E. Dathe: Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Granulits / F. M. Stapff: Geologische Beobachtungen im Tessinthal / A. Heim: Der Bergsturz von Elm / A. Remele: Über einige gekrümmte untersilurische Cephalopoden / G. Schweinfurth: Zur Beleuchtung der Frage über den versteinerten Wald / C. Ochsenius: Geologisches und Montanistisches aus Utah / Gustav Klemm: Mikroskopische Untersuchungen über psammitische Gesteine / H. Credner: Über die Genesis der granitische Gänge des sächsischen Granulitgebirges F. Wahnschaffe: Über einige glaciale Druckerscheinungen im norddeutschen Diluvium u.a. -- Bitte Portokosten außerhalb EU erfragen! / Please ask for postage costs outside EU! / S ' il vous plait demander des frais de port en dehors de l ' UE! // Bitte beachten Sie auch unsere Fotos! / Please also note our photos! / Veuillez noter nos photos -- Ob Sonnenschein oder warmer Regen: mit einem interessanten Buch kommen Sie immer gut durch den Tag. -- Wir kaufen Ihre werthaltigen Bücher! GeoUeb.

Hardcover. Condition: g to vg. First edition. Quarto. 23 (1)pp., 2 plates, one of them foldout. original tan paper-covered boards with black lettering on cover and spine. Ruins and hieroglyphic inscriptions in the Wadi Gasus, an essay by G. Schweinfurth with notes by Adolf Erman, the director of the Egyptian Department at the Royal Museum. Essay from the Royal Prussian Academy of Science in Berlin. Among the valleys stretching North of Quseir from the Nile to the Red Sea Gasus is of particular interest because of its ruins and inscriptions. Featuring the women holding high hieratic posts towards the end of the 20th dynasty, referred to as the wives of the god Amon. The essay is illustrated with in-text drawings and two plates at rear. One of them is a map of the area, the other a foldout drawing by O. Wagner. Text in German. Boards with some sunning along edges and rubbed. Light sporadic foxing of block. Page seven with creasing at bottom right corner and page 9 darkened at bottom right. Binding in overall good, interior in good to very good condition.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Three years travel and adventure in the unexplored regions of central Africa from 1868 to 1871 y the German botanist. Third and Cheaper Edition. Volume Two only. n.d. c.1880. pp.vii,308. Illus Unread; pages uncut. Black figure of King Munza on red boards. Wear at base of spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Cover slightly worn, esp bs, and soiled. A soft crease from top to bottom of last ca 2/3 of pages and rear cover. 4to. 84 p. German.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. viii, 547pp, 2 portraits, map missing, appends. A collection of the letters and journals. Boards shabby, hinges cracked but firm, text block clean but a few small tears. 1.5kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. With the two portraits and the map. The detailed colour map of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition from coast to coast including the Congo Free State is complete but has a few closed tears. Frontispiece still has tissue paper intact. Very good indeed with bright gilt on spine and gilt decoration on the front board. Neat Lindley bookplate inside front board.Neat contemporary signature on half title page. Mary E. Lindley, Claremont House, 1889. Africana. Hardback. No dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 223 pages (complete). In French throughout. An excellent copy of this memoir of Prince Nicolas' hunting and collecting trip through the Somali lands and Ethiopia, with his father Prince Dimitri. The Ghikas were part of the older Romanian nobility (a German, from the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, had been elected to the throne in 1866). The princes were voracious hunters (although on this trip their collections proved worthy and notable). The story of this trip revealed the ancient nations of the Ethiops and the Somalis in a way that was revelatory at the time. Illustrated ivory coloured boards. These are lightly worn about the edges and corners. The faces are marked from handling and shelving. The illustration is noble. The contents are in immaculate condition. They are elegant, fresh, very clean and clear, smart, bold, confident. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Front and rear endpapers split at hinges, webbing holding well. Slight bumping to spine, small dent with loss of colour to front board. A Good tight book. ; The letters have been edited and annotated by the 4 named authors. Translated by Mrs R W Felkin. Pages partially uncut. Large folding map at rear with a small tear where joined to book. ; B & W frontis + Map; 9.1 x 6.0 x 2.0"; 547 pages.

Cloth Bound. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very good copy of the scarce first edition, first issue, translated in to English by Mrs R. W. Felkin. Pasha (1840-1892) was an Ottoman-German Jewish physician and naturalist, and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the Upper Nile. The Ottoman empire conferred the title "Pasha" on him in 1886, and thereafter he was referred to Emin Pasha.Complete with the two tissue-guarded portraits of Pasha plus a large, folding coloured map (in excellent condition, with just one small blank margin repair. The text is in very good+, tight, clean condition. "Sutton 1889" inscribed on front end paper. Negligible age-browning. The brown cloth binding, with gilt titles and motif on front and spine, is in very good, tight condition, with very minor wear. 547 pages. See photographs of this actual book attached.

Condition: Very Good. xl, 52, 35 fine plain lithographic plates. . HB. 4to (350x270mm), buckram, gt title to spine, light spotting to edges; some foxing. Vg. Text German. This important botanical work is by the German botanist, ethnologist and African explorer Georg August Schweinfurth (1836 -1925). It describes and illustrates many new species of plants that the Austrian botanist and explorer Theodor Kotschy (1813 -1866) collected from 'free negroes' during his travels from 1837 to 1839 while he was companion to the Austrian geologist, Joseph Ritter von Russegger (1802-1863). Together they explored mountains south of Kordofan (a former province of central Sudan).With a biographical sketch of T. Kotschy by O. Kotschy. As with most copies, lacks the portrait of Kotschy.

Condition: Very Good. xxviii, 547, 2 plates (portraits), folding col map. . HB. 8vo, orig. brown cloth, minor wear to extremities, gilt title to spine and gilt Arabic text to front board; orig. brown coated endpapers, paper split at head and foot of front hinge, but hinge still firm. Some occasional light spotting to text, minor foxing to plates, folding map with 5cm tear to blank inner margin, no damage to printed area of map. Vg. Inscribed to half-title, "Dr Gibson, With the translator's compliments and best thanks, Feb. 22. 1888". Edited by Prof. G. Schweinfurth, Prof. F. Ratzel, Dr R.W. Felkin and G. Hartlaub. Translated by Mrs. R.W. Felkin. First English edition (the German edition preceded this by a few months). A collection of letters and extracts from journals written by Emin Pasha during his residence in the Egyptian Sudan. Emin Pasha (born Eduard Schnitzer (1840-1892), of German-Jewish origin), was a physician, naturalist and colonial administrator. In 1878 he succeeded General Charles Gordon as Governor of Equatoria, southern Sudan. The Mahdist revolt would cut Equatoria off from the rest of the world from 1883 until 1888 when the relief expedition led by Henry Morton Stanley eventually reconnected with Emin.

4°. M. Portr. u. zahlr. Abb. XVIII, 578 S. Mod. Lwdbd. M. mehr. St. u. etlichen Anstreich. u. Anmerk. Ohne die Karte. Sprache: Deutsch.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: - keine Angabe -. 4° 200 Seiten; Orig.-Broschur; 540g; [Deutsch]; leichte Gebrauchsspuren, obere Ecke von Einband/Buchblock gestaucht [lgr=L] _ xXx_. BUCH.

Condition: Befriedigend. 4° 51 Seiten, zahlreiche Abbildungen; Orig.-Broschur; 190g; [Deutsch]; leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Einband berieben, mit kleinen Eselsohren [lgr=L] _ xXx_. BUCH.