Swire Herbert (19 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1922 Hardcover. NOT a facsimile or reprint. Frontispiece Photo in glued in. No former owner's name or marks. Text is clean. Binding is strong. Maroon board cover with paper labels, boards and edges are lightly rubbed.

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: New.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition Limited Edition. Quarto (32 x 20.5 cm). Original publisher's quarter white buckram and blue cloth boards. Spines lettered and decorated in gilt. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. Vol. I: 192 pp., map on front endpapers; Vol. II: 168, [2] pp. Illustrated throughout with 10 hand-coloured plates with tissue guards two coloured frontispieces and eight further plates and numerous black-and-white text illustrations including full-page subjects. Printed in Eric Gill's Perpetua type on Van Gelder paper. Housed in matching blue cloth slipcase. Limited to 300 numbered sets. Number 238. First edition. Pertelote 134. The voyage of HMS Challenger between 1872 and 1876 was one of the defining scientific expeditions of the nineteenth century. A four-year circumnavigation of the globe undertaken at the prompting of the Royal Society, under the command of Captain George Nares, with the explicit purpose of investigating the deep oceans. What the Challenger's scientists found rewrote the map of the known world: the ocean floor was not the featureless abyss it had been assumed to be, but a vibrant landscape, teeming with life at depths previously thought impossible. The expedition's published scientific reports ran to fifty volumes and laid the foundations of oceanography as an independent discipline. Yet for sixty years, the human story of the voyage the day-to-day experience of living aboard a Royal Navy vessel for four years, navigating the world from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the tropics to the Antarctic, calling at ports from Bermuda to Japan existed only in the personal papers of those who had made it. Herbert Swire was the Challenger's Navigating Sub-Lieutenant, and his journals constituted the most detailed private account of the voyage in existence. The Golden Cockerel Press, under Christopher and Anthony Sandford and Owen Rutter, brought those journals to print for the first time in 1938. This production is characteristic of the Golden Cockerel Press's publishing: Perpetua type set onto luxurious Van Gelder paper, Swire's illustrations reproduced finely with full-coloured plates, a beautiful and sturdy binding that perfectly fits the aesthetic of the work. As Pertelote notes, this cheerful journal, kept by a high-spirited young naval officer, threw new light on one of the most important expeditions of modern times. It has never been reprinted. Very Good/Near fine in slipcase. Slipcase shows some shelf wear, rubbing along edges and corners with some very mild internal wear. Volumes near fine: bindings square, tight, and free from markings. Contents show some mild foxing mostly to foredges, with very faint and scattered foxing internally. A beautiful set.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Two volumes in slipcase. Very Good, with some slight yellowing to the white spines. Fore edges of cloth covered boards mildly shelf rubbed from going in and out of slipcase. Upper tips of both volumes slightly bumped. Upper corners of slipcase bumped on one side. No. 289 of 300.

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: 68. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1922 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 case 1 Language: English Pages: 68 Volume case 1.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 40 pages. 6.50x4.75x0.09 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Herbert Swire (illustrator). A limited edition of Herbert Swire's insightful first hand account of the Challenger expedition, colourfully illustrated by the author. A limited edition of three hundred copies by the Golden Cockerel Press, this copy is numbered one hundred and sixty.In the original cloth slipcase, in a very good condition.Herbert Swire's first hand account of the Challenger expedition, on which he was Navigating Sub-Lieutenant. In this work, extracted from his journals, Swire presents a person narrative of the Challenger's circumnavigation of the globe in 1872 to 1876, a monumental voyage that made many discoveries that lay the foundation of oceanography.Each volume is illustrated with a colour frontispiece, in addition to three colour plates to Volume I, four colour plates to Volume II, and monochrome in-text illustrations throughout. Collated, complete.With a foreword by Major Roger Swire, and an introduction by G. Herbert Fowler.The illustrations are by the author. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original cloth slipcase. Externally, smart. Spines are a little age-toned. A few light marks to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with scattered spots, mostly to the first and last few pages. Slipcase is a little rubbed and worn with a few light marks, in a very good condition. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Limited. Hardbacks, two volume set. Original two-tone cloth, complete with slipcase. 32 x 20cm. 192pp; 168pp, [2]. A coloured frontis in each volume and a further eight tissue guarded coloured plates, plus line illustrations to the text. Maps on end-papers on volume 1. Number 227 of a limited edition of 300. Some rubbing to slipcase. A couple of spots to end-papers but generally a very clean set. Slightest wear only.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1938 Golden Cockerel Press, two volumes in slipcase as issued. Tight and unmarked #240 of 300. Both volumes illustrated with tissue-guarded colour plates and line drawings within the text. Vol. I also has a map as front endpapers. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1922 edition. 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. Pages: 55 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. 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. Pages: 55 Herbert L. R. Swire.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1922 edition. 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. Pages: 66 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. 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. Pages: 66.

Illustrated with reproductions from paintings and drawings from his journals. Foreword by Major Roger Swire. Introduction by G. Herbert Fowler. In two volumes. Pp. 192+168+[2](colophon, blank), 10 hand coloured plates with tissue guards, numerous black & white text illustrations (some full page), upper endpaper map Volume I; tall imp. 8vo; qr. white buckram, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, blue cloth boards, a couple of fore-corners and the spine extremities of Volume II slightly bruised; within matching blue cloth slipcase, the cloth starting to lift at spine; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper endpapers, scattered light foxing; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1938. Edition limited to 300 numbered sets on Van Gelder paper. Pertelote 134. *The first publication of Swire's account of the Challenger voyage: 'this cheerful journal, kept by a high-spirited young Naval Officer on board, threw new light on one of the most important expeditions of modern times' [Pertelote, p. 31]. Spine decorations by Lettice Sandford.

Two volumes. Folio (32 x 20.5cm). First printing. No. 241 of 300 copies printed in Eric Gill's perpetua type on Van Gelder paper, published at £8 8s. 'Up to the date of its publication the only details of the Challenger's voyage were to be found in scientific works, so that this cheerful journal, kept by a high-spirited young Naval Officer on board, threw new light on one of the most important expeditions of modern times'- Pertelote. 'The voyage of the Challenger is now considered to be the inception of oceanography as one of the sciences'- Hill. Vol. I, pp. 192; Vol.II, pp.168,[2]. With two coloured frontispieces & a further eight coloured plates, plus line illustrations on the letterpress & map on the front endpaper. Publisher's white & blue cloth, gilt. A fine set in the publisher's slip-case which has some light rubbing. [Pertelote 134; Cave & Manson 141; Hill 1664; Brown 84; NMM I, 183; Howgego N5].

A Personal Narrative of the Historic Circumnavigation of the Globe in the Years 1872-1876, by Navigating Sub-Lieutenant Herbert Swire, R.N. With a foreword by Major Roger Swire and introduction by G. Robert Fowler. Illustrated with reproductions from paintings and drawings in Swire's journals. The plates coloured by hand. 2 vols., small folio, original blue and white buckram, gilt, fore and lower edges uncut, blue buckram slipcase. London, Golden Cockerel Press. No. 57 of 300 copies. Some foxing to the first and last few pages, spines a little browned with a small loss of the gilt on the second vol, slipcase slightly marked and worn at the extremities.

A Personal Narrative of the Historic Circumnavigation of the Globe in the Years 1872-1876. Foreword by Major R. Swire Introd. by G.H. Fowler. 2 vols. (Lond.): The Golden Cockerel Press 1938. Folio. Or.qtr.white buckram. Spines gilt. With num. full-page plates many of which are beautifully hand-col. text-illusts. and front end-paper map in Vol.I. Uncut. Ed. lim. to 300 numbered sets. Fine in slightly rubbed original slip-case. NOTE: The Expedition was commissioned by the Government for the purpose of Scientific Investigations and relates to N.S.W. New Zealand New Guinea Hawaii Sth. Africa etc.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1922. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: - 55, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 55 55.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1922. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: - 70, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 70 70.