Xantus John (24 results)

hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, xxvi + 255 pages; b&w illustrations, black and beige cloth. A fine, clean, (unread, but long on the shelf) hardcover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine dust jacket and with original price.…

Hardcover. 198p., illustrations, cloth boards with an inoffensive bookplate, enclosed in dust jacket, book is near-fine while the dust jacket is quite rubbed with edgewear and a short tear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Dust Jacket. First Thus. dust jacket is price clipped. Schoenman, Theodore and Helen Benedek - Translators and Editors (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good condition. First Edition.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A very clean and tight copy. No underlining or highlighting.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Translated and edited by Theodore Schoenman & Helen B.Schoenman. 18 b&w illustrations (illustrator).

Condition: FINE. First printing. Previously unpublished letters of this Hungarian immigrant who joined the US Army under an assumed name, a charlatan who managed to alienate most of the people he met, and yet one of the Smithsonian's most successful collectors of natural history specimens in the mid-19th century. From his station at Ft Tejon in California's Tehachapi Mountains, Xantus carried on a lengthy correspondence with Spencer Baird at the Smithsonian. Illustrated with drawings and photographs, notes, index. 255 pp. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (a new, unread copy, but with a hint of sunning to spine of dj.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a very near fine (slightly sun faded along the spine) dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 200 pp. Original brown cloth covers, very bright and clean. Light foxing to top edge of text block and endpapers. DJ moderately soiled and rubbed. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint Edition. Xantus, an expatriate Hungarian, became a prominent natural scientist. He describes an 1851 trip through southern California, including Indians, conditions, natural science, etc. This English translation of the 1859 original edition in Hungarian was done by Theodore Schoenman and Helen Benedek Schoenman, and there is an index as well as useful editorial notes in the rear matter. This is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no owner names, and no bookplates in the publisher's original brown cloth covers. The dust jacket is rippled but with no chips, tears, or markings. The dust jacket is now in a protective, removable, acetate cover. Ref: Howes X 2 for the original edition.; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 213 pages.…

hardcover with dustjacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. This is the authors' second book and he relates his experiences as a surveyor in California, Baja California, and Mexico. The book and dust jacket are in fine condition. ; Standard Book Size; 212 pages.

Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Book is a hardcover. Book and dustjacket are inNear Fine condition. Tells the story of John Xantus, a hungarian freedom fighter. Published by Wayne State University Press. 198 pages. ; Standard Book Size; 198 pages.

VG+, clean HB; DJ-VG. 212 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. First Edition. 212 pages, maps, illustrations, frontis, slight edge wear to jacket. Xantus came to America as a refuge from Hungary, where he had participated in the 1848 revolution. In the mid-1850's he traveled across America to california.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. 198 pages, frontis, illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition thus, first printing. Originally published in the author's native Hungarian language in 1859. Illustrated with eighteen drawings and maps on b&w plates. The detailed account of the surveyor's experiences, observed cultures, Native Americans, working people, animals and plant life, and more in the 1850s while traveling through California, Baja California, Mexico, and in a caravan from Los Angeles via the Sierra Nevada to Fort Tejon. Fine and fresh in brown linen with bronze embossed titles to the spine, brown-and-yellow headband and tail-band; in a fine dust jacket; original printed $12.95 price still intact to the front inner flap Octavo; 213 pages; index.…

North America 19th Century 1st. ed.not read or opened. new. d.j. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Translated and edited by Theodore Schoenman and Helen Benedek Schoenman, with an Introduction by Thoedore Schoenman. Octavo. 9¼ x 6 inches. 198 pp. Frontis portrait, 13 illustrations, double-page map. Bibliography, index. Brown cloth. A fine copy in lightly rubbed pictorial dust jacket. First English language edition, translated from the first Hungarian edition of 1857. Account of this noted naturalist's travels, who collected and described the flora and fauna of the western frontier from 1856 to 1864. Most of the illustrations are after original drawings by the author, 1856. Book.…

Full Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Full cloth with copper lettering on spine. Jacket has mild shelf wear and one half inch closed tear to the back panel at the spine. Overall a EXCELLENT book in a GOOD PLUS jacket. John Xantus de Vesey (born János Xántus) (October 5, 1825 - December 13, 1894) was a Hungarian-born exile and American zoologist. Trained as a lawyer, John Xantus (the aristocratic title de Vesey was an affectation, of which he had several variations) served as an officer in the nationalist uprisings of 1848 in the Hungarian Army. He was captured and exiled to Prague, arrested again, and escaped to the United States via England. In the US he pursued a variety of occupations, including bookseller, druggist, teacher and, hospital steward in the US Army. In the army he met the surgeon Dr W.A. Hammond, who was a collector for the noted zoologist Spencer Fullerton Baird. Working under Hammond as an assistant surgeon, he soon developed an interest in natural history and became gifted collector himself. He managed to use the support of Baird and the soon to be Surgeon General Hammond, getting them to write letters of recommendation on his behalf. On the basis of these he was given a consular position in Mexico, a position he promptly lost after embarrassing the State Department by recognising a local rebelling war lord. Soon after this he returned to Hungary. For thirty years until his death in 1894 he served as the Director of the Zoological Garden of Budapest and as Curator of Ethnography at the National Museum, as well as undertaking collecting expeditions in Asia. In ornithology he is remembered as having given his name to the Xantus's Murrelet and Xantus's Hummingbird, he also left his name to several fish species. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. …

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by Editor. Ltd to 500 copies. Signed by Zwinger Illustrator: Ann Zwinger. Quantity Available: 1. Category: California; Signed by Editor. ISBN: 0870932489. ISBN/EAN: 9780870932489. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 14655. Ann Zwinger (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Originally published 1859. Couple of tiny closed edge tears on DJ. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide to check availaiblity etc. Size: 24 x 15cm.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Self titled cover; 8vo; 12pp; stapled twice, reinforced with binder's tape; not illustrated. Xantus, a Hungarian naturalist, was commissioned to collect and name many previously unrecognized animals and plants in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico. Most notably, Xantus's hummingbird, "Hylocharis Xantusii" plus numerous lizards and plants were collected for the Smithsonian under the tutelage of Spencer Baird. This copy is in fair condition with edge tears and chips, general soiling to both covers and mild vertical fold. Most uncommon and seldom encountered.…

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 1859 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 8 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 1859 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 10 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.…