john nicholson (140 results)

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. A Comedy of Murders: Killing People Is No Joke - Or Is It? 0.89. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Some items have price realised written in margin.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

Condition: Fair. 1843. No Edition Remarks. 450 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Heavy tanning and foxing to pages and text block edges. Heavy thumbing and tanning to title page. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inserts to front. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Binding remains firm.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.57.

Stiff Paper. Condition: Good. No Jacket.

Paper. Condition: Good. Good paper copy ex. cat. - no date or year - 16 pp, 26 B/W illus, all major artists, many Homers.

Paper. Condition: Good. Good paper copy ex. cat. - no date or year - 16 pp, 2 pp text, 9 4/C and 8 B/W illus.

Hardcover. 130p., pictorial boards, 10.75x8.75 inches, very good. Illustrated profusely with maps and sketches.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Like New!

Condition: Good. Original glazed pictorial boards in matching dust jacket, oblong, circa 22x27cm, numerous illusrrations (some in colour).; Dedication on first free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Laminated hardcover with title in dark blue on front cover and spine. Condition: Very good, with light shelfwear to covers. Hint of sunning to spine. Binding sound, no inscriptions.A couple of small marks to front endpaper. 130pp. Many b/w illustrations. The full title reads:" Being Glimpses of Nineteenth Century Japan from Commodore Perry's Visit (1853) until the Promulgation of the Meiji Constitution (1889), as seen and reported by the Illustrated London News and other contemporary sources".

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. This is volume 1 only. The pages are tight and have many b/w photos of the monuments erected by Pennsylvania marking the position of the Pennsylvania Commands Engaged in the Battle. The first 100 pages ( approximately ) have a very small 3/4" bump on the corners.The covers are very worn. This is mostly on the spine and corners. The front cover is loose and has been reglued.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Ill. light wear to publishing binding.

(2nd imp) Oblong Folio. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 130pp. Some colour plates & many b/w ills. Very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. pp.46 clean tight copy but for some light tanning/soiling to inside back and front cover and edges of text front cover is blue which has lightly bled to back cover hear hinge.

hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Auflage: 1st Edition. Very good, clean copy - - Introduction - - 1 Of Ships, Shipwrecks and the Sea - - 3 - - The Loss of the 'Pacha' Steamship; Tragedy on Board the British Ship 'Fawn'; the Ship 'Asia' Dismasted by a Waterspout; Waterspouts in the Straits of Malacca; the Steamship 'Pekin' in a Typhoon; Her Majesty's Ship Pelican Stranded; the Transit Saga; a Transit Log; the 'St. Lawrence' and the 'Singapore'; Wreck of the Steamer Hydaspe in Rhio Strait; Keppel and His Ships; H.M.S. Mæander; Overland Telegraph to Canton, Shanghai etc. - - 2 The Pirate World - - 25 - - Chiu-a-poo, the Chinese Pirate; Piracy and Murder in the Indian Archi- pelago; the Bornese Pirates; Malay Pirates in the China Seas; Gallant Defeat of Malay Pirates on the Coast of Borneo; Operations in Borneo; Bornean Pirates; Sir James Brooke and Borneo; H.M.S. Nassau and the Pirates. - - 3 Of Principalities and Powers - - 61 - - New British Possession, the Island of Labuan; the New Colony of Labuan; the Insurrection at Sarawak; Rapang Village of the Stung Tribe of Dyaks; the Late Rajah Sir James Brooke; Sketches at Victoria, Labuan; Borneo; Bruni; Sketches in Borneo; British North Borneo; Planting in British North Borneo; the Rising in North Borneo; Holland. - 4 Of Flora and Fauna - - 95 - - The Ourang and Chimpanzee at the Zoological Society's Gardens; the 'Wou-Wou' or Silvery Gibbons; Gutta Percha; Malayan Tapir in the Gardens of the Zoological Society; the Tree Kangaroo and Black Leopard; Orang-Utan in the Zoological Society's Gardens; Horticultural Society; the Mangosteen; Hornbills; the Young Orang-outangs at the Zoological Gardens; Colonial and Indian Exhibition, British North Borneo. - - 5 Borneo People - - 109 - - Book Reviews; the Sea Dyaks (Ibans); the Malanau; the Kayans; the Kadazans; the Muruts; the Land Dyaks (Bidayah); General; an Exploring Expedition in Borneo; Colonial Troops for the Queen's Jubilee. - - A Supplement on Head Hunters and the Head - ISBN 9789623280013 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 714.

2nd impression of the 1988 original. (6), 114 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 16 pages with 7 colour plates. Title spread: The Natives of Borneo. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Dust jacket with short closed tears, o/wise fine. Oblong: 22.3 x 27.5. The Nineteenth century world of Pirates and Head-hunters, Orang Utan and Hornbills, and other such rarities as seen through the Illustrated London News and other contemporary sources.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. John Nicholson Ltd, Hong Kong (second impression, 1989). Landscape-format hardcover. Some light foxing / spotting to top edge of text block but overall this book is in very good condition with clean, unmarked pages which are free from notes and underlining and minimal wear to dustjacket which has been covered with clear dustjacket cover. Not an ex-library copy. Dispatched from UK within three days.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Vol one only of two. Half bound in leather, marbled boards, much rubbed and marked, number to front paste-down, foxing and some grubby marks throughout, fold-out map of Kirkcudbrightshire marked and with a small split, one gathering loosening with a page detached but present, otherwise good. 48 page appendix.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No D/W. 1988. HARDBACK, LANDSCAPE FORMAT. LIGHT SHELF RUBBING TO OUTER EDGES OF HARD COVERS, TEXT AND ILLUSTRATIONS LIKE NEW, WITH NICE BRIGHT PAGES. . POSTED FROM THE UK IN 1-2 WORKING DAYS IN A PROTECTIVE CARD WRAP. HEAVY TO SHIP OVER SEAS.

Hardcover, 22 cm, ca. 100 pp. Ills.: b/w and color illustrations. Cond.: goed / good. ISBN: 9623280025.

Colours of cover partly bleached, Name on front fly-leaf; Einband teilweise lichtgebleicht, Name auf vord. Vorsatz. (MG1a:).

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By Van De Gucht (illustrator). A fine copper engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. An oval image in an engraved setting on an engraved plinth which carries the name. From an original painting. Married a daughter of Oliver Cromwell.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By Van De Gucht (illustrator). A fine copper engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. An image in an engraved setting, on an engraved plinth that carries the name.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By Van De Gucht (illustrator). A fine copper engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. An oval image in an engraved setting on an engraved plinth which carries the name. "General of the Scotch Army" Present at Marston Moor, defaeted Montrose at Philiphaugh.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine copper engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. An oval image in an engraved setting on an engraved plinth. Secretary of State.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By Van De Gucht (illustrator). A fine copper engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. An oval image in an engraved setting, on an engraved plinth. Shows Brook in his armour. Became a zealous puritan. Written lightly in pencil at the top: "Big head and little wit"!

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By Van De Gucht (illustrator). A fine copper engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. An oval image in an engraved setting and on an engraved plinth. "From a printing in Mr Bulfinch's hands." An illustrious patriot. Studied law. Resisted the tax called ship-money.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By Van De Gucht (illustrator). A fine copper engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. An image in an engraved setting, on an engraved plinth that carries the name. Son of Jacob Astley. A Colonel who had command of a regiment in the civil war.