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Published by Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, London, 1990
Seller: Cosmo Books, Shropshire., United Kingdom
First Edition
Disbound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 11 pages, map. Note; this is an original article separated from the volume, not a reprint or copy. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Inventory No: 403230. Cosmo Books : 26 years selling on ABE; 26 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.
Published by University of Rochester Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 1580460151ISBN 13: 9781580460156
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Condition: Used - Like New. 1997. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine. Dust Jacket is Like New.
Published by Yale University Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0300141866ISBN 13: 9780300141863
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Dark blue cloth-effect boards, lettered in gold foil. As issued. Color illus. dust jacket as issued, now in mylar. 1st ptg. 464 pp., illus. w/ color plates, b&w illus., maps. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.
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Published by Les Editions Du Pacifique, 1991
ISBN 10: 2878680103ISBN 13: 9782878680102
Seller: Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books, Katoomba, NSW, Australia
Book First Edition
Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Size: A4 Landscape. 88 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Antiques & Collectibles; Mauritius; History. ISBN: 2878680103. ISBN/EAN: 9782878680102. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 28555. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.
Published by Poyser, London, 2008
ISBN 10: 0713665440ISBN 13: 9780713665444
Seller: PEMBERLEY NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS BA, ABA, Iver, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Condition: Fine. 464, 16 col plates, text figs. . HB. Fine in d/w - almost as new. First edition. Following discovery of the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean in the 1500s and their subsequent colonisation by man, rapid ecological change lead to the extinction of many of the islands unique vertebrates, including the Dodo . This book provides the first full ecological history of the Mascarene Islands as well as the specific story of each extinct vertebrate. Illustrated with Julian Hume's superb colour illustrations. [9780713665444].
Published by C Bossu-Picat/J.P. de Sornay, Mauritius, 2004
Seller: Snookerybooks, Philippolis, South Africa
Book First Edition Signed
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Christian Bossu-Picat (photographer) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 230 x 240mm with French folds. 96pp. profusely illus. in colour. Inscribed by author ("JC") to p. 3. Bookseller stamp to inside of front flap. Partially erased price to p. 1. Extremely scarce. Signed by Author(s).
PAPERBACK. 1st edition. 376pp + bibliography, large octavo. tight binding, no marks to the text, clean and glossy wraps, fingerprint stains to the last page, Very Good.
Published by John Mortimer, London, 1836
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 336 pages (complete). An amiable copy. Hand-coloured map (drawn and engraved by J & C Walker) - drawn for the book. The boards are much worn, faded, marked, scuffed all about. The titling on the spine is still benign. The contents do have some light evidence of their vintage and of use. There are some few handling marks, some few foxing spots. Overwhelming (and delightfully if one takes the book's age into account) are healthy, clean, clear, certain, assured, tidy, amenable, convivial. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by General Printing & Stationery, 1950, 1950
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Condition: Very Good. First edition. Paperback. Signed presentation copy from the author. Light wear, slight tearing at spine ends, otherwise about very good indeed.
Published by Published by The General Printing and Stationery Company Ltd., 6 Rue Félicien Mallefille, Port Louis, Mauritius, First Edition . 1950., 1950
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition Signed
First edition in publisher's original plain brown card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 7½'' x 5''. Contains [xvi] 231 + 16 appendix + index printed pages of English text with 12 monochrome photographs throughout, fold-out table showing annual production of sugar tonnage form 1822-1950 to the rear. Small piece of card missing to the bottom of the spine. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Press Comment slip in English and French loosely inserted. SIGNED by the author to the front free end paper 'To F(rank) A. Wilson Esq. Poet, Novelist, Artist, who has honoured the author with his friendship - K. Hazareesingh, London March 1951'. Member of the P.B.F.A. MAURITIUS (Mascarenhas).
Published by London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1862]., 1862
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
Small 8vo, pp. 256, with a folding map coloured in outline and 18 illustrations; a very good clean copy in contemporary blind-stamped morocco, gilt-lettered spine, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers; small chip at head of spine and a little wear to extremities.First edition. 'A condensed account of the Colony and Island of Mauritius, which has in part been compiled from old and voluminous works, such as "Baron Grant's" account, "Montgomery Martin's," and other valuable and authentic sources; whilst the remainder is the result of observations made by the author when a military chaplain there in 1854. The illustrations are partly selected from a portfolio of sketches made at the same time' (Preface).
Published by Published by The General Printing and Stationery Company Ltd., 6 Rue Félicien Mallefille, Port Louis, Mauritius, First Edition . 1950., 1950
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original utilitarian green Rexine covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, fore and lower page edges untrimmed, marble end papers. 4to 11'' x 9¼''. Number 95 of 600 Limited Edition copies. Contains red, white and blue printed title page, 'à mes compatriotes' leaf tipped-in, vi; [viii] 550 printed pages of French text; errata tipped-in; [xxxvii index]; + 4; illustrated headers, tail-pieces, and capital letters, monochrome photographs on smooth art paper throughout. Light soiling to the covers, contents in Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Heavy volume 4kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting if despatched outside the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. MAURITIUS (Mascarenhas).
Published by Published by T. and W. Boone, 29 New Bond Street, London First Edition . 1849., 1849
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original nutmeg cloth covers which has been rebacked preserving the original spine, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains folding blue and white frontispiece map., [xii]., errata., 410 pp [+ 16 publisher's illustrated catalogue]. Foxing to the end papers, marks to the boards and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. MAURITIUS (Mascarenhas).
Published by Printed London: by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland Row, St. James's, for the Author and Sold by G. and W. Nicol, and J. Wright, and B. Uphill, First Edition . 1801., 1801
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original full brown leather covers, calf reback saving the original red morocco label, gilt cross bands. 4to 11'' x 9''. The first detailed book on Mauritius written in the English language. Contains xxi; [List of Subscribers]., 571 pp. 3 large folding maps with minor tears to the gutter of the front map. Off-setting opposite the maps, light foxing to the end papers and in Very Good clean and sound condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. MAURITIUS (Mascarenhas).
Hardcover. Condition: VG+. First Edition. or the Isle of France and the neighbouring islands, from their first discovery to the present time composed principally from the papers and memoirs of Baron Grant who resided twenty years on the island, by his son Charles Grant. 571 pp, 2 large folding maps. Includes the list of subscribers. First detailed book in English on Mauritius. Original vellum over paper boards, original paper label. Some wear through paper to boards at corners otherwise a lovely copy, internally mostly crisp and clean except that pp 404-449 seem to have a darkening spot that varies from light to moderate. Large format. Printed on fine, thick paper. Great copy or a collector.
Published by London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848, 1848
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition of this finely illustrated work. This copy has a superb provenance: with the bookplate of naturalist Sir William Jardine and his daughter Catherine Dorcas Maule Strickland, the author's wife. Strickland provides a comprehensive history and external description of the dodo, while the physician Melville analyzed the anatomy. A sparkling copy, rarely found in such collectible condition. With this important rediscovery of the extinct and largely forgotten dodo, Strickland set out to prove anthropogenic species loss and declared that "these singular birds. furnish the first clearly attested instances of extinction of organic species through human agency" (p. 5). To produce this monograph and support his claim about the reality of the bird Strickland gathered "historical, pictorial and anatomical evidence" (Barrow, p. 54). He reviewed fifteen original and independent accounts of the bird and went on to analyse five oil paintings of the species. Finally, he "turned to a discussion of the bird's meager surviving fragments: a foot in the British Museum, a cranium in the Gottorf Museum in Copenhagen, and a desiccated head and foot in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The latter two fragments were all that remained of a once complete specimen that had decayed over the course of a century and barely escaped destruction during a bout of spring cleaning at the museum" (ibid.). The Dodo and its Kindred shows the "present state of the knowledge of the Didinae, in order to remove the many erroneous statements which are current, and to restore the lost organisms to their rank in the natural system" (publisher's catalogue). In Victorian fiction the dodo emerges most famously in Alice in Wonderland (1865), employed by Carroll as a caricature of himself. Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811 1853) was a natural historian, geologist, ornithologist, and member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science committee alongside Charles Darwin and Richard Owen. Strickland found his wife, Catherine Dorcas Maule (1825 1888), through his interest in natural history. He met "Sir William Jardine, bt, at the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting at Glasgow in 1840, having previously corresponded with him on ornithological topics. On 23 July 1845 he married Jardine's second daughter, Catherine Dorcas Maule. She assisted both her father and her husband with drawings of birds, some reproduced anastatically in Jardine's Contributions to Ornithology (1848 53). Stricklandwas fatally wounded when struck by a train while geologizing near Clarborough Tunnel in 1853" (ODNB). Prince Albert, Sir William Jardine, the ornithologist John Gould, natural history artist Prideaux John Selby, engraver William Home Lizars, and cartographer John Arrowsmith are found in the small list of 124 subscribers. Fine Bird Books, p. 145; Nissen IVB 900. Mark V. Barrow, Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology, 2011. Folio. Original light blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt stamp of dodo on front cover and Rodrigues solitaire on back cover, spine and covers elaborately stamped in blind, yellow surface-paper endpapers, top edge gilt. Housed in a dark blue cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. With hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece of a dodo by Vincent Brooks after Roelandt Savery, heightened with gum arabic, and 17 lithographed and anastatically-printed plates, including on folding and another hand-coloured, wood-engraved illustrations in the text. A few minor marks to covers, scattered foxing, text block cracked between pp. 50-1. A splendid copy.
Published by London. Printed by Authority, by T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall First Edition . 1811., 1811
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original full speckled leather binding, rebacked, gilt lines with small red and gilt title label to the spine, marble page edges, new end papers. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Dugald Carmichael enrolled at the University of Glasgow to study Classics, attending the 1787 Greek class of John Young. He was born in Lismore, Argyll, son of Archibald. After attending the University of Glasgow, Carmichael took up the study of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, from where he qualified as a surgeon. He served as an assistant-surgeon in the Argyllshire Fencibles in Ireland for nine years, before entering the 72nd Highlanders Regiment as an ensign. Carmichael would go on to take part in numerous expeditions during his career as an army surgeon: In 1805, he was among those who served under Sir David Baird, who commanded the expedition against the Cape of Good Hope. In 1807, Carmichael volunteered to go to Algoa Bay, modern day Port Elizabeth; In 1810, he was part of the expedition in Mauritius, to capture it from French rule; in 1817 he joined the expedition that took possession of Tristan da Cunha. Carmichael was granted leave in 1813 during which time he explored the Island of Bourbon, modern day Réunion. Carmichael returned to Argyll in 1817, where he stayed with his sister for two years near Oban, before becoming tenant in 1820 of the farm Ardtur, where he remained till his death in September 1827. He died in Appin, and is buried in the Churchyard of Lismore. As well as distinguishing himself as army surgeon, Captain Carmichael had continued to develop his life-long interest in natural science, to the extent that he claimed to be known as the 'Father of Marine Botany'. His extensive travels overseas were also used to add to his botanical knowledge and collections. Among his published research was Some Account of the Island of Tristan da Cunha and of its Natural Productions (1818). As a friend and correspondent of Sir William Hooker, Hooker named many marine plants after him, including the Carmichaeliana or New Zealand Broom. Charles Darwin also acknowledged his contribution in referring to Carmichael as 'an authority on many points in natural science'. Contains folding colour frontispiece map., [iv] 65 pp., errata. Corners bruised, marks to the boards, contents in Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. MAURITIUS (Mascarenhas).
Published by Published F. Buisson, Imprimeur-Libraire, rue Hautefeuille, N°. 20, Paris First Edition . 1804., 1804
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
Set comprising three volumes of text, 8vo. 8'' x 5'', and one volume atlas, 4to 13½'' x 10¼''. Recently rebound uniform matching first edition hard back binding in half chestnut brown leather, raised bands, gilt lines, yellow ochre plain paper covered boards as original, twin morocco labels to the spines, page edges dyed red, hand sewn headbands, handmade end papers. Text: Volume I xv., [i]., 412 pp. Volume II 431 pp. Volume III 473 pp. Atlas: 4 pp., 58 fold-out maps and plates engraved by Adam, Blondeau, Fortier, Dorgez, and B. Tardieu. Comprising 35 views, including one colour plate, featuring islands, landscape cross sections, volcanoes, rivers, craters, waterfalls; 3 maps including two very large; the 1st the island of Reunion and the island of France [Mauritius], 2nd with the island of Reunion detailed. All housed in 20'' x 12'' blue-grey felt lined clam shell box in Arbelave buckram, gilt titled to the front board. Foxing to the title and contents pages of the atlas, beyond which the plates are clean and free from any tears or foxing, books in very near Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. MAURITIUS (Mascarenhas).