Goodbye to a River by Graves, John - 1960

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1935. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Very Good interior. Text and illustrations unmarked. Pages clean and intact with age toning. Cover intact with staining to upper corners of front and rear (see image). Upper spine also lightly stained, to a lesser degree. This does not intact the interior. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Light wear. Binding and hinges intact. 253 pages.

London: John Van Voorst, 1851. Volume Four, complete (1851/1852/1853) in 3 parts bound together. These are the original first editions -- not cheaply-made modern reprints. The binding is Fair - Good condition because the green cloth covers are worn and no longer attached to the textblock. SEE PHOTOS. However the textblock could be easily recased with no sewing required since all pages are tightly bound together. Internal condition is Very Good with almost no foxing. Consists of VOLUME THE FOURTH (1851): pp. 1-392; VOLUME THE FOURTH, CONTINUED (1852): pp. 393-784; and VOLUME THE FOURTH, CONCLUDED (1853): pp. 785-1160.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair - Very Good condition. Thick 8vo. xxviii, 1,160pp.

Harper & Brothers. New York. 1885. 8vo. xix, (1), 536, 4pp adverts. Coloured frontispiece of Mrs Forbes Honey Eater with tissue guard, 14 plates, numerous text illustrations including 1 map, 3 coloured folding maps, I coloured map, 1 monochrome map. Original pictorial cloth, gilt and black, slight wear to head of spine. Uniformly toned, a tight crisp copy. Orientalia booksellers plate, New York to rep. A nice copy.
Henry O Forbes (1851-1932) Scottish explorer, zoologist and botanist. Travels and observations in The Cocos-Keeling Islands, Java, Sumatra, Moluccas and Timor-Laut, Buru, Timor etc

London: Longmans and Company, 1889. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Original brown cloth with new spines in dyed cloth to match original and new endpapers. Titles on Protective Mylar sleeves. 9 inches tall; xxiii, 239 pages with index followed by publisher adverts. Illustrated with intext drawings. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Ex-library with library stamps on title page and occasionally in the text margin but no other library markings.. Part III containing the Order Chelonia. 1889; Part IV Containing the Orders Anomodontia, Ecaudata, Caudata, and Labyrinthodontia, and Suppliment 1890.

London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1873. Hardcover. Good. Ex-library (non-circulating). Publisher's green cloth boards decoratively stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover. Call number on spines. Labels on front pastedowns; no pockets. Each volume has pinhole library stamps on the frontispiece, title-page, and each of the illustrated plates/maps. Complete plates: ten illustrations and twelve maps (2 color, 3 fold-outs); several in-text illustrations. 19.4 x 13.6 cm. Octavo. pp. Vol. I: x, 483. Vol. II: vi, 529, plus [6] advertising. Placed in archival mylar sleeves with a small, loose slip of acid-free paper to mask the call number. In his African Sketch-Book, Reade compiled a variety of materials with the intention of illustrating both African life and his experiences. He includes a recapitulation of his travels in Equatorial Africa, Angola, and Senegambia during 1862 and 1863; essays on the slave trade, African exploration, and the progress of Islam in Western Africa; an detailed… Read More

Las Vegas, NV: Flashner's Publishing Co.. Very Good+. 1996. Stated First Edition. Trade Paperback. 0964271818 . Book is Very Good + (plus). First Edition [stated]. Clean and unmarked text. Tight and sturdy binding. Appears book never read. Back cover bottom corner has very slight bend mark to surface. Very slight bumping to cover corners and edges. Very slight surface shelf wear to cover. ; Trade PB; 106 pages .

William Smith. London.,1846. Fourth Edition, with considerable additions and corrections. 8vo. (6.6 x 4.4 inches). Hand finished colour printed frontispiece and several small engravings throughout the text. Neat previous owners inscription, dated 1848, on the front paste down endpaper. A very good copy in an attractive early fine leather binding. Full dark green morocco. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt decoration. Compartments ruled, lettered and fully decorated in gilt. Double gilt ruled borders, with floral corner pieces, on boards. Floral gilt decoration on inner boads. Yellow endpapers. All edges gilt. Edges of the binding just a little rubbed but overall a lovely copy in a fine quality early Victorian binding.:

London: Printed for J. F. Rivington Et Al. Very Good. 1769. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. 7th Edition of 1769. Bound in Vellum slightly age toned. Flexible boards have a slight bow. Twenty six fold put plates and two fold out charts. 6 additional pagfes of index. Contents: Universal Nature and Properties of Matter; General View of the Universe; Philosophy of the Atmosphere; Philosophical View of the terraqueous Globe in all its parts and Productions. Benjamin Martin a mathematician and instrument maker. The book was designed for the instruction and entertainment of the youth of both sexes. Science; Fold out Plates; 8vo; 362 pages .

Auckland, NZ: Auckland Art Gallery, 2004. First edition. Hard cover, no dust jacket as issued. Published Auckland, NZ: Auckland Art Gallery, 2004. Oblong folio, 12" x 9 7/8", 160pp., lavishly illustrated with color reproductions. When he died in 1903, Kinder left behind 400 watercolour paintings and as many photographs carefully preserved in albums. It’s this body of work that has exercised the minds of four art historians who contribute essays to this lavish production. Fine. . 1st. Hard. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio.

1794 first UK edition. Volume is very good condition: no interior markings of any kind, most pages are uncut. Text block is soundly sewn with protective cardboard covers but has never been formally bound. Volume 2 of 5 volume set. (Volumes 1-4 are text; volume 5 is index and 39 plates.) This volume is complete as issued with all blanks. Collates: i-vii, 1-561, [2]. Adams was scientific instrument maker to George III. Adams is important in the history of the progress of science as he strongly advocated experimental science. I have provided a page from his lecture: "On The Method of Reasoning in Natural Philosophy" (p. 98 this volume) describing his commitment to experimental science. I cannot overstate the importance of this shift in scientific thinking - relying on experimental data instead of the wisdom of the ancients. The other feature of this volume, besides content, is that it is in its original state. New books sold in 1794 were presented to the buyer in exactly this condition. Plain cardboard… Read More