Search Results: Titles starting with L from Barking Mad Books

LAND OF THE MOUNTAIN AND THE FLOOD - Scottish scenes and scenery delineated, Jabez Marrat, Wesleyan Conference Office, London, 1879, 224 page hardback, richly decorated brown cloth with gilt designs on front and spine, top spine end frayed, front half of fep missing, nicely illustrated with B&W sketches of a number of Scottish landscapes or famous buildings, colour map of Scotland with pen scribbles, despite faults scarce with this original attractive binding. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE LAST OF THE WINDJAMMERS - Basil Lubbock, Brown Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1969 Edn: (First printed 1927), Two volumes with original blue cloth and VG+ dustjackets, - Profusely illustrated with black & white photos and meticulously drawn fold-out line plans of square-riggers, Lubbock covers the history of the Windjammers, including life of the personnel, history of Cape Horn, the vessels of the big Sailing Ship Trades, the Small Fry, and the period 1888-1928, "forty hard years for the Windjammer". A classic...a cornerstone set for any serious collector of nautical material - about as fine a set as you'll find.
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LHASA THE HOLY CITY - F Spencer Chapman - Chatto & Windus, London, 1st UK Edn: 1938, Introduction by Sir Charles Bell, original yellow cloth mottled, facsimile of original dustjacket, fold-out map, numerous B&W & colour plates, Some internal foxing but overall a good solid copy of a scarce book - English mountaineer Spencer Chapman joined Charles Bell's delegation to Lhasa overland from Sikkim past Chomolhari (Chapman later made the first ascent)
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LOGBOOK FOR GRACE, Robert Cushman Murphy, Robert Hale, London, 1948, 1st edn., 290 page VG hardback, sl chipped but scarce jacket , some browning to pages - Murphy joined the whaling brig Daisy for an 1912-13 voyage to South Georgia - a diary account to his later wife Grace. Cushman Murphy went on to be a famous naturalist, writing the highly prized two volume Oceanic Birds of South America. Scarce in New Zealand, THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED