Search Results: Wanderings In South America, the North-West Of t… by Charles Waterton

Sturgis & Walton. Good. 1909. Hardcover. Binding is solid, despite a little weakness. Pages unmarked but a little tanned. Green cloth cover is worn at corners and, especially, spine tips. Spine cover is dark, but title still legible. No dustjacket. .

Hutchinson & Co., 1906. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. London, Hutchinson & Co. 1906. 11 x 17 cm, 257 pp + 1 fold-out map- Whole cloth binding. Spine discolored and frayed at the ends. Details in gilt still appreciable. Some foxing inside. The Book Cellar & Henschel.

London: B. Fellowes. Good with no dust jacket. 1839. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Foxing to various pages throughout, cover corners turned in, some rubbing and fading to cover; few minor pencil markings .

Paperback / softback. New.

B Fellowes, 1852. Book. Poor. hardback. 8vo, blind stamped blue cloth lettered gilt to spine, extremities rubbed, upper hinge broken & binding cracked, b&w frontis, 280pp, as a rebinding or reading copy.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Charles Knight. Minimal wear. Crisp and tight. Lightly bumped spine, minor warping to boards. A little spotting to edge. An abridgement of the 1879 edition. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1973.

London: Macmillan, 1880. Fine. New edition. Profusely illustrated with one hundred engravings. Charles Waterton, (1782-1865), was an English naturalist, traveller, explorer and taxidermist who invented his own method of taxidermy. Included in this fascinating account of his travels are chapters on preserving birds and taxidermy. Edited with new biography and explanatory dictionary/index by Rev J G Wood. Professionally rebound in red cloth with black leather title pieces on spine, lettered gilt, and new endpapers; else a fine copy of the 1880 new edition. NO inscriptions, underlining or highlighting.. New Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

B. Fellowed (Successor to Ms. Mawman), 1828. 2nd edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Nicely Rebound with new end papers. Evidence of removed Library stamps. 2nd edition, 1828. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 341 pages. There is gilt on the spine of the book. Internally there are a few stamp marks and some foxing throughout the book, due to the age. The text remains legible. The binding is strong. In good condition considering the age of the book (1828).. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Macmillan and Co.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1879. New Edition. Hardcover. Xvi, 520 pages + 39 pages advertisements. Illustrated. Green illustrated cloth covers with gilt titles and pelican illustration on spine. "New Edition. Edited, with Biographical Introduction and Explanatory Index, by the Rev. J. G. Wood. " Subtitled: "With Original Instructions for the perfect preservation of Birds, Etc. For Cabinets of Natural History. " Boards very rubbed, stained and worn. 1/2" chips to cloth at ends of spine and corners of boards. Binding shaky. Gutters cracked. Moderate browning and staining to several leaves. A reading copy.; 12mo .

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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the Years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824: With Original Instruction.

London : Unit Library, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xxiv, 259 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill., map ; 18 cm. Subjects; Taxidermy. Zoology — Guyana.

London : Oxford University Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series: Oxford English memoirs and travels. Physical description: xxvi, 230p., [12]p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24cm. Subjects: Natural history -- Guyana.

London: Macmillan, 1880. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 713 8vo. New edition, edited with biographical introduction and explanatory index, by Rev. J.G. Wood. 'With Original Instructions for the perfect preservation of Birds, Etc. For Cabinets of Natural History'. Illustrated with line drawings in the run of the text. Illustrated green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine. Condition notes: Hinges strained across both sets of end papers. Boards knocked, spine chipped and frayed. Generally rather tired and grubby.

Paperback / softback. New. The naturalist Charles Waterton (1782-1865), whose family owned plantations in Demerara, travelled widely in South America and the Caribbean. This 1825 account of his expeditions, reissued here in its 1828 second edition, describes research on Amazonian poison, the capture of an enormous snake, and being attacked by vampire bats.

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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the Years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Paperback / softback. New.