Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Ex-library, Riwaka Library (a small 19th century provincial New Zealand library, Riwaka is situated 5km from Motueka, in the upper part of New Zealand's South Island.) Rebound in 19th Century half-leather library binding. There are1 1/4" long splits to the leather at the tail end of both joints. Boards rubbed and faded. Chipped paper libray label on spine. Front hinge broken. Plates generally in poor to fair condition only, with dampstains and foxing and tears. ; Volume Two only of two volumes. (xi), [1 (errata)] + 420 pages + 7 tinted lithographed plates (including frontispiece). Green half-calf binding. Page dimensions: 183 x 117mm. ; Ex-Library; 8vo
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860. First Edition. 12mo. Purple cloth binding, decoratively blindstamped. Gold titles. 309 pp., 32 pp. advertising. A collection of book reviews on the following titles: James Patrick Muirhead, JAMES WATT; Grace Dalrymple Elliott, JOURNAL OF MY LIFE DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION; Sir Bernard Burke, VICISSITUDES OF FAMILIES"; Sir Robert Peel, MEMOIRS; Dr. Doran, LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND OF THE HOUSE OF HANOVER; Thomas Taylor Meadows, THE CHINESE AND THEIR REBELLIONS; Henry Cockburn, MEMORIALS OF HIS TIME; Mrs. Fitzherbert, MEMOIRS WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HER MARRIAGE WITH H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES (KING GEORGE IV); John Murray, SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND; Amelia M. Murray, THE ENGLISHWOMAN IN AMERICA; Henry Thomas Riley, LIBER ALBUS; William Howard Russell, MY DIARY IN INDIA. Boards rubbed. Minimal library markings. Very good condition.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$108.29 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original cloth. 408pp., Frontis. portrait plus three further plates; folding map of Lucknow. Spine and covers bumped and rubbed, spine sunned. Bookplate to front paste-down. A little foxing to prelims and occasionally throughout, one hinge cracked o/w good condition. Uncut. Note: Volume one only.
Seller: Broad Street Book Centre, Hereford, United Kingdom
Price: US$197.66 + shipping
Description: In 8°, cart. moderno, 2 voll.: pp. XV-408; XI-420. Edizione originale. Numerose incisioni litografiche a mezzo tono (ritratti, vedute, scene animate) + 1 cartina più volte pieg. ("Plan of the operations against Lucknow 1858"). Il giornalista Russell fu definito da David Randall "L'uomo che inventò le corrispondenze di guerra". Scrisse per il Times di Londra per il quale segu la Guerra di Crimea, trasmettendo via telegrafo i suoi articoli. Raro.
Seller: TABERNA LIBRARIA - ALAI - ILAB, Pistoia, Italy
Price: US$198.23 + shipping
Description: 2 vols. 8vo, 420pp and 408pp. Both good hardback copies with canted sunned spines and rubbed, marked boards. Complete with all 12 plates.
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Price: US$212.17 + shipping
Description: INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR'S FATHER; 2 VOL. SET; ORIGINAL BINDINGS; Octavo, purple cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines, blind-stamped decorative rule to boards, frontispieces, xv + 408 / xi + 443, illus / folding map, VG (light rubbing & soiling to boards, light brusing to corners, heavy sun-fading to spines, light chipping to spine extrems., light-moderate soiling to pages - frontispieces fairly heavily soiled, light tanning to page edges)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$252.26 + shipping
Description: In 2 volumes. 408, 420pp. Portrait frontispieces and 7 engraved plates. Russell was sent to India by `The Times' to cover the Mutiny. He visited the principal sites, spoke to everyone and exactly recorded what he saw. In the original slightly faded purpl
Seller: Verandah Books, Sherborne, United Kingdom
Price: US$254.81 + shipping
Description: , xv, 408 pages, xi, 420 pages, with 12 tinted lithographs including the frontispieces and one fold out map First Edition , rebound, slight marking to one edge, title label rubbed on volume II, foxed on frontispiece and title page, edges foxed slightly, very good condition , bound in blue cloth with black morocco title labels on spines with gilt lettering , octavo, 20x13cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom