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Big Game Shooting
de Clive Phillipps-Wolley
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good Indeed
- Librería
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Precio
EUR 191.84EUR 172.66
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Sobre este artículo
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 6". Charles Whymper, J. Wolf, H. Willink. An excellent second edition of this insightful work on game hunting from the library of an Arctic explorer. These volumes were published for the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, a project by publishing house Longmans Green and Co developed between 1885 and 1902. It covered all manner of sporting activities and pastimes, and was dedicated to HRH the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. It consisted of thirty-three volumes, this being volumes twenty and twenty-one.Written by big game hunter Clive Phillipps-Wolley.Illustrated throughout with photographs and illustrations by Charles Whymper.With the ownership bookplate of Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst, a member of the Nimrod Expedition to Antarctica led by Ernest Shackleton. He was awarded the Silver Polar Medal in 1909, and was due to join Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914, but was deployed to Flanders instead.The second edition of this work. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally very smart, with just some slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine; boards are bright. Ownership bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed
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Detalles
- Librería
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 795R60
- Título
- Big Game Shooting
- Autor
- Clive Phillipps-Wolley
- Ilustrador
- Charles Whymper, J. Wolf, H. Willink
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good Indeed
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Longmans, Green and Co.
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1901
- Tamaño
- 8" by 6"
- Palabras clave
- The Badminton Library Clive Phillipps-Wolley Hunting Big Game Shooting Clive Phillipps-Wolley
- Atención
- Puede que se trate de un conjunto de varios volúmenes y requiera de gastos de envío adicionales.
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Cloth
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- Bookplate
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
