Search Results: Titles starting with I from Lansdowne Books

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: VG+. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Blue Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. Contents: 1). Introduction. 2). Summer in Capri. 3). Summer in Capri - by Gillian Mais. 4). Winter in the Italian Alps. 5). Winter in the Italian Alps - by Gillian Mais. 24 b/w plates.

Original brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and designs on cover and along spine; very light rubbing along spine and tips. Binding and hinges tight and square; contents clean and unmarked except for previous owners inscription dated 1892.

Hardcover book with brown coated cloth over boards., gilt-stamped lettering on spine; pp. vi, 294, plus frontispiece and 15 beautifully engraved full-page plates. Spine tips and corners gently rubbed, else a clean, tight copy. Design stamped in black on cover and spine; lettering stamped in gold on cover and spine. Book is in very good condition. Cover has light, expected wear -- some light shelf wear.

,llustrated with a selection of nineteenth-century botanical art and modern photographs. In Pursuit of Plants is a compilation of fascinating first-hand accounts of the experiences of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century collectors in their pursuit of plants from around the world. In Surinam, plant hunter F.W. Hostmann allowed vampire bats to suck his toes; in west Africa William Grant Milne was forced to sell his clothes and travel naked for 200 miles; Thomas Drummond was attacked by a bear in the North American woods; George Forrest narrowly escaped rampaging lamas in western China; and, in Fiji, Berthold Seemann recorded which plants cannibals used as an accompaniment to human flesh.
Extracted from journals and letters, some previously unpublished, the accounts are a mix of adventure, of sometimes grim but always captivating and occasionally humorous images of a lost world, and of stories of the practical problems associated with plant collecting.

Pages clean and tight in original purple boards. First Edition First printing with both the book and jacket in flawless condition.Master storyteller Colleen McCullough rescues Mary from her dreary fate with "The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet," a page-turning sequel set twenty years after Austen's novel closes.

Christie's Auction catalogue. 2008 Sale No. 7674. Lots 1-157. vo. 291 pp. Near fine with soft covers. Color plates, photographs. Text in English. Pages like new are clean and unmarked. Beautiful colour reproductions and photos.For larger or multi-volume items additional shipping charges may be necessary.

First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper in protective mylar. 23.5 × 15.5cm, 263pp Octavo. Original blue cloth boards, titles to front gilt and to spine black, top edge blue, others untrimmed. Pictorial dust-jacket priced at 30s net, sketch map drawn by E.G. Morton, photographic plates throughout and in-text drawings by the author. Title-page wood-cut vignette by Reynolds Stone, double page black and red map by E. G. Morton.Stark recounts her travels through what is now western Turkey, all the while reflecting on the great works of the classical authors, particularly Herodotus the historian and Pausanias the geographer.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good : Blue cloth hardcover with title stamped in gilt onto spine. Minor bumps and fading to top edge of spine. DJ with beautiful idyllic wrap-around tropical art work done by Biro, some wear to top edges, now in archival mylar. Previous owners inscription. Otherwise well-preserved with pages clean and tight. Overall a very good copy.This novel is a brilliantly successful evocation of the atmosphere and the problems of life on a West Indian island. It is a dramatic story, packed with incident and thrilling in this mounting tension. It weaves into the fortunes of a small group of islanders the ambitions and jealousies, the hopes and fears, the complexes and inhibitions of a people to whom the tint of the skin is more important than wealth, or power, or skill, whose tangled history has bequeathed a heritage of passion in an island where the blood never cools.

First edition. With a photogravure frontispiece and 12 lovely tissue-guarded plates by E. C. Peixotto. Publisher's original dark green cloth beautifully decorated on the upper cover and spine after designs by Margaret Armstrong. The lettering on both the cover and spine is in gilt. A handsome and bright copy of this lovely book, internally very fresh and clean. The pages are uncut pages to side and bottom and gilded to top.The Armstrong binding is fresh, vivid and clean with minor evidence of age damage to the top and bottom of spine. A BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED ITALIAN TRAVEL BOOK by a Pulitzer Prize winning author. Though the less famous then her collaboration with Maxfield Parrish this collection of nine essays is none-the-less appealing. Mr. Peixotto's art was far more familiar then his name, he had been a extremely successful illustrator of magazines and periodicals. Scribner's sent the young artist to Italy with Mrs. Wharton and then kept him at various points of the Mediterranean for over a year.