Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Mike Park Ltd

London: Sampson Lowe Marston & Company, 1950. Small 8vo, pp xxxii, 435, +16 pages maps, + 89 pages advertisements, with a folding coloured map in the front pocket (one slight tear withoout loss on a fold, otherwise good condition), decorated cloth, very slightly worn and marked, with original bookmark. A much better than average copy.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good.

New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1987. Small octavo, pp 191, a few line drawings, a good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

London: John Murray, 1863. First edition. With a folding engraved frontispiece (a little worn and marked, and poorly folded, a little fraying at the margins), eight other plates, 12 illustrations within the text, a folding map at the rear in good condition, octavo, pp xvi, 395, endpapers rarther soiled, title page thumbed and age-toned, contemporaqry half morocco and marbled boards, the paper cover to the boards worn through in places, the leather only a little rubbed. From the library of Compton House, Liverpool, with their stamp on the spine, a label and stamp on the front endpaper, and a few stamps throughout. Unfortunately, a previous owner has started to try and erase the stamps and has got to work on the title page, the next page and the first page of text with the result that there is considerable loss of surface to the page and in one case an actual hole; fortunately common-sense, exhaustion or death interrupted them - it would have been better if they had not started their labours. Despite… Read More

London: Collins, 1950. Ilustrated, small octavo, pp xiv, 178, slightly age-toned, fore-edge and endpapers slightly foxed, green cloth very faded and mottled; the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, it is very slightly worn and frayed, but rather age-toned and a bit foxed.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Fair.

New York & London: The Macmillan Company & Yellowstone Museum Association, 1972. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 219, very clean internally, yellow cloth with the original (?) glassine cover, slightly torn.. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

London: British Museum (Natural History), 1980. Illustrated, large slim octavo, pp (160, paperback, a very good copy. [Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology series Vol 33 number 5]. {Postage will be much reduced}. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Jacksonville: McQuerry Orchid Books, 1987. Fifth edition, well illustrated, octavo, pp 128, paperback, a very good copy. [Postage will be reduced]. Fifth edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Jacksonville: McQuerry Orchid Books, 1991. Second edition. Illustrated, octavo, pp 100, paperback, a very good copy. . Second edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Jacksonville: McQuerry Orchid Books, 1994. Revised edition. Illustrated, pp 102, paperback, a very good copy.. Second edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Jacksonville: McQuerry Orchid Books, 1968. Illustrated, octavo, pp 148, paperback, a very good copy. Signed presentation by the author on the title page to Gregory Hees.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1919. Illustrated with four black and white plates and line drawings in the text, large 12mo, pp 128, lightly age-toned internally, yellow decorated cloth, a little soiled and marked, slightly worn. . First Edition. Cloth. Good.

London: S. Birt, C. Hitch, E. Wicksteed, J. Hodges, and E. Comyns., 1752. Ninth Edition. Octavo, pp (2), 480, (8), a little marked and age-toned throughout, some lower marginal staining but otherwise in quite good condition, lacking the frontispiece (and half-title if called-for?), a small worm-hole to the top inner corner of the title page which is also lacking its lower corner - this has been replaced with a later paper corner with neat ink copying of most, but not all, of the missing text [see my illustration]. In a later binding of plain sheep, no spine lettering, and new endpapers. . Ninth edition. Full Leather. Good.

Cambridge at the University Press, 1909. Illustrated with many photographic plates, large octavo, pp xii, 431, slightly age-toned and with signs of use internally, lacking the front endpaper, front hinge a little weak, with the very large folding map ion the rear pocket, but this is very worn and lacking two sections, LACKING the tables of vocabularies, original blue cloth, a little worn, the spine head slightly frayed. VERY SCARCE. [ The author educated at Eton, where he was proficient in Oriental languages. Davies then joined the Army, and was sent to British-controlled Burma in 1887 and to Siam in 1892. In 1893 he was attached to a survey unit which surveyed the passes between Burma and China which located the Crouching Tiger Pass, the Heavenly Horse Pass and the Han Dragon Pass. On completion of the team's objectives Davies remained in China to explore the Yunnan area. On his return to England he was asked to survey a potential railway route from India to the Yangtze river via Yunnan and in… Read More

Beijing: Science Press, 1986. Well illustrated, quarto, pp (8), x, 169, clean internally, red cloth, bruised at the top of the spine, otherwise good.. First Edition. Cloth. Good.