Authors starting with E from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Christchurch N.Z.:: Christchurch Publishers,. 1946.. The last third of the book includes a retrospective on railways in New Zealand with some rather interesting specific information; otherwise mainly humorous anecdotes associated with New Zealand. A very scarce item with only one copy recorded on OCLC 44941042. Slim 12mo, 79 po , maroon leather binding, gilt title, marble endpapers, near fine. Hand-written presentation from the author at bottom of the title page. ... more information

Newburgh, N Y:: S. T. Callahan,. 1846-7.. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, 652 pp, errata leaf. History of Orange County (New York), "with an enumeration of the names of its towns, villages, rivers, creeks, ... and other known localities... together with local traditions and short biographical sketches of early settlers, etc." Howes E1. Green marbled boards with half black leather. Covers very rubbed, esp at edges. Spine is rubbed and gilt title on spine is chipped. Front cover detached, and back cover attac... more information

Earle, Horace. Ups and Downs; or, Incidents of Australian Life. Bennett, London 1861. 356pp + 4pp + 24pp ads. Back hinge starting o/w G+ F9348. Australian experiences in story form, based on the author's life. Victoria, gold & mining, convicts. ... more information

Eastman, H.G. Eastman's Treatise on Counterfeit, Altered and Spurious Bank Notes, with Unerring Rules for the Detection of Frauds in the Same...and other Valuable Information as to Money, with Hints to Business Success. M. Niedner, St. Louis 1859, Third Edition - Enlarged. Slim 8vo, 54pp, 5pp ads, endpapers lt. foxed. Orig. red cloth blind stamped "Money" on the front board (faintly rubbed). Boards a bit marked, 2 sml. ink marks, slt. overall marking, spine the faintest bit worn at head and fo... more information

Hardcover. Academic Press, London, 1993 decorative boards vg+. ... more information

Albany:: University of the State of New York,. 1910 & 1914.. First edition. Two thick 4to volumes, 501pp & 719pp, illustrated throughout, including handsome color plates by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. In this edition, the Fuertes plates are printed on slightly heavier stock. The plates in volume 1 have some slight foxing confined to one margin. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, slt. rubbed at edges otherwise a very nice, bright copy. ... more information

Eberlein, Harold Donaldson and Hubbard, Cortlandt. Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley. Bonanza Books, NY 1942, 4to, 208 pp, ills. throughout. Very good condition in slt. ruffled dj. ... more information

New York:: Willliam S. Gottsberger,. 1880.. First American edition. Hardcover. Historical novel set in ancient Greece. Small 8vo, 352 pp, all edges marbled. Half tan calf with red marbled boards. Title in gilt on brown spine label, with decorative gilt compartments and raised bands, gilt rules. Covers are rubbed at edges & corners. Internally, marbled end papers, immaculate; very good +. ... more information

London:: Chapman & Hall, Ltd.,. 1913.. First edition. Very good. 8vo, 296 pp, b&w frontis with tissue guard and 32 illustrations and facsimiles, including fold out page of four versions of title page for "The Battle of Life". Brown cloth cover with gilt title on spine. Top edge is gilt, other edges uncut. Limited edition; this volume is number 552 of 750. Spine a bit rubbed, o/w very good. ... more information

Berlin:: Verlag August Scherl,. 1928.. Hardcover. [The American Voyage of the Graf Zeppelin]. Travel notes from a trans- Atlantic voyage from Germany to the USA aboard a giant hydrogen-filled balloon. 8vo, 115pp, 5pp, b&w plates. German text. Orig. red cloth, gilt lettering, stain in lower margin p60 o/w vgc. In German. ... more information

Philadelphia:: Lippincott,. 1953.. Hardcover. Complete 5 volume set. 8vo. Red cloth covers with titles in gilt and silver on black at red cloth spines. Covers are only very gently rubbed at corners; Vol. V, The Master, is damp marked at right edge of front cover, and at dj. All 5 volumes with yellow, brown and green djs with titles in brown and green at dj spines, on varying colored grounds. Djs are rubbed at tops of spines, and The Middle Years has a small chip at top of spine; dj to Vol. V stained pink at... more information

Edge, A.B. Broughton & T.H. Laby. The Principles & Practice of Geophysical Prospecting. Being the Report of the Imperial Geophysical Experimental Survey. Cambridge 1931. 4to, xiv + 372pp, frontis. map + 8 folding plates + ills in text. Cloth boards corners bumped o/w G+. ... more information

New York:: Simon & Schuster,. 1925.. First edition. Very good. Small 8vo, 59pp. Limited edition of 1,000 copies, of which this volume is number 258. Tan boards with title on label in black, on front cover. Title in black on label on spine; label is chipped, but title is not affected. Covers are dusty. Internally very good, with pages very lightly but evenly toned. ... more information

New York:: Shepard Kollock,. 1786.. Hardcover. 8vo, xxiv, [25]-402, [2] ads. Contemporary brown leather, gilt title at red spine label; spine with raised bands. Owner inscription at ffep: "Joh. Carle his book, 1793", and at title page. Carle was born in 1769 in Long Hill, New Jersey and became a justice of the peace, judge of the court, and member of the New Jersey Legislature. Also a signature of Barnabas King, dated 1814, who was a pastor at Rockaway, New Jersey. Edwards described his frame... more information

Edwards, S. Great Brown Kings Fisher. Kookaburra print 1789 from Philip's Voyage. Published by Stockdale, London Nov. 12th 1789. 8 1/4 x 11'', original hand colored copper engraving of a kookaburra perched on a tree stump. On laid, watermarked paper as with all the original colored plates for Philip's "Voyage to Botany Bay". The entire plate mark is visible, with just a few chips outside the impression at the paper/s edge, very good condition. ... more information

Edwards, Sydenham. Collection of plates from "The New Botanic Garden". G. Kearsley, London 1805-06. 4to, printed on thick paper, fine hand-colored plates engraved by Sansom from drawings by Sydenham Edwards. There are 60 plates in the full work, most of volume 2 of the work, with 25 plates of flower in color, and 4 b&w plates of green & ice houses, etc. The illustrations have mostly two plants per page, occasionally three, and are very handsome indeed. In the full work, the plants run alph... more information

Eggleston, F.W. et al. Australian Standards of Living. Institute of Pacific Relations. MUP, Melbourne 1939. 193pp. Orig. blue hardboard & edgeworn dj o/w vgc. ... more information

Eglinton, John. Irish Literary Portraits. Macmillan, London 1935, 1st edition. Portraits of Yeats, Joyce, A.E., Dowden, George Moore. Orig. green buckram, title label, fine in vg+ dj. ... more information

Eibl-Eibesfeldt, I. Galapagos. Macgibbon & Kee, London 1960. 8vo, 192pp, photo ills. throughout. Orig. hardboard & pic dj slt. marked o/w vgc. The author was "a zoologist and specialist in animal behavior at the Max Planck Institute". ... more information

New York:: Abrams,. 1976.. Hardcover. Very good in slt. marked dj. 4to, 611pp, with 749 illus, including 95 full color plates. Gray cloth covers with title in silver on spine. Red pictorial dj with title in white on front cover and in white on red and black spine. Dj is rubbed at edges, and especially at top of spine; small closed tear at top of rear dj cover. Internally, very bright and clean. ... more information