Authors starting with F from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Hardcover. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires 1940. Folio, viii, 20p. color fldg. facs. map, orig. paper wrappers bound in modern cloth boards, prelims a little foxed o/w vg+. Facsimile 1747 map of southern Argentina. ... more information

Paris:: Bibliotheque Charpentier,. 1904.. Hardcover. Small 8vo, 479pp, teg. One half dark red calf with red marbled boards. Gilt title at spine, with five raised bands. Spine slightly nicked at top; marbled boards gently rubbed at edges. Internally, pages toned, o/w very good. Marbled end papers. In French. ... more information

London:. 1793.. Important Revolutionary War era map, showing the attacks on the Patriots during the Battle of Fort Washington, New York by Hessian mercenaries & British forces, and considered the best contemporary plan of the Battle. From Charles Stedman's "History of the American War" and based on a map by Claude Joseph Sauthier. Faden was an important English cartographer and Geographer to King George III; he produced all the British maps of the American Revolution, including maps of th... more information

1794.. This important map of the Hudson Highlands region during the Revolutionary War period centers on the Hudson River from Haverstraw to just south of West Point. It clearly shows the location of the Boom (the chain) just north of today's Bear Mt. Bridge; Anthony's Nose; both Fort Montgomery & Fort Clinton battlements; Stony Point; Verplanks Point. Three British ships are named off Peekskill Creek, the Mercury, Tartar & Preston. This dramatic battle plan showing the British atte... more information

London:. 1776.. Very good condition. Historical map of Quebec during the assault on the city during the American Revolution in which the Continental Congress hoped that a quick victory would enable them to add a "14th Colony" to their cause. With wash color on the rivers. Showing the position of American forces under General Benedict Arnold on the Heights of Abraham outside the wall of the Upper Town, the location on the St. Laurence where General Montgomery launched his December 31 attack, as w... more information

Paperback. pp 61-64. RGS Journal for March 1966, London. Ills in text. Orig. blue wrps, a bit ruffled and marked o/w g+. ... more information

Baltimore:: The Rossi-Bryn Co,. 1927.. First edition.. Very good in marked dj. 8vo, 156 pp. Dark red cloth covers, with title in gray on spine. Original orange dj with title in black on front cover and on spine. in dust jacket. Dj is sunned at spine, and has a tear at front edge of spine. Internally, pages lightly toned, o/w very good. ... more information

New York:: Heraldic Publishing Co,. 1911.. Hardcover. Good +. Two volumes in one. 4to, color frontis, 137 b&w plates, 613pp. With an index to the family names as well as Mottoes each listed first in Latin, then in translation. Three quarter black leather and maroon cloth, gilt title at spine. Covers rubbed at corners, spine inexpertly reinforced with tape. Internally, a few marks at margins of some plates, o/w good+. ... more information

New York:: Theophrastus,. 1978.. Fine. 8vo, 591 pp b&w photos throughout. Green buckram cover, with gilt title on spine. First reprint of 1930 first edition. From notes of the Allison Vincent Armour Expeditions for the United States Department of Agriculture, 1925, 1926, and 1927. The author became a director of the National Geographic Society; he devoted his life to "the introduction of useful plants into America", and traveled from the Far East to Africa in that pursuit. ... more information

New York:: Scribners,. 1938.. First edition. Sml. 4to, 494pp, photographically illustrated. The author's life story, a director of the National Geographic Society; a man dedicated to "the introduction of useful plants into America", and traveled from the Far East to Africa in that pursuit. Dark green cloth boards stamped in silver, a little bumped. ... more information

Fairfax, John & Sons. Made in Australia 1938. Folio, 275pp, Orig. red textured paper wrps vg+. Advertising for goods manufactured in Australia of all descriptions. Fabulous 30's period advertising in both color and b&w, frameable. ... more information

London:: Fanfrolico Press,. 1930.. Limited edition. Hardcover. Good +. An anthology of humorous verse, with one fable, on "the philosophy of vermin", edited by Jack Lindsay. Sml 8vo, 44pp; text bordered with pattern of 9s and 6s. Limited edition of 250 copies, of which this is number 54. Orig. blue quarter cloth, with orange, yellow and blue pattern papered boards, gilt title at spine. Some damage at upper corner at rear cover, o/w good. Arnold 40. ... more information

Hardcover. Marine Research Society, Massachusetts, 1924, 335 p. 32 Illus., good condition. A captain from Stonington CT, he sailed to the South Seas for the fur seal trade and thence made voyages to China, Australia, the Fijis, Marquesas and South Georgia. Spence 456. ... more information

New York:: Neale,. 1910.. First edition. Hardcover. With much material on West Point and the Hudson River, with color illustrations. 8vo, color frontis, color plates, 277 pp. Medium blue cloth covers with gilt title at front cover and spine. Covers are rubbed, esp at base of spine. Gilt at spine rubbed. Internally, small tear at lower corner ffep, small tear at plate at p 226, small tear at inner margin of frontis which does not affect image; library bookplate inside front cover. ... more information

Farley, Joseph Pearson. West Point in the Early Sixties. With Incidents of the War. Pafraets, Troy, NY 1902. 8vo, 201pp, frontis & 30pp b&w photo illustrations, t.e.g., uncut foredge. Original blue cloth covered boards, gilt title on spine. Slt. rubbed on extremes o/w good+. Much on West Point life, with the song "Benny Havens, Oh!". Includes much on the Civil War, graduates, etc. Interesting USMA book. ... more information

Farnham, Thomas J. Travels in the Great Western Prairies. The Anahuac and Rocky Mountains and in the Oregon Territory. New York 1843, 8vo. 112 double printed pages. Bound in hardboards without orig. wrappers. Bookplate of Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas. Field 525; Howes F-50; Rittenhouse 201; Sabin 23872. 1st pub. Poughkeepsie 1841; Greely NY 1843. The author promoted settlement of Oregon. He travelled back to New York via the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands. ... more information

Privately Printed,. 1923.. Cloth. Good -. 8vo, 115 pp. Presentation copy signed by the author, with message in French. Purple cloth cover with title in gilt and no title visible on spine. Front cover and spine blackened; front cover has slight mark on title. ... more information

Farrar, Capt. Charles A.J. Through the Wilds. A Record of Sport & Adventure in the Forests of New Hampshire and Maine. Estes & Lauriat, Boston 1892. Lge. 8vo, 415pp, illustrated with photographs & woodcuts throughout. Original pictorial green hardboard stamped decoratively in black and silver. Frontis slt. loose o/w a very bright, delightful copy, really. ... more information

Farrell, James T. Olive & Mary Anne. [A Novel]. Stonehill Publishing Co., (NY) 1977, 1st edition. 8vo, (viii), 212pp. Orig. rust papered boards, green dj with a few creases & edgewear but bright. Inscribed by Farrell, to Tom Curtis, Sept. 1978. ... more information

Paris:: Librairie J. B. Bailliere et Fils,. 1906.. With 30 chromolithographic plates of French Alpine flora, and explanatory text in French. Sml 8vo, 98pp, ads. Gray paper wraps, title in black at front cover. Loose in covers, front cover chipped, as is. ... more information