Authors starting with J from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Paris:: Societe de Geographie Commerciale de Paris,. 1893.. Hardcover. Scale 12 miles = 1 inch. 24 x 15 1/2", original color. Article by A. Bodard "Les Colonies de Langue Francaise Dans la province de Manitoba", pp559-571. A snapshot of the established and emerging features of the province as it enters the 20th century, the year of the census. Clearly marked on the map are the locations of schools, post offices, grain elevators and rail stations which are linked through the evolving transp... more information

Hardcover. Patrick Stephens, London, 1989 w d/j 1st British. ... more information

Hardcover. Susan Haynes, Sydney 1988. Sml. 4to, (L), 414pp, frontis & 12 col. plts, 7 maps & diags, ills in text. Orig. black buckram, vg/vg. Contains all four of Mawson's Antarctic diaries and the results of the expedition, many maps & appendices & many Hurley photos. ... more information

Hardcover. Unwin Hyman, London 1988. Sml. 4to, (L), 414pp, frontis & 12 col. plts, 7 maps & diags, ills in text. Orig. black buckram, dj, vg/vg. Contains all four of Mawson's Antarctic diaries and the results of the expedition, many maps & appendices & many Hurley photos. ... more information

A completely engaging letter, full of the cadet's course of study, and the pattern of his days at West Point in 1824. Written to his brother, Ebenezer Jackson, of Walnut Street Philadelphia. Ebenezer practiced law in Philadelphia, and moved to Middletown, Connecticut, later becoming a US Congressman from Connecticut . The course of study includes Analytic Trigonometry, Descriptive Geometry, Perspective, Fortification, the authors they are reading & Drawing. The father, Amasa Jackson, 1765-1824, s... more information

Reform Club Sound Currency Committee, NY 1895. Sml. 8vo, 31pp, orig. paper wraps chipped, torn at back. ... more information

Jackson, Charles S. Picture Maker of the Old West. William H. Jackson. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY & London 1947, 1st edition. 4to, x, 308 pp, over 260 b&w photos and other ills. in text. Decorated tan cloth, spine slt. sunned w/ slt h&f wear o/w vgc. ... more information

Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press,. 1920.. Second edition. Very good. 8vo, Volume I, 274pp, Volume II 285pp, b&w illus and color plts throughout. Gray-green cloth covers, one quarter vellum, with title and decorative vertical banc on front cover in gilt. Decorative gilt spine, with titles in gilt on brown labels, tipped on. Both labels are badly rubbed, with the label for Volume I almost completely rubbed off. Covers are dusty on both volumes, but internally very good, especially the color plates. ... more information

Hardcover. Harper & Bros., New York 1844, 1st edition. 8vo, 372pp, folding plate of Canton, woodblock ills. throughout. Jacob's book records Morrell's fifth and sixth voyages. In 1834 Jacobs, serving aboard the MARGARET OAKLEY, set out for trading and exploring in the South Seas. When Morrell caught a fever and died, Jacobs returned to the United States and wrote the present book. It includes a full account of the exploration of the small Pacific islands, Papua, Banda, Mindoro, Sooloo, and China... more information

New York:: Oxford University Press,. 1944 -5.. Mixed. Very good. 8vo, 3 volumes. Volume I: 510 pp; original dj with title in red and black on front and spine; slightly dusty, sunned on spine and lightly marked slightly chipped at base of spine; second edition. Volume II: 442 pp; original dj slightly sunned on spine and rubbed at base of spine; second printing. Volume III: 374 pp; original dj sunned on spine; first edition. Blue cloth cover with gilt title on spine. Translated from the second German edition ... more information

Freiburg:. 1895.. Very good+. 8vo, 531pp, color frontis, b&w illus throughout, with 2 folding color illus and large folding astronomical chart at back free endpaper entitle "Sternkarte". Decorative grey cloth covers with gilt title on front cover and on decorative spine. Spine is very lightly rubbed at base and top. Marbled edges and decorative endpapers, with very clean interior. Library card tipped inside back cover. In German. ... more information

Hardcover. Convoy Publications, London 1948. 12 mo, 151pp. Original green boards with 8 plates (both sides) illustrations in text from drawings (sketch maps), w chipped d/j. Photoplay edition issued with the film by John Mills. Spence 624. ... more information

Chicago:: Forbes & Company,. 1908.. First edition. Very good. 8vo, 269pp, b&w frontis, and b&w illus throughout. Red cloth cover with gilt title on spine. Spine is lightly rubbed at base; very slightly chipped at top. Internally very good, lightly toned, but clean, with owner's bookplate tipped inside front cover. ... more information

First edition. Hardcover. Good +. 8vo, 281 pp. First edition. Red cloth (later binding), with gilt title on spine. Spine is lightly sunned; cover is dusty, but o/w good plus. Original owner's signature, with date March 1879. ... more information

Boston:: James R. Osgood and Company,. 1883.. Cloth. Very good. 8vo, 294 pp. Red cloth cover with gilt title on spine; later binding. Spine is somewhat dusty, o/w very good. Original owner signature on front end paper, dated 1883. ... more information

London:: Duckworth,. 1898.. One of 1500 copies. Hardcover. 8vo, 187pp. Original blue cloth. Somewhat rubbed o/w vg+ . ... more information

New York:: Scribners,. 1920.. Hardcover. 8vo, 2 vols. (xxxi) (ii) 434pp., 1 ill. (&) (xi) (ii) 511 pp, 2 ills., t.e.g. Half navy blue morocco, gilt title & decoration, vgc. A handsome set of Henry James' letters. ... more information

Hardcover. Salem House, Topsfield, 1988 w d/j, as new. ... more information

London:: Longmans, Green & Co.,. 1867.. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Fine binding. 8vo. Volume I: sepia frontis, b&w illus throughout, lxxv, 344 pp. Volume II, Sacred and Legendary Art, Fifth Edition: sepia frontis, b&w and sepia illus throughout, xv, pp 396 -801. 3/4 dark brown leather, marbled boards, gilt title, spine with 6 compartments, raised bands and gilt rules. Boards gently rubbed at extremes. Internally, toning at frontispieces and title pages, very light scattered fox spotting, marble... more information

Hes & De Graaf,,. 2008.. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo, b&w frontis, b&w illus, 43 pp. White boards with red and black pattern; title in white on red spine; covers like new. Internally, like new. "The best known private librarian of the nineteenth century". ... more information