Search Results: in search of el dorado a by alexander macdonald

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1910. 3rd impression. Hardcover. Very good overall. Pearls, gold and opals in New Guinea and Australia. 8vo, grey publishers boards, gilt title on spine. A very little foxing.

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London : Fisher Unwin. 3rd impression. Near VG in blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Ex college library copy. Bookplate and library stamp on the inside front cover. (The modern travel series). 13284. . Good. Hardcover. 1910.

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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

T. Fisher & Unwin , 1910 xviii, 291 p.frontis.. front board just starting, uncut ,

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. [1], xviii, 292 pages, 6 pages of publisher advertisements. Frontispiece photograph of the author. Illustrated with photographs. Burgundy color illustrated cloth hardcover. Untrimmed edges. Some unopened pages. Some browning and light foxing to the contents. This is a memoir of gold prospecting in Alaska and mineral prospecting in the South seas. First published 1905.

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1910 third impression.. xviii+292+[6]pp. 8vo. Original black cloth, gilt titles on backstrip, lightly marked. Frontis, b/w plates. Light offsetting to endpapers, but a very good, tight copy.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1910. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Very Good. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. Previous owners' name to the second blank. Pages gently tanned with a little spotting to the start and finish. . Hardback. Physically 8¼” x 5¼” (1 kg); (xviii) 291 (6)pp; Preface by Admiral Moresby; Includes: Black & white plates; Frontispiece portrait; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #187867|| Condition:

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., nd r1905. Hardcover. good to very good. 1st American Edition. xviii,291pp. Ocatvo in original decorated cloth, uncut with frontispiece portrait and plates from photos. Some scattered foxing, rear hinge cracked, else very good. good to very good Arctic Bibl. 10590, citing the London 2nd impression of 1906 (first published in 1905 in London) - "Part one recounts the author's year in the Klondike, his inward trip via the White Pass, and outward by the Chilkoot Pass route." About 1/3 of the book devoted to Klondike adventures. 1905

London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1905. First edition. Cloth. Good. 9" by 6". None. A scarce copy of In Search of El Dorado A Wanderer's Experiences by Alexander Macdonald with an introduction by Admiral Moresby. An account of Macdonald's journey through Western Australia. First edition. With a portrait of Macdonald to frontispiece with facsimile signature and black and white plates throughout. Previous owner's ink inscription to front pastedown and Times Book Club label to rear pastedown. In an illustrated cloth binding. Externally, generally smart but with slight wear to extremities, occasional slight splitting to cloth to joints and marks to boards. Front hinge strained, rear tender. Internally, generally firmly bound although slightly strained in places with the odd page loosening. Bright and generally clean but with occasional spots and handling marks to text block edge and the odd slight closed tear. Good

London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1905. Octavo, original pictorial cloth boards stamped in gilt, b&w plates, frontis portrait, pp xviii, 29, viii. With the amorial bookplate of Matthew Fortescue Moresby and signed below plate by his son Kelso Anstruther Moresby with inscription in another hand "Introduction by Uncle John - (Admiral Moresby). Spine faded, light scattered foxing throughout, o/w very good condition. Travels, including the West Australian goldfields, Broome, and New Guinea. "Alexander Macdonald was an explorer, author and mining engineer. […]. He was one of the pioneers of the Klondike goldfields and among other adventures led various exploring and geological expeditions in the interior of Australia. He spent some time in Western Australia and Queensland and served with the Australian contingent in the Boer War. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society." (Austlit). The bookplate is that of Matthew Fortescue Moresby, the brother of Admiral John… Read More