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18561081<p>Large folding map of Central America hand-colored in outline. Folds out to approx. 43 by 39 in. Very good overall small tears starting at the folds ; annotations to front pastedown in pencil. Folded as issued and in gilt boards. 1081</p><p><i>This exquisite map reflects The United States of America's initial interests in Nicaragua for canal passage from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans. Insets show the Nicaragua from San Juan to Fonseca Bay with texts on treaties and boundaries of Belize and Mosquito Coast Costa Rica and 3 inset maps: Bay of Fonseca -- Port of San Juan de Nicaragua or Grey Town -- Nicaragua from San Juan to Fonseca Bay.</i></p> books
20148661Philadelphia PA: Luminice Press 2014. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Portfolio. Tight bright and unmarred. Printed paper boards black leather spine; black Tyvek case with magnetic closure. Small oblong 4to. np. Illus. b/w plates. Numbered limited edition this being 4 of 10. <br/><br/>Five etchings with hand-applied washes; two-color reduction linocut for cover. "Unless otherwise noted text adapted by Mary Agnes Williams from "The Mariners' Chronicle: Containing Narratives of the Most Remarkable Disasters at Sea" by Archibald Duncan 1835" Luminice Press hardcover books
1971029490Port Washington London: Kennikat Press 1971. xii 570p. b/w front. original black cloth. Reprint of the 1932 edition. Contains 49 essays by various scholars mostly in mediaeval literature. Kennikat Press unknown books
2003UWILMOT05LRDell Yearling 2003. Fine. Williams Carol Lynch. A Mother to Embarrass Me. New York: Dell Yearling 2003. 136pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine. Dell Yearling paperback books
1837318440London: Published for the author by G. Snow 1837. First edition. Color frontispiece of Chief of Rarotanga folding map and numerous plates and textual engravings by G. Baxter. xviii ii 589 1pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters polished mottled modern calf and. First edition. Color frontispiece of Chief of Rarotanga folding map and numerous plates and textual engravings by G. Baxter. xviii ii 589 1pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An enormously popular work appearing in many editions during the nineteenth century.<br/>Hill: "Williams was the ablest missionary to the Polynesian people and his book was the most often printed and widely read of all the contemporary accounts. Williams was sent . . . to the Society Islands in 1816. He traveled about the island converting the native populations. . . . He made his headquarters at Raiatea but also visited the Cook Islands and discovered Rarotonga where he sojourned for a considerable time. He voyaged to Samoa Tonga and the neighboring islands. He returned to England in 1834 for a four-year period where he commissioned a printing of the New Testament and then translated it into Rarotongan . . . where he sojourned for a considerable time. After a successful speaking tour of England during which time he oversaw the printing of his translation of the New Testament into Rarotongan he returned to the Pacific in 1838 and while visiting the island of Erromanga he was murdered by cannibals." Hill 2004 ed. 1875 Published for the author by G. Snow unknown books
1841026671London: John Snow 1841. Octavo. xviii ix-x pp. folding map 506 pages Illustrated by G. Baxter with 25 full page wood engravings with the hand colored frontispiece of Tu Po Chief of Rarotonga which often is lacking. When John Williams arrived at Samoa there were already a number of crude Christian cults the Tongans had already been converted in large part to Weslyan Methodism. He treated them with respect even understanding the dilemmas of renouncing their old gods. Of course their relative sexual freedom was also a difficult issue. This issue is complete and the map is in fine condition. Bound in ¾ calf over marbled paper covered boards edges speckled brown and blue raised bands ruled in gilt one compartment lettered in gilt light wear to binding a few spots of foxing or toning to title page and some plates the outer margin of page ix may either have been repaired or simply a stain p. 505 outer margin repaired. Over all a very nice copy. John Snow unknown books
1837WRCAM30032London 1837. xviii2589pp. including in-text illustrations plus five engraved plates and folding map. Color frontis. Engraved titlepage vignette. 19th-century polished calf ruled in blind and gilt spine paneled and gilt leather label all edges marbled. Hinges worn corners bumped. Small bookplate. Internally very neat and clean. Very good. "A non-conformist missionary Williams was sent by the London Missionary Society to the Society Islands in 1816. He traveled about the islands converting the native populace to Christianity.He made his headquarters at Raiatea but also visited the Cook Islands and discovered Rarotonga where he sojourned for a considerable time. While there he aided in the establishment of a civil administration based upon the new religion of the islanders. After his return to Raiatea he set forth on the other voyages to Samoa Tonga and the neighboring islands.Later he sailed to the New Hebrides; while visiting the island of Erromanga he was murdered by cannibals on November 20 1839" - Hill. Hill who does not list the true first edition describes the present work as the main source for material on Williams "and these insights into missionary and native life are very important to a complete understanding of Pacific history." HILL 1874. hardcover books
1837WRCAM10341New York 1837. 525pp. plus folding map. Titlepage vignette. Illus. Original cloth. Cloth soiled some foxing several signatures starting else good. The first American edition. "A non- conformist missionary Williams was sent by the London Missionary Society to the Society Islands in 1816. He traveled about the islands converting the native populace to Christianity.He made his headquarters at Raiatea but also visited the Cook Islands and discovered Rarotonga where he sojourned for a considerable time.After his return to Raiatea he set forth on the other voyages to Samoa Tonga and the neighboring islands.Later he sailed to the New Hebrides; while visiting the island of Erromanga he was murdered by cannibals on November 20 1839.these insights into missionary and native life are very important to a complete understanding of Pacific history" - Hill. HILL 1875. hardcover books
183735627London 1837. Color frontis fldg. map b/w plates and ills. xviii 590 pp. Williams was the ablest missionary to the Polynesian people and his book was the most often printed and most widely read of all the contemporary accounts. Hill 1874. This first edition is also notable for its color frontispiece by George Baxter who Hill notes was the first illustrator to devise a successful printing method using oil-based inks. The frontispiece portrait is a fine example of his work. And this is a fine example of Williams book. First edition in black diced calf. unknown books
184046810London: John Snow 1840. 8vo pp. ix 1 154; text in double column; frontispiece portrait folding map of Polynesia plus a number of wood engravings in the text; bound with: Koempfer Engelbert An account of Japan.abridged and arranged from the translation of J. G. Schuechzer pp. xvi 105; text in double column wood-engraved frontispiece and vignette title page; bound with: Bligh William Lieut. Narrative of the mutiny on the Bounty on a voyage to the South Seas.to which are added some additional particulars and a relation of the subsequent fate of the mutineers and of the settlement in Pitcairn's Island n.p. n.d. pp. 72; text in double column; bound with: The life and adventures of Peter Wilkins a Cornish man: relating particularly his shipwreck near the South Pole.By R. S. a passenger in the Hector n.p. n.d. pp. vii 1 116; text in double column wood-engraved frontispiece and vignette title page; together 4 titles in 1 ocatvo volume bound in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards marbled paper peeling a bit on the lower cover spine a bit discolored but in all a good sound volume. <br/><br/> John Snow hardcover books
183736986New-York: D. Appleton & Co 1837. 1st US edition American Imprints 48533; Hill Collection 1875. Original publisher's blue coth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Yellow eps. Spine sunned. Cocked. Binder's glue offset to eps with front hinge starting at bottom 2". Withal a VG copy. 2 xxii 2 25 - 525 5 blank pp. T.p. vignette. Folding map. Intratextual cuts by George Baxter. Signed in 6s. 8-3/4" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/> D. Appleton & Co unknown books
183713815New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1837. 8vo. 525 pp. fold. map. <br><br>First American edition. Williams 1796-1839 the Hill catalogue tells us "was the ablest missionary to the Polynesian people and his book was the most often printed and widely read of all the contemporary accounts. Williams was sent . . . to the Society Islands in 1816. He traveled about the island converting the native populations. . . . He made his headquarters at Raiatea but also visited the Cook Islands and discovered Rarotonga where he sojourned for a considerable time. He voyaged to Samoa Tonga and the neighboring islands. He returned to England in 1834 for a four-year period where he commissioned a printing of the New Testament and then translated it into Rarotongan . . . where he sojourned for a considerable time. After a successful speaking tour of England during which time he oversaw the printing of his translation of the New Testament into Rarotongan he returned to the Pacific in 1838 and while visiting the island of Erromanga he was murdered by cannibals. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hill 2004 ed. 1875. Publisher's cloth rebacked front joint outside opening; front hinge open and weak. Ex-library with call number label on spine. D. Appleton & Co. hardcover books
181528003London: Printed for John Murray 1815 1815. First edition. Colbert; NCBEL II 694. Edges rubbed; some light foxing; very good copy. 8vo original brown paper spine restored with remains of the original laid on blue paper boards and printed paper label untrimmed. Half-title present. The final work on France by Helen Maria Williams first English woman to write about the upheavals of the French Revolution when she traveled there in 1790. She later became repulsed by Robespierre and the reign of terror but following the Revolution returned to France to live and become a French citizen. Her narratives of events in France between 1790 and 1815 are some of the most valuable first-hand accounts of those turbulent decades. <br/><br/> London: Printed for John Murray, 1815 unknown books
1984006579Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1984. xiv 217p. original blue cloth. Cambridge University Press unknown books
28206Other: Other. Very Good. Softcover. Bull Am Mus Nat Hist NY 1952 pp 541-560 plates 44-47. Wrappers. . Other paperback books
1980186011Bloomington Indiana: Indian University Press 1980. Hardcover. VG ex-library w/ stamps to textblock edges internal stamps usual markings etc. edge-wear to boards. dustjacket has ID to lower spine taped to cover edges plastic scuffed. maroon boards w/ gilt spine printing. 233 pgs w/ 51 bw plates. light red illustrated dustjacket w/ white printing & protective plastic cover. From a college library. Pages appears to have occasional errant pen or pencil marks otherwise clean. A nice copy. "This invaluable new work is the first complete survey of the organ ever to have been made in any language. Williams firmly bases his interpretations and judgment on extant documents whenever possible on his practical experience in playing organs all over Europe and on his close examination of a great variety of instruments at different stages of restoration or transformation. Eight chapters are devoted to the early period and four to the Renaissance. Then individual chapters consider the French classical organ the organ of Bach the Spanish baroque organ the Italian baroque organ the English organ before 1800 and the northern European organ. The final eight chapters discuss developments in the 19th and 20th centuries. Supplementing the text are a glossary and plates illustrating a full range of organs that are typical of their kind."--Amazon. Indian University Press hardcover books
1853202739Philadelphia: Lippincott Grambo & Co 1853. unbound. very good. Case map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 24" x 29.25".<br/><br/> Wellington Williams was a 19th century engraver publisher geographer and draughtsman from Philadelphia. Map includes the Gold Region of California Utah covers Nevada and part of Colorado the remainder of which is consumed by Nebraska. Washington and Oregon both extend eastward to the Rockies beyond which is North-West Territory. New Mexico includes present day Arizona. Booklet missing. Map is expertly repaired.<br/><br/> Lippincott, Grambo & Co unknown books
1959WRCLIT26319Hanover: Reprinted from THE HANOVER FORUM V:1 1959. Printed wrappers. About fine. First separate printing of this essay specially prepared as an offprint for the author. Although relegated to the "Miscellanea" section by Wallace this is not an extract but rather an independently printed item and by most definitions an 'A' item. Uncommon. WALLACE D15. Reprinted from THE HANOVER FORUM V:1 unknown books
1932WRCLIT61040Toulon: TO Publishers 1932. Printed wrappers. Wrappers tanned upper wrapper neatly detached with lower spine corner showing a small discoloration and the lower forecorner showing an old neat repair two small edge chips from lower wrapper; just a good copy. First edition. One of ca. 500 copies printed. This copy is one of the smaller variants with the leaves trimmed measuring 21.5 x 13.5 cm. versus 23 x 14 cm. WALLACE A12. TO Publishers unknown books
1932WRCLIT61039Toulon: TO Publishers 1932. Printed wrappers. Wrappers tanned with narrow cracks and one 2cm chip from the spine otherwise a very good copy. First edition. One of ca. 500 copies printed. This copy is one of the smaller variants with the leaves trimmed measuring 21.5 x 13.5 cm. versus 23 x 14 cm. WALLACE A12. TO Publishers unknown books
1932WRCLIT27120Toulon: TO Publishers 1932. Printed wrappers. Except for the slight inevitable sunning/tanning to the wrappers a clean 1 3/4" tear in the fore-edge of the front wrapper and now thanks to a careless book fair browser from the trade a clean split at the crown of the spine and 4" down the upper joint a very good largely unopened copy of this fragile book which is often seen in pieces. First edition. One of ca. 500 copies printed. This copy is one of the larger variants with the leaves untrimmed measuring 23 x 14 cm. versus 21.5 x 13.5 cm. WALLACE A12. TO Publishers unknown books
193222000Toulon France: To Publishers 1932. First edition. One of approximately 500 copies printed. Wallace A12. To Publishers represented the group of Objectivist poets which included Pound Louis Zukofsky Charles Reznikoff and Basil Bunting. A list of a few books it intended to publish appears on the inside back wrapper. Faint traces of tanning toward the edges of the back wrapper otherwise an unusually fine bright copy of this fragile book. 8vo original printed wrappers. Faint traces of tanning toward the edges of the back wrapper otherwise an unusually fine bright copy of this fragile book. To Publishers unknown books
173312855Oxford 1733. Engravings. Both printed on watermarked laid paper."The North Prospect of the New Quadrangle of Christs Church in Oxford" In excellent condition with the exception of being trimmed slightly along the left margin within the image. Left margin has been remargined with contemporary paper. Trimmed along upper margin and remargined with contemporary paper. Three creases within image where it was folded into a book. Faint off-setting. Small tear in bottom margin and small tear along upper crease. Sheet size: 18 x 22 3/4 inches. "The South Prospect of the New Quadrangle of Christs Church in Oxford" In excellent condition with the exception of being trimmed slightly along the left margin within the image. Left margin has been remargined with contemporary paper. Trimmed along upper margin and remargined with contemporary paper. Three creases within image where it was folded into a book. Faint off-setting. Sheet size: 18 x 22 7/8 inches. A pair of striking views of Christ Church college from William Williams' seminal text "Oxonia Depicta."<br/> <br/>These striking studies illustrate the north and south prospect of the New Quadrangle Christ Church College Oxford. Following the success of David Loggan's "Oxonia Illustrata" published in 1675 the University commissioned William Williams to produce a similar work entitled "Oxonia Depicta". Published between 1732 and 1733 "Oxonia Depicta" is comprised of sixty-four plans and views of Oxford University's various colleges. As in this pair of images many of the engravings include blueprints for proposed buildings and renovations; some of which were carried out and some of which were left unfinished. Williams' important text is not only a fascinating architectural study; it provides a crucial record of the changing landscape of this renowned academic institution. unknown books
1971252831New York: Compiled for NEA by Poets and Writers Inc 1971. xviii 156p. 8.5x11 inches lightly-worn and soiled bound with staples on left margin with cover letter on NEA letterhead single-sheet Poets & Writers announcement laid-in. Eighteen pages list poets alphabetically with the 156 page listings are by state and include publications and many addresses and contact numbers. Compiled for NEA by Poets and Writers, Inc unknown books
196368503New York: McGraw-Hill 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Compelling story about the marriage of a wealthy Southern belle to a wartime hero and the profound psychological struggle that results. Inscribed by Williams on the title page with a portrait of the author and an obituary notice laid in. Octavo. Original black buckram binding with white and orange titles. Typical toning to the contents. Mild rubbing to the corners and tips. The dust jacket is price-clipped with some general edgewear including a short tear to the rear panel that has been mended with tape on the verso; otherwise very good. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
