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189562320<p>Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company. Good with no dust jacket; Musty boards worn front boards spotted. 1895. Reprint. Hardcover. Navy cloth binding titled in gilt on spine. Top edges gilt xix 540pp engravings. Reprint of this 1867 title describing the natural history and collecting trip undertaken by the renowned naturalist and his wife to Brazil. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .</p> Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
1849OB922<p>Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co.; Uriah Hunt & Co. Philadelphia; M. W. Dodd NY 1849. Hard Cover. 333 p.; 20 cm. "The Review has far loftier object than those of the historical record. It aims to recommend and enforce the duty of preserving Peace by exhibiting the wickedness the baseness and the calamitous consequences of a victorious War." Sabin 35864. Bound in original blindstamped purple cloth gilt title on spine. Corners top & bottom of spine slightly worn minor splitting along top of front gutter some water discoloring to spine & edges of front and rear covers; scattered light foxing; Good. Stock#OB922.</p> Benjamin B. Mussey & Co.; Uriah Hunt & Co., Philadelphia; M. W. Dodd, NY,. hardcover
187052488c.1870. Scene showing woman cooking. Woodcut hand coloured In fine condition. unknown
1890List1326Costa Rica 1890. Albumen photographs 9 x 7 ½ inches on larger mounts with credits to Rudd y Paynter and the Paynter Bros. Near Fine. H.N. Rudd and the Paynter Brothers Richard and John were photographers who were active in Costa Rica in the 1890s operating out of San Jose. Five of these views show the Rudd y Paynter mark on versos with their address at the Parque Central in San Jose. The Paynters were from the United States arriving in 1874 and first establishing Rudd y Paynter out of a shop in the Parque Central where they also sold marble and art objects. In 1895 the studio changed its name to Paynter Bros. <br /> <br /> Collected here are nine scarce albumen views of Costa Rica from the 1890s. Five of them document a trip up Mt. Turrialba these bear the Rudd y Paynter mark. Of the other other four one image shows a building likely in San Jose with a gathered crowd; one shows a very striking mural and is captured “Corpus Christi / Cartaga Costa Rica June 4 / 96 this shows no photographers mars though the size and format are identical to the others and we presume the photographers to be the Paynter brothers; One shows industrial coffee machinery on “El Canada†the last shows a group of people in front of the bridge over the Rio Grande with a platform showing the markings of the Hamlin Car and Wheel Company of Catwissa PA. The group with the exception of the Corpus Christi image are mounted on uniform heavy cardstock mounts with gilt edges and remain in particularly fine condition with excellent contrast and some light wear to mounts. Overall a scarce group documenting Costa Rica at a time when few photographers operated. unknown
181230715ABLeipzig, Karl Tauchnitz, 1812. 12°. 104, 77, 157 Seiten. Pappband der Zeit. 11,7 x 8,5 cm.
1885ABC_488551885. Contemporary gold-tooled dark purple quarter morocco brownish-purple pebble-grain cloth sides with a paper label "3" mounted on the front. Oblong ca. 38 x 27.5 cm. With 20 albumen prints 43 plates engraved and lithographed and 3 drawings. Remarkable album documenting the travels of HMS Calliope 1837-1883 a British warship in the first few years after her launch. The ship first sailed to Madeira and Tenerife after which she crossed the Atlantic Ocean to visit various harbour cities in Brazil Argentina Uruguay and Chile. Many of the illustrations and photographs include handwritten annotations about the ship's journey with the exact dates of when she arrived where. As such the album was likely compiled by someone who sailed on the ship during these years possibly a crew member. The album contains photographs drawings and plates relating to the places the Calliope visited between 1838-1840. It starts with photographs of Madeira and Tenerife like the Loo Rock in the harbour of Madeira locals carrying a tourist down the Pico Grande the town of Güímar in Tenerife and an age-old Dragon Tree. As the ship's next destination was Brazil the album contains a number of photographs and illustrations of Rio de Janeiro as well as a drawing of a picnic at the summit of the Corcovado. The Calliope then sailed to Buenos Aires and Santa Fe arriving in August 1838. This part of the album contains a drawing of a gaucho and 6 beautiful photographs by Samuel Boote 1844-1921 one of the most important photographers working in Argentina in the 19th century. His work shows the interior and exterior of the St. Felicitas Church in Santa Fe as well as daily life in this city. The ship then carried the British ambassador from Argentina to Montevideo arriving in June 1839 before continuing to Valparaíso. The final pages of the album contain a map of Montevideo views of Valparaíso and the mountains nearby and a drawing of a bridge.The plates in the album were taken from other works such as Journal of a voyage to Brazil 1824 by Maria Graham and A history of the Brazil 1821 by James Henderson. The photographs were taken in the 1880s which means the album must have been compiled several decades after this particular voyage of the Calliope. However as some of the annotations mention that a location looked different on the plate than when the Calliope arrived the album must have been compiled by a crew member.The Calliope sailed to China after the visit to Valparaíso to serve in the First Anglo-Chinese War 1839-1842. After she sailed to New Zealand and primarily operated in that region until she was converted into a floating chapel in 1855 and deconstructed in 1883. With the yellow bookseller's label of "A & N.C.S.Ld Stationery Dept. 105 Victoria St. S.W." mounted on the back pastedown. The leaves and plates are somewhat foxed likely lacking a plate or drawing on the recto of leaf 16. Otherwise in good condition. hardcover
186837791J. B. Lippincott Company. 1868. 1st U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Fair cover soil or toning a narrow 1 1/2 inch top rear edge strip worn down a top spine end small worn spot a surface scratch on the back page edges darkened. A solid sewn binding despite one signature being a bit pulled. Unmarked text. No dust jacket if issued. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. This is an original edition not a recent reprint. ; 277 pages . J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover
18592221732<p>First edition. Octavo. 2 large folding tables at rear. Errata leaf. Contemporary maroon calf over marbled boards red morocco label minor rubbing. Very good. 65 pages XXVIII appendix.</p><p>Scarce work by this Mexican Lt. Colonel of Artillery 1831-1877. He achieved the rank of brigadier general and was appointed commander of the imperial artillery at the Siege of Queretara.</p><p>Provenance: From the library of the great English collector and bibliophile Sir Thomas Phillips 1792-1872 with his MS pressmark.</p> Imprenta de J. M. Lana hardcover
182444002ABParis, Lemaire (Didot) 1824-25. 2 Bände. Gr.-8°. CCXVI, 400 S.; [3] Bll., 602 S. Rote Halbleder-Bände der Zeit mit reicher Rückenvergoldung, unbeschnitten. Etwas berieben, die Deckel-Ecken stärker. Ein Deckel mit schwacher Lichtspur. Insgesamt etwas stockfleckig, die Endblätter und der Schnitt stärker. Vorsätze leimschattig. Ein Reihentitel etwas fleckig und mit kl. Einriß. (=Bibliotheca Classica Latina sive Collectio Auctorum Classicorum Latinorum cum Notis et Indicibus).
1801APHI0018Wien, Oehler 1801. kl.-8°, 238 S., HLdr. d. Zt., mit 2 goldgepr. RüSchi. u. RüVerz., Rotschnitt, berieb., bestoß., Innentit. m. kl. schw. Fleck, vereinzelt gering stockfl. Lateinisch-Deutsche Parallelausgabe.
18512004AG1851. London & New York J & F. Tallis 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Plate Size: 23.9 cm x 34.3 cm. Sheet Size: 27.5 cm x 37.4 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition. John Tallis 7 November 1817 3 June 1876 was an English cartographic publisher. His company John Tallis and Company published views maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851. Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846 and was dissolved in 1849. From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis and Company. He started The illustrated news of the world and national portrait gallery of eminent personages in 1858 selling it for £1370 in 1861; it folded in 1863. Wikipedia The most important project John Tallis undertook was the 'Illustrated Atlas' from 1851. The original map we offer here was part of this exceptional Atlas and all the maps it contained are still today considered as the last reminder of an era of lavish map production. Tallis worked the project together with John Rapkin 1815-1876 and it was Rapkin's style and talent that we have to thank for when we marvel at these maps today. What makes these maps so special is the detail of engraved vignettes that surround the map and often show indigenous scenes people in their environment and even more so historical buildings or historical views of towns and cities architecture and landscape. The project of 'The Illustrated Atlas' was designed to be finished just in time for the anxiously awaited "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations" or The Great Exhibition sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park London from 1 May to 11 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World's Fairs exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century and it was a much anticipated event. The Great Exhibition was organized by Henry Cole and Prince Albert husband of the reigning monarch Queen Victoria. It was attended by numerous notable figures of the time including Charles Darwin Samuel Colt members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll George Eliot and Alfred Tennyson. Music for the opening was under the direction of Sir George Thomas Smart and the continuous music from the exhibited organs for the Queen's procession was "under the superintendence of William Sterndale Bennett". Wikipedia unknown
187916318Little Brown and Company 1879. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. Ninth edition. Revised and brought down to date." Page edges browned and foxed; extensive foxing of front endpapers especially frontispiece and facing title page despite protective rice paper transparency and again on the map facing first page of chapter one - fewer than ten pages are foxed but it is disheartening that it includes two sets of illustrations. There are 150 engravings in all. There is a three inch tear to the foldout map where it is attached to the page. On the verso of the front board is a former owner's bookplate. On the third front endpaper there is a 1886 gift inscription from Alencar Cintra to Colonel Henry B. Davenport. Binding is visibly rounded with rub marks on corners and spine tips otherwise the beveled decorative borders and gilt lettering on green cloth boards and spine are in very good plus condition. There is a three inch split at front pastedown gutter hinge emanating from the tail. <br/> <br/> Little, Brown, and Company hardcover
1883E0564Title leaf & 13 leaves of maps being mounted albumen photograph reductions of the original map. Photographs are approximately 7¼" x 8¾" on card stock leaves. Oblong royal octavo 9 "x 12½" bound in original red cloth rebacked with modern leather with original gilt-lettered leather spine laid on. References: P-LG 5121. El Territorio Mexicana Vol II p 457 reproduces 5th map of 1st edition. International Geographical Exposition and Congress of London. Geographical and Exploring Commission of the Mexican Republic. Catalogue of the Exhibits presented by the Commission with a short sketch of its organization and labors by the Directing Engineer Julio Alvarado C. E. Mexico 1895. p 32 First and only edition.<br /><br />Rare atlas of photographs of the map of the region around Puebla southwest of Mexico City. Warren Heckrotte describes the atlas and the enterprise that produced it: "The Comision Geografica-Explordora was established by a decree of December 13 1877. It was directed to prepare a map of the Republic with all the scientific accuracy desirable. The region around the town of Puebla southwest of Mexico City was the first effort of the Commission. The surveying was done by astronomical determinations and triangulation. Between 1879 and 1882 the planned nine sheets lithographed in Mexico City were issued at a scale of 1:20000. Elevations are shown by contour lines. For this atlas the sheets were issued as photographs the maps reduced in scale to 1:50000. A photographic edition at the scale of 1:100000 was also issued. Other areas of the country were mapped. The ultimate goal was to produce a map of the country at a scale of 1:100000 in 1100 sheets. At the time the Commission closed shop in 1914 a little over 200 sheets had been completed. This mode of production suggests that a small number of these atlases were produced." Indeed OCLC/WorldCat locates only two copies at the University of California Berkeley and Dartmouth College.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Some soiling to covers; expertly rebacked by Sandra Good; new endpapers; internally fine or nearly so a bit of darkening to margins of mounts. Comisión Geográfico-Exploradora hardcover
1872List1815Guatemala City 1872. Broadside measuring 17 ¼ x 13 ½ inches. Vertical fold to center some loss and foxing to left upper portion very good plus overall. An unrecorded broadside announcing the first celebration of the Día del Ejército de Guatemala a holiday celebrating the defeat of the dictator Vicente Perna. This broadside also mentions the success of the campaign in Honduras as a reason for the celebration. The text gives an extensive description of the day’s festivities with celebrations including the military band and a puppet theater for children. The rules for the evening include no selling of alcoholic beverages and no one entering the plaza on horseback. The holiday still exists today and became a center of controversy following the Guatemalan Civil War. unknown
18512010AG1851. London & New York J & F. Tallis 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Plate Size: 32.4 cm x 27.3 cm. Sheet Size: 37.5 cm x 27.4 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition. John Tallis 7 November 1817 3 June 1876 was an English cartographic publisher. His company John Tallis and Company published views maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851. Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846 and was dissolved in 1849. From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis and Company. He started The illustrated news of the world and national portrait gallery of eminent personages in 1858 selling it for £1370 in 1861; it folded in 1863. Wikipedia The most important project John Tallis undertook was the 'Illustrated Atlas' from 1851. The original map we offer here was part of this exceptional Atlas and all the maps it contained are still today considered as the last reminder of an era of lavish map production. Tallis worked the project together with John Rapkin 1815-1876 and it was Rapkin's style and talent that we have to thank for when we marvel at these maps today. What makes these maps so special is the detail of engraved vignettes that surround the map and often show indigenous scenes people in their environment and even more so historical buildings or historical views of towns and cities architecture and landscape. The project of 'The Illustrated Atlas' was designed to be finished just in time for the anxiously awaited "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations" or The Great Exhibition sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park London from 1 May to 11 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World's Fairs exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century and it was a much anticipated event. The Great Exhibition was organized by Henry Cole and Prince Albert husband of the reigning monarch Queen Victoria. It was attended by numerous notable figures of the time including Charles Darwin Samuel Colt members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll George Eliot and Alfred Tennyson. Music for the opening was under the direction of Sir George Thomas Smart and the continuous music from the exhibited organs for the Queen's procession was "under the superintendence of William Sterndale Bennett". Wikipedia unknown
183444579ABParis, Parent-Desbarres 1834. 474 S. Halbleder der Zeit mit 2 roten Rückenschildern und reicher Rückenvergoldung. Etwas berieben. (=Collectio selecta SS. Ecclesiae Patrum, complectens exquisitissima Opera tum dogmatica et moralia, tum apologetica et oratoria. Vol. 75).
183044578ABParis, Méquignon-Havard [bzw.] Parent-Desbarres 1830-34. 4 Bände. Zus. ca 2000 S. Halbleder der Zeit mit 2 roten Rückenschildern und reicher Rückenvergoldung. Etwas berieben, ein Rücken mit kl. Wurmgang. Wenige Bll. im Rand mit Wurmgang. (=Collectio selecta SS. Ecclesiae Patrum, complectens exquisitissima Opera tum dogmatica et moralia, tum apologetica et oratoria. Vol. 31-34).
183044577ABParis, Méquignon-Havard 1830. 6 Bände. Zus. ca 3500 S. Etwas abweichendes Halbleder der Zeit mit 2 roten Rückenschildern und reicher Rückenvergoldung. Kanten etwas berieben, ein Rücken mit kl. Fehlstelle, ein Rücken mit Wurmloch. (=Collectio selecta SS. Ecclesiae Patrum, complectens exquisitissima Opera tum dogmatica et moralia, tum apologetica et oratoria. Vol. 22-27).
182025056ABStgt, gedruckt in der Typographia Societatis Wuerttembergicae [d.i. Löflund]; in Leipzig in Komm. bei C.H.F. Hartmann 1820. 2 Bände. CXVII, 562 S., 1 Bl.; 704 S. HLdr der Zt mit Rückentitel und etwas -vergoldung. Einbände teils beschabt, Ecken bestoßen. Teils stockfleckig oder etwas gebräunt.
182937415ABLpzg, Cnobloch 1829-37. 2 Bände. 4°. 1 Bl., XIV, 45, (1) S., 1 Bl., (47)-778; XV S., 1 Bl., 400, 611 S., 2 Bll. HLdr der Zt mit rotem Rückenschild und Rückenvergoldung. Einbände restauriert. Viele Anmerkungen (Bleistift) und auch farbige Unterstreichungen (alle alt). Hs. Besitzeintrag von 1835 am Titel. Stellenweise etwas gebräunt und geringf. stockfleckig.
