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1891313258Nantucket Ma 1891. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. 1 vols. Light fold lines small tears along vertical fold line. Very good. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. 1 vols. Snow writes in detail of the sinking of the boat and the subsequent rescue effort. Included is a list of names of those saved and by whom. A charming piece of real-life Nantucket romance. Eberstadt 132:497 unknown books
188414996Paris, A. Quantin, (1884) ; grand in-8 ; demi-chagrin à coins vert-Empire, dos lisse décoré d'une "chaine" d'ancres dorées aux pointes dirigées vers l'extérieur, reliées par un double pointillé doré, serré et plus lâche dans un double encadrement de filet doré, voilier ancien en fleuron, encadré dessus et dessous de deux ancres dorées, titre et tête dorés, double filet doré sur les plats, plats de couverture conservés, non rogné (reliure de l'époque) ; (4), XII, 429, (3) pp., nombreuses illustrations en couleurs de Poirson au gillotage.
1805PHO-2404Paris, F. Buisson, 1805. In-8 (21,5x13cm),2ff.-322pp., brochage d’attente, couverture papier gris muette moderne, pièce de titre imprimée au dos, non rogné.
37868Portsmouth: Published by John Miller Jun. 1840. First edition 12mo 112 x 65 mm 80 2pp. advertisement leaf at end for relics from the wreck wood-engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 plates marbled endpapers original morocco-backed wooden boards made from timbers of the wreck of the Royal George boards split but holding firm edges gilt. The Royal George108 guns the oldest first-rate in the Navy was anchored at harbour where she was hove down for minor repair. The officer of the day refused to heed a seaman who warned him that the ship was taking in water through the ports. The ship sank as she took in water and went to the bottom with 1200 people on board including 250 women and children; nearly 900 of them drowned including Admiral Kempenfeldt. The Royal George was launched in 1751 and had served as the flagship for Anson Boscawen Hawke Rodney and Howe. Her hull was finally broken up by exploding gunpowder in 1839-41. Huntress. After the recovery of the timbers from the wreck by Colonel Pasley they were sold to E. & E. Emanuel Goldsmiths to the Queen who reworked them into 'Genuine Relics of the Royal George' i.e. Carved Chairs Tables Work Boxes Walking Sticks Ink Stands etc. Huntress pp. 51 & 145. Portsmouth: Published by John Miller, Jun. 1840 hardcover
1825AQ31290Edinburgh: Published by Waugh & Innes Edinburgh 1825. 78pp. Uncut in original drab boards printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked. Upper joint split but boards remain firmly attached by the cords. Contemporary ownership inscription to head of FFEP. From the recently dispersed remains of the Stevenson family library with no indication of such. The Kent a British East Indian Company vessel bound for Bengal and China caught fire in the Bay of Biscay on her maiden voyage. On board were 641 passengers and crew including 20 officers and 344 soldiers belonging to the 31st Regiment of Foot 43 women and 66 children 20 private passengers and a crew including officers of 148 men. The quick- thinking of Captain Cook of the passing Cambria saved the lives of 547 souls. . First edition. 12mo. Published by Waugh & Innes, Edinburgh hardcover
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Roy Gardner - Californian Bandit Extraordinary; Exploring the Salton Sea - an exploration by two motorcyclists - article with photos; Across Remote Yunnan - Part I - account of a journey through the little-known region where China and Tibet meet - article with photos; Besieged by Man-Eating Lions - a woman's terrible ordeal in East Africa; Shipwrecked in Bering Sea - Thrilling story of the passengers and crew of a schooner wrecked in the icy Bering Sea; Trailing the Gun-Runners - Part I - the United States tries to preserve peace in the Negro Republic of Dominica in 1906-7; The Last Fight of the Five Hundred - Part III - French troops are overwhelmed by Mustapha Kemal Pasha and his rebel Kurds and Turks during the siege of Urfa; American Crooks in Europe - sketches of the meteoric careers of Walter Sheridan, Max Shinburn and Adam Worth; The Decoy Telegram - an engineer's narrow escape from death; A Model Town Made From Corks - model town built by M. Jean Bertrand, musical director at Maskelyne's Theatre of Mysteries, London; The Limits of the Law - an illiterate Justice of the Peace is called on to administer justice in Mink Lake, in the Lesser Slave Lake district; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 90-176, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
38197A Paris, au bureau du Journal, place de la Bourse, 1836 et 1837. Format 16x25 cm, broche, 256 et 200 pages. Exemplaires neufs, non coupes, complets de leurs cartes depliantes, sous couverture papier, en attente de reliure. Tres bon etat.
LIT9658MRelié, non daté, 552 pages, paru chez J. Hetzel & Cie, livre en très bon état général, tranches dorées, légère décoloration sur la reliure, intérieur frais.
1793PHO-2399Paris, Maradan, 1793. 2 vol. in-8 (19,5× 12,5 cm), 2ff.-280pp. & 2ff.-272pp., demi-basane fauve mouchetée, dos lisses ornés, pièces de titre rouges et de tomaison vertes (reliures de l’époque). Plats frottés, petites taches et rousseurs
#[36142]'s Gravenhage Algemeene Landsdrukkerij 1882. Large 8vo. Original printed boards. With folding plate depicting the Adder and folding plate depicting the probable location of the wreck. II181 pp. The Adder was a Dutch ram monitor who sank on the North Sea off the coast of Scheveningen on Wednesday evening 5 July 1882. All 66 people on board were killed. The wreck was never recovered. There was a lot of criticism because it was delayed until Saturday before sending a ship to locate the Adder while the monitor was expected to be in Hellevoetsluis on Wednesday afternoon. This exceptionally slow course of action on the part of the Navy Department has been heavily criticized. A monitor was a relatively small warship which was neither fast nor strongly armored but carried disproportionately large guns. They were designed for shallow waters and served as coastal ships and used by some navies from the 1860s. - It is the largest peacetime loss of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Added 11 newspaper clippings from 1882-1883 on the shipwreck including 1 of the Bataviaasch Handelsblad. Cat. NHSM I p.483. hardcover
First edition, 8vo, [6], 288 + terminal errata slip, engraved portrait frontispiece, 4 hand-coloured plates, some light browning to title and occasionally to text (as usual), cont. full calf, spine gilt, joints rubbed.
1837bn1014Paris, Didier Libraire-Editeur,quai des Augustins, 47 Relié 1837 Deux volumes in-8 reliés plein veau, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre rouge et pièce de tomaison, premier volume : faux titre (au verso liste des livres de madame Tastu), frontispice, puis frontispice de tome, titre, dédicace puis avis de l'éditeur, 396 pages, 24 gravures hors-texte, cul de lampe et te de chapitre, second volume : faux titre (au verso liste des livres de la collection de la bibliothèque d'éducation dirigée par Guizot), frontispice, puis frontispice de tome, titre, 384 pages, 24 gravures hors-texte ; absente de Gumuchian cette édition ornée de 50 gravures, frontispices inclus est particulièrement charmante, le bibliographe a répertorié une édition de la même tradcution chez le même éditeur mais en 1850 (notice 4859), mais celle-ci est moins importante elle ne comporte que 20 planches. Coins usés, quelques cahiers du premier volume sont déréglés, coiffe du premier volume restaurée, intérieur frais, agréable exemplaire dans une reliure strictement d'époque. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original cloth. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script. 142 p., b/w ills. Özege 17027.; TBTK 8231. Only one copy located in OCLC 1030747796 (Orient Institut in Istanbul). First Edition, thus. It's an abridged translation into Ottoman Turkish but the first illustrated edition in the Ottoman / Turkish literature. According to the preface written by a translator named Mehmed Ali, whose biographical information could not be found in the literature, it is understood that he was a primary school teacher in the Ottoman period. He stated that during his teaching period, he translated some selected books from western literature from their original languages ??and read them to his students. His students said that they liked Robinson Crusoe the most, and Mehmed Ali translated and published the entire book upon his students' request. (Sources: THE SHAPING ROLE OF RETRANSLATIONS IN TURKEY: THE CASE OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, Asli Emekçi.; OSMANLICADA ROBENSON, Ayse Banu Karadag).
1788PHO-1087Chez Le Jay et Maradan, A Paris 1788, 2 volumes reliés en un , in 8 , (4) 282pp. et (4) 274pp. (3),, relié demi cuir , dos lisse avec titre illustré d’un portrait de Wilson en frontispice, une grande carte dépliante , 15 planches hors texte, petites rousseurs , léger frottements .
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Devil-Stones - A strange story of West African "fetish" and its uncanny powers among the superstition-ridden natives; Too Many Bears - Experiences of a camp cook in Yosemite National Park, where bears are as plentiful as berries, and astonishingly bold - with great photos; Through the Guadalupe Wilderness - Photo-illustrated account by Carl B. Livingston of his exploratory trip into the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico, perhaps the most inaccessible and least-known region in the United States; The Last Voyage of the "Joan" - W.E. Sinclair and a partner attempt to cross the Atlantic from England to Newfoundland - until disaster strikes in mid-ocean; To Lhasa in Disguise - Part I - After two years of preparation living in a Himalayan cave, Alexandra David-Neel sets out to become the first white woman to enter Lhasa, the mysterious Forbidden City of Tibet - with photos; The Mare's Nest - an amusing photo-illustrated story from an Australian back-blocks medical practice; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part II - Two city-bred sisters continue their homesteading adventures in South Dakota; Eskimo Magic - E.W. Hawkes, who has spent considerable time among the Eskimos of the Bering Strait, recounts several uncanny instances of "native magic"; His Highness The White Elephant - Photo-illustrated article on this animal which is held in the utmost veneration in Siam; In Quest of Gold - Part III - Final part of the adventure faced by two young Americans seeking buried gold who were forced to turn back by the Savage Yaqui Indians; The Robbery At the Mine - Sundry exciting happenings at a gold mine in West Australia where the author worked; His Last Break - An unsuccessful prison escape attempt in South Africa; The Worm That Turned - A tale from Calcutta where a European official did not recognize one of his staff. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
#[33227]London Thomas Tegg 1809. Sm.8vo. Modern boards. With folding aquatint plate depicting the 'wreck of the Hindostan East -Indiaman on the Wedge Sand near Margate January 11-1809' mounted. 28 pp. Extracted from the collection Mariner's marvelous Magazine or wonders of the ocean containing narratives of the most noted shipwrecks and disasters at sea. - The East Indiaman of the East India Company Hindostan sailed from Gravesend for India January 2 1803 passed the Nore and anchored in the Queen's Channel off the Wedge Sand. There a terrible storm struck her and she drove on the sandbank and broke up. A small boat of Margate rescued 129 out of 143 on the Hindostan; the dead were drowned or frozen. The ship was carrying a good deal of specie much of which was saved from the wreck Huntress p.53. - Rare popular edition. Huntress 153C. hardcover
1756PHO-2159Lyon, chez les Frères Duplain, 1756. In-4° (25,5x19,5cm), 1f.-xvi-185 pp.- xiv pp. (table des matières), veau marbré époque, dos à nerfs orné de lions et oiseaux avec pièce de titre grenat, lions et oiseaux aux coins des plats, tranches rouges, doubles filets aux coupes, très légères rousseurs, coiffe sup. arasée, mouillure très claire, manque la page de titre Illustré d’une vignette gravée sur cuivre en tête du texte, d’après Delamonce.
1830PHO-1714Paris, Pillet l’Ainé, 1830. 2 volumes in-8 (210x130), LX-294-1ff , 2ff-361pp-1ff , brochage éditeur , L'ouvrage est orné de deux frontispices dépliants, la planche de pirogue qui manque souvent et la carte de Manniloco, défauts à la reliure, couverture tome 1 avec taches et déchirure sans manque, manque au titre tome 2, rousseurs éparses. Hill, n°481, Sabin, n°20176, Chadenat, n°561.
1793PHO-2402Paris, Maradan, 1793. 2 volumes in-8 (20 x 12,5 cm), 2ff.-280pp. & 2ff.-272pp., veau porphyre, dos lisse orné avec titre et tomaison, triples filets aux plats, tranches jaspées. Petits frottements, 2 coins usés, 1 cahier bruni, déchirure au pli de la grande carte.
18952672Washington DC: April 2 1895. Good. 4pp. on a single folded sheet with two small photographs tipped in. In German. Quarto. Old folds some separation along central horizontal fold small chip to first leaf minor soiling. One photograph chipped. A sad document detailing the plight of a mother and son who perished in the sinking of the German transatlantic ocean liner Elbe on January 30 1895. The document seeks to detail exactly the times of death of the mother and son in order to determine whether the heirs of the mother or son have title to the property belonging to the family. Translated into English a portion of the opening reads: "She left some property here in Germany. If her son survived her if by a minute he inherited that property and it now belongs to his heirs; but if death overtook him before his mother the property never belonged to him or now to his heirs but to other people. The matter is now before the court."<br /> <br /> The Elbe collided with a Scottish ship called the Crathie in the North Sea on January 30 1895 while on the way from Bremen to New York City; the Elbe was a very popular ship amongst immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe looking to make their way to the United States. The two victims detailed in the present document were a German-American immigrant mother and son who had previously settled in Indianapolis and then moved to Washington D.C. Sophie and Eugene Rhodes. At the time of their deaths Eugene was a student at Heidelberg University in Germany. The present document opens with a typed notice from the counsel to the family detailing their presence on the Elbe and asking for details of their deaths. This is followed by photographs of both Sophie and Eugene tipped to the second page then two pages of questions attempting to locate the missing travelers. Brief answers to the questions were supplied in ink by Ernst Linkmeyer assistant engineer on the Elbe and one of only twenty survivors of the wreck. The survivors of the wreck of the Elbe included just four passengers and sixteen crew members who crowded onto the only rescue boat that survived the collision. The death toll of the wreck of the Elbe totaled 334 including Sophie and Eugene Rhodes. April 2 unknown
AQ29403Woolcock General & Commercial Printer Single leaf quarto broadside sheet. Printed within decoratie black borders with a woodcut of a steamship at head. Dated in manuscript 'Septem. 1881' beneath drop-head title An apparently unrecorded broadside ballad consisting of six eight-line stanzas and composed to fit the Air "Sailor's Grave" lamenting the loss of the Royal Mail Steamship Teuton which grounded and sank en route to Algoa Bay from Table Bay both South Africa on August 30th 1881. Flipping on its vertical axis caused complications with the lifeboats resulting in just 27 of the 242 souls on board- which included emigrants to South Africa from Great Britain and local businessmen embarking on local journeys- surviving the tragedy. . Dimensions 190 x 250mm. Woolcock, General & Commercial Printer unknown
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script. 439 p. First Edition, thus. This first Turkish translation of Robinson Crusoe made by Sükrü Kaya is produced while the translator was in exile in Malta. With the help of Michael Seidel's argument, for instance, Kaya's translation might be regarded not only as a translation made in the circumstances of exile but also as a translation of what Seidel calls an "exile narrative". This might be the only reason why Kaya decided to translate this novel. It is highly probable that he was feeling depressed and lonely; therefore, he chose to translate the story of a lonely man like himself. Indeed, Kaya declares in the translator's preface to Robinson Crusoe that the activity of translation to an extent made him forget the pain of captivity [= Tercüme mesguliyeti bana esaretin acilarini kismen unutturuyordu]. The first Turkish translation of this novel was made by Ahmed Lutfî and published by Takvimhâne-i Âmire as early as 1864. It was an abridged translation, and an unabridged translation was not made until 1919 when Sükrü Kaya was in exile in Malta. This unabridged translation made by Kaya was published by Tanin Printing House in Istanbul in 1923, and it belonged to -The Collection of Immortal Works- [Ölmez Eserler Külliyati]. Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) has been attracting the attention of many critics and scholars both in the West and in Turkey for years. Robinson Crusoe was originally written in English, and published on April 25, 1719, and its title was in fact quite long. Robinson Crusoe is among the novels which are argued to be the first English novel. The book has obtained worldwide fame, and there are hundreds of translations and adaptations. Probably due to the success of the first novel, Defoe wrote the second book which is entitled The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. (Sources: THE SHAPING ROLE OF RETRANSLATIONS IN TURKEY: THE CASE OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, Asli Emekçi.; OSMANLICADA ROBENSON, Ayse Banu Karadag). Sükrü Kaya, (1883-1959), was a Turkish civil servant and politician, who served as a government minister, Minister of Interior and Minister of Foreign affairs in several governments. (Wikipedia). First Unabridged Ottoman Turkish Edition. Özege 17028.; TBTK 8228. Only one institutional copy located in OCLC: 949585991 (Bogaziçi University Library).
18761152691876 in folio percaline London, Doré Gallery - Hamilton, Adams & C°, 1876, 1 volume grand in-folio, (2) ff. (faux-titre, titre), frontispice, 12 pages, 38 planches. Complet des illustrations de Gustave Doré. Pleine percaline rouge de l'éditeur, titres et mention "offert par le XIXme siècle à ses abonnés" sur le plat supérieur, gardes bleues, feuillets montés sur onglets. Exemplaire solide, état général correct mais percaline usée (taches, coins émoussés, toile du mors inférieur fendue, déchirure sur le dos), présence de rousseurs en grande partie sur les pages de texte et en marge des planches.
11636François PYRARD de LAVAL contenant sa navigation aux Indes Orientales, aux Moluques, & au Brésil. Première partie. Un volume in 12 plein cuir fauve raciné à nerfs, pièce de titre chagrin rouge, filets et caissons dorés. X (Epistre-table des chapitres- Extrait du privilège du Roy) 738 pages. Sans la page de titre. REMY DALLIN –Samuel THIBOUST 1615(?). Un petit raccommodage à la coiffe supérieure .première page poussiéreuse. Sinon Bon exemplairepour être jugé comme espion à Lisbonne. Les tempêtes détournent sa route sur San Salvador de Bahia, au Brésil, puis le mènent, en Galice d’où il rejoint la Rochelle le 5 février 1611. Premier récit français sur les Indes.
1749PHO-2217Amsterdam et Leipzig, Arkstee et Merkus, 1749, 4, f. de titre, [4]-XVI-333-[1] p., complet des 34 pl. h. t. presque toutes dépliantes de figures et cartes, pleine basane de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné avec pièce de titre, tranche rouge, coin usé, frottements, manque en tête au dos, texte légèrement roussi et quelques piqûres éparses, petit trou de vers au verso du premier plat, étiquette du Libraire Raymond Clavreuil.
