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1982241467Cambridge MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1982. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Sold as a 4 volume set. Vol I pub 1982; Vol II pub 1983; Vol III pub 1984; Vol IV pub 1985. Hardcover cloth bindings. Pictorial dustjackets. no markings in text. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press unknown books
1932CA0246Description:<br /><br />3 volumes. xxix-574 pages with 4 folding maps; 466 pages with folding coats of arms 6 folding native illustrations and map; 469 pages with 2 coats of arms one folding and 6 folding native illustrations. Royal octavo 9 1/2" x 7" bound in three quarter blue leather with raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine. Introduction by Rafael Lopez. From the library of George Foster. Publicaciones del Archivo General de la Nacion volume XVII XVIII and XIX.<br /><br />There are only meager biographical data about Pablo de la PurÃsima Concepción Beaumont whose work is a major source on Michoacán. Despite its title "Chronicle of the Holy Apostles St Peter and St Paul of Michoacán" Beaumont's work in fact spans a much greater area including much of western Mexico northward to New Mexico and tending toward a general history. It provides details to 1565. Beaumont divided his total work into tow major parts the firs or Aparato intended to be introductory to the second or the Crónica proper. the first seems complete but the second was never finished. The Aparato takes up fully a third of the extant Beaumont work although nominally introductory. It deals with the discovery of America and the conquest of Mexico to the year 1521. It was twice published before appearance of the total work. Far more valuable is the Crónica. It consists of two books and one chapter of book 3. Beaumont drew on a wide variety of sources. He tell us us that he gathered a large quantity of manuscripts from various Franciscan archives as well as listing 30 standard writers in printed sources. He gives full copies of some of his documents of which several have since disappeared. He speaks of obtaining a native painting possibly from which his illustrations came. These paintings show incidents of the first visits of Spaniards to Michoacán there reception by Tarascans labors of the Franciscans coats of arms of principal cities of Michoacán. It is usually through that Beaumont composed his work around 1777. That is the last date in the later copies of the original manuscript. Unfortunately his original manuscript is lost. It was copied in Mexico City around 1792 to for volumes 7-11 of a 32 volume Collection of Memories on New Spain ordered by Viceroy Conde de Revilla Gigedo and compiled by Manuel de la Vega. Three partially complete sets of these Vega Memorias are known; from one or another of them come other recopied manuscript copies as well as the printed versions. Editions of the work have a somewhat unfortunate publishing history. In 1826 Bustamante published an incomplete and useless edition of the Aparato attributing it to Vega who had owned the manuscript Bustamante used. In 1873-74 a five volume edition of both Aparato and Crónica appeared in Mexico; it lacks the Indian drawings and was based on a secondary manuscript copy made b y J F Ramirez that then belonged to Alfredo Chavero. A three volume version was published by the National Archives of Mexico in 1932 based on their copy of the 1792 collection of Memorias; it contains the Indian drawings and an introduction by Rafael Lopez. The text seems slightly corrupt but it may be near the original as Beaumont said his Spanish was defective owing to his Parisian rearing.<br /><br /> George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Some underlining in pencil through out by Foster. Foster's date of acquire on front paste down early owner's name on front end paper. some light soiling and rubbing to extremities else a very good set. Talleres Graficos de la Nacion hardcover books
1919001796Chicago: Dept. of Public Welfare City of Chicago 1919. 39 pages with 3 fold-out charts. Near fine this softcover pamphlet has been library-bound in paper-covered unprinted boards. Small tear at head of spine of boards. This classic study is quite scarce. First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Dept. of Public Welfare, City of Chicago Hardcover books
19492222117<p>Third edition revised. Octavo. Illustrations by E. S. Hammack. Maps and lettering by Frederic Shaw. Dust jacket unclipped; few nicks. Very good. 72 pages.</p><p>Special "Bucket of Blood" edition signed by Beebe and Clegg.</p><p>Printed by El Camino Press Salinas California.</p> Grahame H. Hardy hardcover books
185521548New York: J.C. Derby 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 359 pp in publishers's blind-stamped cloth. Spine faded and chipped at head and foot corners rubbed through. Binding tight text clean. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "Miss Esther Church with the kind regard of the Author H.W. Beecher." Esther Church later Esther Church Conant appears briefly in the Beecher Family Papers held at Yale so was presumably an acquaintance. Beecher 1813-1877 was an outspoken preacher and social reformer and also a talented writer. This book contains a selection of his weekly columns in The New York Independent a widely read Congregational newspaper in which he "promoted his genial vision of a new Romantic Christianity; focused on God's love for humankind; and stressed to an urban audience the regenerative power of Nature" ANB. The essays collected here deal primarily with rural lif and the natural world though there is also a short section titled "Letters from Europe" that discusses art in the great museums of England and France. J.C. Derby hardcover books
1831E01322 volumes. xxi472 pages with three maps two folding and one double page figures and 13 plates; iv452 pages with 10 plates some folding tables and appendices. Octavo 9 1/2" x 5 1/2" Bound in contemporary half leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. Ferguson 1418; Hill I p. 19; Howes B309; Lada-Mocarski 95; Sabin 4347. Second edition published after quarto edition of the same year.<br /><br />Frederick William Beechey 17 February 1796 – 29 November 1856 was an English naval officer and geographer. He was the son of Sir William Beechey RA and was born in London. 1806 he entered the Royal Navy and saw active service during the wars with France and America. In 1818 he served under Lieutenant afterwards Sir John Franklin in David Buchan's Arctic expedition of which at a later period he published a narrative. In the following year he accompanied Lieutenant W. E. Parry in HMS Hecla. In 1821 he took part in the survey of the Mediterranean coast of Africa under the direction of Captain afterwards Admiral William Henry Smyth. He and his brother Henry William Beechey made an overland survey of this coast and published a full account of their work in 1828 under the title of Proceedings of the Expedition to Explore the Northern Coast of Africa from Tripoly Eastward in 1821-1822. In 1825 Beechey was appointed to command the HMS Blossom. His task was to explore the Bering Strait in concert with Franklin and Parry operating from the east. In the summer of 1826 he passed the strait and a barge from his ship reached 71°23'31" N. and 156°21'30" W. near Point Barrow which he named a point only 146 miles west of that reached by Franklin's expedition from the Mackenzie river. The whole voyage lasted more than three years and in the course of it Beechey discovered several islands in the Pacific and an excellent harbor near Cape Prince of Wales. In July 1826 he named the three islands in the Bering Strait. Two were the Diomede Islands that Vitus Bering had named in 1728: "Ratmanoff Island" Big Diomede and "Krusenstern Island" Little Diomede. Beechey called the uninhabited third islet "Fairway Rock" which is still its contemporary name. One of his crew Petty Officer John Bechervaise gave a detailed account of the voyage in his Thirty Six Years if a Seafaring Life by an Old Quartermaster published privately in 1839. In 1831 there appeared his Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to Co-operate with the Polar Expeditions 1825-1828. In 1835 and the following year Captain Beechey was employed on the coast survey of South America and from 1837 to 1847 carried on the same work along the Irish coasts. He was appointed in 1850 to preside over the Marine Department of the Board of Trade. In 1854 he was made rear-admiral and in the following year was elected president of the Royal Geographical Society. Beechey Island where Sir John Franklin wintered is named after him.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Name neatly excised from head corner of titles small inconspicuous stamp to last pages. Inner hinges beginning marble to boards rubbed some stains to map. some toning to some plates some plates not bound in order to the printer but are all accounted for corners gently bumped else about a very good set. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley hardcover books
1843E01482 volumes. xxxvii23878 ad pages with frontispiece woodcuts in text and 7 steel-engraved plates; vi2474 pages with frontispiece woodcuts in texts and 10 steel-engraved plates. Royal octavo 9¼x5½" in publisher's original green cloth spine lettered in gilt covers decorative blind stamped. First Edition.<br /><br />In 1825 Edward Belcher accompanied Frederick William Beechey's expedition to the Pacific and Bering Strait as a surveyor. In 1836. he commanded a surveying ship on the north and west coasts of Africa and in the British seas. Belcher took up the work which Beechey had left unfinished on the Pacific coast of South America. He was on board the bomb vessel HMS Sulphur which was ordered to return to England in 1839 by the Trans-Pacific route. Belcher made various observations at a number of islands which he visited having been delayed by being dispatched to take part in the war in China in 1840. On 26 January 1841 the then Commander Belcher landed on Possession Point at the north shore Hong Kong Island and made the first British survey of Hong Kong harbor. After the war's end in 1842 he reached home and for his services was made a Knight Bachelor in the following year. He was then engaged in HMS Samarang in surveying work in the East Indies the Philippines Geomun-do Port Hamilton and other places until 1847. In 1852 Belcher led the last and largest Admiralty expedition to rescue Sir John Franklin. He was also to look for his former surveying officer in Hong Kong Richard Collinson and Robert McClure whose ships had not been seen after entering the Bering Strait. He did a great deal of sledge exploration rescued McClure and abandoned four of his five ships in the ice. He had five ships: Assistance Belcher Resolute Henry Kellett second mate George Nares the steam tenders PioneerSherard Osborn and Intrepid Leopold McClintock and the depot ship North Star William Pullen. Belcher and one tender were to enter Wellington Channel where Franklin was thought to be while Kellett was to go west to Melville Island and look for Collinson and McClure. North Star was to stay at Beechey Island as a supply base. He left the Nore in April 1850. By early winter Assistanceand Pioneer were frozen in at Northumberland Sound to the north of Wellington Channel while Resolute and Intrepid were frozen in off Melville Island Arctic—the first ships this far west since William Edward Parry in 1819. A great deal of exploration was done by man-hauled sledges. In April 1853 Leopold McClintock and others left the Resolute on sledges and returned 105 days later having covered 1400 miles and discovered Prince Patrick Island. Another party went west and discovered Robert McClure whose ship was frozen in at Mercy Bay. Belcher went north by sledge and found a channel at the northern tip of Devon Island hinting that Franklin might have used it to escape to Baffin Bay. When the ice broke up that summer he pushed his ships up Wellington Channel and became trapped again. By February 1854 Belcher was becoming increasingly worried about the safety of his ships and men. In April he ordered Kellett to abandon his ships and return by sledge to North Star. Belcher abandoned his two ships in late July. Aided by two ships that showed up at Beechey Island Phoenix and Breadalbane the whole party returned to England. Belcher went through a court martial which was automatic for any captain who had lost a ship. He was exonerated but his sword was returned to him 'without observation'. He never again received an active command. Curiously Resolute broke free of the ice and drifted all the way to Davis Strait where it was picked up by an American whaler.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Some staining and wear to covers spines a bit faded ends chipped and worn rear joint of Vol. I with chipping and loss; hinges repaired at endpapers some light foxing and occasional mostly marginal damp staining within the three folding maps which should be loose in a pocket not present; overall good uncommon in the original cloth. Henry Colburn hardcover books
1855E0558xx383 pages with hand colored frontispiece 3 maps in pockets plates many colored; vii41923 ad pages with color frontispiece and plates some colored. Small quarto 10 1/2" x 6 3/4" bound in original publisher's pictorial brown cloth with blind-stamped cover with gilt pictorial in gilt. Notes on the Natural History by John Richardson. Abbey Travel 645; Arctic Bibliography 1241; Books on Ice 5.8a; Hill 106; Sabin 4389; TPL 3409 First edition.<br /><br />Belcher's five-ship 1852-54 expedition in search of Franklin would be the last official British attempt. On the HMS Assistance Belcher successfully navigated through the Wellington Channel but beset by ice was unable to return to Lancaster Sound and was forced to abandon the ship. This account of the expedition also includes several essays on the natural history of the region by Richardson Owen Bell Salter and Reeve.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Minor wear re-backed with parts of original back-strips laid down; minor foxing short separations at folds to the largest map; inked stamps on title pages Edinger bookplates else a good set internally very good. Lovell Reeve hardcover books
1588046064Paris: Lucas Breyel 1588. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Full contemporary calf heavily worn hinges cracked front board nearly detached and held by one cord rear by two rear bottom corner degraded and broken. Old names inked out on title light toning to title and early pages very clean internally otherwise. With lovely early paste paper endpapers and pastedowns - very fine examples; lacking original blanks with these bound in relatively early on. The second edition of Belleforest's 1572 work collecting military harangues - the exhortations of commanders given to the troops before a battle Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Military & Warfare. Inventory No: 046064. <br/><br/> Lucas Breyel hardcover books
19804854Cambridge: MIT Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0262021471 . Translated from the Italian by Mirella and Riccardo Giacconi. Foreword by Stillman Drake. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . MIT Press hardcover books
199430851Charlottesville: Howell Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 0943231906 . Color and black and white illustrations throughout. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Howell Press hardcover books
1823046784London: Benbow 1823. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Early half red leather mild wear and rubbing to boards marbled endpaper loose some offsetting from frontis onto title page scattered very light foxing very clean overall bound with the half title. x 240 xvi 58pp.<br/><br/>Benbow was an interesting character a political reformer pamphleteer pirate publisher he published a well circulated edition of Queen Mab in 1812 he was in and out of trouble for most of his working career. Crimes of the Clergy is a collection of pamphlets he had written started in 1821- it was much condemned and no doubt destroyed as few copies seem to circulate. In it Benbow details a host of heinous crimes pederasty abuse drunkenness theft etc etc. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; History. Inventory No: 046784. Benbow hardcover books
1968206784New York: Delacorte Press 1968. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/near Very Good dust jacket. No pencil or ink markings in text. Boards clean. Very small bump on spine near top. Corners very lightly bumped. Dustjacket lightly soiled. Small tears and chips at top and bottom of front and rear dustjacket covers at folds with very small pieces missing. Chip on dustjacket spine at front dustjacket cover about 1 inch down from top. Small closed tears at top and bottom of dustjacket spine. Small closed tears at top and bottom of front and rear dustjacket covers. DJ protected with Mylar Cover. Very Good binding / near Very Good dust jacket. Delacorte Press unknown books
1925025667New York: Adelphi 1925. First U.s. Cloth. Good -. Heavy wear and chipping to cloth at head and tail of spine - toning to spine a few pencil marks in margins. Good reading copy of a scarce book by the author of Proposals for London Improvements; First Railway in London and others. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: History; Inventory No: 025667. <br/><br/> Adelphi hardcover books
199538379Lincoln:: University of Nebraska Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 0803212542 . First edition. Very near fine in like dust jacket. . University of Nebraska Press, hardcover books
19022987San Antonio TX 1902. Softcover. Very Good. 131 pp with frontispiece illustrations in original wrappers. Light handling two small chips to rear cover; text clean. Nicely illustrated little survey of the early history of Texas the Missions and the Alamo. paperback books
199929317Stroud: Sutton. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0750922834 . Illustrated. Book club edition. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper else fine in a fine dust jacket. . Sutton hardcover books
200325319NY: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 0195144368 . First printing. Upper corner of front board is badly bumped else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Oxford University Press hardcover books
200325320NY: Oxford University Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 0195144368 . First printing. As new in like dust jacket. . Oxford University Press hardcover books
1646045121Cologne 1646. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary full overlapping vellum slight browning to page edges in a few spots otherwise a fine bright copy. In two parts Bentivoglio's letters from Flanders beginning as negotiations to end the 80 years war commenced and his letters from France in the second part. 233 3pp. Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Religion & Theology. Inventory No: 045121. <br/><br/> hardcover books
190525191905. Cards. Color illustrated cards. Near fine in near fine wrappers. Six - 13.75 x 8.75 color illustrated French post cards depicting ladies of the evening at work numbered 1 to 6. Entôlage: Theft committed by prostitutes or an accomplice to the detriment of their clients. Full set with illustrated paper wrapper. <br/><br/> unknown books
006371No Place: Green Feather Movement RARE No Place No Date but Bloomington Indiana March 1954. The first call to action of the "Order of Robin Hood" which became known as the Green Feather Movement an early college activist movement rising from the campus of Indiana University against censorship and McCarthyism. On Nov. 13 1953 Mrs. Thomas J. White of the Indiana Textbook Commission called for a ban of Robin Hood in all school books for promoting communism because he stole from the rich to give to the poor. In response a group of 5 Indiana University students -Bernard Bray Mary Dawson Edwin Napier Blas Davila and Jeanine Carter- came together after gathering a bag of chicken feathers and dyeing them green to represent Robin Hood. They then spread them throughout campus in response to this censorship and the Red Scare of McCarthyism. The Green Feather Movement inspired student activism across the country with groups forming at Harvard Michigan Illinois Wisconsin Purdue and UCLA heralding the much broader and potent student protests of the 60s and 70s. Near Fine small tear top edge. . First Edition. Pamphlet. Near Fine. 3" x 5". Green Feather Movement Paperback books
1838010009Philadelphia: Henry Perkins 1838. First Edition. Publisher's Binding. VG-. Scarce American publication derived from Berquin's "L'Ami Enfans' constituting an instructional manual for young people using French drama especially Moliere to elucidate moral and historical principle. 12mo 330 pages in original publisher's binding pebbled cloth and gilt-ruled leather spine. Some loss at spine head still firmly bound. Internal spotting here and there but overall a solid unsophisticated original binding. "From the publisher" pencilled on ffe. 20thC bookplate pastedown. OCLC lists only 3 copies. Henry Perkins unknown books
1882038143Portland: Stephen Berry 1882. First Edition. Softcover Pamphlet. Very Good. Card covers over original wraps. Front cover chipped a little at edges rear chipped and a bit soiled otherwise unmarked. 139pp. Williamson Bib of Maine 128 Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: History; Inventory No: 038143. Stephen Berry unknown books
500935<p>6 1/4" x 3 1/2" n.d. aka Charles Herbert Best.</p><p>Best 1899-1978 Canadian physiologist born in Maine; head of the physiology department 1929-65 and director of medical research 1941-67 at the University of Toronto; associated with F.G. Banting and others in the discovery of insulin 1921; later discovered choline and histaminase.</p> unknown books
