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1988222Princeton: Princeton University Press 1988. First Edition First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Very good/fine. Very good first printing. Brown cloth under buckram quarter cloth binding. Cream endpapers. Pages are clean and bright. Rear endpaper and page 379 have short tear at bottom. From the private library of Larry Southwick collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. In a fine dust jacket now protected in a clear removable archival cover. Profusely illustrated with photos and drawings. 379 pp. including bibliography and index. Quarto 10 1/2 x 10 inches tall. Large and heavy item billed at actual shipping charges. Princeton University Press hardcover books
1935008926Charleston SC 1935. Bespoke project documentation book for the Works Progress Administration restoration of the Dock Street Theatre Charleston South Carolina with the architect Douglas D. Ellington's. personal bookplate. Housed in an embossed calf binder with string tie gilt lettering. 48 pages listed in table of contents which refer to 48 labelled sections each with items such as a summary of the project folder of photographs taken in Stoll's Alley newspaper clippings theatre programs and broadsides research records of holders of the property maps plans photographs drawings and other related ephemera. Very Good the leather binder with wear at spine ends and folders. Douglas D. Ellington 1886-1960 was a Native of North Carolina and trained at the Ecole des Beauv Arts being the first American to win the top honor for decorative competitions at the École. In addition to his work on this theatre project he designed numerous churches residences and government housing projects in Charleston as well as facilities associated with the Charleston Naval Base during the 1940s and 1950s. He is best known for his Art Deco buildings of the 1920s for Asheville N.C. The original Dock Street Theatre opened Feb. 12 1736 and was the site of the first building designed for theatric performances in the Thirteen Colonies. Likely destroyed in the Great Fire of 1740 the restored building was built as The Planters Hotel in 1809. The restoration started in 1935 and was completed by the time of the grand opening Nov. 26 1937. Perhaps the sole documentary record of this historic restoration provenance - from the collection of Joseph Hyde Pratt noted North Carolina geologist conservationist state and civic leader and WWI hero with personal invitation to him for the grand opening of Nov. 26 1937 laid in at rear. Embossed Calf Binder . Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover books
186018974Edinburgh: William Tait 1860. Softcover. Good. 7 x 10.25 in pp 5 179 with frontis portrait of the author. Wrappers chipped at the corners with some dust soilng and foxing dampstain to portrait leaf only presumably occurred prior to being bound in some dogeared corners; contents clean binding sound. Elliott 1781-1849 was an English poet and merchant. In his youth he wrote pastoral poems but by the early 1830s he had begun to infuse poltiics into his work "by denouncing the 'bread tax' the exploitation of child and adult labour and the low wages of the working classes and by advocating free trade. In 1830 Elliott helped to found the short-lived Sheffield Mechanics Anti-Bread Tax Society and formed the Sheffield Anti-Corn Law Society in 1834.it was his protest verse favourably reviewed by Thomas Carlyle Bulwer-Lytton the Howitts W. J. Fox and Geraldine Jewsbury which bolstered his reputation as poet of the poor even after he had accumulated substantial wealth" DNB. This volume collects both his early worth and his Corn-Law Rhymes. William Tait paperback books
199934435New Haven: Yale University Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0300076444 . First printing. Book-plate on front paste-down else fine in a fine dust jacket. . Yale University Press hardcover books
189120643Salt Lake City: Charles Ellis 1891. Softcover. Good. "Second edition of five thousand." 32 pp in original printed wrappers but with losses at the spine old stab holes from having been bound into boards. Good. A survey and pro-Mormon analysis of various events in the history of the Mormon Church by a non-Mormon former clergyman who moved to Utah in 1889. Flake 3153. Charles Ellis paperback books
1876007327Boston: Printed By Order of the City Council/press of Rockwell and Churchill City Printers 1876. Very Good Plus gilt title at spine and gilt device front cover bright original red cloth binding a bit rubbed period Boston bookseller label front paste down. Large fold-out facsimile of Pelham's map of Boston Near Fine small tear and nine other engravings/plates with protective tissue all present. An excellent history and rather uncommon. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Printed By Order of the City Council/press of Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers Hardcover books
1749E0529<p>2 volumes. 182 pages with fold out frontispiece map and three additional folding engravings; 319 pages with seven folding engravings. half-titles in each title pages improperly marked first volume as second and vice versa. Duodecimo 6 1/2" x 3 1/2" bound in original publisher's full uniform contemporary French sponged calf with gilt-tooled spines. First French edition after the 1748 English edition.<br /><br />Henry Ellis was a traveler hydrographer and colonial governor returned from Italy in 1746 just in time to find an expedition to search for a north-west passage on the point of sailing. He appears to have been in easy circumstances; his name stands in the list of subscribers to the north-west expedition and he had sufficient interest to get attached to it nominally as agent for the committee and really as hydrographer surveyor and mineralogist the expedition consisting of two vessels the <i>Dobbs</i> galley of 180 and <i>California</i> of 150 tons left Gravesend on 20 May 1746 joined the Hudson's Bay convoy in Hollesley Bay and finally sailed from Yarmouth on the 31st. They parted from the convoy on 18 June made Resolution Island on 8 July and after a tedious passage through Hudson's Straits rounded Cape Digges on 8 August and on the 11th 'made the land on the west side the Welcome in latitude 64° N.' Bad weather drove them to the southward and prevented their doing anything more that season. They wintered in Hayes River in a creek about three miles above Fort York where a quarrel with the agent of the Hudson's Bay Company gave an unwonted piquancy to the dark and weary days. They suffered much from scurvy the prevalence of which Ellis attributes to their having got two kegs of brandy from Fort York for their Christmas merrymaking and in a minor degree to the 'governor' not permitting the Indians to supply them with fresh provisions. On 29 May 1747 the ice broke up and they were able to warp to the mouth of their creek; on 9 June they got down to Fort York. There they were allowed to get some provisions and stores and on the 24th cleared the river and 'stood to the northward on the discovery'. On 1 July each of the two ships sent away her long-boat but owing apparently to some ill-feeling between the two captains without any prearranged plan for working in concert. The consequence was that they separately went over the same ground discovering naming and examining the several creeks and inlets on the west side of Hudson's Bay the double examination perhaps compensating for the confusion arising from the double naming. Before the season closed in they had satisfied themselves that the only possible exit from Hudson's Bay on the west must be through the Welcome and that very probably there was no way out except that on the east by which they had come in. The result may not seem much; but as it served to put an end to the idea that the passage must lie through Hudson's Bay it was at least so much gain to accurate knowledge. After 21 August the weather broke and they decided in council 'to bear away for England without further delay.' On the 29th they entered Hudson's Straits passed Resolution Island on 9 September and arrived at Yarmouth on 14 Octivwe. Ellis's share in the work of the expedition had really been very slender but the reputation of it has been commonly assigned to him by reason of the narrative which he published the following year under the title <i>A Voyage to Hudson's Bay by the DobbsGalley and California in the years 1746 and 1747 for Discovering a North-West Passage</i> 1748; a work which with many valuable observations on tides on the vagaries of the compass and on the customs of the Eskimos a people then practically unknown mingles a great deal of speculation on the certain existence of the passage on magnetism on fogs on rust and other matters all more or less ingenious but now known to be wildly erroneous. Such as it was the book commended its author to the scientific workers of the day and on 8 February 1748-9 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. Possibly in acknowledgment of his scientific labors but more probably by some family interest he was afterwards appointed successively governor of Georgia and of Nova Scotia from which employment he retired about 1770. He seems to have spent his later years as a wanderer on the continent was at Marseilles in 1775 and died at Naples on 21 January 1806.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Some dark spot to spine else a very good copy.</p> Ballard Fils hardcover books
183915214New York: D. Appleton & Co 1839. Hardcover. Good. pp ix 13-275. Publisher's brown cloth somewhat puckered and stained; ownership signature of John Taylor Pratt dated 1839 on front pastedown; half of front free endpaper torn out. Binding sound text unmarked but heavily foxed. A solid reference copy. Ellis authored many books about the role of women in society emphasizing their role as a stabilizing moral influence. D. Appleton & Co hardcover books
1936003598Trenton NJ: Stae of New Jersey Dept. of Institutions and Agencies 1936. SCARCE. Very Good in stapled grey wrappers. Small abrasion and 1" tear at spine front wrapper. 36 pages. Publication 31 January 1936. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Stae of New Jersey, Dept. of Institutions and Agencies Paperback books
1918241224Rock Island IL: Augustana Book Concerns Tryckeri 1918. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/no dust jacket. No pencil or ink markings in text. Most of the text is written in Swedish but some written in English. Black cloth binding with gilt lettering. Very Good binding / no dust jacket. Augustana Book Concerns Tryckeri unknown books
2004242528New York: RoutledgeCurzon 2004. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 253pp. Hardcover binding with very light edgewear at top of spine. ; no markings in text. Very Good binding. RoutledgeCurzon unknown books
1848E0530<p> 614 pages illustrated with 64 lithographed or engraved plates 3 battle-plans plus some figure drawings within the text. Octavo 8¾x5¼" bound in original publisher's black cloth and paper spine label. Thirtieth Congress - First Session. Ex. Doc. NO. 41. Cowan page 195; Graff 1249; Howes E145; Wagner-Camp 148:5; Zamorano Eighty 33 First edition House of Representatives issues of the report containing the reports of Lieutenant Abert Colonel Cooke and Captain Johnson as well as that of Emory; the Senate issue only contained the Emory report.</p><p><br />In 1844 Emory served in an expedition that produced a new map of Texan claims westward to the Rio Grande. He came to public attention as the author of the <i>Notes of a Military Reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego California</i> published by the Thirtieth United States Congress in 1848. This report described terrain and rivers cities and forts and made observations about Indians Mexicans primarily in New Mexico Territory Arizona Territory and Southern California. It was and is considered one of the important chronicles and descriptions of the historic Southwest particularly noted for its maps. Emory was a reliable and conscientious cartographer. There is a story of testament as to Emory's dedication to accuracy that says John Bartlett his supervisor in the Corps of Topographical Engineers made him sign off on a misplaced boundary marker creating a sweet revenge for Emory who replaced him as Head of the International Boundary Commission in 1855. So accurate were his maps that when topographical engineers were surveying possible routes for the transcontinental railroad the most Southern route did not need to be surveyed thanks to the outstanding work by William H. Emory. But William H. Emory did more than just map the terrain; he also made notes about the plant life as well as the people who inhabited the sparsely populated southwest. Notating the social relations of some of the Native American people he wrote: "Women when captured are taken as wives by those who capture them but they are treated by the Indian wives of the capturers as slaves and made to carry wood and water; if they chance to be pretty or receive too much attention from their lords and masters they are in the absence of the latter unmercifully beaten and otherwise maltreated. The most unfortunate thing which can befall a captive woman is to be claimed by two persons. In this case she is either shot or delivered up for indiscriminate violence.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Binding worn at edges and spine ends cloth splitting along front joint; occasional light foxing lacking the two maps as noted very good.</p> Wendell & Van Benthuysen, Printers hardcover books
1779BOOKS0003374282 pages lacking the map. Small quarto 10" x 7½" rebound in ¾ morocco & marbled boards spine lettered in gilt top edges gilt. Sabin 22572 First edition.<br /><br />Rare account of travels into the arctic most notably Nova Zemblya to the north of Europe. Twelve years earlier Engel wrote his notable work on explorations on the other side of the Arctic Circle Memoires et observations geographiques et critiques sur la situation des pays septentrionaux de l'Asie et de l'Amerique. Lausanne 1765. <br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Rubbing to joints and extremities; some minor staining and soiling within hinge professionally repaired else a very good copy. Only five copies found on worldcat.<br /> F Sanuel Fetscherin hardcover books
1754848231754. ENGLAND - HISTORY By the author of The History of Prince Eugene. THE HISTORY OF JOHN DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH PRINCE OF MINDELHEIM CAPTAIN-GENERAL AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMIRES OF HER BRITTANICK MAJESTY AND THE STATES OF THE UNITED PROVINCES KNIGHT AND MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER MASTER OF THE ORDNANCE &C. . n.p. n.p. 1754. 4 347 pp. 9 pp. Index. 4 pp. B-Hh6 Ii4. Complete but for missing front flyleaf. 12mo. full calf with raised bands gilt spine rules and ornaments gilt red morocco spine label. Leather worn chipped 1 inch at top of front joint. Joints cracked. Ink and pencil notes to front pastedown and title page. Foxing throughout. P. 89-90 with closed horizontal tear no loss. Several other pages have closed tears in the margins. Fair to good as is. unknown books
1963006022Birmingham UK: University of Birmingham Historical Journal 1963. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front cover - "For Oscar Winther with the compliments of J. Merton England". Oscar Winther was the long-time editor of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review and the Journal of American History. Near Fine in eggshell wrappers light soiling rear wrapper paginated 92-111. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Reprint. Pamphlet. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Large 8vo. University of Birmingham Historical Journal Paperback books
36701London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine n.d. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A fine copy. 30 pp. Illus. with b/w reproductions. 8vo. Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine unknown books
190028014London: Various publishers 1900. First Editions. 8 vols. 8vo. Bound in 3/4 brown polished calf t.e.g. by Bickers & Son London. With the bookplate of R.D. Jackson. First Editions. 8 vols. 8vo. Various publishers unknown books
1910CA01065 volumes: volume 1 Texto: xx607 pages with frontispiece portraits illustrations facsimiles maps and plates; volume 2 Documentos: 552 pages; volume 3 Vida de Ercilla: 337 pages with portraits illustrations and index; volumes 4-5 Illustrations: 512 pages with facsimile titles to the first publications; 559 pages with facsimile signatures plates and index. Folio 15" x 10 3/4" with original wrappers bound in to cloth binding. Compiled and arranged by Jose Toribio Medina. First edition.<br /><br />La Araucana is an epic poem in Spanish about the Spanish conquest of Chile by Alonso de Ercilla; it is also known in English as The Araucaniad. It was considered the national epic of the Kingdom of Chile and one of the most important works of the Spanish Golden Age Siglo de Oro. The poem consists of 37 cantos that are distributed across the poem's three parts. The first part was published in 1569; the second part appeared in 1578 when it was published with the first part; the third part was published with the first and second parts in 1589. The poem shows Ercilla to be a master of the octava real the complicated stanza in which many other Renaissance epics in Castilian were written. A difficult eight-line unit of 11-syllable verses that are linked by a tight rhyme scheme the octava real was a challenge few poets met. It had been adapted from Italian only in the 16th century and it produces resonant serious-sounding verse that is appropriate to epic themes. The work describes the initial phase of the Arauco War which was born as a Spanish conquests attempt not at all comparable in importance to those of Hernán Cortés who helped conquer the Aztec empire and Francisco Pizarro who initiated the overthrow the Inca empire. Contrary to the epic conventions of the time however Ercilla placed the lesser conquests of the Spanish in Chile at the core of his poem because the author was a participant in the conquest and the story is based on his experiences there. On scraps of paper in the lulls of fighting Ercilla jotted down versified octaves about the events of the war and his own part in it. These stanzas he later gathered together and augmented in number to form his epic. It was the first poem of its kind written by a participant in the course of the events narrated and the first to immortalize the beginnings of a modern country. In the minds of the Chilean people La Araucana is a kind of Iliad that exalts the heroism pride and contempt of pain and death of the legendary Araucanian leaders and makes them national heroes today. Thus we see Ercilla appealing to the concept of the "noble savage" which has its origins in classical authors and took on a new lease of life in the renaissance - c.f. Montaigne's essay Des Canibales and was destined to have wide literary currency in European literature two centuries later. He had in fact created a historical poem of the war in Chile which immediately inspired many imitations.<br /><br />La Araucana is deliberately literary and includes fantastical elements reminiscent of medieval stories of chivalry. The narrator is a participant in the story at the time a new development for Spanish literature. Influences include Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Also features extended description of the natural landscape. La Araucana's successes—and weaknesses—as a poem stem from the uneasy coexistence of characters and situations drawn from Classical sources primarily Virgil and Lucan both translated into Spanish in the 16th century and Italian Renaissance poets Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso with material derived from the actions of contemporary Spaniards and Araucanians. The mixture of Classical and Araucanian motifs in La Araucana often strikes the modern reader as unusual but Ercilla's turning native peoples into ancient Greeks Romans or Carthaginians was a common practice of his time. For Ercilla the Araucanians were noble and brave—only lacking as their Classical counterparts did the Christian faith. Caupolicán the Indian warrior and chieftain who is the protagonist of Ercilla's poem has a panoply of Classical heroes behind him. His valour and nobility give La Araucana grandeur as does the poem's exaltation of the vanquished: the defeated Araucanians are the champions in this poem which was written by one of the victors a Spaniard. Ercilla's depiction of Caupolicán elevates La Araucana above the poem's structural defects and prosaic moments which occur toward the end when Ercilla follows Tasso too closely and the narrative strays from the author's lived experience. Ercilla the poet-soldier eventually emerges as the true hero of his own poem and he is the figure that gives the poem unity and strength. The story is considered to be the first or one of the first works of literature in the New World cf. Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios—Shipwrecked or Castaways for its fantastical/religious elements it is arguable whether that is a "traveler's account" or actual literature; and Bernal DÃaz del Castillo's Historia verdadera de la conquista de Nueva España The Conquest of New Spain. La Araucana's more dramatic moments also became a source of plays. But the Renaissance epic is not a genre that has as a whole endured well and today Ercilla is little known and La Araucana is rarely read except by specialists and students of Spanish and Latin American literatures and of course in Chile where it is subject of special attention in the elementary schools education both in language and history. La Araucana makes Chile the only American country that was founded under the lights of an epic poem. <br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Bound in red cloth with original wrappers bound in. Volume one first 15 pages closed tear at heal repaired back page fore edge repaired. A very good set. Imprenta elzeviriana hardcover books
197630871NY: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0195019644 . First edition. Previous owner's name on front paste-down else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Oxford University Press hardcover books
1957007839New Yo K: E. P. Dutton 1957. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR Gladys A. Ericson and Warden Joseph Ragen and with collectible dust jacket SCARCE THUS. Near Fine prior owner name in pencil bit of shelf rubbing rear end page bottom corner creases. In a Very Good dust jacket light edge wear. . SIGNED BY AUTHORS. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. E. P. Dutton Hardcover books
194013953Albuquerque NM: University of New Mexico Press 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xi 319 pp including index. Frontis portrait of Governor Vargas. Original burgundy cloth stamped in guilt. Lower corners and spine ends bumped small spot of discoloration on rear board. Binding tight and square text and endpapers unmarked. Some pages unopened. No dust jacket. Seven important documents with a scholarly introduction. Don Diego de Vargas Zapata Lujan Ponce de Leon was born to a family of conquerors whose history reflected much of the history of Spain. Lost to Spain and the Church since the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 New Mexico was believed to contain untold riches and minerals. Vargas was appointed Governor of New Mexico in 1690 and was determined to reconquer the lost territory. How he accomplished this is told here in documents - reports and letters - signed by Vargas himself and by his lieutenants and associates. Many of these had never before been published -almost none of them in English translation. Steck: Spanish Borderlands 76. University of New Mexico Press hardcover books
200534094Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0801444519 . First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Cornell University Press hardcover books
1978249504New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1978. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Jeff MacNelly. 90pp. This copy Signed with a personal inscription by Eugene McCarthy. The dustjacket has some modest wear and is protected with a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. McGraw-Hill Book Company unknown books
17702698Dublin: P. and W. Wilson J. Potts J. Williams W. Colles and T. Walker 1770. First Dublin Edition. Full calf. Near fine. First Dublin Edition of A Review Of The Characters Of the Principle Nations in Europe printed in 1770. Octavo iv 193 195-371pp Volume II. Full brown calf raised bands on spine title in gilt over red morocco label. Bookplate of Thomas Rochfort on front endpaper. Clean text throughout stable text block. A fine example of this scarce text on European history. Printed the same year in London. P. and W. Wilson, J. Potts, J. Williams, W. Colles, and T. Walker unknown books
181743954London: Published by Sherwood Neely and Jones Paternoster-Row; and Simpkin and Marshall Stationers' Court; Sold Also by T. Rogerson Manchester; and by All Booksellers 1817. Original publisher's blue-grey paper-covered boards backed in green paper tan spine labels printed in black. Binding worn and rubbed particularly extremities of Vol I with light sunning and soiling; heel of Vol. I backstrip partially perished; front hinge of Vol I starting; page blocks a bit toned; light foxing to endpapers. Texts clean and unmarked bindings still quite sound overall. Good. Two volume set. 459 1 pp; pp 3 - 480. Illustrated with a total of 7 b/w plates and maps multiple engraved portraits to some plates. Plates published by T. Rogerson. 8vo. 9" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>Text appears to be the same as that in Baines' History of the Wars of the French Revolution published by Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown the same year albeit with a slightly different title and with attribution to Baines. The Longman edition may have been preceded by an edition in parts advertised as "The Cheapest History of the Wars" in the Literary Gazette London: Henry Colburn 1817 and first published on March 1st by Simpkin and Marshall and Sherwood and Co. and sold by T. Rogerson. This edition bears the pronounced error of the "1792" on the title pg of Vol I being printed as "1793" on Vol. II's title page. The work Baines' first -- significant portions of which were later found to have been lifted verbatim from an earlier history by Alexander Stephens -- was wildly popular upon publication and would have likely been in high demand in any form; it was reissued as part of Baines' larger work on George III published in 1820. Uncommon in the trade. Published by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row; and Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers' Court; Sold Also by T. Roger hardcover books
