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1995007422London: The Hakluyt Society 1995. Two volumes published 1994 and 1995 Fine in Near Fine dust jackets light edge wear. . First Edition Thus. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Hakluyt Society Hardcover books
1786007814Paris and Bruxelles : B. Le Franq 1786. Two volumes 5 5/8" x 3 3/8" each with a frontispiece engraving by Charles Eugene Duponchel. 3 168 pp 118 pp 5. Handsomely bound in contemporary full calf back with black calf labels lettered in gilt and gilt rules ribbon markers. Near Fine small tear bottom margin frontispiece Vol. II a very few spots of toning at end pages the pages clean and bright a quite lovely set. RARE - Worldcat shows only 2 institutional holdings. . New Edition. Full Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. B. Le Franq Hardcover books
1818E0061323 pages with a portrait frontispiece and five colored aquatints. Octavo 8 3/4" x 5 1/2" bound in attractive half leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. Hill 1168 Second and best edition<br /><br />The Alceste brought Lord Amherst to China to serve as ambassador and specifically to negotiate the China trade at the time a matter of dispute between China and Great Britain.M'Leod who was surgeon on the ship describes the voyage out the various calls in the East Indies including touching at Batavia surveying off Korea the visit to Okinawa another to Manila and the shipwreck off the coast of Sumatra and subsequent rescue from Malay pirates. A brief but interesting interview with Napoleon at St. Helena is also included in the narrative. This was one of the most popular travel books of its time portraying the Far East to a much wider audience than had been reached by earlier accounts. The idyllic descriptions of Lewchew undoubtedly appealed to the romantic sensibilities of the era. Indeed buoyed by its success M'Leod published another work recounting his time as a slaver <i>A Voyage to Africa with some Account of the Manners and Customs of the Dahomian People</i>.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Attractive half rebind some foxing through out with no spotting to plates else a very good copy. John Murray hardcover books
1802E01512 volumes with Atlas. 4xxiv385 pages with xxii-xxiv lists books of voyages available from the publisher; 4418 pages with appendix containing vocabularies of the languages of Yukagir Yakut Tungoose Kamchatka the Aleutian Islands and Kadiak and inex. Atlas with title list of plates 14 engraved plates & large folding engraved map. Text volumes are small octavo 7¾" x 4½" 19th century quarter calf & boards spines tooled in gilt morocco lettering pieces; atlas is quarto 11" x 7½" in period tree calf spine tooled in gilt. Translated by J Castéra. Howes S-117 First French Edition.<br /><br />Martin Sauer was an English civil servant who knew Russian French and German. He became acquainted with Joseph Billings in St Petersburg in the 1780s. He agreed to join Billings expedition as his secretary and interpreter. It was agreed that he would write the official account but there is some controversy about his actives when he returned to St Petersburg in 1794. It has been suggested that he left hurriedly for England with much of the important archival material from the voyage including diaries and secret reports so that he could publish a record of the expedition before Russian authorities and scholars in the Academy of Sciences could review its details. Sauer's <i>An account of the Geographical and Astronomical Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia</i> was published in London in 1802. It contains an abundance of detail about eastern Siberia and the Aleutian Islands and records the expeditions visits to Kodiak Island Prince William Sound and the coast south as far as Yakutat Bay. <br /><br />The chart was made by Aaron Arrowsmith from Sauer's notes and Billings observations and the whole complements well the other contemporary accounts of the expedition by the cartographer Gavriil Sarychev and the naturalist Carl Heinrich Merck. Aaron Arrowsmith 1750–1823 was an English cartographer engraver and publisher and founding member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers. He moved to Soho Square London from Winston County Durham when about twenty years of age and was employed by John Cary the engraver and William Faden. He became Hydrographer to the Prince of Wales ca. 1810 and subsequently to the King in 1820. In January 1790 he made himself famous by his large chart of the world on Mercator projection. Four years later he published another large map of the world on the globular projection with a companion volume of explanation.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Some rubbing and wear to coves of both atlas and text volumes some chipping to spine ends small gouge at back of atlas and stamp to front end paper else in very good condition. Chez F Buisson 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
1799biblio160<b>First French edition of Bartram's</b><b> Travels which chronicled his explorations of the southern British colonies in North America from 1773–1777</b><br /><br />2 volumes. 457 pages with frontispiece engraved portrait by Bovinet Mico Chlucco Grana King of the Seminoles and one folding plate; 436 pages without title with large folding map by J.B. Poirson engraved by Alexandre Blondeau and folding plate. Octavo 8 1/4" x 5 1/4" bound in half leather with six spine compartments with red and black labels in gilt over original marbled boards. Translated by Pierre Vincent Benoist. Sabin 3871; Palau 251346; Howes B223; Field 94 First French edition.<br /><br />William Bartram was an American naturalist. The son of the naturalist John Bartram. As a boy he accompanied his father on many of his travels to the Catskill Mountains the New Jersey Pine Barrens New England and Florida. In 1773 he embarked upon a four-year journey through eight southern colonies. Bartram made many drawings and took notes on the native flora and fauna and the native American Indians. In 1774 he explored the St. Johns River where he had memorable encounters with aggressive alligators and also visited a principal Seminole village at Cuscowilla where his arrival was celebrated with a great feast. He met Ahaya the Cowkeeper chief of the Alachua band of the Seminole tribe. When Bartram explained to the Cowkeeper that he was interested in studying the local plants and animals the chief was amused and began calling him Puc Puggy the flower hunter.2 Bartram continued his explorations of the Alachua Savannah or what is today Paynes Prairie. William Bartram wrote of his experiences exploring the Southeast in his book Travels through North & South Carolina East & West Florida the Cherokee Country the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy and the Country of the Chactaws Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians published in 1791 and which is today simply known as Bartram's Travels. It was considered at the time one of the foremost books on American natural history. Many of Bartram's accounts of historical sites were the earliest records including the Georgia mound site of Ocmulgee. In addition to its contributions to scientific knowledge Travels is noted for its original descriptions of the American countryside. Bartram's writing influenced many of the Romantic writers of the day. William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge and François René de Chateaubriand are known to have read the book and its influence can be seen in many of their works. Ephraim George Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis in their book Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley name Bartram as "the first naturalist who penetrated the dense tropical forests of Florida."<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Some rubbing to original boards page 143 of volume one has small burn mark affecting text half title bound upside down in back old water stain to plate of volume two. Fold-out map has repair to first fold internally pages are clean and free of toning and foxing else a very good copy. Chez Carteret et Brosson and Dogour Duran hardcover books
008562San Francisco: Printed By Allied Printing of Northern California No Date 2003. Passed Nov. 4 2003 Proposition H made San Francisco the first city in the nation in which every stage of the police complaint process - from the investigation of the complaint to disciplinary decisions - is controlled by civilians. SCARCE. Near Fine small corner creases. Well suited for framing will be shipped loosely rolled in mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 12" x 18". Printed By Allied Printing of Northern California books
008559No Place: No Publisher No date. Image taken from 1987 poster originally published by Midwest Voter Education Registration Project. titled "Destino '87". Printed on thick cardstock Near Fine a few faint creases at edges. May have been printed as a placard or a sign to carry in a march or at an event. Features a photograph of four men wearing dark suits and with their bcks turned. As topical and relevant today as it was then. Will ship flat. . Poster. Near Fine. 16" x 20 1/2". No Publisher books
1595044181Paris: Pierre Mettayer 1595. Early Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. 4 volumes bound in 2 rebound in modern half red leather over decorative paper in an antique style. Old library stamps to title index and occasionally to the top right corner. Slight soiling to title quite clean otherwise and an attractive and attractively printed copy. Monstrelet meant to carry on the work of Froissart and extended the Chronicles from 1400-1444. Additions were pieced together and tacked onto the end of his work extending it to 1515. Monstrelet who was present when Joan of Arc was interrogated by Philip the Good includes a great deal of primary source material that otherwise would have been lost to history. 12 328 3 leaves; 8 195 10 130 124 10 leaves. Size: Folio. 4-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044181. <br/><br/> Pierre Mettayer hardcover books
1805007926London: Printed by D. N. Shury for J. F. Hughes 1805. RARE. Twelvemo printing 6 3/4" x 4 1/2" four volumes bound in two. In contemporary half vellum over marbled boards the backs with red morocco labels lettered in gilt and richly ornate gilt tooled decorations marbled end papers top edges gilt. Very Good Plus 3/8" chip to top edge of rear cover Vol. I & II light soiling to vellum. Bindings tight interiors clean and fresh. . First Edition. Half Vellum. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Printed by D. N. Shury for J. F. Hughes Hardcover books
1962263017Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1962. hardcover. near fine/very good. Edited by F.H. Hinsley. 743 pages tall thick 8vo blue cloth d.w. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1962. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Cambridge University Press unknown books
190121432Nueva York: Polhemus y Compania 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Title continues: Tomadas por parte de México Bajo la Dirección del Ingeniero Jacobo Blanco Jefe de la Sección Mexicana de la Comisión Internacional de Limites que Restablecio los Monumentos en Anos de 1892 a 1895. 11 x 14 inches oblong in original black cloth with red leather spine and corners marbled edges and endpapers. Title stamped in gilt on upper board and spine. Also designated "Vol. III" on spine. Front board and first few leaves detached but present rear hinge cracked. Text block otherwise sound and quite clean. Title page and one-page introduction by Blanco are followed by 258 b/w half-tone plates showing all of the monuments along the U.S./Mexico border from El Paso to the Pacific. Many of the images include the surveyors and their equipment. "In the 1870s and 1880s land ownership and border disputes broke out when valuable natural resources were discovered near the United States-Mexican border. The International Boundary Commission which set out in 1891 consisted of two main parties one from the U.S. and one from Mexico. John Whitney Barlow and Jacobo Blanco respectively U.S. and Mexican commissioners met at El Paso in February 1892 to begin the work. Their instructions were to resurvey the border line locate and rebuild the old monuments and install additional markers as necessary" Smithsonian. This album is the Spanish-language equivalent with the same plates of "Report of the Boundary Commission Upon the Survey and Re-Marking of the Boundary Between the United States and Mexico West of the Rio Grande 1891-1896: Album" published by the U.S. Government Printing Office in 1899. Polhemus y Compania hardcover books
200020627New Haven: Yale University Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0300085354 . Color and black and white illustrations throughout. First edition. As new in like dust jacket. . Yale University Press 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
16390An early turn of the century Wellesley College student"s hand decorated fan with over 150 photographic or printed image pasted on including her Ivy league friends and many other university logos. One side of fan has 66 small black and white cutout photographs that show her college friends and other images during her Wellesley years. The reverse of the fan has another 84 small color print and gild paper logos and badges these 84 small ephemera are mostly from colleges and social clubs in New England and the US Northeast but includes some from across America. Among many others it includes logos from Wellesley College Worcester Polytechnic Institute Stanford University and Cark University. The fan when open measures about 10.5 in x 19 in. Fan is in very good condition with fabric lightly soiled at edges. Scarce item since woman college education was just taking off at the turn of the century. Minor wear on wooden handle and fan. Very unique and enchanting Wellesley memorabilia Good.<br/> . unknown books
1793008701London: J. Debrett 1793. Contemporary calf red morocco label with gilt lettering back stamp verso title page of "Museum Britanicum dupl. for sale 1831" calf rubbed at corners and edges 1 signature loose and laid in occasional faint marginal pencil notations faint pencil notations rear end page prior owner name in pecncil front end page lacking half title page. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir William Waller and engraved portrait of William Lenthal facing page 191. SCARCE in current commerce. . First Edition. Calf. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. J. Debrett Hardcover books
1848046752Mexico: Vicente G Torres 1848. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Original wraps mild wear a few light stains internally. Details a convoluted property dispute during the US occupation of Mexico City. 47pp. Rare. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; History. Inventory No: 046752. Vicente G Torres unknown books
18452221653<p>Carbajal Francisco De - also sp. Carvajal Vindicacion de D. Francisco Carbajal. Mexico City Imprenta de Vicente Garcia Torres 1845. 53 pages.</p><p>Bound With:</p><p>Espinosa D. Francisco Carbajal. Atrocidades Cometidas Por El Malrado Gobierno De Ayutla Y Su Satelite Benito Quintana Y Otros. Mexico City. 1858. 60 pages.</p><p>Octavo. Period green morocco over marbled boards black morocco label. Very good some light foxing. 2 separate works in one volume.</p><p>With the MS pressmark and "MHC" inscription of famed English bibliophile Sir Thomas Phillips 1792-1872.</p> Imprenta de Vicente Garcia Torres hardcover books
188746777Oroville 1887. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Image clear & sharp minor soiling to mount edges. Very Good. Cabinet card b/w albumen photograph with printed caption underneath. Card verso annotated in ink "J. Wood's display of preserved fruit." Oblong format: 5-1/4" x 8-3/8" <br/><br/>While CSU Chico has a number of these images most are from the second fair 1888 and this one we are unable to find in an institutional setting. Especially uncommon with the mss annotation identifying the pictured display. According to Mautz Phares pursued photography in Oroville from 1884 - 1915 this then an early image from his career. unknown books
1872008648London: John Murray 1872. Three volumes in lovely English prize binding of full polished calf the backs intricately gilt marbled end pages and edges front covers with gilt stamped emblem featuring a sheath of wheat and an open book with the motto "Read & Reap". Second blank end page states "Frank Henry Glanville Devon County School West Buckland Prize. First Class Honours as a Junior at the Cambridge Local Examination 1873 2nd in England in 6th in England in English Prize Day Sep. 13 1874" signed with initials. Near Fine light soiling to boards top edges darkened boards lightly rubbed at tips. . New Edition. Full Polished Calf. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. John Murray Hardcover books
1946264587Self-published 1946. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. A clean copy with the slightly tattered dustjacket protected with a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Good dust jacket. Self-published unknown books
2006407702American Printing History Association 2006. 8vo. 17 poems printed by 15 American fine press printers. Foreword by Henry Lyman. Contents loose as issued in blue cloth clamshell box. Contributor's copy with printed note from Jerry Kelly laid-in this being the former copy of Ronald Gordon of The Oliphant Press responsible for the printing of Mary Karr's 'A Blessing from my Sixteen Years' Son." The other designers/printers are: Mindy Beloff Michael and Winifred Bixler Carolee Campbell Ed Colker Sandy Connors Barbara Henry Jerry Kelly Kay Michael Kramer David Pankow Michael Peich Robin Price Michael Russem Gaylord Schanilec and Jack Stauffacher. <br/><br/> American Printing History Association hardcover books
2518Color photos. Near fine. 21 Color photos. 16 15 x 10 cm. 5 12.5 x 9 cm. Late 1980's party featuring a female "Police Officer" performing at an "Over The Hill" gathering of both male and female guests. Chronological photos depicting officer's arrival the "arrest" the gradual undressing the tease and the shedding of the officer's "uniform". Most likely a 30th birthday during the late 1980's. <br /> books
1930659Burlington VT: Penick & Ford Ltd. Inc. 1930's. Loose-leaf. Color illustrated pamphlet. Very good. 16 x 8 cm. Tri-fold color illustrated brochure. Colorful advertisement brochure for Vermont Maid Syrup Cane/Maple Sugar. Recipes include: Maple Baked Custard Sweet Potatoes and Apples and Vermont Maid Caramels. Clean crisp copy. <br/><br/> Penick & Ford, Ltd., Inc. unknown books
200321765NY: Knopf. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 037541181X . First edition. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Knopf hardcover books
