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William Lewis Herndon & Lardner GibbonBiblio.com

Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon Made under Direction of the Navy Department Two Volumes Plus Atlas

William Lewis Herndon and Lardner GibbonBiblio.com

Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon Made under Direction of the Navy Department

18535904Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon Made under Direction of the Navy Department William Lewis Herndon and Lardner Gibbon Published by A.O.P. Nicholson Washington D.C. 1853 1854. Part I by Lieut. Herndon. Part II by Lieut. Lardner Gibbon. U.S. Congress 32nd and 33rd Congress Session. Two volumes and two cased map sets. Volume 1 By Lieut. Herndon. 417pp. with 16 tinted lithographed plates 2 appendices. Part II by Lt. Lardner Gibbon. x. 339pp. with 36 lithographed plates. Maps Part 1 Herndon: 3 colour folding maps. Maps Part 2 Gibbon: 2 colour folding maps. New pockets to Herndon's map case with inked names of maps to front of pocket. Maps are in very good condition; Herndon's maps are backed with light protective coating; light foxing to Gibbon's maps primarily near margins. Volumes are in very good condition; light foxing; a loosened signature in Volume 2. Moderate wear to boards and sun fading to spine of Volume 2.Herndon was appointed to lead the first American naval expedition to explore the Amazon River valley and its tributaries between 1851-2. The expedition combined scientific observation on geography natural history and Aboriginal populations along with commercial assessments as directed by the Navy and Congress. Herndon divided the expedition into two groups: he appointed Lt. Lardner Gibbon to explore the tributaries while he would explore the Amazon River from source to mouth. Herndon's narrative provided an intimate portrait of an exotic land before the outside world rushed in. His report "so far surpassed his superiors' expectations that instead of printing the obligatory few hundred copies for Congress the secretary of the Navy ordered 10000 copies in the first print run; three months later he ordered 20000 more." A.O.P. Nicholson hardcover

Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA) · Canada650,00 $CA≈ 441,48 €

WATSON, Richard, 1737-1816 ] Bishop of Llandaff, Regius Professor, Cambridge [ Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 Paine, Thomas, 1737-1Biblio.com

Two Apologies : One for Christianity in a series of letters addressed to Edward Gibbon Esq. the other for The Bible in answer to Thomas Paine. To which are added Two Sermons and a charge in Defence of Revealed Religion. LONDON : 1816.

1816051543London: Scatcherd and Letterman 1816. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8vo. LONDON : 1816. Hardback. Contemporary black calf-leather spine and corners. Raised bands. Gilt decoration to each panel. Dark red leather label - lettered : 'Watson's Apologies for the Bible'. Marbled boards. All edges marbled. Light grey end-papers. Owner name to fly-leaf dated 1852; no internal markings. Tight bright and clean. Minor wear to boards. VERY GOOD. A nice copy in an attractive binding. v iv 470 pages. 'Apology' first published; Cambridge 1776. Two 'Apologies' first issued in this edition 1805:- Contains the text of An apology for Christianity. 7th ed.--An apology for the Bible. 10th ed.--A defence of revealed religion in two sermons . and a charge . 4th ed. . Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. 8vo; size approx; 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books Cumberland Everyman Keswick Inklings Literature MacDonald Rarities Theology and History. Richard Watson 1737-1816 was an Anglican bishop and academic who served as the Bishop of Llandaff from 1782 to 1816. He wrote some notable political pamphlets. In theology he belonged to an influential group of followers of Edmund Law that included also John Hey and William Paley. Watson was born in Heversham Westmorland now Cumbria and educated at Heversham Grammar School and Trinity College Cambridge. An autobiography Anecdotes of the life of Richard Watson Bishop of Landaff was finished in 1814 and published posthumously in 1817. In the 19th century it was rumoured that Watson had been the first to propose the electric telegraph but this is incorrect. At the time William Watson 1715-1787 made researches in electricity but even he was not involved in the telegraph. Scatcherd and Letterman hardcover

Rosley Books · Royaume-Uni44,16 £GB≈ 50,42 €

WAKEFIELD, Edward GibbonBiblio.com

Facts relating to the Punishment of Death in the Metropolis.

183144817A CRITICAL VIEW CAPITAL PUNISHMENT - CERTAINTY OF PUNISHMENT MORE EFFICACIOUS THAN SEVERITY - AN ANALYSIS CONCEIVED IN UNUSUAL CIRCUMATANCESfirst edition small 8vo. iii-xii198pp. very attractive modern quarter calf spine panelled by raised bands large gilt tool at panel centres and a plum morocco title label gilt marbled sides no half title scattered minor marks or dustiness else very good. A handsome copy.Wakefield 1796–1862 promoter of colonization had in 1816 married a young heiress after eloping with her to Scotland but she died in 1820 from complications after childbirth. "Despite being relatively wealthy from the proceeds of his marriage settlement Wakefield's ambition a seat in the Commons demanded more .and in 1826 with the connivance of his brother William Wakefield and his stepmother Frances he abducted an heiress Ellen Turner from her boarding-school near Liverpool. She was fifteen and the daughter of William Turner of Shrigley a wealthy Cheshire manufacturer. Told that her father was dangerously ill Ellen was bundled into a coach and taken to Gretna Green. A second lie that her father's fortune depended on marriage to Wakefield persuaded her to agree to a marriage ceremony. After they were caught by angry relatives at Calais en route for Paris. . After being tried and found guilty the brothers were sentenced to three years apiece . An act of parliament was needed to annul the marriage because according to Scottish law it had been perfectly legal despite the fact it had not been consummated. The case had attracted immense attention and the reputations of the brothers appeared for ever blighted. . However imprisonment proved ironically to be Wakefield's salvation. Given the time for reflection he began the transition from vain and arrogant gadfly to serious student of society and its ills although he remained arrogant and ill-tempered. Part of his time was spent talking to prisoners and discussing the usefulness of imprisonment and in particular capital punishment. His ideas were later published in Facts Relating to the Punishment of Death in the Metropolis 1831 and in evidence to the select committee on secondary punishments 1831. In both he condemned the use of capital punishment for all but the most serious crimes and sought to emphasize the certainty of punishment as the deterrent rather than the harshness of the penalty. His other occupation a corollary of his studies on the causes of crime was to devise a programme of systematic colonization" O.D.N.B. Commencing in 1829-30 Wakefield became through a series of "brilliantly imaginative" writings an influential proponent of colonization offering "a plan based on six principles to overcome the problems of over-population identified by Malthus. Colonies he wrote were unprofitable because they suffered from a scarcity of labour the reverse of the situation in Britain. Emigration must therefore be encouraged" O.D.N.B. Thereafter he became a leading figure in the British colonization of Australia New Zealand and Canada. He "irrevocably altered the temper and style of the British empire in the nineteenth century. He brought to the subject a spark of imaginative genius the vision of systematic colonization and joined it to a far-sighted emphasis on the merits of colonial self-government" O.D.N.B. James Ridgway hardcover

P & B Rowan · Royaume-Uni400,00 £GB≈ 456,72 €