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1853B2752Washington: Robert Armstrong Public Printer 1853. Occasional mild browning otherwise a very good example. Binding: recent ¼ morocco with marbled boards flat spine with title in gilt each spine has a different shade of morocco but the marble boards are similar. Notes: “This American expedition was first proposed by the prominent oceanographer Matthew F. Maury. He urged North American plantation owners to emigrate to the Amazon valley with their slaves to seek their fortunes. He also advocated opening the Amazon to international commerce. Maury was the brother-in-law of Lt. Herndon a naval officer. The expedition was organized by the U.S. Navy Department and sent out to South America in the Years 1851 and 1852. The Americans traveled to Chile and to Lima Peru where Lt. Herndon pushed into the upper Amazon. Lt. Gibbon traveled south through Bolivia and then into the selvas of Brazil. The two groups met in Serpa Brazil and then continued down the Amazon River to Para. Herndon was later lost with his ship “Central America†off Cape Hatteras in 1857. The work itself is a minute accurate and very interesting study on the aborigines of the Andes and on the geography of the Amazon and its tributaries.†Hill pg. 284 Size: 8vo Illustration: 52 lithographed plates and 5 folding maps. The folding maps are usually found in two separate volumes but have been inserted into the this example. Volume: 2 volumes References: Sabin 31524; Hill 803 Pages: Volume 1. P. 1-15 blank 2 frontis title blank 3-414 blank 2 i-iii plate listing; Volume 2. P. frontis title blank iii-x 1 1-339. Category: Book Voyages General; Book Americas South Robert Armstrong Public Printer hardcover
MA03OS-00005Washington D.C.: Robert Armstrong. Collectible - Acceptable. Washington D.C.: Robert Armstrong 1854. 1st edition. Three volume set. Sm 4to Hardcover. 417pp; 339pp; Unpaginated. B/W plates. Fair set. Brown boards with blind front and spine decorative design and front and spine lettering. All volumes: Moderate edgewear. Spine sunned. Pages age toned. Soiling to the boards. With typical period foxing throughout. Volume 1: Slight dampstaining to the bottom gutter of last 1/4 of pages. Previous owner's name inked to the upper title page. Volume 2: Textblock bound upside down. Short penciled gifter's inscription on front pastedown. Slight dampstaining to the fore-edge of pages 194-296. Rear fold-out map torn. Volume 3: Spine broken in two pieces. One map detached but present. In polypropylene bag. south america exploration adventure natural history brazil peru Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. Washington, D.C.: Robert Armstrong hardcover
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183144817<p>A CRITICAL VIEW CAPITAL PUNISHMENT - CERTAINTY OF PUNISHMENT MORE EFFICACIOUS THAN SEVERITY - <br />AN ANALYSIS CONCEIVED IN UNUSUAL CIRCUMATANCES</p><p>first 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.</p><p>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.<br />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.</p> James Ridgway hardcover
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2012x-9400745028Springer Verlag 2012. Hardcover. New. 2012 edition. 503 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. Springer Verlag hardcover
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1999x-0582356369Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd 1999. Paperback. New. 186 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd paperback
ria9780582356368_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Feminist Perspectives on Language provides an accessible introduction to this complex area which redresses the balance of current feminist texts which tend to concentrate on discourse analysis and fail to emphasise the connections with paperback
A9780582356368Paperback / softback. New. Feminist Perspectives on Language provides an accessible introduction to this complex area which redresses the balance of current feminist texts which tend to concentrate on discourse analysis and fail to emphasise the connections with feminist thought in other disciplines such as sociology and politics. paperback
1962849W19London: Pan Books Ltd 1962-1968 . Paperback. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4.5". None. Five early paperback editions of these works of science fiction from the 1960s. Five Works of Science Fiction.Early paperback editions published by Pan Books Ltd. Includes the following works. When the Kissing Had to Stop by Constantine FitzGibbon 1962. FitzGibbon was a British-Irish novelist and historian. Eight Keys to Eden by Mark Clifton 1965. Clifton is an American science fiction writer who was awarded the Hugo Award for best novel 'They'd Rather Be Right' 1954 co-authored with Frank Riley. Spectrum IV selected and edited by Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest 1965 is a science fiction anthology of fifteen short stories. Only Lovers Left Alice by Dave Wallis 1966 is the author's best known work and third novel. It was optioned by The Rolling Stones as a potential vehicle for their collective film debut. Colossus by D. F. Jones 1968. Dennis Feltham Jones was a British science fiction novelist and Royal Navy commander during World War II. This was his first published novel. A lovely collection of science fiction from the 1960s. In the original publisher's paperback binding. Externally very smart. There is some minor bumping to the heads and tails of the spines and to the extremities. There is some wear to the extremities. Internally firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with the odd spot and age toning. Prior owner's ink inscription to the first pastedown of Eight Keys. Very Good Indeed Pan Books Ltd paperback
