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1893010081Paris Alphonse Lemerre 1893 Demi-reliure
177164879Graz, Widmanstätter Erben, o. J. (1771). 8°. 7 Bll., 325 S., Ldr. d. Zt. m. von goldgepr. Bordüren eingefassten, farblich abgesetzten Mittelfeldern, reicher Rückenverg., goldgepr. Rückenschild u. punziertem Goldschnitt.
Bruselas, en casa del dicho Juan Mommarte, 1660. Dos tomos en un volumen en 4to. cuadrado; 4 hojas, 278 hojas sin numerar y portada propia, 234 hojas sin numerar, para la versión francés-español. Impresión a doble columna. Encuadernación de época, en piel, con lomera ornada. Presenta pequeñas faltas y roces.
Barcelona, en la Emprenta de Gabriel Graells y Giraldo Dotil, a costa de Ioan Simon, 1607. Dos tomos en un volúmen en 4to.; 4 hs., 660 pp. y portada propia, 318 pp. [i..e. 298], 59 pp., 52 hs. Encuadernación en pergamino, de la época.
In-4°, due volumi, (5), CCXLII, 413, due carte pieghevoli (La Florida en el ano 1591, La Florida en el ano 1765), tavole; pp 801 Rilegatura in mezza pergamena con tasselli al dorso. Pedro Menendez de Aviles fu il primo governatore spagnolo della Florida, capo generale dell’Armada contro l’Inghilterra In-4°, two volumes, (5), CCXLII, 413, two folded maps (La Florida en el ano 1591, La Florida en el ano 1765), plates, pp 801. Half parchemine binding. Pedro Menendez de Aviles was the first Spanish governor of Florida, Chief General of the Armada against England
Madrid, por Gregorio Rodriguez, a costa de Gabriel de León, Mercader de Libros, 1647 (y) Barcelona, en casa de Cormellas,1695. Dos volúmenes en 4to.; bellísimo frontis grabado por Juan de Noort, 12 hs., 457 pp. + 3 hs (de 4, faltando portada), 454 pp., 21 hs. Encuadernación en pergamino, de la época.
Madrid, por Juan Garcia Infanzón, a costa de Juan Salvador Perez, Mercader de Libros, 1693-1694. Cinco volúmenes en 4to.; 16 hs., 375 pp., 4 hs. + 32 hs. [la mayor parte dedicadas a la genealogía de Don José Antonio de Noroña, Duque de Linares] 362 pp., 3 hs.+ 8 hs. [con la genealogía de Don Gaspar Lopez de Echaburu], 395 pp., 2 hs. + 6 hs., 392 pp., 4 hs. + 10 hs., 285 pp., 45 hs. Con cuatro láminas grabadas en cobre: una mostrando a la Vírgen del Sagrario de Toledo, otra con el escudo de Echaburu, otra con el escudo del Marquesado de Santillan, y la última con el escudo del Ducado de Linares. [La serie completa son seis volúmenes, faltando aquí el correspondiente a la segunda parte del tomo segundo]. Encuadernación uniforme de época, en pergamino.
176745831Geneve, 1767. Original blue cardboard binding with contemporary handwritten paper title-label to spine. Pencil-numbering to inside of boards. A very nice and clean copy. Woodcut vignette to title-page. With the ex-libris of the notes Danish book collector K.F. Plesner to inside of front board.
176745831Geneve 1767. Original blue cardboard binding with contemporary handwritten paper title-label to spine. Pencil-numbering to inside of boards. A very nice and clean copy. Woodcut vignette to title-page. With the ex-libris of the notes Danish book collector K.F. Plesner to inside of front board. <br/><br/><em>Rare first edition of this interesting anonymously written continuation of Voltaire's Candide which wraps up the adventures of the hero. "Turning his back on both Voltarian satire and scepticism the novelist proposes a moralistic fable - the focal point of which is a rehabilitation of Leibniz's Theory of Optimism. The main body of the novel tells the story of Candide and his new wife the noble Zénoïde in their sumptuous Copenhagen townhouse. Before achieving this happy state however the couple endures various trials and tribulations reminiscent of the newly minted gothic genre. "Candide au Dannemarc" also features a satirical portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau." Éduard M. Langille from the introduction to the new edition of "Candide au Dannemarc" edited by him. Voltaire's "Candide" had inspired a sequel that appeared in 1760 which is attributed to Charles-Claude-Florent de Campigneulles but which might be by Henri-Joseph du Laurens. The present work is a direct continuation of that sequel although it ignores the happy ending of the previous work but evidently from the preface it is not written by the same author. It has still not been determined who the actual author is.The part on Rousseau pp. 148-167 in the present work has become quite famous portraying him satirically as trying to make a living in Copenhagen from copying music while plotting to escape to America. The novel ends with Candide leaving Denmark to be the Danish ambassador in Russia.A secoond edition appeared in 1769. </em> paperback
1540250506002Venice Venezia: Comin Da Trino & Niccolo Zoppino 1540. Hardcover. Very Good. I sei primi libri del Eneide di Vergilio tradotti piu illustri & honorate donne.Et tra l'altre la nobilissima & divina madonna Aurelia Tolomei de Borghesi cui ancho indirizzato tutto il presente volume<br /> <br /> The first six books of the Aeneid by Virgil translated to the most illustrious and honored ladies. And among others to the most noble and divine Madonna Aurelia Tolomei de Borghesi to whom also the present volume is addressed. <br /> <br /> NOTE: Incomplete. Missing Title page Book 1 and first 8 leaves of Book 2. Normally this scarce edition typically sells between $2000-2500 when found complete. <br /> <br /> PROVENANCE<br /> <br /> From the Virgil Collection of Craig Kallendorf 1954 - 2023 who owned the largest private collection of Virgil works 1150 editions not including Incunable books in the world. Only a handful of prominent institutions like the British Library had larger collections. Eighth-nine of the books in his collection were the only known surviving copies 71 only had one other known copy. He worked closely with Princeton University in helping to assemble supplement and catalog its Junius Spencer Morgan Virgil collection. Craig Kallendorf was Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University. He was the author or editor of 27 books and more than 170 articles book chapters and reference work entries. Among Kallendorf's groundbreaking monographs on the Virgilian tradition special note might be made of his Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance Oxford: Clarendon Press 1999 which shows how the wide reading of the Aeneid accessed in both Latin and Italian editions contributed to Venetian ideology and the so-called "myth of Venice." With its publication according to reviewer Diana Robin Renaissance Quarterly 55.4 2002 p. 1394 Kallendorf is to be recognized as "the leading authority on the Virgilian tradition in early modern print culture in Italy." <br /> <br /> ABOUT THE BOOK<br /> <br /> Post-Incunable edition of the first six books of the Aeneid by Virgil. In Italian. Published in 1540 by Comin da Trino & Niccolo Zoppino in Venice. Each book translated into Italian from Latin by a different individual: A2 Hippolito de Medici A3 Bernardino Borghesi A4 Bartolomeo Carli Piccolomini A5 Aldobrando Cerretani and A6 Alessandro Piccolomini. Rebound in modern 1/4-calf over marbled paper and gilt tooled spine bordering lettering and compartment devices. Marbled endpapers. Six parts in one volume. Octavo 6 1/2" x 4 1/8". Foliation in leaves: 15 20; 19 1; 27 1; 25 7. Fifteen vignette woodcuts and separate engraved title pages for Books 3-6. <br /> <br /> CONDITION REPORT<br /> <br /> Missing Title page Book 1 leaves and first 8 leaves of Book 2 including its title page. 15/22 woodcuts.<br /> <br /> The exterior is in FINE condition. Fresh supple unfaded leather and unblemished marbled paper. A few areas of light dust. Square spine very firm hinges and joints sharp corners and tight pages. Foxing to text block edges. <br /> <br /> The interior condition - refreshed endpapers and blank flyleaves. Trimmed pages. Light foxing to margins. Heavier foxing to preliminaries and last few leaves of the volume. Signs of handling - a few smudges bent corners and some creasing. No marginalia or underlining. One corner clipped. A few minor spots of worming in the margins. Rear blank flyleaf with period one-line Latin inscription in faded antiquarian ink claiming that the possessor of the book was a heteronymous eunuch! Front pastedown with the ex libris sticker "from the Virgil collection of Craig W. Kallendorf." <br /> <br /> In excellent shape for a nearly 500-year-old book - a beautifully bound and scarce post-incunable mostly complete edition of the first 6 books of The Aeneid by Virgil. Comin Da Trino & Niccolo Zoppino hardcover
1586250509002Venice Venezia: Appresso Giacomo Cornetti 1586. Hardcover. Good. The works of Vergil namely the Bucolic Georgic & Aeneid again translated into blank verse by various most excellent authors.<br /> <br /> Uncommon copy. Missing the final leaf of the Aneid otherwise complete. <br /> <br /> RECENT PROVENANCE<br /> <br /> From the Virgil Collection of Craig Kallendorf 1954 - 2023 who owned the largest private collection of Virgil works 1150 editions not including Incunable books in the world. Only a handful of prominent institutions like the British Library had larger collections. Eighty-nine of the books in his collection were the only known surviving copies 71 only had one other known copy. He worked closely with Princeton University in helping to assemble supplement and catalog its Junius Spencer Morgan Virgil collection. Craig Kallendorf was Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University. He was the author or editor of 27 books and more than 170 articles book chapters and reference work entries. <br /> <br /> HISTORIC PROVENANCE<br /> <br /> Federico Caproni Born in Massone Italy a hamlet of the Trentino municipality of Arco and died in Vizzola Ticino a municipality in the Varese area. Founder together with his younger brother Giovanni Battista of the Caproni Aeronautical Industries. He was a scholar of agricultural sciences. In the 1930s he purchased a large estate near Vizzola Ticino undertaking an intense reclamation project that changed the uncultivated nature of the territory and allowed the construction of a modern agricultural company. His private library consisted of approximately 85000 works divided by subject. Caproni Aeronautical Industries 1908 - 1950 was a pioneering Italian aircraft manufacturer. Caproni was responsible for completing the first aircraft of Italian construction in 1911. During 1927 the Caproni Museum was established in Taliedo by Giovanni Caproni and his wife Timina Caproni. It is the oldest aviation museum in Italy. <br /> <br /> ABOUT THE BOOK<br /> <br /> Published in 1586 by Appresso Giacomo Cornetti in Venice. Text in Italian and in italic type. The Eclogues Bucolics are translated by Andrea Lori; the Georgics by Bernardino Daniello; each of the twelve books of the Aeneid has a different translator: Alessandro Sansedoni Cardinale Hippolito de' Medici Bernardino Borghesi Lodovico Martelli Thomaso Porcacchi Alessandro Piccolomini Giuseppe Betussi Leonardo Ghini Bernardetto Minerbetti Lodovico Domenichi Bernardino Daniello and Paolo Mini. Bound in 19th century 1/4 mottled calf over mottled paper covered boards. Five compartment spine with smooth gilt bands with a gilt lettered black morocco spine label in compartment two and tooled gilt fleurons in the other compartments. All edges stained red. Octavo 5.5" x 4" foliated 8 28; 67 1; 279 leaves. 25 half-page woodcuts some repeats. Cornetti's rose device on title page within scrolled cartouche encircled with motto "Dabo omnibus gratum odorem"; ornamental initials; head- and tail-pieces.<br /> <br /> CONDITION REPORT<br /> <br /> Missing the final leaf of the Aeneid otherwise textually complete. Renewed endpapers. Multiple leaves numbered incorrectly and a few leaves sans number by the printer as it is with other copies. <br /> <br /> Margins trimmed. Spine is square firm hinges and joints. Offsetting and darkened areas on board paper. Some minor rubbing and a nick along joints. Dusty top edge. Rubbed boards and edges. Corners gently bumped. An old cataloguing sticker at heel of spine. A few pages with professional paper restoration to a corner. Quite a bit of water dampening throughout with staining. Heavily darkened title page. Only a few pages with antiquarian marginalia. Signs of handling- a few pages with margin tears some smudges some creasing and a few bent corners. Front pastedown with the bookplate of Federico Caproni. FFEP affixed with the ex libris sticker "from the Virgil collection of Craig W. Kallendorf." Some pencil writing on the front endpapers. Appresso Giacomo Cornetti hardcover
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original marbled papers. Papers toned, slightly wear on spine and extremities and scattered ink on several words. Otherwise a good copy. 16mo. (15 x 11 cm). In Ottoman script. [18], [2] p. He was an Iraqi Kurdish Sufi, by the name of Shaykh Diya al-Din Khalid al-Shahrazuri, the founder of a branch of the Naqshbandi Sufi order -called Khalidi after him- that has had a profound impact not only on his native Kurdish lands but also on many other regions of the western Islamic world. Mawlana Khalid acquired the nesba Baghdadi through his frequent stays in Baghdad, for it was in the town of Karadag (Qaradagh) in the Shahrizur region, about 5 miles from Sulaymaniyah, that he was born in 1779. His father was a Qadiri Sufi who was popularly known as Pir Mika'il Shesh-angosht, and his mother also came from a celebrated Sufi family in Kurdistan. He was an influential Ottoman mystic, who is believed by his followers to have been capable of time travel (Tayyi Zaman). He was born in the year 1779 in the village of Karadag, near the city of Sulaymaniyyah, in what is now Iraq. He was raised and trained in Sulaymaniyyah, where there were many schools and many mosques and which was considered the primary educational city of his time. His grandfather was Par Mika'il Chis Anchit, which means Mika'il the Saint of the six fingers. His title is `Uthmani because he is a descendant of Sayyidina `Uthman ibn `Affan, the third caliph of Islam. He studied the Qur'an and its explanation and fiqh according to the Shafi`i school. He was famous in poetry. When he was fifteen years of age he took asceticism as his creed, hunger as his horse, wakefulness as his means, seclusion as his friend, and energy as his light.Young Khalid studied with the two great scholars of his time, Shaykh `Abdul Karam al-Barzinji and Shaykh `Abdur Rahim al-Barzinji, and he read with Mullah Muhammad `Ali. He studied the sciences of mathematics, philosophy, and logic as well as the principles of jurisprudence. He studied the works of Ibn Hajar, as-Suyuti, and al-Haythami. He memorized the commentary on Qur'an by Baydawi. He was able to find solutions for even the most difficult questions in jurisprudence. He memorized the Qur'an according to the fourteen different ways of recitation, and became very famous everywhere for this. For many years Mawlana Khalid's interests were focused exclusively on the formal traditions of Islamic learning, and his later, somewhat abrupt, turning to Sufism is highly reminiscent of the patterns in many a classic Sufi biography. He began his studies in Qaradagh, with Qur'an memorization, Shafi fiqh, and elementary logic. He then traveled to other centers of religious study in Kurdistan, concentrating on logic and kalam. Next he came to Baghdad, where he astounded the established ulema with his learning and bested them in debates on many topics. Such was his mastery of the religious sciences that the governor of Baban proposed him a post as modarres, but he modestly refused. However, when Abd al-Karim Barzanki died of the plague in 1799, Mawlana Khalid assumed the responsibility for the madrasa in Sulaymaniyah he had founded. He remained there for about seven years, distinguished as yet only by his great learning and a high degree of asceticism that caused him to shun the company of secular authority. He reached Delhi in about a year (1809). His journey took him through Rey, Tehran, and other provinces of Iran. He then traveled to the city of Herat in Afghanistan, followed by Kandahar, Kabul, and Peshawar... (Source: Wikipedia). This manuscript and risala includes short examples of his 'letters' to prophet, Ottoman rulers, Sheikh Mahmud Sahib, Abdullah Pasha etc. Proper nouns in this booklet are written in red ink: Fazlullah, Hâlid Naksibendî Mujaddidi Osmani, Abdullah, Akmaladdin, Mahmud, Jacob, Gazali, Sahhab, Suhreverdi, Muhammad Mustafa, Celâl, Suyuti, etc. Hegira. 1286 = Gregorian: 1870.
Please note: This is a first edition copy from 1963. 224 pages. "... Covers the essentials of colour practice and includes an international dictionary of colours with British Standard equivalents. A universal ready-reference for all whose jobs or recreations involve colour, it now includes names of colours used by British paint manufacturers and colours traditionally associated with the printing ink industry, thus shedding light on the whole field of colour in art and science." - from dust jacket of a later edition (not included). Colour-finder card not included. Lightly used former corporate library copy with usual markings. A sound copy. Book
199212838E. J. GOLD'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY AND BEYOND THE UNKNOWN Sirius Science Fiction 1992 first edition as new without dust-wrapper as issued. Of 125 copies this is 1/20 of the deluxe edition with an original SIGNED serigraph by E.J. Gold acting as frontispiece. Illustrated. Collects stories by Fred Pohl Robert Sheckley Damon Knight & Daniel Galouye. Quite scarce. This copy SIGNED by Pohl at his contribution. Rare thus. Sirius Science Fiction 1992 unknown
1708138568London : Printed For J. Beaver And B. Lintot In Fleet Street R. Knaplock In St. Paul's Church-Yard J. Sprint In Little Brittain A. Bell R. Smith And J. Round In Cornhill 1708. First Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original full blind-tooled aniline calf. Professionally and period sympathetically re-backed with the original label retained; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. ; 759 pages; LACKS the frontis. Physical desc. : x 4 759 i. E.775 1 p. ; 2o. Subject: Josephus Flavius. - Peri tou Houdaikou polemou. Jews - History. Judaism. Referenced by: ESTC t090837. London : Printed For J. Beaver And B. Lintot In Fleet Street, R. Knaplock In St. Paul's Church-Yard, J. Sprint In Little Brittai hardcover
165854802no publisher stated Lugduni ie Paris - Jacob L'Aîne Rue Philosophie N°6 Orleans 1658 ie 1793 . 1st edition. Hardback. Diced calf VG. 172iv94pp marbled endpapers gilt dentelles all edges gilt leather a little rubbed & upper hinge cracked but holding Ex Libris Caroli Waldstein with their armorial bookplate neat late 19th century annotation to the first blank pages of the second title a little browned a nice copy. Two political tracts published in France in the early days of the Republic which look back to the English protectorate & the lessons to be learnt. The first is a translation of 'Killing Noe Murder' 1658 a pamphlet which advocates the assassination of Oliver Cromwell. Authorship has been attributed to either Edward Sexby or Silius Titus. Cromwell is considered a tyrant equal to Caligula and Nero - the people must rise up & rid them selves of such a despot and tyrannicide can not be regarded as an act of murder. The second work published in 1797 is based upon the 'The Syracusan Tyrant or the Life of Agathocles' by Richard Perrinchief originally published in 1661 an attack on Oliver Cromwell presented as a biography of Agathocles. Both works probably relating to Thermidor & the the overthrow of revolutionary radical Maximilien Robespierre & a retreat from more radical goals and strategies during a revolution. no publisher stated, Lugduni [ ie Paris ] - Jacob L'Aîne, Rue Philosophie N°6, Orleans hardcover
185942532London: John Henry and James Parker 1859. First edition. 4to. xii 243 1 pp. Contemporary brown half morocco over plum cloth sides spine with raised bands gilt lettered direct to two panels marbled endpapers early armorial bookplate to the front pastedown another early ownership inscription to the front flyleaf with a further more recent one underneath top edge gilt. 73 plates plus 43 woodcuts in the text. Very good. London: John Henry and James Parker unknown
192762150Hollywood CA: Hollywood Bowl Assoc. 7046 Hollywood Blvd. 1927. 4to. 32 pp unpaginated. decorated title w/ tinted background borders 28 Xavier Cugat illustrated plates throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers Art Deco cover art of caricature conductor by Cugat yapp fore-edges minor wear dustsoiling slight scuffing still VG copy. First edition of this surprisingly scarce and splendidly illustrated caricature rendering of the stars and performers at the Hollywood Bowl for the 1927 Season. Caricatured among the “Hollywood Bowlsheviks†are Alfred Hertz who inaugurated the first Hollywood Bowl season of music in 1922 Bruno Walter Vladimir Shavitch Cecil B. De Mille Louis B. Mayer Pola Negri Hestelle Heartt Dreyfuss Lloyd Wright Pierre Monteux Douglas Fairbank and Mary Pickford. De Bru 1900-1990 was a child prodigy taken to Cuba where he trained as a classical violinist played with the Orchestra of the Teatro Nacional in Havana and after New York was hired as musician and caricaturist in Hollywood at the Bowl. He also put together a tango band in 1927 which performed at the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador and later took up a long term residency at the Waldorf Astoria in New York for 15 years and one of the noted performers was Desi Arnaz. His famed caricature “Curtain of Stars†measuring 40 x 60 feet hunt at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Cugat’s brother Francis was a noted illustrator best remembered for his cover art of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Worldcat locates 1 copy Cal. Hist. Soc. Lib.; Paul Spitzzeri Striking a Chord: A Program for Summer Concerts at the Hollywood Bowl 19-23 July 1927 Homtesead Museum July 20 2020. Hollywood Bowl Assoc., 7046 Hollywood Blvd., paperback
1855007164Sacramento California 1855. Two manuscript letters in ink both on ruled paper with folding creases the 1855 letter 8" x 12 1/2" with single spaced writing both sides approx. 500 words. The 1856 letter 15" x 10" folded in half to make 4 pp. approx. 300 words with small blindstamp top left corner depicting an eagle. The earlier letter is headed "September 18th 1855 Naperville Dupage County Illinois" and ends "Michael direct your letters Nevada County Nevada post office California". George writes to his brother Michael in Naperville that he has "seen a good dele sins i rote you they last letter" including a hundred "inshins" and some "Buffellow". He adds that "we had good luck all they way of may we left Council Bluff" and that he is not home sick yet. He then talks of the gold mines river mining what they are paying and the cost of things such as board "from five to ten dollars a week" "Beaf" "wors 15 to 20 cents" and "potato" "4 cent per pound". He adds that he intends to have some gold before he comes home and that "girls are not so plenty here as they are in state". He closes by asking his brother to write him and to remain at home in Illinois to care for their parents. The 1856 letter headed Sacramento august 3th 1856 informs his brother that he is well and "down to Sacramento now" working on a farm feeding a "schrasing" thrashing machine and that "they times is verry hard in California now". He adds that he had some money "stole" while he was in the mountains but since coming down into the valley he was making money and will send some home soon. The letter ends with George wishing to see them all soon and that he is not home sick. The third page of the letter bears a drawing of a wing or leaf eleven smaller versions of the same image interspersed on page 2. A fascinating testimonial on California during the gold rush written in a strong hand and in a wonderful vernacular style by a good observer. . HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Manuscript. Very Good. books
177969261Dublin: Printed for S. Price et al 1779. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Having served in a Massachusetts regiment during the French and Indian Wars Carver was sent in 1766 by Robert Rogers then governor of Mackinac to map the main rivers of Wisconsin and Minnesota in preparation for an expedition to search for an overland Northwest Passage. He traveled the Fox-Wisconsin route then up the Mississipii and Minnesota rivers to a point west of the Falls of St. Anthony where he wintered with the Sioux Indians. In 1767 he joined the party sent by Rogers to find a route to the Pacific. They traveled as far as Grand Portage on Lake Superior when they were forced to turn back for lack of supplies. This account based on his journal includes vivid descriptions of the Wisconsin and Minnesota territories Indian life and customs and a short treatise on tobacco. It was tremendously popular in both America and Europe and is thought to be the first work to mention a large mountain range to the west presumably the Rocky Mountains. Two copper plates. Octavo. The period calf binding has been expertly rebacked with a new brown leather spine and modern endpapers. The contents are a trifle toned with some occasional mild soiling and smudging. Period previous owner's ink signature to the title page and two concluding blank leaves. Lacking the folding frontispiece map and the preceding leaves. Howes C215; Sabin 11184. Printed for S. Price, [et al] hardcover books
17116369London: A. Baldwin 1711. 8vo 20.8 cm 8.25". vi 42 pp. <br><br>Generally attributed to Francis Hare Bishop of Chichester but also attributed to Jonathan Swift this anonymously published political analysis expresses concern not only that putting the Duke of Anjou on the Spanish throne would tilt the balance of power in Europe too far towards France but also that such action would greatly damage the livelihoods of English textile workers among others dependent on international commerce; also questioned are Swift's views on the ramifications of trade with Portuguese America. This is the second expanded edition. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T58140; Alden & Landis European Americana 711/126; Teerink-Scouten 1034. Blue-green paper wrappers old style. Title-page with small numeric stamp faint traces of other annotations. Small area of worming in inner margins touching a very few letters. A few scattered spots otherwise clean; edges untrimmed. A. Baldwin unknown books
1850DEMO014460IPhiladelphia: Printed by C. Sherman 1850. Popular Edition. Hardcover. Good. 64 excellent steel-plate engravings with 12 of 13 maps Samoa map apparently never inserted many vignettes and woodcuts. Octavos half brown calf blue marbled boards edges and endpapers; vol. 1 rebacked retaining original back and leather labels scuffing and wear to other spines corners worn. <br/><br/>Wilkes' expedition was the first American scientific exploring expedition by sea voyage. His six ships sailed south around South America along Antarctica causing Wilkes to decide that Antarctica was indeed a separate continent. Other stops were at the Pacific islands of Tahiti the Samoas Australia and New Zealand. Maps of Tahiti & Australia and New South Wales Along the way they charted the coasts of California Washington and Oregon. Howes W414; Palau 375505; Sabin 103994 note; see Cowan p.683; Taylor PACIFIC BIBLIOGRAPHY p.13. "Wilkes' spectacular Antarctic and South Sea explorations - Goetzmann ARMY EXPLORATION IN THE . WEST p.61" 64 excellent steel-plate engravings many vignettes and woodcuts. Unlike the 1844 edition the following Sherman editions did not have a 6th volume - the Atlas but have 3 Tables and 11 maps Printed by C. Sherman hardcover
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17527865Prag, Johann Carl Hraba, 1752. 4 Bll., 136 S., 3 Bll. (Register). 1 Kupfer-Frontisp. und 15 Kupfertafeln. Gr.-8°. Ldr. der Zeit auf 5 Bünden mit Rückenschild (beschabt und etw. bestoßen, oberes Kapitel mit kl. Einriss, kl. Bibliotheksschidchen am vorderen Deckel).
50-0506ca. 1950s. Set of 19 watercolors 43 x 35 cm and 35 drawings 28 x 21.5 cm. Probably the artwork intended for a book. Includes scenes in a wine shop butcher patisserie cafes and along the Seine. ca. 1950s. unknown
