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17778604<p><strong>Cook's Second Voyage</strong></p><p><strong>Maps and plates bound in a separate volume.</strong></p><p>3 volumes; 2 volumes of text 1 volume of plates. Frontis i-xxxvi 378pp 8396pp 63 plates. Collated complete. Quarto. 11½ x 9 inches. Original brown leather boards professionally rebacked with the original spines laid down. General wear and scuffing to each volume particularly at the corners. Frontis portrait of Cook trimmed close with lower portion of text shaved. Bookplates. Very minimal foxing bright and clean throughout.</p><p>Second edition published the same year as the first. 3 volumes; aside from the frontis portrait of Captain Cook in the first volume all of the other plates and maps called for are published separately in a third volume. The official account of Cook's second voyage and his first as commander of the Resolution 1772-1775. The success of Captain James Cook's first voyage led the Admiralty to send him on a second expedition which was to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible in search of any southern continents. The men on this expedition were the first to cross the Antarctic Circle. Further visits were made to New Zealand and on two great sweeps Cook made an astonishing series of discoveries and rediscoveries including Easter Island The Marquesas Tahiti and the Society Islands Niue the Tonga Islands the New Hebrides New Caledonia Norfolk Island and a number of smaller islands. Beddie: 1217; Hill: 358; Sabin: 16245.</p><p>Bookplates of G. C. Bainbridge and Charles Savile Roundell. Charles Savile Roundell 1827–1906 was an English cricketer lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1880 and 1895.</p> Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand hardcover
#[12736]Leyden Amsterdam 's Hage Honkoop Allart en van Cleef 1795-1803. 13 volumes index volume. Contemporary half calf top of spines of 3 volumes sl. dam. with morocco labels to spines. With engraved portrait 13 engraved title-pages 52 folding engraved maps by C. van Baarsch and 134 engraved plates mostly folding by J.S. Klauber. First Dutch edition; with bookplate of B.J. van Dongen. - First collected accounts of the three great voyages by James Cook 1728-1779 the first really scientific navigator providing 18th century Europeans with their first virtually complete insight into the previously more or less unexplored region of the Pacifc. Volume I-III contain the life of Cook and his first voyage 1768-1771. The expedition sailed aboard HMS Endeavour to Tahiti then sailed to New Zealand.where he mapped the complete coastline. He was the first European in New Zealand since Abel Tasman in 1643. Cook then voyaged west reaching the southeastern coast of Australia near today's Point Hicks on 19 April 1770 and in doing so his expedition became the first recorded Europeans to have encountered its eastern coastline. Cook returned to England via Batavia. Volume IV-VII contain his second voyage 1772-1775. Cook commanded HMS Resolution on this voyage while Tobias Furneaux commanded its companion ship HMS Adventure. Cook's expedition circumnavigated the globe at an extreme southern latitude becoming one of the first to cross the Antarctic Circle. On his return voyage to New Zealand in 1774 Cook landed at the Friendly Islands Easter Island Norfolk Island New Caledonia and Vanuatu. Volume VIII-XIII contain his third voyage 1776-1780. On his last voyage Cook again commanded HMS Resolution while Captain Charles Clerke commanded HMS Discovery. On this expedition he became the first European to begin formal contact with the Hawaiian Islands. From the Sandwich Islands Cook sailed north and then northeast to explore the west coast of North America north of the Spanish settlements in Alta California. He charted the majority of the North American northwest coastline on world maps for the first time. Cook returned to Hawaii where he was killed in a fight between his men and the natives of Hawaii in 1779. 'Cook earned his place in history by opening up the Pacific to western civilization and by foundation of British Australia. The world was given for the first time an essentially complete knowledge of the Pacific Ocean and Australia and Cook proved once and for all that there was no great southern continent as had always been believed. He also suggested the existence of antarctic land in the southern ice ring a fact which was not proved until the explorations up the 19th century. Cook was a brilliant navigator and hydrographer an excellent administrator and planner and probably the first sea captain to realize the importance of preserving the health and well-being of his crew' P.M.M. p.135. - James Cook contributed much to European knowledge of the Pacific several islands were encountered for the first time by Europeans and charting of large areas of the area was a major achievement. - Some volumes sl. waterstained. - A fine set. Tiele 268; Cat. NHSM I p.140; Beddie 52. unknown
190343363London.: George Allen. 1903 - 1912. Contemporary burgundy half-morocco by W. J. Mansell with his stamp to front free endpapers verso marbled boards and endpapers banded spines with gilt titles t.e.g. others uncut. 39 vols. Large 8vo. 250 x 176 mm. Monochrome and colour plates and text illustrations throughout. The complete literary works of John Ruskin.This edition remains the only collected edition of Ruskin limited to 2062 copies and produced to a very high standard at the Ballantyne Press. George Allen. hardcover
17855001066Florence 1785. Small folio original quarter calf and boards a fine copy. <p><p>Rare eccentric but beautiful elegy for Cook. This prose essay honouring the life and voyages of the navigator in florid style would have greatly embarrassed him. Describing his achievements in purple tones "this prodigy of nature" is lauded for his mapping of the St Lawrence to which the author ascribes much of General Wolfe's successes. Each of the three voyages of discovery is described in some detail while Cook like many sailors a non-swimmer is given powers that he never possessed: "From his infancy he was accustomed to the useful practice of swimming and could cleave the waves of the Ocean with the facility of its inhabitants".</p> <p>Although the poem exhibits a particular interest in the exotic islands of Tahiti and Hawaii as well as the sometimes violent interactions in New Zealand the work does include a particularly attractive passage on Cook's grounding on a reef and subsequent beaching at Endeavour River.</p> <p>This is a beautifully printed book in the best Italian eighteenth-century tradition much in the style of Bodoni using elegant roman and italic types classically composed within ruled borders. The dedication is to Sir Horace Mann then English ambassador to the Court of Tuscany.</p> <p>Gianetti was professor of anatomy at the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova and well-known as a dilettante poet and friend of English poets such as Hester Lynch Piozzi. The English translation is signed R.M. that is the English poet Robert Merry who wrote under the pseudonym Della Crusca and was the great English literary figure in Tuscany at this time. This work could be compared with Merry's own Ode on Rodney's defeat of De Grasse in the West Indies 1782 which appeared accompanied by a French translation by Sir Wogan Browne and an Italian translation by Gianetti himself Brian Moloney 'The Della Cruscan Poets' MLR January 1965 p. 50.</p> </p> . unknown
17796000075London: J K Sherwin 1779. Engraving artist's proof copy 275 x 235 mm mounted and framed. <p><p>A proof impression before title date and some letters of the first issue of the first separately published engraving of Captain Cook.</p> <p>This famous portrait of the navigator was published in the year of his death though news of the events at Kealakekua Bay did not reach Europe until the following year. Now the trademark image of Cook as a result of its very many subsequent versions Beddie lists an astonishing 284 entries for the Dance group it was considered the best likeness at the time and is known for example to have been distributed to friends by his widow Elizabeth. It is a conspicuously rare portrait in this first version. The engraving is based on Nathaniel Dance's original portrait commissioned by Joseph Banks for which Cook sat for Dance in 1776 before sailing on his third voyage. The painting is today in the National Maritime Museum Greenwich. Dance one of the greatest of British history painters and a founding member of the Royal Academy shows Cook wearing captain's full-dress uniform and holding his own chart of the Southern Ocean: the caption "New Holland" can clearly be discerned in the engraving.</p> <p>This extremely rare proof was pulled before the image had been titled and dated and before the usual pinxit and sculpsit notes had been added to the artists' names; this state corresponds with an example in the Mitchell Library where it is item 3 in an 18th-century connoisseur's album entitled "Three voyages round the world" while a subsequent state with the addition of the title is held in the Dixson Library Beddie 3379. An earlier less-developed form where the shape of Cook's body has been simply blocked out is held by the National Library Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK10914/A and /B.</p> </p> . J K Sherwin unknown
238712London Printed for Alex Hogg 1784-86. Folio 385 x 235 mm. 655 5 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait 1 folding engraved map and 155 engraved plates maps and views. Portrait title preface folding map and the last two pages with neatly repaired marginal tears. A few plates and pages with minor marginal waterstaining. 1 plate with tear in lower margin. Finely bound in modern half morocco with red leather label and six raised bands Baythun Bath. . hardcover
17974505245Leipzig vol. 1 and Berlin 1797. Six volumes small octavo two large folding engraved maps of North America a folding plate of the breadfruit and 19 other plates; in period bindings probably German of half calf and marbled boards flat spines gilt in compartments light brown leather labels and green diagonal numbering-pieces; a very attractive set. <p><p>A fine set of the first collected edition of the works of Georg Forster. The first volume was revised and edited by Forster himself who died before the remaining volumes were published and was the only volume to be published in Leipzig it was reprinted later in Berlin; the subsequent volumes were published in Berlin between 1794 and 1797. Some sets are therefore found with the second Berlin rather than the first Leipzig edition of the initial volume. As the title implies this set prints an important selection of Forster's shorter pieces. A great number of the essays printed here relate to Pacific voyaging reflecting Forster's enduring interest in the region. Fittingly the first essay is his important and long-overlooked memoir of Captain Cook 'Cook der Entdecker' first published as the introduction to the German edition of Cook's third voyage and only recently translated into English for the first time.</p> <p>Any number of the essays are of tremendous interest not least Forster's 1787 article on the British Colony in New Holland an essay on Tahiti and another on the breadfruit with folding plate the Latin preface to his Dissertatio de Plantis Esculentis insularum oceani australis of 1786 and his article on the red Bee-eater of Hawaii first printed in the Göttingisches Magazin in 1781 and recognised as the first major natural history article relating to the Sandwich Islands see Forbes 13. There are also two major essays on the Northwest coast of America both accompanied by excellent large folding maps the first with notes on the fur-trade and the map by Carl Gäck the Berlin cartographer 1791 and the second accompanied by another large folding map by Gäck but on this occasion based on an Arrowsmith chart of 1789. The two large folding charts were published for Forster's own German translation of Cook's third voyage but were included in some copies of his Kleine Schriften as here.</p> <p>Otherwise the essays show Forster's wide-ranging interests including pieces on English literature the Comte de Volney and his memoirs of the tumultuous year 1790 with many plates including a portrait bust of Benjamin Franklin.</p> </p> . Provenance: Original manuscript purchase inscription in vol. 1 dated 1797. unknown
149944San Francisco: Chronicle Books 1998. First edition of this multidimensional visual portrayal of women’s lives. Quarto original publisher's cloth illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy with a lengthy autograph notecard inscribed by the photographer Mariana Cook to Ruth Bader Ginsburg laid in. The recipient American lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020 and was responsible for some of the most eventful legal decisions of the past half-century. Nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to replace retiring justice Byron White Ginsburg became the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court after Sandra Day O’Connor. Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women’s rights winning many arguments before the Supreme Court. During her tenure as associate justice of the Supreme Court Ginsburg received attention for her fiery and passionate dissents that reflected liberal views of the law. She was popularly dubbed “the Notorious R.B.G.†a moniker she later embraced. She authored several important majority opinions related to gender discrimination voting rights and affirmative action in cases such as United States v. Virginia 1996 which struck down the Virginia Military Institute’s male-only admissions policy as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment Olmstead v. L.C. 1999 in which the Court ruled that mental illness is a form of disability covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Friends of the Earth Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc. 2000 in which the Court held that residents have standing to seek fines for an industrial polluter that affected their interests and that is able to continue doing so. Fine in a fine dust jacket. From the library of American lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Photographic and literary exploration of the relationships between women across different generations. The book features intimate black-and-white portraits of grandmothers mothers and daughters accompanied by personal narratives that reflect on themes of heritage identity and familial bonds. Through these stories Cook captures the complexities of womanhood emphasizing both the shared experiences and the individuality of each subject. Chronicle Books hardcover
1903510064George Allen 1903. Leather. NEAR FINE. With an Autographed Letter Signed by John Ruskin tipped into volume 1. Lacking the index volume but complete otherwise. 9.5 x 6.5' bound in sumptuous Sumac burgundy morocco goatskin with ornate gilt and blind stamping gilt rolled dentelle b/w and sepia plates of Ruskin's manuscripts and original drawings. Some light fading to the spines as typically seen occasional very trivial rubbing and bowing; else FINE with entirely clean fresh and crisp text. Edition limited to 2062 copies an elaborate production carried out over nearly a full decade by Ruskin's publisher and personal friend George Allen being completed after his death in 1907. Ships professionally with utmost care in double-walled boxes. International and expedited shipping will require additional fees. George Allen unknown
BIB 2CADELL Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Second Cook Voyage - A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World. In which is included Captain Furneauxs Narrative of his Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships First edition of Cook's second voyage. Two volumes quarto Complete with frontispiece in Volume I by Hodges and 683 plates charts and folding maps. Contemporary linen spine with leather label over marbled boards. CADELL Hardcover
in-8, pp. 504, bella leg. m. pelle coeva con tass. e tit. oro al d. con picc. fregi, piatti in cart. dec. Con una gr. tav. xilogr., più volte ripiegata, stampata recto/verso e raff. l'apparecchiatura della tavola con i coperti e menù. Rarissima ediz. orig. del più noto trattato di cucina piemontese, contenente centinaia di dettagliate ricette dove l'innovazione della cucina francese si fonde con la tradizione di quella piemontese. L'opera gettò le basi per un autonomia della cucina piemontese rispetto a quella d'oltralpe: la birra lasciò spazio al vino, il vino bianco secco prese il posto dello champagne, i tartufi neri del Périgord furono sostituiti con i tartufi bianchi, e così via. Un capitolo intero è dedicato a burro e formaggio, in particolare parmigiano, altro a bevande quali caffè, tè e cioccolato. Ampia trattazione viene data a confetture e marmellate. L'opera fu più volte ristampata anche nei secoli successivi, ma questa prima edizione è pressochè introvabile soprattutto completa della tavola. Paleari I, p. 230. Westbury 69. Manca a Vicaire. Belliss. esempl. [MM11-084]
Seconda edizione aumentata. Ottimo esemplare (alcune pagine uniformemente brunite, qualche sporadica e leggera fioritura, un leggero restauro conservativo alla tavola ripiegata, ma nel complesso un esemplare molto bello). Importante trattato di gastronomia, talmente approfondito e curato da configurarsi insieme come un manuale di cucina e un ricettario. Nella prima sezione, pubblicata originariamente nel 1631 sempre presso Cavalli, pagine splendide per chiarezza e vivacità forniscono istruzioni dettagliate su tutto il processo di messa in tavola delle pietanze: dalla scelta degli alimenti, alle loro proprietà nutritive, dalle modalità di cottura, preparazione e impiattamento fino alla disposizione della tavola, nulla viene trascurato. Il «Discorso del Trinciante», qui per la prima volta pubblicato, si sofferma invece sulla trinciatura della carne e del pesce, e vengono illustrati gli strumenti ad essa preposti. Non mancano, infine, i menu che il Frugoli organizzò nelle maggiori corti europee. Il libro, per sua natura, doveva avere innanzitutto una funzione pratica: e così, per favorirne una rapida consultazione, è corredato da un indice degli argomenti molto approfondito e in rigoroso ordine alfabetico. Antonio Frugoli, nato a Lucca, fu al servizio del Cardinale Capponi, legato pontificio a Bologna: ciò gli diede la possibilità di lavorare, al seguito dell’alto prelato, nelle maggiori corti europee, soprattutto a Madrid e Roma. A testimonianza della sua fortuna nei secoli, questa seconda edizione nel 2005 ha goduto di una riproduzione facsimilare presso il bolognese Arnaldo Forni. L’edizione è di grande rarità: se ne riscontrano solo 8 copie in Iccu e 4 in OCLC (Bibliothèque Mazarine - Paris; Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library - Toronto; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; The Wellcome Library - London). B.IN.G., n. 855; Paleari Henssler, Gastronomia, p. 313; Vicaire, Bibliogr. gastronomique, coll. 375-6; E. David, «Italian food», New York, 1999, p. 313.
1782310848London: G. Robinson J. Sewell and J. Debrett 1782. First edition. Engraved folding map and 21 engraved plates. x 358 2 pp; 6 347 pp. Half-title volume 1 instructions to binder at end of volume 1. 2 vols. 8vo. Modern morocco. Faint foxing occasional toning neat repair to bound edge of title and half title a few small neat repairs to folding map with small tape ghost to bottom edge of same some mostly marginal worming at middle of vol 2 very good. First edition. Engraved folding map and 21 engraved plates. x 358 2 pp; 6 347 pp. Half-title volume 1 instructions to binder at end of volume 1. 2 vols. 8vo. First edition of this account of Cook's final voyage. "Ellis was a surgeon's mate during Cook's third voyage first on the Discovery and later on the Resoultion and gives quite a good history of this expedition. This account was published two years before the official narrative . It appears that needing money Ellis sold his narrative to a bookseller for fifty guineas. The fine plates are among the earliest published on the Hawaiian Islands Alaska and the Northwest" Hill. The plates include eight of Hawaii two of Alaska and three of the Northwest Coast. Beddie 1599; Forbes 41; Hill 555; Howes E-122; Sabin 22333 G. Robinson, J. Sewell, and J. Debrett unknown
1782310848London: G. Robinson J. Sewell and J. Debrett 1782. First edition. Engraved folding map and 21 engraved plates. x 358 2 pp; 6 347 pp. Half-title volume 1 instructions to binder at end of volume 1. 2 vols. 8vo. Modern morocco. Faint foxing occasional toning neat repair to bound edge of title and half title a few small neat repairs to folding map with small tape ghost to bottom edge of same some mostly marginal worming at middle of vol 2 very good. First edition. Engraved folding map and 21 engraved plates. x 358 2 pp; 6 347 pp. Half-title volume 1 instructions to binder at end of volume 1. 2 vols. 8vo. Cook's Third Voyage. First edition of this account of Cook's final voyage. "Ellis was a surgeon's mate during Cook's third voyage first on the Discovery and later on the Resoultion and gives quite a good history of this expedition. This account was published two years before the official narrative . It appears that needing money Ellis sold his narrative to a bookseller for fifty guineas. The fine plates are among the earliest published on the Hawaiian Islands Alaska and the Northwest" Hill. The plates include eight of Hawaii two of Alaska and three of the Northwest Coast. Beddie 1599; Forbes 41; Hill 555; Howes E-122; Sabin 22333 G. Robinson, J. Sewell, and J. Debrett unknown books
1784WRCAM43625Dublin 1784. Three volumes. 8xcviii421; 14549; 11559pp. plus frontispiece portrait eighteen folding maps and charts seven folding plates and folding table. Contemporary calf spines gilt leather labels. Extremities lightly worn slight wear to spine ends and hinges first volume expertly rebacked with original spine laid down. Minor occasional foxing. A very good set. First Dublin edition of the official account of Cook's third and final voyage including text on the exploration of Hawaii and the west coasts of America Canada and Alaska. The third voyage was undertaken to continue the British survey of the Pacific but most particularly to search for a northwest passage from the western side. Sailing in 1776 the expedition called at Kerguelen Island Tasmania New Zealand and the Cook Tonga and Society islands then sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands. They then thoroughly explored and charted the Northwest Coast from the Bering Straits along the coast of Alaska and Canada as far south as present northern California. Returning to Hawaii in 1778 the expedition was at first received warmly; but after departing and being forced to return to repair a mast trouble developed which led to a tragic series of events in which the great navigator was killed. However the expedition pressed on under Clerke and then Gore and explored the coasts of Siberia and Kamchatka before returning to England in 1780. Forbes calls this work "arguably the single most important book on the Hawaiian islands." The Dublin edition was issued both with and without the plates; this copy is the issue with the plates which is considerably more desirable and difficult to come by. HOWES C729a. SABIN 16250. BEDDIE 1546. London edition: HILL 361. FORBES 62. LADA-MOCARSKI 37. REESE BEST OF THE WEST 14 ref. hardcover books
1785151486London: Printed by H. Hughs for G. Nicol Bookseller to His Majesty in the Strand; and T. Cadell in the Strand 1785. Finely bound example of Cook's Third Voyage "one of the most important English books published in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. considered typographically superior to the first edition" Forbes. Quarto three volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Bayntun with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt nautical gilt stamping to the spine in six compartments within raised bands engraved medallion vignette to each title page illustrated with engraved maps and charts mostly folding folding letterpress table without 63 of the plates that the publisher instructed booksellers to issue separately in a folio volume not present. Beddie Mitchell Library 650 1216 1543; Forbes 62; Hill 782 358 361; Holmes 5 24 47; PMM 223; Rosove 77.A2; Sabin 30934 16245 16250. Second edition. In near fine condition. An attractive example of this important work which significantly advanced European understanding of the geography and peoples of the Pacific. For his last Voyage Cook was ordered to seek a North-West Passage and to return Omai to Tahiti. From Cape Horn they sailed to the Kerguelens named Desolation Island by Cook Tasmania and New Zealand charting and mapping all the way then north discovering the Hawaiian Islands which Cook considered his most valuable discovery and Christmas Island. Cook charted the American West Coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait to 70 deg. 44’ N. He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in an "unhappy skirmish" with the natives over a boat. Also on board were James Burney William Bligh James Colnett and George Vancouver who all made their own great contributions to navigation and discovery. The present work resulting from their voyage is “arguably the single most important book on the hawaiian islands that documents all aspects of Hawaiian culture at the point of discovery by Europeans… and is in fact one of the most important English books published in the last quarter of the eighteenth century†Forbes. “Cook earned his place in history by opening up the Pacific to Western civilization and by the foundation of British Australia. The world was given for the first time an essentially complete knowledge of the Pacific Ocean and Australia and Cook proved once and for all that there was no great southern continent as had always been believed. He also suggested the existence of Antarctic land in the southern ice ring a fact which was not proved until the explorations of the nineteenth century†PMM. Printed by H. Hughs, for G. Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Cadell, in the Strand hardcover
190348572London: George Allen 1903. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. 1903-1912. 8vo. Library edition limited to 2062 of which 2000 are for sale complete in thirty-nine volumes. Numerous plates some chromolithographed others monochrome sepia or aqua and black and white in-text illustrations. Bound in half red morocco leather over red cloth with a red ribbon spines ribbed and gilt stamped tops gilt. Several volumes with light wear or rubbing to the leather at the edges or joints some joints stressed most of the boards a little bowed a few with heavier bowing. Vol. XVII stressed at the hinges and weak resulting in some surface cracking to the leather of the front board. The books clean throughout each with bookplate to the front paste-down. The edition includes all Ruskin's letters privately circulated publications and scattered writings and all published works then known in print and out. This is an extraordinary presentation of Ruskin's fantastically broad range of work a corpus which influenced figures as divergent as Proust and Rossetti. George Allen hardcover
10630[Le Cannet], [1901 - 1927]. Important ensemble de 330 aquarelles, empreintes et dessins originaux d'Auguste Tavel, ayant pour motifs des compositions végétales. La plupart devaient servir pour des menus. Ainsi 74 feuillets sont non seulement décorés, mais ils sont datés, le menu y est inscrit à l'aquarelle, et les noms des invités figurent souvent au verso, avec le plan de table. L'artiste a utilisé des papiers de différentes teintes et textures. Presque chaque feuillet porte le tampon de Tavel. L'ensemble n'est pas relié, mais conservé sous une reliure portant la mention "Roc-Tavel - Menus" au dos et sur le premier plat.
199951882BLANVALET LOTHAR 05/1999. 1. softcover. Schwarze Schar Die BLANVALET, LOTHAR paperback
199651775GOLDMANN WILHELM 11/1996. 1. softcover. Rätsel von Karenta Die Deutsche Erstveröffentlichung! GOLDMANN, WILHELM paperback
199651761GOLDMANN WILHELM 10/1996. 1. softcover. Rätsel von Karenta Die Deutsche Erstveröffentlichung! GOLDMANN, WILHELM paperback
17843603426London: Sold in Spur Street Leicester Square 1784. Small crease in lower corner in good condition. Oval engraving 350 x 265 mm. image size; mounted. <p><p>Rare variant of the famous engraving of Cook's death showing as the caption notes "Part of the Original Plate after Webber" and presumably quite literally printed from an oval cut from the fuller engraved copper. This is only very rarely seen: the single example noted by Joppien and Smith was in the British Museum. </p> <p>The full-size engraving was first issued early in 1784. Based on the oil painting executed by Webber soon after he returned to London in 1780 the figures were engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi and the landscape by William Byrne. Quickly becoming the most famous of all eighteenth-century depictions of the massacre the view appeared at about the same time as the official third voyage account was published. This was no coincidence: although lavishly illustrated by Webber the official account did not include any depiction of the most famous scene of the entire voyage the death of Captain Cook. As a result the iconic engraving is often seen bound into extra-illustrated editions of the third voyage account.</p> <p>Reflecting the general opinion prevailing in published accounts of the voyage the original image as Joppien and Smith argue appeared to show Cook as 'an innocent victim killed in the act of pleading for peace'. This is here heightened by the changed composition as the oval shape dictates a radically different impact to that of the original engraving omitting the dramatic conflict between the British sailors and the Hawaiians and thus implying a scene in which Cook his arm raised in supplication to his men offstage stands alone and is overwhelmed by a seething crowd.</p> <p>The only copy noted among Australian holdings appears to be the heavily clipped copy in the National Library of Australia part of the Nan Kivell collection.</p> </p> . Sold in Spur Street, Leicester Square unknown
in-folio (mm 340x225), pp.91 di testo e descrizione delle tavole, un f. bianco. Antiporta inc. raffigurante la scena dell'omaggio del Castelmaine al Papa, ritratto della Duchessa di Modena dedicataria del volume ed una iniziale fig., 15 stupende tavole f.t. disegnate da G.B.Leonardi , P.M.Camers ed A.Cornely, incise all'acquaforte da Arn. Van Vesterhout, raffiguranti le scene, le decorazioni delle carrozze di gala, le sculture in argento che le decoravano, ecc. Rimarchevole (oltre 1200 mm. di lunghezza, ripiegata più volte) la grandissima incisione che raffigura la magnifica tavola preparata e decorata per il banchetto ufficiale (abile restauro nella parte inferiore del margine bianco della lunga tavola). Legatura ottocentesca in piena pergamena rigida, fregi e titolo oro al dorso. Sontuoso libro di feste relative al ricevimento in Vaticano nel 1687 dell'ambasciatore britannico Castelmaine, accompagnato dal pittore J.M. Wright, autore della presente opera. Scopo della missione fu la riconciliazione tra Giacomo II e la chiesa di Roma. Esemplare ben conservato ex libris "Bibliotheca Gastronomica Claudio Bemporat".. Lipperheide 2751. Vinet 808. Pine-Coffin 687. Cat. Ruggieri n. 828 (1873) e n. 323 (1885)..
1773024773London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1773 Cook's First Voyage. 3 vols. 4to. modern full black leather gilt blindstamped raised bands new endpapers some toning and marking bound without half-titles leaf edges a little thumbed occ. misfolding to plans and charts marginal tear to final leaf with only slight loss occ. pencil marginalia else generally clean and neat; pp. xii last blank xxxvi iv 'Directions for Placing the Cuts and Charts' last blank 1-39 360-676 with folding frontispiece 19 other views charts and plates many folding lacks 'Chart of the Streight of Magellan' as is usual in the first edition; xvi last errata 1-410 last blank with 21 views charts and plates lacks 'Chart of Cook's Streight in New Zealand'; vi last errata 411-800 last blank with 9 views charts and plates; Very heavy set 7 kg additional postage may be required for international and domestic delivery. A very good copy in a new binding. Holmes 3. Ex-libris Charles Scobie ANARE Macquarie Island 1948 with his ownership signature dated 19-9-41 to first volume and his occasional pencil marginalia. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG-. W. Strahan and T. Cadell hardcover
1920140947948Athol MA: W. Paul Cook 1920. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. 56-73 20-48 pp. Bound in publisher's slate blue side-stapled wraps lettered in black. Near Fine. A fantastic copy. This marks the first appearance of Lovecraft's most common recurring Dream Cycle character Randolph Carter featured on p. 41-48 in the short story The Statement of Randolph Carter. Loosely modeled after Lovecraft himself Carter is a melancholic author whose writings go unnoticed. OCLC locates only 3 institutional holdings; scarce. Joshi I-B-i-57.a. W. Paul Cook unknown
