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1795M541Amsterdam 1795. Very Good; upper left margin extended. Notes: A chart of New South Wales or the East coast of New Holland. Discovered and explored by Lieutenant James Cook commander of his Majesty's Bark Endeavour in the year 1771. After a slow and hazardous passage through the Reef the Endeavour arrived at 'York Cape' which Cook named after the recently dead Duke of York. On Possession Island just off the tip of the Cape he took possession of the east coast of Australia from Cape York to latitude 38 degree south in the name of George III. Confident that this land 'was never seen or visited by any European before us' he hoisted the English colours and named it New South Wales.This was in August 1770; sailing on through the Torres Strait he arrived home in1771. For the British people. Cook's voyages had staked a claim to a new continent. His prestige as a discoverer was much higher as it had been given before his death. Important world maps for many years paid tribute to Cook by showing the tracks of his ships. Perhaps the greatest admiration for Cook's exploits was aroused in France.The story of his first voyage along with his chart of New South Wales was published in 1773 and translated immediately into French under the auspices of the geographer Gilles Robert de Vaugondy. Crowell page 262. Size : 380x785 mm 15x30.875 Inches Coloring: Black & White Category: Maps Pacific; unknown
178322399Amsterdam 1783. Very good condition. Copper engraved world map showing the routes of the three Cook voyages. Beautiful outline color with land masses with colored wash. Contemporary folds. Two small light fox spots otherwise very good condition. 34 x 22" unknown
1787AA2996Upsala:: Johan Edman 1787. 1787. Small 8vo. 14 618 14 pp. Folding map woodcut headpiece. Later quarter calf over marbled boards gilt-stamped spine title; joints rubbed headcap chipped rear corner cracked. Very good. RARE. FIRST SWEDISH EDITION of Cook's third voyage. Translated and abridged from the official account of Cook's third and final voyage. The translator was the Swedish naturalist and theologian Samuel Lorentz Odmann 1750-1829. Nat'l. Lib. of Australia. The folding map at the back of the volume shows the area of the Bering Strait Asia to the west the Sandwich Islands to the south and Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island which is not shown as an island at all. Beddie 1566; DuRietz Cook 12; Forbes 126; Kroepelien 1137. Copies in: National Library of Australia; Carlskrona LaseSallskaps Bibliothek; Univ. Minnesota; Yale; Univ. Alaska; State Lib. New South Wales. Johan Edman, 1787. hardcover
1730657607W. Meadows 1730. First Edition. Leather Binding. Near Fine. APPARENTLY THE AUTHOR'S COPY WITH HIS BOOKPLATE. Volume II only of this scarce work. 6 iv 4 374 2 pages of ads at rear. A very good copy in a period Cambridge-style binding brown calf tooled in blind with dyed center panel expertly rebacked in modern brown calf spine with raised bands and black morocco label boards rubbed; some foxing; one or two pencil notes. PROVENANCE: With the period engraved armorial bookplate of Joannes Cook MD featuring the motto 'Suum cuique'. 'John Cook 1704-1777 was born in Leigh the son of John Cook senior and Elizabeth Tomson. When he was eight years old he was sent to Latin School in Bathgate Lothian Scotland and later to Edinburgh. He returned to Leigh in 1721 and worked as an apothecary in his father's shop before moving to London in 1724 and entering St Thomas' Hospital in 1725. Upon completion of his medical training he gained a position in Burnham. Cook returned to Leigh in 1726 and married Susannah Heber a year later. A daughter Susannah was born in 1729 but both wife and daughter died later in 1729. At Leigh he worked as both a medical practitioner and a coal merchant. In 1730 his book An Anatomical and Mechanical Essay On The Whole Animal Oeconomy was published in two volumes and copies were presented to the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh and the Royal Society London. Cook also published a number of articles in various magazines and journals including 85 in the London Magazine. In 1732 he was awarded the degree of MD at St Andrew's University. Cook later married Elizabeth Bradley and had approximately 15 children'. Essex Records Office. W. Meadows unknown
51-2800London: Baldwin Cradock & Joy circa 1821. 12 Engravings on 7 sheets. 25 x 18.5 inches sheet sizes. Copies of Paulson nos. 82-93. Few mariginal tearsIllustration to the the 17th Century work ofSamuel Butler who was influenced by Rabelais and Cervantes' Don Quixote. While in Cervantes the noble knight although being mocked is supposed to draw readers' sympathies Hudibras is offered nothing but derision.The title comes from the name of a knight in Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene who is described as "not so good of deeds as great of name" and "more huge in strength than wise in work". Spenser in turn probably got the name from the legendary king of the Britons Rud Hud Hudibras.Made by T. Cook after W. Hogarth. Thomas Cook 1744-1818 was a London engraver. Thomas was a student of Ravenet the well-known French engraver who resided in London at the time. He has copied the entire engraved work of Hogarth which was published under the name 'Hogarth Restored' from 1806. William Hogarth 1697-1764 was an English painter printmaker social critic and cartoonist. London: Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, circa 1821. unknown
2014Adhya-9781841846538T&F/CRC PRESS 2014. Hardcover. New. T&F/CRC PRESS hardcover
2014Adhya-9781841846538T&F/CRC PRESS 2014. Hardcover. New. T&F/CRC PRESS hardcover
1947130654New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1947. First edition of this outstanding Haitian novel which tells of Manuel's struggle to keep his little community from starvation during drought. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the translator Langston Hughes in the year of publication on the front free endpaper "For Michael Alexander- Sincerely Langston Hughes New York Sept. 12 1947. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Translated by Langston Hughes and Mercer Cook. The genre of the peasant novel in Haiti reaches back to the nineteenth century and this is one of the outstanding examples. Manuel returns to his native village after working on a sugar plantation in Cuba only to discover that it is stricken by a drought and divided by a family feud. He attacks the resignation endemic among his people by preaching the kind of political awareness and solidarity he has learned in Cuba. He goes on to illustrate his ideas in a tangible way by finding water and bringing it to the fields through the collective labor of the villagers. In this political fable Roumain is careful to create an authentic environment and credible characters. Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover
191311677London & New York: J.M. Dent & Sons & E.P. Dutton 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Margaret Cook. 4to. Pp. xii 260. Illustrated with 25 tipped-in color plates including a frontispiece. Dark green cloth illustrated and lettered in black title in gilt on spine.<br /> Bookplate and name stamp light creasing to corners light wear to corners short tear to cloth at head of spine illustrations. Features striking symbolist and art nouveau influenced illustrations by Cook. J.M. Dent & Sons & E.P. Dutton hardcover
19021138Philadelphia: Ferris & Leach 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. With the long secondary subtitle of "Being a Quaker Maiden's Account of her Experiences with Officers of the Continental Army-1777-1778." Inscribed in pencil on the front fee endpaper: "Amos from Dan. Xmas 1902 With the compliments of her relative. Owen Wister." It appears the entire inscription is in Owen Wister's hand that he wrote it as a gift inscription to be given by a friend to another friend. Perhaps unique signed by Wister and an uncommon book in general with only one other copy available at the time of this writing. With the bookplate on the pastedown of Amos Tuck French a prominent banker director fo he Northern Pacific Railway and New York society man.<br /> <br /> Owen Wister is duly famous as the author of The Virginian the seminal Western. Sally Wister 1761-1804 is known for this journal her firsthand nine-month account of living in the countryside near Philadelphia while it was occupied by the British during the American Revolution see the Museum of the American Revolution's description of the book . The journal is epistolary in the form of letters to a friend unsent as they would not reach her during the war. The family had fled Philadelphia as it was on the verge of occupation. While no skirmishes occurred at her farm soldiers and prominent officers of the Continental Army stayed with her and these interactions are documented as well as the delights and mundanities of her daily life. Her letters were 48 pages in all; they remained in the Wister house until 1830 and weren't published in full until this volume. <br /> <br /> Yellow cloth with blue illustration and lettering red accents to the soldier on then spine. Roughcut pages. A very good copy with soiling/mottling to yellow cloth. Spine slightly clocked and spine cloth slightly rumpled Light foxing/browning to rear of half-title page only and title page probably due to contact with the glossy frontis otherwise pages are clean. A unique copy with Owen Wister's signature and declaration of his relationship to this early other Wister. Ferris & Leach hardcover
2016DBS-9781781638446Koros 2016. 1St. Hardcover. New. Koros hardcover
2016DBS-9781781638446Koros 2016. 1St. Hardcover. New. Koros hardcover
GOR002149018Hardback. Good. hardcover
1900105614London: William Heinemann 1900. Hardcover. very good. 1st UK Edition. xxiv 478pp. Octavo. Original blue decorated cloth. Untrimmed. Four colored plates many others from photos. Map. Spine a bit dull otherwise a very attractive copy. very good Spence 311. Narrative of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache. Cook served as surgeon and anthropologist and Roald Amundsen was first mate. This first UK edition seems scarcer than the US edition. 1900 William Heinemann hardcover
185067023Printed in the UK: John Tallis & Co 1850. Reprint of 1846 edition. Quarter leather over boards. Very good. Hardcover quarter leather black and cloth green over boards. 4to. 2 volume set. Vol 1: xx 596 vol 2: xi 556 pp. Volume 1 illustrated with 89 b/w engraved drawings 1 full page b/w engraving of the death of Captain Cook 6 full colour two- page engraved maps tipped in a b/w engraved frontispiece portrait of Captain Cook and a b/w engraved title page; Volume 2 illustrated with 55 b/w engraved drawings 6 full colour two-page engraved maps tipped in 2 full page b/w engravings and a b/w engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Joseph Banks. Rebound with all new boards spine and endpapers. Gilt stamped short title on spine on both volumes. Volume 1 has a previous owner inscription on the front flyleaf and some marginalia on the title page. Marbled edges all around on both. Text blocks of both volumes are slightly age browned but are free of foxing or damage. The marbling on the foot of both volumes shows wear. Binding is strong and square and the boards are unmarked and clean. Excellent examples of the high quality maps created by John Tallis & Co. John Tallis & Co unknown
57275Original Manuscript dated 1774. A notebook of about 36 leaves pictorial wrappers hand-lettered title label on upper cover. 6.75 x 8.25 inches. Some chipping to spine scattered foxing mostly to preliminary and final leaves. Very good condition. This is a German-language manuscript cookbook containing 77 recipies with a numbered table of contents at the rear. There are an additional 6 recipes written on the two final leaves. The compiler is not identified nor is there any location or identification within. <br/><br/> Original Manuscript dated 1774. unknown
1889005046New York NY: Thomas Whittaker 1889 Thomas Whittaker New York. 1889. Hardcover. Probably the 5th printing of the 1884 original. Book is tight square and unmarked but for name of former owner who received the book as gift on 12/25/1886-gift card is laid in. The book is written in the transliterated English letters of the Dakota language. Book Condition: VG maybe Near Fine; from what can be seen under the hand-made Indian book cover. No DJ. Black boards and spine with gilt lettering on spine and embossed cross on the front board. The book has a hand-made bead dyed porcupine quill and animal hide book cover that slips over the boards; has stitched leather closure on the front and Millie written on the spine. This is very likely turn of the century genuine Indian work. There is no foxing; the hinges are not split; the boards are not worn; there is no marking on the pages; there is no moisture damage. This book contains in the Dakota language the following subjects; The Christian Year; The Communion of Saints; the Church; The Sacraments; Offices of the Church; Missions and Charities; Special Seasons; Redemption; The Christian Life; The Judgment; Heaven and Miscellaneous. A clean beautiful book in an original Indian hand-made religious cover for the book. Thomas Whittaker hardcover
1783087510G. Robinson; J. Sewell and J. Derrett 1783. Book. Very Good-. Full-Leather. Third Edition. Volumes I and II. 21 engraved plates. Chart is missing. New leather spines for each volume with red leather label with title. New end papers have been placed over original end papers with cut-out to front paste down of each volume to reveal original bookplates. Heavy wear to leather at corners. Some scuffing and light wear to leather on spine and boards. First original page in each volume is page before half-title page. Light foxing to pages. . G. Robinson; J. Sewell and J. Derrett Hardcover
18068381London: T. Cook 1806. Later Edition. The complete series plates I-X uncut as issued. These are the Thomas Cook re-engravings ca. 1806. Plate marks 21-1/4" x 14" on 24" x 17" sheets; printed on heavy wove paper. Occasional shallow chipping soiling & foxing to extremities; images fresh and unfoxed; Very Good. A fresh and attractive set of Hogarth's illustrations to Hudibras filled with the artist's typically allusive and symbolic humor. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. T. Cook unknown books
1903227771903. Eustis Celestine. Cooking in Old Creole Days 1903 presents one of the earliest widely circulated printed accounts of Louisiana Creole cuisine and preserves culinary traditions shaped by African American cooks French colonial influences Caribbean foodways and regional Southern ingredients. Written by New Orleans writer and philanthropist Celestine Eustis during a period when Creole culture was becoming a subject of national fascination the book documents dishes and techniques that developed within the kitchens of Creole households where Black cooks played central roles in shaping regional cuisine. Recipes for dishes such as crab gumbo crawfish bisque jambalaya à la Creole okra gumbo Hopping John praline cocoanut and molasses cake demonstrate the fusion of African diasporic ingredients French culinary methods and Gulf Coast agricultural products that defined the food culture of New Orleans at the turn of the twentieth century.<br /> <br /> Eustis Celestine. Cooking in Old Creole Days La Cuisine Créole à l'usage des petits ménages. New York: R. H. Russell 1903. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with eight full-page plates by Harper Pennington each with a printed tissue guard featuring the musical score and lyrics of a Creole song. Original publisher's pictorial cloth. The book presents recipes alongside cultural commentary celebrating the distinctive culinary traditions of Creole New Orleans. French titles appear alongside English recipe names emphasizing the bilingual cultural environment from which these dishes emerged. The introduction by physician and writer S. Weir Mitchell praises the culinary expertise of African American cooks in Southern households while also reflecting the racial paternalism characteristic of early twentieth century commentary on Black labor and domestic service. The volume is illustrated with eight full page plates by Harper Pennington. Each plate is protected by a printed tissue guard bearing the musical score and lyrics of a Creole song pairing culinary instruction with elements of regional musical culture and reinforcing the book's portrayal of Creole domestic life.<br /> <br /> At the time of its publication Creole cuisine had become a defining element of New Orleans cultural identity and an object of growing national interest among American readers seeking regional culinary traditions. Works such as Eustis's cookbook helped introduce Creole foodways to a broader audience while documenting dishes that had long circulated within local households and community networks. Clean interior with crisp illustrations and intact tissues; binding tight with minimal signs of use. Overall near fine condition. This book preserves evidence of the racial and social hierarchies that structured domestic labor in the American South where the knowledge and artistry of Black cooks shaped the cuisine even as their contributions were often filtered through the voices of white authors and publishers. unknown
020033Very Good. A collection of letters from the vice president of the Alaska Fishing and Development Company written to his endearing wife. This collection includes 38 letters from Clair Cook C. E. Cook to his wife Ella Cook plus 6 letters addressed to "Ella" or "Sister" from various family members. Letters are on sheets measuring 6" x 9 ¼" or 8" x 10"; two letters are typed the rest are ALS. All are dated between 1904 and 1905. 16 on Alaska Fishing and Development Company letterhead; 18 on Hotel Donnelly Tacoma Washington letterhead; 1 on American Fish Company letterhead; 1 on St. Helena Sanitarium letterhead; the remaining letters are on plain sheets. Overall very good with light toning and foxing and a few letters have minor chipping along edges not affecting content. About 16 of the letters mention Clair's business dealings most are vague and discuss his travel plans and limited to a few lines. But 7 or 8 of these letters go into detail about the ships used in the business tonnage of fish caught and market prices and the company's stock. In a letter written from Pleasant Bay Alaska on June 2 1904 Clair writes of 10 tons of Halibut ready for market; June 19th 1905 he writes about a visit from "Mr. Stroud" the president and general manager of the company and also about the selling and buying of shares in the company stock; and on May 27th 1905 he writes of the Treadwell Mines in Alaska sending ore to a smelter likely in Tacoma WA. On June 28th 1905 Clair writes "We got up steam and pumped the water out of the ship today trimmed the ship and secured cargo so it would not slide while crossing Queen Charlotte Sound; it sometimes gets a little rough there " All of the letters written by Clair show his incredible devotion to wife. Each letter starts with "Dearest little wife" "Darling precious wife" or "Darling loyal heart" and are filled with Clair's exclaims of ardent love the pains of separation and his wish to be home with his wife and little daughter in California. Although the letters mostly discuss love for his wife the timing of the letters is important. Written just after the Klondike Gold Rush 1896-1900 and when commercial fishing and canneries were becoming increasingly popular along the Alaskan coast these letters demonstrate an interesting perspective of the development of the last frontier. The details of daily life of an officer of a growing fishing company the attractive letterhead and the quantity of letters make this collection important to researchers and historians of American fisheries and the Alaska Territory. . unknown books
1784310843Dublin: Chamberlaine W. Watson Potts Williams Cross Jackson Moncriefe et al. 1784. First Dublin edition. With engraved portrait frontispiece and folding appendix table. 8 xcviii 421; 14 549; 12 559 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Near contemporary straight grained black morocco over marbled boards. Some shelfwear to boards internally clean. First Dublin edition. With engraved portrait frontispiece and folding appendix table. 8 xcviii 421; 14 549; 12 559 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. First Dublin edition of the official account of Cook's final voyage the issue without plates and maps. Beddie 1546; Forbes 72; Howes C-729a; Sabin 16250 Chamberlaine, W. Watson, Potts, Williams, Cross, Jackson, Moncriefe, et al. unknown books
1862173892Philadelphia: George Childs 1862. First Edition. hardcover. near fine. 358pp. 12mo original blind stamped green cloth; bookplate otherwise very good. Philadelphia: George W. Childs 1862. Near fine.<br/><br/> Author was a lawyer and journalist. During the Civil War he was a correspondent from the Philadelphia Press. Cook was assigned to the Army of the Potomac and Washington D.C. Later in life he was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania. Ex libris from the Military Order of the Loyal Legion United States. Commandery of the State of Illinois.<br/><br/> George Childs unknown books
1784017306Dublin: Printed for H. Chamberlaine W. Watson Potts et al. First Irish Dublin Edition. With provenance. 3 Volumes. Full calf with five raised bands on spine. Volume 1: titles worn from spine worn front cover starting back cover detached but present. Lovely engraved copper plate frontispiece portrait of Captain Cook reinforced from behind. Volumes 2 & 3: wear to boards. Signed twice and previously owned by Reverend Doctor Hugh Knox 1733-1790 mentor to Alexander Hamilton. Signed multiple times by Hugh Knox. Knox was famously the man who mentored Hamilton on St. Croix urged him to go to America and reached out to friends there on Alexander Hamilton's behalf. Extremely scarce provenance. Additional shipping required for this set. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1784. Dublin: Printed for H. Chamberlaine, W. Watson, Potts, et al. hardcover
178438202London: G. Nicoll and T. Cadell 1784. Map. Near Fine. Plate 36 from the atlas volume of Cook James; A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean: Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere published by G. Nicoll and T. Cadell; London 1784. Writing engraved by T. Harmer. Wagner; Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America 696. Map printed border to border measures 15.25 x 26.5 inches plate impression 16.75 x 27.25 inches sheet 21.5 x 30 inches. An exceptionally nice uncolored copy. Request a higher resolution photograph if required. <br/> <br/> G. Nicoll and T. Cadell unknown
