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1986Q-0451522761New American Library 1986-12-02. Mass Market Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! New American Library paperback
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194655091Paris: Editions du Centre 1946. First edition. Softcover. poor to vg-. Octavo. 230 1pp. 2 plates. Original stiff gray wraps with black publisher's device and lettering in decorative ruling on cover black lettering on spine; protected by modern mylar. Publisher's device on title page. Issued by "Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine. Série Études et Monographies." One of two publications by the Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center.<br /> <br /> From 1942 onwards all the detainees of the various French Camps ended up in Drancy. It was the assembly center for Jewish victims to be handed over to the Germans. Later in 1943 when the occupation was complete and reaching total control of France roundups arrests and deportations would be executed by the Gestapo French militias and the Waffen SS and take complete control over Drancy. The history of Drancy became the subject of Wellers' study from its founding on August 20 1941 to its liquidation on August 17 1944. It covers the important events taking place in Drancy the internal organization the mechanisms of deportation and the behavior of its inmates and their masters. The second part consist of a series of brief monographs devoted to deportees the author had the opportunity to get to know closely. Sometimes the author evokes scenarios of other Nazi Prisons like Auschwitz and Buchenwald.<br /> <br /> Contains a list of the author's friends who died or disappeared during deportation. The work is illustrated with three reproductions of woodcuts by Grotko and several reproductions of documents. Text in French. Back wrapper missing with final leaf detached but present. Front wrapper with some wear along edges small chips more pronounced on spine. Block age-toned due to paper quality. Wrappers in poor interior in very good- condition overall. Book block tight overall. Protected in modern mylar. Editions du Centre unknown
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18007600London: John Stockdale 1800. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. Vol I: xx 427; II: viii 376 pp. fold plates map. Third edition. In early 20th century cloth; lacking the advertisements called for by Howes; all plates are present. Bindings are a little worn at the spine ends with some fraying to head of the spine of Volume I otherwise only light edgewear; endpaper split at the hinges but have been discreetly and neat reglued and are strong; early pencil markings—mostly small hands with pointing fingers in the margins; list of places with pencil check marks probably more recent; light and foxing throughout but more so around the folding plates and maps even here it is not very distracting. This is a fairly nice copy in 20th century binding of a very good early travel narrative. <br /> <br /> Originally issued by Stockdale in 1799 this is an early edition of a frequently reprinted travel narrative this edition with striking views of Niagra Falls Hudson River Natural Bridge in Virginia and more. Clark writes "It is obvious from this volume that he was a loyal Englishman with enough aristocratic prejudice not to understand the American frontiersmen. His attitude is indicated by his closing remarks that he left the United States 'without a sigh and without entertaining the slightest wish to revisit ti.' In the cities he mixed with the best society and met the important leaders of the country including Washington and Jefferson. Of them he was less critical" Clark Old South II 132. Sabin 102541; Howes W-235. John Stockdale unknown
1798M8902London: J. Stockdale 1798. Very Good. Notes: Map of Niagara Falls showing surrounding lands and vicinity in fine detail. Included is an inset map of the Niagara Straits detailing how Lake Ontario connects with Lake Erie. <br><br> Size : 163x226 mm 6.42x8.90 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Category: Maps Canada Ontario South; J. Stockdale unknown
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elala4872London: Longman Hurst Rees & Orme and James Carpenter October 1806. First Edition First Issue dated 1806. 4to. pp. vii 223 1platelist. engraved title by J.Landseer 2 engraved maps 17 engraved plates 1 folding & 1 engraved vignette after drawings by the author. later full blind & gilt-paneled green morocco by Woolstencroft Warrington t.e.g. others uncut gilt inside dentelles small chip to foot of spine some mainly light foxing but first map first leaf of text & folding plate more significantly affected. armorial bookplate of John Platt London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, and James Carpenter, October 1806 unknown
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H354Berlin Oehmigke 1805. Archiv f¸r die neuesten und merkw¸rdigsten Reisebeschreibungen aus fremden Sprachen ¸bersetzt. Band 1-2. 8∞. 4 Bll. 1 Titelkupfer XII 395 Seiten mit 3 gefaltete Kupfertafeln 1 Bl. 1 Titelkupfer 352 Seiten mit 1 gefaltete Kupfertafel. Pappb‰nde der Zeit mit R¸ckenschild etwas berieben Die Tafel mit der Felsenbr¸cke mit grˆflerem Einriss ein gutes Set. Sabin 102538; Cox II 176 - Fr¸he deutsche Ausgabe der Reisebriefe des Isaac Weld welcher von 1795-97 durch Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia New Jersey und New York sowie Ober - und Unter-Kanada reiste. Ziel seiner Reise war die Beurteilung der L‰nder im Blick auf irische Auswanderer. Weld gibt in seinem Werk eindeutig Kanada den Vorzug vor den Vereinigten Staaten. - Die Tafeln zeigen eine Ansicht der Felsenbr¸cke Rockbridge im Shenandoah Tal den Hudson irrt¸mlich Patowmac benannt das Diamanten-Vorgebirge bei Quebec und die Niagaraf‰lle. unknown
1801D13028Haage: J. C. Leeuwestijn 1801. Hardcover. Very Good. Nineteenth-century half brown morocco and marbled paper gilt-stamped lettering in spine compartments 5 raised bands; 3 volumes 8vo 223x135mmwith folding engraved plates and maps; pp. xxxii 391 plus 5 plates and 1 map Washington D.C. see below; xv 1 425 plus 5 plates and 3 maps; xii 340 with 1 plate and 1 map this one larger than the others and hand-colored. Bindings a bit scuffed but tight and square. Library inkstamps NYPL duplicate stamps - dated 1898 - on verso of title-pages and verso of plates; ink does not leak through; some browning and off-setting but generally text blocks are nice and clean. The map of Washington D.C. is early and rare unrecorded in Baynton-Williams Phillips and Verner. <br/><br/> J. C. Leeuwestijn hardcover
1801elala1539The Hague: J.C.Leeuwestijn 1801-02. 1801. 3 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l. vii-xxxii 391; 2 p.l. xv 1 425; 2 p.l. vii-xii 340. with half-titles. 5 folding engraved maps & plans 1 partially coloured & 11 folding engraved plates by H.Roosing. 19th century half morocco rubbed library rubberstamps on verso of titles & plates periodic light browning & foxing. First Edition of the Dutch Translation by S. Van Hoek of one of the most popular American travel narratives. Weld came to North America with the hope of finding more cheerful prospects than those offered by war-torn Europe but after two years he left "without a sigh and without entertaining the slightest wish to revisit it." Story notes that "his account of Canada letters 21-25 is a clear and sustained description of an area and a way of life that pleased him more than had the United States." The plates are engraved after original sketches by the author. Clark II 132 10. Howes W-235 mentioned only. Sabin 192539. TPL 711. This edition not in Gagnon Lande or Vlach. Story p. 103. Winsor V p. 284 & VIII pp. 174 & 491. 1st Edition. The Hague: J.C.Leeuwestijn, 1801-02. unknown
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179941787London: Printed for John Stockdale 1799. Quarto. 10 7/16 x 8 1/8 inches. xxiv 464 pp. 11 engraved plates including the frontispiece 2 plans and 3 maps one of which is hand colored in outline. Complete with the rare erratum slip mounted at the foot of the plate list. Contemporary full calf. Spine gilt with black morocco lettering piece. Neat repairs to joints<br/> <br/> First edition of the travel narrative that influenced a generation of British emigrants to the Canadian provinces.<br/> <br/> Isaac Weld traveled through North America in the late 18th century and recorded his adventures in this wry series of letters. He arrived in America in 1795 at the age of 19 accompanied by a servant and traveled the continent on horseback on foot and by canoe. His distaste for American frontiersmen and the coarseness of manners in the United States would prove typical of English travelers for decades to come. Between July and November 1796 he travelled from Lake Champlain to Montréal and Québec returning through Montréal and continuing his journey to Kingston Newark Niagara-on-the-Lake Malden Amherstburg Detroit and Fort Erie. He declared the scenery from the Upper Town of Québec to surpass 'all that I have hitherto seen in America or indeed in any other part of the globe' and felt that travelling conditions between Québec and Montréal were the best in North America. Based on these observations he concluded that 'a man of moderate property could provide for his family with much more ease in Canada than in the United States' because of the abundance of affordable land. Like many other British travellers then and later Weld felt most at home in the Canadian provinces. Weld's narrative was reprinted more than that of any other European traveler to North America in the later 18th-century. The engraved plates are after sketches by the author. 'A New Map of Upper & Lower Canada' dated 1798 extends from James's Bay to the north Lake Winnipeg to the west and New Brunswick to the east with the territory of the United States below the Candian border left undefined by blank space.<br/> <br/> Cox 176; Stanton and Tremaine 708; Lowndes 2868; Gagnon I: 3701; Lande 890; JCB II: 4062; Clark II: 132; Rich 1799; Allibone 2636; Sabin 102541; ESTC T110539; Howes W-235; Story p. 103; Vlach 754; Winsor V p.284 & VIII 174 191. Printed for John Stockdale unknown
179916287London: John Stockdale 1799. First Edition First Issue. Full leather. Near fine. The first edition first issue of Travels Through The States Of North America by Isaac Weld published in London in 1799 and complete with 16 maps and plates. Quarto 2 xxiv 464pp 8pp catalogue. Full calf raised bands six compartments title in gilt over red morocco label on spine. Includes the publisher's catalogue but lacking the errata slip. Even toning to leaves throughout a few leaves of text with transference. Contemporary gray endpapers. From the library of noted abolitionist and antiquarian collector George Head Head of Rickerby with his bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. The first issue with the index incorrectly identifying the fourth plate as: "The Patowmac River from Mount Vernon." This work is complete with 12 copper engraved plates including a frontispiece a large fold-out map of the eastern United States hand-colored map of Upper and Lower Canada and two plans for Quebec and Washington D.C. A few plates with light toning and scatter foxing. All plates and maps with solid hinges tissue covers and vibrant imagery. Sabin 102541 Howes W235 Lowndes 2868 Clark II 132 Includes a handwritten note from Arthur H. Masten to the recipient of this copy. An attractive work. Isaac Weld 1774-1856 conducted a survey of the United States from 1795 to 1797 covering the Eastern Seaboard and parts of the American frontier including Virginia Pennsylvania New York and the Carolinas. Weld traveled by horseback boat and on foot observing the social political and economic conditions of the newly formed nation. In "Travels" he commented on the vast natural beauty of the American landscape the state of infrastructure and the way of life of settlers and Native American tribes he encountered. Weld was critical of the rough manners and egalitarianism he witnessed contrasting it with European refinement yet he admired the industrious spirit of Americans. His narrative of the nascent United States helped to shape European opinions of the new nation during the Revolutionary period. John Stockdale unknown
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180743181London: Printed for John Stockdale 1807. 8vo 21cm in 2 volumes xix427 & viii376pp. with 16 engraved folding plates including 2 maps 3 plans 11 views in half modern brown morocco grain fabrikoid match marbled boards new endpapers some occasional light foxing a very good set. very good. ~ Weld's travels is one of the best known works on North America; it was very favorably received and passed through a number of editions and translations within a short period of time. Weld an Irish topographer came to North America with the hope of finding more cheerful prospects than those offered by war-torn Europe but after two years he left "without a sigh and without entertaining the slightest wish to revisit it". Story notes that "his account of Canada is a clear and sustained description of an area and a way of life that pleased him more than had the United States". The attractive plates are engraved after original sketches by the author and are dated 1798 reduced in size from the first 4to edition of 1798. Printed for John Stockdale unknown
