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1851600257Philadelphi: C. A. Brown & Co 1851. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Octavo. vi 500pp. Bound into recent green cloth gilt with modern endleaves. Owner label on front pastedown cover gilt dulled preliminary and terminal leaves with a bit of foxing very good and sound. The text has been nicely preserved. C. A. Brown & Co hardcover
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Z1-C-049-01508Kessinger Publishing. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. This is a reproduction of an out of print title. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. that were either part of the original artifact or were introduced by the scanning process. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Kessinger Publishing unknown
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3459062Contentum Ltd. Loose sheet. New. High-quality art print based on an original work from the Rijksmuseum. Created in the 18th century 1766. Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper Museum Etching museum quality in size A3. The artwork is printed with a white border museum-style presentation. Contentum Ltd. unknown
3459063Contentum Ltd. Loose sheet. New. High-quality art print based on an original work from the Rijksmuseum. Created in the 18th century 1766. Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper Photo Rag Bright White in size A2. The artwork is printed with a white border museum-style presentation. Contentum Ltd. unknown
3459065Contentum Ltd. Loose sheet. New. High-quality art print based on an original work from the Rijksmuseum. Created in the 18th century 1766. Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper Museum Etching museum quality in size A2. The artwork is printed with a white border museum-style presentation. Contentum Ltd. unknown
3459064Contentum Ltd. Loose sheet. New. High-quality art print based on an original work from the Rijksmuseum. Created in the 18th century 1766. Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper Photo Rag 308 premium quality in size A2. The artwork is printed with a white border museum-style presentation. Contentum Ltd. unknown
0994742711.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1792012594Edinburgh: Silvester Doig and William Anderson Sterling 1792. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Six volumes complete uniformly bound in early 19thC mottled calf gilt and red and green labels to spines. Front cover volume 1 hinge slightly revealed but holding. Notes dated 1799 in black ink on the ffe and blanlk prelims volume 1. Internals quite nice. Uncommonly found as a set and in uniform condition. DRAMA. Silvester Doig and William Anderson, Sterling hardcover
18674614261867. Unbound. Near Fine. A collection of 11 long letters written by a young paymaster’s clerk and officer in the U.S. Navy in which he gives detailed accounts of voyages to Central America China and South Africa in 1867-68. Also included is a gripping account of a terrific storm while crossing the Atlantic and of a dramatic rescue of sailors cast off their capsized ship off the coast of France. All 11 letters are densely written in Merrill’s neat small hand and are addressed to his parents at Bangor Maine. One letter has three or four small tears with partial loss to three or four words else near fine overall. Also included are six of the original mailing envelopes and four cabinet card portraits of Merrill: one of Merrill in uniform taken by “Pun-Lun†at Hong Kong and three duplicate portraits taken at Bangor Maine.<br /> <br /> Here is an excerpt from Merrill’s first seven-page letter written on board the storeship Brig Executive in January 1867 in which he describes his first voyage from Bangor to Cette France:<br /> <br /> “… Wednesday night – a gale commenced – and it was a screamer … day and night did every soul labor for dear life … we felt that our doom – by sinking – was sure … Buzzell and Chase and I worked with the rest – and by our aid the exhausted men were enabled to get a little sleep – until the forecastle was flooded and the galley stove in … we lived on raw meat for three days … Such mountainous waves! … they were as high as the upper-topsail yard – and often higher still – and when they would board us – and sweep over the decks – we all clinging to the main rigging … it seemed to us … that we should drown before it all passed over us … so long were we in the wave … During the whole gale … we sped onward in our course …â€<br /> <br /> They ran into another terrific storm off the coast of France near Montpelier where they encountered several ships in peril and participated along with soldiers on the shore in a dramatic rescue of two sailors and a pilot from their capsized boat one of whom later died. They went on to Paris and London where Merrill wrote his next two letters and returned home from Liverpool at the end of January.<br /> <br /> Merrill next writes at length about his voyage on board two Steamships Henry Chauncey and Sacramento and the storeship USS Supply. Setting off in November he sailed first to Aspinwall Colón on the Atlantic coast of Panama went across the isthmus by rail road to the City of Panama and then on to Acapulco and San Francisco. In two letters from November he gives descriptive accounts of Aspinwall including several disparaging remarks about the crowds of “natives and negroes along the plaza … the street was thronged with dusky vendors of fruit claret cakes &c. jabbering the virtues of their merchandise in the most conglomerate mixture of English Spanish and Samboish …†He also describes the structure of the “many isolated negro huts†along the 48-mile railroad trip to Panama City where they transfer their baggage etc. onto the Sacramento:<br /> <br /> “The sea has been as smooth as a pan of milk ever since we left Panama … Among the more noted of our passengers is Gen. Beuham of So. Carolina late of C.S. Army … Bishop Williams of the Episcopal Mission in China … and other missionaries of China … Spanish gentlemen and their families merchants of China & Japan … This morning early a poor fellow died in the Steerage of Panama fever. Another one is sick and will not live till evening … The sharks have followed our ship all the time from Panama … the surgeon said privately that there are other cases also …â€<br /> <br /> In a letter from December Merrill gives a long description of Acapulco: its harbor streets and street vendors the military fort and evidence of the French bombardment etc. In San Francisco his time in the city itself which he loves is curtailed by preparations on board Supply for the voyage to Japan and China. In a long six-page letter from February 1868 he describes various excursions in Canton and Hong Kong:<br /> <br /> “All of us officers went to Canton … and saw all the Elephants including the Temple of 500 Gods … Hong Kong has all the business that was formerly done in Canton … In some places where we went – but few Europeans had ever been and we were curious objects of interest to the population … One walled town we entered – contrary to the permission of the natives and there we met a ‘Sing-Song’ procession – marching about in fantastic costumes celebrating the advent of the Chinese New Year – and when they saw us you may believe there was a scattering and scampering! They perhaps thought that the ‘Fan-Kwei’ foreign devils as they call foreigners had come to kill and destroy … At one town which I entered alone the natives were much pleased to see a Fan-Kwei and they pressed me to take oranges paper cigarettes &c. ad libitum … We saw the forts ruins of at the Bocca Tigris and the Barrier Forts near Canton which were reduced by … the American & English fleet in the China Squabble of 1858-9 … Last Tuesday W. & Thursday were the Annual Races here in Hong Kong. All the fashionable of the Colony were there … We were invited to the whole course 3 days and had quarters in the booths of Russell & Co. and Oliphant & Co. … People and costumes of all nations mingled to make a dashing looking concourse …â€<br /> <br /> He concludes the letter with news about the Satsuma Samurai Rebellion of 1868: “You will probably hear about the outbreak and warfare in Japan … the Hartford and Aroostook are preparing to go there … the Prince of Satsuma … has landed ten thousand men below Osaka under the nose of one of the Tycoon’s frigates without molestation and marched them inland toward … the City of the Mikado or Spiritual ruler and had conflict with the Jap. national troops … the life of Sir Harry Parkes … has been attempted and one or two of our U.S. sailors … killed and it is reported that the Tycoon has taken refuge on the U.S.S. Iroquois …â€<br /> <br /> On the voyage back from China Merrill writes one letter in March from Java and two letters in April from South Africa in which he gives descriptions of Good Hope Cape Agulhas whaling grounds at Algoa Bay and of his excursion to Cape Town. He concludes his account of the voyage with a final letter written at Charlestown Massachusetts.<br /> <br /> A remarkable and historically important cache of letters all rich in content and deserving of further research. A list of the letters with a few quoted extracts is available. unknown
1783D3097London: Printed by assignment from the executors of G. Pearch for J. Dodsley 1783. Hardcover. Very Good. Four volumes 8vo 175 x 110mm. vol. I: xi 1 329 3; vol. II: 4 316 4; vol. III: 4 326. 4; vol. IV: 4 322 4 including ads. Each volume with an engraved title vignette depicting musicians and with opening vignettes depicting in vols. I: Abelard as hooded monk at sea; II: A shepherd and his flock; III: Mary Queen of Scots; and IV: a valetudinarian sickly person; all by Isaac Taylor. Contemporary calf labeled Pearch's poems to spine light occasional toning otherwise clean and good sound copies. Compiled by George Pearch who intended to enhance Robert Dodsley's earlier work A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes London: 1758. First published in 1748. The book reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. It contained many classic works from important dramatists and poets including Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Hester Lynch Thrale 1741-1821 Richard Savage c.1697-1743 Dr. William Dodd 1729-1777 Oliver Goldsmith 1730-1774 William Collins 1721-1759 and Thomas Gray 1716-1771. Half-titles all present which read: A Collection of Poems Intended as a Supplement to Mr. Dodsley's Collection. A New Edition with Notes. This edition has a new foreword dated 1782. Important compilation of poems from several significant 18th-century contributors skilled in stage and verse. <br/><br/> Printed by assignment from the executors of G. Pearch, for J. Dodsley hardcover
1379247993.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1783D3097London: Printed by assignment from the executors of G. Pearch for J. Dodsley 1783. Hardcover. Very Good. Four volumes 8vo 175 x 110mm. vol. I: xi 1 329 3; vol. II: 4 316 4; vol. III: 4 326. 4; vol. IV: 4 322 4 including ads. Each volume with an engraved title vignette depicting musicians and with opening vignettes depicting in vols. I: Abelard as hooded monk at sea; II: A shepherd and his flock; III: Mary Queen of Scots; and IV: a valetudinarian sickly person; all by Isaac Taylor. Contemporary calf labeled Pearch's poems to spine light occasional toning otherwise clean and good sound copies. Compiled by George Pearch who intended to enhance Robert Dodsley's earlier work A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes London: 1758. First published in 1748. The book reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. It contained many classic works from important dramatists and poets including Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 Hester Lynch Thrale 1741-1821 Richard Savage c.1697-1743 Dr. William Dodd 1729-1777 Oliver Goldsmith 1730-1774 William Collins 1721-1759 and Thomas Gray 1716-1771. Half-titles all present which read: A Collection of Poems Intended as a Supplement to Mr. Dodsley's Collection. A New Edition with Notes. This edition has a new foreword dated 1782. Important compilation of poems from several significant 18th-century contributors skilled in stage and verse. <br/><br/> Printed by assignment from the executors of G. Pearch, for J. Dodsley hardcover books
3459135Contentum Ltd. Loose sheet. New. High-quality art print based on an original work from the Rijksmuseum. Created in the 18th century 1766. Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper Photo Rag Bright White in size A2. The artwork is printed with a white border museum-style presentation. Contentum Ltd. unknown
3459136Contentum Ltd. Loose sheet. New. High-quality art print based on an original work from the Rijksmuseum. Created in the 18th century 1766. Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper Photo Rag 308 premium quality in size A2. The artwork is printed with a white border museum-style presentation. Contentum Ltd. unknown
3459137Contentum Ltd. Loose sheet. New. High-quality art print based on an original work from the Rijksmuseum. Created in the 18th century 1766. Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper Museum Etching museum quality in size A2. The artwork is printed with a white border museum-style presentation. Contentum Ltd. unknown
3459134Contentum Ltd. Loose sheet. New. High-quality art print based on an original work from the Rijksmuseum. Created in the 18th century 1766. Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper Museum Etching museum quality in size A3. The artwork is printed with a white border museum-style presentation. Contentum Ltd. unknown
