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1818027685London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1818. Quarto. Hand-colored frontispiece 295pp. 10 other hand color plates. With the errata sheet on the verso of the directions to the binder which shows where the following items all present are to be placed: The Greek Reis to face the title page Dresden Koenigstein on the Elbe Meissen the Margravite 2 views Prague Wissegorod of Prague and Brunn 2 views; Halietz on the Dniester and Greek palace at Terapia 2 views Jassy Capitol of Moldavia; and on the Black Sea Agatopoli the Promentory of Eneada and finally The Turkish boatmen and barber. In all there are 15 aquatints on the 11 plates Dr. Adam Neale's travels covered several neglected areas especially in Moldavia and the Ottoman Empire. His travels commenced in July 1805 until March 1806. His vivid English text details observations and descriptons of the regions especially those suffering as a result of the Napoleonic wars. the battle of Austerlitz had just taken place in December 1805. In addition he provides statistical data on population rulers and related points of interest. This is one of the best accounts on Romania at the time as well as the Balkan region. Bound in a later 3/4 black morocco over marbled paper covered boards with matching endpapers raised bands lettering within three compartments gilt top edge gilt light off-setting to plates and a few text pages. A very handsome copy. see Abbey Travel 19; Tooley 1954 No. 344; Cat. Russica No. N261. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown unknown books
1873100070Folio original cloth with leather spine and corners hinges reinforcedgilt title on front cover 49 maps. Binding in poor condition covers almost detached spine loose with two large pieces missing from top and bottom extremities very worn some aging to preliminaries but maps are very bright and clean overall. Previous owner laid down a few additional maps. One is glued to margin of Australia. Colorful general atlas with double page maps of Australia various countries in Europe South America India China and Africa.There is a very attractive general double page map of the United States. Assitionally there is a second map of the United Sates featuring the southern states. Adam & Charles Black, books
18171335432Boston: Wells and Lilly 1817. Early American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xii 262 2 250 2; VG-; bound in publisher's blue-gray boards paper spine; some wear and rubbing to boards some chipping and cracking to spine most of the titling has worn off; text block uncut; mild foxing primarily to extremities; ownership name in ink to the title page; with half-title two title pages; two volumes in one; scarce; shelved case 10. Mizuta: TMS25;<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> The first American edition was published in 1817 by Anthony Finley in Philadelphia. This edition came out later that year.;. 1335432. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Wells and Lilly hardcover books
18762526LEIPZIG METZGER & WITTIG 1876. 8 vo. Set of 21 vols. printed in French. The first edition was 1821 with subsequent editions published throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Ex-library; usual stamps. 19th century contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Covers a little rubbed corners rounded. Joints of volume I are splitting but bindings are tightly strung. In fair condition. METZGER & WITTIG hardcover books
1834WRCAM50779Edinburgh & London 1834. iii-xvi426pp. plus folding map in front pocket. 19th-century polished calf gilt spine gilt extra leather label stamped in gilt. Minor soiling corners worn. Contemporary bookplate. Internally clean. Map backed on linen. Very good. Second edition with additional "notes made during a second visit to Canada in MDCCCXXXIII." "Visited Baltimore Washington Western N.Y. and devotes 32 pages to Michigan Territory. 2nd and best Edition containing Notes of a Second Visit made in 1833" - Wright Howes. The map shows the British North American provinces and the adjoining states in 1833. TPL 1641. SABIN 24102. WRIGHT HOWES 45:148. HOWES F86. hardcover books
1830WRCAM34850Montreal: Printed at the Office of the Herald and New Gazette 1830. 216pp. Frontispiece. Original muslin-backed paper boards. Some minor foxing mostly in the first and final pages. A very good copy in original condition untrimmed. Kidd emigrated to Canada from Ireland at a young age and after being rejected for the priesthood he began publishing poetry. The epic main poem consumes over half the text with nearly forty shorter poems comprising the rest. Kidd claims that he travelled extensively among the Indians of Upper Canada and his poetry carries great sympathy for native peoples and their exploitation at the hands of European settlers. He writes that the "Huron Chief" was composed "on the inner rind of birch bark during my travels through the immense forests of America and under many difficulties and privations." He also claims that the poems would soon be published in native languages. SABIN 37700. TPL 1585. Printed at the Office of the Herald and New Gazette hardcover books
182413380London: Hurst Robinson and Edinburgh: Constable 1824. First UK edn. 8vo pp. 405 473. expanded from the more common 335 pp. NY edition of 1823. Bound in original paper backed boards spine paper missing and one cover separate uncut and partially unopened offsetting to the title-page little water stain to the endpapers in vol. 2 with errata slip in each volume and two plates. Housed in a custom slipcase and chemise. Howes H-560 Best edition with the extra 12 pages added to vol. 2 that are in just some copies; Clark II:207; Sabin 32358; Field 704. The letters were originally published in the London Christian Observer and here contain the addition of an appendix of Hodgson's account of his visit with the Choctaws Chickasaws Creeks and Cherokees and a description of the missions at Brainerd and Elliott. Hodgson travelled primarily through the south and Northeast. He traveled from Washington met with Jefferson at Monticello went up the Hudson to Albany and Niagara to Montreal. He continued down through Vermont saw the Quakers in New Hampshire and on to Boston and Philadelphia. This volume is from the library of General Sir William Henry Clinton son of Sir. Henry Clinton. see DNB. Hurst Robinson and Edinburgh: Constable unknown books
1857408581857. <p>Sedgwick Adam 1785-1873. Two autograph letters signed to James Marshall. Dent Yorkshire Oct. 7 1857; Trinity College Cambridge Oct. 31 1857. 8pp. total. 186 x 113 mm. Light soiling along folds but very good.</p> <p>Letters with excellent scientific content from one of the founders of modern geology. Sedgwick was responsible for defining the Devonian and Cambrian ages in the geological time scale and his immensely popular lecture courses on geology delivered annually at Cambridge between 1819 and 1870 had an enormous influence on succeeding generations of English geologists. One of his students was Charles Darwin who began attending Sedgwick's lectures in January 1831 and accompanied Sedgwick on a geological field tour of Wales the following summer. The two men remained friends until Sedgwick's death even though Sedgwick was never able to accept Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.</p> <p>IIn his Oct. 7 letter to Marshall Sedgwick discusses the geological researches he was then undertaking in England's Lake District:</p> <p>"I mean D.V. to work my way to Ulverston; & on Saturday or possibly Monday to transfer my head quarters to Broughton. I want to connect our work in all quarries on the east side of the road with the great open quarries in the Ireleth country; which we failed to do. The beds in the great open quarries strike very differently from those you & I saw; yet the strike of the cleavage is unchanged in direction & from end to end almost perpendicular--I think it highly probable that the bed between the Ireleth slate & the Ulverston estuary are nearly all from the flag or flag & grit--And I suspect that some hard gritty ridges I remember to have seen in a part of Cartmell Fell are but a repetition by enormous fault of the Comiston grits. . . ." </p> <p>Sedgwick also notes his intention to "hear Dr. Livingstone's evening lecture"; this is a reference to David Livingstone 1813-73 famous for his exploration of Africa. Sedgwick later provided a preface to Dr. Livingstone's Cambridge Lectures 1858.</p> <p>In his Oct. 31 letter Sedgwick touches on his precarious health--"On Monday I ought to have begun my course of lectures but on that day I had a severe relapse of vertigo & was obliged to put off my lectures until Friday yesterday"--and continues his discussion of his work:</p> <p>"All the rocks from the Ireleth country to the Comiston Ulverston sands are Comiston flag--But in our final traverse we found the hard Comiston grits in the hills S. W. of Penny Bridge--just where they ought to be--I think there is an enormous break down the valley meeting the complicated faults which come down from the hill a little North of Seathwaite at an angle.--In short the country from Ireleth Moor inclusive to the Sand of Ulverston has had a shove southwards of about five miles!"</p> <p>The recipient of these letters James Marshall was an amateur geologist and Fellow of the Geological Society. A friend of both Sedgwick and John Herschel Marshall was "a keen advocate of scientific education" Briggs Victorian Cities 1993 p. 161. Olroyd Earth Water Ice and Fire 2002 p. 20. Dictionary of Scientific Biography. </p> . unknown books
1896140940980Oxford: Oxford at the Claredon Press 1896. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original burgundy cloth ruled in blind with spine stamped in gilt; lacking a dust jacket. Very Good. Cloth rubbed and lightly spotted. Offsetting to free endpapers. Owner name effaced with some abrasion from front paste down and small vintage bookseller label partially removed from rear paste down. The first publication of major lectures of Adam Smith from notes taken by his student at the University of Glasgow circa 1863-4. These lectures contain the formative ideas he later worked into The Wealth of Nations. Oxford at the Claredon Press unknown books
183631787Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Adam Waldie 1836. 1st edition thus Howes F-202; cf. Graff 1357 Rader 1419 for the separate printing. Not in Sabin. Period maroon half-sheep over green marbled paper boards. General shelfwear with rubs to leather extremities. Usual bit of foxing. A VG copy. 4 416 pp. Text triple column. Flint piece pp. 284 - 288. Steel engraved plate of Frederick Marryat drawn by Behnes engraved by Lawson precedes text. 4to. 11-3/8" x 9-1/8" <br/><br/>Flint's long letter 11 columns in small type is dated Alexandria La. April 21 1835 and apparently not known to Kirkpatrick who made no reference to it in his biography of Flint per Graff. The cited references make mention of a separate 12mo edition of this work and of which we find an occasional record the last being in 1973. Rare. Marryat is represented with The NAVAL ANNUAL in addition to the engraving. Miss Baillie no doubt unknowingly contributes a number of dramatic pieces all but two asserted to be original publications and which by appearing herein constitute their first US appearance. Printed and Published by Adam Waldie hardcover books
183631787.1Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Adam Waldie 1836. 1st edition thus Howes F-202; cf. Graff 1357 Rader 1419 for the separate printing. Not in Sabin. Period brown half-calf over brown marbled paper boards. Joints starting boards held solidly by cords with a largish chip to leather at spine crown. Usual bit of foxing. Period pos to top margin of t.p. An About VG copy. 4 416 pp. Text triple column. Flint piece pp. 284 - 288. 'Belles Lettres' - 4pp / issue usually. Steel engraved plate of Frederick Marryat drawn by Behnes engraved by Lawson precedes text. 4to. 11-3/8" x 9-1/8" <br/><br/>Flint's long letter 11 columns in small type is dated Alexandria La. April 21 1835 and apparently not known to Kirkpatrick who made no reference to it in his biography of Flint per Graff. The cited references make mention of a separate 12mo edition of this work and of which we find an occasional record the last being in 1973. Rare. <br /> <br />Marryat is represented with The NAVAL ANNUAL in addition to the engraving. In 'Belles Lettres' is found JAPHET In SEARCH Of A FATHER. <br /> <br />Miss Baillie no doubt unknowingly contributes a number of dramatic pieces all but two asserted to be original publications and which by appearing herein constitute their first US appearance. <br /> <br />"Belles Lettres" also publishes for the first time journal entries from an officer of the U. S. S. PEACOCK which was serving at the time in the Far East. The editor introduces his correspondent by saying he begins by "giving the details of the awful disaster which befell the Peacock from which she escaped almost by a miracle." Printed and Published by Adam Waldie hardcover books
1821170889Vienna: Imprimerie de J. V. Degen Pierre Mechetti Devant Charles 1821. Leather bound. Binding set many covers are off most spine labels are off. Sold as a reading set only these books have the typical old dusty leather feel to them. 21 volumes in 1/2 brown leather. Some portraits and illustrations. Dates as follows: 1-3: 1803 new edition; 4-5: 1805; 6-11:1808; 12-13: 1811; 14-15: 1813; 16-18: 1818; 19: 1819; 20: 1820; 21: 1821. Uniformly bound but the leather is dry and some covers are off spine missing from volume 1. Contents are generally described as Vols. 1-4: Dutch and Belgian artists; 5-11: German artists; 12-21: Italian artists. The Supplement volume covers Peintres et Dessinateurs Neerlandais and has the front cover off. Scarce as a complete set in any condition. Suitable for restoration which would be very expensive. Imprimerie de J. V. Degen, Pierre Mechetti, Devant Charles hardcover books
1894008930New York: J. Selwin Tait & Sons 1894. "the Marvel of Anatomists Sculptors and Artists in the Nude; embracing the great Athlete's simple method of Physical Education for the Home the Gymnasium and the Army Training School; preceded by a Biography dealing with the chief incidents in Mr. Sandow's Professional Career his Phenomenal Prowess and Gladiatorial Skill in Competitive Matches Contests and Exhibitions; with Mr. Sandow's Scheme of Dumb-bell and Bar-bell Exercises and his Views on the Physiology of Gymnastics the Function of the Muscles etc. Richly illustrated from photographs expressly taken for the work by Sarony of New York Morrison of Chicago and White of Birmingham and of Drawings by A. Casarin." Very Good Plus bound in red cloth decorated and lettered in gilt black and white front hinge cracked yet holding well light rubbing to cloth at the tips the stamp of "The Tarr System Library" front paste down which would seem to be a prior owner's obvious reference to Edgar Allen Poe's 1850 story THE SYSTEM OF DR. TARR AND PROF. FETHER. Eugen Sandow was a German bodybuilder and showman who in 1901 organized the world's first major bodybuilding competition. Considered the "Father of modern bodybuilding" he was one of the first to model his physique to predetermined dimensions so as to resemble classic Greek and Roman sculptures. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. J. Selwin Tait & Sons Hardcover books
1865100069Folio original cloth with leather spine and corners gilt title on front cover 55 colo maps.Extremities quite worn some general fading hinges repaired and rear free endpaper glued down maps with scattered narrow dampstain to bottom margin some splitting at centerfolds and a few scattered spots and toning or offsetting title with some offsetting; still a pretty sturdy atlas that has very good content overall. Colorful general atlas with double page maps of Australia various countries in Europe South America and Africa.There are two double page maps of the United States; the Eastern United States and the Western United States. Washington Dacotah Idaho and Utah are shown larger than they are today. Adam and Charles Black, books
1898List414Oraibi 1898. Platinum print 6 ¼ x 8 14 inches on 9 ¼ x 11 ½ inch sheet titled and dated in the margin in ink. The Illinois-born photographer Adam Clark Vroman moved to California in 1892 hoping that the dry climate would provide relief for his tuberculosis. He set up a studio in Pasadena and began a series of trips through California Arizona and New Mexico photographing the landscapes and residents notably the Hopi Zuni and Pueblo people. He would often travel with his friend Charles Fletcher Lummis editor of the Los Angeles Times and an amateur photographer himself. He worked for the Bureau of American Ethnology on two projects one in New Mexico at Enchanted Mesa and the other photographing cave dwellings in Arizona. Vroman's photographs of American Indians are notable for their lack of romantic embellishment as unlike many other Euro-American photographers of Indian subjects he did not try to imbue the photographs with sentimentality. <br /> <br /> This photograph from one of his trips in 1898 shows a Hopi Snake Dance in Oraibi Arizona. The Snake Dance held annually in late August is part of a larger ceremony mostly held in private. Many artists and photographers photographed the Snake Dance during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and publications such as Harpers Weekly and The Saturday Review wrote of the ceremonies. Vroman's photograph is notable for the maturity and lack of exotification with the dancers shown within the village landscape surrounded by onlookers. <br /> <br /> Overall a fine example with minimal wear matted and framed. unknown books
1811AS006London: Printed for J. Maynard and F. Zinke 1811 Early edition. Three volumes. Finely bound in full contemporary brown tree calf boards and spines decoratively ruled in gilt black morocco spine labels lettered in gilt blue marbled text block edges. A near fine set with some light wear to extremities superficial cracking to the backstrips bookplates to front pastedowns Vol. II with a three-inch scratch to the rear board Vol. III with front hinge lightly starting but still sturdy. Overall a beautiful set. First published in 1776 The Wealth of Nations has been hailed as "The first and greatest classic of modern economic thought." The book is Smith's meditation on the influence of labor on economic development the relationship of a nation's economy to its national development and the intellectual underpinnings of a self-regulating free-market economic system. A groundbreaking text The Wealth of Nations had immediate widespread impact and continues to be a pillar of economic theory today. Indeed the authors of Printing and the Mind of Man aver that "Where the political aspects of human rights had taken two centuries to explore Smith's achievement was to bring the study of economic aspects to the same point in a single work." PMM 221. Hard Cover. Very Good. London: Printed for J. Maynard and F. Zinke hardcover books
18931517061893. hardcover. Illustrated title page. Many beautiful full-page color lithographs mostly depicting various mechanical components of the piano-forte. Printed primarily in yellow red brown & metalic silver and gold. Oblong 4to original blue-grey cloth stamped in gilt with decorative endpapers cloth is well-rubbed and edgeworn; interior is flawless. N.Y.: Wessell Nickel & Gross 1893.<br/><br/> Very scarce and interesting book with gorgeous printing by Lindner Eddy & Clauss lithographers.<br/><br/> unknown books
1808109787Edinburgh: Printed for Bell and Bradfute W. Laing and Mundell Doig & Stevenson 1808. Rare example Adam Smith's first book bound in the original boards. Octavo 2 volumes bound in original boards edges uncut. In near fine condition contemporary name to the title pages. Scarce in the original boards. Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments his first book is "one of the truly outstanding books in the intellectual history of the world" Amartya Sen. First published in 1759 it laid the foundation for Wealth of Nations and proposed the theory repeated in the later work: that self-seeking men are often "led by an invisible hand. without knowing it without intending it to advance the interest of the society." "The fruit of his Glasgow years. Moral Sentiments would be enough to assure the author a respected place among Scottish moral philosophers and Smith himself ranked it above the Wealth of Nations. Its central idea is the concept closely related to conscience of the impartial spectator who helps man to distinguish right from wrong. For the same purpose Immanuel Kant invented the categorical imperative and Sigmund Freud the superego" Niehans 62. Basing moral sentiment on "the power one man has of putting himself in the place of another" in contrast to Hume's idea of self-interest "Smith was henceforth recognized as one of the first authors of the day" DNB. With Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations Smith created "not merely a treatise on moral philosophy and a treatise on economics but a complete moral and political philosophy in which the two elements of history and theory were to be closely conjoined" Palgrave III:412-13. To Smith when man pursues "his own private interests the original and selfish sentiments of Moral Sentiments he will in the economic realm choose those endeavors which will best serve society. Herein lies the connection between the two great works which make them the work of a single and largely consistent theorist" Paul "Adam Smith" 293. In his Theory of Moral Sentiments Smith develops an ethics based on a "unifying principle--in this case of sympathy--which would shed light on the harmonious and beneficial order of the moral world. As such it was of considerable interest to Smith's contemporaries who were groping for an ethics that would flow from man's impulses or sentiments rather than from his reason from 'innate ideas' or from theological precepts. If Smith had written only The Theory of Moral Sentiments he would enjoy in the philosophers hall of fame a niche not unlike that reserved for Shaftesbury or Hutcheson." Both Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations reflect Smith's "attempt to anchor the new science of political economy in a Newtonian universe mechanical albeit harmonious and beneficial in which society is shown to benefit from the unintended consequences of the pursuit of individual self-interest. There is thus a considerable affinity between the structure of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and that of The Wealth of Nations. Each work is integrated by a great unifying principle. What sympathy accomplishes in the moral world self-interest does in the economic one. Either principle in its respective realm is shown to produce a harmony such as the one that characterizes Newton's order of nature. Smith's ethics is one of self-command or self-reliance just as is his laissez faire economics. Smith's ethics and his economics are integrated by the same principle of self-command or self-reliance which manifests itself in economics in laissez faire" Spiegel Growth of Economic Thought 229-231. Printed for Bell and Bradfute, W. Laing, and Mundell, Doig & Stevenson hardcover books
1804011225Oliver D. Cooke 1804. Book. Fine. Full-Leather. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1804 2 Volume EditionNew Edition. Beautiful Contemporary Leather with 6 Raised Bands.Internally Very Fresh.Very Rare Edition.Gorgeous Copy With Red Labels. Oliver D. Cooke Hardcover books
181036285London 1810. Watercolor on card first drawing signed lower right. 1 vols. 10 x 7-1/2 inches images. Framed and glazed. Watercolor on card first drawing signed lower right. 1 vols. 10 x 7-1/2 inches images. "Buck Adam 1758-1833 portrait painter elder son of Jonathan Buck a silversmith of Castle Street Cork was born there in 1759. With a younger brother Frederick he studied art from an early age and acquired some repute in youth in his native city as a painter of miniature portraits in water-colour. Coming to London in 1795 he settled at 174 Piccadilly and soon gained popularity. He not only continued to paint miniature portraits in water-colour but produced many portraits in oil and crayon of larger size. Between 1795 and 1833 the year of his death he exhibited at the academy as many as 171 pictures. He also exhibited ten other works at the British Institution and at the Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street. But the pictures that he exhibited represent a small proportion of his labours. Numerous pictures by him were reproduced in coloured engravings mostly in stipple and had a wide circulation. Of extant coloured engravings after his pictures the originals of as many as forty or fifty are not known to have been exhibited. Among his sitters were the Earl of Cavan the Duke of York Sir Francis Burdett Major Cartwright John Cam Hobhouse and John Burke author of the Peerage' and his family. His portraits were carefully finished although they were stiff in treatment and design.<br/>Buck was at the same time busily employed as a teacher of portrait painting and in 1811 he brought out a volume entitled Paintings on Greek Vases' which contained a hundred designs not only drawn but also engraved by himself. This work which was planned to continue a similar compilation by Sir William Hamilton is now extremely scarce.<br/>In 1807 he moved from Piccadilly to Frith Street Soho and after several changes of residence died at 15 Upper Seymour Street West in 1833. Buck was married and left two sons Alfred and Sidney; the latter followed his father's profession.<br/>A miniature portrait of Buck by himself dated 1804 is in the Sheepshanks gallery of the Victoria and Albert Museum London. " - DNB. unknown books
181367660The First Russian Voyage around the World KRUSENSTERN Adam Johann von. Voyage round the World in the Years 1803 1804 1805 & 1806 by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva under the command of Captain A.J. von Krusenstern of the Imperial Navy. In two volumes. Translated from the original German by Richard Belgrave Hoppner Esq. Vol. I. II. London: Printed by C. Roworth for John Murray 1813. First edition in English. Two quarto volumes in one. vii 1 blank 4 contents ix-xxxii 314; 9 1 blank 404 pp. Folding engraved map ìChart of the Northwest Part of the Great Oceanî and two hand-colored aquatint frontispieces for each volume. Original quarter parchment over drab blue boards. Original printed paper spine label. Uncut. Previous owner's light ink signature on title-page. Very light small library stamp to title-page. Leaf a2 with a few closed tears neatly repaired. Original paper label a bit rubbed and unreadable. Boards with some light soiling and bumping. A very clean and handsome copy. Housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell. Overall an excellent copy. Laid in is a hand-written half-page letter dated March 1815. The identity of the author is unknown. The letter reads: "Capt. Krusenstern of the Russian navy presents his compliments to Dr. Thomsen and takes the liberty to send him a publication of Professor Carrol which Capt. Krusenstern has just received from . He at the same time must make every apology for intruding himself on Dr Thomsen the of Dr Thomsens personal acquaintance. 34 Upper Berkley Street 4 March 1815" Krusenstern 1770-1846 ìappointed to command the first Russian round-the-world expedition had serving with him a brilliant corps of officers including Lisiansky Langsdorff and Kotzebue. The expedition was to attempt to ëopen relations with Nippon and the Sandwich Islands to facilitate trade in South America to examine California for a possible colony and make a thorough study and report of the Northwest coast its trade and its future.Ã.The importance of this work is due to its being the official account of the first Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe and the discoveries and rectifications of charts that were made especially in the North Pacific and on the northwest coast of America.The introduction is particularly important and interesting because of the information it contains respecting the state of Russian commerce during the eighteenth century the Russian voyages and discoveries in the Northern Ocean and the Russian fur tradeî Hill. A Russian edition was published in 1809-1814 and a German edition from which this English edition was translated in 1810-1814. Abbey Travel 1. Arctic Bibliography 9377. Borba de Moraes pp. 374-5. Hill pp. 167-8. Howes K271. Sabin 38331. HBS 67660. $22500 Printed by C. Roworth...for John Murray hardcover books
182134467Paris: Gide fils 1821. 3 volumes text: 2 volumes 8vo 8 x 5 1/2 inches; atlas: folio 18 1/2 x 12 inches. xii 418; 4 531 1pp. 30 engraved plates portrait 9 maps and 20 plates; 2 double-page maps. Uncut. Text in period patterned paper wrappers the atlas bound to style in uniform period panelled wrappers. Housed in black morocco backed boxes.<br/> <br/>First edition in French of Krusenstern's seminal account of the first Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe: complete with the rare atlas of plates.<br/> <br/>Capt. Ivan von Krusenstern's voyage was one of the most important post-Cook Pacific voyages specifically aimed at obtaining more knowledge of the northern Pacific region establishing diplomatic and commercial relations with Japan and visiting the Russian trading posts in Alaska and on the west coast of America. It comprised the first Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe under the command of Krusenstern between 1803 and 1806. Sailing in 1803 the expedition touched on Brazil and rounded Cape Horn visiting the Marquesas Islands Hawaii Kamchatka and Japan. In Hawaii the expedition separated with ships under Langsdorff and Lisianski sailing to the Northwest Coast while Krusenstern himself undertook the delicate Japan expedition returning via Macao and the Cape of Good Hope. "The importance of this work stems from its being the official account of the first Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe and form the discoveries and rectifications of charts that were made especially in the North Pacific and on the northwest coast of America" Hill. First published in St. Petersburg between 1809 and 1814 with issues in both Russian and German that first edition with its folio atlas of 105 plates is a major rarity of travel literature. Dutch English and Italian editions followed although none contained an atlas of plates. The present first edition in French is the first edition following the original publication to include an atlas of plates. The images are re-engraved versions of images in the original and includes a portrait of Krusenstern views and images of natives of the Marquesas Japan Sakhalin Island Kamtchatka etc. as well as nine maps of various Pacific regions visited.<br/> <br/>cf. Lada-Mocarski 62; Sabin 38332; Arctic Bibliography 9377; Howes K272 "c;" Borba de Moraes pp.374-75; Hill 952 ref; cf. Forbes Hawaii 407. Gide fils unknown books
