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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
18891024811889. contemporary half red calf with pastepaper-covered boards. small 4to. contemporary half red calf with pastepaper-covered boards. p. 274-283. An article removed from Zeitschrift für Christliche Kunst No. 9 1889. From the reference library of the Zaehnsdorf Company with a commemorative booklabel loosely inserted. With the bookplate of the Zaehnsdorf Company. unknown books
1880S9851Halle a.S.:: R. Nietschmann 1880. 1880. 8vo. 30 1 pp. Self-wraps; paper browned disbound. Good. R. Nietschmann, 1880. paperback 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
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
1818VT39336ALondon: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1818. First edition rebound in modern calf and marbled boards xiv 295 pages. Includes 15 hand-colored aquatint plates on 11 sheets. Very good expertly mended closed tear to title page some foxing throughout. Abbey Travel 19; Tooley 344.<br /><br /><br /> Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown hardcover books
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
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
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
1857288275Philadelphia.: Charles Desilver. 1857. Hardcover contemporary full speckled brown calf raised bands black spine labels gilt spine titles. Scattered light foxing owner’s name to ffep otherwise a very good tight copy in an attractive binding. Large thick 8vo. Heavy book will require extra shipping. weight: 4.4 lb. Charles Desilver. hardcover books
1845006970Phildalephia: Thomas Cowperthwait 1845. New Edition Improved. Hardcover. Very Good. Original binding full claf leather spine labels. Calf worn soiled and darkened but book remains firmly bound remarkable for its almost unweildy thickness - 455p 546pages. Leaves toned uniformly and spotted here and there. Frontispiece map of the Mediterranean world showing important sites in the New Testament. Thomas Cowperthwait hardcover books
1819241433Concord: Printed by Hill and Moore 1819. Disbound. Good binding. Disbound booklet. Pages renumbered by hand. No other markings but some scattered foxing. Good binding. Printed by Hill and Moore unknown 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
183022530Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle 1830. Later printing. Full leather binding. Abt VG missing half of fold-out map/heavy foxing throughout/preliminary leaf and frontis detached. 493 pp including index. Engraved frontis and title page. 8vo. 22.5cm x 14cm. <br/><br/>Complete in one volume. Thomas Wardle hardcover books
182561801Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute 1825. New Edition Revised and Corrected. 4 folding maps. 5 vols. 8vo. Early half calf and boards edges a bit rubbed foot of vol. I chipped. Very good copy. New Edition Revised and Corrected. 4 folding maps. 5 vols. 8vo. Feguson's History of the Reublic was so well received in his own lifetime as to become regarded as the standard account in English. Bell & Bradfute unknown books
184520195London: William Pickering 1845. 8vo pp. lxxx 372 1; bound by Riviere in half green morocco and marbled boards spine elaborately gilt in 6 compartments t.e.g. marbled endpapers; joints and edges lightly rubbed; dampstain to margins affecting text on only a few leaves otherwise a very good copy. Based upon the Scandinavian myth of the Edda. <br/><br/> William Pickering hardcover books
1843WRCAM53884Baltimore: Printed by James Young 1843. 31pp. including one woodcut illustration. Dbd. Minor edge wear two small ink numbers on titlepage. Very good. The confession of Adam Horn who was convicted in Baltimore in November of 1843 of chopping up his wife and burying part of her in the orchard and then carelessly leaving other parts of her strewn about the house. He later admitted his real name was Andrew Hellman. Includes a woodcut illustration of the murderer looking quite sinister and strange. Relatively scarce with only eleven total copies between McDade and OCLC. McDADE 484. OCLC 8611516. Printed by James Young unknown books
184414945London: Smith Elder and Co 1844. iv 44 pp. Stitched. Fine but for the absence of wrappers. "Refutation of American claims" Howes particularly those advocated by Greenhow. "Thom was personally familiar with the country and here ably sets forth the British claims to it. An important work when studying the Pacific Northwest." Jenkins. FIRST EDITION. Howes T161. Jenkins Full Howes 2505. 111 Eberstadt 497. 34 Decker 516. Smith, Elder and Co unknown books
1844WRCAM18327London 1844. 44pp. Stitched. Faint occasional foxing and light tanning. Very good. Refutes American claims to Oregon Territory. HOWES T161. SABIN 95370. unknown books
189742333Philadelphia: Century Musical Association 1897. 4to pp. 211-400 plus several portraits and bios of singers. Dark turquoise cloth stamped in black and gilt. Cover little worn at edges and spine but a VG tight copy. Century Musical Association unknown books
188520246Toronto: Rose Publishing Co 1885. 1st edition. Original decorative blue cloth stamped in gilt. VG some extremity wear/contemporary pos to prelim blank. viii 9 - 390 pp. Illustrated with drawings. 8vo. <br/><br/> Rose Publishing Co hardcover books
1885184517Toronto: Rose Publishing Company 1885. Hardcover. VG Cover has general wear. Spine has damage at top and bottom. Bookblock has age toning. Previous owners library sticker on inside front cover. Brown boards with gilt lettering and decoration on front over and spine. vi 2 9-408 pages : portraits. At head of title: From savagery to civilization./ Cover title: The Northwest; its history and its troubles./ P. 223-408 relate to Riel's second insurrection./ Includes bibliographical references. Rose Publishing Company hardcover books
1818WRCAM27845Philadelphia 1818. xxvii1803pp. Thick quarto. Contemporary boards rebacked in modern buckram. Binding detached. Ex-lib. bookplate on front pastedown. Old dampstain in upper or lower margin of some leaves. A good copy untrimmed. The masses of information included were gleaned from official documents dating from 1789 to 1818. Included is material on the establishment of the Mint the military public debt fisheries navigation public lands commerce and much more. "Especially useful on early financial history" - Howes. HOWES S309. SABIN 79631. GOLDSMITHS 22031. KRESS C.169. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 45692. RINK 337. hardcover books
1818D12979Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson & Son 1818. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth gilt-stamped lettering in red and black leather spine labels library sticker with handwritten call number at tail of spine; 4to; pp. 803. Binding scuffed and soiled; one spine label chipped. Library inkstamp and faint waterstain on title-p. otherwise internally clean. <br/><br/> Thomas Dobson & Son hardcover books
