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1784WRCAM50194London 1784. Engraving. Folio. Matted suitable for framing with the mat cut to near the plate mark. Very good. An individual plate from the atlas to Cook's THIRD VOYAGE. - ALASKA AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. unknown books
187721389Nrw York: D. Appleton and Company 1877. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo pp. xxiv 399 6 ads with chromolithograph frontispiece many illustrations in the text double-page Map of the Kaiser Franz Josef Land surveyed by Payer. Original red cloth with decoration in gilt and black. Spine lightly sunned. Blind stamp and "withdrawn" ink stamp of the California Academy of Sciences Library on title page but no other markings. Sound and clean. Arctic Bibliography 13202: "Narrative of the voyage from Norway to the waters northwest of Novaya Zemlya the drift in the ice Aug. 1872-Mar. 1874 the discovery and exploration by sledge of Franz Joseph Land including chapters on auroras the technique of sledge travel and the effect of cold on the men. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1832774171832. THE SCOTTISH TOURIST AND ITINERARY; or a Guide to the Scenery and Antiquities of Scotland and the Western Islands. With a Description of the Principal STeam-Boat Tours. Edinburgh Stirling and Kennedy 1832. Octavo. xvi432pp. With two large folding hand-colored maps in fine condition. Several engraved views and smaller maps. Fourth edition "with very considerable additions and improvements." Light foxing to title and frontispiece; one signature starting to detach. Contemporary red roan gilt worn at extremities. Two-inch crack along hinge with foot of spine lifting. unknown books
181620655London: Printed for J. and A. Ach 1816 1816. Second edition enlarged; the first edition was published in 1813. ODNB; Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Edges a little rubbed; hinges starting but sound; very good copy. 2 vols 8vo contemporary diced calf gilt rules decorations and lettering. Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck 1788-1856 visited the famous abbey Port-Royal in France where she was attracted to the serious study Jansenist piety their theories of philosophy education religious observance and the social duties of men. She wrote and translated several works on the Port-Royalists including this translation of a 17th century tour by Dom Claude Lancelot with her impressions from the early 19th century. <br/><br/> London: Printed for J. and A. Ach, 1816 unknown books
197538056n. p.: United Airlines 1975. 1st printing. Some light edgewear in margins. A VG example. Broadside. Large image 30-1/2" x 21" of a beautiful blonde cowgirl sitting on a wooden platform staring directly into camera. 40" x 25" <br/><br/> United Airlines unknown books
20864Operation Deep Freeze is the general codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica that began with Operation Deep Freeze I launched in 1955-56 in preparation for scientific work planned as part of the International Geophysical Year 1957-58. Regular missions followed over the following decades primarily to provide logistical support to researchers. This collection shows the men and operations of the United States Coast Guard Cutter Burton Island which participated in eight Deep Freeze operations between 1967 and 1978. During these missions "Burton Island was responsible for creating and maintaining aids to navigation clearing channels through the ice for supply vessels laying cables delivering and dispatching the U.S. Mail at remote stations and vessels search and rescue fisheries patrol law enforcement and giving dental and medical treatment at remote Native Alaskan communities" wiki. he mission shown here occurred between November 1972 and April 1973. The collection includes 25 black and white photographs all approximately 8 x 10 inches some with brief captions in pencil on the back. All in very good condition. There are images of the Burton Island breaking and stopped on the ice supplies being inventoried near Campbell Island sub-Antarctic New Zealand an airlift launching of a mini-submarine crew members some identified penguins emperor Adelie and chinstrap walruses a leopard seal on the flight deck and men engaged in fantail jumping - a popular if somewhat dangerous form of amusement on rough seas. There are four additional photos of maps showing the route of the cruise which arrived at McMurdo Station on January 30 1973. unknown books
38098n. p.: Western Airlines n. d. 1st printing presumed. Ca. 1970s. Light edgewear confined to margins. Small smudge to below left of motor. A VG or better example. Broadside. Large image 27-1/4" x 22" of downtown Reno lit up at night inside of an outboard motor cutout. Title printed in orange and blue lettering to white background. 39" x 25" <br/><br/> Western Airlines unknown books
186121267Boston: Abel Tompkins 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 171 pp 4 pp publisher's ads with frontis portrait of the author. Original black cloth with blind-stamped decoration and image of a ship on each board. Complete but well worn; spine slant corners rubbed through small losses of cloth at head and foot of spine moderate foxing and soiling throughout. A good reference/reading copy. Hall who signed on to the New Bedford whale-ship Condor at the age of 15 suffered so much abuse on board that he and a companion deserted on the coast of Siberia. They spent the winter of 1858-59 at a Russian penal settlement and were rescued the following summer by another New Bedford whaler and taken to Honolulu before returning to New England. "In 1861 Hall published Artic Rovings in an attempt to expoose the abuses of crewmen in the whaling industry. His father making use of letters sent home by his son subsequently brought a lawsuit against Whiteside Captain of the Condor accusing him of abandoning young Hall on the shores of Okhotsk. A judgement of $300 was awarded in favor of the father" Howgego Ocean Islands & Polar Regions H6. Sabin 29745. Abel Tompkins hardcover books
70603The personal photographic album of Eppes Bartow Hawes Williams 1902-81 a St. Louis debutante and U.S. Senator's daughter who married five times and traveled annually to Europe. The album dates from the mid 1930s and contains more than 100 photographs including original photos of Gertrude Stein and the French artist Bernard Boutet de Monvel aboard ship. The first image in the album is a magazine clipping from the wedding of Laura and Peter Bostwick in 1933 at which Eppes nee Mrs. Lewis T. Preston served as matron of honor. Bostwick the grandson of Standard Oil founder Jabez A. Bostwick was a sportsman and one of the leading steeplechase owners. Eppes' father was Senator Harry Bartow. She graduated from Maryville College in Missouri and was presented to Society first in St. Louis and then in Washington D.C. and New York. As a young girl she was noted for her athletic ability and qualified for the Olympics as a high board diver. The photographs some which are briefly captioned in pencil or ink show Eppes and her friends at the beach playing tennis and socializing. A few images in the album are captioned "polo Aiken" and "Gold Cup races" presumably referring to steeplechase races in Virginia. It appears this album dates from 1933-35 as clippings in the album refer to her as Mrs. Preston; however many original photographs show her with Lloyd Moore her second of five husbands whom she married in 1935. Her first husband was Lewis Thompson Preston CEO of JP Morgan and eighth president of the World Bank Group. On May 11 1935 Eppes and Moore who were not yet married sailed from New York to England aboard the SS Champlain a cabin class ocean liner. Among the passengers was the French artist Bernard Boutet de Monvel who posed for a photograph with Eppes. The album also contains two photographs of Gertrude Stein standing on the ship's deck. For Stein this voyage was her return trip home to Paris. In October 1934 Stein arrived in America after a 30-year absence for an exhausting six-month tour that transformed her from a noteworthy but little known author into a national celebrity. The photographs are pasted to the stiff album pages only half the album is used which are bound in an oblong brown leather album with gilt stamping. Though both joints are cracked the binding remains sound. unknown books
193814545Pittsburgh PA: Pittsburgh Motor Club ca. 1938. Near fine. Folding printed card folder measuring approximately 10.5" x 5"; unfolds to approximately 20" wide. Contains 15 various publications maps and ephemera all loosely laid-in. Contents housed in original mailing envelope mild age toning in areas otherwise near fine throughout. <br/><br/>A seemingly complete 1938 membership packet of the Pittsburgh Motor Club containing maps of the environs surrounding Pittsburgh membership materials and pamphlets with fantastic examples of period design. A scarce surviving group from the dawn of the American highway. Pittsburgh Motor Club unknown books
38832n. p.: Qantas Airlines Printed in Australia by S. T. Leigh & Co n. d. 1st printing ca. 1960s. Some light edgewear sunning to rear edges. A VG example. Broadside. Four large color photographic images featuring a "Surfboat Crew in Action at Cronulla Beach Sydney" "A Saturday Afternoon Sydney Harbour" "The Porpoise Pool at Tweed Heads New South Wales" and "Water Ski-ing on the Hawkesbury River Near Sydney". 39-3/8" x 25" <br/><br/> Qantas Airlines, Printed in Australia by S. T. Leigh & Co unknown books
193641883Divers places & locales 1936. Binder - Nr Fine. Plastic sleeves showing just a hint of yellow tinting. Photographs & ephemera: Very Good to Nr Fine. All items housed in 38 clear plastic sleeves placed in a large tan vinyl 3-ring binder. Items affixed recto & verso of black stiff-stock mounting paper. <br/><br/>A wonderful photograph & ephemera collection documenting an unidentified lady's summer trip aboard the R.M.S. Berengeria. This large album filled with over 210 photographic images comprised of snapshots commercially produced photographs real photo postcards & half-tone images from newspapers & magazines. The ~ 75 pieces of ephemera includes tickets menus momentos guide booklets maps and even a Reichsmark Travellers Check booklet. The scrapbooks begins with boarding the R.M.S. Bererngeria 5 pp London & England 9 pp The Hague 4 pp Berlin & the Olympics 13 pp Pottsdam & Dresden 11 pp Rhine environs 4 pp Switzerland 8 pp Italy 12 pp & France & Monte Carlo 12 pp. A nice compilation showing Europe pre-WWII. unknown books
1753860351753. TRAVEL HISTOIRE GENERALE DES VOYAGES OU NOUVEAU COLLECTION DE TOUTES LES RELATIONS DE VOYAGES PAR MER ET PAR TERRE . TOME QUARANTE-UNIE'ME. Paris: Didot 1753. 8 550 3 plates two of whioch are folding and 8 folding maps. 12mo. mottled calf gilt spine raised bands. Spine mostly chipped away joints cracked loose leather cracked. Marbled endpapers. Some plates and maps have closed tears or dampstaining first map missing piece at bottom left corner rest complete. Title page continued: "Qui ont ete publiees jusqua present dans les differentes Langues de toutes les Nations connues: contenant ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable de plus utile et de mieux avere' dans le pays ou les voyageurs ont penetre': avec les moeurs des habitans la religion les usages arts sciences commerce manufactures &c. pour former une systeme complet d'histoire & de geographie moderne qui represente l'etat actuel de toutes les nations; enrichi de cartes geographiques et de figures." As is. Depuis le commencement du XVe Siecle Seconde Partie Livre Second: Suite des Voyages aux Indes Oriuentales par le Sud-Ouest. unknown books
1749860361749. TRAVEL HISTOIRE GENERALE DES VOYAGES OU NOUVEAU COLLECTION DE TOUTES LES RELATIONS DE VOYAGES PAR MER ET PAR TERRE . TOME SECOND. Paris: Didot 1749. 450 5 folding maps. 12mo. mottled calf gilt spine raised bands. Spine chipped spine label slightly chipped joints cracked leather cracked. Marbled edges and endpapers small chip to front flyleaf small printed bookplate to front pastedown. A few maps with small closed tears but else in very good condition. Title page continued: "Qui ont ete publiees jusqua present dans les differentes Langues de toutes les Nations connues: contenant ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable de plus utile et de mieux avere' dans le pays ou les voyageurs ont penetre': avec les moeurs des habitans la religion les usages arts sciences commerce manufactures &c. pour former une systeme complet d'histoire & de geographie moderne qui represente l'etat actuel de toutes les nations; enrichi de cartes geographiques et de figures." Depuis le commencement du XV Siecle Premier Partie: Voayages au Sud-Est et aux Indes Orientales. As is. unknown books
1911851901911. TRAVEL - YOKOHAMA. AMENOMORI N. THE GRAND HOTEL LIMITED. H. E. MANWARING MANAGER. GUIDE BOOK FOR YOKOHAMA AND VICINITY. Yokohama: "Japan Gazette" Press 1911. A small pocket-size guide 14 x 10.5 cm in color illustrated paper wrappers that show the Grand Hotel on the front and a view of Fuji on the back side-sewn with ribbon ties. 46518 text pp. 81 adv. pp. folding map. Following the first section a description of the hotel and the surrounding area which also includes lists of holidays postage money weights and measures etc. there is a section of Anglo-Japanese conversation for tourists. The advertising section is comprised of a wide variety of merchants products and services pearls jewels and curios silks and embroideries photography studios fine hotels pharmacies cars for hire ship and rail lines etc. The small fold-out plan 12.5 x 20 cm of Yokohama City at the end is in fine condition. Negligible edgewear to wrappers and the first few text leaves have one slightly dog-eared corner otherwise it is quite fresh and in very good condition overall. unknown books
197738053n. p.: United Airlines 1977. 1st printing. Some light edgewear in margins. A VG example. Broadside. Large image 31" x 21" of stunning Hawaiian beauty in orange bathingsuit gazing into wild foliage. Title printed in orange lettering to white background. 40" x 25" <br/><br/> United Airlines unknown books
21378Collection of 21 manuscript financial documents from one of the first American companies dedicated to extracting and selling oil outside the United States. Known variously as the Peruvian Refinery Company Peruvian Refining Company Peruvian Petroleum Company and Peruvian Petroleum and Refinery Company the company was founded by James Bishop -- a New York merchant who owned clipper ships and specialized in importing India rubber -- and George H. Bissell an entrepreneur who co-founded the first petroleum company in the United States the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company and is often called the "father of the American oil industry." The first oil well in South America was drilled in Peru in 1863; a year later Bishop and Bissell leased 4500000 acres of land near Zorritos and Tumbes on the country's northern coast. Within a few years they had drilled several productive wells--including one that produced about 300 barrels a day in 1868. A history of the petroleum industry written in 1873 reported that "the company refine their own oil and find a ready market for this product on the Pacific Coast of South America Australia and New Zealand." Significant shipments were also made to England. The documents in this archive include records of company's expenditures as well as cost and profit projects. Expenditures recorded include salaries with many individuals named duties travel and freight expenses and the costs of a range of supplies including machinery fire brick paint nails lumber tin solder coil wire copper and liquid ammonia. One statement from 1868 records the transfer of shares in the company to various individuals and another from 1870 lists monies credited to James Bishop's company by the Peruvian Refinery Co. for freight services -- in one case noting an invoice not yet paid "as there is a deduction to make for cargo overboard." An undated sheet gives estimates of the expenses and profit from "4 months working of refinery." They expected to produce 102000 gallons of oil at 60 cents/gallon less expenses for fuel commissions shipping and labor resulting in a profit of $20000 for the four-month period. Another statement from 1878 gives an estimate of the costs associated with producing shipping and selling "5000 cases of oil." The sum of the itemized monthly costs is $2868 and the anticipated profit is $17683. In all and interesting gathering of documents showing the cost of running a large-scale petroleum operation in South America in the early years of the business. unknown books
196843574USA: United Air LInes Inc 1968. Signed in the plate by Jebary. Light wear to edges; slight creasing and short closed tear to upper corner. A VG example. Broadside. Large reproduction of a watercolor illustration by United artist Jebary of a banjo and steamboat. 40" x 25" <br/><br/> United Air LInes Inc unknown books
197212074NY: Viking 1972. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Davies on the title page. Faint dampstain on the green topstain few soil spots on the botton edge; dustjacket with a touch of edgewear mostly at spine ends and corners beginning toning on flap top and bottom edges and a shallow crease on the rear flap. Tight bright copy. Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Second volume in Davies' Deptford Trilogy. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Viking Hardcover books
1828E00212 Volumes: viii323 pages; iv304i ad pages with glossary. Small octavo 7 3/4" x 5" in original paper covered boards and spine title labels as originally issued. From the library of Professor George M Foster. Sabin:42852; Hill page 186 1st edition.<br /><br />G F Lyon was an English traveler born in Chichester England in 1795; died at sea in October 1832. He entered the British naval service in 1809 was present at the attack on Algiers by Lord Exmouth in 1816 and in 1818 was commissioned to accompany Joseph Ritchie on his tour of exploration into central Africa. Ritchie died in Fezzan and Lyon returned to England after encountering many dangers and privations which he described in his Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa London 1821. In 1821 in command of the Hecla he accompanied Captain William E. Parry on his arctic expedition publishing on his return The Private Journal of Captain G. F. Lyon 1824. In 1824 he sailed in command of the Griper' with the mission of exploring Melville peninsula and following its western shore as far as Turn-again he found after three months' searching a passage through the group of islets called Southampton island but was unable to enter Repulse bay through Sir Thomas Rowe's Welcome. On 13 September a violent tempest compelled him to return to England. The story of the voyage was told in A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt 1825. He subsequently passed several years in Mexico and died on his return from a second visit to America. His remaining works are The SketchBook of Captain G. F. Lyon during Eighteen Months' Residence in Mexico No. 1 London 1827 and Journal of a Residence and Tour in Mexico in 1828 London 1828.<br /><br />George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in. Condition:<br /><br />Spines renewed with original chipped spine labels laid on front end papers chipped and damaged at edges corners bumped and rubbed Foster's stamp on end papers old owner's signature on covers internally near fine else over all very good. John Murray hardcover books
1841038863London: Richard Bentley 1841. First Edition. Full Calf. Fine. Two volumes octavo. Pagination of Volume I begins as page 38 following the engraved portrait and title-page collating with originals at U Cal and U Wisconsin. Bound in tan calf ribbed spine with leather labels double-ruled covers marbled endpapers and edges. 8.5" x 5.25" Provenance: On a yellow-coated flyleaf in each volume is written in an old hand--"C.G. Young Esq from R.H. Barkham." On the endpapers of both volumes are the engraved bookplates of William Henry Rossington along with engraved book labels of Walter W. Colpits and James Murton. <br/><br/> Richard Bentley unknown books
14710London: Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. Hardcover. Very good. Square 16mo 112 pp plus 13 blank pages at the back for memoranda and log; many photographic illustrations including 2 folding panoramas a folding color map and a table of distances. Early owner's inscription on the front free endpaper; short tear to the fold of one parorama; all else very good or better in original green cloth. The "South American Route" begins in Spain and Portugal proceeding to Madeira Teneriffe St. Vincent Fernando de Noronha Pernambuco Bahia Rio Santos Sao Paolo Monte Video Buenos Ayres etc. Descriptive information history commerce landscape tourist excursions etc is provided on each locale. There is also a list at the end of more than 50 books on South America recommended for the education of travelers including works of history and geography fiction travel narratives dictionaries emigrant's guides and statistics on commerce and natural resources. An uncommon guidebook; 7 copies located in OCLC. Royal Mail Steam Packet Company hardcover books
193019165London: Gollancz 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. 8vo 464 pp with 48 b/w plates from photographs; indexed. A very good copy with mild sunning to the spine some foxing on the edges of the text block. In the very scarce dust jacket which has internal tape reinforcements and chips missing from the head and foot of the spine and one corner of the front panel. Account of the unsuccessful 1930 International Himalaya Expedition led by Gunter Dyrenfurth which was plagued by bad weather an avalanche and other mishaps. Smythe describes the extensive preparations for the expedition the Himalayan scenery travels in the region--including a visit to the Pemayangste Monastery and the party's successful ascent of Jonsong 24344 feet. Neate S118. Gollancz hardcover books
1811548Libanon: Gedruckt und zu haben bey Jacob Schnee 1811. 12mo. 170 x 100 mm. 6 ½ x 4 inches. 31 pp. Stitched as issued missing front wrapper back wrapper soiled; text browned with age. Scarce Lebanon Pa. edition of Richter's allegorical travel book where the author is looking for the true Children of God and the spiritual society where all live in harmony in the grace of God. This is printed by the author and is called the fifth edition on the title-page. The first American edition was published in 1792 by Samuel Saur of Chestnut Hill Pa. Arndt German Language Printing II 1827 listing only two copies at NYPL and the Free Library of Philadelphia. Not cited in NUC or OCLC. Gedruckt und zu haben bey Jacob Schnee unknown books
187314933New York: Geo. A. Crofutt 1873. Hardcover. Very Good. "Fifth Vol. Fourth Annual Revise." 224 pp extensively illustrated with maps and plates five folding and printed on both sides with ads on the reverse. Original cloth splitting along front joint worn at corners. Map of Omaha detached and laid in large colored map of the world split along one fold with minor losses. All else sound and very good. One of the most popular of the many guidebooks available to tourists crossing the United States by rail Crofutt's guide went through numerous editions and offered plentiful detail about the cities and towns along the route as well as excellent images of western scenery. It includes historical information description of the terrain and details of attractions lodging recreational opportunities and mining agriculture and other commercial activity. Geo. A. Crofutt hardcover books
