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1807ST20596London: Printed for J. Johnson 1807. Second Edition. 225 x 140 mm. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2". iv 373 1 pp. <br/> Original blue paper boards and paper backstrip spine with original printed paper label EDGES UNTRIMMED. With 12 aquatint plates after sketches by Carr. A Large Paper Copy. First page of text with contemporary ink inscription reading "Ballygarth House." Lowndes I 377 1st ed. Boards with a couple of snags and faint stains corners minimally rubbed one plate with vague offsetting but AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY showing very few signs of use inside or out.<br/> <br/> In its remarkably well-preserved original boards this is a beautiful copy of a popular travel narrative. Sir John Carr 1772-1832 had originally trained as a lawyer but after visiting the Continent for his health made his career as a travel writer instead. The 1803 publication of the first edition of the present work launched him into fame as a writer. His subsequent works proved just as popular and after the 1806 publication of "The Stranger in Ireland" he was knighted by John Russell 6th Duke of Bedford then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Afterward Lord Byron in a suppressed verse from "Childe Harolde" appropriately called him "Green Erin's i.e. Ireland's knight and Europe's wandering star." Our copy's inscription indicates it belonged to the library of Ballygarth House very probably referring to Ballygarth Castle in County Meath Ireland the seat of the Pepper family which dates from the 14th century. While not a rare book it is uncommonly encountered in its original publisher's binding particularly in such fine condition as seen here. Even the richly printed aquatints which would typically be found foxed or causing offsetting are in virtually perfect condition. Printed for J. Johnson unknown
1828ST20535-01London: John Rodwell 1828. FIRST EDITON. 217 x 138 mm. 8 1/2 x 5 1/4". iv 339 1 pp. <br/> Contemporary diced russia raised bands spine attractively gilt in an arabesque style gilt-rolled turn-ins pink moiré endpapers all edges gilt. With a folding map of the travel routes and 23 pages reproducing inscriptions three of these folding. Front flyleaf inscribed in ink: "Juliana Calvert / from A. C. / 1838." Blackmer 48; Weber I 159. Joints and extremities a little rubbed tiny crack just beginning at top of front joint two tiny chips to foot of spine very minor offsetting and foxing to map a couple of patches of marginal foxing but INTERNALLY AN ESPECIALLY FINE COPY--unusually clean fresh and surprisingly bright--in a good-looking well-preserved binding.<br/> <br/> In especially desirable condition this is quite a scarce travel account by the English antiquary explorer and clergyman Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell 1780-1846 who visited the so-called Seven Churches of Asia also called the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse and the Seven Churches of Revelation locations in present-day Turkey of central importance to St. John and the Book of Revelation. In that book John who was a threat to Roman officials as leader of the new Christian religion in Asia had been banished to Patmos where he was visited by an apocalyptic vision directing him to write to the churches at Ephesus Smyrna Pergamum Thyatira Sardis Philadelphia and Laodicea commending their successes pointing out their failures and prevailing upon them to repent. These seven Turkish churches reflect a surprisingly significant role in the region's early Christian history with some scholars maintaining that as many as 18 of the 27 New Testament books were written there--and Arundell's narrative would have helped to raise the popular understanding of this importance. Following his marriage to the daughter of the British consul-general at the Levant Company in Constantinople Arundell became chaplain to the company's trading center in Smyrna now Izmir in 1822. From there he embarked on a series of tours through Asia Minor including places that according to DNB "until then had for the most part not been described by any European traveller." The present work is the product of the author's first tour which included two separate excursions between March and September of 1826. Despite being a clergyman Arundell's interest in these sites was primarily archaeological and historical and this work includes his firsthand descriptions of the ruins he encountered facsimiles of Greek inscriptions found there and narratives of the arduous journeys between sites that were well off the beaten path. This work is surprisingly scarce in commerce suggesting that copies were often read with avidity. John Rodwell unknown
1849r9238London: Smith Elder & Co. G: in good condition. Cover rubbed and darkened. 1849. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 130mm 8" x 5". xv 352pp. With b/w fold out map. . Smith, Elder & Co hardcover
1813r5469SParis: Chez Potey. G: in Good condition without dust jackets as issued. Boards rubbed and bumped. Outer joint of upper board of volume 2 partly cracked. Water staining to top part of the contents of volume 4 and fore edge of volume 3. Heraldic bookplate of John Markham on paste-downs. Scattered light browning but the bulk of text and plates predominately clean and in G condition. 1813-1823. First Edition. Leather cover. 210mm x 130mm 8" x 5". 1402pp; 2094pp. 11 engraved fold out coloured maps. Six Volume Set. Bound together by previous owner under uniform title of Description Routière de La France . Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Chez Potey hardcover
1843j5839London: Chapman and Hall. VG : in very good condition. Marbled endpapers and fore-edge. Minor wear to leather at spine. 1843. First Edition. Leather cover with raised bands and gilt emblem of the Northern Light Board to spine. 220mm x 150mm 9" x 6". 202pp 532pp. A handsome edition of this work which comprised part of the collection of the Northern Heritage Light house Trust. Two uniform volumes comprising: volume England Scotland and Ireland; Volume II comprising Austria and Russia. Published 1843-1844. . Chapman and Hall hardcover
1818List2715Augusta Georgia 1818. Single letter three 9 x 16 inch pages letters with some tape repairs and stray holes at folds still quite legible. Very good. A letter written by Calvin Barnard to his friend Asa Holman of Bolton Massachusetts describing the former’s trip from Boston to Augusta South Carolina from November 25 to January 1. Barnard first traveled from Boston to Charleston South Carolina by boat from which he notes “almost a continual gagging and vomiting†from the passengers. In Charleston Barnard observes that the city is inelegant the unpaved streets “filled with mud†and views “the breastworks which were thrown up during the last warâ€. This would have been the War of 1812 of which Barnard was likely a veteran. South Carolina had engaged upwards of 5000 soldiers and had put up defenses along the coastline in anticipation of the war but it did not come to the mainland – although South Carolina was under naval blockade and the Sea Islands were targeted by the British.<br /> <br /> Barnard reaches Savannah Georgia on the 25th of December; similarly he finds it “although a place of considerable business†“about as dissatisfactory a place I ever was in.†Augusta which he reaches by foot “is much handsomer built and situated than Savannah but not less dissipated†– he remarks that “Being the first day of the year is in this part of the country another great day for getting drunk.†After spending some time in Augusta he finishes the letter with some pointed observations about its residents:<br /> <br /> “I have had a better opportunity of becoming acquainted with the manners customs and dispositions of the citizens of Augusta . I shall not do them injustice by dividing them into three classes in which the Negroes are excepted. The first class of which are the gentry as they would expect to be called made up of men from all parts who have become rich here mostly by avaricious and unjust means . And this class we cannot expect to see drink more than once a week. The second is mostly the natives of this state and South Carolina who are men of a little property of a little education and very little of an honorable principle of any kind and these are not often seen drunk in the forenoon. The third class appears to me to be made up of the off-scouring of every bad place on earth for I never saw their equal for drunkenness lying stealing fighting swearing from morning till morning again. It is not possible that the continent of America has in any other place their equal. If it had I think the whole world soon be sunk.â€<br /> <br /> He finds Augusta’s African-American residents the only trustworthy ones despite local opinions:<br /> <br /> “If any stealing is done here it is laid to the Negroes but I had my surtout a shirt and handkerchief stolen on Friday night last but have too good an opinion of the blacks to think they have them.â€<br /> <br /> Of interest as an outsider’s views on the early Antebellum South and on drinking – another pressing social issue of the day. unknown
18553164Flat Woods Va: December 10 1855. Very good. 4pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor wear. A detailed record of one man's travels upriver and overland to Missouri in search of a place to resettle. Jonathan Koiner 1820-1889 of Flatwoods West Virginia went on a western tour in 1855 to scout potential emigration destinations. He traveled with his brother Absalom who quite abruptly stepped off the steamboat in northern Iowa leaving Jonathan to continue alone. Most of this letter describes Jonathan's travels in Missouri: from Hannibal by hack to Paris and then 25 miles on foot to Mexico. There he saw a prairie fire a bustling courthouse with judges and lawyers chomping on cigars and several relatives of his wife's. He took a carriage thirty miles to Columbia "the Athens of the state where the state university is situated & several fine female institutions." At Marshall his westernmost point he saw the 300-acre hemp farm of a man named Bruce who "has a good many slaves but he is one of the largest hemp growers in the U.S." He also witnessed "scores of wild cranes & wild geese one cloudy day in the corn fields above Marshall." He met the well-known pro-slavery jurist William Barclay Napton "the great antagonist of T.H. Benton"; former governor Meredith Miles Marmaduke; and numerous extended family members and friends who had already made the move west. On his way home he was inspired by St. Louis and Cincinnati with their "living moving masses of men & things!" He concludes with his decision to sell his Virginia land and move his young family west though census records suggest that he never did so. An informative missive of an exploratory emigration journey. December 10 unknown
1806009589London: Printed for Richard Phillips Sold By Souter No. 1 Pater-noster-row. 1806. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 4to. A very good "large paper" copy with uncut edges leaf size approximately 285mm x 225mm with a few additional items bound in. Pp. xiv 2 530 ii ii. 16 hand-tinted aquatints of which several folding map plus an additional contemporary hand-coloured map of Ireland as frontispiece. Contents: frontispiece quarto format map - engraved for the Poem of Erin. The folding plate of Dublin shown as the frontispiece in the "Directions for Placing the Plates" has been bound in opposite the first page of text title page dedication prefacecontents errata directions for placing the engravings main body of the text additional page on St. Patrick from "Guide to Knowledge" bound in at rear before the Publisher's adverts cutting from the Times 1842 entitled "Robert Emmet and the Gaoler of Kilmainham" pasted to rear paste-down. Original paper-covered boards with recent pebbled cloth spine to match original with the original paper title-label applied to the spine binding in very good condition. Contents very good the uncut edges are a little worn in places and a couple of a small near-contemporary oval stamps of the "Baptist College Bristol" to the front end paper no other marks. Paper in very good condition without any obvious staining minimal foxing almost completly confined to the tissue guards maps and plates all very good clean and crisp short repaired tear to the edge of page 318 not nearly affecting the text. A very good to fine copy. Printed for Richard Phillips, Sold By Souter, No. 1, Pater-noster-row. Hardcover
1822013830London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillps & Co. 1822. xi 72pp 16 plates 14 engraved views- one folding 2 of inscriptions 2 maps. Bound in what appear to be the original publishers gray wraps which are toned at the edges very minor toning to edges of few pages small chip at edge of one plate not even approaching the image. The folding plate is slightly misfolded resulting in an extra crease and is loose from the binding one tiny tear 2mm at very edge at binding side. Blind stamp of L Richard Smith on title page. A very nice and complete copy of this rarity of 19th century travel writing. Translated from the French edition of 1821 this edition also contains the only publication of Drovettis Itinery of an Excursion to the Valley of Dakel etc undertaken late in 1818 pp66-72. A scarce and important volume in the literature of North East African exploration. First English Language Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Printed for Sir Richard Phillps & Co. Paperback
1894015631London: Longmans Green & Co 1894. HEAVY. 2 volumes. xx 435; xii 397pp; index appendix glossary 179 ills 5 coloured maps 2 very large folding maps errata. Or brown cloth with pictorial gilt vignette to front gilt titles and antelope head vignette to spine. Some minor shelf wear rubbing at head and foot of spine and corners; chip at topof spine on one volume; light rubbing to spine edges. Surface insect damage silverfish to spines small chip to cloth surface approx 8mm above antelope on spine of Volume 1. The large folding maps have some linen reinforcing to verso near spine and along some folds but are complete and clean. Sporadic light to moderate foxing throughout but generally very clean tight copies with strong intact hinges. Scarce first English language edition of this important African exploration covering much of Equatorial East Africa including Zanzibar and Kenya with visits to Kilimanjaro time with Masai etc. The expedition was responsible for the discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie. In common with most African exporation books of the time there is copious material on hunting indeed it seems to have been an obsession with massive numbers of animals killed and recorded. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good. Royal 8vo. Longmans, Green & Co Hardcover
1852000363Boston MA: Wright & Hasty 1852. Book. Near Fine. Wrappers. 1st Edition. First edition 1852 Wright & Hasty's Steam Press Boston. Near fine in original printed wrappers. Light wear some light spotting to wrappers light stain on front wrapper and title page crease to rear wrapper. An exceptionally nice copy. Clarke was employed by the Hampden Mining Company sailed from New York in January 1849 and traveled through central Mexico and Arizona before reaching the California gold region in August of that year. His narrative provides the first printed description of the route from Camargo Mexico through Chihuahua and Sonora to the Gila River of Arizona. The book is also said to contain on page 12 the earliest reference in print to petroleum in Los Angeles. Cowan p. 128; Graff 746; Howes C451; Kurutz 138a; Sabin 13393; Streeter 3169; Wagner-Camp Becker 210. . Wright & Hasty Paperback
1855220621-MB30Harper and Brothers 1855. Original blind-stamped leather cover spine rebacked and resewn some foxing to endpapers wear to spine Maps and illustrations including 4 large foldout maps 397 pages with Index . First Edition. Leather Binding. Good/No Dust Jacket Issued. Harper and Brothers hardcover
1879223067New York NY: D. Appleton and Co. 1879. Book. Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Title continues : A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Natural Features and the Picturesque and Historical Places of Great Britain and the Continent. Illustrated on Steel and Wood by European and American Artists. Folio size set quarter bound in leather with leather corners over brown cloth. Each of 3 volumes divided into 2 parts 6 books overall contains c. 20 steel engravings as well as articles and woodcut illustrations on different European regions and countries. Published 1875-1879. Condition : Good; wear to spines and early signs of separation; some pieces missing at spine ends; scuffing to leather corners; occasional marks on cloth boards; occasional toning at page edges and fingerprint smudges from contact with leather. c. 32 lbs. May require additional postage. D. Appleton and Co. Hardcover
1823k5333London: John Murray. G : in good condition. Boards rubbed with wear to extremities. New endpapers inserted. Paper repair to pp 253-4 with no loss to text. Some foxing and off-setting. 1823. First English Edition. Black hardback half-leather cover on marbled boards. 230mm x 150mm 9" x 6". xiv 414pp. Folding frontis map two aquatint plates two engraved plates and additional map. The original edition of this volume was written anonymously in German. Translated from the French by Wilhem and Frederika von Freygang a husband and wife travelling through and residing in the countries describe. Note: "Lettres sur le Caucase et la Georgie" is by Frederika von Freygang; the remainder of the volume is by her husband Wilhelm von Freygang. . John Murray hardcover
1813d3398London: Printed for John Stockdale. Rebacked with new eps and part of original spine laid on. Some corner and edge wear and chipping to lower corners of eps. Some damp staining to pages as well as occasional marks. Offsetting from the tinted plates. Contents firm and overall in good condition. 1813. Second Edition. Half leather marbled board cover. 290mm x 240mm 11" x 9". xi 303pp; viii 296pp. Illustrated with 41 plates. 3 folding plates 2 of which are coloured and the other tinted; 26 full page coloured plates; 11 tinted plates and 1 engraving. All plates present - but not necessarily in the "contents" order. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Printed for John Stockdale hardcover
1820g8261aEdinburgh: Constable & Co. G : in good condition. Rebacked with modern green cloth spines over original boards. Boards marked with sm. area of loss to vol II. Stamps and ownership inscriptions to front pastedowns Inner hinges cracked. Off-setting and browning to prelims. Occasional closed tears to folding plates. Some pencil marginalia. 1820. First Edition. Green hardback cloth spine over papered boards. 220mm x 130mm 9" x 5". xx 551 82pp; viii 574pp plates. 24 engraved plates and maps some folding three of which are facsimiles. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Constable & Co hardcover
1820g8261Edinburgh: Constable & Co. G : in good condition. Rebound with modern red cloth gilt with new eps. Some scattered browning and age toning. 1820. First Edition. Red/gilt hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 130mm 9" x 5". xx 551 82pp; viii 574pp plates. 4 folding tables and 22 of 24 plates and maps. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Constable & Co hardcover
185512030423Virtue & Co London 1855. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: William H. Bartlett. Hardcover. 172 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Virtue & Co. London 1855. Reprint. CONDITION: This book is in good condition but dust jacket is not included. Wear to bottom edge of and corners of boards and fraying to spine ends. Moderately foxed throughout. Previous owner's book-plate laid in. All edges gilt faded. Front hinge is cracked and binding is a little loose. Minor water damage to text covers unaffected. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This edition contains an appendix which begins with "The production of a new edition of this work has afforded an opportunity of increasing its attractions by the addition of several new engravings illustrative of scenery which has obtained a notoriety in connection with the events of the present war. Crimean". These five additional engravings with corresponding text are: Gallipoli Odessa Smyrna and Sebasapol. Illustrator: William H. Bartlett. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Travel & Places; Inventory No: 12030423. Virtue & Co hardcover
1853023376London: John Murray 1853. Third edition two volumes. Octavo illustrated a folding map two extra pictorial title pages printed in red and black pp xiiii315; viiiii298 top edges gilt very slight signs of use internally a little foxing to both of the pictorial title pages. A duplicate from the Patterson Library Westfield New York with their attractive label on the front endpaper and a notice and pocket on the rear endpapers an embossed stamp on each printed titles. Bound in a very attractive binding of half crushed morocco and marbled boards raised bands to the spines marbled endpapers; bound by W. Worsfield London. William Worsfield traded from 12 Frith Street Soho for several decades but seems little known. The quality of his work very evident here raises this set out of the "ex-library" category to new heights. "The historic Patterson Library located at 40 South Portage Street in Westfield New York is widely considered the "crown jewel" of the village. Created by a $100000 bequest in the 1894 will of philanthropist Hannah Whiting Patterson it officially opened in 1908 as a memorial to her parents.". Third edition. Half morocco. Fine. John Murray Hardcover
1849015843London: Hippolyte Balliere 1849. The title continues.under the command of Capt. H. D. Trotter R.N. &c.; including Spicilegia gorgonea by P. B. Webb esq. and Flora nigritiana by Dr. J. D. Hooker . and George Bentham esq. with a sketch of the life of Dr. Vogel. Large octavo pp xvi 587 i with a tinted frontispiece a plain plate of views a map and 50 plates of botanical line drawings some folding on 43 leaves as the folding plates are double-numbered. The text is very clean the plates are a little foxed overall and rather age-toned on the margins. Original cloth slightly marked and very slightly worn with a new green calf spine retaining the original endpapers. Very firm and sound internally. From the library of the Kew botanist Nigel Hepper and the earlier provenance of Edgar Milne-Redhead. First Edition. Quarter leather. Good. Hippolyte Balliere Hardcover
1885annn01aaEdinburgh: William Paterson. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed with split to spine. Some marginal foxing. 1885. Limited Edition 42/200. Blue hardback cloth cover. 290mm x 230mm 11" x 9". 140pp plates. 70 photographic plates. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. . William Paterson hardcover
1842r0947bLondon: Duncan & Malcolm. G: in good condition. Cover rubbed and scuffed with cracks to front hinge. Stain to corner of prelims. 1842. First Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards. 290mm x 220mm 11" x 9". xii 240pp plates. 60 b/w plates. With heraldic bookplate of James Dyce Nicol M.P. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. . Duncan & Malcolm hardcover
1805g3138aLondon: C Cooke. G : in good condition. Covers rubbed and scuffed. Hinges strengthened. Foxing throughout. 1805. Reprint. Brown hardback leather covers. 280mm x 220mm 11" x 9". xx 816pp; 768pp iv plates & maps. 90 b/w plates 23 fold-out. . Including interesting Narratives from all the Navigators that have made New Discoveries . Forming a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels . Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . C Cooke hardcover
1839j2939London: J W Norie & Co; W H Allen & Co. Worn condition. Cover rubbed and faded with loss to spine. Title page and plates foxed. Content in overall good condition. Ex Cruising Association Library. 1839. First Edition. Purple hardback cloth cover. 250mm x 150mm 10" x 6". xxv 120pp plates. 4 b/w plates. . applied as an auxiliary aid to shipping; and suggestions for improving thereby the communication with India viâ the Cape of Good Hope. To which is added an appendix containing a description of Melville's patent propellers with plans of the engines machinery &c. . J W Norie & Co; W H Allen & Co hardcover
1849r3543New York: Sherman & Smith. G : in Good condition. Cover lightly rubbed soiled and bumped. Slight darkening to page ends. Stamps of previous owner on fep and base of title page. Pencil annotation on ffep. Rear fold out map G with small tear at fore edge of centre fold. Contents tight. 1849. Reprint. Red/gilt hardback cloth cover. 150mm x 90mm 6" x 4". 234pp. 125 highly finished engravings and a large and accurate map hand coloured in outline. Containing a description of the states cities towns villages watering places colleges etc.etc.; with the railroad stage and steamboat routes the distance from place to place and the fares on the great travelling routes. . Sherman & Smith hardcover
