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1796WRCAM54712Mostly at sea from New York with stops in Calcutta Saint Helena Ascension Island and Cornwall England 1796. 246pp. Square folio. Original crude burlap covers stab-sewn with thick string. A bit toned and foxed occasional ink or tobacco burns. Very good. A remarkable artifact of early American naval commerce containing the sailing directions and shipboard activities of the "Ship Washington of Philadelphia" which sailed from New York to Calcutta rounding the southern tip of Africa and visiting Saint Helena and Ascension Island before crashing on the rocks at Cornwall England on the way to Hamburg Germany. The log contains a navigational ledger with locations headings wind and weather remarks along with occasional sick lists names of men "unfit for duty" those put on light duty temperatures and other information. The remarks are quite detailed and specific regarding shipboard work and activity. <br> <br> The captain of this final voyage of the ship WASHINGTON was Samuel Hubbart but the identity of the sailor who kept this log is unknown. The ship departed New York on July 4 1795 and reached Calcutta on August 31. Without the need for recording navigational data while in port the log's author switches from the ledger-style format and writes longer more-detailed daily entries describing the crew's activities. The crewmen mentioned include pilots boatswains carpenters coopers caulkers sailmakers and others. Most of the entries pertain to the maintenance of the ship while anchored in the bay. Numerous mentions are made of crew on board fixing various equipment including types and amounts of supplies. A few entries note the employment of Indian "Cooleys" on board the ship making various repairs. An interesting incident of September 17 bears relating: <br> <br> "Hearing a noise upon the main Deck Mr. Naylor went to see what was the matter - upon engaging found Abraham Moor had struck Thomas Williams the Cook as Moor said for wanting to trouble a girl which Moor had on board - Mr. Naylor told him he should not ill use that man for he had every reason to believe it to be false what he alledged against the Cook. Moor said he did not come here to be jawd by a black Man.S." <br> <br> After swearing he would "never go home" on the WASHINGTON Moor literally jumped ship just after this confrontation and hid on another ship before being found and brought back to the WASHINGTON "in irons." <br> <br> In early November a few entries mention the ship receiving a supply of sugar taking on "Three Burr Load of Sugar" on November 7 and two more "Burr Load" two days later. Subsequent entries detail the loading of several "Burr Load of Bales" and "one hundred bags of ginger." <br> <br> Over the course of the ship's time at Calcutta the author mentions encounters with at least four other American ships: the GANGES the HAMILTON the MAJOR PINKNEY of Charleston and the "American Ship Camilla of New York arriv'd here from London." <br> <br> By early February the WASHINGTON left Calcutta for the voyage to Hamburg spelled variously here as "Hamborough" and "Hamburgh" though the ship would never make it to Germany. On March 15 and again on April 6 the recordist notes an inventory of the ship's water supply. By March 23 the ship reaches a point "prependicular on Cape Lagulas Bank" the southernmost point of Africa. About a week later the punishment of a drunken sailor is reported: <br> <br> "Joseph Gonrabbysp who has for some time past been addicted to Drunkeness and no person on board having given him any liquor he was discovered this morning to have taken from the Ships stores about half a Gallon of rum and from his being frequently very drunk there is no doubt of his having been Guilty of the same offence before for which Capt. Hubbart is necessitated to order his Boatswain to flog him. Accordingly mustered all hands aft and give him one and a half dozen lashes." <br> <br> On April 16 the WASHINGTON arrived at the remote island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean sending "the Boat on shore with an Officer to the Governor for permission to Anchor." Here the WASHINGTON restocked supplies including water potatoes & other vegetables rice and bread before embarking for Ascension Island which they reached on April 25. The author remarks on the "number of remarkable rocks like pyramids" and "a low point of black Rocks with a fine white sandy beach back of it" witnessed at Ascension Island. The WASHINGTON spent one night at Ascension where a group of men went ashore in order to "spend the Night in Catching Turtle in the different Bays." The crewmen caught twelve turtles and brought them aboard ship before continuing their journey. <br> <br> While heading north to Europe the WASHINGTON was boarded on May 17 by the "Quebec British Frigate Cap J Cook in Company with the Carnatic 74 Rear Admr Powel with a convoy of 21 sail of Transports & Gun boats with 10000 Troops on board bound for Martinico Martinique." On June 7 they again encounter another ship "a Spaniard from some port in South America bound for Cadiz out 3 months & 10 days - we cannot understand rightly what port she was from." <br> <br> Then on June 18 disaster struck the WASHINGTON as it ran aground at the Lizard Rocks off Cornwall England. The log book records the ship's demise: <br> <br> "The weather still very thick and hazy. At 9PM hearing the Surf break on shore took in all the studding sails Braced the Yards sharp and hauled to the Southward finding ourselves in amongst the Rocks off the Lizard have all aback and endeavored to get her out from among them but the Flood tide making very strong drove the Ship so hard upon the Rocks that with every endeavour we found it impracticable to get her off she having settled on them & the strength of the tide Thumping her very hard upon the Rocks sounded the Pump and found she made water very fast. Fired several Guns as a signal of Distress which brought several boats off from the Shore to our assistance." <br> <br> For the next couple of weeks the crew of the WASHINGTON participated in "discharging the cargo" from the ship so that it is not "plundered by the natives" sending everything to Falmouth "where the Goods are deposited under the protection of a Custom house Yaught." The log book mentions one crewman of the WASHINGTON "threatening revenge on Captain Hubbart." Another crewman is put "under a Guard of Soldiers" after selling off some of the muslin stored in the bales rescued from the wreck. Here the ship's log ends along with the career of the Ship WASHINGTON. <br> <br> A unique record of the last voyage of an early American trading vessel with insight into late 18th-century navigational methods and the commercial interests of Federal-era America. unknown books
21433Hardcover. Very good. Black leather album containing 54 tissue-guarded leaves of watercolor paper of which 43 have been used. 10 x 12 inches stamped in gilt on the front "Sketches on the Nile / Alan Hinch / 1938." Leather scuffed cloth tape reinforcement to inner hinges all else very good. Alan Hinch was born in England c. 1881 but was living in the United States by 1920 when the federal census documents him working in Miami as pilot of a private yacht owned by socialite James Deering an executive in International Harvester Company. He apparently embarked on this Nile cruise as companion to his next employer Richard Flint Howe 1863-1943 another International Harvester executive who had married James Deering's sister Abby. Passenger manifests show Hinch as traveling in the company of a "Mr. R. Howe" and the census of 1940 lists him as butler on Howe's estate. He was clearly more than a simple servant however as this charming and humorous album reveals. The album documents the journey from departure on the Italian Line passenger ship Conte de Savoia on January 15 1938 to arrival home at Banksia Howe's custom-built mansion in Aiken South Carolina on March 26 1938. Each page includes an original watercolor most measuring about 4.5 x 8 inches but some larger with a related original doggerel poem. Hinch's paintings are skillful. His poetry is markedly less so but it is clever observant and skillfully captures the traveler's experiences. On a visit to Asyut Hinch writes: Assuit the place they said would be warm/ Was 42 degrees at early morn/ If the like keeps on we will have to don /Earlaps coonskins as at a football game./ Rode through the quarters where the natives were/ Couldn't say lived for it looked so bare/ They called out for bakscheesh/ Both old and young/ They thought we came only to give to them./ Oh what a place to be born and live./ Then through the bazaar narrow and crowded/ Maybe bargains galore/ But we passed through as quick as we could./ Oddments and rubbish in hovels so poor./ Then to the tombs too high to climb/ And round the modern town we drove/ Back on board the "Memnon" to dine. A visit to the ancient cemetery at Beni Hasan is described from the perspective of the donkeys who labor under the weight of well-fed tourists. Other subjects include the ocean liners and streamers they traveled in local people they encountered a dragoman a water carrier a little girl in a red scarf boats on the Nile camels and water buffalo the Pyramids Sphinx Panopolis El-Balyyana Abydos Karnak Kom Ombo Wadi Haifa Abu Simbel and Luxor. There are also several views of the Mediterranean coast and one of Banksia in South Carolina. In all a charming and lovely representation of the places and time. hardcover books
1938WRCAM55556Various locations in Latin America 1938. 100pp. containing 230 photographs as well as postcards maps dozens of menus greeting cards and other travel ephemera. Thick folio. Contemporary brown paper-covered cloth string-tied. Boards lightly scuffed and worn. Some leaves loose moderate edge wear and chipping. Photographs clean and nice annotations highly legible. Good plus. An illuminating and entertaining illustrated scrapbook documenting the travels of six friends on a trip to Mexico Panama and various points in South America including Colombia Peru Chile Argentina and Brazil in 1938. One of the opening leaves has four photographs of the travellers comprised of two elderly couples and two single women captioned "Rogues to the Pampas!" Throughout the album there are numerous photographs both vernacular and professional a great many capturing locals in native dress as well as images of scenery and the city streets. The photographs are accompanied by colorful descriptive annotations. <br> <br> The voyage began January 20 1938 aboard the Japanese NYK Liner S.S. Bokuyo Maru. There are numerous menus and other ephemera from the ship as well as a photograph of the Japanese crew signed by the ship's officers. The first photographs depict Manzanillo Mexico a week later with captions such as "Worst city we ever saw says the man from Capetown South Africa who has been around the world" and "Sid Thompson says 'I bet if these Mexicans had a good hot bath they'd find a suit of underwear they didn't know they had!" They picture a "peddler of hats and drink" and a "man carrying load on his head" in the streets of Manzanillo. They then take a train to Colima Mexico on which a passenger is noted to say "Jesus Christ you'd think they never saw an American before" and where they eat papaya for the first time. In Panama on February 3 they see "a native with an iguana in each hand - we also saw our first sloth and a land crab" and they witnessed "a negro funeral." <br> <br> On February 5 the travellers stop at Buenaventura Colombia where they experienced an earthquake and their first sight of the Andes along with a "strong acrid wet odor that pervades atmosphere everywhere." There are several photographs of the city and the locals including one of "natives" fishing accompanied by significant commentary on the locals: <br> <br> "The natives have plenty of fish which they catch in nets thrown by hand - plenty of bananas and fruits and cocoanuts and will not work enough to buy anything but a little clothing rice and coffee. There are no public schools in Colombia - a few religious schools inland. All education for boys and girls of better class is in U.S. or Europe. U.S. buys 85% of Colombia's coffee. Population 80% negroes on coast. Government is unstable foreign capital will not make very much of an investment here but Standard Oil Co. has a $52000000 pipeline in Colombia. Malaria is the greatest plague here though typhoid is also guarded against in fruits and vegetables. Buenaventura is wholly tropical." <br> <br> The group then proceeds to Lime Peru where they arrive "in a dense fog - worst in 10 years." They take numerous snapshots of various cultural sights around the city images of "guano birds" along the shoreline and a "Typical Peruvian Indian of the High Andean Plateaus." They stayed three nights at the Hotel Bolivar before proceeding to Cuzco Tacua and Mollendo which they describe as "a dirty town." Still they took several photographs here including "Descendants of the Incas at Cuzco" an "Indian woman riding Burro - typical scene" in Tacua and other street scenes. <br> <br> Chile was next for the group. They were in Santiago by February 23 and shot several images at a street market such as a soap dealer the flower market a corn stand and other scenes. Shortly thereafter they traveled to Valparaiso Puerto Varas Puerto Montt and other Chilean locations. They captured the port of Valparaiso the Three Brothers at Chilean Lakes scenes in the Chilean mountains Lake Llanquihue and include in the album a professional real photo postcard captioned "Typical Araucanian Indian Hut" among other images. <br> <br> The travellers then moved on to Argentina. They describe Buenos Aires as "the most beautiful city in South America so far as the city itself is concerned." Their time in the city is illustrated exclusively with postcards but they include a plethora of descriptive text for numerous monuments landmarks harbor scenes gardens and other sites. <br> <br> During their time in Brazil the travellers document coffee production cattle and other agricultural settings as well as cities and architectural features. These include numerous images of Rio de Janeiro which "no picture however beautiful can portray with any accuracy the beauty of Rio." On March 30 the group heads "from Buenos Aires down the muddy Rio de la Plata" towards the Amazon River. Here they include real photo postcards of "Typical Indians of the Amazon" an "Amazon Indian Hut" and "More Indians - These are some of the most primitive people living." Among the images taken on the streets of Brazil is one showing a black woman walking with a bundle on her head which is captioned "N asterisks ours mammy in pink dress and head load - and was she furious when I took her picture! If looks could kill I'd be buried in Brazil." <br> <br> The group rejoined their cruise in Brazil boarding the Rio de Janeiro Maru and finished their journey at the end of April. A detailed revealing and lengthy travel account extensively illustrated and annotated by a group of judgmental American tourists. hardcover books
19243357Kentucky Wisconsin Illinois Kansas Minnesota Ohio Wyoming Michigan South Dakota Colorado 1924. Red leather sheep over card ornately stamped in gilt. Album measures 8 x 9.75 inches and is comprised of 108 manuscript pages in a variety of hands with multiple entries per page. Also includes two pasted-in newspaper clippings and a series of loosely inserted ephemera two obituary clippings for the book's owner five calling cards a church bulletin a gown ad an envelope with a death notice of a friend and a car rental flyer from Oklahoma. Tracing the life of Laura Nethers nee Earl from her girlhood and marriage to her old age. Obituaries and census records show that Laura was a resident of Colorado Springs for 56 years following her family's move from the South through the Western US.<br/><br/>The inscription to the first page of the album reveals it to be a gift: "1860. A Christmas gift from father. Covington KY." Above this is the ownership stamp of Laura L. Earl. Little did Laura know the album would follow her across 64 years and to a variety of states documenting her relationships and major moments in her life. For researchers it is an opportunity to trace a woman's development from one century to the next across multiple states in the South and West as she grew into a teacher wife and woman's club activist. Growing up in Kentucky Laura's family moved West. Entries show that she and her father lived awhile in Minnesota and she became a teacher in Wisconsin before marrying and settling in Colorado Springs. Entries come from family pastors students neighbors and friends. Many entries show women's bonds across large stretches of space and together they show what a mobile lifestyle women were increasingly living. No longer confined so a small radius or single homestead they were maintaining relationships and making friends across the miles. <br/><br/>Some early entries like that of Celia E. Hay Illinois 1878 are traditional in nature: "Over our hearts and into our lives shadows may sometimes fall But the sunshine is never wholly dead And heaven is shadowless overhead And God is over all." Students politely thank her for her work and hope they made an impact too: "I ever remain your true friend James U. Cobb. To Miss Laura Earl much Respected Teacher Ellensboro Wisconsin Feb 25 1872." People write poetic verses on friendship or her new marriage throughout.<br/><br/>Yet more often entries are personal. In 1879 Laura's father leaves her a humorous message that "It is ten o'clock and your sixty-one year old father expects a long trip to the Injun Reservation two hundred miles north in the morning.So you see I cannot write any tonight." Elva Walker writes from Colorado in 1885 "We will ever remember our camping trip.and going in a cave" and John Dietrich writes of the same trip "Did it rain while we were camping! I hope we will meet again soon." In August 1919 a friend Emma Eggleston writes an original piece about their recent travel titled Pike's Peak by Auto which begins "19 and 19 was a year to remember from the last of July to the last of September" and which documents in 36 verses the landscapes they passed and the friendship they strengthened while driving. Moments like these are a reminder of changing times -- of early attitudes toward indigenous tribes or of women's freedom as suffrage approached. <br/><br/>A charter member of the Colorado Women's Club and a participant in Frances Willard's Women's Christian Temperance Union according to her obituary Laura's friendship album is a rich space for researchers to trace her movements through communities in the West for genealogists to study the families and lives of contributors and for historians to track which entries come from other educated women and activists. The present is one of the best we've seen. unknown books
186920752London: Tinsley Brothers 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 8vo pp xii 443; viii 478 2 ads each with engraved frontispiece and title page vignette folding map in Volume II. Publisher's green cloth ruled in blind with gilt figure on each front board. Account of Burton's journey from Rio to the rich mining area of Minas Gerais via Tres Barras River Velhas Penedond Paulo Afonso Falls. He canoed down the entire 3000 kilometer length of the previously uncharted Sao Francisco River to the Atlantic. Borba de Moraes I p. 110; Penzer pp. 78-79. Corners bumped some scuffing to upper spines foxing to first and last few leaves of each volume. With the bookplates of British Civil Engineer Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt we believe prominent early Los Angeles physician Walter Lindley and his son Francis Haynes Lindley. Tinsley Brothers hardcover books
21848Brussels Verona and Trieste March–April & September–October 1852. VOLUME ONE: Large 4to. 340 × 265 mm contemporary marbled boards ms. paper label ‘Zettel von Brüxelles’ to front cover containing two large folded playbills 845 × 583 and 1230 × 583 mm printed on pink paper for the Casino des Galeries St. Hubert upper corner torn away and subsequently restored with loss of a couple of letters; sense recoverable and for some English performers at the Théâtre du Vaudeville plus issues of "L’Echo moniteur des théatres" three nos.; "L’entr’acte" eight nos.; "L’organe des Arts" one no.; "Le lutin journal des théatres" four nos.; "Moniteur des théatres" fourteen nos.; "L’Hippodrome de Londres" the inside of which is a playbill for an equestrian display; "Cirque oriental" two nos.; again both doubling as playbills inside; plus a flyer; with a couple of other printed announcements; also a variety of playbills from Germany Baden Baden Mainz Frankfurt; some light browning creased where folded to fit the volume a few tears to spine. VOLUME TWO: Large 4to. 333 × 260 mm contemporary marbled boards ms. paper label ‘Theater Zettel von Verona & Triest’; some waterstaining to front cover containing six folded playbills: three for the Teatro Filarmonico Verona one chipped in the lower margin; the first annotated in a contemporary German hand commenting on the performers: ‘Gut’ ‘Sehr gut’ etc. and one each for Trieste’s Teatro Filodrammatico waterstained Teatro Grande and Teatro Mauroner this the largest: 1118 × 570 mm. Together: very good overall. <br/><br/>Remarkable and remarkably preserved collection of theatre ephemera from Brussels Verona and Trieste assembled and bound in matching volumes by a contemporary traveler likely German during a pair of two-month trips in 1852. While this vernacular travel book offers a vibrant portrait both historical and typographic of local European theatre in the mid-19th century it was also clearly collected and assembled by a lover of the stage dare we say an early theatre geek who to this cataloguer at least seems a proto-member of what we would now call fan culture. A rare early and striking physical manifestation of cultural enthusiasm at the birth of the modern era. hardcover books
59417This includes 2 large boxes of correspondence having to do with the publication of the magazine manuscripts notes illustrations and much more as well as printed material thaty belonged to Claire who was involved with the Folger Library poetry series. Included amongst the printed material is a signed Keith Wilson broadside poem A Lynd Ward Christmas image small press ephemera a Don Bachardy drawing of Gloria Vanderbilt an image of Dorothy Parker by Bachardy several photos by Robert Lax and many magazines and ephemera from the Wasginton DC scene from the later 1960 and early 1970's. A very interesting lot. The magazine ran 1967-1973- Volume one features a fine cover photo by Elliot Porter drawings by Thomas Merton and interview with Carolyn Kizer. Vyages published work by Roethke Robert Bly Joyce Carol Oates Mark Van Doren Anais Nin and many more and while this archive does not include material from these authors necessarly it does give an excellent windowminto the wookings of a literary magazine. This includes 2 files on the arrangeing of a symnposium on mystery writer Geogre Simenon DC Faulkner film festival readings at the Folger Shakespeare Library corrspondece with publishers and authors and much more inclding a thick file of photocopies of Anais Nin letters and much material about Nin and her relationship with Mr. Clare. unknown books
D4278early 20th century. Very Good. Morocco over flexible boards "Photographs" stamped in gilt on upper board bound with thin black rope; oblong approx. 8-by-6 inches; contains more than 150 black leaves each with a b/w photograph silver gelatin print affixed to the recto and labelled by hand in white ink. Photos occasionally are attached to the verso as well. Nearly 200 photographs total. Average photo size is about 4.75-by-3.5 inches. Boards scuffed along the edges; slight wave to text block; photographs are in near fine condition a few subject to some a touch of fading and light rubbing. <br/><br/>Though only a few images directly mention the "Steamer Manchuria" showing members the band a group of Russian children and "Embarking at Honolulu" it is likely that this rich travelogue captures it's entire voyage through the Far East -- either on it's regular route for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's trans-Pacific service or in 1905 when the Mancuria sailed from San Francisco on a goodwill tour of the Far East carrying a large U.S. Congressional delegation under the leadership of Secretary of War William Taft. There are very few personal photographs to establish our photographer's identity as most pictures are of landmarks landscapes and artifacts such as a bamboo organ in Manila pagodas in Rangoon horse-drawn carriages in various locations. The few images that include people are usually candid with their subjects ignoring or unaware of the photographer -- such as people playing games on deck and surfing photos taken at Waikiki beach. And one labelled "Diving for Coins Singapore" is particularly lovely showing the young men jumping from their canoes. A long far-flung journey with scenes of Manila Rangoon Penang Singapore Java Seoul Hawaii California San Francisco Yosemite Park and Arizona Grand Canyon. Demonstrates a curious eye it seems that the elephants working in the lumber yards of Rangoon were particularly compelling and thankfully an adept one as all photographs are nicely composed exposed and printed. hardcover books
2072Paris Imp. Eugene Marz 1897-1898. Image:27 3/4 x 38 1/2. Margins: 42 1/2 x 30. Beautiful red blue green scenes of Biarritz coastline and seashore. this poster is an advertisement for a holiday during the winter to visit Biarritz on the western French coast near Spain. In fine condition with the usual folds. unknown books
19301604Various locations including the Caribbean Europe Brazil and Africa 1930. Very good. 529 photographs on forty-five leaves images measuring 3.5 x 4.5 inches. Oblong folio. Original leather covers string tied; grey card leaves photos mounted with black corners. Moderate wear to covers string ties mostly perished. Earlier leaves captioned contents clean images crisp. An extensive photo album kept by adventurous world travelers with images ranging from standard destinations like Niagara Falls to camel rides in the Sahara Desert. Highlights include "Badger Hunting in Normandy" scenes from Cairo views of Atlantic City and an extensive series of views in the Caribbean. This group of 136 photographs covers Morro Castle in Puerto Rico; St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands with scenes of streets and locals in small boats; Martinique and Barbados; Trinidad and Curacao; Colon in Panama in the Canal Zone with scenes of the streets and locks; posh resort life in Kingston Jamaica; and finally Cuba. Images of Cuba include street views of Havana and its important buildings including the Senate the "National Casino" insane asylum the treasury the presidential palace the Inglaterra Hotel and the country club. Additionally scenes in La Playa outside Havana at the beach; the town of Hershey and its plant built by chocolate magnate Milton Hershey; and views of Mariel and Batamano depicting life in the more rural countryside. Later images show scenes touring Europe as well as a series of photos taken in Rio de Janeiro. Though a bit scattered in content the album is an interesting and extensive document of wealthy travel over the course of several years and several continents. unknown books
171227989London: Printed by D. L. for E. Curll E. Sanger R. Gosling and W. Lewis 1712 1712. First edition translated into English issue not certain. Pine-Coffin 698; Straus The Unspeakable Curll page 217; ESTC T110070; and see ESTC N21633. Text somewhat foxed and browned; binding rubbed; very good copy. 8vo contemporary panelled calf rebacked black leather label gilt lettering. Five engraved plates four folding 15 engravings in the text and vignettes. ¶ An important work by Bernard de Montfaucon 1655-1741 a French Benedictine monk who was a pioneer in the disciplines of paleography and archaeology. In 1698 Montfaucon traveled to Italy to study antiquities and manuscripts the results of which were published in Paris in 1702 as Diarium Italicum. It was translated into English in 1711 and published by Edmund Curll. There is an issue with a second title-page that reads "Diarium Italicum: or a Journey Through Italy London 1711." It appears as stated in ESTC to be the same setting of type as this edition which has a cancel title-page. <br/><br/> London: Printed by D. L. for E. Curll, E. Sanger, R. Gosling, and W. Lewis, 1712 unknown books
178429268London: G. Nicol & T. Cadell 1784. Etched and engraved by C. Grignion after a drawing by Webber. Image size: 10 1/4 x 7 inches. Sheet size: 22 x 15 1/2 inches. In this attractive portrait a young muscular man dances what was then a sacred dance called Hula. In his right hand he holds a feather covered gourd. Virtually nude he wears only a bark cloth "malo" or loin cloth a coral necklace and dogtooth leggings. His body is tattooed in rhythmic patterns that flow down his arms and legs.<br/> <br/>"Cook's third voyage was organized to seek the Northwest Passage and to return the islander Omai to Tahiti. Officers of the crew included William Bligh James Burney James Colnett and George Vancouver. John Webber was appointed artist to the expedition. After calling at Kerguelen Island Tasmania New Zealand and the Cook Tonga and Society Islands the expedition sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands which Cook named the Sandwich Islands. Cook charted the American west coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait as far north as latitude 70 degrees 44 minutes before he was stopped by pack ice. He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in an unhappy skirmish with the natives. Charles Clarke took command and after he died six months later the ships returned to England under John Gore. Despite hostilities with the United States and France the scientific nature of this expedition caused the various governments to exempt these vessels from capture. The voyage resulted in what Cook judged his most valuable discovery - the Hawaiian Islands" Hill. John Webber R.A. born in London of Swiss parents was the official artist on Cook's historic and final Pacific voyage. The drawings were the source for the engravings that illustrated Cook's "A Voyage to the Pacific" which was published in 1784. G. Nicol & T. Cadell unknown books
1859WRCAM54728N.p. likely Hartford 1859. Broadside sight size 13 3/4 x 11 inches. Woodcut vignette. Minor toning and foxing two small pencil notations. Very good. Matted and framed. A wonderfully evocative and patriotic illustrated broadside advertising a steamer trip down the Connecticut River from Hartford to Lyme then on to Greenport or Sag Harbor by connection to another steamer or on to New London by car and eventually back to Hartford on Independence Day in 1859. The woodcut illustration shows the steamship L. BOARDMAN in action with smoke flying from the stacks and the American flag flying proudly off the stern. A rare historical advertising piece with only one copy recorded in OCLC at the Connecticut Historical Society Library. OCLC 20878562. unknown books
270264Canada: Canadian Government Travel Bureau. A. C. Leighton. Original poster. Color lithograph. Measures 40 x 30 inches.<br/><br/> This striking circa 1950 travel poster promotes vacations in Canada. Issued by the Canadian Government Travel Bureau it features the painting by A.C. Leighton and depicts Mount Eisenhower of the Canadian Rockies. Now known as Castle Mountain between 1946 and 1979 it was called Mount Eisenhower in honor of the WWII General.<br><br>Poster is in good condition with some edge wear and verso repair. Some minor creasing and foxing. Minor loss in lower right corner. <br><br>Alfred Crocker Leighton 1901 - 1965 was a British born Canadian painter who came from Great Britain and settled in Canada in 1925. He was fascinated by the Canadian Rockies and made several paintings depicting the mountains. This is a beautiful example of his work.<br/><br/> Canadian Government Travel Bureau unknown books
19315466London. Walter Perry and Co. Ltd. 1931. Gilt titled crimson cloth. 4to. Edition for 1931. Profusely illustrated with photographs drawings and period advertisements. An absolute treasure depicting the grand and elegant days of travel. A complete guide to Hotels and boarding houses in Great Britain Europe Australia New Zealand South Africa Canada and the USA. Charming period advertising allows one to travel back to the heady romantic days of Somerset Maugham and the Orient Express. Indexed and tabbed this is a true gem of nostalgia. A Very Good copy Walter Perry and Co. Ltd. hardcover books
19091557Various locations in the West 1909. Very good. Forty-seven leaves containing forty-one photographs 4 x 6 inches supplemented by postcards and a few newspaper clippings. Oblong octavo album. Original leather cover gilt black paper leaves. Spine perished but holding covers worn. Some leaves intentionally trimmed on fore edge. Two photos loose and laid in. Contents clean and fresh. An interesting album documenting a train trip to the Western United States taken by several businessmen from Chicago on a tour to study irrigation investments in Colorado Idaho and Wyoming. The album starts out with panels from the trip brochure pasted onto the first two leaves followed by newspaper clippings documenting the trip as well as a map of the train routes in the west and a sheet of stationery signed by all the members of the party. The trip was organized by Trowbridge & Niver a municipal bond company based in Chicago and one Denver newspaper headline notes "Half-Billion Dollars Represented in Party. Many are already backing projects here and are making trip to investigate." Each photograph is captioned with a typed label documenting stops along the route starting with Fort Morgan Colorado. There are several images of Eldorado Springs including the swimming pool and a large building whose roof says "Moving Pictures" which we presume to be an early movie theatre. There are many group shots of the "Buffalo Party" along the way all looking quite dapper in caps and touring coats out to spend their millions. One image shows the group on a tour by buggy captioned "Our party inspecting irrigated orchards at Palisade Colorado." There are three photographs of Salt Lake City followed by a series in Idaho which includes a charming photo of several women laughing captioned "Shoshone Indians at Pocatello Idaho." There is a series taken along the Snake River in Idaho and Oregon followed by several images taken in Boise. This cataloguer's favorite is a pair of photos taken at the local pool showing the men in their swimsuits: "Buffalonians in the Natatorium Boise." The final four photos depict the group at stops in Wyoming. Throughout the compiler has used postcards to set the scenery for the trip using the photographs to capture the group itself on tour. Altogether a wonderful album documenting a business trip yet assembled like a family vacation album or young woman's scrapbook. The format speaks to the novelty of such a trip even for businessmen in the early years of the 20th century. unknown books
37715LIBRAIRE DES ARTS ET VOYAGES REVUE DES ARTS ASIATIQUES. Volumes 1-12. Paris: 4to. Later cloth. First edition. An important review based on the collection of Musee Guimet Paris. With articles by Osvald Siren Sidney Kaplan Claude Marcel-Dubois R. Pfister M. Paul Pelliot Morimoto and others on the art and archaeology of Mesopotamia Iran India Tibet China Indo-China and Japan. Very good. unknown books
4689MASSACHUSETTS JOURNEY DIARY AND PHOTOGRAPHY ALBUM. Book. 115pg. 1891. Massachusetts. A travel journal and photography album entitled “Coaching Trip June 5th to 20th 1891â€. There are typewritten notes about a trip from Malden Massachusetts west to the Berkshires and across the Hudson River to West Point and then back to Boston. There are almost a hundred accompanying photographs of the people scenery and activities. The journal concerns the travels of “Mr. and Mrs. H.E. Sawyer Miss Converse Miss Estabrook Captain H.E. Harry Elisha Converse and Messrs G.S. Stockwell J.E. Cochrane and P.W. Sprague†page 91. The scrapbook begins with “Coaching Trip June 5th to 20th 1891. M.B.S. M.C.P. and the scribe meet at the B. & M. Boston and Maine Railroad Station in Malden waiting to be joined by F.E.C. and E.A.E. for the 4:10 train to Boston. We wish we had a photograph of the baggage for we are sure it would be interesting as a souvenir. Bags boxes shawl straps kodaks banjo umbrellas etc. are transported across Boston to the B. & A. Station while the ladies start for Young’s Hotel stopping by the way to purchase finery for Dennis and James. F.E.C. orders dinner and as time is limited thoughtfully orders Broiled Chicken…Dinner is served in Private Parlors – It consists of Milk and crackers. This being insufficient for the insatiable J.E.C. and F.E. another dinner is ordered for them but the report comes back that fire has gone out…â€. The ride continues west seemingly along the path of the modern State Route 2 aka the Mohawk Trail: “…notwithstanding the length of the afternoon drive time passes so pleasantly in talking reading singing etc. that we arrive in Northampton long before any of the party wish to leave the drag. The odometer shows that we traveled 17 miles after dinner…Short walks in some cases after dinner and then we gather on the upper veranda for an hours sing…Bloody Brook House is reached at 12.45 where we dine after which the young ladies devote themselves to letter writing…The gentlemen attend a prize fight in the rear of the house in which one party ‘Jim Carrigan’ a notorious local tough is badly cut up and a visiting tough is completely knocked out or rather kicked out…â€. The party continues through Shelburne Falls Charlemonte up and down the Hoosac Mountain North Adams and into Williamstown. In Williamstown one person makes a long distance telephone call to his father and they attend a baseball game. On June 12th they turn south to Lenox and Great Barrington. On June 15th the narrator mentions that “The young ladies are demoralized this morning because they cannot get alcohol; I never saw girls so dependent upon strong drink early in the morning; this calls to mind the fact that this was to be a dry trip…the heat and dust are almost unbearable…â€. They traveled to Fishkill and then take a boat to West Point where they see cadets and hear a concert. The journal concludes with a listing of the songs they heard on their travels. There are 92 photographs of various sizes. The book was apparently was specially made for the occasion since there is a logo atop every page mentioning “June 5th – 20th 1891â€. The red cloth covers are disbound and the spine is missing; the front cover is gilt stamped with the date of the trip. A fine late Nineteenth Century travel memento. hardcover books
1936276582Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh Limited 1936. Very Good binding. Soochow Suzhou was much more accessible at the building of a railroad connecting it to Shanhai in 1911 and thus brought within the range of day-trips and making it a more desirable location for wealthy Chinese. "By 1936 it was possible.for F. R. Nance .to write a detailed guidebook to Suzhou naming it for the first time as 'the garden city' an appellation it retains in travel literature down to the present day" Craig Clunas; "Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China" p. 202. With attractive colored maps on the endsheets of The Waterways; plates from photographs by C. H. Wong and 5 folding maps. An important guidebook. Very Good binding. Kelly & Walsh, Limited unknown books
178120257London: Printed by J. Nichols 1781. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. Large 4to. iv ii-viii 1-468 469-470 471-472 471-477 blank 473-557 558 binder's directions and errata pages. Lacking the portrait of Mozart at age seven and map of the Ohthere's Voyage. The Map of the Northwest coast of America and portrait of Sir John Wynne Baronet are both present. Modern library buckram gilt; binding lightly scuffed; library stamp to top edge; personal bookplate Archie W Shiels and ex library institutional stamps to front pastedown; new endpapers; inserted modern frontispiece on coated photo paper; title page with handwritten annotations; "Contents" page marked with colored pencil; scattered foxing throughout; some pages brittle due to paper quality; library pockets and electronic tags at rear pastedown; an imperfect ex library copy. Properly de-accessioned. Cloth. This copy owned by Vincent Novello and presented by him to the Musical Antiquarian Society July 8 1845. "Novello was an original member of the Philharmonic Society of the Classical Harmonists and of the Choral Harmonists officiating frequently as conductor. In 1849 he went to live at Nice where he died. Many of his compositions were sacred music much of which was very popular. His great contribution however together with Christian Ignatius Latrobe lay in the introduction to England of unknown compositions by the great masters such as the Masses of Haydn and Mozart the works of Palestrina the treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum and innumerable now well known great compositions." wikipedia<br/><br/>Much on travel to the Northwest and polar regions natural history the Linnean system and other subjects including a report on Mozart a "very remarkable young musician." Among Americana collectors the book is notable for publishing the "journal of Maurelle pilot with the fleet commanded by Don Juan de la Bodega while exploring the coast northward of California in 1775; this portion was also issued in separate form." <br/><br/>Streeter mentions the account to be the only contemporary source in English of this important voyage. <br/><br/>See Howes B177 and Streeter Sale IV 2445. Also: Sabin 3628. Printed by J. Nichols unknown books
188943100Jacksonville Florida: DaCosta Prg. and Pub. House 1889. 1st printing thus. Self-wrappers. A fragile item with wear along the folds with the occasional short split. About Very Good. Single printed sheet of yellow paper folded 6x to form a 24 panel brochure. Woodcut of a JT&KW locomotive to front panel. 3-panel JT&KW route map in Florida. Unfolded: 19-7/8"x 14-1/8". Folded: 7-1/8" x 3-1/4" <br/><br/>"The Tampa Peace Creek and St. Johns River Railroad was incorporated in 1879 and on June 27 1881 the name was changed to the Jacksonville Tampa and Key West Railway. The Palatka and Indian River Railroad was incorporated in 1881 to run from Palatka south past Sanford. The JT&KW bought it in 1887. Eventually the JT&KW main line stretched from Jacksonville to the St. Johns River port of Sanford where the separately-owned South Florida Railroad continued to Tampa. The full line opened on February 20 1886. The Atlantic Coast St. Johns and Indian River Railroad was organized in 1883 to build a connection from the JT&KW's branch to Enterprise another St. Johns River port southeast to Titusville on the Indian River. The JT&KW acquired the line in 1886. The Jupiter and Lake Worth Railway opened in 1889 as a short connection between the JT&KW's Indian River Steamboat Company at Jupiter and the north end of Lake Worth where steamers continued south. The line was abandoned by 1896 after the completion of the parallel Florida East Coast Railway. In 1893 the JT&KW went bankrupt." Wiki. This a rare travel brochure/train schedule for this relatively short-lived Florida-based railway system. OCLC locates just 2 similar items in single copies one from 1891 one from 1892. DaCosta Prg. and Pub. House unknown books
185313461Paris: Arthus Bertrand 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Xlvi 383 pp with a preface by the translator A. Giraud. Dark pebbled cloth with five raised bands marbled endpapers. Tight binding light foxing a few marginal pencil lines. First French edition of Sarmiento's most famous book considered one of the most important works of Argentine literature and one of the most influential Spanish-language works of the nineteenth century. Written during a period of exile the work traces the life of a violent Argentine gaucho named Facundo using his biography as the basis for an analysis and critique of Argentine culture which is characterized by a dichotomy between civilizing and barbaric influences. Sarmiento's views had a profound effect on discussion about the region's potential for progress and modernization. He was able to put his theories into practice when elected to the Presidency of Argentina in 1868. Arthus Bertrand hardcover books
188746346Chicago: Rand McNally Co. for the Passengern Department Sante Fe Route 1887. 1st Edition. Card stock covers printed in black & red. Now house in an archival mylar sleeve. Volume professionally refurbished. Covers soiled. Frontis with crinkled top right corner image not affected. Leaf with pp 37/38 with repaired short marginal tear. Overall Very Good. 47 1 pp. Chromolithograph frontispiece. 3 vignetttes. 12 full page wood engravings. Ground plan p. 47. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 6-3/8" <br/><br/>Blurb on front cover: "The Karlsbad of America." Uncommon in commerce. Rand McNally Co. [for the] Passengern Department, Sante Fe Route unknown books
1757317340Dublin: Printed for J. Smith on the Blind-Quay 1757. Same year as the London edition. Folding frontispieces in each volume and other plates. 269; 287; 287pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Bound in modern three quarter brown calf and marblked boards. Text with some stains. Binding fine. Same year as the London edition. Folding frontispieces in each volume and other plates. 269; 287; 287pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Volume I<br/>A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem By Mr. Henry Maundrel<br/>The Travels of Thomas Shaw<br/>An Account of a Journey to Palmyra otherwise Tedmor in the Desart<br/>Volume II: <br/>The Travels of Richard Pococke<br/>Thre Travels opf Henry Drummond<br/>A Description of Aleppo. By Alexander Russel M.D<br/>THE TRAVELS OF MR. HANWAY Through Russia Persia and several other parts for settling a trade upon the Caspian Sea<br/>Volume III contains:<br/>continuation of.THE TRAVELS OF MR. HANWAY Through Russia Persia and several other parts for settling a trade upon the Caspian Sea<br/>With: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF NORWAY by Erich Pontoppidan;. ESTC T164169 Printed for J. Smith, on the Blind-Quay unknown books
186614703London: Longmans Green Reader & Dyer 1866. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition re-drawn first published 1864. 10.25 x 14 inches oblong. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. Elizabeth Fox Tuckett 1837-1872 was the sister of the well-known English alpinist Francis Fox Tuckett 1834-1913 who regularly gathered a party of friends and family to accompany him on climbing expeditions. Elizabeth had a talent for drawing as well as a love of travel and produced four popular light-hearted books of which this was the first chronicling her adventures in the form of humorous sketches. Neate T66. Some creasing to cloth corners rubbed occasional foxing lacking rear free endpaper; overall about very good. Inscribed in light pencil on the front free endpaper "With heartfelt good wishes for the/New Year E.F. Tuckett iIllegible place name Dec. 30 1869." In addition Tuckett has written out the full names of the members of the expedition on the "Dramatis Personae" page where they are identified in print only by their initials. Rarely found signed. Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer hardcover books
