Voyages

Argentina and the Argentines; Notes and Impressions of a Five Years Sojourn in the Argentine Republic, 1885-90

8vo [22.5 x 15 cm]; xvi, 370 pp, engraved frontis from painting, numerous illustrations from photos including full-page, tables, glossary of Spanish words and phrases. original cloth with new cloth spine, original silver title lettering and map on front cover, very good, sound and solid binding. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author describes his purpose 'to supply the shading to the outlines of other books on Argentina, to cloth the dry bones with flesh and colour, to describe the people rather than the land'. The book provides a detailed picture based on the author's five years of travels in the country with much on the conditions, customs, education, cities, various immigrant groups, economy, journey into the interior, health, status of women, marriage, professions, suburban life, railways and travelling in the country, the army, hotels, markets, politics, unions, indigenous peoples, etc.

Reisen nach Butan und Tibet. Aus dem Englischen in einem gedrängten Auszuge mitgetheilt von M.C. Sprengel.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1801. Unbound, but stitched. XVI,151 pp. Light browning to leaves.

Osborne House

36 pages, illustrated, maps, plans. eng

Contributions to the Natural History of Alaska; Results of Investigations made Chiefly in the Yukon District and the Aleutian Islands, Conducted Under the Auspices of the Signal Service of the US Army, from May 1874 to August 1881

4to [30 x 23 cm]; 226 pp, 26 plates, including 11 fine color lithographs (chromolithographs) of birds from Ridgway's paintings, others of fish (complete), tables. original cloth, with gilt spine title lettering, cover slightly marked, spine trifle faded, clean near fine copy, the plates in good impressions and with tissue guards. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. An important contribution covering meteorology, plants, listing over 800 species; fish, listing 47 species from Bering Sea and Aleutian waters; birds, annotated listing of 172 species with another list of 269 species; mammals, listing 69 species including dolphins and whales, and with excellent plates. Bennet 107, whose copy only had 10 color plates: 'The ten finely colored plates all appear in part V... They show Alaskan birds and were the work of R. and J. L. Ridgway'. Ricks 222. Hasse p. 78. Wood 605.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY. Readex Microprint Reprint.

pp. (8), 199-227. Reprint from the "Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1893." Thin 8vo. Original cloth binding, lettered in gold. Great Americana Series. As New. Turner presented this paper to a special meeting of the American Historical Association at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. His assessment of the frontier's significance was the first of its kind and revolutionized American intellectual and historical thinking. NW22

The Casting of a Pebble

1st edition. Near VG hbk bound in blue cloth, blue title lettering. Title page foxed. 20932. eng

An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet; Containing a Narrative of a Journey Through Bootan and Part of Tibet

4to [30 x 24 cm]; xxviii, 473 pp, 13 fine engraved plates including double-page, plus folding engraved map by J. Walker dated Feb 12th, 1800 (short tear in margin), other illus. later calf-backed binding, gilt rules & devises, gilt title lettering on leather spine label, expert repair to verso title & folding plate, a few small light stains in margins, small signature on title, else a clean near fine copy with nice wide margins. Cordier 2909. Yakushi T140. Cox I, 346: "This is without comparison the most valuable work that has yet appeared on Thibet." 'Sprightly narrative' (MacGregor in Tibet, who devotes a full chapter on Turner and reproduces many of the plates). The author, who was an officer in the East India service, provides an early travel account in Tibet, which both before and after strictly limited foreigners from entering. He travelled in 1783-85 from Bhutan to Gyantse and Shigatse, Chumbe Valley, Tang La, etc. Robert Saunders provided the botanical, mineralogical and medical observations and Samuel Davis provided the fine plates, mostly of scenery, an early plate of the Yak, buildings, palaces, dwellings, a double-page plate of Tibetan writing, etc. The views were drawn on the spot by Lieutenant Samuel Davis and with botanical, mineralogical and medical observations by Robert Saunders. This is regarded as the earliest and best description of Tibet of the period.

Ambassade au Thibet et au Boutan

- Chez F. Buisson, A Paris 1800, In-8 (13x20,5cm), (4) viij, 390pp. et (4) 364pp., 2 volumes reliés. - Edition originale française traduite par J. Castera, sans l'atlas qu'on se procurait à part, car plus onéreux, et qui constitue un volume in-4. Reliure en pleine basane blonde racinée d'époque. Dos lisse de losanges dans des caissons ornés. Pièces de titre et de tomaison de veau rouge. Un manque en tête du tome I. Epidermure aux coins bas sur les plats. Accroc sur les caissons en queue. Exemplaire bien frais, exempt de rousseurs. Rare voyage de découvertes sur le Thibet et le Bhoutan dont la différenciation ne date que de 1774 et du premier voyage vers ces contrées par Bogle, missionné par Warren Hastings, président du fort William et Gouverneur du Bengale. Samuel Turner fut missionné à son tour par Hastings, au début de l'année 1783, en compagnie d'un ingénieur et dessinateur et d'un médecin. De Calculta, les voyageurs passèrent au Bouhtan et furent reçu par le Rajah de la contrée. Le second volume consigne le voyage au Thibet. Excellent conteur, Samuel Turner décrit les moeurs et coutumes, la flore et la faune, visite les monastères et consigne tout élément qui lui paraît digne d'intérêt, de la hiérarchie religieuse du Thibet et du Grand Lama jusqu'à l'abondance des Ananas dans la région indienne proche du Bouhtan. Comparaison du commerce entre le Bouhtan et le Thibet, l'Inde et le Bhoutan, le Thibet et l'Inde, la Chine, etc. Plusieurs pièces achèvent le livre après la narration de Samuel turner : diverses lettres, notamment au gouverneur du Bengale, une notice historique sur le Thibet de 1783 à 1793, un essai sur les végétaux et les minéraux du Bouhtan et du Thibet. Lexique utile avec des termes thibétains et bouhtanais. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]

Dordogne

155 pages, illustrated, maps, index. eng

The Hotter Winds

Hardcover. First edition. Jacket's rear is marked - front and spine remain bright, with minimal shelfwear. Page block and first or last two or three pages are foxed. Text is clear throughout. A very good copy for age in good jacket. TS Used

Edinburgh Characters

Reise um die Welt oder eigentlich nach Australien in den Jahren 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 und 1804. Nebst der neuesten Nachrichten von Neuholland, der Norfolk=Insel, Otaheite und die Sandwich=Inseln. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt, und mit einigen Anmerkun...

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1806. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt, title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Spine a bit rubbed. XIV,448 pp. A few scattered brownspots.

The England I Love Best

With Wood Engravings by Eileen Turle. Index. 351 pages. Name and short inscription on front free endpaper. Wear to top/tail of spine and cover corners. Page edges greyed with dust marks.

Tunis, naguère et aujourd'hui

Société tunisienne de diffusion, Tunis, 1967. In folio (36 x 27 cm) reliure éditeur et toile de jute, vignette à froid et titres dorés sur le plat supérieur, illustrations en noir de l'auteur, 32 feuillets non paginés. Cartonnage légèrement déformé. Adaptation française de Jules ROY. Scènes de la vie tunisienne

Une utopie socialiste au XVIIIe siècle: le plan social de Jean-Claude Chappuis

In-8, broché, couverture imprimée de l'éditeur, (2), 198 p. Edition originale et unique de cette thèse pour le Doctorat en droit soutenue en 1942. L'une des rares études d'ensemble sur J.-C. Chappuis. Babouviste de la première heure, il proposait avec son" Plan social" (1788), un projet utopique à la fois fouriériste, collectiviste et malthusien avant la lettre, d’une extrême radicalité. Documents annexes et bibliographie. Brunissure uniforme. Bon exemplaire.

Ottoman, Islamic and Islamised monuments in Cyprus.

New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (29 x 24 cm). In English. [xv], 648 p., ills. Ottoman, Islamic and Islamised monuments in Cyprus. A massive tome that inventories the sites and monuments noted in the title. Color or b/w photos with each entry. Detailed descriptions and documentation of mosques, and other historic structures on the island of Cyprus. Extensive bibliography and well indexed.

Letters written during a ten Year's Residence at the Court of Tripoli, published from the Originals in the Possession of the Family of the Late Richard Tully...Comprising Authentic Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Reigning Bashew, his Family, and other Pe...

London, Henry Colburn, 1819. 8vo. Uncut in 2 orig. boards, orig. printed titlelabels on backs. Some tears to the rather fragile backs. XVI,375 (4),396 pp., 1 folded engraved map and 7 hand coloured aquatint-plates. Offsetting from a few plates, otherwise clean.

PAPUA-NIEUW GUINEA. DOKUMENTAIRE KLEURENFILM

Paperback, 235 x 310mm., 18pp., z/w illustratie. In goede staat. enkel tekst , geen film, CD of DVD.

Bericht von einer Reise nach Neu=Süd=Wallis, um zu Port=Philipp in der Baff's Strasse eine Kolonie anzulegen. gethan in dem Schiffe Kalkutta in den Jahren 1802, 1803 und 1804. Aus dem Englischen.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1805. Unbound, but stitched. VI,136 pp.

Leaves from Juliana Horatia Ewing’s "Canada home". Gathered and illustrated by Elizabeth S. Tucker. Together with facsmilies of eight water-color drawings by Mrs. Ewing’s own hand.

x, [11]-145 p. incl. illus., 12 pl., 2 port. on 1 pl. front (port.) 9 col. pl. 25 x 20 cm. Hardcover Very good condition "Mrs. Ewing’s letters [1867-1869]" : p. [85]-143.

Practicing History: Selected Essays

306 p. Hardcover Very good condition good

Practicing History: Selected Essays

306 p. Hardcover Very good condition good

Travels in Peru, during the years 1838-1842.. On theCoast, in the Sierra, across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the primeval Forests. Translated from the German by Thomasina Ross.

London, David Bogue, 1847. Orig. full blindstamped cloth. A few small insignificant tears to spine ends. Tinted lithographed frontispiece. XII,506 pp. Frontispiece and last 3 leaves somewhat brownspotted, otherwise clean and fine.

Delos-Mykonos: A Guide to the History and Archeology

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light edge wear to cover. 144 pages. Many color photos.