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London, Grayson & Grayson, (1940). orig. full cloth. Spine a little faded. 327 pp., many plates.
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Signed and dedicated by author on title page. Nick to jacket rear at spine head, no other notable flaws. Pages are sound and contents are clear throughout. TA Used
4to [28.5 x 21 cm]; xvii, 226 pp, numerous illustrations from photos, map, index. original cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, previous owner's inkstamp on endpaper, near fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The history of Richmond Virginia with good illustrations.
18 photographies en noir et blanc hors-texte . - 336 p. , 500 gr.
London, Fisher Unwin, (1920). Orig. full cloth. Stamp on title-page. Frontispiece. 292 pp., 35 plates, large foldd map in pocket at end. Clean and fine.
8vo [22 x 14 cm]; [viii, ads], [viii], 379, 48 pp, large folding engraved map frontis of Arctic Regions dated 1818, 3 engraved illustrations/plans, with the half title page. later morocco backed marbled boards, gilt spine title lettering & gilt rules, light marginal stain on title & few other pages, faint number in margin, erased and barely perceptible, presentation copy from Arthur's mother 1821, very good, tight, clean. A p A detailed account by prolific author and Arctic expert who had access to the British admiralty papers, describing early voyages to the Arctic, through the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth centuries up to 1818 and the voyages of Ross, Kotzebue, Buchan, Parry and Franklin. The appendices include Buchan's expedition into the interior of Newfoundland (23 pages) and a relation of the discovery of the Strait of Anian made by Captain Maldonado in 1588 (25 pages) with a few illustrations. Mill31 (Catalogue of the Royal Geographical Society).
Hardcover in-8°, 154 pp, dustwrapper. A clean, straight, unmarked book + A Very fine ++ DW - Unclipped price. [EMB-@]
12,5 x 35 cm. Some occasional light worming, some slight damage affecting the text of 3 boards. Contained in a Chinese leather travelling trunk. Using imperial measures - metric was not used until after the Revolution of 1911 - these receipts are headed with either the title Chung the Celestial at Chuan-Tuan, or Military General the Protector of the People at Chu-Ling-Shan. There are 'labels' for men, women and children, giving the ingredients and name of the remedy pills, potions or powders to "restore youth" and similar purposes. Chinese medicine is of great antiquity and devoid of any outside influence. Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor, Huang Ti, wrote the first treatise on Chinese medicine in 300 BC. In its present form, the Nei Ching, on which most Chinese medical literature is founded, it is thought to date from the third century AD. The Nei Ching holds that "the blood current flows continously in a circle and never stops", anticipating Harvey by centuries. The Chinese materia medica has always been extensive and consists of vegetable, animal, including human, and mineral remedies. There were famous herbals from ancient times, but these ca. 1000 were collected by Li Shih-Chen in the Pen-ts'ao Kang-mu or Great Pharmacopoeia of the 16th Century. It was revised and reprinted many times in 52 volumes and is still authorative. The use of drugs is to restore the harmony of the Ying and Yang, related to the five organs, five planets, and five colours. Western influences did not occur until the 19th century, but today, with the revival of Taoist temples for healing which began to be tolerated again in the 1970s, and the profusion Chinese chemists, acupuncturists and hydrotherapists in the west, the Chinese can be said to have redressed the balance. The troubled history of the 20th century in China has made the survival of such ephemeral documents, and in such quantity, quite remarkable.
8vo [21.5 x 14 cm]; includes 9 original papers by Spruce, folding partly colored map, plate of Utricularia Peltata, Spruce, from Linn. Society Journal Botany Vol. IV, 1845. contemporary half calf, with gilt title lettering 'Opuscula; R. S.' on leather spine label, marbled boards rubbed, contents of papers listed hand-written on endpaper, initials RS in ink on margin of first paper, marginal notes & corrections, very good. A The papers by Richard Spruce included here are: The Musci and Hepaticae of Teesdale, Trans. Bot. Society of Edinburgh, 1844 (pp 65-89); On Several Mosses new to the British Flora, London Journal of Botany, 1845 (pp1-27); On Five New Plants from Eastern Peru, Linnaean Society, 1859 (pp191-204); On the Mode of Branching of Some Amazon Trees, Linn. Soc., 1861, (pp 3-51); Notes of a Visit to the Cinchona Forests on the Western slope of the Quiteian Andes, Linn Journal, 1859, (176-192); On the Mountains of Llanganati in the Eastern Cordillera of the Quitonian Andes, offprint (?, or possibly earlier printing, has a few hand corrections) from Royal Geographical Society of London, 1861 (1-21, with folding engraved map, partly colored showing his routes); On the River Purus, a Tributary of the Amazon, no publisher stated, June 13, 1864 (1-13); Notes on the Valleys of Piura and Chira in Northern Peru and on the Cultivation of Cotton Therein, London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1864 (pp 1-81). In addition there is only part of his paper, Report on the Expedition to Procure Seeds and Plants of the Cinchona Succirubra, or Red Bark Tree, London 1861, pages 85-112 only, the rest being removed but pages 104-111 being a note by Spruce on Cinchona Succirubra, Pavon and allied species, dated 1861 and pages 111-112 being a note by Clements R. Markham , respected author who wrote two books on obtaining Cinchona seeds and plants for planting in India to develop a cure for malaria. There is also a paper by Daniel Oliver, 'Descriptions of New Species of Utricularia from South America, 1859 (pp 169-176). Mark Honigsbaum in his book Valverde's Gold, 2004, on the exploration in eastern Ecuador for Incan gold, refers extensively to Spruce's work, especially that on Llanganati Mountains and he reproduced Spruce's map described above in his book but in much reduced size. The manuscript notes in parts of this work may be in Spruce's hand but this is not verified. Spruce was one of the great plant hunters of the Amazon region, collecting over seven thousand botanical specimens, many of which were previously unknown. Spruce was in the Amazon region at the same time as Bates and Wallace, and all three lived on the earnings from specimens sent back to England. In 1860, Spruce collected some 600 cinchona plants and thousands of seeds in Ecuador for raising in India for the production of quinine as a cure for malaria. The Royal Geographical Society elected him an honorary fellow in 1866 for his fine work. The Linnaean Society also made him an associate. Spruce was a great influence on the work of Darwin, Wallace, Richard Schultes and others. The author's 'Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes; being records of travel on the Amazon and its Tributaries, the Trombeta, Rio Negro, Uapes, etc. . to the Orinoco, the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador and the shores of the Pacific during 1849-1864' was published in 1908 after his death, by Alfred Russell Wallace, and remains a classic work of travels in South America and especially Amazonia.
VG (no dj, Maroon cloth with gilt titling to spine. internally clean and crisp - without inscriptions or marginalia. reprint of 1782 work..part of a series
pp. vii, 194, (6) [Publisher's advertisements]. Though continuously paginated, this includes a separate title page for: 'A SERIOUS CALL IN CHRISTIAN LOVE TO ALL PEOPLE.' Age stained. 8vo. 205mm. Broken contemporary full leather binding. Decorative acorn and tulip roll within a two fillet frame. Numerous early manuscript ownerships and comments of: John and Thomas Midlefell, Hawkeshead-field, Lancashire, ENGLAND. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 61 L Stk
Hardcover. With colour slides on front pastedown and record on rear pastedown. A few marks on boards. Spine ends, edges and leading corners are worn and bumped. Binding is intact, contents are clean and clear. AM Used
Hardcover. No jacket. Slides and bakelite disc included on pastedowns. Several marks and scores on boards. Film is peeling on spine. Spine ends and leading corners are worn and bumped. Light creases on early pages. Binding is intact, contents are clean and clear. AM Used
Hardcover. With 32 colour slides on front pastedown and record on rear pastedown. A few marks on boards. Spine ends and leading corners are worn and bumped. Spine is slightly cocked. Binding is intact, contents are clean and clear. AM Used
Hardcover. (No dust jacket) Good condition. Hardcover tanned and slightly bumped to spine. Pages tanned. side of the back board is torn next to the spine. Board is still attached. RB Used
4 vols. Hardcover Very good condition, in full calf, worn & rubbed
No marks or inscriptions. Very faint creasing to upper corners, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 231pp. Articles by the author on life, drugs, garlic, sport, memoirs from Baltimore to Fiji to Crantock in Cornwall. Very scarce.
First edition, 8vo (220 x 135 mm), iv, 129, [1]pp., 4 hand-coloured engraved plates (frontispiece entitled View of the Ariel Mountains, commonly call'd French Mountains), title-page a little browned and spotted, cont. half calf, patterned paper boards. One of the earliest accounts and illustrations of a roller coaster in an English book. The author starts his continental tour during the Summer of 1817 at Ostend and continues to Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Delft, Lyden, Haarlem, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Paris, and places in between. Provenance: Ownership signature of Charles Wright; bookplate of John Evan Bedford. Abbey, Travel, 18.
Good paperback. cover is tanned, particulalry the spine. Light edgewear overall, with blemish to pageblock top. Internally, the pages are clean and bright. CN Used
Hardcover. First edition. Jacket is lightly shelfworn, with small nick at one corner. Page block and page edges are tanned. Text is clear throughout. TS Used
Hardcover with jacket in good condition. First edition. Jacket is marked, tanned and worn. Minor abrasions on front of jacket. Jacket leading corners and rear edges are nicked. Boards, page block and a few pages are lightly marked. Hardcover spine ends are lightly bumped. Minor tears on upper edges of one or two closing pages. Text is clear throughout. HCW Used
8vo [22 x 14 cm]; [iv], 155 pp, large folding map with hand coloring as frontis, the map with engraved inset views of New Amsterdam and George Town lighthouse. later cloth-backed boards, spine title label, short tear at stub of map, barely perceptible foxing at outer edge of text block, small mark on cover, else a near fine and clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author [1804-1865] was one of the most important explorers of northeastern South America, and especially of Guiana, where he was commissioned to survey the boundaries of British Guiana and explored the rivers Essequibo, Corentyne, Berbice and Rio Branco, and to Mount Roraima, being the first to reach the source of the Essequibo, and discovered many new species of plants. He reports on the geography, natural history, inhabitants, society, towns, government, climate, etc of the country as well as the resources and current conditions. He was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1845 for his achievements. This book is the first detailed account of the colony.
8vo. 31, (1) pp. With frontispiece and 4 plates with wood engravings, of which one signed [Ebenezer] "Landells", as well as 8 text illustrations. Thread-stitched in original pale orange wrappers with decorative title printing in red and green. Printed for the proprietors of the junk and sold only on board. Exhibition catalogue for the Chinese trade junk "Keying", at anchor for visitors against admission in the London Docklands in 1848. Personalised copy of the Swedish visitor Carl Peter Freidenfeldt, with autograph of and stamped by the Mandarin on board, He Sing. - The "Keying", an impressive 3-masted 800-ton sailing ship, was the first Chinese vessel ever to sail from Hong Kong to New York and further to London. The junk had been purchased in 1846 in secrecy by unknown British businessmen in Hong Kong, defying a Chinese law prohibiting the sale of Chinese ships to foreigners. Loaded with artefacts and oddities of Chinese culture and sailing with a mixed crew of Chinese and British sailors under the command of Captain Charles Alfred Kellett, the "Keying" reached New York in July 1847 and fast became an attraction serving as a kind of floating ethnographic museum. - In late March 1848, the "Keying" arrived in London to great fanfare, anchoring in the London Docklands, at Blackwall. Several different medals were struck to commemorate its appearance, including one that had a bust of Mandarin Hesing. The ship was visited by Queen Victoria, whose right to be the first European woman to visit it was reserved, as well as by the Duke of Wellington and Charles Dickens. It has been suggested that the Chinese Emperor was aware of the project from the start and was secretly kept informed about it, and that the mandarin served as an informer to report back in detail. Visitors were "received by a Mandarin of Rank and a Chinese Artist of Celebrity" (promotional text on rear cover). - Apart from the description of the ship as a whole, the cook-house and the decks, the present catalogue also contains an annotated and partly illustrated list of Chinese objects (musical instruments, weapons, tableware etc.) exhibited in different parts of the ship. - The wood-engraved plates are captioned "The Keying", "Portrait of Hesing", "Stern of the Keying", "After Deck", and "Saloon". - Ink ownership of "C[arl] P[eter] Freidenfelt, London den 15 Aug. 1848", at the upper edge of front cover. Front flyleaf (recto of 1st plate) with two red ink stamps depicting Chinese characters, one of them being the seal of Prince Hui Rui. Above and below the signature "Hesing" and the word "Keying" in Latin and Chinese letters written in bold ink; at top and bottom of the page a tiny ink comment in Swedish by Freidenfelt: "Anm: Nedanstående är måladt med pensel af den Chinesiske mandarinen Hesing ombord på den Chinesiska Junken den 15 Aug. 1848 på Londons redd. Då jag besökte Mandarinen, fann jag honom läsande Nya Test. på Chinesiska. Han sade på engelska 'a very good book; makes good for the heart.' (Note: The following is painted with a brush by the Chinese mandarin Hesing aboard the Chinese Junk on Aug. 15th 1848 at London's docks. When I visited the Mandarin, I found him reading New Testament in Chinese. He said in English 'a very good book; makes good for the heart'". - An 8 mm tear to rear cover professionally repaired. Wrappers slightly worn with some minor stains, otherwise a well preserved copy.
Hardcover in good condition; jacket in acceptable condition. Previously owned by Donald Chesworth; his bookplate on the front pastedown. The jacket is marked and edgeworn, with nicked and creased edges. 3cm tear on the rear upper edge. The jacket leading corners and spine ends are chipped and torn. Small label on front inner flap. Wear and fading to the hardcover. The leading corners are a little bumped. Some marks on the page block. Stamps on the title page and copyright page. Faint creases and marks on some pages. All text and the fold out map are clear. CM Used
Paperback Clean Copy
