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178058142T. Cadell London 1780. Second Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". xxiv 539 / 416pp. 2-volume set complete. Hinges cracked. Minor wear to spines. Bindings remain firm. Scattered foxing. Edge marked. Covers slightly worn. All 5 plates present. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Farming & Rural Life; Ireland; 18th century; Travel & Places. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 58142. . T. Cadell hardcover
182529061Archibald Contable Edinburgh 1825. 2 vols. sm. 8vo. Second Edition; most attractively bound in contemporary full tan calf boards with elaborate floral frame border in blind back with flat bands ruled in gilt second and third compartments with black leather labels lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt expertly rebacked with old backstrips laid down a remarkably bright fresh crisp copy. With fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-down of first volume. Archibald Contable, Edinburgh, hardcover
1828178087London: Constable and Co. 1828. Second Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. A New Edition wuth Additions." Complete in 2 volumes. Volume I: viii 285pp; Volume II: vi 287pp. Bound in full leather with dentilled edges gilt decoration and marbled end papers. Leather over hinges/spine dry and cracked but secure hinges weak but holding. <br/> <br/> Constable and Co. hardcover
183621534London: John Murray 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. xi 378 38 Appendix with folding map 8 plates and additional illustrations in the text. Marbled boards with later leather spine new endpapers. Stamp of the Isle of Wight Insitution on several pages. Title page frontispiece and some plates foxed as often found the remainder of the text quite clean. Map has a section meaauring about 1.5 x 3 inches missing from lower left with some loss of content. A good reference copy. The author was the son of Sir John Barrow who traveled and worked in China and South Africa and served in the British Admiralty where he was a great promoter of Arctic voyages of exploration and discovery. The younger man followed in his father's footsteps as a traveler and writer producing popular and well-received works on his travels in Ireland Iceland Northern Europe and Austria Lombardy and Bavaria. John Murray hardcover
1773d2521London: W Strahan & T Cadell. G : in good condition. Cover and spine rubbed with light ends chips. Upper boards a litle weak at hinges. Heraldic bookplate on paste-downs and associated signature on title pages. 1773. First Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 220mm x 140mm 9" x 6". x 375pp; v 287pp. Heraldic book-plate of The Hon. Edward Monckton Sumerford Hall County of Stafford with his signature on title pages. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . W Strahan & T Cadell hardcover
1819028639London: Printed for T. and J. Allman 1819. Book. Very Good. Half Leather. Second Edition. 8vo 14 x 22cm. pp. 2 390; the half-title is not bound-in in this copy; folding engraved map; front and rear blank pages. Contemporary half black polished calf with gilt lettering and decoration to the spine; navy-blue moire silk boards; original marbled end papers. Binding very good and strong with light wear only cloth to boards slightly marked. Contents clean and tight slight spotting to the head of first and last couple of pages map with light foxing and some offsetting to self and adjacent page; end papers a littled faded at top. Provenance: with the contemporary engraved bookplate of Thomas Christy to the front free end paper. A very good copy. Printed for T. and J. Allman Hardcover
1802e7256London: G & J Robinson. Volume I: Cover rubbed and marked. Lacks outer spine. Closed tear to one page no loss. Volume II: Rebound with new spine and eps. Cover rubbed with some corner wear. Occasional light foxing and pencil annotation. 1802. First Edition. Blue and brown board covers. 230mm x 140mm 9" x 6". iv 316pp; iv 300pp. Colour frontis Vol. I 10 b/w maps. Both volumes untrimmed. . G & J Robinson unknown
177521457London: T. Cadell 1775. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition. 8vo 411 pp with folding map as frontispiece. Bound in early full calf with gilt spine in six compartments red spine label. Front joint rubbed and partially cracked; binding otherwise sound text very clean. Armorial bookplate of Johnathan Pytts Esq. on front pastedown. "Wraxall's travelogue is elegantly written and its Scandinavian and Russian itinerary was novel and therefore of great interest to the reading public.The narrative is self-consciously chivalric and testifies to Wraxall's lifelong interest in tales of intrigue and distress although Queen Caroline Matilda's predicament does not figure in the text presumably in the interests of diplomacy" ODNB. T. Cadell hardcover
1896018101Royal Exotic Nursery Chelsea: Printed for Private Circulation 1896. With signed presentation inscription to J. Hollingsworth head gardener at Tredegar Park followed by Margam Park. Illustrated with a large folding map frontispiece with as usual tears and creases at the upper join now neatly repaired nine large full-page plates on heavy card. many small text images from photographs quarto pp 219 slight age-toning and marking some inner joints rather cracked and weak the last third of the book has rather damp-wrinkled pages with light staining on the last few pages original decorated cloth with paper inlay bevelled edges a bit rubbed and marked the spine dull and age-toned andpulled at the head and tail the upper cover slightly unevenly age-toned. In October 1891 Veitch embarked on a tour of inspection of the great Botanic and Public Gardens maintained by governments in various countries as well as visiting many private horticultural establishments to decide whether the Veitch gardens and nurseries might be enriched by further additions. He set off by way of Rome and Naples to Ceylon thence overland from Tuticorin to Lahore. He continued to Calcutta and on to the Straits Settlements. In Penang he visited the Botanic Gardens whose curator Charles Curtis was formerly employed by James Veitch & Sons as a plant collector before moving on to Singapore where he visited the Botanic Gardens. He then visited Johore before returning to Singapore in February 1892 when he climbed Bukit Timah the highest point on the island with Walter Fox curator of the Gardens. He then travelled to Buitenzorg West Java where he visited the Botanical Gardens. He also explored the crater of Kawah Papandajan volcano and visited Lake Bagendit near Garoet. His travels then took him to Japan where he met Charles Sprague Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum and they undertook a joint plant collecting expedition including ascending the Hakkoda Mountains together. After visiting Korea he reached Australia in 1893. However he found Australia disappointing and wrote that it was easier to collect seed in Japan where there was cheap labour; in Australia "no one will help". He complained that the seeds of many plants "were so tiny he did not know if he was collecting seed or dust". He sent to Kew a collection of dried specimens of 250 species from Western Australia. Later he visited the North Island of New Zealand before returning to England in July 1893. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Fair. Printed for Private Circulation Hardcover
1896018100Royal Exotic Nursery Chelsea: Printed for Private Circulation 1896. Illustrated with a large folding map frontispiece with as usual a slight tear at the upper join nine large full-page plates on heavy card. many small text images from photographs quarto pp 219 slight age-toning and marking a little foxing on the last few pages slight marking along the top of the title page original decorated cloth with paper inlay bevelled edges a bit rubbed and marked the spine dull and age-toned the upper cover unevenly age-toned recently re-cased with new endpapers. In October 1891 Veitch embarked on a tour of inspection of the great Botanic and Public Gardens maintained by governments in various countries as well as visiting many private horticultural establishments to endeavour whether the Veitch gardens and nurseries might be enriched by further additions. He set off by way of Rome and Naples to Ceylon thence overland from Tuticorin to Lahore. He continued to Calcutta and on to the Straits Settlements. In Penang he visited the Botanic Gardens whose curator Charles Curtis was formerly employed by James Veitch & Sons as a plant collector before moving on to Singapore where he visited the Botanic Gardens. He then visited Johore before returning to Singapore in February 1892 when he climbed Bukit Timah the highest point on the island with Walter Fox curator of the Gardens. He then travelled to Buitenzorg West Java where he visited the Botanical Gardens. He also explored the crater of Kawah Papandajan volcano and visited Lake Bagendit near Garoet. His travels then took him to Japan where he met Charles Sprague Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum and they undertook a joint plant collecting expedition including ascending the Hakkoda Mountains together. After visiting Korea he reached Australia in 1893. However he found Australia disappointing and wrote that it was easier to collect seed in Japan where there was cheap labour; in Australia "no one will help". He complained that the seeds of many plants "were so tiny he did not know if he was collecting seed or dust". He sent to Kew a collection of dried specimens of 250 species from Western Australia. Later he visited the North Island of New Zealand before returning to England in July 1893. . First Edition. Cloth. Good. Printed for Private Circulation Hardcover
4814<p>Paris: Librairie Hachette 1894. 320pp. illus. w/61 gravures. original burgundy cloth 12mo stamped in gold w/gilt & other blind-stamped decorations & edges in red: near Fine some light interior foxing; else nrF A bright handsome copy that describes in the original French Charles Rabot's 1856-1944 adventurous travels in Siberia.</p> Paris: Librairie Hachette hardcover
186813224New Orleans: Price Current Print 1868. Paperback. 16mo. Original printed stiff grey wrappers. 125pp. Good plus. Wrappers rather soiled and age toned with a number of chips near the head of the spine. First edition of this quite scarce travel account most difficult to find in original wrappers. Hearing that the British Honduras was an ideal location for expatriate Confederates Swett determined to find out for himself; nothing he decided could be further from the truth. SMITH S212. Price Current Print paperback
98434London Birt 1745. . First edition; 8vo xvi 347 i 39 ipp. a couple of gatherings in the appendix slightly proud contemporary sprinkled calf lightly rubbed short splits to joints corners bumped a very good copy.<br /> 'Pascoe Thomas kept a full and faithful daily journal of the incidents of this important four-year voyage. Included is an appendix giving an account of the treasure taken from the Nuestra Signora del Buono Carmella. This account. preceded the publication of the official account of Lord Anson's voyage by three years' Hill. At the bottom of page 36 of the appendix the exact latitude and remarkably the longitude of the fabled Strait of Anian are provided. This precise location of the Pacific entrance to the elusive Northwest Passage came from a Spanish document captured by Anson and gave rise to the suspicion that the Spanish had discovered the passage but kept it secret. <br /><br />Anson's voyage was a landmark of 18th-century English circumnavigation laying the groundwork for the British exploration of the Pacific in the later half of the 18th century. The expedition set out to cut off Spanish supplies of gold and silver from South America after the outbreak of war in 1739. Whilst successful taking a number of prize ships off the Philippines the cost was high: six ships were wrecked off the coast of South America or in rounding Cape Horn. <br /> Hill 1693; Sabin 95437. London, Birt, 1745. unknown
1989623074Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1989. Leather bound hardcover with decorated boards no dust jacket and gilt edged page block in very good condition. This limited first edition has been privately printed and personally signed by author V.S. Naipaul exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Board corners are very slightly rubbed. Small surface bump to the page block face. No other notable faults. LW. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. The Franklin Library Hardcover
1910003995London: T. Fisher Unwin 1910 Book. Illus. by Photo Frontispiece and 100 Others. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original maroon cloth on boards. Frontispiece and attached leaf re-inserted. Young American student circles the globe with very little money no weapons and no baggage. Wisely he took a lot of photos with his "Kodak." Endpapers grubby. 502 pp. T. Fisher Unwin hardcover
1935969Thornton Butterworth London 1935. Book Club Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Good Condition/Fair. 2nd Keystone Library impression; 240 pages 8 plates 2 double-page maps. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket tatty closed repair. Covers bumped spine sunned foxing to page edgesdiscrete inscriptions dated 1936 front end cover. Contents clean. Biography of Captain Lawrence Edward Grace "No Surrender" Oates. who died with Captain Scott on the return from the South Pole in 1912. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 969. . Thornton Butterworth hardcover
17843611651London 1784. Engraving 253 x 533 mm. to plate mark paper size 290 x 540 mm.; a little light old creasing at right side; in fine condition. <p><p>Rare proof impression of one of the most atmospheric views made by Webber to illustrate Cook's third voyage: the St Peter and Paul ostrog as seen during the expedition's first visit to Avacha Bay.</p> <p>This wonderful panorama of St Peter and St Paul with Cook's ships at anchor in the bay would later appear as plate 74 in the atlas to the official account of the third voyage. Webber's image depicts the small Kamchatkan settlement with its inhabitants fishing in front of their distinctive dwellings all in an untouched landscape with wooded coastline and distant snow-covered mountains. It offers an arcadian vision of the place wildly at variance with what it would become: modern Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky now a major commercial port and the home of Russia's nuclear submarine fleet. It was at St Peter and St Paul that the battered vessels called in late April 1779 and here that Major Behm agreed to take the news of Cook's death overland to St. Petersburg.</p> <p>This is an early state of the print before letters. The temporary credits here scratched into the plate are differently worded to the final version that would appear in the publication: here there is no caption identifying the view and the image is identified as "Drawn from Nature by J. Webber" and "Engraved by B.T. Pouncy". In the finished version these would be differently expressed as "J. Webber del." and "B.T. Pouncy sc.". The proof engraving is printed on a noticeably different paper and its inking is distinctly finer than the examples of the finished version with which we have compared it. The result is a greater tonal quality.</p> <p>Joppien and Smith discuss the Kamchatkan visit at some length in both text and catalogue volumes of their study of the art of Cook's third voyage. In their description of the related watercolour view now in the Dixson Library in Sydney they note that the original version has probably been lost and that the Dixson watercolour is probably related to the engraving process. </p> <p>This is a desirable and rare version of one of Webber's most successful images from Cook's third voyage. `</p> </p> . unknown
1766016077London: Printed for S. Crowder 1766. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. The Second Edition. Folio 21 x 32cm. The second edition with additions and improvements; pp. iv 45 iii publisher's adverts; engraved frontispiece map of the world five further engraved plates of maps and one engraved plate of globes ten engraved figures and diagrams within the text. Contemporary half textured calf binding with marbled paper boards expertly restored with a new spine in matching style re-corned. contents clean and tight a few small marks/reading wear; frontispiece plate with a couple of short edge-tears expertly and inconspicuously repaired a few corners re-tipped. A very good well-presented copy. Scarce. Printed for S. Crowder Hardcover
1926618799London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1926. Scarce hardcover with removable plastic covered unclipped dust jacket in very good condition for its age. Jacket is sunned. Edges are creased and nicked with some chips to the upper edge. Board spine ends are slightly bumped. Page block pastedowns endpapers and the odd page within are lightly tanned and foxed. Binding is sound and pages are otherwise clear. LW. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used. George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. Hardcover
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
1834000015050New York: Goodrich & Wiley 1834. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo. 3 iv 1 10-264 4 pp. Contemporary sheep with the spine in five compartments a purple label lettered in gilt on the spine gilt rules on the spine. Howes T-145. Jenkins 209. Streeter 330. The author of this text has never been identified. Jenkins speaks highly of this travel narrative: it was published shortly after Mary Austin Holley's and provided a contrasting style compared to hers. Holley's writings on Texas were overwhelmingly positive but this narrative is more cynical of the then-territory. The author visited several locations in the territory and provides an informative historical narrative of the country. Notable wear to the extremities a dampstain on the textblock. Lacks the endpapers the map and four plates. Goodrich & Wiley hardcover
1831005597New York: John P. Haven 1831. Hardcover. Very Good. Sleight & Robinson printers." Vol. 1 only: 357 1 p.; 18 cm. 19th-century half calf with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raied bands; black leather labels in second and fourth compartments with gilt-tooled title and volume number. All page edges speckled red. Includes Errata on p. vi. Checklist American Imprints 9297. Charles Samuel Stewart 1795-1870 was a chaplain in the U.S. Navy. In this volume he describes Brazil passage around Cape Horn Peru and the Marquesas Islands. In Very Good Condition: leather is rubbed; minor loss from spine labels; old repair on title page verso; 2-cm. closed tear from fore-edge of last page of text; foxing heavy on a few pages; otherwise clean and tight. John P. Haven hardcover
20857Reprinted by permission from the "Church Times" 1897 . First edition in book form. Photographic illustrations. 8vo 7 1/4 x 5 inches contemporary purple grained cloth lettered in gilt. Very good.A visit to the missions in German East Africa and Nyasaland. Reprinted, by permission, from the "Church Times" ( 1897 ). hardcover
19744190030Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora 1974. Softcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Book is in the Portuguese language. Signed by author with additional inscription on half title page. Sound binding. Clean tanned pages. Wraps have light overall handling wear. Novel by Brazilian author Oswaldo França Júnior 1936-1989. 8.25" tall; 187 pages; Signed by Author. Livraria José Olympio Editora unknown
1909230323-MB93A. C. McClurg & Co. 1909. Green cloth hardcover with Pictorial cover inscription on front endpaper 4 full color iillustrations by Charlotte Weber-Ditzler . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Weber-Ditzler Charlotte. A. C. McClurg & Co. hardcover
