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1919626541919. Photograph. Black and white photographs 4 1/4 x 2 1/2". The photographs are annotated in pen and pencil on the reverse. There are numerical notations on the reverse as well. One of the photographs is a duplicate image. Photographs include the railroad bridge at Tucker breakfast in camp at Helper camping just out of Salt Lake City en route to Grand Junction fording a very dangerous wash out in the desert Castle Gate Canyon and getting a mulligan ready along the road way near Rupert Idaho. With a number of photographs depicting the tent and cars. A nice collection of vernacular photographs depicting early 20th century outdoor adventures in Utah. unknown
19912091502133514777Hankyu Travel International Co. Ltd. 1991. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Hankyu Travel International Co., Ltd. paperback
Lill Forsman, Camilla GöNot in perfect condition. unknown
20817Andre Martel Givors 1949. Thick 8vo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches 806pages. Original printed wrappers. Long insciption by the author on half-title. Andre Martel, Givors, 1949. unknown
195111412Pretoria: South African Tourist Corp. Very Good. c. 1951. Sofcover. Native Life The Fairest Cape & Garden Route somewhat bumped at parts of leading edges causing some creasing to text pages at edges else crisp & clean. ; Illustrated wrappers; Native Life with color illustrations by Barbara Tyrrell map; Story of South Africa with color photographs throughout; the others with color and b&w photographs illustrations maps and other reproductions. ; Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall . South African Tourist Corp. unknown
2001341634Griesheim: KM-Verlag 2001. hardcover. very good/no dustjacket. 8vo. pp.237. KM-Verlag hardcover
192311409Various Places: Various Publishers. Very Good. c.1923-1937. Ephemera. Southern Pacific Steamship with closed tear top of spine when folded closed into next page when open; Cape Cod with light foxing top front edge. United States Line with fine pen lines aroung 'American Express Co. " lower front cover. Others are fine. ; D&C 15 pages unfolded including inside rear cover; full of b&w photographs and information rates; includes double page illustration on the Flagship of the fleet S. S. Greater Detroit. UNITED STATES LINES 1923 with cabin rates itineraries rail fares officers & agents. CAPE COD single folded sheet with double panel map b&w photos. PACIFIC MAIL 1923 with b&w photos birdseye view drawing of the Panama Canal zone. EASTERN STEAMHIP 1924; 31pp. double page map showing E. S. Connections; many deck plans; 5 full page phtographs of their steamships; photographs schedules etc. . Various Publishers unknown
Svenle, Elna edIn Pristine Condition. unknown
192849917Paris: Editions D'Art Yvon 1928. Very good. Each photo is 2 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches. Each portfolio has 20 photos except the 2 Chateau de la Loire which have 10 each so a total of 140 photos. No date but I know these were all purchased in 1928. Photos are numbered and a list is printed on flaps of the portfolios. Condition is Very Good; The portfolios have some edge wear and a few missing bits photos are all excellent with no foxing staining etc. Editions D'Art Yvon unknown
1998040786Mansfield Centre CT: Martino Fine Books 1998. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes bound as one. pp: 338 62; 486 28 21 indices and supplements. Bound in green cloth red spine block with gilt lettering. 8.5" x 5.25" "This Reprint is Strictly Limited to 150 Copies" statement on verso title-page. Martino Fine Books hardcover
19476320HMSO 1947. 8vo. 16pp. First Edition; original wrappers wire-stitched as issued very light rust marks else a very good clean copy. II Geo 6; ordered to be Printed 23 October 1947. The Bill was presented to the House of Commons by the Prime Minister Clement Attlee supported by Sir Stafford Cripps Mr. V.A. Alexander Mr. Secretary Henderson and Lieut.-Colonel Rees-Williams. A LANDMARK DOCUMENT IN THE HISTORY OF BURMA now MYANMAR. SCARCE HMSO, unknown
1928211023-MB95Stockholm: C. E. Fritze Booksellers to the Court 1928. Three Quarter Leather with marbled boards 1928 illustrated with maps and photographs . Hardcover. Good/No Dust Cover. C. E. Fritze, Booksellers to the Court hardcover
194728119<p>London:: Home & Van Thal 1947. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Very Good copy with light wear to the board edges in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with light wear to the extremitites. A Book of Voyages presents writings by various travelers annotated and introduced by Patrick O'Brian. Most are taken from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; O'Brian felt that unlike Elizabethan or Victorian accounts these writings were relatively unknown in our time. On her journey through the Crimea Lady Craven witnesses barbaric entertainments in the court of the Tartar Khan. John Bell tells us of his day's hunting with the Manchu emperor in 1721 outside Peking. An English woman in Madras gives us a detailed description of the extraordinary costume and body decoration of a high-born Indian woman wife of a nabob. These and other selections are glimpses of a world now gone forever that few readers would ever see for themselves.</p> Home & Van Thal, hardcover
1975049196Sydney: Cassell 1975. x 281pp appendices end paper maps bw ills. Or brown cloth in pictorial jacket. Tape stains to jacket flaps lesser tape stains to endpapers prev owner name on front free endpaper and title page. A nice copy. An account of the London-Sahara-Munich World Cup Rally. The rally soon passed from motor sport to high adventure with crews becoming stranded in the desert some almost died of thirst most were lost. Only one car completed the entire course of this extraordinary event. More than a rally but a journey across 14 countries across some of the world's most forbidding terrain and of the strange places and people encountered. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good Slipcase. 8vo. Cassell Hardcover
1839140457Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Edinburgh William and Robert Chambers 1839 to 1843. Large octavo seven works in one; contemporary half calf and marbled papered boards; spine decorated in blind with a contrasting leather title-label; covers scuffed rubbed and slightly worn at the corners and edges of the boards; endpaper hinges expertly reinforced; early binder's ticket and later ownership signature on the front endpaper; textblock tanned with minor foxing and occasional light signs of age and use; overall a very good copy. The works are: <p>1 MacKENZIE Sir George Stewart: Travels in Iceland 1842 revised edition; 88 pages with several tables. <p>2 CHAMBERS William: A Tour in Holland the Countries on the Rhine and Belgium in 1838 1842 second edition/ 1839; 94 pages with numerous illustrations. <p>3 CHAMBERS William: A Tour in Switzerland in 1841 1842 first thus; 88 pages with several illustrations. <p>4 The Sea. Narratives of Adventure and Shipwreck Tales and Sketches illustrative of Life on the Ocean 1840; 144 pages. <p>5 The Life and Travels of Mungo Park. Also an Account of the Progress of African Discovery 1842; 88 pages with a full-page map. <p>6 Palmyra. Being Letters of Lucius M. Piso from Palmyra to his friend Marcus Curtius at Rome. Now first translated and published 1839 first English edition/ 1837; 112 pages. <p>7 Julian or Scenes in Judea. By the Author of 'Letters from Palmyra and Rome' 1843 first English edition/ 1841; 116 pages. William and Robert Chambers hardcover
1967329025Education Division: Northern Administration Branch Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development 1967. Third Printing. paperback. good/no dustjacket. 4to. pp.73. Some tape at the head of spine. Previous owner's name written at top right corner of front cover in red pen. Some penning inside; possible editor's marks. Rare in any condition. Education Division: Northern Administration Branch Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development paperback
193133991Hakluyt Society 1931. 8vo. First Edition with illustrations and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt gilt back uncut a near fine copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. A transcript of the MS dedicated to Henry VIII with a pedigree of Barlow. Hakluyt Society Second Series No. 69. Bridges & Hair p.278. Hakluyt Society, hardcover
1967117390London: Hakluyt Society 1967. Hb. Very Good/No Dj. 8vo. pp. 210 in bright blue/gilt embossed cloth fold-out map at rep 3 plates Appendices: ""Navigating Manuals"" ""The Measure of a Degree"" and ""The Parentage of Roger Barlow"" index and bibliography. Hakluyt Society hardcover
1912048361N. P. 1912. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 57 pages. Softcover lacking the outer wrappers. The text block is staple bound. The frontispiece is partially detached. The remaining endpapers are heavily foxed. Text is a little toned and is printed with brown type. Illustrated with a photo frontis and three other plates from photos. Quite scarce. <br/> <br/> N. P. paperback
17875001042London: Alexander Shaw 1787. Quarto eight pages printed text followed by original blank leaves separating the 36 actual cloth specimens several full page as well as many smaller; original calf binding neatly lettered and decorated spine. <p><p>This rare and exotic publication of original Pacific artefacts is the most remarkable of the whole Cook canon: with a brief but significant letterpress introduction it mainly consists of actual specimens of eighteenth-century tapa cloth collected in the Pacific islands particularly Hawaii Tahiti and Tonga. </p> <p>In modern times the publication has become one of the great rarities of eighteenth-century Pacific exploration. This is an example of the first issue of the book with the strictly contemporary bookplate of Sir Corbet D'Avenant 1752-1823 Baronet of Stoke and Adderley. Donald Kerrr speculates in his census that D'Avenant was likely an original subscriber on first publication. </p> <p>Published only a few years after the return of the ships from Cook's third voyage it is not recorded how many of the cloth-books were prepared and up until the recent detective work of Erica Ryan at the NLA very little was known about the publisher Alexander Shaw either. However the limited supplies of the actual cloth must have dictated a very small edition - the most recent census of known copies by Donald Kerr stood at the tiny figure of 66 recently revised by us to 68 of which 57 were held by international libraries. This count of course includes the later issues of the book which continued to be sold often with dramatically varying contents as late as 1806. </p> <p>There has in effect never been a standard collation of the book - the fascinating dedication addressed to an unnamed "Sir" is genuinely vague on numbers - not least because it is obvious that Shaw was simultaneously selling individual samples and "fine specimens of the tree with the bark" at his shop in the Strand. </p> <p>Indeed as Forbes shows in some detail in the Hawaiian National Biography and others including Ian Morrison Maryanne Larkin Erica Ryan and Donald Kerr have all confirmed in more detail no two copies of the work are identical meaning that a precise collation is needed every time. Thus while 39 different samples are listed in Shaw's introductory list and "40" are mentioned at another point in the dedication many copies have quite different collations not least because the Jamaican sample perhaps the most surprising addition was apparently dropped in the course of publication. </p> <p>In short the present example has a total of 36 separate samples including particularly fine full-page examples of many of the more famous sheets. Almost none of the sheets have been particularly affected by the late-Georgian and Victorian practice of clipping: it is well-known that many collectors constructed what have become known as 'snippet books' of the Cook tapa cloths by cutting pieces from copies of Shaw's volume and pasting them into separate books or albums. </p> <p>As a result of this clipping habit copies of the original Shaw book survive in various states of completeness sometimes with only very small fragments of the once full-page specimens remaining. In this copy with its original blank leaves in place it is quite clear that the specimens have essentially retained their original shape with only four or perhaps five showing evidence of very minor clipping as can be shown from the ancient offsetting onto the adjoining blanks. </p> <p>The production of this book reflects the genuine curiosity aroused by tapa a fascination that drove competition between collectors of 'artificial curiosities' and generated an active market for the sheets brought home by Cook's men. The preface of the book contains descriptions of bark cloth manufacture by Cook Anderson Forster and an anonymous officer titled 'one of the navigators' and is followed by the list of the specimens compiled by Shaw. The list is indeed rich in fascinating details; for example we learn that the various uses of the tapa: 'wore sic by the people in the rainy season' or 'used at the human sacrifice'. Some of the notes in the list are longer and doubtless arise from tales told by the mariners who collected the tapa in the first place as boasted on the title page. </p> <p>Each island group used designs unique to its culture and the interest of Europeans in this material equalled the passion aroused by the extraordinary wood-carvings and exotic shells brought back by Cook. </p> <p>The Shaw Catalogue is of great significance as a repository of unique original tapa but it also speaks of the time when Cook's sailors were spreading their stories of the alluring South Seas while drawing-room chatter throughout the land luxuriated in descriptions of the new exotic. The publication forms a tangible link between these narratives the indigenous cultures of the South Pacific and Hawaiian islands the myriad personal and trading relationships that developed between the islanders and mariners and the genteel world of gentleman collectors and their cabinets of curiosities.</p> </p> . Provenance: Norton J. Whitmont collection; Kelton Foundation Los Angeles; original owner Sir Corbet D'Avenant 1752-1823 Baronet of Stoke and Adderley with armorial bookplate. Corbet d'Avenant was the son of Anne Corbet daughter of Sir Robert Corbet c.1670-1740 4th Bt of Stoke upon Tern. Upon the death of Anne's brother rector of Adderley from 1735 Sir Henry Corbet the seventh baronet on 7 May 1750 the baronetcy became extinct and the family estates passed to his nephew Corbet D'Avenant who assumed the name of Corbet and was created a baronet on 27 June 1786. Upon his death on 31 March 1823 the second baronetcy also became extinct. Alexander Shaw unknown
2002529142London: Hurst & Company 2002. 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. Signed and Dedicated By Author. Hardcover. Very Good. Used. Hurst & Company Hardcover
189864137Bay View & La Conner WA: A. Eugene Lovell 1898. Oblong 12mo. 7 x 5.5 in. 12 pp unpaginated. thick gray card stock slotted die-cut windows for inserting photos with 11 original photographs sized 3.25 x 4.25 in. 6 albumen on thin photo paper 5 silver gelatin on matte finish photo paper 1 manuscript Christmas note presenting the album Christmas 1898 a few ever-so-faint pencil manuscript captions below. Pebbled textured black cloth silver lettering stamped on front cover minor edgewear soiling to rear pastedown minor soiling to final image still a VG- exemplar. This souvenir album opens with beautiful sunset shot across the Columbia River followed by a photo of a young woman standing in front of well-appointed home with Hops growing along the porch. These are followed by photos capturing shipping along the Columbia River with the British sailing yacht Samantha out of Liverpool tied up to the Bailey Gatzert sternwheeler; the sternwheeler Kehani which operated from Portland originally launched in 1890 and was rebuilt and renamed Ottawa in 1905; a nice front view of the passenger sternwheeler Regulator built originally in 1891 by Louis Paget for The Dalles Portland & Astoria Naviagation Co. known as the Regulator Line operating steamer service from The Dalles to the Lower Columbia River past Kalama. Other photos depict a stately Victorian hotel on pilings near the shipping channel; a shipwreck of a 3-masted schooner on its’ side buried in the sand; and Cape Horn along the River prior to construction of the rail line. The final photo captures the waterfront of Astoria in 1898 with warehouses and canneries on pilings and houses above on the bluffs. Lovell 1883-1976 moved from Illinois to Washington following the death of his father William Lovell with his mother Susan Lovell and brothers Charles & Harry Lovell who homesteaded near La Conner WA after first settling in Bay View WA in late 1898. The trip must have been prior to July 12 1898 as the Regulator sternwheeler depicted in one of the photos wrecked at the Cascade Locks July 12 1898 was salvaged and rebuilt with a larger and heavier hull launching Feb. 1899. A. Eugene Lovell, hardcover
1835203763Philadelphia.: W. Marshall. Circa1835. Handcoloured engraved map 26.5 x 41.3 cms; 29.6 x 48.3 cms sheet central fold insets of "Oceanica" and "New Holland" central table some light staining in the image and margins in good condition. Eurocentrism laid bare. This 19th Century map includes a "State of Society" for each part of the world declared with a symbol to represent "Barbarous Half Civilized Civilized and Enlightened Societies" as well as noting religion and ethnicity. It includes a table of distances between chief towns or capitals and between these towns and Washington DC. Australia "New Holland" is styled principally as pagan barbarous unexplored and African a thin sliver of what is now New South Wales and Victoria is labelled civilized European and Protestant. Scarce. . (W. Marshall). unknown
18156819London: J. Mawman 1815. Third revised. Leather Bound. Very Good leather back flaps professionally realigned leather backs full with gilt lettering and patterns clear very small amount of very light foxing to a few pages marbled edges light corner wear former owner's bookplate in each vol. Francis Saptel. Octavo pp. 427 428 515 451 plus index Volume 2 includes 10 architectural plans two foldouts; map missing from volume 1. J. Mawman hardcover
201358146<p>Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press. Very Good. 2013. Later Printing. Softcover. 1108059988 . Xiv 587pp. Notes maps and black and white illustrations. Edward Dodwell's detailed account mixing travelogue with serious scholarship remains of interest and relevance to classical archaeologists. Reprints the 1819 Rodwell and Martin London edition. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .</p> Cambridge University Press paperback
