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Japanese text. Octavo, 10, 267 pages. Folding map. Blue cloth; gilt motif and ship impression to front and rear boards; gilt title to spine. Very good condition. Ito's scholarly monograph (translated into Japanese) examines the history, principles and methods of sea transportation. A detailed analysis includes explanations of nautical terms; types of marine carriage (steam and sail); development of marine transportation (ancient and modern) and its economic and political ramifications; shipping lines and traffic; cargoes; monopoly and competition; the Suez and Panama Canals and ports.
N.Y., Derby & Jackson, 1859. Orig. full blindtooled cloth. Top and bottom of spine a little worn. 329 pp., 2 tinted lithographed plates. Plates brownspotted. Otherwise clean.
329 p., 2 plates, illus. 19 cm. Hardcover Very good condition. spine lettering worn BAL 4001
427p. Hardcover Very good condition
ACALI es una balsa maravillosa pero no sólo para empezar sino para terminar.Entre 2 continentes Àfrica y América un larguísimo y único trayecto. Billete sólo de ida.Se trató de un proyecto muy original. Imposible casi de ninguna manera de resumir aquí la aventura increible que ideó preparó y llevó a cabo Santiago Genovés. Como 9 personas se meten en el espacio más reducido posible para ir a parar al espacio más desconocido y gigante para el hombre el mar. Con agua y comida de sobras atravesaron este océano no unicamente repleto de agua sino de problemáticas imposibles de eludir también felicidad nervios y dulzura. El autor del experimento más original jamás realizado de esta forma nos narra los aspectos psicológicos todos los posibles habidos y por haber en la balsa. Desde el comienzo de como cuesta ir a hacer un pis y la caca en el toilett colgado de un extremo pero a la vista de todos hasta los miles de misteriosos sentimientos que surgirán minuto a minuto hora a hora entre las 9 personas
... Trade paperback, good condition, w. v. ltly tanned, ltly rubbed wraps, sme lt marks. Ltly to smwht bumped corners, Crease nr lower r. corner. V. ltly tanned p. edges. Ins sp starting nr fr. O/w cln, tight, unmarked.
- Augsburg s.d. (circa 1730), 62,6x53,3cm, une feuille rempliée. - Accurata delineatio celeberrimae Regionis Ludovicianae vel Gallice Louisiane ol. Canadae et Floridae adpellatione in septemtrionali America descriptae quae hodie nomine fluminis Mississippi vel St. Louis Augsburg [ca 1730] | 62.6 x 53.3 cm | one map First edition, full margins, copper engraved, colored in a contemporary hand. One restored tear to foot of verso slightly touching the right hand side of the title cartouche. This map, very detailed and with a key in French, shows a good part of North America and in particular the Mississippi river and Great Lakes. At bottom left, there is a scale showing «hours by horse» between different points as well as latitudes and longitudes. A fine copy of this map calling to mind John Law and the Mississippi Bubble. «The cartouche of this map by Matthaeus Seutter (1678-1757) is particularly well crafted. It depicts, in an allegorical way, the sadly famous speculative bubble of the Mississippi Company in 1719. The resources within easy reach that could be exploited in Louisiana had been vastly overvalued and the shareholders swindled and eventually ruined by the campaign of lies orchestrated by the Scottish economist John Law. In the cartouche, Fortuna, the goddess of chance, pours out jewels and other treasures, but she is perched on a bubble, a symbol of precariousness. Beneath, cherubs produce shares in the company with the aid of a printing press while others blow soap bubbles, surrounded by worthless share certificates. Around the pedestal, investors despair, some throwing themselves from a tree, another falling onto his sword, and yet another tearing his hair. Over their heads, an angel holds an empty money-bag. Seutter uses the decoration as a caricature or satire. This allows him to express his sarcastic view on a current topic in one part of the territory he is mapping. The job of mapmakers is often influenced by geopolitics, especially when it comes to tracing borders or the attribution of newly discovered land to one nation rather than another. Political commentary via ornaments remains relatively rare before the fashion for pictorial maps in the first half of the 20th Century» (Alban Berson, «À quoi servent les ornements sur les cartes anciennes?» Carnet de la Bibliothèque Nationale, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec) [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Edition originale de cette carte à toutes marges, gravée sur cuivre et rehaussée en couleurs à l'époque. Une déchirure restaurée au verso en bas portant légèrement atteinte à la partie droite du cartouche de titre. Cette carte, très détaillée et légendée en français, montre une grande partie de l'Amérique du Nord en particulier le Mississippi et les Grands Lacs. En bas à gauche une échelle montre les « heures de chemin » entre les différents points ainsi que les latitudes et longitudes. Très bel exemplaire de cette carte évoquant John Law et l'affaire de la bulle du Mississippi. « Le cartouche de cette carte de Matthaeus Seutter (1678-1757) est particulièrement soigné. Il dépeint de manière allégorique la tristement célèbre bulle spéculative de la Compagnie du Mississippi de 1719. Les ressources à même d'exploiter les richesses de la Louisiane avaient été largement surévaluées et les actionnaires floués puis ruinés par la publicité mensongère orchestrée par l'économiste écossais John Law. Sur le cartouche, Fortuna, déesse de la chance, verse des joyaux et autres richesses mais elle est perchée sur une bulle, symbole de la précarité. En bas, des chérubins produisent des actions de la compagnie à l'aide d'une presse à imprimer tandis que d'autres soufflent des bulles de savon, entourés de ballots d'actions sans valeur. Autour du socle, des investisseurs se désespèrent, certains se jetant d'un arbre, un autre s'empalant sur son épée ou s'arrachant les cheveux. Au-dessus de leurs têtes, un ange laisse pendre un sac d'argent vide. Matthaeus Seutter utilise l'ornem
- s.d. (circa 1720), 62x53,5cm, une feuille rempliée. - Carte originale, entièrement rehaussée en couleurs, montrant la régon du Bosphore. Grande vue panoramique de Constantinople vue de Scutari en bas de la carte. Une légende nomme et localise 30 bâtiments importants, tels que le Sérail, Sainte-Sophie et plusieurs mosquées. Une vue de l'Hellespont, de la mer de Marmora et de Constantinople au loin, se trouve en haut à droite de la carte. Bel exemplaire de cette carte conçue par Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724) - l'un des cartographes les plus renommés et fondateur de l'une des plus importantes maisons d'éditions allemandes. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
Hamburg, Perthes=Beser, (1846). Cont. modest hcloth. Stamp on title. 32 pp. A little soiled in upper right corners throughout.
229p. SOFTCOVER. Paperback GoodVery good condition
Bristol, Arrowsmith, (1911). Orig. full red cloth. Binding slightly rubbed and with some discolouring and spots. XVI,446 pp., many plates and 1 folded map.
8vo [22 x 14 cm]; vii, 461; viii, 459 pp, frontis in each volume, 175 illus, diagrams, plans, plates and maps including 2 foldout, index. original red cloth, gilt spine title lettering, spine a little faded but lettering clear, internal hinge repaired, endpaper a little toned but a very good+ clean set. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A narrative of the extensive travels of the author across Asia, with much on Iran, Persia, Central Asia, Afghanistan, etc, descriptions of the peoples, scenery, topography, customs, adventures, etc.
This book contains a selections of writings by travellers who journeyd across Crete in the 18th and 19th . centuries and left us descriptions of their discoveries... Just follow the routes of the early visitors and experience an unspoiled and beautiful Crete. 178p. illus bibliography, index. Book
First Penguin edition, paperback, good condition. Sunning to spine and light scuffs at spine ends. Page block is tanned and lightly scuffed at lower leading corner. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xi, 344 pp, 3 maps on one large folding sheet (long tear), 37 illustrations including full-page from drwgs by J. L. Kipling, index. original red pictorial cloth, gilt spine title lettering, spine a little faded but lettering clear, bookplate of C. J. Pearock, inscribed by the author on endpaper. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author describes the people, traditions, legends and country including Sind, lower Indus, Bilochistan, Biloches, Tochi Valley, Pathan, Kohat, Kabul, Peshawur, Swat, Panjkora, Bajawar, etc, with descriptions on tribal rivalries, many of which still exist today.
90p. Hardcover Very good condition "Addresses at the dinner in honor of the Earl of Reading at the Lotos club, New York, March 27th, 1918," by Frank R. Lawrence, the Earl of Reading, Governor Charles S. Whitman, Honorable Charles E. Hughes, Colonel George Harvey.
275 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Some of his travels, beginning with an account of his railway journey across the USA. memories of Monterey and including essays about other places and topics. Issued in the series "The Biographical Collection of Robert Louis Stevenson" 295p.Blind stamped maroon cloth over boards. Neat unmarked copy except for the name of previous owner on ffep. Book
8vo [24 x 16 cm]; [xii], 256, [iii] pp, color illustrations from photos, map endpapers, bibliog. original cloth backed boards, silver spine title lettering, silver vignette on cover, dj (not price clipped), fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. An account of the first surface voyage to the North Pole by Russian icebreaker, with much historical background on previous travels in the area. The author has written both novels and non-fiction books.
210p. illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1907. Royal 8vo. 2 orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering. Gilt borders on front boards. 2 frontispieces. XV,396 XII,511 pp., large folded map, 153 plates with illustrations after photographs. Scattered light foxing, mainly marginal.
259 p. 2 fold. maps. Hardcover Good condition, hinges cracked The founding and early acts of the International Red Cross.
8vo., First Edition; green marbled boards, green cloth back blocked and lettered in silver, green endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's glassine dustwrapper. DUSTWRAPPER NOT SHOWN IN IMAGE. VERY SCARCE.
White octavo; 166 p, [43] leaves of b&w plates (some color); 24 cm. In Spanish. || Natural history -- Uruguay; Travel; Cultural studies.