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Very good quality 'pocket' size paperback, undated, c,1960. Light tanning and discolouration to covers. Fold out map remains within, staples have rusted at spine, causing light blemish to opposite page edge, but map illustration unaffected. Pages well bound, and text and images clean. CN Used
Turnhout, Time-Life Books, 1984. 8vo. In full imitated leather with red title-label to spine with gilt lettering and gilt lines to edges of front boards. Introductory sheet and bookplate loosely inserted. Two very nice and clean copies, near mint. (5), 472, (4) pp. + 3 coloured plates.
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.
8vo [21.5 x 13.5 cm]; complete in three volumes, viii, 435; v, 446; vi, 419 pp. contemporary calf boards, corners worn, rebacked with new linen spines, gilt title lettering on leather spine labels, very slightly foxed on few leaves, interiors are clean and fine, in good sound and tight bindings. A picture of this book is available up The author spent eighteen years in Paraguay with the Guaranis and Abipones peoples. The Abipones, now extinct, were driven out of the Gran Chaco by the Spanish, and these volumes now represents one of the few descriptions of this people. Borba de Moraes 267: 'He returned to Austria where he published this famous book. The first volume contains a description of Paraguay, the war against the mamelucos and other historical events. The last two volumes are concerned with the Abipones. The work was highly esteemed by Southey and inspired his poem, A Tale of Paraguay. The English translation was made by Sara Coleridge'. Sabin 20414. There is considerable description of the animal and plant life of Paraguay, including fruit bearing trees.
8vo. (6), 116 pp. With a folding lithographed plan of Saint-Denis. Contemporary dark green cloth, rebacked with the original backstrip laid down. Rare first and only edition of a firsthand account of the British invasion of the Island of Bourbon (Réunion) in 1810 by "an officer of the expedition", sometimes ascribed to Charles Telfair (1778-1833), an Irish botanist who visited Réunion and Mauritius in 1810 as a ship's surgeon to the Royal Navy. The author briefly narrates the events leading up to the invasion, and in more detail describes the invasion itself, providing much information on the ships, squadrons, regiments and officers involved. "His object was to commemorate facts, while he was a spectator of them, and to stamp them with the sentiments they excited" (p. [5]). Also included are the general instructions and directions to officers at the head of brigades, issued by Lt. Col. Keating (pp. 38-53), and transcripts of letters, decrees and newspaper articles (or extracts thereof) relating to the invasion (pp. 54-102). The book closes with an appendix on the island's "value" as a colony, observing its population, climate, agriculture, trade, and infrastructure (pp. 103-116). The island of Bourbon in the Indian Ocean had been in French hands since 1715, until the British Royal Navy invaded it in 1810. The main objective of the expedition, led by Josias Rowley (1765-1842), was to capture the island as well as Mauritius so as "to secure, on the most permanent foundation, the dominion of England against the hostile attempts of France" (p. 4); the French retreated to the islands after raiding British convoys from India. Though the British kept hold of Mauritius, the island of Bourbon was returned to France at the Congress of Vienna of 1814. It was renamed "Réunion" when the house of Bourbon abdicated during the French Revolution of 1848. - Browned and foxed throughout, otherwise in good condition. Binding rebacked and restored. J. McAleer, Britain's Maritime Empire (2016), p. 87.
Multicolored octavo (dark blue leather spine); xxxi, 103 p, [7] folded leaves of plates : b&w illus/map ; 22 cm. This edition is limited to 950 copies. || Polynesia -- Description and travel.
4to [29.5 x 23.5 cm]; xx, 386, [ii, index], [iv, publisher's catalogue] pp, 14 engraved plates including one hand colored, plate of alphabets, portrait, large folding map (old repair on verso, split at fold), engraved vignette on title page, half title. recent black leather, gilt spine title lettering on red and black leather labels, blind-stamp on margin of title and library ink stamp on verso, but no other library markings, half title margin a little chipped, light foxing, very good sound copy. A pictu Yakushi k90a. Cox i, 311. A narrative by the first Englishman to enter Nepal, this being a diplomatic mission. Kirkpatrick was an officer with Lord Cornwallis in India and was dispatched to Nepal to settle a dispute with the Chinese, Nepalese and Tibet. At the time Nepal was spoken of as another El Dorado and was the subject for 'Lost Horizon'. The work provides much on the topography, geography, climate, agriculture, botany, zoology, culture, peoples, economy, history and with an extensive vocabulary listing. The plates include people, animals, bird, weapons, etc.
London, Nattali and Bond, n.d. (ca. 1860). Small 8vo. 2 orig. full blindstamped cloth. Richly gilt backs. Corners bumped. Top of spines a little frayed. XX,418,(1) IV,429,(1) pp. Many plates and textillustrations. Stamp on titles.
2 vols. 8vo. LIV [of LVI, lacking half-title], 444 pp. (2), 344, (148) pp. With engr. frontispiece portrait of Mariner by Bragg after Mouchet, and a folding engraved map of the Tonga Islands. 19th century half calf. Second enlarged edition. The young William Mariner sailed in the privateer Porte au Prince to the New World with the objective of attacking Spanish ships and searching for whales. The crew seized several Spanish vessels and picked up a number of Hawaiian crew in 1806. A visit to the Tonga Islands proved fatal: almost the entire the crew was massacred by the natives. The author, however, survived and lived in the 'Friendly Islands' from circa 1806 until 1810, observing and recording the Tonga culture with a keen eye for detail. His account contains an elaborate dictionary and grammar of the Tonga language as well as several songs. Volume two, moreover, includes some interesting notes on James Cook, who had named the Tonga Islands the Friendly Islands in remembrance of the friendly reception accorded to him and his crew. Mariner states that the Tonga chiefs had in fact planned to kill Cook, but due to a disagreement on "the exact mode and time of making the assault" (p. 60) this plan was never executed. "Mariner's meticulous observations on Tonga make this a key historical text on the history and culture of this island group" (Forbes). - With inscription on endpapers and title pages; vol. 1 lacking half-title; spines chafed. Very good set with the armorial bookplate of the Tennant family on front pastedown. Forbes 487. Hill 1076. Kroepelien 819. Cf. Howgego, 1800-1850, M14.
Large 8vo. XVI, 381, (1) pp. 20th century pink cloth. Rare Basel edition of this important work on the Palau archipelago situated between New Guinea and the Philippines, which had been consciously discovered only in the late 17th century. The text is unchanged from the 1788 London first edition, but was here published without the maps and portrait plates: all library copies available for comparison are unillustrated. - Retrimmed upon rebinding; insignificant corner defects repaired with Japanese paper. An old stamp on the title page has been erased. OCLC 9354649. Cf. Brunet III, 647. Cox II, 302f.
VG pbk. Oblong format. No publication date. 19593, eng
London, Arnold (for Private Circulation), 1910. Orig. full cloth. Gilt back. (6),148 pp., plates, textillustr. a. folded map. Clean and fine.
xvi, 351pp., frontis., 23 illustrs., orig. cloth.
18x12. 260p. Ed. H. M. Tomlinson. Enc. Tela ed.
Octavo in white illus wraps, perfect bound; x, 260 p. : illus in b/w photos ; 21 cm. Very scarce. WorldCat lists but three copies. || Entertaining and insightful anecdotes by an Arab (Iraqi?) traveling though 1970s Uniteds States. // Gannas, Mohammed. United States -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes. Arab countries -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes. Hippies; alternative culture. Solo male travelers.
First edition, 8vo (212 x 125 mm), xv, [1], [17]-234, [2]pp., errata leaf at end, engraved frontispiece and engraved map stained, text age-toned with occasional foxing, cont. half-calf, later cloth reback, corners rubbed. This is an authentic account of the life of the missionary George Vason who was one of the first ten Christian missionaries to arrive in Tonga. He left the missionaries at Tonga and lived among the natives for four years. He began to dress and live as a Tongan, and married one of the native girls. He built up an estate and became a prosperous Tongan gentlemen until the beginning of the civil wars in 1799. He was tattooed, and looked and spoke like a Tongan. He escaped the wars on the ship, Royal Admiral, and returned to Nottingham where he died in 1838. He told his story to James Orange and only two versions have been printed, this one in 1810 and one in 1840. His description of Tonga at the end of the eighteenth century is important in that it precedes William Mariner's longer account published in 1817, but the two accounts give uniquely objective reports of Tonga before and during the civil war. Hill, Pacific Voyages, p.306; Ferguson, 507b; Howgego, D37 and E9.
Softcover. Reprinted by photolitho from the original edition of 1786. Introduction by G.R. Crone, formerly Librarian and Map Curator of the Royal Geographical Society. Noticeable light staining along leading edge of back cover. Covers are generally grubby. Light creasing across lower leading corners of front and back covers. Leading corners quite worn. Spine ends a little worn. Spine sunned. Page block quite grubby. Small creases across lower leading corners of first two or three pages. Contents sound. AF Used
8vo [21 x 13.5 cm]; [iv], iv, [ii], 402, [iv, ads] pp, frontis of two headed snake. later cloth, gilt title lettering on leather label, signature on margin of title, some light toning to margins, very good in near fine cover. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author was friends with Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Priestly and was a fellow of the Royal Society. An American, he was accused of spying for both Britain and United States in the American Revolution. According to Casey Wood, 220: "One of the earliest and most informative accounts of the flora and fauna of the Guianas." Sabin 3106: "A very useful and entertaining work." Field 70: 'The especial subject of the author's inquiries regarding the Indians is the nature and use of the Wourali Poison, with which their weapons are charged'. Cox II, 281. Not only a description of the natural history of the area, but includes a description of the native peoples and geography, rivers and villages. Some copies have the contents pages bound at the end which was arbitrary. Sabin's copy had the contents pages at the beginning as does this copy, which is the preferred position for contents pages.
8vo [21 x 13.5 cm]; [iv], iv, [ii], 402, [ii, ads] pp, engraved frontis of two headed snake. later full calf, gilt ruled on covers and spine, gilt title lettering on red morocco spine label, old and partly erased inkstamp on title margin, else a near fine copy, clean, in fine and attractive binding. A picture of this book is available upon reques The author was friends with Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Priestly and was a fellow of the Royal Society. An American, he was accused of spying for both Britain and United States in the American Revolution. According to Casey Wood, 220: "One of the earliest and most informative accounts of the flora and fauna of the Guianas." Sabin 3106: "A very useful and entertaining work." Field 17: 'The especial subject of the author's inquiries regarding the Indians is the nature and use of the Wourali Poison, with which their weapons are charged'. Cox II, 281. Not only a description of the natural history of the area, but includes a description of the native peoples and geography, rivers and villages. Some copies have the contents pages bound at the end which was arbitrary. Sabin's copy had the contents pages at the beginning as does this copy, which is the preferred position for contents pages.
pp. [1], 167, [1] (Errata). 12mo. 170mm. Text somewhat browned, and the title page is brittle, and has some chipping. Disbound. XLib. (Case Library). Still, a good copy of a scarce and significant book. New Jersey born John Cosens Ogden (1751-1800) obtained orders in the Church of England, and his chief work was as a missionary He was rector of the Episcopal Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (1786-1793); and later he was a presbyter in the Episcopal Church in New York City. Among his earlier writings he published 'A Tour Through Upper and Lower Canada.' The Christian Society called the United Brethren or Moravians in Pennsylvania had obtained great celebrity and generated much curiosity - not only as a religious sect, but also as a socially, economically, and commercially successful people. To observe them for himself, Ogden made a pilgrimage to Bethlehem in September of 1799. In this important work, he describes; their customs; doctrines; education; social structure; architecture; etc. He also discusses for the topography, resources, agriculture, and commercial life of the Bethlehem region. Included too is a history of the Moravians, and he gives a fairly detailed account of their missionary work, especially with the Native American Indians (including an account of the massacre of the Christian Indians at Salem and Gnadenahutten). This is one of the earliest English language accounts of the Moravian Church in colonial America. The printer Charles Cist (1738-1805) was an entrepreneur of the first order. With Melchior Steiner, he established a printing and publishing business. During the American Revolution, he published many documents relating to current events, including Paine's The American Crisis. In 1781 the firm was dissolved, and Cist continued in business alone. He began the publication of The American Herald in 1784, and of the Columbian Magazine in 1786. Cist aided the colonial government during the revolution by endorsing large amounts of continental currency, which he was later compelled to redeem. He was the first person to introduce anthracite coal into general use in the United States. In 1792 he was a member of the Lehigh Coal Company, and brought several wagons full of this coal to Philadelphia, where he offered to give it away. But he could not dispose of it, and was threatened with mob violence for trying to impose on the people with a lot of black stones (coal). In 1793 he was secretary of the Fame Fire Association, and announced that the society had procured a fire-escape apparatus to save persons from burning houses by means of a bucket drawn up to the top of the building. During the administration of John Adams, he became public printer, and established an extensive printing office and book bindery in Washington, D.C., at great expense, for the purpose of publishing public documents. Evans 38149; Howes 037; Sabin 56815. First Edition. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN5 BOX 2.
pp. 487 + 58 Lithograph plates, (some folding and some tinted). 8vo. Original full cloth binding. First edition. As usual, without the separate folder containing the two maps. Mildly XLib. Howes S-884; Field 1490; Sabin 90372; Graff 3947; Wagner-Camp 219:2. "HOWARD STANSBURY, Born in New York City in 1806, Howard Stansbury was trained as a civil engineer. In October 1828 Stansbury secured a position with the U nited States topographical Bureau as a civil engineer, and for the next ten years was employed as a surveyor and supervisor of various public works in the Midwest and along the Atlantic Coast. On 7 July 1838 Stansbury was granted a commission as a first lieutenant in the newly formed Army Corps of Topographical Engineers and was advanced to captain in 1840. From 1838 to 1849 he directed projects for the corps in the Great Lakes region, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and, during the Mexican War, at some fortifications in the Dry Tortugas in the Gulf of Mexico. The supreme assignment of his army career was to lead an expedition in 1849 to the valley of the Great Salt Lake. His orders directed him to survey and map the Great Salt Lake and its valley as well as Utah Valley; to evaluate the various emigrant roads in the area, including the Oregon Trail; and to examine and report on the capability of the Mormon community at Salt Lake City to provide food and supplies for overland travelers. During the year he and his second in command, Lieutenant J.W. Gunnison, spent in Utah, Stansbury completed his assignment and produced a remarkable Report, which also went through several editions as a private publication. Stansbury's Report along with Gunnison's book, The Mormons, provided the outside world with an objective look at the Mormons of Utah as well as with a scientific appraisal of the resources and fauna and flora of this section of the Great Basin. Captain Stansbury spent the next years, until the outbreak of the Civil War, improving harbors in the Great Lakes and building roads in Minnesota Territory. When the war came, he was appointed as mustering officer at Columbus, Ohio, and later was placed in charge of recruiting for the state of Wisconsin. Stansbury served only forty -five days in this post before he died on 13 April 1863 at the age of fifty-six of "disease of the heart." His obituary noted that his early death came as a result of the "over-exertions and hardships " endured during his Great Salt Lake expedition. Stansbury was buried at St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1863." Brigham D. Madsen. See: Brigham D. Madsen, Exploring the Great Salt Lake: The Stansbury Expedition of 1849-50 (1989). SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W146
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Signed and dedicated by author on title page. Very minor edgewear to jacket and faint creases to upper corners of first few pages, no other faults. AD Used
356 p. Hardcover Ex-library, Very good condition [3 rubber stamps]
4to [28 x 23 cm]; xii, 364, [ii, index], [i, errata] pp, 2 large folding engraved maps, index, with the half-title page, appendices. contemporary cloth, spine title lettering, spine ends worn, light browning on outer margins of last few leaves, very good, interior clean and fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. An important work, the best on India of the time. The American edition was published without the maps. Kress B2182. Cox I, 304, Goldsmith 14602.
- John van Voorst, London 1882, 16,5x26cm, relié. - Edition originale. Reliure à la bradel en plein cartonnage marine, dos lisse comportant de petites traces de frottements sans gravité, deux coins très légèrement émoussés, gardes et contreplats de papier noir. Ouvrage bien complet de ses planches comportant la représentation de 45 papillons rehaussés à l'aquarelle. Très rares rousseurs. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
