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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
191225294J.M. Nunes | s. l. 1912 | 17.50 x 25 cm | broché
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
255 p. Hardcover Good condition First published 1899
1925DEZ-7518New-York, G.P. Putnam's sons, 1925. In-8, percaline éditeur, titre doré au dos et sur le plat supérieur, dos et plat supérieur ornés de décors dorés, plat supérieur orné d'une carte en couleurs. XXVII, 554 pp. Ouvrage illustré de 24 planches dont 8 en couleurs et de nombreuses gravures in-texte. Plat inférieur gondolé, coins légèrement frottés, rousseurs sur les tranches, papier un peu jauni.
Hardcover in good condition. Dust jacket is marked and edgeworn with a few nicks. Film on jacket is slightly chipped at places. Hardcover is faded on lower edges and spine foot. Foxing on page block, pastedowns and endpapers. Contents are clear. AM Used
anglais In-8 de 253 pp.; cartonné toile de l'éditeur (cloth). Texte en anglais. Illustrations hors texte.
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
37567Papeete, Tahiti Les Editions du Pacifique 1981 in 12 (19x12,5) 1 volume reliure skivertex vert de l'éditeur, dos et plat supérieur titrés en lettres dorées, 283 pages. Jean Mariotti, écrivain calédonien. Réédition en fac-similé de l'édition de Paris 1942. Tirée à 700 exemplaires. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
12mo [19 x 13 cm]; 203, [i, ads] pp, frontis, 22 illustrations from photos on 10 plates, folding map, index. original cloth, gilt lettering, spine faded but gilt lettering clear, lacks blank front endpaper, lightly foxed but mostly in margins, very good. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. An interesting and important account of travels in the region, including travel to Para, Manaos, Teffe, etc, by boat with comments on the people as well as the flora & fauna, with some detail on palms and other trees. At Teffe, the author compares the conditions to where Bates (The Naturalist on the Rivers Amazon) spent several years starting in 1855.
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
345p., illus. 32 cm Hardcover Fine condition, leather boards
Near fine/near fine (wrap-around half-size dj very lightly soiled, marbled boards with green buckram backstrip and gilt titles and bands on spine, decorative speckled page edges, all tight and bright as new but ?front endpaper missing) octavo 406pp. Third edition revised and enlarged by the author, reissued with some small alterations relating to recent years. History of Williamsburg being an account of the most important occurrences in that place from its first begining to the present time. Printed in 18th century style. B/w illustrations, 2 fold-out maps.
pp. xviii, (48) [Facsimile]. 12mo. Original paper covered binding, boards decorated with map. Spine lettered in gold. Original slip case, paper title label slightly browned. Hardbound. First of a Facsimile Series Printed Especially for the Members of the History Book Club. VOYAGES BOX 1
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
12mo [17.5 x 11 cm]; 6, 165 pp, extra title page reproduced from the original edition. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, very fine and clean, unmarked, as new copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Markman 894: 'A journal and correspondence of the author while he was a resident in Guatemala in the 1820's. Notes and comments on contemporary life and more'. Grieb gu1392: 'Focusing on lifestyles, customs and culture'. Includes considerable comment on and description of Belize. By a Scots merchant and traveller (1799-1827). From the preface: 'The author is not without hope that it will prove both interesting and instructive. It is the plain, unvarnished outline of the life of one who's worth was manifested more by deeds then by words. His faith was fixed upon the rock of ages. It did not evaporate in wordy and lengthened confessions of self-abasement; nor did it seek to revel in the imaginary delights of self-righteousness. In this memoir there is something to amuse, and also something to inform the mind. The notes on Guatemala will be found valuable, inasmuch as we have been hitherto without much information in reference to that interesting country'. With a new introduction by James C. Andrews, giving a historical perspective and a short bibliography. isbn 0913129011
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
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.
1906ROD0035392"Imprimerie Forestié et Fils, Montauban. 1906. In-8. Broché. A relier, Couv. défraîchie, Dos abîmé, Intérieur bon état. 306p. Couverture rempliée. Exemplaire N° 226 / 500, hors commerce. Photographie en frontispice : ""croisière par Raoul du GARDIER. Texte encadré d'un liseret rouge. lettines et en-tête. Nombreuses gravures hors texte. Mouillures sur le dos et sur la page de garde. En létat, exmeplaire de travail.. . . . Classification Dewey : 910.4-Voyages"
1985ND202651985 [6], 690 p., portrait, 4to, cloth. Added is: Supplement to the Calendar, 1994 (iii, 46 p.).
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
1951621135New York, Smith, 1951. Gr.-8vo. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Originalleinen (Rücken leicht verblaßt).
