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1716e7133aLondon: Andrew Bell; T Varnham; J Osborn; &c. G: in good condition. Rebacked with new eps. Fold out map with some staining and tape repair at fold. Occxasional slight foxing. 1716. Second Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 190mm x 120mm 7" x 5". xxxii 392pp plates. Fold out map and fold out plate. . Particularly of their Druids Heathen Temples Monasteries Churches Chappels Antiquities Monuments Forts Caves and other Curiosities of Art and Nature: Of their Admirable and Expeditious Way of Curing Most Diseases by Simples of their own Product. A Particular Account of the Second Sight or Faculty of Foreseeing Things to Come by Way of a Vision so Common Among them. A Brief Hint of Methods to Improve Trade in that Country Both by Sea and Land. . . Andrew Bell; T Varnham; J Osborn; &c hardcover
1770041343London: Printed for Newbery and Carnan 1770. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Set of 10 volumes octavo; complete with 240 copper plates and vignettes in the text. Bound in contemporary calf green and red spine labels gilt rules decorations and lettering. Edges of several boards lightly rubbed. 7" x 4" This is quite an elaborate county-by-county treatment of the 18th-century English and Welsh countryside with its small towns castles monuments Roman ruins cathedrals &c. with handsome copper-engraved plates of views and buildings. Printed for Newbery and Carnan hardcover
8vo [22 x 14 cm]; [iv], 155 pp, large folding map with hand coloring as frontis, the map with engraved inset views of New Amsterdam and George Town lighthouse. later cloth-backed boards, spine title label, short tear at stub of map, barely perceptible foxing at outer edge of text block, small mark on cover, else a near fine and clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author [1804-1865] was one of the most important explorers of northeastern South America, and especially of Guiana, where he was commissioned to survey the boundaries of British Guiana and explored the rivers Essequibo, Corentyne, Berbice and Rio Branco, and to Mount Roraima, being the first to reach the source of the Essequibo, and discovered many new species of plants. He reports on the geography, natural history, inhabitants, society, towns, government, climate, etc of the country as well as the resources and current conditions. He was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1845 for his achievements. This book is the first detailed account of the colony.
8vo. 31, (1) pp. With frontispiece and 4 plates with wood engravings, of which one signed [Ebenezer] "Landells", as well as 8 text illustrations. Thread-stitched in original pale orange wrappers with decorative title printing in red and green. Printed for the proprietors of the junk and sold only on board. Exhibition catalogue for the Chinese trade junk "Keying", at anchor for visitors against admission in the London Docklands in 1848. Personalised copy of the Swedish visitor Carl Peter Freidenfeldt, with autograph of and stamped by the Mandarin on board, He Sing. - The "Keying", an impressive 3-masted 800-ton sailing ship, was the first Chinese vessel ever to sail from Hong Kong to New York and further to London. The junk had been purchased in 1846 in secrecy by unknown British businessmen in Hong Kong, defying a Chinese law prohibiting the sale of Chinese ships to foreigners. Loaded with artefacts and oddities of Chinese culture and sailing with a mixed crew of Chinese and British sailors under the command of Captain Charles Alfred Kellett, the "Keying" reached New York in July 1847 and fast became an attraction serving as a kind of floating ethnographic museum. - In late March 1848, the "Keying" arrived in London to great fanfare, anchoring in the London Docklands, at Blackwall. Several different medals were struck to commemorate its appearance, including one that had a bust of Mandarin Hesing. The ship was visited by Queen Victoria, whose right to be the first European woman to visit it was reserved, as well as by the Duke of Wellington and Charles Dickens. It has been suggested that the Chinese Emperor was aware of the project from the start and was secretly kept informed about it, and that the mandarin served as an informer to report back in detail. Visitors were "received by a Mandarin of Rank and a Chinese Artist of Celebrity" (promotional text on rear cover). - Apart from the description of the ship as a whole, the cook-house and the decks, the present catalogue also contains an annotated and partly illustrated list of Chinese objects (musical instruments, weapons, tableware etc.) exhibited in different parts of the ship. - The wood-engraved plates are captioned "The Keying", "Portrait of Hesing", "Stern of the Keying", "After Deck", and "Saloon". - Ink ownership of "C[arl] P[eter] Freidenfelt, London den 15 Aug. 1848", at the upper edge of front cover. Front flyleaf (recto of 1st plate) with two red ink stamps depicting Chinese characters, one of them being the seal of Prince Hui Rui. Above and below the signature "Hesing" and the word "Keying" in Latin and Chinese letters written in bold ink; at top and bottom of the page a tiny ink comment in Swedish by Freidenfelt: "Anm: Nedanstående är måladt med pensel af den Chinesiske mandarinen Hesing ombord på den Chinesiska Junken den 15 Aug. 1848 på Londons redd. Då jag besökte Mandarinen, fann jag honom läsande Nya Test. på Chinesiska. Han sade på engelska 'a very good book; makes good for the heart.' (Note: The following is painted with a brush by the Chinese mandarin Hesing aboard the Chinese Junk on Aug. 15th 1848 at London's docks. When I visited the Mandarin, I found him reading New Testament in Chinese. He said in English 'a very good book; makes good for the heart'". - An 8 mm tear to rear cover professionally repaired. Wrappers slightly worn with some minor stains, otherwise a well preserved copy.
Hardcover in good condition; jacket in acceptable condition. Previously owned by Donald Chesworth; his bookplate on the front pastedown. The jacket is marked and edgeworn, with nicked and creased edges. 3cm tear on the rear upper edge. The jacket leading corners and spine ends are chipped and torn. Small label on front inner flap. Wear and fading to the hardcover. The leading corners are a little bumped. Some marks on the page block. Stamps on the title page and copyright page. Faint creases and marks on some pages. All text and the fold out map are clear. CM Used
1839003970Philade;phia: Carey & Hart 1839. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. j242 228pp. Original boards cloth backed. Covers edgewornspotted paper spine labels partially chipped off contents are age-darkened and have very little foxing bindings are tight earl owners' names on flyleaves and first text page of second volume. English author's account of his American tour which appeared in 1839 simultaneously in London Paris and in various editions in Philadelphia and New York. Howes M -300. <br/> <br/> Carey & Hart hardcover
18391189Philadelphia: Carey & Hart 1839. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimos. 242 and 228 pages. Very good in original bindings of pebbled green cloth over boards with paper spine labels. Shallow chipping at heads of spines minor wear and toning to spine labels faint spotting to cloth. Hinges sound interiors mildly age toned. Overall a very attractive set. Frederick Marryat was a British naval officer and pioneering nautical fiction writer. He traveled to America in 1836-1837 and this is the first American edition of his account of that visit. It is an interesting outside view but his criticisms of American culture and society led some to publicly burn his book and effigy. <br /> <br /> Ref. SABIN 44696; HOWES M300; MCKINSTRY P248. Carey & Hart unknown
Paperback Clean Copy
1913007838Los Angeles: Grafton Publishing 1913. xv 196pp map 14 duo-toe photographs. Beautiful pictorial decoration to cloth. Slight rubbing. Guide to the history brief of Mexico with chapters on each of the states and territories constitution rights of foreigners agriculture mining and more. Nice 2 page map at rear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Grafton Publishing Hardcover
191346076New York: Dodd Mead & Co. 1913. Two vols. Thick 8vo. xiii 1 354; x 324 pp. Red ribbed cloth gilt lettering on spines t.e.g. minor shelfwear still a NF set w/ bookplate on front pastdown of P.E. Bowles. First edition of this fascinating memoir of life and travel by Mary Crawford Fraser d. 1922 wife of the British Minister to Japan was well known for her missionary efforts in Asia. Of particular interest is the substantial portion of the second volume devoted to their life in Peking & China in the 1870s. Dodd, Mead & Co., hardcover
Royal 8vo. XLVIII, IV, 1478 pp. + (2), 8 pp. of publisher's catalogue. With 11 folded maps and charts. Publisher's original full cloth, blindstamped and with gilt lettering. Third edition of Findlay's monumental navigational directory of Eastern Asia, including the Straits of Malacca, Sunda, and Singapore, the east coast of Sumatra, the Gulf of Siam (now Thailand), the coasts of Cochin China, Tonkin, Borneo, the Philippines, the China Sea, Java and the Java Sea, the islands, the coast of China, Hong Kong, Formosa (Taiwan), Shanghai, and Korea. - Inner front hinge reinforced, but clean and fine. Stamps of the Royal Danish Navy Library and the Royal Danish Maps and Charts Archive on title-page. Rare: OCLC lists a single copy (in the National Library of Sweden). OCLC 940735103.
144 pages. "Chronicles the author's 20 year odyssey amongst the Gulf Islands in Georgia Strait off the British Columbia coast." - from back board. Binding intact. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Worthy reading copy. Book
228pp. , illus. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
1916000804London: Methuen & Co. 1916. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. 8 248 followed by 31 1 pages of adverts. Includes a photo frontispiece of the author. Bound in green publishers cloth. No dust jacket. The binding contains a shelf lean; minor rubbing and bumping are present; the spine and edges are lightly faded. A note is handwritten on the verso of the frontispiece dated Sept. 1916. The title page shows some age-toning. Minor spots of foxing are present on the prelims and on the outer edge of the title. Interior pages are otherwise clean. <br/> <br/> Methuen & Co. hardcover
192059816Los Angeles CA: MacDonald Collection ca. 1920-1955. Archive of 89 coated labels sized from 2.25 x 3.5 in. up to 6.25 x 8.5 in. with many in the middle ranges including distinctive 5.25 in. rounds most colour lithographs some with metallic inks nearly all retaining the original adhesive from never having been applied to luggage in assorted shapes many round others rectangular square diamond shaped etc. most on thin coated paper stock all NF condition from the library of Archibald Angus MacDonald 1892-1977 stepson of famed southern California oil man William F. Byrne as well as oil company and drilling equipment company owner and manager of MacDonald & Burns Oil Producers. A delightful and remarkably colourful small archive of fine lithographed and colour printed luggage labels preserved from over three decades of ocean liner travel by the well-to-do California oil family. Their frequent voyages carried them to Hawaii Asia South Asia Africa Europe and the Americas preserving luggage labels souvenir brochures and more along the way. At the time they were an essential advertising campaign largely driven by the popular Grand Hotels and were often illustrated by such renowned commercial and graphic artists as Dan Sweeney and Mario Borgoni. Included amongst these are iconic labels for the historic Park Hotel depicting jockeys racing on the Shanghai Club race track in front of the iconic Art Deco building completed in 1934; The Cathay & The Metropole in Shanghai operated by Cathay Hotels Ltd.; the historic Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon Hong Kong opened in 1928 and founded by the brothers Ellis & Elly Kadoorie still considered one of the finest hotels east of the Suez; or beautiful scenic labels created for the Eastern & Oriental Hotel the “E&O†still considered one of the finest hotels in Southeast Asia and the Oriental Hotel in Kobe Japan. Also present are labels for the Raffles Hotel in Singapore originally opened in 1887 Mrs. Ch’ien’s Guest House located originally not far from the Legation Quarter in Peking Maidens Hotel Delhi the splendid Clark’s Hotel Benares Varanasi still considered the finest heritage hotel in the city and the Imperial Hotel of New Delhi opened in 1936 designed by F.B. Blomfield. The MacDonald’s visited the Philippines several times often staying the Manila Hotel Hawaii where the Royal Hawaiian and the Kiluaea Volcano House were their places of choice and frequently stated at The Biltmore in Los Angeles after returning from trips the Plaza in Buenos Aires the Waldorf in New York and many of the major European Hotels. Also present are labels for the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo Sri Lanka founded in 1865 featuring the historic south wing designed by Edward Skinner and one of the oldest hotels East of Suez. South Africa was a stopover during their 1952 Great Africa-India Cruise on the RMS Caronia and labels include Polley’s Hotel Pretoria the Imperial Hotel in Pietermaritzburg and the North Western Hotel Livingstone N. Rhodesia. MacDonald Collection, unknown
Fascinating account of travelling around Turkey and describing the social and conditions & behaviour of the people, with observations on the rise and abolition of the Fez serving as a paradigm for all the changes that their traditions have endured through the modernization and Westernization of their culture. 294p. bibliography Book
Fascinating account of travelling around Turkey and describing the social and conditions & behaviour of the people, with observations on the rise and abolition of the Fez serving as a paradigm for all the changes that their traditions have has endured thorugh the modernization and westernization of their culture.294p. bibliography.map Book
8vo [24 x 17.5 cm]; x, 194 pp, 4 fine color lithographed (chromolithograph) bird plates by J. G. Keulemans, numerous illustrations from photos, 6 maps including one folding colored map of Columbia, & one double-page colored map of Curacao, bibliog. original green pictorial cloth with picture of flying bird in silver and black, spine and front cover title lettering, signature of Frank Braskhill-Fieles on title, spine slightly spotted, a clean near fine copy. A picture of this book is available upon r Wood 540 (noting only one colored map). Ripley 244. Smith R48: 'This is the account of a trip to the tropics to collect ornithological specimens in 1892. It is interestingly told, with many photographs and illustrations and with observations of the people as well. A good bibliography is given on Columbia and Cuacao'. There are various lists of birds, with comments, both observed by the author and from others including the 38 species of hummingbirds of Columbia. The author was a lifelong soldier and educator, at Harvard and the U. S. Military Academy. Not in Bennett (American Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books).
large 8vo [26 x 18 cm]; 542 pp, color photos, black & white photos, over 250 drawings, hieroglyphs, maps, plans, bibliog, index. original cloth-backed boards, gilt spine title lettering, dj, fine and clean, no marks or ownerships. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A scholarly and well-illustrated history of the Maya based on the their hieroglyphs by the premier authorities on the subject. Very well-illustrated.
8vo [22 x 14 cm]; xii, 299 pp, frontis (port), 2 maps, including one foldout, index. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering in gilt border, endpaper signature, endpaper lightly toned, interior is clean and near fine, in very good+ cover. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Based on three month's travel on the Huallage River, an Amazon tributary, from its source at 14,000 feet in the Andes to Yurimaguas at 500 feet sea level and the return to the Pacific by the ancient trade route through northern Peru. The author, a distinguished gardener, discovered a new genus of plants and several new species. There is much on the scenery, native people, camp life, etc. Good illustrations including the orchid Sobralia gloriosa growing beside the Yana-yacu River.
viii, 92 pages, illustrated, appendices, page edges dusty, revised by R.R. May. eng
Duodecimo in b/w and blue pictorial wraps (white spine); b/w illus.; 79 p., 19 cm. In English. || Series: Fortnight holiday series. Scarce.
Text and photographs from his life and work. Introduzione di Robert Redford. Numerosefotografie a colori e illustrazioni in nero. Testo in inglese . 4to. pp. 146. . Molto buono (Very Good). Sovracoperta riparata al retro con nastro adesivo (Small tear to dust jacket, tape repaired on verso). . .
1993313933Toronto: Univ of Toronto Pr 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Signed by Author. pp. xxii 3 339. Signed by editor on title page Univ of Toronto Pr hardcover
PO077441911 (2nd ed.) x, 183 p., 96 figs, 7 pls, 1 folded plan, original printed boards.
