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1940ABC_46347London: Meteorological Office Air Ministry 1940. Original publisher's printed red wrappers. 8vo. With map frontispiece and several illustrations and tables in the text. First edition of a rare climatological study originating from a series of meteorological handbooks of the Indian Ocean issued by the British government between 1940 and 1944. The three-volume series comprising a total of 12 parts was prepared by the Meteorologial Office Air Ministry in cooperation with the Naval Meteorological Branch Admiralty London; it was reprinted for the U.S. Navy as late as 1980. The ESSA Technical Memorandum of 1969 mentions another reprint in 1945.The present volume is the last of nine parts of volume II covering the climate of the East African coast from the equator to Cape Delgado discussing tropical cyclones and depressions winds visibility clouds rain and hail temperature humidity and other meteorological events. The frontispiece shows a map of the relevant area; additional diagrams illustrate surface winds and higher winds as well as the amount of clouds and rainfall. The tables show the general climate in Mombasa Tanga Zanzibar Dar es Salaam Kilwa and Lindi as well as the monthly frequency of wind direction and force at sea and in the upper air and the visibility at coastal stations.Library shelfmark in pencil as well as a mounted blank loaning sheet to final blank page. 7 combinations of letters and digits in black felt pen to lower cover. Traces of a shelfmark label and a cancelled inscription to front cover. Not a single copy in auction records.l U.S. Department of Commerce ESSA Technical Memorandum EDSTM10 A Note on Climatology of Thailand and Southeast Asia 164 19; WorldCat 1181290135. Meteorological Office, Air Ministry, unknown
18813840London: W H Harrison 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 168 pp. Penzer p 106. Becoming scarce. Burton traveled to Bavaria to see if there was any connection between the survival of "Christian Mystery" the great religious drama in the highlands of Bavaria and the living scenes at Ek-Islam and Meccah. Publisher's presentation copy in orig. red gilt cloth slightly darkened at edges & spine. Endpaper cracked but hinges are firm. Rare in orig. cloth. Better than vg. W H Harrison hardcover
184291013London: Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 1842. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good because of fragile repaired map. 2 vols. 4 folding maps 3 in Part I and one in Part II xxvi 744 637p. Contemporary 1/2 leather with marbled boards. Covers intact but rather heavily scuffed and rubbed. Bookplates removed on both front pastedowns. Contents generally sound and clean although the large folding map of the coast of West Africa in Part Volume II is fragile. That map had split apart along many of the original folds and elsewhere. While it had been carefully put back together it needs careful handling when folding or unfolding to keep nthe map intact. These volumes contain a wealth of material about British trade and administrative activities in Gambia Sierra Leone and Gold Coast the three areas of particular British interest and control in West Africa at that time -- Lagos and other pieces of what is now modern Nigeria were still outside British influence and control in 1842 and Benin hadn't yet been grabbed by Germany before passing to Great Britain after World War I. These volumes also contain quite a bit of information about British efforts to suppress and end the slave trade. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed hardcover
188752601London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Livingston 1887. Second edition of volume I first edition of volume II; 2 volumes 8vo pp. xvi 2 316; viii 2 318; mounted albumen frontispiece portrait by H. S. Mendelssohn folding map printed in color 20 wood-engraved plates plus other wood engravings in the text; slightly later full green crushed levant gilt monogram of Henry Arthur Johnstone and gilt tools exposed sewing thongs at inner corners of covers t. e.g. pigskin endpapers with Johnstone's nautical ex-libris stamped in brown on the front free endpaper and dated 1899; light rubbing at extremities all else near fine. The library of Henry Arthur Johnstone which contained a large proportion of books on natural history was sold en bloc to the London bookseller Clements in 1921 and thence dispersed. Mendelssohn I p. 812-3: "The work is an important contribution to the history of exploration in South-Equatorial Africa and contains an excellent account of the physical features of these regions and of their fauna inhabitants &c. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Livingston unknown
189452719London: Longmans Green and Co 1894. First edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xx 435 1; xii 397 1; 2 large folding color maps both with short tears near the stubs the second incorporating 3 inset maps 179 illustrations in the text a number full-page; contemporary full red polished calf gilt supralibros on the upper covers of the Boston School and with Boston School prize bookplates in each volume; lightly rubbed; very good. Czech Africa p. 78: "An excellent work of exploration and sport this scarce set represents African adventure at its finest. Longmans, Green, and Co unknown
181967124London: printed for Henry Colburn Conduit Street 1819. 2 volumes 8vo pp. xv 1 375 1; 4 396; folding map 7 hand-colored aquatints; original drab paper-covered boards printed paper labels on spines; light wear; very good and sound. First published in 1816 with 2 fewer aquatints and with the title Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa. Written by the sister-in-law of Richard Tully British Consul at Tripoli between 1783 and 1793. The female members of Tully's family were on intimate terms with the Bashaw's family. Thus the narrative contains a unique insight into the life of the Seraglio. The letters were published from the originals in the possession of the family of the late Richard Tully comprising authentic memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning Bashaw his family and other persons of distinction. Also included are accounts of the domestic matters of the Moors Arabs and Turks. One of the most important records of Tripolitan life during the 18th century. "These letters will prove no less important to the political inquirer than amusing to the public at large; laying open much that will materially assist the comprehensive views of the stateman blended with all the rich entertainment that so greatly distinguished the correspondence of Lady Mary Wortley Montague" Preface. See Abbey Travel 299; Blackmer 1682; Tooley 493 for the 1816 edition. printed for Henry Colburn, Conduit Street unknown
22067LONDON. STRAHAN AND CADELL. 1777. FIRST EDITION TWO VOLUMES. THIS SET CONTAINS THE FULL TEXT BUT NO PLATES. VOLUME 1: TITLE PAGES; CONTENTS; GENERAL INTRODUCTION; LIST OF PLATES PLATES NOT PRESENT; 378 PAGES. VOLUME 2: TITLE PAGES; CONTENTS; 396 PAGES. BOTH VOLUMES REBOUND IN MARBLED BOARDS WITH STIFF CREAM PAPER SPINES PAPER LABELS NEW ENDPAPERS. BINDING IS TIGHT. VOLUME 1 IS GENERALLY CLEAN WITH OCCASIONAL FOXING. IN VOL. 1 PAGE 375 HAS A SMALL HOLE WITH LOSS OF ABOUT FOUR WORDS OF TEXT. VOLUME 2 HAS EVIDENCE OF WATER STAINING UP TO PAGE 160 MAINLY IN THE WIDE MARGINS WITH LITTLE IN THE TEXT THEREAFTER A BRIGHT COPY. OVERALL A VERY GOOD CLEAN AND ATTRACTIVE SET OF THIS SCARCE WORK WITHOUT THE PLATES AND OFFERED AT AN ATTRACTIVE PRICE. PICTURES AVAILABLE. LONDON. STRAHAN AND CADELL. 1777. hardcover
22068LONDON. STRAHAN AND CADELL. 1773. FIRST EDITION VOLUME 2 ONLY OF THREE. THIS WAS COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE UNDERTAKEN IN THE DOLPHIN SWALLOW AND ENDEAVOUR. REBOUND IN MARBLED BOARDS WITH STIFF CREAM PAPER SPINES PAPER LABELS NEW ENDPAPERS. BINDING IS TIGHT. CONTAINS TITLE PAGE LIST OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 410 PAGES. THERE ARE NO PLATES IN THIS VOLUME. A VERY CLEAN COPY WITH SOME EVIDENCE OF WORM HOLES AT THE FOOT OF THE LAST 30 PAGES. PICTURES AVAILABE. LONDON. STRAHAN AND CADELL. 1773. hardcover
18713420Dehra Dun: Superintendent of the G T Survey 1871. First Edition. Orig Printed Wrappers. VG. Prepared for submission to the government of India. 25 pp ill lengthy appendix on extracts from the narrative reports on the executive offers in charge of the survey parties and operations. Numerous fold out maps accompany reports. Also with a report on the Trans-Himalayan Explorations in connections with the Great Trigonometrical Survey in India during 1879 by Major Montgomerie. 11 pp fold out maps. Contains a further memorandum on the surveys by Montgomerie. Internally near fine. Orig wrappers are 99% complete but show chipping closed tears folds etc more so on the accompanying report than on the original. Rare item more so because both are present. Superintendent of the G T Survey unknown
2J4001901. 72 S. original Handschrift sowie 50 original Fotografien der Reise und der Mission verschiedene Formate von 21 cm x 27 cm bis 105 cm x 6 cm Plattenfotografien meist auf Pappe oder in das Reisebuch montiert. - Beinhaltet: zahlreiche Reisaufnahmen / Das Schiff Prins Wilhelm I. / Cabenda Kirche in Maripastoon Eingeborene Kirche in Daeobkondre / Kirche in Makajapingo / Labrador Moravian Station / Emil und Emma Wurr Studioaufnahme bei Fotografia Central de E. Herburger. Guatemala / Großaufnahme des Inneren Manufakturwinkels Laden / Bruderfest / Eisfabrik / Schulkinder i. Charlottenberg Lehrer Henri Roy / Missionshaus in Moskito Nikaragua / Missionsschule Niesky Stationshügel Ost-Afrika / Gruppenaufnahme mit Lehrpersonal etc. - unknown
1816biblio264<p><em>First edition. Printed for Henry Colburn Conduit Street Hanover Square. London. 1816. 4to. xiii bl. 2 370pp. Folding map 5 hand coloured tissue guarded plates. Later half calf spine in six compartments with raised banding gilt lettering and motifs marbled boards new endpapers. Short detachment of tissue guard and title page to base. Very occasional spotting. A lovely volume.</em></p><p><em>Richard Tully was the British Consul at Tripoli from 1783 to 1793 and according to the preface these letters were written by his sister; and attributed to his sister-in-law in the second and third editions. The author's identity has always been a mystery: there is no record of a sister nor of another female family member residing in Tripoli apart from Mr Tully's wife and two daughters. The final entry is dated April 30 1795 Gibraltar. It reads: "Since you must have had my letters with the journal of Tripoli". Louisa Maria Tully daughter of Richard Tully married Alexander Simpson on 19 March 1795 in Gibraltar. Her sister Anne married Gaspar Gomez de la Serna Perez de Beas having four children before his death in 1808 residing in Minorca. Both daughters were fluent in Arabic both were intimate with the court of Tripoli regarded as daughters of the Court. Mrs Tully may be discounted as the author as she is referred to in the third person. The first person authors are variably "we" or "I". I suggest that these letters were written by the Tully sisters.</em></p><p><em>Byron admitted his plagiarism of this work "by the way much of the description of the furniture in Canto Third of Don Juan is Taken from Tully's Tripoli pray note this. Remember I never meant to conceal this at all."</em></p><p>Abbey Travel 299 Blackmer 1052</p> Printed for Henry Colburn, British and Foreign Public Library hardcover
1823275434Diesbachische Buchhandlung Prag 1823. Hardcover Pappe ohne Schutzumschlag 18. Band 1.-6. Abtheilung Seite 1 bis 607. Mit Charten und 4 Kupfern. Zustand: Bei der ersten der insgesamt vier Faltkarten ist nur eine Ecke vorhanden. Keine Eintragungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten bestoßen berieben mit Abschabungen. Trotzdem insgesamt gut erhalten in allem original. Mit Kennungen einer Bibliothek Stempel Rückenschild. Diesbachische Buchhandlung, Prag, hardcover
DG-39-192838884Fine. In Stock One Like New copy in like new dust jacket protected in mylar. unknown
164421312Romae: Andree Phaei 1644. 4to pp. 18 93 1; engraved vignette title page 4 engraved plates 2 folding 1 double-p. 12 woodcuts in the text 1 hand-colored; bound with as issued: Romano De antiquis Romanorum ritibus Rome 1644 pp. 10 95-269 20; engraved vignette title page 10 engraved plates 2 folding 1 double-p. 2 double-p. and folding 18 woodcuts in the text; bound with: Romano De veteribus christianorum ritibus Rome 1645 engraved title page pp. 18 496 71; 6 engraved plates 1 double-p. 1 folding 1 folding and double-p. 8 woodcuts in the text; printer's woodcut device on the final leaf; bound in contemporary limp vellum front hinge broken the whole rubbed and worn internally very good. Graesse p. 59; Ibrahim-Hilmy p. 120. Andree Phaei unknown
191352528London: Macmillan and Co 1913. First edition 8vo pp. xv 1 379 1 6 ads; folding table giving particulars of 25 felled elephants 27 photographic illustrations on 16 plates; some rubbing at the extremities otherwise a very good copy in original red cloth gilt-lettered spine. Czech Africa p. 156: "A pre-eminent elephant hunting title this details Stigand's big game hunting efforts primarily in British East Africa North Eastern Rhodesia Nyasaland and the Lado Enclave. Macmillan and Co unknown
20217EDINBURGH. GAVIN ALSTON. 1776. GEORGE ANSON LATE LORD ANSON COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF A SQUADRON OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS SENT UPON AN EXPEDITION TO THE SOUTH SEAS COMPILED FROM HIS PAPERS AND MATERIALS BY RICHARD WALTER M.A. CHAPLAIN TO HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP THE CENTURION IN THAT EXPEDITION. TWO VOLUMES CROWN 8vo FULL ELEGANT MOROCCO BINDINGS IN TAN GILT BY PAUL DELRUE FOLDING MAP. A VERY HANDSOME SET. EDINBURGH. GAVIN ALSTON. 1776 unknown
22088LONDON. A NICOL. 1785. SECOND EDITION THREE VOLUMES. VOLS. 1 AND 11 WRITTEN BY COOK VOL. 111 BY JAMES KING. THIS SET CONTAINS THE FULL TEXT BUT NO PLATES. VOLUME 1: TITLE PAGES; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION lxxxix; LIST OF PLATES PLATES NOT PRESENT; 421 PAGES. VOLUME 2: TITLE PAGE; CONTENTS; 548 PAGES. VOLUME 3: CONTENTS 558 PAGES INCLUDING 7 APPENDICES. ALL VOLUMES REBOUND IN MARBLED BOARDS WITH STIFF CREAM PAPER SPINES PAPER LABELS NEW ENDPAPERS. BINDING IS TIGHT. AN EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN SET. THE TITLE PAGE TO VOLUME 3 APPEARS TO BE A PHOTOCOPY AS IS THE FOLLOWING PAGE. SOME FOXING TO THE EARLY PAGES OF VOLS. 1 AND 11 BUT OVERALL A VERY GOOD CLEAN AND ATTRACTIVE SET OF THIS SCARCE WORK WITHOUT THE PLATES AND OFFERED AT AN ATTRACTIVE PRICE. PICTURES AVAILABLE. LONDON. A NICOL. 1785. hardcover
178325416Paris chez le Sr Desnos ca 1783. 465x645 cm. Engraved map of Africa with the Mediterranean Sea at north. Contemporary handcoloured. Cartouche uncoloured. A few tears showing in right grade-scale no loss. <br/><br/><em>Jaillots fine impressive map of the continent of Africa from 1695 in Brion de la Tours revision from 1783 giving much new information and details of this continent. </em> unknown
1989VB2300310560Adesegun Johnson & Koram Publishers 1989. paperback. Very Good. 1x4x8. VERY GOOD MAY HAVE ONE PAGE OF WRITING PAGES ARE IN GREAT CONDITION USED PRODUCTS DO NOT CONTAIN ORIGINAL CONTENTS WILL HAVE SHELF WEAR AND STICKERS ON COVER. MAY HAVE MISSING CD INSERTS CODES. Adesegun, Johnson & Koram Publishers paperback
18431550London: J Hatchard 1843. First. Half Leather. Near Fine. with the troops under the command of General Sir William Nott and sermons delivered on various occasions during the campaign of 1842. 468 pp large folding plate frontis other ill. w tissue guards. Original front cover bound in rear. Lovely copy in fine half leather binding contrasting gilt stamped leather spine labels and gilt decorations in spine bands. Showing almost no wear on outside and crisp and clean with no foxing inside. A lovely copy. J Hatchard unknown
1894004628London: Longmans Green and Co 1894. Vol 1 - 435pp/illus maps incl large color fold-out map showing the expedition route through Equatorial Africa. Vol 2 - 397pp/illus/maps with large fold-out in rear. Narative of Count Samuel Teleki's exploring and hunting expedition in Eastern Equatorial Africa in 1887 and 1888. Set has standard library markings and rear pocket. Maps have light wear. Book is overwise clean. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. Longmans Green and Co hardcover
177679610Leipzig: Weygand 1776. Gebunden. Weygand unknown
168661137Amsterdam: Wolfgang Waesberge Boom & van Someren 1686. First Thus. First French edition. Folio in fours 37cm. Contemporary mottled calf spine divided into seven compartments each tooled in gilt all edges sprinkled red; plain endpapers; vi53422pp; engraved title page 26 of 42 double-page line-engraved plates 55 in-text line engravings. Lacking 17 maps and plates including the large folding map of Africa. Bookseller's embossed stamp of F. R. Thorold Johannesburg to front free endpaper. Text complete collating 2o: π1 2 A-3Z4 4A2 signed $1-3 2K3 not signed. Generally tight with minor edgewear lower front joint starting to split very occasional spots of foxing but overall clean: a sound but obviously defective copy.<br /> <br /> The only French translation of this important 1668 text on Africa considered authoritative in its day despite the fact that its Dutch author never visited Africa instead relying on primary accounts of voyages. Extensively illustrated with depictions of people cities flora and fauna; this copy lacking almost all the maps but serviceable. Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom & van Someren unknown
182528390Ave-Maria-Lane London: Geo. B. Whittaker 1825 Book. Near Fine. Rebound Copy. First Edition. Narrative of a Second Visit to Greece including facts connected with the last days of Lord Byron extracts from correspondence official documents &c. By Edward Blaquiere Esq. Author of "The Origin and Progress of the Greek Revolution" &c. Blaquiere reports on his activities in Greece on problems and progress up to 1824 in the Greek War of Independence eyewitness descriptions of Byron's death at Missolonghi transcripts of original documents relating to those activities.Part I: Introduction -- Personal narrative of the author's arrival i-iv 167p. Part II: The last days of Lord Byron -- Funeral oration -- Account of the author's visit to Anatolico -- pages 1-47 Extracts from correspondence - items I-I-XLV pages 47-175 on total 340p. frontispiece inserted facsimile letter.Printed for Geo. B. Whittaker Ave-Maria-Lane London 1825. Overall a clean tight text slight foxing to preliminaries to the frontispiece and to pages i-ix. Nicely rebound in half cloth with marbled boards by the Hitchcock Bindery at Colby College A few light pencil notes on the end paper by a previous owner about Blaquiere's writings Else fine. Blackmer 150. Geo. B. Whittaker hardcover
18943843London: privately printed 1894. Small paper edition of 1000 copies. Hardcover. VG. now first completely Englished into verse and prose. Small paper edition 1000 copies. Printed on hand made paper for private circulation only. Copy #124. 313 pp. Penzer p 156 157.One of the more erotic books produced in the 1890s. Burton died before this was published so the prose portion was completed by L. SMithers. After the success of the Arabian Nights Burton decided to take on translation of another erotic work. VG in orig. vellum over paper boards. Little wear at corners spine nice. Crisp & clean throughout. Housed in a folding cloth covered case and then in a slipcase with gilt leather spine over cloth. Raised bands on spine. Box is a little better than vg showing wear at tips on edge of raised bands and corners. However it has protected the book. privately printed hardcover
