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1897056303Washington DC;: United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO 1897. Hardcover. Very good plus. Chapters on dipping of cattle for ticks investigations of diseases of domesticated animals infectious leukemia in fowl tuberculosis in swine detection of tuberculosis in cattle etc. 8vo. 362 pages plus many plates featuring organs cells and micro-organisms many of these in color. Bound in full calf leather. Some splash discoloration along spine. A very good plus copy. <br/> <br/> United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO hardcover
1893056301Washington DC;: United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO 1893. Hardcover. Very good plus. Includes a chapter on the treatment of cattle for lumpy-jaw with eight illustrated plates. Also included are ten color plates featuring healthy and diseased organs cells and micro-organisms and the cattle tick which carries Texas fever. Adams; Rampaging Herd 2370. 8vo. 428 pages. Bound in full calf leather. Toning to page edges. Small library plate to front paste-down endpaper but none of the other usual library markings or attachments. Leather covers show some areas of light soiling. A very good plus copy. <br/> <br/> United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO hardcover
189713059Washington DC;: United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO 1897. Hardcover. Very good plus. Chapters on dipping of cattle for ticks investigations of diseases of domesticated animals infectious leukemia in fowl tuberculosis in swine detection of tuberculosis in cattle etc. 8vo. 362 pages plus many plates featuring organs cells and micro-organisms many of these in color. Bound in full calf leather. Some splash discoloration along spine. A very good plus copy. <br/> <br/> United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO hardcover
187652519London: Sampson Low Marston Low and Searle 1876. First edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xiv 2 261 1; vi 2 255 i.e. 355 1; largely unopened; 4 wood-engraved plates and 2 folding maps plus other wood-engraved illustrations in the text; a very good copy in a secondary unrecorded binding of original blindstamped terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on spines. Sir Richard Burton 1821-90 is well known for his colorful career recorded in numerous books and articles as a diplomat explorer and ethnographer. In 1861 he was appointed consul to Fernando Po now Bioko in Equatorial Guinea remaining there for four years until he was transferred to Brazil. These volumes collate the expeditions and ethnographic observations made during his time there. In his preface Burton writes that the "plain truth" about the African has not been told in Britain declaring that English occupation of West Africa has proved "a remarkable failure." First published in 1876 the second volume recounts a journey made from Fernando Po to Loango Bay and up the Congo River. Of particular interest is the penultimate chapter "The slaver and the missionary in the Congo River" in which Burton expresses his ambivalence towards a European presence in Africa. Volume 2 also includes appendices containing geographical observations. Penzer p. 94; Spink 56; Casada 66: "This work covers the Fan people and the region of the lower Congo. Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle unknown
189682435London: Hodder & Stoughton. Good; Owner's Name Inside. 1896. Hardback. 397 pages . Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
190049052Washington DC: United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO 1900. Hardcover. Very good plus. 953 pages. Six sections by the authors listed above are titled; Brief Memorandum on the Geology of the Philippine Islands; A study of Bird Mountain Vermont; Devonian Fossils from Southwestern Colorado: The Fauna of the Ouray Formation; A Preliminary Paper on the Geology of the Cascade Mountains in Northern Washington; Status of the Mesozoic Floras of the United States; The Stratigraphic Succession of the Fossil Floras of the Pottsville Formation in the Southern Anthracite Coal Field Pennsylvania. 193 plates of photographs maps and illustrations. Bound in the usual brown cloth with lettering and medaleon in gilt. Professionally rebacked with original spine pressed on. A very good plus copy. <br/> <br/> United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO hardcover
1894112770Boston: HOUGHTON & MIFFLlIN Co. 1894. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Ex-library. No lib markings visible except for traces on glue on back pastedown page. <br/> <br/> HOUGHTON & MIFFLlIN Co. hardcover
188227624London: Chato Windus 1882. Gebunden. Chato + Windus unknown
1888308<p>London: Hodder and Stoughton 1888. Hard Cover. -- 1st Edition seventh thousand. </p><p>Bound in the publisher's red cloth with coated black endpapers bright gilt lettering to the spine and an insect gilt-stamped on the front board. Illustrated with six folding maps all in color and in excellent condition as well as with several engravings. The cloth is minimally soiled the corners are slightly bumped; hinges are still strong; text is clean throughout. </p> Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
189712358Boston: Roberts Brothers 1897. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 133 pp ads with a gruesome frontis photograph of natives being hanged as spies. Original green cloth with decoration in gilt. Slight rubbing to corners gift inscription on front free endpaper mild foxing. A fictional account of the occupation of Mashonaland "in which Christ is depicted as visiting the camp fire of a trooper engaged in the expedition. The settlement of Rhodesia and the Jameson Raid are incidentally referred to with considerable animus" Mendelssohn II 281. Roberts Brothers hardcover
182269767London 1822. 8vo. 1800-talls vinrøde helskinnbind med rik ryggforgylling svakt opphøyde ryggbånd tittelfelter i mørkerødt skinn enkel strekdekor på deklene bindenes snitt dekorert i gull. viii xii 322 2 ; 2 384 s. Med et kolorert foldet kart samt 13 håndkolorerte akvatinter. Alle plansjene dublert med lerrett. Printed for the Society. Published and sold by Francis Westley Engelsk. <br/><br/><em>Tooley s. 123. Ex libris. Materien noe gulnet. </em> unknown
18611565London: Hurst & Blackett 1861. Second. Full Leather. VG-. and the Russian acquisitions on the confines of India and China with adventures among the mountain Khirghis and the Manjours Manyargs Toungouz Touzemtz Goldi and Gelyaks the hunting and pastoral tribes. 570 pp ill folding map. Full leather binding showing reasonable amount of wear. Previously recased and original spine relaid. Contrasting gilt colored leather spine label showing chipping. All edges marbled. Internally the contents are in nice condition. Hurst & Blackett unknown
180415505London: T.Cadell and W. Davies 1804. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto. pp. ix 3 632 with 8 plates including frontispiece five of which are hand-colored. Recent full calf with new endpapers original red spine label preserved three armorial ink stamps on the top edge of the text block. Tissue repair to first page of table of contents ocasional foxing and minor soiling in the margins; overall quite clean and sound. "Barrow accompanied Lord Macartney's mission to the court of China in 1792 as his private secretary and the present account.is one of the best illustrated English travels on China. The eight plates are from drawings by William Alexander who also accompanied the embassy and later published his own work. The strict exclusion of Europeans by the Chinese emperors had left China very much terra incognita to the western world well into the nineteenth century. Barrow was an excellent observer and the text contains a number of descriptions and illustrations of Chinese artifacts and novelties. Among these are a plate depicting musical instruments extensive renditions of Chinese melodies in western western notation and a long description with illustration of an abacus" Hill 62. Historian Michael Adas notes that Barrow "interspersed descriptions of his travels and personal experiences with lengthy discussions of varying aspects of Chinese culture.His judgments on the quality of Chinese life and material culture tended to be favorable at the beginning of his residence in China but grew more and more disparaging as time passed." Unlike Jesuit writers who praised the sophistication of Chinese science and culture Barrow argued that a once-great civilization had been on the decline since the fifteenth century providing "an implicit contrast between static past-minded backward China and the continually improving foreward-looking industrializing states of Europe Adas Machines as the Measure of Man pp 179-180. Cox I:346; Cordier 2388. T.Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1816404London: John Murray 1816. New Edition. Full Leather. VG. performed in the years 1795 1796 and 1797 with an account of a subsequent missions to that country in 1805. .to which is added an account of the life of Mr. Park. With an appendix containing geographical ill. of Africa by Major Rennell. 2 vol: 455 pp ill. folding map as frontis and a second one in text at p 364; 373 pp ill folding map in text at p 117. The handsome full leather binding. Boards appear to be contemporary with gilt deco and staming front and back. Spines appear to be 100 years later but expertly done to match the boards. Marbled end papers. Gilt inner dentelles. All edges marbled. John Murray unknown
187961206London: John Murray 1879. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 23cm. Full green calf gilt and blind rules along board edges spine stamped in gilt titled on brown spine label; all edges marbled; marbled endpapers; xxii418pp; 3 maps 1 with color frontispiece and 10 relief plates with tissue guards additional in-text illustrations. Bookplate of the Earls of Derby. Bright and sound mild edge rubbing spine dry and rubbed one tissue guard lacking else Very Good or better. <br /> <br /> "The British consul to Mozambique Elton spent considerable time fighting the slave trade in the region. He explored the region around Lake Nyassa and enjoyed considerable sport.During his return to the coast he contracted fever and died. His journals were arranged edited and completed by his hunting companion H. B. Cotterill." CZECH p.55. John Murray unknown
183460678New York: Harper and Brothers 1834. First American Edition. First printing. 12mo 20cm. Glazed pale red cloth titled on printed paper spine label; 4284pp; 4pp publisher's ads at rear; folding map and four plates. Bookseller's ticket of Moore & Payne to front pastedown. Ownership inscriptions of Wm. M. Holland 1836 and W. Barratt 1849 to f.f.e.p. Straight and sound minor stains to cloth light fading to spine minor foxing throughout but generally Very Good. <br /> <br /> Narrative of travels in the Eastern Cape of South Africa by a Methodist missionary. Theal acknowledged that the book was informative about the "Bantu tribes and the Wesleyan missions" but criticized it for calling out the cruelties of colonization p.158. Mendelssohn meanwhile called Theal's criticisms "drastic" and the work itself "interesting and instructive.especially with regard to the natural and political history of the country and its topography and ethnology" p.805. The term for this region used in the work's title was derived from a racial slur and is no longer in use. THEAL p.158. MENDELSSOHN I p.805. Harper and Brothers unknown
1890375405Ward Lock London 1890. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Henry Barth’s Travels & Discoveries in North and Central Africa is one of the great nineteenth century records of African exploration documenting his 1849–55 expedition across the Sahara and deep into the interior. Barth travelled through Tripoli Bornu Lake Chad Timbuktu Sokoto and the basins of the Niger and Benue producing an account remarkable for its geographical detail ethnographic observation and linguistic insight. His narrativeillustrated with full page plates and original woodcutsremains a foundational source for the history cultures and landscapes of regions then little known to European readers. 18 pages 548 pages illustrated. Bound in contemporary green cloth gilt & black lettered. Contents clean & sound throughout. Size: 12 x 18 cms. Category: Varied Books; New Arrivals; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Ward Lock hardcover
183318650London: Longman Rees Etc. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in crimson pebbled cloth gilt titles and decoration spine a little sun darkened edges lightly rubbed a lovely clean tigh copy. ; 8" x 5"; 256 pages; Baggley . Longman, Rees Etc. hardcover
189224819Portland OR: Oregon Pioneer Association/A. Anderson & Co. Printers and Lithographers 1892. First edition . Soft cover. Very good plus. 80 pages including rememberences of pioneer members plus additional material. Frontis photograph of Joseph Watt. Small chip at head of spine. Mild toning to cover edges. Small bookstore sticker inside front cover. A very good plus copy. <br/> <br/> Oregon Pioneer Association/A. Anderson & Co., Printers and Lithographers paperback
188624816Salem OR: Oregon Pioneer Association/E.M. Waite Steam Printer and Bookbinder 1886. First edition . No Binding. Very good plus. 44 pages plus "Ode to the Pioneers" by S.A. Clarke and obituaries. Disbound from original hardcover. A very good plus copy. <br/> <br/> Oregon Pioneer Association/E.M. Waite, Steam Printer and Bookbinder unknown
1869163075Paris: Librairie Militaire J. Dumaine 1869. First Edition . Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Title continues: ".a posage DES OFFICIERS DE TOUTES ARMES ET DES FUNCTIONNAIRES DE L'ADMINISTRATION des lignes telegraphique qui peuvent etre appeles a faire partie du service telegraphique civil en campagne". An early text on the military uses and applications of the electric telegraph. 178pp; 69 figs; several tables some fldg. Examines all aspects of military telegraphy including the manpower required. Minor marks to paper covers otherwise a nice copy. In French. <br/> <br/> Librairie Militaire, J. Dumaine paperback
1813216463Pauli und Comp. Coblenz 1813. Softcover Zustand: Exemplar einer Privatbibliothek mit Kennungen keine Beschädigungen keine Eintragungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten gut. Pauli und Comp., Coblenz, paperback
188352639London: Chatto & Windus 1883. First edition small 8vo 2 volumes pp. xii 2 354 2 32 Chatto & Windus ads; vi 381 3; 2 folding maps chromolithograph frontispiece in vol. II a few illustrations in the text; original decorative red cloth stamped in red and black; spines soiled and spine extremities chipped; cloth a little soiled; good and sound. Penzer p. 106-7; Casada 65: "The work was an outgrowth of the trip Burton made with Cameron who was the first European to cross central Africa 1873-75 to explore the Kong Mountains and search for gold in the valley of the Ancobra River . Burton wrote virtually all of the first volume and much of the second although Cameron was an accomplished literary hand in his own right. Chatto & Windus unknown
18851206T058London: Kegan Paul Trench and Co 1885. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: xiv 275 40. Good Plus. 5.25 x 7.75 inches 13.5 x 19.5 cm. Red buckram binding illustrated to front board. Bevelled board edges page edges untrimmed. Stain to rear board fading and light marking to spine. Bump to upper corner of front board. Foxing to page edges heavy foxing to first and last few pages. A few pencilled markings to the text. Page 63/64 has a section torn from the outer margin text is not affected. Map frontis plus 8 plates. Travels in Tunisia and Libya. Scarce. Overall condition is Good Plus. Size: 5.25 x 7.75 inches 13.5 x 19.5 cm. Kegan Paul, Trench and Co hardcover
1860318476Verlag der Fr. Hurter`schen Buchhandlung Schaffhausen 1860. Softcover Zustand: Keine Beschädigungen mit einer Eintragung im Vorsatz. Rücken Ecken Kanten gut. Das Buch ist unbeschnitten die Seiten sind braunfleckig. Verlag der Fr. Hurter`schen Buchhandlung, Schaffhausen, paperback
