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185818012Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart 1858. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. 81911pp. Original pebble grain cloth blocked in blind and gilt; yellow coated endpapers. Light soil wear to the cloth ownership name and pencilled notes on the front endpapers else a very good copy. The author's poetry is in Scots Gaelc; this is followed at p. 111 by the Sketch regarding Ossian in English Maclachlan & Stewart hardcover books
2011171651London: Enitharmon 2011. Hardcover. VG. Color-illustrated boards with white lettering and orange cloth spine. 83 pp. Color illustrations. "The relationship between art and life has been of overriding importance in the work of David Hockney who has perhaps enjoyed greater popularity than any other British artist this century. Here Marco Livingstone traces those connections from the beginning of the artist's career in the early 1960s through to the more recent works that have contributed to Hockney's international reputation. These include his photocollages and highly acclaimed stage designs for the opera not to mention his embrace of technology - namely the fax drawings and color laser prints - which show the continuing preoccupation with invention and artifice that has made the artist's work at once popular and enduring." -bookdepository. Enitharmon hardcover books
198522657Oxford: Phaidon 1985. First edition of this early monograph on Kitaj's work. Presentation copy inscribed by Kitaj on the front free-endpaper: "for Jonathan Williams and Tom Meyer with love from Kitaj. Fine copy. 4to frontispiece portrait illustrations original cloth dust jacket. Fine copy. Phaidon unknown books
186647971New York: Harper & Brothers 1866. First American edition 8vo pp. xxi 638 6 ads; folding map double-page wood-engraved frontispiece title-page vignette 36 wood-engraved illustrations 12 full-page; original brown cloth covers bound in at the back; joints rubbed else a very good copy in somewhat later three-quarter brown morocco gilt-lettered direct on gilt-decorated spine. Ibrahim-Hilmy p. 389 for the London edition of the previous year. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1857100339<p>Modern l/2 leather with marbled boards 8vo 711 pp. Illustrated. Minor foxing and toning but a very nice copy. Contains all plates and maps 47 in all including the index. Foldout illustration of Victoria Falls one of the more interesting plates. Also contains the folding map of South Africa and a folding map of Livingstone’s route across Africa.</p> John Murray hardcover books
1866014737New York: Harper & Brothers 1866. First American Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece is a double page birds-eye view of the great cataracts of the Zambesi 638pp. large folding map at rear illustrated bound in 3/4 calf over marbled boards with matching endpapers all edges marbled raised bands double red labels gilt boards lightly rubbed owner's name a very handsome copy. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1865317016London: John Murray 1865. First edition. Engraved folding frontispiece 12 engraved plates folding repaired at joints route map to rear. xiv ii 1-608pp. 8vo. Bound in three quarter mottled brown polished modern calf marbled baords brown leather title labels. Fine. First edition. Engraved folding frontispiece 12 engraved plates folding repaired at joints route map to rear. xiv ii 1-608pp. 8vo. Howgego IV L34 Mendelssohn I 915 SABIB III p. 137 John Murray unknown books
1899236647Boston: Brown and Company 144 Purchase Street 1899. First edition. Frontispiece. x 13-153 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Crimson gilt stamped cloth t.e.g. In custom cloth dust jacket. laid into cloth chemise and slipcase. First edition. Frontispiece. x 13-153 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With the first appearance of Wallace Stevens at page 28 "Vita Mea" which first appeared in the Harvard Advocate and here is its first and only book appearance. Edelstein B1Morse B1 Brown and Company 144 Purchase Street unknown books
1857317013London: John Murray Albemarle Street 1857. First edition. Folding engraved frontispiece of Victoria Falls neatly silked 3 folding maps one in rear pocket 24 plates and numerous text illustrations. x 687 1 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Bound in three quarter modern brown morocco and marbled boards maroon leather tile label. Fine text with some foxing. First edition. Folding engraved frontispiece of Victoria Falls neatly silked 3 folding maps one in rear pocket 24 plates and numerous text illustrations. x 687 1 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. "Livingstone's services to African geography . are almost unequalled . he explored vast regions of central Africa many of which had never been seen by white men before" PMM.<br/><br/>One of the great classics of African travel. When Livingstone returned to England after sixteen years in Africa he was immediately awarded the Royal Geographical Society's gold medal. These years saw him seek to fulfil his obligations to the London Missionary Society he made two long journeys north try to find a better station for the mission to operate from. He later travelled to Lake Ngami and most importantly in the years 1854-6 he made his great crossing of Africa from Luanda on the west coast to Quelimane on the east. All of this is recorded in his account. He set the standard that the likes of Stanley Speke and Burton all tried to attain. <br/><br/>His account not only set out his adventures and experiences but it filled with notes on natural history anthropology tropical medicine and religion. Furthermore Czech notes that the work also contains sporting interest: "There are numerous sporting incidents with hunts after lions buffalo elephants and a variety of plains game even though Livingstone did not consider himself a sportsman" Abbey 347; Mendelssohn. Vol. I pp. 908-909; Printing and the Mind of Man 341 John Murray, Albemarle Street unknown books
1857317050London: John Murray 1857. First edition Bradlow variant 2. Folding tinted frontispiece of Victoria Falls 2 folding maps 24 plates 1 folding section plus numerous illustrations to text. x 687 1 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Modern calf spine elaborately gilt. A few minor repairs very good. First edition Bradlow variant 2. Folding tinted frontispiece of Victoria Falls 2 folding maps 24 plates 1 folding section plus numerous illustrations to text. x 687 1 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. "Livingstone's services to African geography . are almost unequalled . he explored vast regions of central Africa many of which had never been seen by white men before" PMM.<br/><br/>One of the great classics of African travel. When Livingstone returned to England after sixteen years in Africa he was immediately awarded the Royal Geographical Society's gold medal. These years saw him seek to fulfil his obligations to the London Missionary Society he made two long journeys north try to find a better station for the mission to operate from. He later travelled to Lake Ngami and most importantly in the years 1854-6 he made his great crossing of Africa from Luanda on the west coast to Quelimane on the east. All of this is recorded in his account. He set the standard that the likes of Stanley Speke and Burton all tried to attain. <br/><br/>His account not only set out his adventures and experiences but it filled with notes on natural history anthropology tropical medicine and religion. Furthermore Czech notes that the work also contains sporting interest: "There are numerous sporting incidents with hunts after lions buffalo elephants and a variety of plains game even though Livingstone did not consider himself a sportsman" Abbey Travel 347; Mendelssohn. Vol. I pp. 908-909; Printing and the Mind of Man 341; Bradlow "The Variants of the 1857 edition " in Lloyd ed. Livingstone 1873-1973 John Murray unknown books
1857313644London: John Murrary 1857. First edition Bradlow's Variant No. 2. Folding engraved frontispiece 2 folding maps one in rear pocket 23 plates 1 folding section plus numerous illustrations to text. x 688 8 ads dated November 1 1857 pp. 8vo. Publisher's blindstamped brown cloth spine gilt label of binder Edmonds & Remnant on back pastedown. Hinges cracked. First edition Bradlow's Variant No. 2. Folding engraved frontispiece 2 folding maps one in rear pocket 23 plates 1 folding section plus numerous illustrations to text. x 688 8 ads dated November 1 1857 pp. 8vo. "Livingstone's services to African geography . are almost unequalled . he explored vast regions of central Africa many of which had never been seen by white men before" PMM.<br/><br/>One of the great classics of African travel. When Livingstone returned to England after sixteen years in Africa he was immediately awarded the Royal Geographical Society's gold medal. These years saw him seek to fulfil his obligations to the London Missionary Society he made two long journeys north try to find a better station for the mission to operate from. He later travelled to Lake Ngami and most importantly in the years 1854-6 he made his great crossing of Africa from Luanda on the west coast to Quelimane on the east. All of this is recorded in his account. He set the standard that the likes of Stanley Speke and Burton all tried to attain. <br/><br/>His account not only set out his adventures and experiences but it filled with notes on natural history anthropology tropical medicine and religion. Furthermore Czech notes that the work also contains sporting interest: "There are numerous sporting incidents with hunts after lions buffalo elephants and a variety of plains game even though Livingstone did not consider himself a sportsman" Abbey Travel 347; F.R. Bradlow "The Variants of the 1857 edition" in Lloyd ed. Livingstone 1873-1973; Czech p. 168; Howgego L39; Mendelssohn I pp. 908-910; PMM 341; Abbey Travel 347; Czech Africa p. 168; ; Henze III p. 270; Gay 3034; ; cf. Kainbacher p. 87 John Murrary unknown books
185767919First Edition of Livingstone's Travels in South Africa Signed by the Author LIVINGSTONE David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a Sketch of Sixteen Yearsà Residence in the Interior of Africa and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence across the Continent down the River Zambesi to the Eastern Ocean.With Portrait; Maps by Arrowsmith; and Numerous Illustrations. London: John Murray 1857. First edition third state. Octavo 8 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 222 x 148 mm. ix 1 list of illustrations 687 1 printerÃs imprint pp. plus 8 pp. publisherÃs advertisements dated November 1 1857. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper. "David Livingstone/ Dec. 18th/1857." Folding lithographed frontispiece and two engraved plates by T. Picken engraved portrait by William Holl after Henry Phillips twenty wood-engraved plates folding printed table with wood-engraved illustration two folding lithographed maps by John Arrowsmith with routes colored by hand in red one in pocket at rear and numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text one full-page. Original light brown morocco-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spine decoratively stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Expertly recased. With new endpapers. Small newspaper clipping tipped in below signature in front free endpaper. Some very minor wear to head and tail of spine. Small stain to lower part of back board. Internally very clean. A very good and handsome copy of this seminal book. House in a custom cloth slipcase. ìThree states of the first edition have been identified. In the probable first state the lithographed plates opposite pp. 66 and 225 are tinted brown and pale green respectively; in the second state the lithograph opposite p. 225 is tinted brown and differs substantially from its counterpart in the first state; and in the third state both lithographs have been replaced with black and white engravingsî Norman Library. ìLivingstoneÃs contributions to European knowledge of African geography and ethnography remain virtually unequalled. In three major expeditions 1853-1856 1858-1864 and 1865-1873 he covered a third of the continent from the Cape to the Equator and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans observing and delineating regions previously unknown to white men; he was the first European to explore the Zambesi River and gave Victoria Falls its present name. Livingstone also brought his powers of observation to bear on the native peoples he encountered and was inspired by what he saw to entertain not only evangelical notions of their salvation but political and medican ones as well. He was the first to disclose to the European world the terrible effects of the slave trade upon native populations; the horrors of this ërunning sore of Africaà moved him to campaign actively for its abolition. He also provided an accurate account of the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans along with the disease its bite produced in cattle; at the time the flyÃs bite was thought to be and perhaps was harmless to manî Norman Library. David Livingstone 1813-1873 ìbecame a missionary and was sent to South Africa by the London Missionary Society in 1840. From then onwards his life was devoted to the exploration of central Africa. Although a missionary.he regarded himself more as a pioneer explorer opening up the country for others. LivingstoneÃs services to African geography during thirty years are almost unequalled; he covered about a third of the continent from the Cape to the Equator and from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. He made three great expeditions; in 1853-6 described in this book 1858-64 and 1865-73 of which the first and third are the most important. During these years he explored vast regions of central Africa many of which had never been seen by white men before. Hie first discovered the Zambesi River at Secheke and followed it northwards eventually reaching the west coast of Africa at Luanda Angola and the east coast at Quelimane Mozambique. In 1855 he discovered the great falls of the Zambesi and named them the Victoria Falls. He explored the Zambesi Shire and Ruyuma rivers and found the salt lake Chilwa and Lake Nyasa.The geographical results of his journeys were of supreme importance and made it possible to fill in great stretches of the maps of Central Africa which hitherto had been blankî Printing and the Mind of Man. Abbey Travel 347. Garrison and Morton 5269. Mendelssohn I pp. 908-910. Printing and the Mind of Man 341. HBS 67919. $7500 John Murray hardcover books
1778119642Edinburgh: Printed by Mrs. Mundell 1778. First of 4 issues Scotch editions from the library of Robert R. Livingstone with his bookplate to the pastedown of each volume. Small octavo bound in contemporary calf spine compartments ruled with Greek key tooling morocco spine labels. From the library of founding father <span class="match">Robert</span> <span class="match">R.</span> <span class="match">Livingston</span>. As one of the Founding Fathers of the United States <span class="match">Livingston</span> played an important role in the early development of the newly formed country. He was known as "The Chancellor" after the high New York state legal office he held for 25 years. He was a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence along with Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin John Adams and Roger Sherman. Livingston administered the Oath of Office to George Washington when he assumed the presidency in 1789.He was a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence the administrator for George Washington's Oath of Office when he assumed presidency in 1789 and the chief negotiator of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. In very good condition. An exceptional set with noted provenance. Jonathan Swift's masterpiece will "last as long as the language because it describes the vices of man in all nations" DNB. "A remarkable feat in the creation of imaginary worlds as a vehicle for satire upon the political and religious establishments of the day" Clute & Grant 914. "Gulliver's Travels has given Swift an immortality beyond temporary fame". For every edition designed for the reader with an eye to the historical background 20 have appeared abridged or adapted for readers who care nothing for the satire and enjoy it as a first-class story" PMM 185. "Of all Swift's writings it best shows the merits of his mind and his gifts of expression". It is important to realize that it could be written only by one who had the highest ideals for human achievement and who despaired of the achieving" Baugh et al. 865-66""although Swift himself expressed this hope for his "Travells" to a friend: "They are admirable Things and will wonderfully mend the world" Rothschild 2104. Printed by Mrs. Mundell unknown books
