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1875BOOKS000242New York: Harper & Brothers 1875 5414 ad pages with frontispiece portrait 2 maps including folding pocket map 21 full page and 25 smaller illustrations. Royal octavo 9 1/2" x 6 1/4" issued in green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt pictorial on cover and spine with blind stamped rule to cover edges edges beveled. Edited by Horace Waller. First published in London by John Murray in 1874. 1st American edition. Dr David Livingstone 19 March 1813 1 May 1873 was a British Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and explorer in central Africa. He was the first European to see Mosi-oa-Tunya Victoria Falls to which he gave the English name in honour of his monarch Queen Victoria. He is the subject of the meeting with H. M. Stanley which gave rise to the popular quotation "Dr Livingstone I presume" Perhaps one of the most popular national heroes of the late-nineteenth century in Victorian Britain Livingstone had a mythic status which operated on a number of interconnected levels: that of Protestant missionary martyr that of working-class "rags to riches" inspirational story that of scientific investigator and explorer that of imperial reformer anti-slavery crusader and advocate of commercial empire. His fame as an explorer helped drive forward the obsession with discovering the sources of the Nile River that formed the culmination of the classic period of European geographical discovery and colonial penetration of the African continent. At the same time his missionary travels "disappearance" and death in Africa and subsequent glorification as posthumous national hero in 1874 led to the founding of several major central African Christian missionary initiatives carried forward in the era of the European "Scramble for Africa." Condition: Shelf wear head and heal of spine rubbed frayed and chipped slight rubbing along front hinge small sticker removed from pack pocket else a very good copy. . First American Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. Royal octavo. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
18932304646Boston Mass: Atlantic News Company 1893. Stapled Binding. Fair. One in OCLC. Spine missing wrappers taped to spine rear wrapper chipped and stained. 1893 Stapled Binding. 147 pp. A detective story set in old time New York. Atlantic News Company unknown books
19971332346New York: Oxford University Press 1997. Third Edition. Hardcover. Thick Octavo; pp 1786; VG/VG; black spine with green and white text; dust jacket has minimal wear to exterior; cloth clean; strong boards; text block clean; additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders. 1332346. FP New Rockville Stock. Oxford University Press hardcover books
194546638New York: The Heritage Press 1945. Reprint. Original publisher's blue cloth spine over printed pictorial green cloth boards. Lacks slipcase. General wear binder's glue discoloration to paste-downs bookplate Very Good. Unpaginated. Illustrated in color by Edward A. Wilson. Small 4to. <br/><br/> The Heritage Press hardcover books
197130395Durban: the author . 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Stiff card wraps very good with a few bumps and tiny corner creases.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 57 pp . the author (?) paperback books
D16J-00790Fleming H. Revell. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. Owner's name on endpage. Fleming H. Revell unknown books
1293417Hardcover. Quarto; G-; hardcover; blue leather binding gilt text; boards strong significant shelfwear significant edgewear open and closed tears along front and rear fore edges and head edges rubbing on edges fore corners hinges and spine edges closed tear on spine tail edge spine sun toned; text block age toned page numbers stamp on head fore corners. 1293417. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. 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
195672003London: Chatto & Windus 1956. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. This volume only of 2. color frontis portrait color plates folding map lvi 211p. Red cloth. 26cm. No Jacket. Oppenheimer Series Number 9. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
2008160008Cambridge Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2008. Hardcover. VG- Ex-art library with spine label and i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages otherwise clean. Yellow paper boards with blue cloth spine yellow and green and illus. dust jacket in mylar cover 440 pp. 18 BW illus. Considers the life and work of German philosopher Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno 1903-1969. "In capturing the man in his complex relationships with some of the century's finest minds -- including among others Arnold Schoenberg Walter Benjamin Thomas Mann Siegfried Kracauer Georg Lukacs Hannah Arendt and Bertolt Brecht -- Claussen reveals how much we have yet to learn from Theodor Adorno and how much his life can tell us about ourselves and our time." dj. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press hardcover books
194432259Philadelphia: Lippincott 1944. 1st edition. Blue cloth binding with dark blue lettering. Dust jacket. Tape shadow to dj flap & ffep. Lending library stamp to ffep. VG/VG. 222 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Lippincott hardcover books
1893134349New York: J. Selwin Tait & Sons 1893. Octavo pp. i-ii iii iv 1-176 illustrations by Richard Jack and Hal Hurst original decorated red cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. Collection of loosely connected stories narrated by an old American Colonel to some compatriots in a Paris bar comic fantasias that sometimes veer into the outright fantastic. In "Silver Plated" a tenor brought over to America for a tour accidentally sits in a pool of electricity which melts the silver from his pocket watch and deposits it around his waist. Customs agents demand duty on him on account of the silver and the impresario must use some Yankee ingenuity to avoid paying it. See Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years for a description of similar tales of Alden that appeared in periodicals. Wright III 44. Owner's signature dated 1893 on front free endpaper. Ink stain along outer rear joint spine lean several other spots and some general dust soiling to cloth otherwise a very good copy internally clean and tight. #134349 J. Selwin Tait & Sons unknown books
1990225158Minneapolis: Peter Davis / Your Flesh Magazine 1990. Unpaginated way too many pages slick color cover and newsprint guts which have toned considerably but are not yet fragile. Softbound in 11x8.2 inch stapled wraps slight crimping along spinefold small seller's pricetag in one corner a clean sound copy with no markings. but plenty of weird stuff "in the plate Peter Davis / Your Flesh Magazine unknown books
