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pp. (4)[Advertisement for Bibliotheque de la Jeunesse Chretienne] 299 + Plus three engraved plates, and an engraved title page. Foxed. 12mo. 18 cm. Handsome full leather binding, tooled in gold and blind. Printed school prize certificate fill. FR3?
In-8 gr. (mm. 273x205), 5 volumi + Atlante, mz. pergamena coeva, fregi e titolo oro su tassello al dorso, pp. (4),VIII,LXXXIII,620; (4),784; (4),858; (4),752; (4),328,CLXIII; due medaglioni inc. in rame ai frontespizi dei volumi 2, 3, e 4. Testo ornato da graziosi finalini inc. su legno. L’Atlante (Parigi, Plassan, 1792), di pp. (4), con bella vignetta incisa in rame al frontespizio, raccoglie 88 bellissime tavole inc. in rame, di cui 23 più volte ripieg., così composte: 4 carte geografiche (Routes pour parvenir aux Sources du Nil - Route que tenoient les flottes de Salomon - Extremité Méridionale de l’Afrique - Golfe d’Arabie) /// 1 pianta dell’Isola di Masuah /// 4 di ritratti, costumi e abitazioni /// 7 con esempi di scritture /// 2 che raffigurano: “Canja à la voile” e “plan, coupe et développemens du canja” /// 5 con “Fresques trouvées à Thèbes, Tot; Hiéroglypes & Obélisque trouvés à Axum” /// 1 di architettura (Plan et élévations d’un Mikeas) /// 4 di militaria /// 38 di botanica /// 22 di zoologia. L’opera di Bruce, suddivisa in 9 libri, tratta di: 1°. “Chypre, Alexandrie, Rosette, le Caire” - 2°. “Histoire des premiers temps, premiers peuples d’Abyssinie et d’ Atbara, Origine de leur langue” - 3°. “L’histoire des Abyssiniens, depuis le rétablissement de la lignée de Salomon jusqu’à la mort de Socinios” - 4°. “Continuation de l’histoire des Abyssiniens jusqu’à la fin du XVIII siècle” - 5°. “Route de Masuah à Gondar” - 6°. “Première tentative pour découvrir les sources du Nil” - 7°. “Retour des Sources du Nil à Gondar, bataille de Serbraxos” - 8°. “Retour par le Sennaar, la Nubie et le grand Desert. Alexandrie, Marseille” - 9. “Histoire naturelle. Tableau Pluie Abyssinie. Températures”. Al verso del frontespizio dell’opera di Paterson - pubblicata nel 5° volume di Bruce - così scrivono gli editori: “Nous avons mis les "Voyages" du Lieutenant Paterson à la suite de ceux de M. Bruce, parce qu’ils contiennent des notions nouvelles sur l’Afrique, & que nous nous proposons de publier, dans le meme format, tout ce qui pourra faire bien connoitre cette intéressante partie du Monde”. La relazione di William Paterson (1755-1810), esploratore e botanico scozzese, contiene: “Premier et second voyage dans le pays des Hottentots, troisième voyage dans le pays de Caffres, quatrième voyage dans le pays des Nimiquois. Appendix: poisons tirés du règne animal et végétal, Observations athmosphériques, faites pendant le second voyage de M. Paterson, depuis le 22 Mai jusqu’au 18 Novembre 1778”. "Prima edizione francese" - contemporanea alla prima di Edimburgo, 1790 (dell’opera di Bruce). Cfr. Choix de Olschki, I,1154: “Les voyages de Paterson sont d’un spécial intéret, parce qu’ils traitent les pays des "Cafres" et des "Hottentots, le Transvaal d’aujourd’hui"” - Dawson and Uphill “Who’s who in Egyptology”, p. 41 - Gay “Bibliogr. des ouvrages relatifs a l’Afrique et a l’Arabie”, 44 e 3122 (per Paterson). “James Bruce (173-1794), scozzese, esploratore, medico e cultore di problemi africani; visitò la Penisola Iberica e l’Africa settentr., partì per l’Etiopia (1769), raggiungendo, per l’Eritrea e il Semien, Gondar e quindi il lago Tana e le sorgenti del Nilo Azzurro, ancora ignote. Nel viaggio di ritorno per terra, da Gondar all’Egitto, attraversò il Sennar e la Nubia (1773). La voluminosa relazione del suo memorabile viaggio, che nonostante alcune fantasticherie si può dire inizi la serie delle moderne esplorazioni scientifiche in Africa, fu pubblicata parecchi anni dopo il suo ritorno (Edimburgo, 1790) e più volte poi ristampata e tradotta”. Così Diz. Treccani,II, p. 511. Esemplare con qualche lieve fiorit. o arross., altrimenti ben conservato, intonso e con barbe.
In-8 p. (mm. 20x122), 2 volumi, mz. pelle coeva, titolo oro al dorso (lievi abras.), pp. (4),406,(2); (4),471. "Manca l’Atlante di tavole e carte". Il 1° vol. contiene in Appendice un “Vocabulaire des Dialectes des différentes tribus de naturels de la cote d’Afrique, depuis Mosambique jusqu’aux confins de l’Egypte..” - Nel 2° l’Appendice riporta: “Courte relation d’un Voyage en Ethiopie - Remarques nouvelles sur les Oiseaux précédens.. de la collection su Seignerur Nobleman - Liste de plantes nouvelles et rares, recueillies en Abyssinie dans les années 1805 et 1810.. - Table générale et raisonnée des matières contenues dans cet ouvrage”. Secondo viaggio di Henry Salt in Abissinia, con lo scopo di aprire nuove vie di comunicazione, interrotte con l’Europa da due secoli, e con la speranza di contribuire ai progressi del commercio britannico. Questa importante relazione costituisce un complemento a quella del Visconte Giorgio Valentia che comprende il primo viaggio di Salt in Abissinia. 1Edizione originale" della traduzione francese. Uniformi arross. più o meno lievi sul testo dei due volumi, ma complessivam discreto esemplare.
français In-8 de 304 pp.; veau porphyre, dos lisse orné de quatre trirèmes dorées, pièces de titre et de tomaison de maroquin noir à grain long, filet et dentelle dorés encadrant les plats, filet doré sur les coupes (reliure de l'époque). Traduit de l'anglois et extrait des voyages de lord Valentia. Bel exemplaire. Tome I seul.
In-8 p. (mm. 208x124), 4 volumi, mz. pelle coeva, dorso a cordoni con fregi e titolo oro, pp. (4),367; (4),362; (4),379; (4),383; con 1 carta geografica, più volte ripieg. e inc. in rame, “dressée par Combes et Tamisier. Dessinée par A. Vuillemin, géographe, 1838.” Resoconto di un viaggio in Abissinia e nello Yemen durato due anni, dal 1835 al 1837, effettuato dai giovani francesi Edmund Combes e Maurice Tamisier. Tale viaggio contribuì ad aprire la vasta area etiopica all’influenza francese e a controbilanciare l’influenza degli Inglesi, già presenti in Aden. Per arrivare fino al regno di Choa, Combes et Tamisier visitarono Axum, Adowa, Galla, Debra-Tabor, il lago di Tana, Gondar, ecc. Questa dettagliata relazione del viaggio è naturalmente arricchita dalla storia del paese e da approfonditi commenti sugli usi, costumi, credenze, forme di governo, commerci delle popolazioni incontrate. Gli ultimi capitoli sono dedicati agli errori commessi da europei precedentemente arrivati in Abissinia: Bruce, Valentia e Salt. "Edizione originale". Cfr. Gay,2616. Con lievi fioriture o arrossature ma certamente un buon esemplare.
287 p. Top edge gilt. Deckled edges. Unopened. 200mm. From Morley's Universal Library, uniformly bound with others in the series. Gilt lettered faux vellum spine over blue gray linen boards. Spine very slightly darkened. Second edition. Henry Morley (1822-1894) was a popular lecturer and prolific writer who did more to promote education and love of literature than any other person in the Victorian era. LOC W48/BAG 14
Firenze, Casa Editrice del Dott. Carlo Cya, 1939, in-8, br. editoriale, pp. 109, [3]. Con 2 cartine ripiegate f.t. Dall'indice: Confini dell'Etiopia, L'Abissinia e i possedimenti inglesi, L'Abissinia e i possedimenti italiani, Somalia francese e possedimenti contigui, I possedimenti italiani ed i possessi inglesi, La questione del Mullah.Biblioteca di studi coloniali, V. Ottimo esemplare, intonso.
In 16', mappa su tela 50x63,ripiegata piu volte a libricino, con titolo scritta a mano, dorso mancante.Mappa in buono stato, ottima da incorniciare.Luogo di pubblicazione LondonEditore Edwardard StanfordAnno pubblicazione s.d.Collana Stanford's series of New Library MapsMateria/Argomento Mappe, Geografia, Abissinia, Nubia, Corno d'Africa
Roma, Società Geografica Italiana, 1910, 8vo stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 607/624 con tre riproduzioni di carte e antichi codici. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo, completo in se, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perché ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “extract” or “excerpt” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.
Milano, 1907, estratto con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 925/928 con ill. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo di rivista, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perchè ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “estratto” or “stralcio” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.
In 16°, legatura coeva in cartone decorato con titolo oro su tassello al dorso, pp. 320(6). Occhietto con tagli rincollati al nastro adesivo e cancellatura a bianchetto per eliminazione nome dedicatario. Resta l'invio autografo dell'autore con la scritta "in omaggio". Buon esemplare.
216pp + fldg map and index G/none PB bross. editoriale, pochi minimi strappi ai bordi posteriori, allentato con ultimo foglio comprendente mappa ripiegata sciolto (facilmente fissabile). Piccolo ex-libris privato nel retro copertina e iscrizione proprietario alla sguardia. Nel complesso un buon esemplare, fresco e pulito internamente.
Roma, 1896, 26 luglio, cop. lit. ill. a colori de La Tribuna. Suppl. ill. della Domenica, con fasc. completo.
in-16, 252 p., broché, couverture illustrée. Bel exemplaire. [LP]
(Africa Orientale - Etiopia - Abissinia - Antropologia coloniale - Etnologia coloniale) In 8°, legatura in piena tela nera con applicata ai piatti la brossura illustrata originale ed all'interno i due risvolti, al dorso tassello in pelle nera con titoli dorati, pp. XV,(1),379,(1), con 150 illustrazioni fotografiche su tavole fuori testo ed una carta geografica ripiegata. Presentazione di Corrado Zoli. Volume solido ed in ottimo stato di conservazione, finito di stampare a Firenze nella Tipografia "Enrico Ariani" il 20 marzo 1936.
Features: The Man Who Forgot - the author was not careful about whom he drank with, thus he endured a drawn-out ordeal; Little Holland - Dutch Guiana; Big Head - the final phases in the hectic career of an Argentine gunman, Rogelia Gomez; Thirsty Island - Thursday Island in Torres Strait off Australia, the headquarters of the Pearling Fleet; Wooden Money of North Bend Oregon, U.S.A. - depression-era issue now scarce; Pursers; Last Man Out - a story from the bleak lands of Canada's Arctic Barrens - photos; The Death-Spell - a weird story from the borders of Abyssinia; The Man-Leopards of Malimbu - Part 3, Conclusion; The 'Brain-Fever' Bird - reprint of a creepy 1932 story from a Javanese planter; The Raiders - the experience of 3 young bachelors at a South African Hotel; One Man's Mischief - a grim tale of a thwarted lover in Nigeria; My Trip to Seiyun - a city in Arabia, with photos; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Covers nearly detached. Book
Features include: The Road to Wonderland - Construction of a highway and tunnel through a mountain wilderness in the South Island of New Zealand; Kamal Ram's Come-Back - tale of a stationmaster at Manijan, in northern Assam; Saga of the Snow-Dogs - An account of the Arctic Husky; The Hut-Tax Affair - a tale from Northern Nigeria; All Aboard For Adventure - Part I of a tale of 5 young Americans who set out on a sailboat for tropic seas; The Beneficent Bamboo; Dogsbody - an amusing incident involving a very junior officer aboard a British freighter; The Telephone Mine - Adventures of two South African prospectors in search of King Solomon's Mines; Our Leopard - A Kenyan farmer's story; Down Texas Way - the story of 3 youngsters, a gang of desperate escaped convicts, and a night alarm; Appointment with the Devil - An extraordinary story from Abyssinia; Illustrated in black and white. Covers and spine missing. Contents in decent condition. Magazine
84 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: An Elephant-Hunt in Canada - a six-week hunt results when seven valuable elephants escaped from a circus and took to the British Columbia woods - article with photos; A Fugitive in Thirstland - A former German officer who became a adventurer is South Africa is continually chased by the police; Trekking in Unknown Abyssinia - great photo-illustrated article; The Friendly Mosquito - how a mosquito saved the life of T.A. Shields; Our Salvage Job - a plucky attempt to salvage the crippled vessel Stiklestadt; The Decree of the Wild - a grim tale of the Canadian Far North, 1,200 miles north of Edmonton; "The White Man's Great War-Game" (part III) - amongst the savages of the Sura, Angas, and other primitive tribes of Northern Nigeria, Geoffrey Barkas produced a film founded upon the history of British Administration - article with great photos; Gulbaz Khan's Revenge - the story of a long-delayed vengeance for a trifling action that had far-reaching consequences; Where Everybody Plays "Cat's Cradle" - photo-illustrated article on the people of the Pelews (Pelew Islands); Fur-Getting in Australia - Australian men make a good living hunting rabbits and foxes for their furs; The Partnership That Went Wrong - four U.S. Army soldiers pool their savings to run a sawmill; What Happened to Wilson - struggle for life with an enraged tiger in the heart of a big city; Through France with "Sylvabelle" (part II) - Mr. Leslie Richardson's yachting voyage from Brittany to the Riviera; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
First edition, 8vo (200 x 120), xvi, 434, [14]pp., endpapers lightly waterstained and just impinging onto title, cont. full calf, joints slightly split otherwise a nice copy. This was Campbell's first original work, and purports to be an account of travels made in about 1670. In fact it is a compilation of facts relating to the topography, natural products, political conditions, and manners and customs of the countries supposed to be visited, which are held together by a thread of fictitious autobiography. It was of Dr. Campbell, LL.D., that Johnson said "I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years; but never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shews that he has good principles", and on another occasion to Joseph Warton "[he is] the richest author that ever grazed the common of literature". Provenance: Early signature in ink to front endpaper "Wigley". Blackmer, 278.
12mo., Eighth Edition, on laid paper, neat contemporary inscription front paste-down and blank preliminary recto; contemporary full calf, back with six flat bands in gilt, second compartment with dark green leather label lettered and tooled in gilt, joints lightly rubbed (but binding entirely sound), a crisp, clean copy in wholly unrestored period binding. Fleeman states that 1500 copies were printed by Strahan; ESTC notes that this is not merely a reissue of the seventh edition. Courtney p.88; ESTC T139515; Fleeman 59.4R/17.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates, 34 illustrations in the text, 7 maps (1 folding) and a large folding map in pocket at end; original series binding of blue cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs, uncut, a near fine copy. With uniform personal bookplate on front paste-downs. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, vols. 114-115. SCARCE., ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
240pp., in the series "Bibliotheca Abessinica. Studies concerning the languages, literature and history of Abyssinia edited by Dr. E. Littmann" volume 4, 24cm., original softcover, pages still uncut, text in Ethiopic, good condition, C99954
1 22,5x14 cm.,legatura in piena tela con titoli impressi in oro al piatto e al dorso, pagg. 416, albero genealogico, 12 mappe geografiche, prima edizione, in inglese, buone condizioni. 2 ex libris e 3 fromtespizi di libri arabi applicati alle sguardie.
32 pages. Features: Cover photo of Wellington bomber of a Czech squadron setting out on a night raid over Germany; Photo of Admiral Sir Percy Lockwood Harmer Noble; One-page photo of group of R.A.F. cadets parading in flying kit for the first time; Two pages of photos of training of cadets training as R.A.F. pilots and observers; Six photos of Keren, the key to Eritrea, where Italians are strongly resisting; Attractive colour illustration of British aircraft painted in camouflage; Page of colour illustrations of German military aircraft painted in their sombre camouflage colours; Photos of devastation by German bombs in Clydeside, Cardiff and London; Six photos of Buckingham Palace - bombed again; Five photos of Britain's "Invasion Barges - new landing craft at the Lofotens; Article entitled 'The Battle of the Atlantic'; Six photos illustrate the war in Africa - Berbera recaptured / revolt in Abyssinia; Six photos of A.T.S. Specialists - Gunnery school observation tasks; Centrefold illustration of the women of Britain's fighting services - anti-aircraft A.T.S. training at the school of Anti-Aircraft Defense; Photos of femail representatives in Parliament include Beatrice Rathbone, Thelma Keir, Eleanor Rathbone, Florence Horsbrugh, G.D. Hardie, J.L. Adamson, Megan Lloyd George, H.B. Tate, Edith Summerskill, Viscountess Astor, Viscountess Davidson, Irene M.B. Ward, and Ellen C. Wilkinson; Photos of the "King George V" at sea; Illustrations of many weapons, including their prices; Photo of Bulgaria signing away her independence - M. Filoff; Photo of Jews required to wear arm bands in Poland; Photo of one-hundred Poles, hands tied behind their heads, being marched to their execution as revenge for the death of a German soldier; Photos of the Poles being shot, being forced to dig their own graves, and performing a 'death dance' before being shot; photo of Jewish women and old men forced to repair road damage; Photos of personalities of the week include Sir Walford Davies, A.St. G. Lyster, W.G.S. Dobbie, Tom Mann, Anthony J. Biddle, Constance Smedley, F.G. Beaumont-Nesbitt, Hugh A. Drum, Dr. C.R.M.F. Cruttwell, Col. G. Contoleon, M. Nicolas Titulesco, John G. Winant and family, Sir Arthur Salter, Robert H. Brand, and Averell Harriman; Colour Guiness ad shows fighter pilot targeting a bottle; Colour Dunlop ad illustrates how to recognize rank in the Royal Navy; and more. Staples disintegrated. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this excellent wartime issue. Book
32 pages. Features: Cover photo portrait of Sir Archibald Wavell who led the capture of Benghazi; Photo of J.G. Winant, new U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain; Sixteen photos of the taking of Tobruk - with over 25,000 prisoners, fires caused by naval bombardment, and devastation at the El Adeem aerodrome; Photo of Lord Lloyd of Dolobran who died on February 5th; Photo of 'San Giorgio' ablaze and Italian naval prisoners; Article on the fall of Benghazi; Twelve more photos after the fall of Tobruk, including Air Commodore R. Collishaw, Commanding R.A.F. units in Libya, who was born in Nanaimo, B.C. and after whom the Nanaimo Airport Terminal is named; One-page map of the Balkan states - is Bulgaria the next German target after Rumania?; Photos of personalities of the week include Sir Maitland Wilson, R.N. O'Connor, Iven MacKay, A.G. Creagh, Sir A.M. Longmore, Sir A.B. Cunningham, Lord Moyne, Malcolm Macdonald, Wendell Willkie, Ernest Brown, Tom Johnston, Euan Wallace, Sir Reginald Hoare, W.G.S. Dobbie, General berganzoli, Stanley J. Adams and Mrs. Marguerite Hyde; Two-page illustration of No. 3-A 'Defiant', a night fighter; Photo of Churchill visiting his old Battalion, the Royal Scots Fusiliers; Photo of Sir John Dill visiting Canadian troops; Photo of the funeral procession of Lord Baden-Powell at Nyeri, Kenya; Photo of stolen seven-seater aircraft stolen by French mechanic and flown from France to England; Photo of Haile Selassie returning to Abyssinia to take command of his troops; Photo of unexploded German torpedo on deck of British ship!; Photos of crash between the London-Norwich express train and a London express to Southend which killed six; Six photos from Ethiopia where they relentlessly press back at the Italians; Photos of airplanes from the U.S. for use by the R.A.F. - the 'Martlet I', 'Tomahawk', Brewster ' Buffalo I', and 'Boston II'; Two pages of fascinating illustrations show how fires caused by German incendiaries are fought in office buildings and residential districts; Eight photos of Benghazi landmarks; Two pages with twelve photos of the Polish fleet being inspected by General Sikorski; and more. Staples disintegrated. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this important wartime issue. Book