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1923BOOKS0042322 volumes: xxxiv238pp with frontispiece and 2 other plates 3 maps of which 2 are foldouts1 chart and index list of works by the society at end; xxx290pp with frontispiece and 2 other plates and index. Octavo 9" x 6" issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria on the cover decorative blind stamp to covers. Translated and edited from the <i>Icelandic edition</i> of Sigfus Blondal by Betrtha S Phillpotts. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society Second Series Numbers 53 and 68. First edition.<br /><br />The autobiography of Jon Olafsson Traveler to the Indies remained unprinted in Icelandic save for a few excerpts until 1908-9 when an edition by Sigfus Blondal Librarian to the Royal Library was published in Copenhagen by the Icelandic Literary Society. The text in this edition which was based on a scholarly collation of the extant MMS. has been implicitly followed in the English translation. The life of Jon Olafsson falls into three parts; or perhaps more properly since only the first two parts are written by himself into two parts and an appendix. The first part opening with his childhood and youth in the remote north-west of Iceland his voyage to England in 1615 and his brief stay in that country has for its main subject his experiences as gunner's mate in Copenhagen and on various Northern voyages in the service of King Christian IV. It is this part which is comprised in the present volume. The second part edited by the Hakluyt Society deals with Jon Olafsson's voyage to India in 1622 his life as a member of the Danish garrison in the fort at Tranquebaar and the voyage home in 1624-5 a terrible record of privation in a rudderless vessel; his stay with other survivors at Youghal in Ireland and his return to Copenhagen towards the end of the year which had seen Christian IV's ill-fated entry into the Thirty Years' War. The autobiographical part ends with his return to Iceland in the Spring of 1626. It is followed by an account of the remainder of his life probably composed by someone in the household of Magnus Magnusson sheriff of Isafjoro Jon's native country--possibly the sheriff himself--and ending with Jon's death in 1679 in his eighty-fifth year. This third part is of value for the full account of the raid on the Barbary corsairs on Iceland in 1627.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Spine ends moderately rubbed volume II spine lightly sunned else a very good set. Hakluyt Society hardcover books
18394904Edinburgh: Printed for the Maitland Club 1839. First edition. Leather. Very Good/First printing of a fifteenth-century Scottish version of the Arthurian romance that was composed for the court of James III. It survived in a unique and incomplete manuscript in the Cambridge library. The text was edited by the librarian of Durham Cathedral Joseph Stevenson and published by the Maitland Club an association dedicated to the promotion of Scottish literature and culture. 28 cm; xxiv 185 pages. Bound in contemporary red half morocco over pebbled boards edged with gilt rules . Spine decorated and titled in gilt. Marbled endleaves. Moderate wear especially at extremities with spine chipped a bit at heel. Two labels removed from pastedowns. A little foxing at front blank and the pages are not bright but text is effectively unblemished. Reference: Graesse 4 92; Printed for the Maitland Club hardcover books
4314WORLD WAR I. ALS. 3pgs. November 13 1914. Vienna. An autograph letter signed “Libbie Tappan†by an American living in Vienna at the start of World War One. Tappan writes home to her sister in America concerning wartime conditions in Vienna. She mentions lies of the media and the fear that her letter will be censored: “My Dear Sister: I wrote you a letter sent 21 by a lady who was going home to America. She would amil it in New York. Irene sent one to her Mother she has received an answer to hers. SO I am wondering why I don’t hear from you At that time every thing was excitement. All mails from here was stopped and now we have to leave our letters open. Irene’s Mother wrote her to come home at once but we thought it was to big a risk to run. We had no idea that they were writing all lies until we got hold of an American paper. War was first declared here on account of the to be next king and his wife were killed by the Serbians. There is such a lot to tell but for fear it will never reach you I will only say the German Kaiser is not to blame. The Germans and Austrian Hungarians have never lost a battle we are not starving and there is no…here. All places of amusement were closed trotting was stopped the first of August. Things are beginning to brighten a bit now but there will be no racing until next year. Every available place is filled with wounded soldiers and we don’t see much else but soldiers although there has never been a battle here in Vienna. I am so sorry about Marvin. It seems too bad he had to be taken. I hope you let Eugene and the rest of the folks know about us. We are still in no danger as long as we stay here. I am so sorry I cannot send you some money but it is impossible now. But just as soon as it can be sent will send. Remember me to all the ladies There was a call for linen for the wounded. Irene did two pounds out of my old linen. I thought of you all how busy you would be if you was here there was a ship load of red cross nurses and doctors come over some of them are here in Vienna. There were many Americans went home when your letter went. They were nearly a month on the way. I suppose it cost them a small fortune to go I don’t think of any thing else just now. Will write soon again. Trust you are well and all the ladies also. Berdette & Irene sends love Ever your loving sister Libbie Tappanâ€. An interesting first-hand account. It is in very good condition and the original envelope is enclosed. unknown books
1796001121Rome: Presso I Lazzarini 1796. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. xii 502 pp. Full and rich history of Ariccia and surrounding towns on the outskirts of Rome to the Southeast of the City by Castel Gandolfo the Papal Summer Residence. Ariccia is one of the most ancient cities in Italy dating to at least the ninth century B.C. This history concentrates mostly on the seventeenth and eighteenth century when it was ruled by the powerful Savelli Chigi family which produced one pope Alexander VII and built a grand residence in the town that has been used many a time as a movie set such as in Visconti's "Il Gattopardo" "The Leopard". While it is over two millenia since the town yielded to Rome's preeminence as a city Ariccia continued to be the next most important city in Lazio for long stretches of history owing to its propitious location on the Via Appia the first way station on the road between Rome and Naples and its pleasant salubrious climate in contrast to malalial Rome made it a favored resort for the powerful of Rome in prior centuries. This copy of the history a model of municipal histories in its day is very good. There is some light and occasional foxing yet little that could be considered disconcerting. The exception would be the four places where a prior owner presses leaves which left a residue and in one instance may have created a tiny wormhole type of hole. However the small amount of loss has no effect on readability where it occurred. The vellum has an attractive mottled almost tiger striped design. Book is tight. Occasional light pencil notes a word or two in each case affecting a handful of pages. Still a very good copy. <br/><br/> Presso I Lazzarini hardcover books
2005006434Faber and Faber 2005. Book. Fine. Cloth. Signed by Authors. First English Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in like jacket.True First Edition.Signed on the Title Page.Beautiful Copy of this Pulitzer Prize Winner's "Memories of a City.". Faber and Faber Hardcover books
195321187Oxford: Clarendon Press 1953. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. From the corrected sheets of the first edition." Three volumes in original green cloth illustrated with b/w plates indexed. Minor rubbing to extremities offsetting from the dust jacket flaps to the endpapers; else a fine set. Dust jackets have some chipping to the lower edges and spine ends and there is some spotting to the front panel of Volume II and spine of Volume I. Overall still a very attractive set of this comprehensive and influential work. Rostovtzeff defines the "Hellenistic World" as that "created by Alexander's conquest of the East which existed as long as the States into which it disintegrated retained their political independence and the Greeks in those states held the leading role in all spheres of life; that is to say approximately from the time of Alexander to Augustus." Additional shipping charges will be requested for priority or international orders. Clarendon Press hardcover books
1669001031Amsterdam: Giovanni Buaeu 1669. Full Vellum. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 16 471 57; 415 41 139 23 pp. 3 parts in two volumes. Including etched additional title and 2 blanks. Popular political and literary satires in the form of news reports from Parnassus. Brunet 1019 singles this edition out as the prettiest. Also Graesse 456. Eighteenth century Italian vellum with morocco lettering pieces. Armorial bookplates of Wilmopt Earl of Lisburne. Some scattered foxing. Binding is tight vellum is attractive and healthy. Very good or better! <br /><br /> Giovanni Buaeu hardcover books
190116723London: Edward Arnold 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 331 pp publisher's catalogue with 8 plates additional illustrations in the text and two folding maps. Original burgundy cloth with some uneven discoloration to the spine and mild wear to the corners small stain on front board. Internals clean and sound. An interesting travel narrative in which Percy also expresses his deep sympathy with the Turks and his belief that Britain and Germany should work together to stem Russian influence in Constantinople. Edward Arnold hardcover books
16779Travel Album of over 225 photos from a tour of Europe North Africa and the Middle East in the 1920s; photos from France Italy Egypt Greece Constantinople Istanbul Monaco Switzerland Germany and England. This album takes us to a world of a century ago with 228 original silver gelatin prints 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. Original brown cloth boards. 7 1/2 x 12 inches. 100 pages last 8 are blank. Pasted in 22 souvenir postcards of monuments from Brussels the Hague and Milan. c. 1921-1930. Album documents the travels of an American couple on an international vacation. Photos begin with journey leaving New York harbor "Aboard the Vallendam" headed towards France. They land in Cologne and their first stop is in Paris where they document their lodging "Our hotel in Paris "Victoria Palace" and include snapshots of famous landmarks including the Louvre Church of St. Genevieve the Trocadero the Eiffel Tower Tuileries Gardens and the Champ-Elysees. They visit Versailles and Trianon Palace and then travel around France to Rheims Nice and Eze a medieval village. They include many charming photos of coastal views and bucolic countryside.<br/><br/>They make stops at Monaco and Monte Carlo making sure to visit the famous Casino in its prime in the 1920's before boarding the next ship which would carry them across the Mediterranean Sea. Large image of a ship "Theophile Gautier" pasted in with the handwritten caption "Our boat on the Med. Sea and our home for more than two weeks." They sail past Stromboli on the way to Alexandria Egypt where they disembark to travel down the Nile River to Cairo. "Old Cairo and the Nile from the citadel." They visit the Great Pyramids and see the Sphinx. They travel to the Middle East. The next stop is Palestine and Jerusalem where they visit many important religious sites including "Garden of Geshsamine sic" Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Wailing Wall. They also take interest Islamic practices in the city as there is one snapshot of the group seated outside a mosque with the caption: "Group waiting to hear the Mohammedan call to prayer." They also tour Bethlehem Solomon's Quarries and Jewish University before moving on to other places: The Jordan River The Dead Sea Nazareth Galilee and Beirut. They travel on various ways during this time and document many markets and street scenes of a century ago. "Meeting a camel caravan."<br/><br/>They visit ancient sites in Greece such as the ancient city of Smyrna and the island of Rhodes home to the Colossus one of the ancient wonders of the world. Caption for a photo of the island's harbor reads "Rhodes showing the sight site of the ancient Colossus". In Athens they visit the Acropolis and even take a photo where they are standing inside the Parthenon no longer allowed for conservation reasons. They document Hadrian's Arch the Temple of Athena Nike "the wingless victor" Mars Hill the Temple of Theseus and Socrates' prison. They go to Constantinople renamed Istanbul in 1930 and take photos of "The Mosque of St. Sophia" Hagia Sophia. They travel up the boot of Italy with photos of Mt. Vesuvius Naples Rome Milan and Venice. In the capital city they visit the "Tomb of the Italy's Unknown Soldier" erected 1921 and visit the ancient forum in Rome. They take many photos in Venice documenting experiences such as a gondola ride and important landmarks such as St. Mark's Square and the Doge's Palace. The final leg of the trip is an overland journey through the Swiss alps through Lucerne and past the Rhone Glacier. They journey through southern Germany stopping at Baden-Baden Heidelberg and Bonn before making it back to their final destination: England. They go for a tour of Windsor Castle and take in the sights. "Eton College from Windsor." They also visit Oxford University and save two large pages for their photos of Shakespeare's former residences. "Anne Hathaway's Home" and "In the gardens at Stradford on the Avon - Both have Shakespear's sic house". 2 pages are detached. Very good condition. unknown books
163119968London: Thomas Harper 1631. Hardcover. Good. First edition. 4to. xvi 871 14 index pp extra engraved title page by Thomas Cecil eighteen woodcut illustrations six full-page. Foliation can be supplied upon request. Text is printed within a ruled frame with headpieces tailpieces and floriated initials. Contemporary full polished calf with hand-tooled decorative borders in blind to both boards six raised bands red morocco label with gilt lettering on backstrip edges speckled red. A good copy internally bright and crisp with light scattered foxing lacks the portrait of John Weever but has the extra engraved title-page and original index the original title-page appears to have been carefully cut along the margins and mounted on what was formerly the ffep the engraved title-page is similarly mounted on a blank leaf from the book that has been detached and slipped in covers are rubbed and scuffed joints are shaken and split though still attached .Notwithstanding these defects the contents are clean intact and very good. In addition to being a discourse on its subject this work is a compilation with commentary on epitaphs arms and inscriptions on tombs monuments church windows et al. The work focuses on the dioceses of Canterbury London Norwich and Rochester. Lowndes and DNB both citing Wharton's Anglia Sacra note that John Weever 1576-1632-poet anthologist and antiquary-made extensive errors in the interpretation of numbers and in transcription. However both note the work's great utility to historians and biographers. Writing in 1899 Sidney Lee who wrote the Weever entry in DNB points out that " .almost all sepulchral inscriptions in Weever are now obliterated" and that "despite its defects Weever's book is invaluable." This copy conforms to the collation and pagination in ESTC S118104 and the Melvyl/UCR record. Recorded copies are often defective lacking either preliminary blanks engraved title-page the frontis portrait or the index. STC 2nd 25223. Lowndes p. 2867-68. NCBEL 1:1158; NUC 653 p. 270. Thomas Harper hardcover books
1766E0550A 41 B-2K8 2L2. 10 476 12 pages with five folding engraved plates several signed by R. Bennett folding map by D'Anville. Octavo 8" x 5 1/4" bound in modern sheep spine banded title gilt on black leather label edges in blue. ESTC t153068. Pine-Coffin752.2 var. imprint. Borroni 3182.Cox I 136. D'Ancona 672 First edition as a reissue of the edition "printed for S. Hooper; H. Webley; W. Nicol; and S. Bladon" 1766 with a cancel title page and an additional dedication to David Garrick.<br /><br />John Northall 1723-1759 army officer and travel writer "entered the service as a gentleman cadet in the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 1 July 1741 and was promoted to lieutenant fireworker on 1 April 1742. He served under Thomas Pattison with the Royal Artillery in Flanders in 1742 and was promoted second lieutenant on 1 April 1744. He was at the battle of Fontenoy on 11 May 1745 and became first lieutenant on 3 October 1745 captain-lieutenant on 24 March 1752 and captain on 1 October 1755. In February 1752 he went to Minorca and thence to Livorno. He was recorded in Capua on 1 April 1752. Instead of making the usual tour of Italy he visited the principal cities of Tuscany and after a cursory visit to Rome went to Naples. Then after a more lengthened stay in Rome he went to Loreto Bologna Venice Mantua Parma Modena and returned to Livorno whence he sailed for Genoa. From Genoa he went by sea to Villafranca and on by land to Marseilles. He died in 1759. An account of his Italian tour was published posthumously in July 1766 Travels through Italy; Containing New and Curious Observations on that Country but the work has been criticized as following closely J. G. Keysler's Travels 1740; Eng. trans. 1756." Oxford DNB<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Binding lightly rubbed vertical creases on title label; new endpapers title page re-inserted with repairs along inner margin holograph ink signature on title page crossed through and pencil year beneath roman numerals; occasional small tears and spots of minor paper loss mostly in the margins; ink stamp of "Scott County Public Library" on dedication leaf and page twenty-five some smudges and soiling rust stain on B3 few pages misprinted or mis-bound at an angle; nonetheless in overall very good condition. Printed for S Hooper hardcover books
1900309837V.p. in Europe chiefly Germany France Switzerland & Italy 1900. 92 vintage albumen and gelatin silver prints many hand-colored mounted to album leaves photos measure from approximately 6-1/2 x 4-3/4 inches to 10-1/2 x 8 inches. 4to. Full contemporary padded morocco with brass clasp a.e.g. Fine. 92 vintage albumen and gelatin silver prints many hand-colored mounted to album leaves photos measure from approximately 6-1/2 x 4-3/4 inches to 10-1/2 x 8 inches. 4to. Album of professional photographs of European travel destinations including the Midi Monte Carlo Stockholm Brussels London Capri Innsbruck Jena Paris Venice and St. Moritz. Many of the images are hand-colored; a few of the photographers are named including C. Hertel Sommer Naples and C. Naya Venice. The front cover title translates to "Memories of Travel unknown books
18162221846<p>First edition. 4" x 2 1/4". Red straight-grain morocco gilt the upper cover with a crowned monogram of Louis XVIII wrought of gilded  metal affixed covers with gilt rolls with a fleur-de-lys motif spine with gilt vines all edges gilt. Enclosed in a slipcase of full red morocco similarly tooled the spine with two crowns and two fleurs-de-lys. Fine. 349 pages.</p><p>Illustrated with three engraved plates:</p><p>1. "Vue du Port Cette" depicting two sailing ships.</p><p>2. "Vue Interieure du Port de Brest"</p><p>3. "Vue de la Ville et du Port de Bayonne"</p><p>Printed by J. M. Eberhart rue du Foin-St. Jacques.</p><p>Book plate of the bookbinder and collector Leon Gruel.</p> Le Feuil hardcover books
180939882London: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1809. Frontispieces 2 maps 1 folding & 18 plates. xiv 852; 834 pp. 6 vols. 4to. Recently bound in half brown calf and marbled boards spine labels gilt. Ex-library with perforated stamp on title pages & finals pages some browning of leaves plates offset. Very good. Frontispieces 2 maps 1 folding & 18 plates. xiv 852; 834 pp. 6 vols. 4to. Pinkerton's collection of voyages was published over the course of six years in a total of seventeen volumes. The six volumes devoted to Europe comprise the largest section of the collection. They are "of great value for its texts which are sometimes given entire and sometimes abridged with as much as possible of the traveler's own language" Hill. <br/><br/>Pinkerton was something of a character. Having apprenticed to an Edinburgh solicitor upon the death of his father and receipt of his inheritance he immediately turned his back to a legal career and dedicated himself to literary matters. Through his works as a historian poet and playwrite he made friendships with the likes of Horace Walpole Walter Scott and Edward Gibbon and through his controversial religious views and short temper he eventually lost them. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme unknown books
1762WRCAM46155Paris 1762. Two volumes. 62; 61 leaves each with a mounted plate. Images vary in size either 11 x 16 inches or 8 x 12 inches. Oblong folio. 19th-century gilt cloth rebacked in red morocco. Corners repaired. Wear and soiling to boards. Internally clean colors bright and fresh. Very good. Two large albums containing 123 brightly colored VUES D'OPTIQUE depicting scenes from Paris Rome London and many other locations in Europe. Lettering is typically printed at the top and bottom of the plate primarily in French with the letters at the top reading backwards. The letters above the text were deliberately reversed since these prints were designed for viewing in optical machines with a magnifying glass and a reflective mirror which gave the viewer an illusion of depth and reversed the image. The views are mostly of France including many scenes from Versailles and the ports of the realm. There are likewise a significant number of views of important landmarks around Rome. Other views depict notable locations in the Netherlands Denmark Germany Spain Poland and London. A handful of the plates show more unusual locales such as Mexico City Siberia St. Petersburg Peking Cayenne and French Guiana. Altogether an impressive collection of these handsome engravings. hardcover books
