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IN 4. BR [BE]. 192 PP. ENV 150 ILL EN COULEURS. [BE]
192p., illus. 28 cm. Paperback Very good condition
IN 4. BR [TBE]. 40 PP. ENV 25 ILL EN COULEURS [TBE].
Versione dall'originale cinese a cura di Franz Kuhn. Traduzione di Italo A. Chiusano. Prima edizione 1961. Legatura editoriale illustrata da Balilla Magistri. Numero collana 74. Ottimo esemplare. Legatura editoriale in cartonato rigido rivestito da carta, continua ai piatti e al dorso, con titoli e numero di riferimento del volume nella collana su sfondo bianco al dorso, pp. 98, in 8° piccolo. raro.
Lisboa, Livraria de Antonio Maria Pereira, Editor, 1895. 4to.; VII - 257 pp. Bellas capitulares modernistas dibujadas por Oliveira. Primera edición. Cubiertas originales, salvadas en media tela.
First edition, large 8vo, xvi, 579, [3]pp., coloured frontispiece, fold-out map, numerous illustrs., in the text, small neat library stamp to blank margin of frontis., and title, rebound in quarter calf, blind-stamp library call number to spine, overall a very good copy. First edition of this enchanting account of the travels of George Fleming (1833-1901) in the far north of China. Fleming began his epic journey in Tien-tsin, where he was stationed as an army doctor at a British military garrison; there he was granted special permission to travel almost 700 miles as far as Moukden and to Manchu Tartary, the birth place of the Manchu dynasty. Flemings route took him through many regions that had been inaccessible to western travellers until the Treaty of Tien-tsin (1858-1859). His vivid account describes the people and customs he met; the landscape; the climate; the language and dialects; the agricultural practices of the various regions; and the struggles and hardships he faced during his journey. Flemings work is a monument of Victorian travel literature and an important source in understanding Victorian perceptions of China and of Chinese culture.
8vo [26 x 17 cm]; xvi, 579, [viii, ads] pp, color lithographed (chromolithograph) frontis, numerous engraved illus, folding partly colored map, index. original blue pictorial gilt cloth, picture of 2 men, horses, gilt title lettering on spine & cover, cover and some leaves with light stains, mostly marginal, spine ends worn, short split at joint, bookplate of Marquis L. Wood, Shanghai, goood copy. A pic Cordier 2747. The author and a companion traveled on horseback between Tien-Tsin and Moukden in 1861 and provide an interesting narrative of the Chinese military, the punishment of prisoners, the mutilated feet of women, customs, superstitions, the spy system, the Great Wall of China, veterinarians, topography, the people, etc.
Crown quarto. Pp. xvi, 579. Chromolithograph frontispiece. Fold-out map with additional colour added in lithography (small tears at fold). With 54 wood-engraved illustrations. Hardcover, bound in contemporary half polished calf and forest-green ribbed cloth, sides and corners ornamentally roll-tooled in blind, spine gilt; bit worn and chafed in places, inner-hinges split, foxed. In good condition, and with the contemporary armorial bookplate, "Auspicium Melioris Aevi" (an omen of a better age, motto of the Order of St. Michael and St. George). ~ First edition. Cordier BS, 2747.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper boards framed in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt backs, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 189.
First US edition in VG condition, full brown original cloth with gilt lettering and design to front cover, slight shelfwear, large folding map perfect, some foxing, not affecting illustrations, 448 pages plus 4 pages of ads. original title: Travels in the regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian acquisitions on the confines of India and China. With adventures among the mountain Kirghis; and the Manjours, Manyargs, Toungouz, Touzemtz, Goldi, and Gelyaks: the hunting and pastoral Tribes. , architect and traveller, Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1799 - 1861) and his wife Lucy, spent seven years travelling in Siberia and Central Asia during the period 1847 - 53. Their son Alatau was born during their travels at the beginning of November in 1848 in what is today Eastern Kazakhstan. Bearing in mind the conditions they were living in and the extreme cold, it is a miracle that he survived! Thomas Atkinson's first book "Oriental and Western Siberia: A Narrative of Seven Years' Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, The Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and Part of Central Asia" was first published in London and New York in 1858. In the preface to this, his second book describing the travels he (and his wife and son who are invisible in his writing) gives more detail on the natural history and resources of this vast region than he gave in "Oriental and Western Siberia.". He did not confine himself to seeking only to satisfy the scientists among his readership but also discusses the possibility of British commerce in the region. "Our commerce, prodigious as are its operations, is, its is well known, capable of infinite expansion, and I have laid open a field of almost incalculable extent, where enterprise, skill, and industry are sure to find a profitable investment." He also addresses the great interest in Britain in Russian ambitions for the region: "For those of my compatriots who have been alarmed by the approaches of Russia to our Indian Empire, I have faithfully stated every step that has recently been made in this direction, and afforded them an opportunity of learning her present position on the north of the Himalaya. Her existing relations with China, now that we are engaged in a war with its government, will doubtless give increased interest to the facts I have been enabled to collect respecting the several advances she has skillfully made into Chinese territory, and the consequent extraordinary development of her own." (From the preface).
First Edition Thus..London, The Reprint Society, 1941, First Edition Thus.. Very Good hardcover, no dust jacket. Burgundy cloth with silver lettering. Very Good hardcover, no dust jacket. Burgundy cloth with silver lettering
1st US Edition First US edition, first published in English in 1848, the original edition published in Berlin in 5 volumes between 1833-42. 8vo. 2 VOLUMES. xi-371pp,+ 42pp publisher's catalogue, vii-400pp. Original cloth blind-stamped and gilt, fraying at head, tail an corner of spine volume 2., but the gilt still bright former bookstore paste down on fep, signature and stamp of former owner, pen notes on the blank end papers, sparse foxing ow a still good set. Translated from the German by W.D. Cooley. Account by German scientist and explorer Erman of the 1828-29 Norwegian expedition to Russia and Siberia to study the north magnetic pole. Ermans work includes important comments and observations on physical geography and geology, the exile road to Siberia, Irkutsk, the chief political exile city, the manners, customs, and language of the Samoyedes and Yakuts, the trade carried on from the frontiers of Siberia to Bokhara and Tashkend, the fisheries of the Obi, the mineral riches of the Ural and Nerchinsk, the fossil ivory in the valley of the Lena and New Siberia, &c. Erman was awarded the medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1844, and the magnetic observations he made during his travels were utilized by C.F.Gauss in his theory of terrestrial magnetism.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, very numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions throughout, and coloured endpaper maps; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
A New Zealander's travels in revolutionary China. Numerous b/w photographs. 588 pp. Paper covers. Some cover soiling
4to, viii, 201 p., [13] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Royal Geographical society. Supplementary papers. Vol. I. Part 1. Vol. I dei Supplementary Papers della Royal Geographical Siciety. Ipiù importante rapporto concerne le esplorazioni della Cina occidentale (fino a Tashienlu di Colborne Baber (pag. 201 con tavole e tre carte ripiegate)
70 pages, (Great Journeys of the World). eng
70 pages, (Great Journeys of the World). eng
Illustrated in colour, map. eng
In 8° (20,5x13 cm); 55, (1), 112 pp. Bella legatura coeva tipica della biblioteca estinta degli israeliti di Mantova in piena cartoncino molle con piatti foderaticon carta dai motivi in rosso. Antichi timbri della stessa biblioteca al frontespizio e a carta 97. Note manoscritte coeve al margine bianco di alcune tavole. Macchietta di inchiostro al frontespizio e antica nota di collocazione manoscritta e minimo, leggerissimo alone d'umidità allo stesso. Due tunnel di tarlo di circa un centimetro e mezzo nel margine bianco delle ultime due carta ma per il resto esemplare in BUONE condizioni di conservazione dalla carta forte e pulita. PRIMA EDIZIONE di questo trattato sulla china ed i suoi utilizzi medici del celebre scienziato bresciano Zandrini Bernardino nato a Saviore dell'Adamello in Valcamonica 7 aprile 1679 e morto il 18 maggio 1747 nel suo paese natale. Zendrini è celebre peri suoi studi di idraulica (ideò un sistema per difendere la laguna veneziana dall'erosione del mare). Le sue specializzazioni riguardavano il calcolo infinitesimale, il fenomeno astronomico gedeiasico e le leggi del deflusso dei fiumi. In uno scritto datato 1708, composto in seguito all'osservazione di una tromba d'aria, dimostra di aver intuito le leggi della gravità, le teorie sull'eletricità e sulle proprietà dei corpi gassosi. Si interessò di diverse materie e le sue conoscenze ed intuizioni furono tali che il suo nome divenne conosciuto in tutta Europa. Intrattenne una fitta corrispondenza con alcuni dei maggiori scienziati europei della sua epoca. La prima parte di quest'opera, dedicata a Cristiano Martinelli, è un trattato sui pregiudizi nell'arte medica. Il trattato della ChinaChina, che segue, contiene anche l'interessante parte dedicata alla natura dell'etere che circonda la terra e un accenno alle proprietà curative della pietra Belzoar. L'opera è dedicata alle potenzialità mediche del distillato di alcune piante del genere cinchona. PRIMA EDIZIONE NON COMUNE.
86 p. Gilt and orange pattern boards, cloth backed. Paper label. Delicately humorous poetry. ORIENT 3
New English Paperback. 4to. (29 x 24 cm). In English and Turkish. 123 p., color ills. Transcending borders with brush and pen: Selected works of Eastern and Western calligraphy.= Firça ve kalemin izinde sinirlari asmak: Dogu ve Bati yazi sanatindan seçmeler.
IN 4. BR [BE]. 70 PP. ENV 80 ILL EN NOIR ET EN COULEURS. [BE]
Seconde édition, 1 vol . in-12 reliure postérieure milieu XIXe dem-chagrin marron, dos à 4 nerfs, Chez Jean Baptiste Deville, Lyon, 1688, 11 ff. (frontispice, titre, Epistre, Avis au Public et Avis nécessaire), 444 pp., 2 ff. n. ch., et 1 f. manuscrit, avec 3 figures gravées dont 2 hors texte (la figure en frontispice du thé étant comprise dans la pagination) Seconde édition de cet ouvrage de référence pour l'histoire du café, du thé et du chocolat. Etat satisfaisant pour cet exemplaire incomplet des 3 derniers feuillets (dont la dernière page des tables, remplacées par une copie manuscrite du XIXe, et les 5 pages du Privilège), mais bien complet par ailleurs. Hormis le dos un peu frotté et qq. rousseurs, l'exemplaire est par ailleurs agréable et les gravures plus fraîches qu'à l'ordinaire (ex-libris gravés, l'un héraldique à trois merlettes de Joannis Francisci Rondé, l'autre de L. Gounelle). Vicaire, 293 Français
grand in-8°, 140 pp, ill., tabl. et figures, broche, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire. [NV-7]
64 pages. Features: Katy - Cause & Effect; "I'm Getting a Ticket"; "I'm a Railroad Fan - Alfred Edward Perlman - detailed article with photos"; Steam in Indian Summer - paying final respects to the beetle-browed power of Grand Trunk behind a snorting bone-shaker of a geared 0-2-2-0; Would You Believe it? - Synchromesh 0-12-2; Railroading As They See it - a peak at the world's most unknown railroading in Russia and China - article with many photos, including an INCREDIBLE black and white centerfold of a Chinese train surrounded by crowds; ; Nomad of the Nineties - Sam Vauclain, grand old man of steam and his compound Baldwins - includes amazing photos of twenty, (yes 20!) new Forney 0-4-4s in a column; This Device Spots Broken Wheel Flanges; All About Signals - 1 - John S. Armstrong explains in easy steps the progress from crude but effective manual-block safety to the speed insured by 1957's complexity of wires, relays, motors and lights - superb article with many helpful diagrams; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
