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1332307272.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1818E0061323 pages with a portrait frontispiece and five colored aquatints. Octavo 8 3/4" x 5 1/2" bound in attractive half leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. Hill 1168 Second and best edition<br /><br />The <i>Alceste</i> brought Lord Amherst to China to serve as ambassador and specifically to negotiate the China trade at the time a matter of dispute between China and Great Britain. M'Leod who was surgeon on the ship describes the voyage out the various calls in the East Indies including touching at Batavia surveying off Korea the visit to Okinawa another to Manila and the shipwreck off the coast of Sumatra and subsequent rescue from Malay pirates. A brief but interesting interview with Napoleon at St. Helena is also included in the narrative. This was one of the most popular travel books of its time portraying the Far East to a much wider audience than had been reached by earlier accounts. The idyllic descriptions of Lewchew undoubtedly appealed to the romantic sensibilities of the era. Indeed buoyed by its success M'Leod published another work recounting his time as a slaver <i>A Voyage to Africa with some Account of the Manners and Customs of the Dahomian People</i>.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Attractive half rebind some foxing through out with no spotting to plates else a very good copy. John Murray hardcover
177432872NY: James Rivington. Good with no dust jacket. 1774. Hardcover. 18th Century; Maritime; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 2 17 1 4 2 260p pages; A New Voyage Round The World In The Years 1768 1769 1770 And 1771; Undertaken by Order of his present Majesty performed by Captain James Cooke In the Ship Endeavour Drawn up from his own Journal and form the Papers of Joseph Banks Vol I of 2. Contemp leather. Covers scuffed edgeworn lacking eps and both plates though small part of folding map is present. Foxed some stains. Upper blank margin of 2nd leaf roughly removed list of subscribers losses to printed area of pp67-68 amounting to a dozen words the normal tears to printed area of a few dozen leaves pencil sketches to rear flyleaf and inside of rear cover. Various old ink markings to title page. JCB Annuel Report for 1931 pp. 12-15; Sabin 30936; Evans 13324 Mitchell Library Cook 656; Holmes 9. 2 . Withal a rare and important American edition of Cook's first voyage. Rivington pirated this American edition to undercut the price of the London First Edition in the American market. . James Rivington hardcover
1785BOOKS0033095 volumes: 520 pages with frontispiece tables and six plates; 492 pages with tables 479 pages 587 pages 504 pages with nine plates. Octavo 8" x 5" bound in leather with raised spine bands and black labels with gilt lettering to spine. Complied by John Kent principally from Campbell's Lives of the Admirals Hill page 358 First Dublin edition.<br /><br />A London man of letters Campbell was quite successful with his numerous works of an historical and biographical nature. He collect a large and valuable library. He first published his Lives of the Admirals in four volumes in the years 1742 to 1744. There were several later editions. From 1744 to 1748 he compiled and published what became known as Campbell's enlarged edition of John Harris's Complete collection of voyages and travels originally published in 1702-1705. Campbell also made numerous important contributions to the Biographia Britannica under the signatures E and X including his own noble Scottish ancestors the Campbells. A memoir of him was inserted by Andrew Kippis in this same work. Campbell was an expert on the histories of Spain Portugal France and the British and the Dutch. In 1765he was appointed the royal agent for the province of Georgia and held that office until his death. There are many interesting references to him in James Boswell's Life of Johnson. John Kent published only tow editions of his compilation; this one and one published in London in 1776-1777.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br /> New spines with original leather boards. Volume one closed page edge tears with occasional page edges chipped only affecting margins. volume two damp stain to title gutter some occasional foxing. Some pages stained else a good to very good set Printed for J Williams hardcover
185032940Auburn : James M Alden 1850 . . Good . 8VO . Together with Explorations and Discoveries Made by Admiral D'Urville Captain Ross and Other Navigators and Travellers' and an Account of the Expedition to the Dead Sea under Lieutenant Lynch. Full page black and white illustrations. Amateur rebacking with brown library tape with typed title information taped on. Boards worn some foxing. James M Alden hardcover
19902083002116406106KK Bestsellers 1990. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. KK Bestsellers paperback
1799biblio153<p>a1-42 binders direction8 subscribers4c-4204 additional subscribers pages with 7 maps 5 folding and 6 plates. Quarto 11 3/4" x 9 1/2" with new spine in six compartment with red label in gilt over original decorative blind stamped calf boards. Ferguson 329; Sabin 104.633 First edition first printing.<br /><br />Captain James Wilson brought the first British missionaries to Tahiti on ship <em>Duff </em>in 1797. Wilson was a deeply religious man. The missionaries he brought were from the London Missionary Society. There were thirty men six women and three children. Wilson on the <em>Duff </em>also explored and visited many islands in the Pacific some of which had never had any recorded visit by a European. Among these the most important are Mangareva in the Gambier Islands and Pukarua in the Tuamotus. <em>Duff</em> paid a visit as a missionary ship to Tahiti during 1796 as a result Missionary Society has first been established in Tahiti. Three years after the establishment the directors of the Society appointed a committee to consider a suitable memorial for presentation to Wilson for his services in helping to establish the first mission in the South Seas.<br /><br />Wilson fought with the British army during the American War of independence and then served nine years with the East India company. While in India he was captured by Hyder Ali and after a daring bid for escape was imprisoned in the black hole of Seringapatam. After his release he continued service as a captain and despite illness and further dangerous missions accumulated sufficient sources to retire. throughout it all Wilson remained fast in his irreligious opinions. While living in England with his niece however he was converted to an evangelical faith. he felt called to volunteer for missionary service after reading the <em>Evangelical Magazine</em>. Haweis did not know Wilson before receiving a letter volunteering his services in the Pacific. his skills and newfound devotion seemed perfectly suited to the situation and Haweis saw him as "God's man." the <em>Duff </em>arrived at Tahiti on march 5 1797. the settlement at Tahiti of twenty of the missionaries five of them with wives and two children gives further examples of the role of the missionary captain. A pattern of intercourse had already been established by other voyagers according to which the captain of a vessel would take the leading role in meetings. It is therefore not surprising that the focus of the chapter describing the arrival is on meetings between significant island figures and Captain Wilson. For example Manemane a "high priest" Frommo'orea sought Wilson as a tayo or friend not Jefferson the president of the missionaries.<br /><br />The official account of the first mission appeared in 1799 under the lengthy title <em>A missionary voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean performed in the years 1796 1797 1798 in the ship Duff commanded by Captain James Wilson compiled from the journals of the officers and the missionaries; and illustrated with maps charts and views drawn by Mr William Wilson.</em>.it was placed firmly within the tradition of the voyages of discovery by an introduction compiled by Samuel Great heed that described previous European contacts with the islands and an appendix "including details never before published of the natural and civil state of Otaheite." the main narrative was taken from Wilson's journal with additions from his son and a journal kept by the missionaries during the period when the <em>Duff </em>was away from Tahiti at Tonga. Wilson dominated the events recorded in the narrative.<br /><br /><strong>Condition:</strong><br /><br />Some offset toning from maps occasional foxing water mark to upper margin on some leaves two leaves miss-bound at back re-backed with contemporary blind stamped calf boards.</p> S Gosnell for T Chapman hardcover
1967013782LondonAmsterdamNew York : Frank Cass/N. Israel/Da Capo Press 1967. Facsimile of 1803 Edition.Bibliotheca Australiana # 3 4 5 6 & 7.Original mottled fawn buckram with blue title labels to upper boards and spines. .This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED UK ONLY . Please email for further details NOT "Signed by the Author". Not Signed or Inscribed. Mottled Fawn Buckram . FINE AS BRAND NEW/Plastic Jacket AS NEW. Illus. by numerous Illustrations Maps Views & Charts Including Several Folding . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". HARDBACK. Frank Cass/N. Israel/Da Capo Press hardcover
1967013821LondonAmsterdamNew York : Frank Cass/N. Israel/Da Capo Press 1967. Facsimile of 1803 Edition.Bibliotheca Australiana # 3 4 5 6 & 7.Original mottled fawn buckram with blue title labels to upper boards and spines. .This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED UK ONLY . Please email for further details NOT "Signed by the Author". Not Signed or Inscribed. Mottled Fawn Buckram . NEAR FINE NEAR BRAND NEW/Plastic Jacket AS NEW. Illus. by numerous Illustrations Maps Views & Charts Including Several Folding . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". HARDBACK. Frank Cass/N. Israel/Da Capo Press hardcover
0332186709.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1334034109.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
thl89London: Trübner & Co. 1886. First Edition. Meteorological and magnetic observations made at Fort Rae a Hudson’s Bay Company post on the north shore of Great Slave Lake from Sept. 1 1882 to August 31 1883. Fort Rae formed one of a series of circumpolar positions occupied in accordance with the scheme proposed by Lieut. Weyprecht for concerted physical observations to be carried on for at least a full year at different stations situated around the Poles. The four-man expedition under the command of Captain Henry P.Dawson was organized by the Royal Society of London and financed by the Government of Canada and Great Britain. Arctic Bib. 7748. folio. pp. xiv 326. 32 folding charts. 3 plans in text. A very good copy in original blind-stamped cloth title & verso of last chart browned. thl89 London: Trübner & Co., 1886 hardcover
1334033110.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1977w170523245Universitetsforlaget 1977. 430pp. Over sized maroon hardback DJ rubbing small tears and chips and flap tips clipped text is in English light waterstain along outer edge of last few pages index three fold outs site maps b&w and color photos figures and tables maps The discovery of a Norse settlement in America . Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. Universitetsforlaget Hardcover
196371837Osaka: Hoikusha Publishing Co. Ltd 1963. First edition large 8vo pp. 4 169 3; text in Japanese and English; text illustrations throughout many in color; original full blue cloth; previous owner's bookplate once tipped on the title page but now loose; very good sound and clean. From the preface: "The Indo-Japanese Botanical Expedition was sent to West Sikkim and the Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts in spring of 1960. It has been known that the flora of this region is very rich and is similar to that of Japan. So the main object of our expedition is to make more clear the botanical relationship between the region and Japan. The photographs compiled in this book were taken during the Expedition by the Japanese members under various difficult conditions excepting a few ones taken by Hara in March of 1963. Hoikusha Publishing Co., Ltd unknown
1331509688.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2004002379Montreal: McGill Queens U press. Very Good book no DJ. AS NEW text block. 1st thus. 9.5"x6". 271. 2004. 1st ed thus. Hardcover. VG book no DJ. Publisher info on spine heel worn away. Account of a MAJOR Canadian wilderness canoe expedition. . Spine heel erasure has partially extended into the last word of the title. See scan. Odd flaw it left the "M" of "McGill" in place. Fold out "Map of EASTERN LABRADOR" at book's end with Mina's route and that of her husband's earlier ill fated trip. The fascinating story of this expedition and the two others is a Canadian classic. It has been explored in numerous books and articals. Even Margarat Atwood wrote a short booklet "The Labrador Fiasco" about her father's opinion. Page 233 refers to the Atwood booklet. . McGill Queens U press. hardcover
18694478London: MacMillan. Near Fine. 1869. xi 271pp 53 pg list of publisher's adverts dated 1869 at rear. Rebound in 1/4 leather marbled sides leather spine with raised bands gilt dec & title pieces. 1cm piece missing to top corner pg 72 date pencilled onto preface pg contents otherwise very good.; 225 x 150mm . MacMillan hardcover
2003004175Potts Point NSW Australia: Hordern House 2003. Hardcover. As New/as new. 4to. xv 1168 pp. Bound in full olive cloth title in gilt on cover and spine three ribbon bookmarks in illustrated dust jacket. Includes bibliography and index. This is the first volume in a five-volume work. As New in As New dust jacket. <br/><br/> Hordern House hardcover
1970009165Frank Cass Publishers 1970. Published for the Royal Commonwealth Society Imperial Studies series this is number XXIX in that series.xxviii 330pp 4 maps in text. This excellent biography includes a genealogical table and a 38pp bibliography along with a 12pp index. A FINE AS NEW copy in a FINE AS NEW dustwrapper. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED UK ONLY . Please email for further details. NOT Inscribed or Signed. Blue Cloth. FINE AS BRAND NEW/FINE AS NEW. Illus. by Black and White Drawing & Maps. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Hard Back. Frank Cass Publishers Hardcover
1970009533Frank Cass Publishers 1970. Published for the Royal Commonwealth Society Imperial Studies series this is number XXIX in that series.xxviii 330pp 4 maps in text. This excellent biography includes a genealogical table and a 38pp bibliography along with a 12pp index. A FINE AS NEW copy in a FINE AS NEW dustwrapper. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED UK ONLY . Please email for further details. Not Inscribed or Signed. Blue Cloth. Near Fine NEAR NEW/NEAR FINE NEAR BRAND NEW. Illus. by Black and White Drawing & Maps. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Hard Back. Frank Cass Publishers Hardcover
