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1855rbr1-mar64<p>Scattered light foxing. 556 pages incl. index; 3 fold-out maps 1 large panorama - chromolithiograph; 10 illustrations one of which is in color. Vol. I only</p><p>4 raised bands. gilt lettring on black leather label on spine is VG. 1" portion of Leather missing at top of spine. Leather corners worn and generally edge worn boards. Water staining to side edges of front free endpapers and frontis and title page along with additional water marks of 2 additional fold out maps prior to the beginning of the numbered pages. Not affecting the images of these fold outs. No foxing or internal markings. Front hinge jsut starting to crack. Still a quite good copy in better than average condition.</p><p>Photos on request. Additional shipping charges will apply based on destination and speed.</p> U. S. Government Printing Office, A. O. P. Nicholson, printer hardcover
0332935930.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1828073384London: Longman Rees Orme Brown and Green 1828. "Being Extracts from The Journal of a Detenu Who Continued a Prisoner on Parole in the French Capital From the Year 1803 to 1814. Also Anecdotes of Buonaparte's Journey to Elba." Written by artist Thomas Richard Underwood 1772-1836 and published confidentially at his behest by editor friend John Britton. Full green cloth binding. Title page is loose but present. Patterned endpapers. Small prior bookstore label on front pastedown; prior owner's address stamp on verso of front flyleaf. A small bit of foxing inside some age toning. xix 208pp. plus 4 pages adverts. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green Hardcover
1787E00402 volumes: 576xv pages; 499xv pages. Octavo 8 3/4" x 5 1/2" bound in 3/4 period leather. Translated from the first German edition 1781 which includes a chapter entitled: "Observations and additions to by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider". Translated with additional notes and reviews by Jean Baptiste Lefebvre Villebrune. First Spanish edition published in 1772 Madrid. Sabin 36805 First French edition.<br /><br />Antonio de Ulloa 12 January 1716 – 3 July 1795 was a Spanish general explorer author astronomer colonial administrator and the first Spanish governor of Louisiana. He was born in Seville the son of an economist. Ulloa entered the navy in 1733. In 1735 he was appointed with fellow Spaniard Jorge Juan a member of the French Geodesic Mission a scientific expedition which the French Academy of Sciences was sending to Ecuador to measure a degree of meridian arc at the equator led by Pierre Bouguer. He remained there from 1736 to 1744 during which time the two Spaniards discovered the element platinum. In 1745 having finished their scientific labors Ulloa and Jorge Juan prepared to return to Spain agreeing to travel on different ships in order to minimize the danger of losing the important fruits of their labors. The ship upon which Ulloa was traveling was captured by the British and he was taken as a prisoner to England. In that country through his scientific attainments he gained the friendship of the men of science and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. In a short time through the influence of the president of this society he was released and was able to return to Spain. He published an account of the people and the countries they have met 1748 which was translated into English as A Voyage to South America. He became prominent as a scientist and was appointed to serve on various important scientific commissions. He is to be credited with the establishment of the first museum of natural history the first metallurgical laboratory in Spain and the observatory of Cadiz. In 1758 he returned to South America as governor of Huancavelica in Peru and the general manager of the quicksilver mines there. He held this position until 1764. He arrived on 5 March 1766 in New Orleans to serve as the first Spanish governor of West Louisiana. The French colonists refused to recognize Spanish rule and de Ulloa was expelled from Louisiana by a Creole uprising during the Louisiana Rebellion of 1768. For the remainder of his life he served as a naval officer. In 1779 he became lieutenant-general of the naval forces. As a result of his scientific work in Peru he published Madrid 1784 Relación histórica del viaje á la América Meridional which contains a full accurate and clear description of the greater part of South America geographically and of its inhabitants and natural history. In collaboration with the Jorge Juan mentioned above he also wrote Noticias secretas de América giving valuable information regarding the early religious orders in Spanish America.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Sever worming to spines exterior hinges cracked point chipped library stamps to title pages else a good copy of a scarce item. Chez Buisson hardcover
1964007892Philadelphia PA: J.B. Lippincott 1964. First Edition First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Good. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Embossed blue linen boards/NF. DJ/Good; nips chips to edges & small losses to upper/lower spine & lower corners. Dyed upper text edge; map to endpapers. Record of first American ascent of Mt. Everest 1963. Led by Swiss born explorer film-maker and veteran mountaineer Norman G. Dyhrenfurth whose father led international expeditions to Kangechejunga and Batoro in the 1930s. Sponsored by Nat'l Geographic Society the expedition was scientific research in nature; the team was the most academically brilliant . 5 members with doctorates and 8 holding masters degrees. May 22nd 1963. Luther G/ Jerstad and Barry Bishop reach the summit of the South East Ridge via South Col route while Will Usoeld and Tom Hornbein of the West Ridge team conquered the West Ridge/Northface; the two teams rendevous and descend together. July 8th the Expedition was received at the White House by President Kennedy and awarded the Nat'l Georgraphic Society's Hubbard Metal. An exciting chronicle by celebrated author on the subject of mountaineering and official historian for the expedition James Ramsy Ullman 1907 - 1971 who was distinguished by being the oldest member of the team at the age of fifty-five. Illustrated with b/w photographs. <br/> <br/> J.B. Lippincott hardcover
0666812748.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1332996973.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2005067089Varanasi India: Pilgrims Publishing 2005. Large book: NO international orders. Clean square and unmarked. xxviii 473pp. Very nice jacket offered in a new mylar cover. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall. Pilgrims Publishing Hardcover
191232967London : Seeley Servive & Co 1912 . Second Edition . Very Good . 8VO . The second edition published in the same year as the first and identical to it with the addition of a new Preface. With 38 black and white photos and a small folding map of Nigeria at rear. A little bit of shelfwear and wear to the corners and light wear to the spine tips some very mild foxing on some of the early pages. A bright solid and very attractive copy bound in the original blind and gilt stamped terra cotta cloth. A handsome book. Seeley, Servive & Co hardcover
196016525Moscow: Editions en langues etrangeres. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. c.1960. Hardcover. Dust jacket shows edgewear chipping and short tears water damage across top edge. White cloth covered boards with silver and black design show water damage to front board; A tight solid book dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Fold out map showing the areas of influence of the various countries and the extent of progress of the Russian expedition during the 1956-1958 period. Many B&W photos show life on the expedition and the equipment they used. Text in French; B&W Photographs; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 270 pages; Trechnikov/Treshnikov/Tryoshnikov was a Russian geographer and oceanologist who lived 1914-1991 and published many articles and books on conditions at both the Arctic and Antarctic. He was so highly regarded that he had a star and an icebreaker named for him. During the International Geophysical Year in 1957-1958 the Soviet Union established its presence in the Antarctic starting a series of Soviet Antarctic Expeditions. The first expeditions led by Mikhail Somov Aleksei Treshnikov and Yevgeny Tolstikov made multiple discoveries in the inner areas of Antarctica and reached the Southern Pole of inaccessibility and the Southern Pole of Cold. At the latter location on the site of the Vostok Station the subglacial Lake Vostok one of the last major geographical discoveries on Earth was detected deep below the Antarctic ice shield. This book is an account of that expedition with observations about ice conditions weather and wildlife seals & the different varieties of penguins. . Editions en langues etrangeres hardcover
1960144913London: The Trans-Antarctic Expedition Committee 1960-1. Large quarto. 14 volumes. Original printed wrappers string-bound. Edges of wrappers slightly sunned. Fifteenth part comprises 15 folding maps and the written report housed in a slipcase. Front board of slipcase bowed-in with a few creases to the spine. All volumes complete tightly-bound and clean internally. Most parts in modern blue card slip cases. A beautiful set. Spence 1213. The complete scientific reports from the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958 lead by Dr. Vivian Fuchs who was knighted for his efforts and Sir Edmund Hillary. The TAE was the first complete overland crossing of Antarctica and the third expedition ever to reach the South Pole overland after Amundsen in 1911 and Scott in 1912. The expedition conducted a variety of oceanographic glacial geological meteorological and biological sampling the results of which are presented here and illustrated by hundreds of figures from photographs folding maps and tables. Although the reports were issued in 15 parts #6 was never printed. Uncommon to find this set complete and in fine condition. 1960 The Trans-Antarctic Expedition Committee unknown
1959075934Los Angeles: Westernlore Press 1959. 1st printing. Inscribed by Timberman on second front flyleaf. A square clean copy in full cloth binding. Map endpapers. 163pp. Photos. Unclipped 4.95 dust jacket is lightly rubbed with some chipping at spine ends. In a protective mylar cover. Inscribed and Signed By Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Westernlore Press Hardcover
1938TRAF00004New York: The Macmillan Company 1938 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full red cloth reverse foil titles on spine xi 265 pp 4 maps 20 ff b & w photo plates. Half of plate 17 missing large chip to margin of pp 135-6 tears to margins of plate 16 pp 127-8 otherwise very good cloth sunned on spine & near top & fore-edges partially removed bookplate on fpd. Memoir of the author's fourteen years in Africa during which time he farmed land awarded to war veterans in British East Africa later Kenya climbed mountains Kenya Mountain Ruwenzori and Kilimanjaro prospected for gold and finally began his return to England by bicycling most of the way across the continent from Uganda to Cameroon. In the same year this book was published Tilman led an attempt to climb Mt. Everest having previously taken part in a 1935 reconaissance expedition. Bad weather forced the abandonment of the 1938 attempt. 95 pages and 16 of the 20 plates are devoted to mountaineering. Shipping weight 2 lbs. First US Edition. . Fair/No dj. 22 X 15 cm. The Macmillan Company Hardcover
2010Q-1568527551Konecky & Konecky 2010-07-22. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Konecky & Konecky hardcover
1808E0058<p>ix366 pages. Small octavo 7 1/4" x 4 1/4" in the original leather binding with black label in gilt to spine. Howes:354 First printed in 1806 in London in three volumes. Second printing.<br /><br />Thomas Ashe 1770-1835 was born in Dublin Ireland and was a soldier and memoirist. Much of his life was checkered with intrigue and fraud. His Memoirs and Confessions 1815 is an autobiographical account of 'criminal and delinquent' escapades beginning with the seduction of a girl in France. In America he edited the National Intelligencer and was arrested when attempting to steal treasures from churches in Latin America. His Travels in America first appeared in 1806. The narrative chronicles Ashe's travels by flatboat down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in 1806 and is one of the first travelogues written by a foreigner to comment specifically on the American inhabitants of the region. A unrestrained hatred of Americans can be found throughout the work. While the account is interesting and highly readable it was to create quite a stir and added to the wave of anti-British sentiment that would ultimately lead to the War of 1812.</p> Printed Newburyport [Mass.] Reprinted for W. Sawyer and Co. by E.M. Blunt hardcover
8522Copenhagen: Munksgaard 1967-69 London: Curzon Press 1988. First edition. Some light wear to the paper-covered boards of volumes I-III volume IV as new; a bright and clean set in very good condition. Pp. vol. I: pp. 129 33 black-and-white photo-plates; vol. 2: pp. 164 140 full page plates black-and-white photos and line-drawings 2 plates are double foldouts of the excavation in progress 4 maps or excavation plan views in pocket at rear; vol. III: pp. 53 24 black-and-white photo-plates of human skeletal remains; vol. IV: pp. xii 150 6 38 photo-plates of cave interior and kettle-drums numerous text-figures. vols. I-III: one-quarter green cloth lettered in white on the spine over orange and white pictorial boards lettered in white and black vol. IV: white pictorial boards lettered in black 4to all volume hardback. The contents of each volume are: Volume I: Sai-Yok Stone-Age Settlements in the Kanchanaburi province; Volume II: Ban-Kao Neolithic Settlements with Cemeteries in the Kanchanaburi province Part 1 - Archaeological Materials from the Burials; Volume III: Ban-Kao Neolithic Settlements with Cemeteries in the Kanchanaburi province Part 2 - The Prehistoric Thai skeletons and Volume IV: Surface Finds and Minor Excavations. Archaeological Excavations in Thailand is a voluminous record of the finds of the Thai-Danish Prehistoric Expedition 1960-1962. The first three volumes were published in Copenhagen in 1967-1969. The fourth volume appeared as Occasional Paper no. 1 of the Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies in 1988. No ownership marks and few signs of use. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1967-69 + London: Curzon Press, 1988. First edition. hardcover
196744603Copenhagen 1967-69. 4to. Orig. hcloth. 12918453 pp. tables and more that 200 plates. some folding. Clean and fine. hardcover
185970480Harper 1859. Hardcover. Fair. 5 x 7 inches. 340 pp. Illustrated. Folded map at rear. Ex-library book rebound in older buckram cloth spine label stickers on rear cover. Few normal reference non-circulating library markings else interior good text block secure. Title page little soiled scattered light margin foxing. Map has few stains one inch tear to left margin. Ships in box. Professional bookseller for 20 years. Orders shipped daily in cardboard bookfolds. Harper hardcover
7712Several dozen manuscripts in various formats incl. long folded sheets stitched pamphlets sewn volumes and letters. Japan: ca. 1853-63.<br/> <br/> A substantial group of documents revealing internal high-level debates and discussions in response to Commodore Perry’s landings and later controversies that arose as Western powers established a foothold in Japan. This is an exceptional collection filled with top-secret information on government intrigues as the Japanese state responded to aggressive foreign expansion and dissenting groups within the government urging top-to-bottom reforms.<br/> <br/> The manuscripts touch upon pivotal events in Japan’s history:<br/> <br/> –Commodore Perry’s two expeditions July 1853 & February-March 1854 and the resulting ratification of the Treaty of Shimoda.<br/> <br/> –Japanese translations of the treaties signed with the United States Russia France and the United Kingdom from 1854 to 1858.<br/> <br/> –The assassination of Ii Naosuke in March 1860 also known as the Sakuradamon Incident which precipitated a violent backlash against foreigners under the banner of Sonno joi “Honor the Emperor expel the barbariansâ€.<br/> <br/> –General dissatisfaction with the bakufu and efforts to reform it.<br/> <br/> –The attempted assassination of Ando Nobumasa a chief councillor during this period.<br/> <br/> –The Namamugi Incident in September 1862 when the British merchant Charles L. Richardson was killed by Satsuma domain warriors.<br/> <br/> –The bombardment of Kagoshima August 1863.<br/> <br/> Among all these materials we must highlight several examples of manuscript kengen proposals and commentaries written by aristocrats with policy advice on the difficult situations faced by the Japanese state. These offer compelling perspectives on the most pressing dilemmas of the day. While they were not composed by the decision-makers these documents are filled with the minutiae and data employed in the policy-making process.<br/> <br/> All of the items are in a fine state of preservation.<br/> <br/> ⧠John McMaster “Alcock and Harris. Foreign Diplomacy in Bakumatsu Japan†Monumenta Nipponica Vol. 22 No. 3/4 1967 pp. 305-367. unknown
1330370015.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
DG-52-1Fine. Signed by both Authors inscribed and personalized. Like New Book and Dust jacket in Mylar. unknown
