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1963BOOKS000690xxxv464 pages 12 plates including frontispiece 5 maps one of which folds out appendixes bibliography and index. Octavo 8 3/4" x 6" bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship <i>Victoria</i> embossed on front cover with cover edges blind stamped in original jacket. Edited by E G R Taylor. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society second series volume 121. First edition.<br /><br />William Bourne of Gravesend by trade a gunner was a successful writer of a new type of textbook. Neither a scholar not of gentle birth both of which were regarded as the prerequisites of authorship in the sixteenth century when scientific books were expected to appear only in universities and to be read only by those fluent in Latin Bourne nevertheless produced a whole series of technical manuals written in English for the artisans and craftsmen of his own class. <i>A Regiment for the Sea</i> which forms the core of the volume is perhaps the earliest technical manual written by an Englishman. It is not simply his rules for navigation for Bourne wrote much as he spoke so that out of this instruction book for sailors a clear picture of the man himself emerges: serious reliable patriotic and with this inborn impulse to pass on his knowledge to others. The first edition of 1574 is printed here in full with the additional material which was added to the 1580 edition. Taylor has also included two <i>Almanackes</i>. She has written an introductory section to each text and in her General Introduction she fills in the details of Bourne's life and discusses his various writings.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Pages uncut corners bumped. Jacket spine soiled and sunned edges sunned. A better than very good copy in like jacket. Hakluyt Society, by Cambridge University Press hardcover
38392London: Printed for A. Millar 1758. First edition 8vo 61 64-116pp. pp. 62-63 omitted in paging; despite pagination text is continuous disbound. Relating to the British raid on Rochefort in 1757. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1758 unknown
198228467<p>Cook Expedition Forster Johann Reinhold. The Resolution Journal of Johann Reinhold Forster 1772-1775. Edited by Michael E. Hoare. Four Volumes complete. London: Hakluyt Society 1982. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Fine set in Very Good plus dust jackets with gentle wear to the extremities. This four-volume set presents the previously unpublished journal of the principal naturalist on Cook's second voyage. Overshadowed for nearly two hundred years in European scholarship by the achievements and reputation of his eldest son George Forster J. R. Forster - principal naturalist on James Cook's second voyage - was nevertheless recognised by many contemporaries as one of the 'universal geniuses' of the late 18th century. His journal of the voyage offers many new insights expressed at times in quite unrestrained language into the day-to-day relationships life and thinking and theory-testing on the second and the most scientific and the most epic of Cook's voyages. However the circumstances of Forster's career and personality were such that his work was dogged by debilitating disputes and vendettas. Consequently important works such as this journal which would have established him as the leading comparative anthropologist linguist geographer and zoologist of the Pacific have thus far remained obscure and seldom-used manuscripts.</p> Hakluyt Society, hardcover
1982BOOKS0001824 Volumes: xvii182 pages with frontispiece 5 plates some folding and 1 folding map: viii183-370 pages with 8 plates and 5 maps; vii371-553 pages with 9 plates and 5 maps; vii555-831 pages with 9 plates 6 maps appendixes and index. Octavo 8 3/4" x 5 1/2" issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship to front cover. Second Series volumes 152-155 and 139. First edition. Overshadowed for nearly two hundred years in European scholarship by the literary and scientific achievements and reputation of his eldest son George Forster the author of this journal J R Forster Principal naturalist on James Cook's second voyage was nevertheless recognized by many contemporaries as one of the 'universal geniuses' of the late eighteenth century. Despite Forster's diverse prodigious and sometimes brilliant output the constant circumstances of his career and personality were such that his work was dogged by debilitating disputes and vendettas with the result that those many longer more epoch-making and polished works which would have established him as the leading pioneering comparative anthropologist linguist geographer and zoologist of the Pacific and a most competent student in those disciplines of Africa North America and Europe especially Russia have remained only as obscure and seldom-used manuscripts. After Forster's death in 1798 his books and manuscripts - 'there has never been . a private library in Germany to compare with it.' wrote the royal Librarian in Berlin - were sold to the royal Library of the King of Prussia later the Prussian State Library. Among the numerous Forster 'treasurers' deposited in Berlin as his six volume journal in the Resolution. As the journal o a highly literate landsman-at-sea it offers many new typically unrestrained insights into the day-to-day relationships life and thinking and theory-testing on this the most scientific and epic of Cook's three voyages. It is also the fundament upon which George Forster wrote his classic travelogue A Voyage round the World 1777 that humane influence - in many translations - upon science and belles-lettres. It is too the key to the science and anthropology of this voyage the central document to understanding the naturalists' day-to-day work and finds. Set alongside the journals of Cook and his other principals - which it often surpasses intellectually and empirically - anthropologists ethnolinguists geographers geologists botanists zoologists especially ornithologists and medical and literary historians as well as students of James Cook and the eighteenth century mind will find much new observation and theory. For the two Forsters fashioned forces to influence Alexander von Humboldt and foretell Charles Darwin. Condition: Jackets with light edge wear spine ends rubbed else very good to fine in like jacket. Hakluyt Society hardcover
193416830New York: Burroughs Wellcome & Co. . 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. Small glue residue to front free end paper; An examination of the expeditions of various pioneers of exploration including Park Byrd Stanley Hedin Theodore Roosevelt and others and interestingly the various techniques for medicine and first aid in the field as well as at the time of publication. Printed for the Chicago's World Fair. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Beautiful silver endpapers with decorative blindstamped pattern. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 160 pages . Burroughs Wellcome & Co. hardcover
193410186New York: Burroughs Wellcome & Co. . 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. Slight discoloration to boards. ; An examination of the expeditions of various pioneers of exploration including Park Byrd Stanley Hedin Theodore Roosevelt and others and interestingly the various techniques for medicine and first aid in the field as well as at the time of publication. Published for the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition 1934. Red decorative boards with gilt lettering. Beautiful silver endpapers with blindstamped pattern. ; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 160 pages . Burroughs Wellcome & Co. hardcover
193825954London : Blackie 1938 . First Edition . VG/G . 8VO . The story of Scott's ship. Illustrated with black and white photos folding maps. Light wear to book jacket quite worn with some losses at extremities. Blackie unknown
1935011040Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada 1935. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Cloth in DJ; 304pp; DJ chipped age-toned & protected by mylar sleeve bookplate to front pastedown text unmarked binding is sound VG/Good condition. Second of two volumes containing history of the exploration of the Northwest of America. With illustrations and maps including foldout maps. The Macmillan Company of Canada hardcover
115723London British Museum 1921. . First edition; 4to; eight figures in text one plate leaf; publisher's original paper wrapper; a fine copy; pp. 101-130.<br /> Geological report from the 'Terra Nova' expedition detailing the sedimentary rock formations of South Victoria Land with maps diagrams and photographs.<br /> Rosove 292-5. London, British Museum, 1921. unknown
1024816044.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1346414785.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1943140785Melbourne: Bread and Cheese Club 1943. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne Bread and Cheese Club 1943. Small quarto 32 pages with an illustration and 12 pages of musical scores plus a frontispiece. Saddle-stapled card covers slightly rubbed and creased at the extremities; an excellent copy. The SY 'Morning' originally named 'Morgenen' was a Norwegian-built steam yacht one of two relief vessels for Captain Scott's British National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904. The songs were 'Compiled and composed by Captain Gerald S. Doorly One Time Third Executive Officer S.Y. "Morning"'. Rosove 98.A1. Bread and Cheese Club paperback
197625818St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. First thus. Hardcover. 0702213101 . Translated from the Norwegian by A. G. Chater. 2 volumes in one With illustrations and maps a very good copy in very good dustjacket. ; 220 x 140mm; xxxv 392 x 449 pages . University of Queensland Press hardcover
1860H3779London: W. J. Adams 1860. 114 pages. 12mo. Decorated binding. First edition. A description of various locales in France with an eye to the curative effects of the climate on invalids and patients. Binding is embossed blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front and some gilt decoration on front as well. The book is in very good condition: clean and tight with some minor rubbing to edges of cover and edges of spine. Original bookseller's stamp on front pastedown endpaper. Pages are lightly toned; page 105 has a 1" closed tear in bottom margin. Still an attractive copy in new mylar jacket!. First Edition. Hard Cover. Collectible-Very Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book. W. J. Adams Hardcover
191384790May 24 1913. The Sphere. London. 1913. May 24. The Complete Magazine including original coloured cover and all adverts. Folio. Pagination: Coloured front cover iv 1 - b/w second cover with portrait of Scott publishing details of this issue - see second photo. 182 182a - 220 v- xxii. Includes double page photo 182b-183 of Captain Scott in his Antarctic Home by Herbert Ponting taken at Cape Evans. This famous portrait shows the space allotted to Scott and you can see all the photos of Lady Scott and baby Peter that he put up on the wall above his desk. This issue contains very good prints of many photographs not previously seen and also of a much higher quality than when reproduced in future publications. There are also diary entries. This publication predates the Strand Magazine which used some of the same photos. Front cover creased and worn and lacks small portions along spine. Close tears to edges of rear cover. VERY SCARCE. unknown
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
0267843437.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0666812748.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1331951879.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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
1995EXNW00005New Haven & London: Yale University Press 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth gilt-on-black titles on spine black endpapers lxvi 291 pp 25 ff plates not in pagination including 4 oversized folding plates footnotes index. Light soil to fore-edge else fine. DJ has two tears with creasing to top edge of rear panel; in Brodart archvial cover. The Vinland map believed to have been drawn in about 1440 shows the Old World Iceland Greenland and the coastline of northeastern North America. It was discovered bound in a volume with a manuscript copy of the Tartar Relation "an account of Friar John of Plano Carpini's mission to the Mongols from 1245 to 1247." This volume contains facsimiles of the map and the Relation a transcription and translation of the Relation history and description of the manuscript by Marston a study of the map by Skelton and an interpretation of both by Painter. The preliminaries include essays by Wilcomb E. Washburn on the controversy surrounding the map Thomas A. Cahill & Bruce H. Cosko on forensic studies of both and antiquarian bookseller Laurence C. Witten II on his acquisition of the map in 1957. Shipping weight 6 lbs. Revised Ed. . Fine/Fine. 30 X 23½ cm. Yale University Press Hardcover
19359030684New York: Macmillan 1935. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Translated by Alec Brown. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine and cover stamped in white. Illustrated with forty photographs drawings maps and diagrams in black-and-white. Moderate wear and fading to the extremities of cover. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. 324 pages. <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover
200125817New York: Cooper Square Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. First thus. Hardcover. 0815410794 . With many illustrations a fine set in fine dustjackets. ; 235 x 160mm; xlviii 570 xliv 508 pages . Cooper Square Press hardcover
20042091202133206554Toho shuppan 2004. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Toho shuppan paperback