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1331509688.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
29817British Library No date. Later Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Commanded by Capt. F.P. Blackwood in Torres Strait New Guinea and other islands of the Eastern Archipelago 1842 - 1846 together with an excursion into the interior of the eastern part of Java. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Ships & the Sea; Papua New Guinea; 19th century; Exploration. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item not stock photos. Inventory No: 29817. . This book is extra heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. British Library paperback
18541102250022Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea 1854. Ninth Edition Revised. Leather Bound. Very Good. Published in 1854. Large 8vo. 509 pp. Collated. Complete. Two maps and multiple illustrations all in very good condition. Clean unmarked pages no foxing. Bound in contemporary leather somewhat worn. Covers in good shape with only slight bumping gold gilt spine lettering and imprint on front cover. Back cover looks like it was imprinted as well but the gilt is missing. Binding is in excellent shape. Ships daily. Captain William Francis Lynch commander of the 1847 USN expedition to the Dead Sea wrote this chronicle of the journey upon his return to the United States. A native Virginian he later served in the Confederate Navy but he was repatriated to the United States after the American Civil War. Blanchard and Lea hardcover
1856E0560<p>3 volumes: xvii1537 pages with 90 lithographs plates including the usual expunged bathing plate many in color including 3 "facsimiles" of Japanese woodblock prints 2 folding; 6 maps and charts 2 folding; 79 woodcuts in the text; 2414414-1xi pages with 4 color lithographs of Chinese scenes; 2 uncolored natural history engraved plates; 6 hand-colored lithographs of birds; 10 hand-colored steel-engravings of fish; 5 lithographs of shells 2 hand-colored; 16 diagram plates of winds and currents; 14-page facsimile of Japanese language version of the U.S.-Japan treaty; 17 folding charts on 16 sheets; numerous woodcuts in the text; xliii17051 pages woodcut star charts throughout. Volume III titled "United States Japan Expedition. Observations on the zodiacal light from April 2 1853 to April 22 1855 . by Rev. George Jones A.M. chaplain United States Navy". Quarto 11½ x 8 ¾" bound in the original blind stamped cloth. Volume 1 rebacked with the original cloth spine laid down. Hill 1332; Sabin 30968 Stabbed signature of the author included. First edition of the House Issue.<br /><br />Detailed and profusely illustrated account of Perry's expedition to open Japan to the West; Upon his return to the U.S. his chief duty for the following year was to compile his reports of the expedition aided by Francis Hawks. The first volume has the account of the voyage and lithographs of the travel; the second volume has the natural history reports by D.S. Green and others and includes hand-colored plates of Japanese fishes and shells. In addition to the artist W. Heine from whose drawings a great number of the lithographs were made the daguerreotypist E. Brown Jr. went on the expedition taking what were undoubtedly the earliest photographic images of Japan many of them reproduced lithographically in this work. This copy with the nude bathing plate which was not included on the list of plates and not issued in all copies. <br /><br />In advance of his voyage to the Far East Commodore Perry read widely amongst available books about Tokugawa Japan. His research even included consultation with the increasingly well-known Japanologist Philipp Franz von Siebold who had lived on the Dutch island of Dejima for eight years before retiring to Leiden in the Netherlands. In 1852 Perry embarked from Norfolk Virginia for Japan in command of a squadron in search of a Japanese trade treaty. Aboard a black-hulled steam frigate he ported Mississippi Plymouth Saratoga and Susquehanna at Uraga Harbor near Edo modern Tokyo on July 8 1853. His actions at this crucial juncture were informed by a careful study of Japan's previous contacts with Western ships and what could be known about the Japanese hierarchical culture. He was met by representatives of the Tokugawa Shogunate who told him to proceed to Nagasaki where there was limited trade with the Netherlands and which was the only Japanese port open to foreigners at that time. Perry refused to leave and demanded permission to present a letter from President Millard Fillmore threatening force if he was denied. Perry ordered his ships to attack several buildings around the harbor to demonstrate US naval power. The Commodore was fully prepared for more hostilities if his negotiations with the Japanese failed and threatened to use unrestrained fire if the Japanese refused to negotiate. He sent two white flags to them telling them to hoist the flags when they wished a bombardment from his fleet to cease and to surrender. Perry's ships were equipped with new Paixhans shell guns capable of wreaking great destruction with every shell. The Japanese military forces could not resist Perry's modern weaponry; the term "Black Ships" in Japan would later come to symbolize a threat imposed by Western technology. Perry returned in February 1854 with twice as many ships finding that the delegates had prepared a treaty embodying virtually all the demands in Fillmore's letter. Perry signed the Convention of Kanagawa on March 31 1854 and departed mistakenly believing the agreement had been made with imperial representatives. The agreement was made with the Shogun the de facto ruler of Japan. On his way to Japan Perry anchored off Keelung in Formosa modern day Taiwan for ten days. Perry and crew members landed on Formosa and investigated the potential of mining the coal deposits in that area. He emphasized in his reports that Formosa provided a convenient mid-way trade location. Formosa was also very defensible. It could serve as a base for exploration as Cuba had done for the Spanish in the Americas. Occupying Formosa could help the US to counter European monopolization of the major trade routes. President Franklin Pierce declined the suggestion remarking such a remote possession would be an unnecessary drain of resources and that he would be unlikely to receive the consent of Congress. When Perry returned to the United States in 1855 Congress voted to grant him a reward of $20000 in appreciation of his work in Japan. Perry used part of this money to prepare and publish a report on the expedition in three volumes titled Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan. He was also advanced to the grade of rear-admiral on the retired list when his health began to fail as a reward for his services in the Far East.<br /><br /><strong>Condition: </strong>Wear and fading to cloth large map repair at with archival tape several others with stub tears and splitting to folds; light foxing spine ends rubbed with a few with chips corners bumped and rubbed through. Accompanied with encapsulated and graded signature of the author else good to very good. Due to the size and weight additional postage will be required.</p> A O P Nicholson hardcover
1852019721London: Ingram Cooke. Complete in two volumes. xi 318 pp.; xii 326 pp. Quarter leather and marbled boards. Raised bands attractive spine slips elegant gilt designs in the compartments. Half titles present. All plates and illustrations called for are present. A very small chip on the name plate of both Volume 1 and Volume 2 the first not affecting text the second deleting the small "II" representing Volume II. Covers rubbed edge wear Very Good. A nice set. Six ships with artists scientists and surveyors explored the coasts of North America South America Antarctica and the Pacific Islands. Provenance: Contains the bookplates of J. B. Torry Esq. of Shrub's Hill Sunningdale in Surrey England. . Very Good. Hard Bound. First Edition Thus. 1852. Ingram, Cooke unknown
144394Paris, Bourdin, s.d. (1842) gr. in-8, XVI-331 pp., frontispice, texte dans un double encadrement de filet noir ; nbses vignettes in-t., 16 pl. sur Chine appliqué, demi-basane acajou, dos à nerfs orné de filets et de frises dorés, palmette à froid aux entre-nerfs, tête dorée, couverture ill. de rinceaux et un médaillon central, et dos conservé, couverture des 17 livraisons conservées (Marcel Martin). Bon exemplaire.
214104Paris, Baudoin, 1826 in-8, 463 pp., portrait en frontispice, demi-maroquin rouge, dos lisse, filets dorés (reliure de l'époque). Dos un peu frotté.
1970100084315Arthaud 1970 in8. 1970. Broché. illustrations en noir et blanc
35138Paris Arthaud 1969 in 8 (20x15) 1 volume broché, couverture illustrée à rabats, 263 pages, avec 46 photographies de Pierre Tairraz, 2 cartes. Collection ''Romans et récits de Roger Frison-Roche''. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
1969100117259Arthaud 1969 in8. 1969. Broché.
1969100144913Arthaud 1969 in8. 1969. Cartonné. Nahanni est le récit de l'expédition en canot de Roger Frison-Roche sur la rivière Nahanni dans les territoires du Nord-Ouest canadien (Alaska). L'auteur y décrit avec précision les paysages glacés les dangers de la navigation et l'immensité d'une nature intacte tout en évoquant les légendes de cette région redoutable
20031159440München: Rogner und Bernhard, 2003. 213 S. Originalhardcover mit Schutzumschlag.
100089974Scheltens & Giltay in8. Sans date. Cartonné. illustrations en noir et blanc
1898220429Verlag von J.F. Schreiber Braun & Schneider München 1898. Softcover Zustand: keine Beschädigungen Exemplar einer Privatbibliothek mit Kennungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten gut. Verlag von J.F. Schreiber, Braun & Schneider, München, paperback
19621816031962 in8. 1962. Broché.
201848Paris, Plon, 1898 in-8, XXVII-563 pp., frontispice, index, demi-veau tabac, dos à nerfs orné (reliure moderne). Quelques rousseurs.
208790Paris, Plon, 1898 in-8, XXVII-563 pp., frontispice, index, broché. Quelques rousseurs.
213559Paris, Plon, 1898 in-8, XXVII-563 pp., frontispice, index, broché. Rares rousseurs. Petite décoloration sur le premier plat.
181886Paris, Berquet et Pétion, 1842 3 vol. in-8, 4 fac-similés dépl., bradel demi-percaline brune (rel. de l'époque). Qqs rousseurs.
197738Paris, Berquet et Pétion, 1842 3 vol. in-8, 4 fac-similés dépl., demi-basane verte, dos à nerfs orné (reliure moderne). Mouillures.
236613Paris, Berquet et Pétion, 1842 3 vol. in-8, 6 fac-similés dépl., demi-veau prune, dos lisse, filets dorés (reliure de l'époque). Rousseurs.
244520Paris, Vernarel et Tenon, 1825 2 vol. in-8, XVI-433 pp., 1 f. de tables et XXVII-363 pp., front., broché, couverture papier jonquille de l'époque Couverture défraîchie avec des manques, manque le second plat du tome 1, mouillure angulaire sur les premières pages du tome 2.
234290A Paris, Chez Le Normant, 1814 in-8, XXIV-403 pp., demi-basane brune à coins, dos lisse orné de filets dorés (reliure de l'époque). Dos un peu frotté.
2008100053974France Loisirs 2008 16x24x3cm. 2008. cartonné.
94234Paris, H. Fournier, 1831 2 vol. petit in-8, XL-370 pp. et 410 pp., demi-chagrin bleu à grain long, dos lisse filets dorés (Lavaux). Qqs mouillures. Fortes rousseurs.
