Cramm, Geo. F.MareMagnum
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Outside dimensions 10.75" x 14.5". Unmarked with light wear and soiling. An attractive vintage copy. Book
Very Good English Original 36 b/w photographs taken by anonymous Turkish traveler to the US in 1958-59. 9x12,5 cm. Printed on Kodak Velox Paper. Embossed frames. Dated mostly February 1958 and April 1959. Photographs show the entrance of Rockefeller Plaza, New York with flags of various countries (including the Turkish flag); streets and districts of NY; Botanical Garden; Bronx Zoo of NY; New York Coliseum Long Island; Triboro Hospital of Jamaica (NY); QGH (Queens General Hospital) and parking cars in front of the building; Queens Hospital Center of NY; Animal Hospital (Boarding - Grooming); Road of Jamaica NY; Rockefeller Plaza building; Garden of QGH; building for doctors; Some American houses of NY; Ice rink of Rockefeller Plaza; Lakeshore, etc. A fine vintage photo collection of the 1950s' New York.
244p. Signed by the author Hardcover Very good condition good
First and only edition, [2], 30pp., stitched as issued in blue paper wrappers, a very good copy. The author argues against putting an additional duty on sugar "which... would be a great hardship on the sugar-planter in the West Indies, and very little benefit to the revenue...". He sets out all the costs involved in producing sugar, such as the price of slaves and the cost of keeping them, the higher freight costs, insurance, cost of animals and contributions to the defence force. Finally, he states the advantages of the sugar trade for Britain and shows how an additional duty would be to the detriment of the trade. Goldsmiths'-Kress, 8163; Hanson, 5917; Sabin, 40397; ESTC gives the British Library as the only UK hold.
In 8°; VIII, 424, 115 pp. Legatura coeva in cartoncino rigido con piatti foderati con carta azzurra. Esemplare in ottime condizioni di conservazione ed ancora in barbe. Antica firma di appartenenza al recto del piatto anteriore "Watson Alcock". Prima rara edizione di questo celeberrimo trattato sulle febbri che colpirono sul finire del XVIII° secolo la Jamaica e le coste nordamericane. L'autore servì per due anni nel reggimento scozzese di stanza a New York e risiedette anche per un certo periodo in Jamaica. "The observations, contained in the following pages, were made during the time that I lived in Jamaica, or while I attended some part of the army in America. The materials were collected between the years 1774 and 1782" (Preface, p. iii). L'autore è riconosciuto come uno degli innovatori delle tecniche di cura delle febbri gialle. Si opponeva in modo deciso all'eccessivo uso del bisturi promuovendo tecniche di cura farmacologiche e preventive. Egli parte dalle osservazioni fatte da Ramazzini nel territorio modenese per cercare poi punti di contatto con altre testimonianze di "febbri intermittenti" segnalate in vari luoghi del mondo cercando un collegamento che ne dimostri la causa. Analizza poi casi pratici ed epidemie che colpirono la Jamaica e le coste nordamericane e nelle quali Jackson fu testimone oculare. Prima edizione in barbe. First edition a very good copy.
"Marianne North was one of those intrepid Victorian Lady Travellers, most renowned for her brilliant botanical paintings, displayed in specially designed Gallery in the Botanical Gardens at Kew. This book uses extracts from her autobigraphical account of her travels ("Recollections of a Happy Life. Being the Autobiography of Marianne North". Edited by Her Sister Mrs. John Addington Symonds. Two volumes. 1894) and is beautifully illustrated with her paintings, many reproduced for the first time. The book was published in collaboration with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Preface by J P M Brenan, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens. Foreword by Anthony Huxley. Biographical note by Brenda E Moon. 240p. illus (col) maps on endpapers. A nice book to send as a gift ! Book
Features: Desirable orchids of the Bahamas; Vanda cristata; Triplods are wonderful but...; Angraecum distichum vs. Mystacidium distichum - Collector's item; A sumer collecting trip to Jamaica; Gastrorchis humblotii; a survey of cymbidium composts - a Gripp on Growing; a checklist of the orchids of Jamaica; Improvement of species by inbreeding; Stenia species in Peru. Book
Features include: Australia's flying duck orchids; shoot-tip culture for the novice; stenoptera ananassocomos - acquaintance renewed in Jamaica; Limberlost Orchid and Tropical plant nursery - a tribute to the Perseverance of an orchidist; Specimen plants and Paphiopedilum Potting - growing orchids indoors; cattleya aclandiae; Acceleration of the germination of so-called "hard-to-germinate" orchid seeds; observations on growing catasetums; Erythrostylum - the Queen of Cymbidium species - a Gripp on growing; The morphological effects on pollination in the Brazillian Miltonias; A second look at Doritaenopsis. Book
Hardcover in-12, 190 pp., cartonnage editeur, jaquette illustree. TTB exemplaire + TB jaquette. [FL-3][ESC-]
159 pages. "Deserted by his wife Estella, Jake is engaged in the symbolic carving of Samson whose story is not unlike his own." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards show small bump on bottom edge. Edge wear to dust jacket. 80 pages. 9 1/4"w x 12 1/8"h. Many color and b&w photos.
Paris, 1760 circa. Incisione in rame al'acquaforte, colore, cm 23 x 35,2 (alla lastra). Sono segnati meridiani e paralleli sulla “Longitude du Méridien de l'Isle de Fer” e sulla “Longitude du Méridien de Paris”. Buone condizioni.
317pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THIS ATLAS OF THE BRITISH WEST INDIES, published in France during the Seven Years' War (also known as the "French and Indian War".) xii, 171 pp + engraved title and THIRTEEN FINE MAPS, of which 8 are folding (complete). Also illustrated with ten headpieces, nine of which depict the entry into a major port. Includes Jamaica (with several maps), Barbuda, St. Kitts, Nevis, the Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Antigua, the Lucayes (now the Bahamas), and Bermuda. 4to (26 x 20.3 cm). Attractively bound in contemporary calf, with the ARMS OF KING LOUS XV OF FRANCE EMBLAZONED IN GILT ON FRONT AND BACK COVERS. Binding restored at head and tail of spine, and very solid. Small, faint marginal stain to engraved title-page, else INTERNALLY FINE AND BRIGHT, WITH MAPS AND TEXT VERY FRESH. Sabin 4553. RARE AND IMPORTANT.
418 pages. "A sensitive and invaluable memoir. Admirable in its reticence and accurate in its mood." - Derek Walcott, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Poetry. Prior owner's details atop half-title page else unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Flower arranger's greenhouse; Christmas at the manor; Proteas; design with Proteas; Singapore Orchids; The Big Day; The flora Calendar 1976; Chrysanthemum glory; Wintergreen; Gardening and flower arranging in Jamaica; Why I collect flower stamps; pink frost for Christmas; Coconuts for food and flowers; Flowers at Beaulieu; Men who arrange flowers; pot et fleur; winter in the garden; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Sweetly Scented Flowers; Autumn flowers from Bulbs; Butter Roses; in your garden; base thoughts; protection in the garden; flower festival at Westminster Cathedral; Flowers and button-holes; roses in flora containers; Castle Howard; flowers in praise; treasures from the sea; Derbyshire well-dressing; a flower arranger in Jamaica; watering your garden; flowers through the ages; Maruee Decoration; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
The author shares the story of her mother's family, tracing their origins in a privileged parish community historically marked as a place through which runaway slaves escaped and describing her mother's life in urban Jamaica. 279p,. Book
Dans ce numéro, les nouvelles de Londres sont consacrées à la guerre d'Amérique. La Gazette reproduit une requête des planteurs de sucre, propriétaire et négocians présenté au Roi le 16 décembre « au commencement de la malheureuse division entre ce Royaume & les Colonies de l'Amérique septentrionale, les Requerans, (…) représentèrent aux Ministres de V. M. les craintes qu'ils avaient des dangers et des malheurs auxquels les isles à sucre seraient nécessairement exposées (...)ils ont aujourd'hui sujet de regretter, par la perte de la Dominique et par le danger imminent des autres isles, que leurs fréquentes démarches pour obtenir de la protection n'ont pas eu l'effet désiré ; qu'ils sont à présent dans l'état le plus cruel d'incertitude, par le délai du secours envoyé de New-York aux Isles sous le Vent (…) tandis que la Jamaïque a été laissée presque absolument à ses propres efforts,lesquels, vu le petit nombre d'habitans Blancs, sont devenus extrèmement fatiguans » P. 87, une communication du chimiste et futur ministre de l'Intérieur Jacques Antoine Mourgue livre les résultats des Observations météorologiques, agronomiques & physiques, faites à Montpellier & dans les environs, pendant l'année 1778.
246 pages. "Granny Brown, known as GB to her many friends and enemies, was tennant of one of the king-sized dust-bins constructed and filled with rubbish by the slum area behind Montego Bay, Jamaica. She was a stonebreaker by profession and by genius historian of all the scandalous gossip of the community". - from back cover. Underlining and/or marginalia interspersed throughout. Average wear. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
In-16°, pp. 330 con 85 illustrazioni e 10 tra mappe e piante dell'isola ripiegate f.t. oltre a numerose pagine di pubblicità dell'epoca su carta verdina. Leg. in mezza tela edit. con piatti in cartonato edit. illustrato quello anteriore. Tracce del tempo e d'uso.
Un fort volume broché de format in 8° de 282 pp.; couverture illustrée, à rabats. Bel état.Voir photo.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty rear and no bumping to corners. 79pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Washington's French Volunteers, Sir Neil Campbell (1869) on Napoleon, Wu-Chao - Woman Emperor of China, The Rising at Morant Bay - Jamaica 1865, Lord Augustus Fitzclarence, The Seine in the 17th Century and Peter Abelard - Philosoper 12th Century plus book reviews and letters.
240p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
Jamaica Surveyed by Staff Com.r G. Stanley 1873-5 and Lieut.t T. F. Pullen 1876-9. Morant Cays by Lieut A. Carpenter and the Officers of H. M. S. Sparrowhawk 1890.London Published at the Admiralty 27 October 1880 under the Superintendence of Captain F.J. Evan. Small corrections: 1931. Folded
