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1828241507London: John Murray 1828. First edition. 8 323 1 ; 4 304 pp. 2 vols. 8vol. Original boards pink paper spines with paper labels with price "Two Vols. 16s." 3/4 inch nick at head of spine of Vol. I and loss at middle o0f spine in Vol. II otherwise very nice uncut. Bookplates of John Torr Harmer. First edition. 8 323 1 ; 4 304 pp. 2 vols. 8vol. Sabin 42852 John Murray unknown
1825AONBrLYO1London: John Murray 1825. 1825. 8vo. pp. xvi 198 2. folding engraved map frontis. 7 engraved plates & 2 text illus. A fine copy in modern half calf plates offset. First Edition of Lyon's narrative of his voyage in the Griper in 1824 in quest of the north-west passage by way of Hudson's Bay. Lyon managed to penetrate into Roes Welcome midway between Wager Inlet and Repulse Bay before he was driven back by bad weather. He here enumerates the difficulties encountered and provides interesting observations on the Esquimaux of the Southampton Islands immediately north of Hudson's Bay. The appendix to the narrative includes botanical researches by W.J.Hooker describing fifty-three species mostly from the Southampton Islands and notes by E.N.Kendall on the magnetic errors of the crew's compasses. The plates were engraved by Edward Finden after drawings by Lyon and Kendall. Arctic Bib. 10530. Field 962. Hill p. 186. Lande 1292. Sabin 42851. TPL 1324. F. London: John Murray, 1825. unknown
185324-08-16-gw-35603-lczS. W. Richards / T. C. Armstrong 1853-01-01. First Edition. hardcover. Used - Acceptable. 0x0x0. heavy wear. edgewear. broken front hinge and loose binding. Name or gift inscription inside book. stains inside and on edges. Still readable copy. S. W. Richards / T. C. Armstrong hardcover
1853538018Liverpool / London: S. W. Richards / T. C. Armstrong 1853. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. xi 223pp. with the errata slip bound in following the final leaf. Illustrated with a steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of Lyon with tissue guard present. Publisher's forest green cloth with a decorative design and horizontal stripes stamped in blind on both covers and spine titled in gilt. Spine and edges toned spine and textblock at the spine base spotted modest wear at corners and spine ends bottom edge with a faint stain affecting only a few leaves with a tiny marginal tidemark very good and sound. Mormon poetry by a Scottish poet with all benefits going to the LDS perpetual emigrating fund. Dedicated to apostle F.D. Richards the book contains a poem about the author by apostle John Taylor as well as poems titled "The Press" "The Prophet" "Reflections on a Bank Note" songs and hymns and poems written to various Mormon notables. According to Supporting Saints: Life Stories of Nineteenth-Century Mormons The Harp of Zion was first the complete edition of poetry published by the Mormon church as well as their first venture into the realm of creative literature. S. W. Richards / T. C. Armstrong hardcover
1825168765London: John Murray 1825. First edition detailing Lyon's attempt to reach the North West Passage through Hudson Bay on the HMS Griper. The voyage proved unsuccessful in finding the passage due to poor weather conditions. The work also describes the Inuit of the Southampton Islands and the author's scientific findings. George Francis Lyon 1795-1832 had made a name for himself accompanying Joseph Ritchie's scientific expedition in Africa. Lyon organized a publication of their findings on his return to London in 1820. He then accompanied Parry's attempt on the northwest passage on the Hecla in 1823 publishing The private journal of Captain G. F. Lyon the following year. Lyon was then promoted captain and appointed the Griper. "Lyon's instructions were to reach Repulse Bay by whatever route he judged best and from it to examine the coast of the mainland westward to the point where John Franklin's voyage had ended its survey. He sailed on 6 June but the season proved unfavourable and he returned to England in November." The route that he chose "for reasons that never became clear" Howgego took them south of Southampton Island approaching Repulse Bay through Roes Welcome Sound and required "navigating a labyrinth of treacherous shoals". Foul weather and high winds forced Lyon to return incurring the wrath of Sir John Barrow at the Admiralty as a result of which he was never offered another commission. Provenance: a George Treweeke Scobell 1785-1869 the midshipman aboard HMS St Albans with his engraved bookplate on the front pastedown. b L. Harrison Matthews 1901-1986 with his ink signature on the front free endpaper. Matthews was a British zoologist of marine mammals. Octavo 207 x 130 mm. Folding chart frontispiece 7 engraved plates diagrams charts and illustrations to the text. Contemporary dark blue half calf by W. Pearce of Bristol spine with four gilt decorated low raised bands decorative gilt panels to compartments dark red label leather sides and corners edged with a blind scrolling roll Spanish on Italian marbled sides and edges. Judiciously recoloured in places a few patches of skinning spine ends and corners with small chips a little foxing and offsetting chart with old tissue paper repair to verso "View of Terra Nivea" with old offset mark plate of heads slightly shaved at head p. 128 numbered as p. 182 small ink marks to pp. 198 and final leaf. A very good copy. Arctic Bibliography 10530; Hill 1055; Howgego II L52; Sabin 42851. hardcover
182170684London:: John Murray 1821. First edition. modern 3/4 calf and marbled sides in antique style. Two-inch tear to the insertion point of the map neatly mended on verso with Japanese tissue. A few smudges to a very few pages; generally clean and bright throughout. The recent binding is unworn tight and sound. 4to. Folding map and 17 color plates. Accompanied by Geographical Notices of Soudan and of the Course of the Niger. John Murray, unknown
182158594London: John Murray. 1821. Hardcover. Very Good. With a Chart of the Routes and a Variety of Coloured Plates illustrative of the Costumes of the several natives of Northern Africa. First edition. 1821 .xii 383 pp. With 17 lovely lithographic colour plates and 1 fold. map.map a photostat Bound in recent half calf/marbled boards marbled page edges spine tooled. A very good copy of this book on the Sahara.; Quarto . John Murray, hardcover
1821021505London: John Murray 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Title page and dedication page with dampstaining and restoration; plates with fine contemporary coloring one with a closed tear to margin not affecting the image. Hinges starting covers still firm; rubbing and fading to spine. Very Good. Quarto 8" x 10-1/2" bound in full polished calf leather by Casa Calero Madrid with gilt-lettered spine with four raised bands all edges marbled; xii 382 1 pages. Complete with large folding engraved map and 17 hand-colored lithographic plates after Lyon by M. Gauci G. Harley or D. Dighton. Lyon disguised as a Muslim left Tripoli to discover the source of the Niger river. The hand-colored plates depict scenes and traditional Libyan clothes. ABBEY TRAVEL 404. <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover
1889E00911889. Titelblatt von J. Berjon in Tinte signiert / titre signé en encre par Berjon. 11 Lagen starkes Papier mit Kordelbindung. Lederband der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Deckel- u. Rückentitel. Zustand 1.
1830146901York Toronto: Colonial Advocate Press 1830. Very good. vi 46 p. 22 cm. Disbound pamphlet. Housed inside grey cloth solander box. Ink inscription at top of title bottom of title page cut off old tape mark at top. <br/><br/>William Lyon Mackenzie 1795 1861 journalist and politician is one Upper Canada's most recognizable historical figures. He represented York County in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada and was the first mayor of Toronto. At first aligned only with Reformers he became increasingly more radical eventualy leading the rebels in the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. Afterwards he fled to the United States but eventually the parliament of the Province of Canada granted him amnesty. After his return he represented the constituency of Haldimand County in the province's legislature from 1851 to 1858. <br /> <br />He published his first newspaper the Colonial Advocate in 1824 and continued to publish it weekly into the 1830s. Over its twelve years of publication Mackenzie explicitly advocated constitutional change for a responsible government that worked for the people. The Advocate was used as a voice for constitutional reform educating and inspiring citizens to take action against their government. <br /> <br />However besides a newspaper the Colonial Advocate Press published treatises such as this Catechism of Education. Mackenzie believed education should be available to everyone not just the elite so that everyone could benefit. "Political Education consists in a right understanding of the science of Government the business of which is to increase to the utmost the pleasues and diminish to the utmost the pains which men derive from one another ." p. 44. Most of each page consists of Annotations and Illustrations which support the author's views. These points make entertaining reading as they include quotations from sources as diverse as the 1st Annual Report 1829 of the Philadelphia House of Refuge p. 11 Wiliam Penn's letter to his family p. 24 John Locke p. 19 and the Book of Proverbs p. 5. Colonial Advocate Press hardcover
188157971Tokyo Nishimura Tomijiro Fukuda Eizo Meiji 21 1881. 8vo. In the original cloth binding with printed front board depicting a monkey reading a newspaper. Light wear and soiling to extremities and end papers soiled otherwise in fine condition. 285 pp. 3 plates. <br/><br/><em>The rare first Japanese translation of W. P. Lyon's anti-evolutionary text ' Homo versus Darwin'. It constitutes the very first publication in Japanese to reject Darwin's theory. A year after the publication the book was banned for 'corrupting public morals'.The present work is Lyon's reply to the publication of Darwin's The Descent of Man. Here he sees Darwin being charged by Homo of denying him from being a creature made by a God and declaring man to be merely some kind of animal. The author is recorded as being 'Eisa Gurei' Asa Gray but in 1986 a study confirmed the text to be a translation of Lyon's work.'Saru no Saiban' is an important work in the history of the reception of Darwinism in Japan. Darwin's theories had a profound influence on Japan and Japanese culture but in a slightly different way than in the West: Darwinism was marked as social and political principles primarily embraced by social thinkers philosophers and politicians to advocate the superiority of Japanese culture and society and military and not by biologists and zoologists. "It was as if Darwin's famous oceanic journey and the meticulous research into the animal and plant kingdoms that he spent his life undertaking had all been staged as an elaborate excuse for composing a theory whose true object was Victorian society and the fate of the world's modern nations." Golley Darwinism in Japan: The Birth of Ecology. </em> hardcover
