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1825106832London: John Murray 1825. Hardcover. very good. 1st Edition. xvi1982pp. Octavo. 23 X 15 cm. Bound in original pink paper covered boards. Rebacked with gray paper and new spine label. Boards quite worn especially at the corners. Minor professional repairs to the spine and joints. All edges untrimmed. Folding map frontispiece and 7 engraved plates. 2 interesting small bookplates on front pastedown. Uncommon in original boards. A.B.10530. Narrative of a voyage in search of a Northwest passage in 1824 by way of Hudson Bay in the ' Griper.' Lyon penetrated into Roes Welcome but was turned back by bad weather. He gives here a description of Southampton Island and its natives and scientific observations on the tides and compass variations. Botanical Appendix by Sir J. D. Hooker. 1825 John Murray hardcover
1824ARCTIC029004John Murray London. 1824. First edition. Octavo. pp xii 468. Seven engraved plates folding map. Original paper boards recently and sympathetically rebacked with calf gilt rules and with new corners also in calf. New endpapers lacking the half-title. An account of Parry's Second Expedition in search of the North-West Passage containing excellent material on the Eskimaux of Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula. The plates after drawings by the author are particularly fine.Boards just a little rubbed at edges. Occasional light spotting. John Murray, London. hardcover
1828248178London: John Murray Albemarle Street 1828. First edition. 8 323 1 ; 4 304 pp. Printed by Richard Taylor. 2 vols. 8vo. Original grey boards with paper labels with price "Two Vols. 16s.". Uncut. Signed by Thomas Thistlethwayte of Southwick Park Hants. on title-page and his stamp on front pastedown. Neat repairs at heads of spine. Some rubbing to extremities. First edition. 8 323 1 ; 4 304 pp. Printed by Richard Taylor. 2 vols. 8vo. Captain Lyon set out for Mexico in January 1826 as one of the Commissioners of the Real del Monte Mining Company and on his way back from New York was wrecked at Holyhead and lost all his papers. This work contains an account of his personal adventures throughout Mexico during 8 months and his comments on the mining industry there. Sabin 42852; Hill p. 186 John Murray, Albemarle Street unknown
1825000013727London: John Murray 1825. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 3 iv-xvi 1 2-198 6 pp. Half later green calf over marbled boards with the spine in six compartments gilt lettering and gilt anchors on the spine two red morocco labels lettered in gilt on the spine; top edge gilt. Later marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Binding done by J. MacDonald of New York. Illustrated with a fold-out map and with seven plates drawn by Lyon himself and then engraved. Arctic Bibliography 10530. Field 962. Hill 1055. Lyon's official report provides information on the Inuit peoples of Southampton Island the island is just north of Hudson Bay including their engineering techniques for boatbuilding burial customs and the report contains an anatomical plate. Lyon's attempt to reach the Northwest passage was ultimately a failure. The corners gently rubbed through the joints and the gutters are neatly strengthened a small corner dampspot on a few plates. John Murray hardcover
185368116Liverpool: S.W. Richards 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 223pp. Duodecimo 18.5 cm Red cloth over boards elaborately stamped in gilt and blind. Decorative green endpapers. All edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Errata bound in at the rear. Light staining to the boards. 1/2" split in the cloth at the head of the spine along the front joint. A bit of chipping to the cloth at the spine ends and along the front joint. Underlying boards peeking through at the corners. Contemporary owner's name address and blindstamp on the verso of the front free endpaper. By a Scottish Latter-day Saint. Just before embarking for America Lyon published the first volume of poems ever issued by a member of the Church under the title of "The Harp of Zion." The book was donated to the Perpetual Emigration Fund and thousands of copies were printed and sold. The Perpetual Emigration Fund was set up to help any saints who wanted to migrate to Utah. It assisted some 26000 immigrants. Flake/Draper 5067. Crawley III: 782. Mormon Imprints 41. S.W. Richards hardcover
1825312<p>London: John Murray 1825. 1st.</p> John Murray
182529344Both London: John Murray 1825. Two volumes bound in one second and first editions respectively. 8vo. xii 468; xvi 198 2 pp. Later half calf over marbled boards twin gilt lettered black labels. Frontispieces 6 and 7 plates respectively plus a folding map in each work. The first edition of the first work appeared the year before. [Both] London: John Murray unknown
1824154315London: John Murray 1824. First edition an important coverage of the native peoples that George Francis Lyon encountered while commanding Hecla on Parry's second expedition in search of the north-west passage; Field notes that "almost the entire volume is devoted to the narration of the peculiarities of the Aborigines of the Arctic regions". Commissioned lieutenant in 1814 George Francis Lyon 1795-1832 accompanied Joseph Ritchie's abortive expedition into southern Libya in 1818 having replaced Frederick Marryat publishing a well-received account of his travels in 1821 the same year that he was promoted commander and "appointed to the Hecla under the orders of Captain William Edward Parry in the Fury. The expedition Parry's second in the search for the north-west passage sailed on 8 May 1821 entered the Arctic region through Hudson Strait examined Repulse Bay and the neighbouring coast of Melville peninsula and wintered at a small island to the eastward of the Frozen Strait. The next summer they went further north and entered Fury and Hecla Strait but the season being then far advanced they turned back wintered at Igloolik lat. 69°21' N long. 81°44' W and came home in autumn 1823 as signs of scurvy among the crew made it inadvisable to stay. On 13 November Lyon was promoted captain and the following year he published The private journal of Captain G. F. Lyon" ODNB. The next year he led an unsuccessful expedition to Repulse Bay with instructions to continue the survey of the mainland Begun by John Franklin. His Private Journal proved popular and a second edition swiftly followed the next year. Octavo 204 x 127 mm. Engraved frontispiece and 6 plates after the author's sketches engraved by William Finden large folding route map musical score to pp. 134-5. Contemporary marbled half calf red spine label flat spine ruled and tooled in gilt marbled sides edges sprinkled brown and white. Armorial bookplate of Lord Blayney; either Cadwallader Blayney 12th Baron 1802-1874 or his father Lieutenant General Andrew Blayney 11th Baron 1770-1834. Binding rubbed light wear at extremities top edge dusty inner hinges partially split but firm occasional foxing and browning largely clean. A very good copy. Arctic Bibliography 10531; Field 961; Hill p. 186; Howgego II L52; Sabin 42853. unknown
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
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
