London: Macmillan and Co 1867 . First edition. Leather. Good Only. 8" by 5.5". Not Stated. The very scarce first edition of this study of mid-nineteenth century Europe illustrated with a wealth of colour maps. The first edition of this very scarce work.Illustrated with forty-eight colour maps of Europe 'on a uniform scale and projection' and with plans of London and Paris. Many of these maps are double paged.Collated complete.With an impressive alphabetical index of the maps to the rear.This detailed work presents a fascinating view of Europe in the mid-nineteenth century. In the publisher's original calf backed cloth covered boards. Light cockling to front board. Significant rubbing to back strip and joints with loss of calf to back strip head. Tide mark to rear board. Joint heads starting with boards firmly held. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean with the odd spot. Good Only Macmillan and Co hardcover
London: T. Wilkins 1795. First British edition. First separate edition. Measuring 205 x 120mm and complete in 4 pages. A Fine example. Scarce in all formats it was first printed in Vermont in 1793 and also contained a"faithful narrative.towards Polly Davis" one copy survives at AAS; soon after an edition was released from Maine containing "a poem on Christian Experience" only two copies survive both at NYPL. The present first British edition is also the first separately printed edition recorded by ESTC at only 9 libraries. It has come to auction on only five occasions with the present being the only example currently in trade.<br /> <br /> An Authentic Account records a brief encounter between a white Englishman and an enslaved Black man on a plantation in New York. Focusing their dialogue on the word of God and on salvation the white narrator asserts that the two men could find common ground as "children of God.equally effectual with him" despite their diametrically opposed positions within the social power structure. "Neither the color of his body nor the condition of his present life could prevent him from being my dear brother in our dear saviour." Despite this argument for the spiritual equality of men of all races the white narrator in An Authentic Account never questions nor seeks to subvert a power structure that would empower him while violently debasing Black people. Rather he passively participates in the Evangelical attitude so common of the era which considered enslavement an opportunity for saving the souls of uncivilized peoples who otherwise could not access the word of God. It was a position which abolitionist Evangelicals including William Wilberforce and Hannah More would decry as the height of hypocrisy in their own work during the period calling upon Christians not only to see Black people as spiritual equals but also as humans deserving equal liberty and dignity. <br /> <br /> ESTC T224026. T. Wilkins unknown
London: Henry Colburn 1815. Second Edition stated. Presumed first printing thus. Wraps string-tied. Good. RARE. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.75 inches some pages slightly smaller. 4 52 4 of advertisements pages. Item has some wear and soiling with some edge wear and some discoloration. Alphonse de Beauchamp entered the Sardinian military service in 1784. Beauchamp commenced his Histoire de la Vendée et des Chouans three volumes Paris 1806 which depicted the cruelties of the Fouché regime. Under the Restoration he received a pension and wrote for the Moniteur and the Gazette de France. The Waterloo campaign 15 June - 8 July 1815 was fought between the French Army of the North and two Seventh Coalition armies an Anglo-allied army and a Prussian army. Initially the French army was commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte. The Anglo-allied army was commanded by the Duke of Wellington and the Prussian army by Prince Blücher. The war between France and the Seventh Coalition came when other European Great Powers refused to recognize Napoleon as Emperor of the French upon his return from exile on Elba and declared war on him rather than France as they still recognized Louis XVIII as the king of France and considered Napoleon a usurper. Rather than wait for the Coalition to invade France Napoleon decided to attack his enemies and hope to defeat them in detail before they could launch their combined and coordinated invasion. He chose to launch his first attack against the two Coalition armies cantoned in modern-day Belgium then part of the newly formed United Kingdom of the Netherlands but until the year before part of the First French Empire. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in Belgium part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time. A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition a British-led coalition consisting of units from the United Kingdom the Netherlands Hanover Brunswick and Nassau under the command of the Duke of Wellington referred to by many authors as the Anglo-allied army or Wellington's army and a Prussian army under the command of Field Marshal von Blücher referred to also as Blücher's army. The battle marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle was contemporaneously known as the Battle of Mont Saint-Jean or La Belle Alliance the beautiful alliance. Upon Napoleon's return to power in March 1815 many states that had opposed him formed the Seventh Coalition and began to mobilize armies. Wellington and Blücher's armies were cantoned close to the northeastern border of France. Napoleon planned to attack them separately in the hope of destroying them before they could join in a coordinated invasion of France with other members of the coalition. On 16 June Napoleon successfully attacked the bulk of the Prussian army at the Battle of Ligny with his main force causing the Prussians to withdraw northwards on 17 June but parallel to Wellington and in good order. Napoleon sent a third of his forces to pursue the Prussians which resulted in the separate Battle of Wavre with the Prussian rear-guard on 18-19 June and prevented that French force from participating at Waterloo. Also on 16 June a small portion of the French army contested the Battle of Quatre Bras with the Anglo-allied army. The Anglo-allied army held their ground on 16 June but the withdrawal of the Prussians caused Wellington to withdraw north to Waterloo on 17 June. Upon learning that the Prussian army was able to support him Wellington decided to offer battle on the Mont-Saint-Jean escarpment across the Brussels road near the village of Waterloo. Here he withstood repeated attacks by the French throughout the afternoon of 18 June aided by the progressively arriving Prussians who attacked the French flank and inflicted heavy casualties. In the evening Napoleon assaulted the Anglo-allied line with his last reserves the senior infantry battalions of the French Imperial Guard. With the Prussians breaking through on the French right flank the Anglo-allied army repulsed the Imperial Guard and the French army was routed. Waterloo was the decisive engagement of the Waterloo Campaign and Napoleon's last. According to Wellington the battle was "the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life". Napoleon abdicated four days later and coalition forces entered Paris on 7 July. The defeat at Waterloo ended Napoleon's rule as Emperor of the French and marked the end of his Hundred Days return from exile. This ended the First French Empire and set a chronological milestone between serial European wars and decades of relative peace often referred to as the Pax Britannica. The battlefield is located in the Belgian municipalities of Braine-l'Alleud and Lasne about 9.3 miles south of Brussels and about 1.2 miles from the town of Waterloo. Henry Colburn paperback
London 1815. hardcover. near fine. By a Gentleman Just Arrived From Paris. 52 pages scattered foxing small slim 8vo bound in 3/4 green morocco marbled boards. London : Printed for J. Johnston 1815. First Edition. Scarce.<br/><br/> unknown books
S. l. San Francisco: s. n. 1920. Very good. First edition presumed n. d. 1920s; 8 x 5; pp. 3-46 2; plain black wraps; printed in black and red and illustrated with several photographs drawings and elaborate borders; leaves' right margins die-cut to form thumb-tab index in alphabetical order; occasional spotting and glue residue to gutter; several small manuscript notes penciled-in; in about very good condition. An interesting unrecorded mystery the booklet touted: "San Francisco piquant and serious modern as New York ancient as China.Give yourself plenty of time to see San Francisco itself." Each left-hand page described noteworthy landmarks and points of interest in and around the city while the right-hand pages advertised various businesses including You Drive Auto Rental Co. Fairmont Hotel Pharmacy Nina Foley's Exclusive Gown Shop and Der - Ling Precious Jade Chinese Gift House. s. n. paperback
London: Printed for J. Whiston and B. White in Fleet-Street 1756. 1st Printing. Disbound now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Hint of age-toning VG. 54 2 publisher advert pp. T.p. printer's ornament. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5" <br/><br/>On the lack of military preparation for a war with France. Uncommon OCLC records only 6 holding institutions and at the time of cataloguing we see no other copies offered on the market. Printed for J. Whiston and B. White, in Fleet-Street unknown books
26 ad2822 ad pages. Small octavo 7 3/4" x 4 3/4" bound in original stiff boards with spine label in black lettering. Hagedorn: 3. 1817 First American edition.<br /><br />This is the third chess book published in the United States and was not noted by Fiske in his bibliographical work. A revised edition was also published in 1817. Fisk first notes this in 1824 as a reprint of the London 1806 edition and notes that it was reprinted in England in 1809 1813 1819 and at other times. The name of the compiler has never been made public. The miscellaneous collection of anecdotes essays and poems at the end is not without interest.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Corners bumped and rubbed paper hinges cracked spine rubbed former owner's label on front paste down else a good to very good copy of a very scarce chess item. M Carey and Son hardcover
viii2542 pages publisher's advertisements with foldout frontispiece. Small octavo 7 1/2" x 4 1/2" rebound in brown cloth with original label to spine. Contains Sir William Jones' poem "Cassia: or The Game of Chess A Poem"; based upon Pratt's "Studies of Chess". Van der Linde: 613 Fith English edition. <br /><br />This was first published in London by Ogilvie in 1802 2 volumes. First published in America in 1817 and reprinted in 1824. The name of the compiler has never been established. The miscellaneous collection of anecdotes essays and poems at the end is not without interest. The openings and games are all in the numerical notation and no diagrams are given. Hagedorn: 55p <br /><br /><b>Condition:</b> Rebound in brown cloth original spine label chipped new end papers and paste downs fold out chess board in very good condition pages untrimmed else very good. Baldwin Craddock and Joy hardcover
26 ad2822 ad pages. Small octavo 7 3/4" x 4 3/4" bound in original stiff boards with spine label in black lettering. Hagedorn: 3. 1817 First American edition.<br /><br />This is the third chess book published in the United States and was not noted by Fiske in his bibliographical work. A revised edition was also published in 1817. Fisk first notes this in 1824 as a reprint of the London 1806 edition and notes that it was reprinted in England in 1809 1813 1819 and at other times. The name of the compiler has never been made public. The miscellaneous collection of anecdotes essays and poems at the end is not without interest.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Corners bumped and rubbed paper hinges cracked spine rubbed former owner's label on front paste down else a good to very good copy of a very scarce chess item. M Carey and Son hardcover books
London early 19th cent. 7 x 4 inches. Engraving of an English country scene on wove paper. "Houghton Hall in Norfolk" in ink on back. London, early 19th cent. unknown
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