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[ANONYMOUS] | [ROBERT WALPOLE]
HISTORY DISBOUND SOME SEASONABLE ANIMADVERSIONS ON EXCISES: OCCASIONED BY A PAMPHLET LATELY PUBLISH’D ENTITULED CONSIDERATIONS OCCASION’D BY THE CRAFTSMAN. WITH SOME CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE PUBLICK FUNDS THE PUBLICK REVENES AND THE ANNUAL SUPPLIES GRANTED BY PARLIAMENT .
London: J. Wilford J. Roberts 1735. Very Good binding. 8vo; two disbound pamphlet still attached to each other by the leather spine of the binding from which they were removed; 26 pages 110 pages.~~The pamphlets being sold together. The first concerning excise taxes; the second appropriations. Very Good binding. J. Wilford | J. Roberts unknown
Bookseller reference : 297549
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[ANONYMOUS]
History of Blue Beard
Alnwick: W. William Davison 1840. Wraps. Very good. 16mo 5 1/8" x 3 1/8"; uncut leaf of 8 numbered pages; 1 ½" split at spine fold; relief illustrated; very good. In 6 WorldCat libraries 2 in the U.S.A. Unusual to have survived as an uncut leaf. Gruesome French folktale of a man famous for murdering wives this version with a surviving wife inheriting his riches and marrying a kind man. W. [William] Davison unknown
Bookseller reference : 293
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[ANONYMOUS]
Home Kindness A Picture Gift Book for the Children
New York: McLoughlin Bros 1870. Very good. 4to; 22pp; color illustrated wrapper with advertising for other books on back title and publisher to front; 6 full page chromolithographs with a verse on the opposite page; 2 tears on a verse page with some paper loss on ''Be Kind to Thy Mother'' and a scratch to verse page on soiling wrapper and pages owner's name in pencil to front cover 1/2'' separation of paper at bottom spine some pulling at staples although they are holding; very good minus. McLoughlin Bros unknown
Bookseller reference : 422
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[ANONYMOUS].
Hopes & Fears When where and what about Cabinet Delegation's work in India. By a noted Journalist Who met and talked to Delegation Members and Indian Party Leaders. Foreword by Dr. B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya.
1946. Delhi: Printed by Mr. A. C. Jain at the Rajhana Press Delhi and published the Dhara Publications for the Banking Experts. 1946. 8vo. Original printed cloth-backed boards with illustrated dust-wrappers price-clipped; pp. 16 lvi 96 four photographic illustrations on two leaves of plates on green paper tables in the text; wrappers minimally spotted otherwise very good.Very rare first edition of this blow-by-blow account of the diplomatic and political wranglings about India's future and independence documenting in diary form the events from February 19 to June 14 1946. The preface is by Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya a leading independence activist and close ally of Nehru. The author was a young journalist observing the British Cabinet Mission to India discussing a plan for Indian independence. Over a period of three months the mission failed to achieve a constitutional agreement between the two main parties and the inevitability of partition became apparent. One of the rarest books on a crucial moment in the history of the Subcontinent.Front fly-leaf cordially inscribed by one G. Jain to Mr and Mrs Paul B. Mason 'by one of whom they consider as their own son' dated 1948; large printed and folded leaf of all the meetings of Pethick-Lawrence Stafford Cripps and V. A. Alexander in spring 1946 pasted onto front fly-leaf. This unrecorded leaf titled Cabinet Delegation's Labours at a Glance proves that the owner of this copy had intimate knowledge of the negotiations. WorldCat locates copies at Toronto and Chicago Universities only; Library Hub locates a single copy only in the British Library. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2120928
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[ANONYMOUS]
Horses and Cows on the Farm
Poughkeepsie New York: Artists and Writers Guild Inc 1936. First American Edition. Wraps. Near fine. B. Butler. CHILDREN ANIMALS ILLUSTRATED. Cover: No. 3727 Linen-Like Finish. B. BUTLER illustrator. <br /> First American edition. Reprinted by permission of the Oxford University Press London England. 4to 12 ½" x 10"; 8pp; stiff textured wrapper color printed scene of horses in a field on the front a cow donkey and ducks on the rear; ownership in neat ink to verso front wrapper; full-page color illustrations; minor shelf wear to wrapper and light soiling; near fine. Not found in OCLC. Story on verso of the wrapper followed by bright colorful illustrations of farm animals in their environment. This edition was printed by Artists and Writers Guild Inc. which was founded in New York City in the 1930s by Western Publishing the parent company of Western Printing and Lithographing Company of Racine Wisconsin to print children's books. Artists and Writers Guild, Inc unknown
Bookseller reference : 1519
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[ANONYMOUS]
How to Cook and How to Carve. Giving Plain and Easily Understood Directions for Preparing Cooking and Serving with the Greatest Economy Every Kind of Dish From the Simplest to the Most Difficult. Also How to Carve All Kinds of Meat Poultry Game and Fish
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald 1869. First Edition. Boards. Very good . First edition thus. 12mo; iv pp ads 130pp 4pp ads; relief printed decorative paper over boards red green & black; red cloth spine; front and rear pastedowns are ads; light foxing to edges and some pages; very good plus. Only one located in WorldCat in the Library of Congress. Fanciful dragons and a boar's head tableau decorate the boards. Contents include: Soups; Sauces etc; Fish; Meats; Poutlry; Game; Vegetables; and PuddingNos etc. Not written in the manner of modern cookbooks the recipes are given in broad terms and often feature dishes not popular today. Under "Lamb": "How to Chose Lamb. In the fore-quarter the vein in the neck being any other colour than blue betrays it to be stale. In the hind-quarter try the kidney with your nose; the faintness of its smell will prove it to be stale.". Dick & Fitzgerald unknown
Bookseller reference : 737
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[ANONYMOUS]
Hymns for Little Children
Northampton Massachusetts: John Metcalf 1838. BARBER. CHAPBOOK JUVENILE RELIGION RELIGIOCENTRISM ETHNOCENTRISM. John Warner BARBER woodcut. <br /> Cover title: Hymns for Children Northampton: J.H. Butler No date 1838-1850.<br /> 24mo 5 1/4" x 3"; 24pp; yellow wrappers with a decorative border surrounding the lettering and a vignette of 3 children with a dog and cart on the front the rear features a vignette of a man and young boy in a dooryard; publisher's string binding; woodcut fp titled "Going to Church" and signed "Barber"; vignette of three children kneeling in prayer on the title page; alphabets and numbers inside a border on verso of title page; small woodcut illustrations throughout; light wear and hand soiling light foxing throughout; very good. OCLC does not locate copies with Butler's wrapper. Sixteen unnumbered rhyming hymns without musical notation follow the page of printed alphabets and numbers. These appear to be poems not to be sung but to be read as prayers at the day's beginning or end. Most have common sentiments of thanksgiving requests for blessing and protection and a desire to do good and please God.<br /> <br /> Two point to the religiocentrism and ethnocentrism of mid-19th century America. In "A Child's Hymn of Praise" the verses read:<br /> I thank the goodness and the grace<br /> Which on my birth have smil'd<br /> And made me in these Christian days<br /> A free and happy child.<br /> <br /> I was not born as thousands are<br /> Where God was never known;<br /> And taught to pray a useless prayer<br /> To blocks of wood and stone.<br /> <br /> I was not born a little slave<br /> To labor in the sun<br /> And wish I were but in the grave<br /> And all my labor done!<br /> <br /> I was not born without a home<br /> Or in some broken shed;<br /> A gypsy baby taught to roam<br /> And steal my daily bread.<br /> <br /> My God I thank thee who has plann'd<br /> A better lot for me<br /> And plac'd me in this happy land<br /> And where I hear of thee.<br /> <br /> The first two stanzas of "God every where" read:<br /> God made the world-in every land<br /> His love and power abound;<br /> All are protected by his hand<br /> As well as Christian ground.<br /> <br /> The Indian hut and English cot<br /> Alike in his care must own;<br /> Though savage nations know him not<br /> But worship wood and stone.<br /> <br /> Published or reissued by J.H. Jonathan Hunt Butler along with the Metcalf imprint between 1838 and Butler's move to Philadelphia in 1850. John Metcalf unknown
Bookseller reference : 2154
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[Anonymous]
I LOST MY MEMORY The case as the patient saw it.
London: Faber & Faber 1932. 1st ed. . Hardcover. VG-/No Jacket. 13 Cms x 19 Cms. 305 pp. small 1945-dated sig. top half-title main problem is foxing occ. quite heavy to verso front endpaper very faintly to t.p.but heavy to top of verso and facing page verso rear endpaper and end pastedown also extensively but lightly affected trace also to recto front endpaper flecking also to uncut fore-edge and top edge main text quite unaffected otherwise clean tight & unmarked; brown cloth covers clean and unworn. Apparently extremely scarce. Detailed auto-biographcal account of the case and male writer's treatment in which free association technique was a major approach. Scarce <br/> <br/> Faber & Faber hardcover
Bookseller reference : 007950
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[ANONYMOUS]
Illuminated liturgical manuscript in Latin
France first half of the 15th century. Single column 21 lines of text written in black and red in a beautiful gothic book hand. Illuminated initial in gold red blue green and white; ruled in red rubrics in red an numerous initials in red and blue. Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards raised bands two brass fore-edge clasps missing. A very beautiful manuscript from the library of antiquary William Henry Blacking and of George Dunn of Woolley Hall near Maidenhead with their 2 bookplates with coat of arms on paste down. A very attractive collection of sermons and homilies preserved in its original panel-stamped binding with tools. Presumably the personal pocket manuscript of a preacher presbyter Johannes Venuto. Venuto is an Italian originally Tuscan name. The note on the front flyleaf is an invocation to the Lord for having the sins forgiven and removed. The big initial was clearly drawn later as it covers the original text. Originally it is assumed that a calendar occupied the first 77 pages and that calendar has been removed.<br /> <br /> George Dunn 1865-1912 of Woolley Hall near Maidenhead Berkshire was an English bibliophile and keen student of paleography and early printing. Throughout his life he built up an impressive library at Woolley Hall collecting early English law books medieval manuscripts early printed books including volumes from unusual towns and presses. After his death in 1912 his library was broken up and sold off at Sotheby's between 1913 and 1917 realising over £30000. unknown
Bookseller reference : 17877
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[anonymous]
In-Vest-ments: zigzag the OUT-lier collection. an outlier is inner-directed and resides in another country where there are no strangers in a strange land
New York NY: publisher not identified 2014. <p dir="ltr">9.5" x 11.5" pp. 72. Contained in a black portfolio with plastic sleeve pages with unmarked cover this fashion student collection includes 48 pages of original illustrations black and white and full color most of which are vest designs or full fashion sketches related to the vest; some illustrations focus specifically on adornments vest patterns or embellishments. Mixed media is used from pen or marker drawings to magazine clippings overlayed with hand drawings. Paper is of a mixed variety; some drafting some printer some card stock. Overall condition is very good; no apparent damage or wear to the portfolio. No author/designer signature found presumed to be created for Fall 2014 fashion school course in New York City; one-of-a-kind. </p> . [publisher not identified]] unknown
Bookseller reference : 226
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[Anonymous]
Ingolstadium Castorum disposit quae Carolus V. Caes. Aug. et Smalcaldici Ad Ingolstadium Habvere An. 1546 Ingolstadium Castorum disposit quae Carolus V. Caes. Aug. et Smalcaldici Ad Ingolstadium Habvere An. 1546 - Anonymous ∑ Hand-Colored Original Woodcut ∑ Ant.
Antwerp 1550. Other. Published folded with good small margins a strong and clear impression with several worm holes in the lower third of the paper. A rare early woodcut map still in very good condition. 132 by 260mm 5 by 10 inches. Hand-Colored Original Woodcut by Anonymous depicting Ingolstadium Castorum disposit quae Carolus V. Caes. Aug. et Smalcaldici Ad Ingolstadium Habvere An. 1546. Published Antwerp 1550. Sheet: 132 by 260mm 5 by 10 inches. A fine and original hand-colored example of Anonymous's celebrated cartographic work documenting this region of Germany with the precision and decorative artistry characteristic of the 15500s. Anonymous was a cartographer active in the 1500s working in the tradition of European copper-engraved cartography. Their maps are valued by collectors for their historical accuracy and decorative quality.This original woodcut with original hand coloring depicts the region of Ingolstadium Castorum disposit quae Carolus V. Caes. Aug. et Smalcaldici Ad Ingolstadium Habvere An. 1546 published in Antwerp 1550. The map records the political and geographic boundaries of the region as understood in 1550 offering a fascinating window into the history of German territorial organization. Sheet measures 132 by 260mm 5 by 10 inches. In good condition overall with minor signs of age appropriate for a 16th-century engraving. Ready to frame. Ingolstadt Bilddokumente #4 unknown
Bookseller reference : 30904
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[Anonymous]
Ismael Prince de Maroc Nouvelle Historique
Amsterdam : Jacques Desbordes 1703. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. Second edition. Contemporary calf gilt spine raised bands. 278 pp. Chip loss to spine joints split. Moderate rubbing. Armorial bookplate of Earl of Ilchester. Crisp clean and sound internally. A history of a diplomatic journey to the court of Moulay Ismail Ibn Sharif in the 1690s. Amsterdam : Jacques Desbordes hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1802220004
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[anonymous]
Japanese Lacquer Postcard Album with Bone and Mother of Pearl Nacre Cover Onlays
1900. Japanese Lacquer. Very Good. Oblong Quarto. Large Japanese Lacquer postcard album with bone and mother-of-pearl onlays. Undated circa 1900. With 22 total postcards 18 of which are hand-colored collotype postcards 2 are actual black and white photographs most measuring 3½"x5½" and are laid into 6 thick leaves with silk covers each hand-painted with flower prints in watercolor. Oblong 4to 9¾x13¼ Japanese lacquer album in black front cover with carved bone & mother of pearl inlays showing a Japanese man rowing a boat and transporting two Japanese women black leather spine. Collection of hand-colored postcards of the Nagasaki area. All inside surfaces and end papers are of silk and hand painted with soft colors and a delicate hand showing country-side huts rivers lakes birds and sprays of flowers. Each page is prepared to accept 4 post cards with orange threads intact. The hand-colored postcards are over a collotype photograph some are with messages and have early postmarks most not used. Showing a wide variety of Nagasaki views including: temples street scenes the Mogi hotel Holy Bronze Horse at Suwa temple Isenomiya Inasa and Kotaji temples Inasa Church; coal being loaded on a foreign vessel at Nagasaki port plus a U.S. Army transport being loaded by a hoard of workers. A fascinating look at Nagasaki in the late nineteenth century. A nice addition to any collection. Front cover lacking a piece of the carved bone near the middle of the boat of which one of the women appears to have been holding possibly a musical instrument or just part of the boat. Condition: Spine had been damaged has been repaired; light wear to album edges mild rubbing slightly affecting hand-painted decorative margins; crack in lacquer on back cover; faint foxing to silk pages paper residue on front inside cover some of the postcards with minor edge wear; a clean and bright piece; about very good overall. See sample scans. LBB-B <br/> <br/> unknown
Bookseller reference : 000186
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[Anonymous]
Japanische Vogelstudien. 12 Blätter.
Wien K.K. Österreichischen Handels-Museum 1895. Folio 45.0 x 33.0 cm. Lithographed pictorial title and 12 full-colour mounted lithographed plates. Portfolio with pictorial boards. = Rare and fine examples of Japanese bird illustration apparently collected as inspirational specimens for artists and art students. The lithographed pictorial title by the K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei. Provenance: the front board verso has a small stamp of the Tiroler Glasmalerei. Leaves a bit age-toned the tipped-in bird prints much better; otherwise a very good clean copy. We found only one auction record since publication interestingly with the same provenance. Not in any major bibliography. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 16997
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[Anonymous]
JesuitenKirche u. Colleg. zu München in Bayern. JesuitenKirche u. Colleg. zu München in Bayern. - Anonymous ∑ Hand-Colored Original Copperplate Engraving ∑ 1720
1720-40. Other. In tadellosem Erhaltungszustand. 193 by 260mm 7 by 10 inches. 193 by 260mm 7 by 10 inches. Hand-Colored Original Copperplate Engraving by Anonymous depicting JesuitenKirche u. Colleg. zu München in Bayern. Published 1720. Sheet: 193 by 260mm 7 by 10 inches. A fine and original hand-colored example of Anonymous's celebrated cartographic work documenting this region of Germany with the precision and decorative artistry characteristic of the 17200s. Anonymous was a cartographer active in the 1700s working in the tradition of European copper-engraved cartography. Their maps are valued by collectors for their historical accuracy and decorative quality.This plate presents a original copperplate engraving with original hand coloring depicting the city of JesuitenKirche u. Colleg. zu München in Bayern. published in 1720-40. Such topographic views from Anonymous's workshop are primary historical documents of German urban history in the 1700s now prized equally by historians map collectors and interior decorators. Sheet measures 193 by 260mm 7 by 10 inches. In good condition overall with minor signs of age appropriate for a 18th-century engraving. Ready to frame. unknown
Bookseller reference : 23928
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[Anonymous]; [Christianity]; [Religion]; [By a Country Vicar]
Jesus Christ's Way or My Own Way; A Dialogue between a Clergyman and a Parishioner
Oxford: A.R. Mowbray & Co 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. 16.5 x 10.5 cm. 5 2-88 4 pp. Purple cloth with gold lettering and gold and black decorations on the front cover. With the errata slip tipped in before the table of contents page. A dialogue between a man and his Clergyman discussing Salvation and if Jesus has provided a path to it. A Very Good copy with minor fading to the spine and a bit of fraying to the rear cover with a contemporary name on the front flyleaf. A.R. Mowbray & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 00009778
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[ANONYMOUS]
Journal of Four Days' Tour in North Wales by a Party of Five Photographically Illustrated
London: Privately Printed 1877. Full leather boards with leather lettering piece to spine and four raised bands; some wear to front joint and general rubbing to boards and spine ends. Typical fading to albumen prints and minor foxing to handful of pages. Overall a pleasant copy of this privately printed travelogue; with only two OCLC records located BL and Wales. First Edition. Octavo. A delightful account of a party's tour of North Wales organized into four cantos; a party of four girls and a 70 year old gentleman—depicted in the frontispiece photograph—with the latter presumably being the anonymous writer of the poetic verse. Illustrated with 65 mounted albumen photographs most measuring 4 x 6.25 inches representing landscapes bridges railways waterfalls lakes castles and villages. With comical woodcuts to the end of each canto. This copy INSCRIBED to front endpaper to Ellen Pitman; dated Oct. 12 1877. London: Privately Printed unknown
Bookseller reference : 16169
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[Anonymous]
Kendrew Chapbook. Cinderilla; or the Little Glass Slipper
York: J. Kendrew 1820. Near fine in pale yellow wrappers. A charming Kendrew chapbook featuring the classic Cinderella fairy tale with a woodcut on every page.<br /> <br /> "And now her god-mother came in and touched her with her wand When lo! her rags were turn'd to robes the richest in the land." <br /> <br /> 32mo. 16pp. including paginated wraps. Davis 4. J. Kendrew unknown
Bookseller reference : 311
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[ANONYMOUS]
Kiddie land; W931
No place listed: No publisher listed 1930. Pictorial boards. Very good. G.G. WIEDERSEIM. Folio; 14pp; heavy card stock wrapper and pages; wrapper full color illustrated cover with title on front cover; full color illustrations every page; light soiling and shelf scuffing to wrapper tape to wrapper upper spine covering a 2" tear on the fold also tape to the inside of wrapper and 2nd page at the spine; very good minus. <br /> Not listed in any WorldCat library. Scarce. Grace Gibbie Wiederseim Drayton 1877-1936 was the artistic creator of the Campbell Soup kids and Dolly Dingle. She was the first woman to be a cartoonist for the publisher Hearst. Dating this work is based on her marriage to Theodore Wiederseim from 1900-1911. After her divorce from Wiederseim and marriage to William Drayton in 1911 she signed her name using Drayton. The paper and printing of this booklet seem to be from the 1930s although the illustrations are signed with the name of her first husband. A book called Kiddie land was published around 1910 with her illustrator sister Margaret G. Hays and Thomas Burke containing verse and rhymes. While this edition lacks verse and rhymes it does contain stories about the activities the children are involved in. Interesting that the colors in the clothing are changed in this edition. Other soft wrapper books have the words "Linen Like Finish" to front this copy does not. No publisher listed unknown
Bookseller reference : 182
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[anonymous]
Kinran Kogireshu = Gold brocade small cloth type fabric sample books
Japan: publisher not identified 1890. <p dir="ltr">2 volumes 8.25" x 12.25" each volume 1: pp. 61 approximately 257 samples volume 2: pp. 41 approximately 237 samples; all collected in a blue cloth case. This is a stunning collection of Japanese Meiji-era gold brocade textile samples almost 500 samples in all. Textile swatches are bright and lively measuring from 1" to full-page in size; brilliant golds and metallic throughout silk bindings in the Japanese style. Very good; some samples exhibit wear or fray signs of use as sample books.</p> . [publisher not identified] unknown
Bookseller reference : 263
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[ANONYMOUS]
Know Nothing
ANONYMOUS. The Know Nothing Orig. cloth. Boston: John P. Jewett & Co. 1855. First edition. Wright II 1495. A political novel. A very good copy. unknown
Bookseller reference : 16544
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[Anonymous]; Giovanni Antonio Magini
Kort en Bondig Kronykje beginnende met de geboorte ons heeren Jesu Christi tot op deeze tijd
<p>1 No name. Kort en Bondig Kronykje beginnende met de geboorte ons heeren Jesu Christi tot op deeze tijd.</p><p>Illustrated with a woodcut vignette on the title-page and a woodcut tailpiece after the first part.</p><p>2 No name. Ordre der rydende posten wegens 't post-comptoir binnen Zutphen: als mede 't reysen der boden 't varen der schepen wagens en karren. </p><p>3 No name. De vaarsen van Dionisius Cato. Om manierlyk te leven.</p><p>Illustrated with a woodcut vignette on the title-page.</p><p>4 Giovanni Antonio Magini. Opregten Italiaanschen waarsegger of wiskundige prognosticatie op 't jaar onses heeren 1750. Gepractiseert door Don Antonio Magino profess. en matthematicus der stad Bononien in Lombardyen.</p><p>Illustrated with a woodcut sun with a face on the title-page and a little woodcut moon at the beginning of each month.</p><p>5 No name. Koddige opschriften kakhuys opschrift.</p><p>2 pp.</p><p>6 No name. No title.</p><p>12 pp.</p><p>Unique almanac printed in Zutphen no other copy is recorded in a library auction results or dealer catalogues. Bound in full leather with the arms of Zutphen and Holland blind stamped on it. The work consists of 6 parts: 1 A historic chronology from the year 1 up to the year 1749 the date of publication divided in two parts: the first part ends at the year 1700 the second part deals with the years 1701-1749. 2 An overview of the post schedule for Zutphen to nearby places and international. 3 New edition of the first part of Salomon van Rusting's Dutch translation of Dionysius Cato's Disticha Catonis first published in 1658 and last recorded edition in 1712. 4 Astronomical forecast for the year 1750 after the edition from Bologna "Gedrukt na de copye van Bononien" based on the method of the famed astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini 1555-1617. His method was widely used for Dutch almanacs in the 16th 17th and 18th centuries known as the "Italiaensche waersegger". 5 A short bawdy piece supposedly written on a public toilet. 6 An unidentified work of which the start is missing and the last few pages are damaged. A charming and unique almanac in similarly special binding.</p><p>Condition: Last page damaged with loss of text and the two pages before that slight frayed with minor loss of text. Book block detached and some quires loose. A few tiny holes in the spine of the binding new paste-downs. The leather binding smells. Otherwise in good condition.Literature: not in STCN NCC KVK WorldCat USTCN; for the publisher/printer see: CERL Thesaurus cni00017912.</p> Johannes Henricus Louw
Bookseller reference : 2101
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[anonymous]
Kudrun
Munchen Munich: Hyperion Verlag 1911. First Edition Thus . Wrappers. Very Good Plus. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Munich: Hyperion Verlag 1911. First Edition Thus. Kudrun. Large epic poem with text entirely in German in a hefty oversized folio volume in green-blue wraps with gilt lettering and vignette top edge gilt. Number 664 of 1507 copies printed on Van Gelder paper by Hans von Weber in Munchen Munich Germany in 1911. Minor spotting at the cover slight wear at corners inside a small square offset about 2"x2" at the front pastedown. A handsome Very Good or better. An epic German folk poem from the mythology of the middle ages written in the 13th century titled alternately Gudrun Lied. The poem is named after the heroine Kudrun or Gudrun not however the same Gudrun of the Icelandic sagas Gudrun in Volsunga Saga and the Eddas. Possibly the second greatest German epic in the Middle Age after the Nibelungenlied. It was written in Middle High German verse probably between 1220 and 1250. Not an element of the Nibelungen cycle Nibelungenlied and Volsunga Saga and not to be confused with the heroes and heroines in the Norse saga and other German epics Kudrun stands apart with regard to theme and plot as well. A scarce and eminently collectible edition. L-B <br/> <br/> Hyperion Verlag unknown
Bookseller reference : 000427
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[ANONYMOUS]
Königl. Historiograph u. Geograph. Geb. zu Vancouleur d.5 Nov. 1644. gest. d. 2 May 1720.
Weimar: Friedrich Justin Bertuch 1802. 187 by 107mm. 7.25 by 4.25 inches. Prints""Claude De L'Isle Claude de L'Isle Stippled portrait. Claude de L'Isle 1644 -1720 was the founder of one of the most influential cartographical families of eighteenth century in France. The most famous of his four son was Guillaume among the most notable geographers of the day. Claude was also a historian and wrote a universal history in seven volumes a history of the monarchy of Siam and a genealogy of all royalty since the beginning of time. Issue Ten of 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' published in 1802 contained a portrait of De l'Isle dressed in robes a cravat and a large wig. The oval frame in which the image is presented is accompanied by a caption in German stating his position and dates of birth and death. Friedrich Justin Bertuch, unknown
Bookseller reference : 17748
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[ANONYMOUS].
L'Amerique Meridionale.
N.D. but c. 1730. 32 x 41.5 cm. Uncoloured. Copper engraved map of South America. Ornate cartouche incorporating the title and the distance scale to the lower left corner. Upper margin shaved with slight loss to border at upper right corner small tear with loss at lower right margin. [N.D. but c. 1730] unknown
Bookseller reference : 38349
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[Anonymous]
La Logique ou l'Art de Raisonner. Les trois principales operations de notre esprit / Des idees / Des jugemens et des propositions / Du raisonement / Du syllogisme / De diverses sortes de Sophismes / Sophismes d'amour-propre d'interet de passion ou suggeres par l'imagination / Methode pratique pour former sa conscience par le moyen d'une Logique chretienne / Ou explication des regles qu'on a donnees dans la premiere / Combien la Logique est utile et necessaire / De la carte et distinction des idees et de leur obscurite et confusion / etc. etc.
1780. Gand Ghent Imprimerie de J. Poelman ca. 1780. 16.5 x 10 cm. 72 pages. Relié demi-cuir. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector's mylar - Lower spine slightly damaged. État d'usage. Couverture tranches de couverture et coins frottées. Intérieur en bon état malgré quelques traces de rousseurs. Titre sur le dos décoré en doré. Ce livre est lié à une seconde publication. Bound with: P.-C. Baes - Introduction aux Sciences.A L'usage des Ecoles et de L'Instruction Privee. Deuxiéme édition revue corigée et appliquée á la Belgique. 290 2 pages. Illustree. Gand Imprimerie et Lith. de Vanderhaeghe-Maya no year c.1850. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 110278AB
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[Anonymous]
La Vie de Corneille Tromp Lieutenant-Amiral-General de Hollande & de West-Frise / Tome Second
La Haye: Etienne Foulque 1695. Leather Bound. pp. 259-556. Leatherbound. Five raised bands to spine title label chipped. Title page in red and black. Edges worn with some loss esp. to corner of rear board and head of spine contents complete and unmarked; very good. Volume two only of two. Etienne Foulque unknown
Bookseller reference : 097759
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[Anonymous]
Lake Maxinkuckee Art Annual - 1905 Culver Military Academy
Culver Indiana: Np 1905. First Edition. Oblong quarto; 24 unnumbered pages. Illustrated with 30 half-tones text laid into 2 hole-punched red textured wrappers upper cover titled in gold. Original gold ribbon detached and laid in some edgewear a Good complete copy. A rare publication with no copies located in institutions or the trade. The 'Art Annual' for 1905 sections include 4-page 'Lake Maxinkuckee Summer Resort' a salute to Mrs H. H. Culver - Culver founder of Culver Military Academy in 1894 had died in1897 - followed by a description of the Culver estate on Lake Maxinkuckee; 1-page James Whitcomb Riley's poem 'Lake Maxinkuckee;' 5-page 'Culver Military Academy' description with images of the Academy 'In this "West Point" of the west is one of the large riding halls of the world. the largest and most complete building of its kind in America. there are 21 instructors. The Cadet Corps is made up of 300 members." accompaniued by a photo of the Black Horse troop at William McKinley's inaugural; an 8-page description of the town of 'Culver Indiana;' a 6-page description of the 'Lake Maxinkuckee Chatauqua Assembly' and its drama and musical programs. Throughout are images of the key people scenes and events. Published just ten years after the establishment of Culver Military Academy and in the same year as Daniel McDonald's 'History of Lake Maxinkuckee.' A rare publication with no copies located in institutions or the trade. Np unknown
Bookseller reference : 22855
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[Anonymous]
Lake Maxinkuckee Art Annual - 1905 Culver Military Academy
Culver Indiana: Np 1905. First Edition. Oblong quarto; 24 unnumbered pages. Illustrated with 30 half-tones in 2 hole-punched plum wrappers upper cover titled in gold. Original orange ribbon fading to upper cover else a Near Fine complete copy. A rare publication with no copies located in institutions or the trade. The 'Art Annual' for 1905: sections include 4-page 'Lake Maxinkuckee Summer Resort' a salute to Mrs H. H. Culver - Culver founder of Culver Military Academy in 1894 had died in1897 - followed by a description of the Culver estate on Lake Maxinkuckee; 1-page James Whitcomb Riley's poem 'Lake Maxinkuckee;' 5-page 'Culver Military Academy' description with images of the Academy 'In this "West Point" of the west is one of the large riding halls of the world. the largest and most complete building of its kind in America. there are 21 instructors. The Cadet Corps is made up of 300 members." accompaniued by a photo of the Black Horse troop at William McKinley's inaugural; an 8-page description of the town of 'Culver Indiana;' a 6-page description of the 'Lake Maxinkuckee Chatauqua Assembly' and its drama and musical programs. Throughout are images of the key people scenes and events. Published just ten years after the establishment of Culver Military Academy and in the same year as Daniel McDonald's 'History of Lake Maxinkuckee.'. Np unknown
Bookseller reference : 22856
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[Anonymous]
Lambeth Suspension Bridge.
c.1861. 240 by 600mm 9.5 by 23.5 inches. Watercolour on paper. The first modern bridge at Lambeth was a suspension bridge designed by Peter W. Barlow. Sanctioned by an Act of Parliament in 1860 it opened as a toll bridge in 1862 but doubts about its safety coupled with its awkwardly steep approaches deterring horse-drawn traffic meant it soon became used almost solely as a pedestrian crossing. It ceased to be a toll bridge in 1879 when the Metropolitan Board of Works assumed responsibility for its upkeep it was by then severely corroded and by 1910 it was closed to vehicular traffic. unknown
Bookseller reference : 12471
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[Anonymous]
Landschaft mit Baum landscape with tree
1800-20. Other. In very good condition. 223 by 172mm 8¾ by 6¾ inches. Etching a fine and clear impression printed on thin paper probably around 1800-20. unknown
Bookseller reference : 27510
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[ANONYMOUS]
Large embossed paper die-cut of a Moose Head on a stretched skin with embellishments
No place listed: No publisher listed 1900. No binding ephemera. Near fine. 14 ½" x 14 5/8"; heavy paper stock embossed die-cut glazed chromolithograph; minor creases at edges; colors are bright and paper sturdy light age-toning to verso; near fine. A surprisingly large highly detailed and colorful die-cut pictorial of a moose head framed by an animal hide stretched and lashed onto a rack of branches. Surrounding the rack is a small mammal pelt and Native American crafts of bead work a moccasin tomahawk an arrow blue beads strung with animal teeth and a canoe model. No publisher listed unknown
Bookseller reference : 1276
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[Anonymous]
Le Père Avare ou Les Malheurs de L'Education; Contenant une idée de ceux de la Colonie de l'Isle de C
Paris: Desventes de Ladoué 1770. First edition. xvi 359 iii; 334; 360pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Bound in full contemporary mottled calf. With the bookplate of the Vicomte de Noailles engraved by Agry in each volume. Upper joint of vol. III with short start at foot otherwise a fine and fresh copy. First edition. xvi 359 iii; 334; 360pp. 3 vols. 12mo. A satirical response to Rousseau's Emile ou l'Education 1762. Where Émile is guided by a wise tutor the author of Le Père avare mocks from the outset Rousseau's dictum "le véritable précepteur est le père" for the narrator's father M. d'Erigny grew up poor and gained wealth through his friendship with a government minister; his child has been spoiled from infancy. <br /> While M. d'Erigny is drunk his mistress gets him to sign an order from her jeweler for 20000 francs of precious stones and skips out. The extravagance is discovered and the father becomes miserly in the extreme. The son now 15 years old is entrusted to a unscrupulous précepteur or tutor who involves the youth in a swindle and vanishes with the money. <br /> This is a confessional so we learn it all: the narrator soon discovers love and devotes himself to pleasure using the family name to run up accounts everywhere before being deceived and fleeced. M. d'Erigny is furious; Madame intercedes: his debts are paid and he is sent off to exile in a provincial town. He is befriended by a well-connected gentleman but repays this trust with deceit. Besotted with an actress he forges a criminal denunciation of a rival but his scheme is discovered and his in consigned to "une de ces maisons de force" a private prison for the reform of licentious youth. <br /> To escape this close confinement the narrator embarks with a flotilla of colonists bound for the island of C in the new world. His mother's continued good influence follows him across the ocean cushioning him from the worst excesses of a brutal colonial regime amply detailed. Florainville a mistress who has managed her money well comes to the colony to rescue him but falls afoul of the corrupt Intendant and her health fails her. She dies but not before she has made him her legatee. The narrator assists the colonial governor in prosecuting the Intendant and returns to France. He retires to a rural abbey and contemplates his experiences. Before long he becomes the benefactor of a village community and sees it thrive.<br /> Only edition of this little-known work of fiction set partly in the Americas. OCLC records two copies in N. America Princeton UCLA two in France and one at Trinity College Dublin Desventes de Ladoué unknown
Bookseller reference : 307572
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[ANONYMOUS]
Les Jesuites criminels de leze majeste
The Hague: Vaillant 1758. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary gilt calf-backed pastepaper boards red edges green silk marker. Gift inscription on the front flyleaf. A superior copy. First edition of this anti-Jesuit diatribe. The author trumps up a global conspiracy theory in which Jesuits murdered kings and emperors including an organized plot to kill King Henry IV and the execution of Emperor Kangxi of China by missionaries. The text systematically moves from one country to the next reporting on the supposed crimes that Jesuit residents or visitors committed there: sedition fraud homicide theft and libel.<br /> <br /> Bibliotheca Brasiliense 1316; see Goldsmiths’-Kress 9442. Vaillant unknown
Bookseller reference : 19100
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[ANONYMOUS]
Librarian's Secret
<p>Pulp fiction. Bibliopornography. Valley Secrets. VAS 113. 1983. Mint or As New. Unread copy fresh unfaded covers. Extremely rare in this state—basically unfindable.</p> Star Distributors paperback
Bookseller reference : 676
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[Anonymous]; [Christianity]; [Religion]
Life's Evening
Boston: Lee and Shepard 1869. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 4to. 5 6-265 5 pp. Full contemporary brown pebbled sheep with black rules and decorations on the boards gold tooling to the turn-ins spine in six compartments with gold lettering and black decorations; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Title page printed in red and black. With a few engraved headpieces. With a four-page leaflet laid in titled The Three Calls number 11 in the series "Leaves of Comfort". This volume is part of the publisher's Cross and the Crown series. A volume of religiously themed poems. Light rubbing to the boards' edges and a tiny dampspot to the rear blanks. An 1870 gift inscription on the first blank. Lee and Shepard hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000013503
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[Anonymous entomologist]
Lijst van Nederlandse Lepidoptera.
unknown place and publisher after 1901. Two copies in two. 8vo 21.0 x 13.5 cm. 31 pp. Uniform early 20th-century contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. = Two copies of an apparently very rare work on Dutch butterflies listing 983 species in all of which we could not find any information whatsoever. The pages are numbered except the first and last and there is no title page. In the catalogue of the Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging NEV the following is present: Oudemans JTh ca. 1898 "Lijst van Nederlandsche Lepidoptera benevens de als vermoedelijk Nederlandsch aan te merken soorten gerangschikt volgens Snellen's Vlinders van Nederland en genummerd volgens Staudinger en Wocke's Catalog Dresden 1871. Mede geschikt ter ruiling in welk geval de aangeboden voorwerpen vóór en de gevraagde achter den naam moeten worden aangeduid door het plaatsen van een punt .". These copies are very similar however the list ends with "Genummerd volgens Staudinger en Rebel 1901 met de bladzijden van Snellen Microlepidoptera". These copies also as described above in Dutch for the work attributed to Oudemans with pencilled dots in front of the species numbers and with some random marginalia. One copy interleaved with many additional annotations neatly written in ink on the blank leaves and on the printed pages mostly taxonomical or nomenclatural corrections. Boards much rubbed and spines tender otherwise good. Not in Horn-Schenkling II. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 65475
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[Anonymous]
LITTLE BLACK SAMBO
The Platt & Munk Co. Inc. . 1932. Softcover. Very Good-. Boards with light rubbing to extremities; Front cover bears "No. 3100-B" marking on the bottom. A nice early edition of a book that reminds us of different times ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 10 pages . The Platt & Munk Co. , Inc. paperback
Bookseller reference : 17484
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[Anonymous, Chap Book]
LITTLE HELEN; OR A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A NAUGHTY GIRL
New Haven: S. Babcock n.d. circa 1825. First edition. RARE. 7 engravings “for the mind and the eye†and decorative borders on each page 12mo in original paper with blue wrappers very nicely designed border on upper and lower covers illustrations on upper cover and inside lower cover; advertisement on lower cover. 16 pp. A very good copy with attractive designs on covers and pages. This children’s book is called a chapbook a more modern term that derives from the chapmen. Chapmen were pedlars who hawked their goods in towns and villages and at country fairs. In 1553 Edward VI proclaimed that champmen must be licensed and Chettle in Kind Hart’s Dreame 1592 wrote that “‘Chapmen are able to spred more pamphlets.then all the booksellers in town.’†Although they sold other wares too they always had cheap booklets sometimes ballad sheets which eventually assumed the familiar form af a miniature booklet with a paper cover that usually had a picture. Even Shakespeare in Henry IV mentioned the chapmen as did Urquhart’s Rabelais in 1653. With the growth of small printers miniature editions of old favourites could be printed. While chapbooks were ostensibly designed to help children learn how to read they often broached adult subjects and were the source of entertainment in families and villages. <br> This book is one of the series of “moral instructive and entertaining toy books†put out by Babcock’s. S. Babcock unknown
Bookseller reference : 15982
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[Anonymous]
Londinum Londinum Urbs Praecipua Regni Angliae.
Italy c1687-1730. Image: 395 by 510mm 15.5 by 20 inches. Sheet: 430 by 555mm 17 by 21.75 inches. Copper engraving. A Latin version of Pierre Aveline's view of London. Although the title cartouche has been changed the engraver has not changed the tower of St Paul's Cathedral to its post-Fire state. Although it is intended to represent contemporary eighteenth century London it still shows the Elizabethan theatres in Bankside. Scouloudi records this as a variant of the view published by Antoine Aveline 1691-1743 in the early eighteenth century but she does not record the copy published by his father Pierre Aveline. The present example could therefore be a variant on either the father's or the son's. Scouloudi pp.59-60. unknown
Bookseller reference : 12426
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[ANONYMOUS] -
London: A Descriptive Poem. Illustrated with Engravings.
London: Printed for William Darton Jun. 58 Holborn Hill Corner of St. Andrew’s Court 1811. . 28 4pp. 16mo. Eight engraved plates seven of them captioned "Published Feby 16 1811 by W. Darton Junr." with a four-page publisher’s catalogue at end; some offsetting from the plates. Original stiff buff wrappers a large Darton woodcut on both covers; wrappers faded and a bit worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on upper wrapper "A Keepsake of Charles Wood." First edition a rather sophisticated poem for children but clearly intended for them as the wrappers demonstrate. The Dartons H9871 noting that a subsequent edition gave the author as "A Well Known Cockney." London: Printed for William Darton, Jun., 58, Holborn Hill, Corner of St. Andrew’s Court, 1811. unknown
Bookseller reference : 14014
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[Anonymous]
Londra Capitale d'Inghilterra e Residenza del Ré.
Italy c. 1690. Image: 212 by 316mm 8.25 by 12.5 inches. Sheet: 288 by 391mm 11.25 by 15.5 inches. Copper engraving. An Italian view of the River Thames and the London skyline from a viewpoint above Southwark. The image is one of a number of derivatives of Pierre Aveline's prospect. The text underneath gives the reader information about London and England in general. The English have beautiful women "le donne sono bellissime" and the aristocracy is interested in science "inclinata alle Scienze" but the lower classes are insolent and volatile "insolenti e volubili" and the country is full of heretical sects. unknown
Bookseller reference : 12422
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[Anonymous]
Londres.
Paris: chez Jean Savué demeurant à la rue St. Jaques proche St. Yves à la libert. 385 by 540mm. 15.25 by 21.25 inches. Copper engraving. A French variant on De Jonghe's view of London with the verses underneath in a different type and the name of the Thames translated into French from Latin. Jean Sauvé 1635-1692 was an engraver and publisher active in Paris and known for re-engraving the works of others including de Jonghe as here Merian Tavernier and Jollain. chez Jean Savué demeurant à la rue St. Jaques proche St. Yves à la libert, unknown
Bookseller reference : 12363
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[Anonymous]
Lord Bakeman who was Taken by the Turks and put in Prison and Afterwards Released by the Jailor's Daughter Whom he Married
n.p. n.d. Good with significant staining a few holes from folding and tears to the edges. A broadside mystery which does not feature any imprint or other readily identifying marks and we cannot locate further information on the same thus leaving a researcher or collector the ability to make the first discovery. unknown
Bookseller reference : 359
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[Anonymous British Soldier]
MANUSCRIPT. FIRST WORLD WAR TRENCHES DIARY. Diary of a British soldier of the 49th Infantry Division ending abruptly on December 19 1915 the first day Phosgene gas was used against the British
France Belgium England 1915. Good. Oblong 8vo. Small "Walker's Service Notebook" 154 x 94 mm lined 26 pages filled with neat entries in pencil and pen final page of diary loose the remaining portion of the notebook i.e. about 2/3 blank. Original limp cloth covers worn. § Extraordinary manuscript diary of an anonymous British soldier beginning April 12th 1915 and ENDING ABRUPTLY IN THE TRENCHES AFTER A GAS ATTACK. The final entry was dated December 19th 1915 which was THE FIRST DAY PHOSGENE GAS WAS USED AGAINST BRITISH SOLDIERS. The short diary is rich in detail of life at the front. The anonymous soldier belonged to the 49th West Riding Division which had a large number of gas casualties when soldiers in reserve lines did not receive a warning in time to put on their helmets. A study by British medical authorities arrived at a figure of 1069 gas casualties 120 of which were fatal. It is very possible that the present manuscript was written by one of those men. It seems probable that with access to the right regimental records the identity and fate of the soldier could be learned and his story told in full; however even as an anonymous diary the interest and poignancy of this personal record is clear.<br /> <br /> The events recorded span just nine months. On April 12th the soldier leaves Edenthorpe near Doncaster and crosses the channel to Le Havre that evening "packed like herrings" and accompanying horses and wagons. Over the next few months he records laying lines opening signal offices handling horses towns and villages visited billets and meals injuries regiments encountered names of comrades and O.C.s shelling rain and mud. He sees the Northumberland Hussars the Indian Corps and Royal Horse Artillery. On May 9th he records the Battle of Aubers Ridge: "Off duty at 7am. Attack began at 5am by Artillery. Signal thro' during day showed heavy losses in E. Lancs Lincolns. 13th London and other Batts. Had coffee in Fleurbaix and then to bed in barn. Off duty 3pm. Attack still proceeding without much impression on our line. French said to be doing well. At night we have the two windows in our Signal Office made up with corrugated iron & sandbags."<br /> <br /> For the entry dated May 12th our author notes that the name of the Division has been "altered to the 49th" thereby confirming the identity of his Division. On May 24th: "The Allamands dropped about 6 shrapnel in our vicinity."<br /> <br /> From a period of steady work and periodic pleasures "had tea & cakes at a patisserie & and then back after buying some books" "glorious day" the situation deteriorates with the weather "torrential rain dugouts leaking & 18" water on my floor".<br /> <br /> They move to Chateau de Trois Tours and on July 13th there is "rather an exciting night" with a bombardment from 7.30 to 10.30. On the 14th "The whole place is being encircled by barbed wire & trenches & the furniture is being moved out of the chateau." On the 15th "At 12.45pm about 12 shells fell round the chateau made a dive for the Signal Office Billy Edwards & Gus Harris wounded in thigh and ankle." They were shelled again on the 16th.<br /> <br /> On December 1st he travels back to Sheffield on leave returning on December 8th. The company are now holed up near Ypres at Hospital Farm the name given to a farm building used as a dressing station. The final entry reads "Dec 19th 'S.O.S.' Gas attack 5.30 am things lively until 8.30am. 146 & 148 des. 148 soon repaired from chateau". The cemetery at Hospital Farm contains 115 Commonwealth burials of the First World War.<br /> <br /> On the significance of the 19 Dec. 1915 battle at Wieltje Belgium northeast of Ypres see the long Wikipedia entry "German Phosgene Attack of 19 December 1915." <br /> <br /> The diary contains many clues that could help identify our writer in military records. It is not certain that he was one of the first British casualties to Phosgene gas but it seems tragically likely. As it stands the final entry in the diary marks an important milestone in the war: phosgene gas would eventually be responsible for about 85% of the 90000 deaths caused by chemical weapons during World War I. unknown
Bookseller reference : 4227
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[ANONYMOUS]
Manuscript of No theater accessories. JAPAN
<p>Modern covers they have been replaced with no indication. <br />Traditional Japanese binding posterior covers.</p><p>Unlike kabuki there are no complex props sets and rotating platforms used during a No performance. Instead the No theater favors a type of modest accessory called tsukurimono literally "crafted objects". Handmade from materials such as bamboo tsukurimono often have one simple frame and are more symbolic than realistic. They often depict structures such as boats tombs houses and wells.</p> No publisher (original manuscript)
Bookseller reference : 2548
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[Anonymous]
Manuscript map of Golders Green.
mid-18th century. 285 by 315mm 11.25 by 12.5 inches. Pen and ink and wash colour on vellum. A manuscript map of Golders Green extending from Cricklewood to Hampstead Heath now Golders Hill Park. This remarkable map shows the division Golders Green and the surrounding area during the mid to late eighteenth century. The area was divided into three farms: Cowhouse Farm green; Hodford Farm orange; and Golders Green Farm yellow. Each of the farms fields are meticulously laid out with their name and area in acres roods and perches marked. The largest landowners at the time were the Dean of Westminster and the Trustees of Eton College. To the lower right is a table of the total holdings of each farm Golders Green being by far the largest; with the total land of all three farms amounting to just over 470 acres. Common land is marked with a 'X' and amounts to just over six acres. Several buildings are marked on the plan including the Cowhouse Farm and The Cock and Hoop Ale House. In 1896 the authorities closed the Cock and Hoop when it was discovered that the named licensee Mr Robinson had been dead for four years! Eighteenth century manuscript plans of London boroughs are very rare especially on such a large scale. Scale: 10 chains to one inch or 1/8th a mile to one inch. Colloms W & M Kilburn and West Hampstead Past; Howkins F. The Story of Golders Green and its remarkable development London 1923. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 14549
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[Anonymous]
Manuscript Account of Travel in Alaska July - August c. 1924
1924. Manuscript. Good. octavo 51 pages written on letterhead of the Department of the Interior United States Geological Survey rectos only neatly inscribed in pencil and ink very good. This account appears to have been a draft and may have been intended for publication there are numerous corrections changes and emendations throughout the work. The unidentified author traveled by rail from Yellowstone to Seattle and from there to Alaska by steamer. The author visited Ketchikan Seward Anchorage Fairbanks where time was spent with the Mayor Valdez Juneau Prince William Sound Cordova Columbia Glacier etc. The author comments upon the events of the trip and gives interesting information on accommodations for tourists describes the scenery and topography a twelve page description of Columbia Glacier and also describes the towns and cities visited. "Valdez represents the tragedy of mining towns. It is really a dead mining town & it is a real tragedy to walk through and see the great number of vacant houses. Really it is hard to understand the lure of such a place." "Anchorage was created as an operating base for the construction of the railroad and has large permanent railroad yards & shops. It is the youngest and most up to date town in Alaska. For the tourist however it has little of interest." "Fairbanks a town almost exclusively of log cabins. the city is isolated because of its great distance from anywhere and people of the States do not care to spend so much time in traveling to reach the place." <br />
Bookseller reference : 028970
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[Anonymous]:
Manuscript map of Etchu Province Honshu Island Japan probably mid nineteenth-century.
The focus of the map is Toyama a significant sea-port in what was once Etchu province on Honshu. The medium is ink on laid paper. A mid nineteenth century date has been suggested on stylistic grounds and the script is pre-Meji era. Toyama and the surrounding towns are shown in the yellow circles linked by red roads and regions are also named. It is unsigned on the back of the map is written 'Etchu Map'. Most of the text concerns distances a form of mileage table. There is a note top right which appears to indicate that the information in red is less certain than the information in black. Various other things are shown on the map: shrines and temples hot springs and a gate where travellers would have to show passports. Map unknown
Bookseller reference : 6624
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[Anonymous]
Map of Shanghai
Shanghai: North-China Daily News & Herald Limited 1st June 1913. 735 by 1510mm. 29 by 59.5 inches. A large English map of Shanghai dissected in 40 4 by 10 sections and mounted on linen folding map. Oriented with north towards the upper right. Top left includes an inset of "plan shewing the rubicon road system". Signed by Engineer and Surveyor. The North-China Daily News was an English-language newspaper in Shanghai China the most influential foreign newspaper of its time. The paper was founded as the weekly North-China Herald and was first published on 3 August 1850. Its founder British auctioneer Henry Shearman died in 1856. North-China Daily News & Herald Limited, unknown
Bookseller reference : 15014
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