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BEUQUE Emile. (Contrôleur de la Garantie du titre).
DICTIONNAIRE des poinçons officiels francais et étrangers, anciens & modernes de leur création (XIVè siècle) à non jours. Platine, or et argent. Préface de M. Lucien PY.
Paris, Imprimerie C. Courtois 1925. Petit in-4 (19 x 28 cm), demi-basane, dos lisse auteur et titres en lettres dorées, VI-375 pp. Avec une table nominative des poiçons et une deuxième table des poinçons particuliers à chaque ville. Les dessins des poinçons en regard du texte le sont par similitude d'image, en subdivisant cette classification en deux parties : symboles divers et Lettres ''. Bel exemplaire.
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FAVRE (Lucienne). [BROUTY Charles].
Tout l'inconnu de La Casbah d'Alger. Illustrations de Charles Brouty.
Alger, by Baconnier Frères, 1933. In-4, broché, couverture rempliée, 263 pp. Edition originale. Nombreuses planches hors-texte illustrées en noir et blanc, dessins de Charles Brouty. Bel exemplaire.
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[SARREPONT, Major H. de].
Guerre des communeux de Paris 18 mars -28 mai 1871 par un officier supérieur de l'armée de Versailles. Deuxième édition.
Paris, Librairie de Firmin Didot frères, Fils & Cie, 1871. In-12, VI (préface)-368 pp. Demi-basane bleu-nuit, dos à nerfs, pièce de titre chagrin rouge. (reliure époque). " Intéressant témoignage sur la Commune, vue du côté Versaillais. Ouvrage publié anonymement, puis sous le nom du major H. de Sarrepont, pseudonyme du lieutenant-colonel Eugène Hennebert ". Classique ouvrage de militaire qui débute par un court chapitre sur la capitale, toujours résistante aux lois. Les « glorieux faits d'armes » de l'armée s'opposent aux « violations des lois de la guerre (!) » par les communeux qui rassemblent « toute l'écume de l'Europe ». Les pétroleurs se joignent aux pétroleuses pour former « une armée de huit mille furies !!! » Enfin, pour couronner le tout, « le talent de nos généraux » est si évident que « les Prussiens... ne nous refusent point des félicitations méritées »." (Le Quillec, 4170) (Fiche CLIO). Bon exemplaire.
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HATIN (Eugène).
Histoire politique et littéraire de LA PRESSE avec une introduction historique sur les ORIGINES DU JOURNAL et la BIBLIOGRPHIE GENERALE DES JOURNAUX depuis leur origine par Eugène HATIN.
Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1859-1861. 7 volumes in-12, demi-percaline grise, dos lisse, auteur titre et tomaison en lettres dorées, (reliure époque). T. 1. XXXII-(préface)-475 pp. T. 2. 479 pp. T. 3. 512 pp. T. 4. 466 pp. T. 5. 482[1]. T. 6. 550 pp. T. 7. 606 pp. Pour chaque tome : 3 ff-(1 f blanc, faux-titre et titre). Eugène Louis Hatin, né à Auxerre le 8 septembre 1809 et mort à Paris le 16 septembre 1893, est un historien, journaliste et bibliographe français. Son travail considérable de l’Histoire politique et littéraire de la presse en France a été considéré comme n’ayant guère d’équivalent à l’étranger. Sa Bibliographie de la presse est un recueil précieux abondant en renseignements curieux. Sept volumes sur 8. Le tome 7 s'arrête à La Presse sous L'Empire. (Le Publiciste - Journal des Débats - Journal de Paris - Le Spectateur du Nord). Edition originale. Bons exemplaires rares.
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ANDRIEU Richard.
Scènes de moeurs toulonnaises. 2è Série.
S.l., [Toulon], s.d. (vers 1895-98 ?]. Grand in-4 (36 x28 cm), relié en pleine toile bordeaux à la Bradel, auteur, titre doré en long. (relieurPaul Blocteur Toulon). 43 planches humoristiques et caricaturales légendées en français, lithographies au crayon. Bon exemplaire, 3 pages habilement restaurées dans les marges.
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ABOUT (Raymond).
Voyage à travers l'exposition des Beaux-Arts (Peinture et sculpture).
Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1855. In-12, 270 pp. Demi-chagrin vert bronze, dos à nerfs, auteur titre en lettres dorées. (Reliure époque). Edition originale (pas de grand papier). Bon exemplaire.
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TAGUIEFF Pierre-André.
La Force du préjugé. Essai sur le racisme et ses doubles.
Paris, La Découverte, Collection Armillaire, 1988. Un volume fort in-8, broché, 644 pp. Bon exemplaire.
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LA MARTINIERE (Antoine-Augustin Bruzen de).
Abrégé portatif du Dictionnaire géographique de La Martinière.
Paris,Chez LE MERCIER. DESAINT & SAILLANT, BOUDET, DURAND, VINCENT, LE PRIEUR, 1759. 2 tomes en 1 volume in-8 (17,5x12). Plein veau moucheté de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné, pièce de titre, tranches marbrées, signet, (reliure époque). TOME I : IV (1 f. bl, page de titre, avertissement , cul de lampe), 489 pages- 1 f. table des abbréviations. TOME II : page de titre, 339 pages, [3] -APPROBATION et PRIVILEGE GENERAL. Texte sur deux colonnes. Illustré de 2 planches dépliantes hors texte : Mappemonde ou description du globe terrestre par Sr. Robert géographe ordinaire du roi avec Privilege de 1748 et carte de L'Europe divisée suivant ses principaux Etats. Par le Sr. Robert geog. ord. du roi. Avec privilege 1748. Bel exemplaire SANS ROUSSEURS.
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SCOTT Robert Falcon
The Voyage of the Discovery. [Popular Edition].
8vo., with plates and endpaper maps; original blue pictorial cloth, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. Scott's own account of the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1904 was first published in 1905. This is a nice copy of the reissue of the first one-volume edition of 1929. Scarce, especially in this condition. Spence, 1072 (recording the first one-volume edition).
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TEMPLE R.
Invention and Discovery.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 13 full-page illustrations in the text; original pictorial cloth blocked and lettered in gilt and colours, gilt back, gilt top, patterned endpapers, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean copy in publisher's original pictorial binding. Engaging accounts of over 120 major inventions and discoveries told with characteristic late Victorian aplomb. Scarce, especially in this condition.
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BURGAN John
Long Discovery.
8vo., First UK Edition, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original dove-blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled on (predominantly white) rear panel. Published simultaneously with the US edition. Burgan's third novel is set in Pennsylvania mining country. Striking dustwrapper artwork by William Kermode. Scarce, especially in this condition.
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ALDBRIDGE Don
The Rescue of Captain Scott.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 50 plates on 32 and endpaper maps; white cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed and well-illustrated account of the freeing of Discovery by the Terra Nova (McKay) and Morning (Colbeck) from the Antarctic ice in 1904.
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FIENNES Ranulph
Captain Scott. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 74 coloured and monochrome plates on 32 and pictorial endpapers; white cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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LASHLY William
Under Scott's Command. Lashly's Antarctic Diaries. With an Introduction by Sir Vivian Fuchs. [First US Edition].
8vo., First US Edition, with 9 plates on 8, and a full-page map and full-page plan in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at extremities. Published simultaneously with the UK edition. This is the first dedicated publication of Lashly's complete diary. Lashly was awarded the Albert Medal for rescuing 'Teddy' Evans; the harrowing story of their return is vividly portrayed in Cherry-Garrard's 'The Worst Journey in the World'. Uncommon in this condition. Spence 686 (recording the far scarcer UK edition).
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LASHLY William
Under Scott's Command. Lashly's Antarctic Diaries. With an Introduction by Sir Vivian Fuchs. [Third Impression].
8vo., Third Impression, with 9 plates on 8, and a full-page map and full-page plan in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Published four months after the first edition. This is the first dedicated publication of Lashly's complete diary. Lashly was awarded the Albert Medal for rescuing 'Teddy' Evans; the harrowing story of their return is vividly portrayed in Cherry-Garrard's 'The Worst Journey in the World'. The UK edition is considerably scarcer than its American (Taplinger) counterpart, especially in the dustwrapper. Spence 686.
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WILSON Edward Adrian
Diary of the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic Regions 1901-1904. Edited from the original MSS in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge by Ann Savours.
4to., First Edition, with a coloured portrait frontispiece, and very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations by the author; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean in the dustwrapper. First published in 1966. Very scarce, especially in this condition. Spence 1030
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CABOT John
The Cabot Voyages and Bristol Discovery under Henry VII. With the Cartography of the Voyages by R.A. Skelton. [Edited by J.A. Williamson. Hakluyt Society].
8vo., First Edition, with a folding map as frontispiece, 13 plates, a folding map, and 4 maps in the text; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing a sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright clean copy. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. CXX 120. Includes documents from English, Portuguese and Spanish archives, and from printed sources, relating to the Atlantic voyages out of Bristol between 1480 and 1508-9, including the voyages of John and Bastian Cabot. Bridges & Hair, p.287.
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WILLIAMSON J.A.
The Voyages of the Cabots and the English Discovery of North America under Henry VII and Henry VIII. 1050 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, on Japanese vellum, with a folding map as frontispiece, title-vignette in blue and black, and 12 maps; original blue buckram, ivory buckram back lettered in gilt, uncut, brown silk marker, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1050 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY OUT-OF-SERIES). Sold from an institution with its stamp on front free endpaper, half-title and title. The seventh publication of the Argonaut Press, printed by Walter Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge. The title-vignette is by William Monk.
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GWYNN Stephen
Captain Scott. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo. First Edition on laid paper with a portrait frontispiece 6 plates a folding facsimile and a folding map on japon neat contemporary signature on front paste-down free endpapers mildly browned; original blue cloth upper board lettered in gilt and block With 4pp series catalogue bound in at end. Published in Lane's 'Golden Hind' series edited by Waldman. Uncommon in this condition. NMM II/1: 1308; Spence 545.
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ROBERTSON George
The Discovery of Tahiti. Introduced by Oliver Warner. Illustrated by Robert Gibbings. [Reissue of the original edition of 1955]. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., with 10 wood-engravings; patterned boards, burgundy buckram back lettered in gilt, burgundy top, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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MURRAY, ed. George
The Antarctic Manual for the Use of the Expedition of 1901. Edited by George Murray. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. Presented to the Expedition and issued by the Royal Geographical Society. [Facsimile reissue]. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., with 3 large folding maps and very numerous illustrations, diagrams and tables in the text; blind-blocked cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. This work, prepared for Scott's British Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904, contains a valuable and wide-ranging storehouse of scientific and practical Antarctic data by acknowledged authorities. It includes a particularly extensive bibliography of Antarctic exploration and research compiled by Hugh Robert Mill (formerly librarian to the RGS). Spence, 829 (recording the scarce original edition of 1901).
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Carli Gian Rinaldo
Della scoperta dell’America: lettera del Sig. Commendatore Don Gianrinaldo Conte Carli al Sig. Ab. Domenico Testa, in risposta alla lettera di M. Otto, intorno a tale argomento
In-4°: pp. 25. Testatine e capilettera xilografati. Legatura in cartonato.
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Dyson, John
Columbus: For Gold, God, and Glory
228p., illus. Nautical Research by Dr. Luis Miguel Coin Cuenca Hardcover Very good condition good
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Granzotto, Gianni
Christopher Columbus. Translated by Stephen Sartarelli
300 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Wilson, Ian
The Columbus Myth. Did men of Bristol [England] reach America before Columbus?
240 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Firstbrook, P. L.
The voyage of the Matthew : John Cabot and the discovery of North America
192pp. 25cm Paperback Very good condition
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Anderson, J. R. L. (John Richard Lane)
Vinland voyage [by] J. R. L. Anderson
278pp. , maps, ports. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Carse, Robert
The river men
284pp. illus., maps, ports. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good The expolration of the great rivers of North American for three centuries
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Hellwald, Friedrich von
Premiers voyages au pays des glaces
404p., illus. , fold. map at end Hardcover Very good condition, in red cloth, black & gilt decoration Cover title: Au Pole Nord Voyages au pays des glaces par F. von Hellwald . . .
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Hellwald, Friedrich von
Voyages au Pole Nord pays des glaces
313p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition, in red cloth, black & gilt decoration Cover title: Au Pole Nord Voyages au pays des glaces par F. von Hellwald . . .
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Parry, J. H.
The Age of Reconnaissance Discovery, Exploration, and Settlement, 1450-1650
364 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)
Roundabout to Canterbury, by Charles S. Brooks; with pictures by Julia McCune Flory.
346 p.; illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
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McGhee, Robert
The Arctic voyages of Martin Frobisher : an Elizabethan adventure
200pp. 21 x 23 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Bolton, Herbert E.
Drake’s plate of brass, evidence of his visit to California in 1579
3 p. l., 57 p., 4 l. 2 pl., 2 port. (incl. front.) maps (2 fold.) 28 cm. Hardcover Very good condition
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Mosher, Howard Frank
The true account : concerning a Vermont gentleman's race to the Pacific against and exploration of the western American continent coincident to the expedition of Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark Lewis & Clark Expedition
337pp. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good Signed by the author for Bonnie
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Lynch, William Francis
Narrative of the United States’ expedition to the river Jordan and the Dead Sea, by W. F. Lynch, U. S. N., commander of the expedition
332p., map Hardcover Very good condition, spine ends worn
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Lynch, William Francis
Narrative of the United States’ expedition to the river Jordan and the Dead sea, by W. F. Lynch, U.S.N., commander of the expedition . . .
xx, [13]-509 p. front., 27 pl., 2 fold. maps 25 cm. Hardcover Very good condition, spine ends worn
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Surville, Jean François de
The expedition of the St. Jean-Baptiste to the Pacific, 1769-1770 : from journals of Jean de Surville and Guillaume Labé / translated and edited by John Dunmore Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 158
x, 310 p. : illus. ; 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition very good
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Snell, T. Loftin
The wild shores : America's beginnings
203pp. 26 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Riffenburgh, Beau
Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition: The Voyage of the Nimrod
384pp. Paperback Very good condition
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Tytler, Patrick Fraser
Historical view of the progress of discovery on the more northern coasts of America, from the earliest period to the present time The Family Library no. 53
360 p. incl. illus., 5 pl. front. (fold. map) 16 cm. Hardcover Good condition, marginal staining in early leaves
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Cameron, Ian
To the farthest ends of the earth : 150 years of world exploration by the Royal Geographical Society
288p., illus. 027 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Newcomb, Raymond Lee
Our lost explorers : the narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as related by the survivors, and in the records and last journals of Lieutenant De Long. Revised by Raymond Lee Newcomb . . . with an introduction by W. L. Gage
479 p. : illus., maps Hardcover Very good condition, in full sheep, front hinge cracked
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Columbus, Christopher
The log of Christopher Columbus
Oblong. 252pp. 19 x 27 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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OLSEN ORJAN Dr
LA CONQUETE DE LA TERRE. HISTOIRE DES DECOUVERTES ET DES EXPLORATIONS DES ORIGINES A NOS JOURS. III
Paris, Payot 1934. In-8 broché de 271 pages. 76 gravures. Bon état
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OLSEN ORJAN DR
LA CONQUETE DE LA TERRE. HISTOIRE DES DECOUVERTES ET DES EXPLORATIONS DES ORIGINES A NOS JOURS. V
Paris, Payot 1936. In-8 broché de 291 pages. 77 gravures. Bon état
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collectif
L'HOMME Revue française d'anthropologie. Nos 122-124
Navarin, Ecole des HESS, 1992. In-8 broché, 472 pages. Très bon état
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collectif
L'HOMME Revue française d'anthropologie. No 121
Navarin, Ecole des HESS, 1992. In-8 broché, 258 pages. Quelques rares passages soulignés au crayon à papier sinon très bon état
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*L'Archéologue. Archéologie nouvelle , n°76, février-mars 2005
66 p., nbr. ill. n/b. et coul. Inv. 29173
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Hamburg Festschrift on the Discovery and Eploration of America.
HAMBURGISCHE FESTSCHRIFT ZUR ERINNERUNG AN DIE ENTDECKUNG AMERIKA'S. Herausgegeben vom Wissenschaftlichen Ausschuss des Komites fur die Amerika-feier.
Two Volumes. I: pp. (54), 132, 90, 256, 22 + Two folding maps "Caspar Vopell's Erdglobus von 1542" - Western & Southern Hemisphere; II: pp. (8), 328, 9 + One folding map: "Sir Walter Ralegh's Karte von Guayana um 1595." Tall 8vo. 276 mm. Attractive full white linen cloth bindings, decorated and lettered in red, blue, black, and gilt. Bindings slightly soiled but still nice. The text includes: Neumayer, G. Einleitung. Ruge, S. Die entdeckungsgeschichte der Neuen welyt. Gelcich, E. Die instrumente. der nautik zur zeit grossen lander-entdecking. Baasch, E. Geschichte der handelsbeziehungen zwischen Hamburg und Amerika. Michow, H. Caspar Volpell; Schumacher, H.A. Die unternehmungen der Augsburger Welser in Venezuela, und Juan de Castellanos. Friedrichsen, L. Sir Walter Ralegh's karte von Guyana; Etc. Hardbound. Very good. W152
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