‎Collectibles‎

‎Adler Elmer; & John T. Winterich editors‎

‎The Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly Part Ten 10‎

‎New York: The Colophon 1932. Very Good condition in a worn and chipped original glassine dust jacket. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. Part 10 only. Includes articles on The Chap Book Beowulf Codex Punch Cutting "The Scythian Wonder" herbals that claimed lambs were born of plants a history and bibliography of Bentley's Standard Novel Series by Michael Sadleir etc. Also a double-page pen ink and wash drawing "One Fine Morning" by Max Beerbohm. Designs by Boris Artzybasheff. Among the other contributors are Walter Hart Blumenthal and Robinson Jeffers on his early books. Bound in the original color pictorial boards. . First Edition Limited 3000 copies. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Worn and chipped dust jacket. Illus. by Beerbohm Max drawing. 8.5" wide by 10.75" tall. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. The Colophon Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 024143

‎Adler Elmer; & Burton Emmett; John T. Winterich editors‎

‎The Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly Part Four 4‎

‎New York: The Colophon 1930. A very nice copy in Near Fine condition. Laid-in are two pieces of ephemera: "About the Colphon's Second Year" and a flyer promoting the Random House edition of TOM SAWYER illustrated by Donald McKay. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. Part 4 only. Includes articles on Bruce Rogers Kipling Stephen Crane designs by Rockwell Kent a 5 color woodcut by LeRoy Appleton a leaf of paper handmade by Dard Hunter and an engraving "Baboons" by Andre Margat. Among the contributors are Alfred Pollard Francis Meynell and Edwin Arlington Robinson. Bound in the colorful original pictorial boards with lovely design by Donald McKay who also illustated the colophon page. First Edition Limited 2000 copies. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by McKay Donald; & Andre Margat engraving; LeRoy Appleton woodcut. 8.5" wide by 10.75" tall. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. The Colophon Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 024145

‎Adler Elmer; & John T. Winterich editors‎

‎The Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly Part Nine 9‎

‎New York: The Colophon 1932. Very Good condition. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp clean and unmarked. Part 9 only. Includes articles on "Death by Spontaneous Combustion" Darwin's "Origin of the Species" Sequoya inventor of the Cherokee alphabet Walt Whitman Booth Tarkington and Edward Lear. Designs by Edward A. Wilson. Also a woodcut "Crab-Apples" by Charles W. Smith. Among the contributors are Rollo Silver Barton Currie Robert W. G. Vail and Elmer Adler. Bound in the original pictorial boards. . First Edition Limited 3000 copies. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by Smith Charles W. woodcut. 8.5" wide by 10.75" tall. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. The Colophon Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 024156

‎Adler Elmer; & Burton Emmett; John T. Winterich editors‎

‎The Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly Part Four 4‎

‎New York: The Colophon 1930. Very Good condition. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Top corner of the cover a little bumped but NO pages are affected i.e. there are NO page creases. Pages are clean and unmarked. Part 4 only. Includes articles on Bruce Rogers Kipling Stephen Crane designs by Rockwell Kent a 5 color woodcut by LeRoy Appleton a leaf of paper handmade by Dard Hunter and an engraving "Baboons" by Andre Margat. Among the contributors are Alfred Pollard Francis Meynell and Edwin Arlington Robinson. Bound in the colorful original pictorial boards with lovely design by Donald McKay who also illustated the colophon page. First Edition Limited 2000 copies. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by Margat Andre engraving; & LeRoy Appleton woodcut. 8.5" wide by 10.75" tall. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. The Colophon Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 024146

‎Adler Elmer; & John T. Winterich editors‎

‎The Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly Part Eleven 11‎

‎New York: The Colophon 1932. Very Good condition rear cover has light soil to white parts and one small spot. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. Part 11 only. Includes articles on Bruce Roger's early works old prints Napoleon and Napoleonana Charles Kingsley Edward Wilson's book illustrations 15th century bookwomen. Also "The Writing of Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton "A Russian Adventure" by Percy Muir and an etching "Planters Majorca" by Charles Offin. Designs by T. M. Cleland. Among the other contributors are Harry B. Smith Wilfred Partington and William Kittredge. Bound in the original full color pictorial boards. . First Edition Limited 3000 copies. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by Offin Charles etching. 8.5" wide by 10.75" tall. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. The Colophon Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 024141

‎Adler Elmer; & John T. Winterich editors‎

‎The Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly Part Eleven 11‎

‎New York: The Colophon 1932. Near Fine condition. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. Part 11 only. Includes articles on Bruce Roger's early works old prints Napoleon and Napoleonana Charles Kingsley Edward Wilson's book illustrations 15th century bookwomen. Also "The Writing of Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton "A Russian Adventure" by Percy Muir and an etching "Planters Majorca" by Charles Offin. Designs by T. M. Cleland. Among the other contributors are Harry B. Smith Wilfred Partington and William Kittredge. Bound in the original full color pictorial boards. . First Edition Limited 3000 copies. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by Offin Charles etching. 8.5" wide by 10.75" tall. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. The Colophon Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 024140

‎Adler Elmer; & Burton Emmett; John T. Winterich editors‎

‎The Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly Part Eight 8‎

‎New York: The Colophon 1931. Very Good condition. NO chips or tears. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp clean and unmarked. Part 8 only. Includes articles on the illustrations in Mason L. Weem's "Washington" Shakespeare's first editor; John Carter on "The Origins of Publishers' Cloth Binding" and a Schiller forgery. Also a signed and dated lithograph "Gardenia" by Victoria Hutson. Among the contributors are Randolph G. Adams Joseph Hergesheimer Harry Miller Lydenberg Carolyn Wells John T. Winterich. Bound in the original pictorial boards. . First Edition Limited 3000 copies. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by Hutson Victoria signed lithograph. 8.5" wide by 10.75" tall. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. The Colophon Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 024155

‎Adler Elmer; & Burton Emmett; John T. Winterich editors‎

‎The Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly Part Six 6‎

‎New York: The Colophon 1931. Very Good condition. NO chips or tears. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp clean and unmarked. Part 6 only. Includes articles on Huckleberry Finn Richard Savage Robert Burns portraits "Pacific News" this signature printed by the Grabhorn Press and "Wood Nymphs" a linoleum cut by K. M. Ballantyne. Designs by T. M. Cleland. Among the contributors are Willa Cather on her early novels Stanley Morison and A. E. Coppard on first getting into print. Bound in the original pictorial boards. . First Edition Limited 3000 copies. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by Ballantyne K. M. . 8.5" wide by 10.75" tall. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. The Colophon Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 024152

‎Adler Elmer; et al editors‎

‎The Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly Part Three 3‎

‎New York: The Colophon 1930. Complete with the full page woodcut PARIS STREET by Howard Cook. Laid-in is a 4-page piece of ephemera promoting A STENCIL PRINT by T. M. Cleland. It is an invitation to the exhibition at the Pynson Printers Exhibit Room in New York held August through November 1930. Near Fine condition. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. Part 3 only. Includes articles on Horace Walpole Lavinia Dickinson the California school of printing Afro-French poetry and autobiographical notes by Carl Van Vechten. Among the contributors are Harry B. Smith Christopher Morley Wilmarth Lewis R. W. Chapman Michael Sadleir Oscar Lewis and Carolyn Wells. Bound in the original pictorial boards. . First Edition Limited 2000 copies. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by Cook Howard woodcut. 8.5" wide by 10.75" tall. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. The Colophon Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 024109

‎Adler Elmer; et al editors‎

‎The Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly Part Two 2‎

‎New York: The Colophon 1930. Very Good condition. Light cover wear/mild bumping -- NO text or illustrations are affected. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. Part 2 only. Includes articles on Poe Stephen Gooden Bloodgood Haviland Cutter Robert Frost. Also a Frost bibliography and a previously unpublished drawing by Rockwell Kent. Among the contributors are John Eckel John Winterich Henry Kent Hugh Walpole Carlotta Petrina Frederic Melcher and Seymour de Ricci. Henry Watson Kent contributes: ANOTHER DAY A RETROSPECTIVE NOTE ON THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN AND THE PRINTERS OF THE SHAKESPEARE PRESS that is illustrated with tipped-in facsimile letters and envelope. Laid-in is a piece of Colophon promotional ephemera from the publisher. Bound in the original pictorial boards. First Edition Limited 2000 copies. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by Kent Rockwell previously unpublished drawing . 8.5" wide by 10.75" tall. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. The Colophon Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 024105

‎Adler Elmer; & Burton Emmett; John T. Winterich editors‎

‎The Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly Part Seven 7‎

‎New York: The Colophon 1931. Very Good condition. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. Part 7 only. Includes articles on Stephen Crane R L Stevenson half-titles the Indian captivity of Mary Jemison and a George Bernard Shaw pamphlet previously unknown to bibliographers. Also reminiscences by Dard Hunter a wood engraving by Thomas Nason and footnotes to Kipling bibliography by Flora Livingston. Robert Gibbings' article on the Golden Cockerel Press was printed by The Golden Cockerel Press. It features illustrations by Eric Gill Robert Gibbings Eric Ravilious David Jones and John Farleigh. Among the contributors are David Randall Vincent Starrett R. W. Chapman and James Branch Cabell. Bound in the colorful original pictorial boards. First Edition Limited 3000 copies. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by Farleigh John; & Eric Gill Robert Gibbings Eric Ravilious David Jones. 8.5" wide by 10.75" tall. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. The Colophon Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 024147

‎Adler Elmer; et al editors‎

‎The Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly Part Three 3‎

‎New York: The Colophon 1930. Complete with the full page woodcut PARIS STREET by Howard Cook. Very Good condition. Light cover wear/mild corner bump -- NO text or illustrations are affected. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. Part 3 only. Includes articles on Horace Walpole Lavinia Dickinson the California school of printing Afro-French poetry and autobiographical notes by Carl Van Vechten. Among the contributors are Harry B. Smith Christopher Morley Wilmarth Lewis R. W. Chapman Michael Sadleir Oscar Lewis and Carolyn Wells. Bound in the original pictorial boards. . First Edition Limited 2000 copies. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by Cook Howard woodcut. 8.5" wide by 10.75" tall. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. The Colophon Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 024107

‎Adler Elmer; & Burton Emmett; John T. Winterich editors‎

‎The Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly Part Seven 7‎

‎New York: The Colophon 1931. Near Fine condition. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. Part 7 only. Includes articles on Stephen Crane R L Stevenson half-titles the Indian captivity of Mary Jemison and a George Bernard Shaw pamphlet previously unknown to bibliographers. Also reminiscences by Dard Hunter a wood engraving by Thomas Nason and footnotes to Kipling bibliography by Flora Livingston. Robert Gibbings' article on the Golden Cockerel Press was printed by The Golden Cockerel Press. It features illustrations by Eric Gill Robert Gibbings Eric Ravilious David Jones and John Farleigh. Among the contributors are David Randall Vincent Starrett R. W. Chapman and James Branch Cabell. Bound in the colorful original pictorial boards. First Edition Limited 3000 copies. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by Farleigh John; & Eric Gill Robert Gibbings Eric Ravilious David Jones. 8.5" wide by 10.75" tall. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. The Colophon Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 024148

‎Adler Elmer; & Burton Emmett; John T. Winterich editors‎

‎The Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly Part Eight 8‎

‎New York: The Colophon 1931. Laid-in are four pieces of ephemera from the publisher. Very Good condition. NO chips or tears. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp clean and unmarked. Part 8 only. Includes articles on the illustrations in Mason L. Weem's "Washington" Shakespeare's first editor; John Carter on "The Origins of Publishers' Cloth Binding" and a Schiller forgery. Also a signed and dated lithograph "Gardenia" by Victoria Hutson. Among the contributors are Randolph G. Adams Joseph Hergesheimer Harry Miller Lydenberg Carolyn Wells John T. Winterich. Bound in the original pictorial boards. . First Edition Limited 3000 copies. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by Hutson Victoria signed lithograph. 8.5" wide by 10.75" tall. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. The Colophon Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 024469

‎Adler Elmer; Alfred Stanford & John T. Winterich editors‎

‎The Colophon New Series: A Quarterly for Bookmen Volume I Number 3 Winter 1936‎

‎New York: Pynson Printers. Nearly fine copy. 1936. 1st. hardcover. 8vo 157 pp. . Pynson Printers hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : BOOKS058748I

‎Adler Elmer; & Deoch Fulton; Frederick B. Adams Jr.; John T. Winterich editors‎

‎The New Colophon A Book-Collectors' Miscellany: Volume 3‎

‎New York: Duschnes Crawford Inc 1950. Appears unread. A beautiful copy in Fine condition. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp clean and unmarked -- probably never read. First Edition. Limited to 2500 copies. 32 important bibliographical articles on Hans Christian Anderson Incunabula Button Gwinnett signatures Huck Finn Samuel Johnson journals Willa Cather George Catlin California and Oregon Trail Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation etc. Contributors include Jean Hersholt Curt Buhler Donald Gallup Richard Altick Vincent Starrett Thomas McDade James D. Hart Randolph Adams Jacob Blanck Donald and Mary Hyde Philip Hofer John Winterich Sinclair Hamilton Frederick Goff George McKay and Charles Eberstadt. Printed by Peter Beilenson. Illustrations throughout. Among the tipped-in items are a facsimile of the first printing of the Emancipation Proclamation and a fold-out facsimile Handbill Advertisement for Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Index. Printed by Peter Beilenson of Mount Vernon New York. Bound in the original tan cloth beautifully illustrated by Fritz Kredel with full wrap-around art in colors depicting a Victorian bookshop. Oversize Hardcover. 7.75" wide by 10.75" tall. This large heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments but only the standard charge for media mail. . First Edition Limited 2500 copies. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/No dust jacket as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. ii 377pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Duschnes Crawford, Inc Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 024101

‎ADLER ELMER‎

‎An informal talk by.‎

‎Los Angeles: printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at The Plantin Press 1953. First edition 16mo pp. 2 44 1; original cream cloth-backed marbled boards printed paper spine label; fine. The first annual public lecture on books and bibliography. <br/><br/> printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at The Plantin Press] hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 22147

‎Adler Warren‎

‎Private Lies‎

‎Franklin Center Pennsylvania: Franklin Library 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Frontispiece By Cheryl Decker-Sauder. Limited First Edition. Full Leather Gilt. Signed By Author. With Preface By Author Printed Just In This Edition. <br/> <br/> Franklin Library hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 037454

‎Adler, Bill; Rice, Charlie; Harrity, Richard; Lane, Judy; Weisinger, Mort; MacDonald, John D.; Paddleford, Clementine‎

‎This Week Magazine, December 19, 1965 - Insert to the Boston Sunday Herald: World's Most Expensive Doll House!‎

‎16 pages. Features: White House Wit - from many Presidents; New Haven's Shubert Theater hosts three deer to spruce up musical comedy "The Yearling"; World's Most Expensive Doll House! - it has been insured for $2.5 million and is now owned by Queen Elizabeth - full-page color photo plus five black and white photos; Zipcode USA - teen Q&A - with photo of the Lovin' Spoonful and Dame Margot Fonteyn; The Girl in the Yellow Suit (fiction); Home From School - recipes. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine‎

‎Adlington William trans.‎

‎The Golden Ass of Apuleius‎

‎London: George Bell Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Very Good copy but with flaws 226pps 85/220cc 1566 original maroon boards and tan backstrip repaired dirty title label pasted on front cover frp and engraved tp rubricated tp lettering. Text includes woodcut initial letters as well as red lettering to denote book numbers. Chiswick Library of Noble Writers. Wide margins rag paper clean internally smudge or two and dirty eps. Folio size. George Bell Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 115139

‎ADMIRAL FREDRICK W. RODGERS‎

‎1902 SUPER ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND LOG BOOK OF THE TRAVELS AND DIPLOMACY OF THE FLAGSHIP ADMIRAL OF THE ASIATIC FLEET ON THE CHINA STATION AT THIS MOST PERILOUS TIME IN CHINA AND JAPAN RELATIONS‎

‎ABOARD THE USS NEW YORK. Good. 1902. On offer is a superb fascinating original soft bound 1902 China Station diary and personal log handwritten by Admiral Frederick W. Rodgers 1842 - 1917. Rodgers was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. He fought in the American Civil War and ascended to be the last commander of the Asiatic Fleet. He was a grandson of U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew Perry. In May 1901 Rodgers became Senior Squadron Commander within the Asiatic Squadron. On March 1st 1902 he became the commander of the entire Asiatic Squadron which was engaged in combat during the Philippine-American War at the time. He was the Squadron's last commander. At the end of his tour on 29 October 1902 the Asiatic Squadron was abolished and its responsibilities were assumed by the new United States Asiatic Fleet. This logbook documents his ship the U.S.S. New York while stationed in Amoy China and Nagasaki Japan during a critical time in the area's history. The log begins March 27th with a final entry on - July 26th 1902. The log recounts the daily workings of the ship and personnel deployments lists of repairs to various ships within the Asiatic Fleet. What is of real importance is Rodgers encounters with the Emperor of China and Prime Minister of Japan. He also mentions other naval vessels from Britain Germany and Japan listing the ship's numbers and armaments. This log contains important information about the fleet in this very historical period when the United States emerges as a world naval power. The 60 pages of handwritten narrative and notes make for some revealing entries regarding American efforts at diplomacy in the area; Rodgers' diplomatic contacts with the Emperor and Dowager of China are well noted as are intelligence reports on fortifications in China. He mentions brief reports from missionaries concerning conditions in the interior of China contact with British troops who are guarding parts of Peking. While in Peking Rodgers meets the British Foreign Minister and writes about the looting that took place at the summer palace blaming it on Russian and Italian troops during the Boxer Rebellion. Furthermore he discusses positioning gunboats along the rivers near Peking due to further disturbances. Rodgers also mentions meeting the Prime Minster of Japan encounters with the Japanese navy and various dignitaries princes and barons. Here are some snippets: U.S.S. New York -March 27th 1902 Cable arrived from Hong Kong French Cruiser Arriau called on the American Consul no information from him - he informed me that there was nothing new to report here. A missionary who had just returned from an extensive trip into the interior had informed the consul that he had been treated with much consideration. U.S.S . New York - March 31st 1902 Woosung China - Visited Chinese Cruiser Hai Chai cable from Widdes asking change of officers from G.C.M. not practicable - one case of Cholera in Cavite - condition in Manila improving. Glaicer arrived Cavite - Drake commanding Muntrey officially visited ship brought in 3 cases for G.C.M. U.S.S. New York April 2nd 1902 Left ship at 3 pm for Shaug Hai 30 min from ship to station Woosung road is bad anchorage . The tides were up to more than four knots - ships at single anchor are liable to drag. Went to French hotel De Collmines - it is fairly good but the rooms are most uncomfortable - Captain Tah of the Chinese navy accompanies us. Friday April 1902 Intelligence reports from Monterey Fortifications of the Yangsee River - Forts on Silver Island Black Dragoon forts -Forts at Chu San Knan Forts at Kiaung Yri Required examination of the county between Woosung and Shanghi copy of railroad maps mark chart examination of Woonsung river regards fortifications. U.S.S. New York- April 22nd 1902 New York sailed for Yokahma at 9am Weather raining: A German steamer came in last night with Prince Imperial on board - made preparations for a national salute address ship but found steamer had carried no distinctive flag boarding officer at 4am countermanded order for salute and dressing ship. U.S.S. New York Yokahama Japan Monday April 28th 1902 Rear Admiral Evens hoisted his flag exchanged salutes Went to Tokio Made official visits to US. Minister To Prime Minister of Japan To Minister of War Called on Baron Kaneko. Wednesday June 18th 1902 Arrived off Tokio and anchored nearly 10 miles out - Tug ordered previously met ship - left the ship at 10:15 am and went to Tokio took the train to Peking. Col Brown of the British Army Kindly offered the use of his car which was accepted. Taku forts are still being leveled by the international force those on the south side are all destroyed. Arrived at Peking at 7pm.was meet by a gentleman from the legation and a guard of honor from the 9th infantry. Went to the U.S. legation with my personal staff as a guest of Hon E.S.Conger. Thursday June 19th Visited the temple of Heaven discussed affairs with minister he informed me that the principal questions now between the Chinese Government and the internationals are: First as regards the transfer back to civil administration of the Tuiu Suen and Peking rail road and 2 the return of the city of Tien Sien to civil administration. The rail road is now under English military management. Called on the various foreign ligations - only met two personally the German and the Japanese. Friday June 20th 1902 Visited the Summer Palace of the Emperor. A special permission from the Foreign office was required to visit the Palace it is the most interesting place about Peking but the effects of the results of the trouble in 1900 is very apparent and the destruction was very great - Repairs have been made to a very limited extent this place was occupied by the Italians and Russians who must have looted it to the fullest extent. Peking Sunday 22nd 1902 Diplomatic dinner at the legation - meet the English Minister than the Austrian Charge of Affairs also the Russian Minister. Peking Tuesday June 24th 1902 By Previous arrangements was given was audience by the Empress Dowager and the Emperor at the Winter Palace. The logbook has one torn page one page detached from the binding and four blank pages and is overall G.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF ADMIRAL FREDRICK W. RODGERS ASIATIC SQUADRON LOGBOOK CHINA STATION JAPAN. TURN OF THE CENTURY EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY NAVAL MARINE MARINERS WARSHIPS SOUTH CHINA SEA UNITED STATES NAVY USN FLAGSHIPS DIPLOMACY NAUTICAL PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WAR POST SPANISH AMERICAN WAR COMMODORE MATTHEW PERRY U.S.S. NEW YORK EMPEROR OF JAPAN EMPEROR OF CHINA DOWAGER EMPRESS OF CHINA TOKIO TOKYO AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED AUTHORS DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES JOURNAL LOG PRIMARY SOURCE FIRST HAND ACCOUNT SOCIAL HISTORY PERSONAL STORIES LIVING HISTORY ANTIQUIT� CONTRAT V�LIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIG�EDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPELBIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY PERSONAL NARRATIVES . paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 0002347

‎ADMIRAL THOMAS COCHRANE 10th EARL OF DUNDONALD aka. LE LOUP DES MERS THE WOLF OF THE SEA a. k.‎

‎1823 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY ONE OF ENGLAND'S GREATEST NAVAL HEROES - THE MODEL FOR HORATIO HORNBLOWER AND 'LUCKY' CAPTAIN JACK AUBREY BUT KNOWN TO THE FRENCH NAVY AS THE 'WOLF OF THE SEAS'‎

‎BRAZIL 1823. On offer is a super original 1823 manuscript letter handwritten by Admiral Thomas Cochrane 10th Earl of Dundonald Marquess of Maranh�o GCB ODM Chile 1775-1860 styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831 was a senior British naval flag officer and radical politician. He was a daring and successful captain of the Napoleonic Wars leading the French to nickname him 'Le Loup des Mers' 'The Sea Wolf' or 'The Wolf of the Seas'. Cochrane was the model for Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' Captain Jack Aubrey Series of books. He was also believed to be the model for Horatio Hornblower. Written in the third person signed 'Tho. Cochrane' dated March 7th 1823 the place hard to distinguish this short letter is dated a mere two weeks before taking command of the Brazilian Navy Cochrane writes regarding his compliments to Captain Porter thanking him for furnishing information of Pirate activity having not the means to pursue the pirates and his mention of English merchants in the port. This superb 2pp. 4.25" x 7" relic of British naval and marine history in the hand of one of the most exciting successful and decorated men that ever captained a ship will be a treasure for the right collector. Signed in ink. Fine. BIO NOTES: Thomas Cochrane was born at Annsfield near Hamilton South Lanarkshire Scotland the son of Archibald Cochrane 9th Earl of Dundonald and Anna Gilchrist. Cochrane joined the navy in 1793 and spent his first months at Sheerness in a Sixth-rate frigate the 28-gun HMS Hind commanded by his uncle Captain Alexander Cochrane then transferred to the 38-gun Fifth-rate HMS Thetis also under his uncle's command. In Thetis he visited Norway then served on the North America station. There in 1795 he was appointed acting lieutenant . The following year he was commissioned in the rank of lieutenant on 27 May 1796 after passing the examination. After several transfers in America and a return home he found himself as 8th Lieutenant on Lord Keith's flagship HMS Barfleur in the Mediterranean Sea in 1798. In February 1800 Cochrane commanded the prize crew taking the captured French vessel G�n�reux to the British base at Mah�n. The ship was almost lost in a storm with Cochrane and his brother Archibald going aloft in place of a crew that were mostly ill. On 28 March 1800 Cochrane having been promoted to commander took command of the brig sloop HMS Speedy. Later that year a Spanish warship disguised as a merchant ship almost captured him. He escaped by flying a Danish flag and fending off a boarding by claiming his ship was plague-ridden. Chased by an enemy frigate and knowing it would follow him in the night by any glimmer of light from the Speedy he placed a lantern on a barrel and let it float away. The enemy frigate followed the light and Speedy escaped. In February 1801 at Malta he got into an argument with a French Royalist officer at a fancy dress ball. Cochrane came dressed as a common sailor and the Royalist mistook him for one. This argument led to Cochrane's only duel. Cochrane wounded the French officer with a pistol shot but was himself unharmed. One of his most notable exploits was the capture of the Spanish xebec frigate El Gamo on 6 May 1801. El Gamo carried 32 guns and 319 men compared with Speedy's 14 guns and 54 men. Cochrane flew an American flag to approach so closely to El Gamo that its guns could not depress to fire on the Speedy's hull. This left the Spanish with no option but to board. However whenever the Spanish were about to board Cochrane would pull away briefly and fire on the concentrated boarding parties with his ship's guns. Eventually Cochrane boarded the Gamo despite still being outnumbered about five to one and captured her. In Speedy's 13-month cruise Cochrane captured burned or drove ashore 53 ships before three French ships of the line under Admiral Charles-Alexandre Linois captured him on 3 July 1801. During his time as a prisoner Linois often asked him for advice and Cochrane later referred to how polite he was in his autobiography. A few days later he was exchanged for the second captain of another French ship. Then on 8 August 1801 he received a promotion to the rank of post-captain. After the Peace of Amiens Cochrane attended the University of Edinburgh. Upon the resumption of war in 1803 St Vincent assigned him in October 1803 to command of a Sixth Rate ship which was the 22-gun HMS Arab. Cochrane alleged that the ship had poor handling colliding with Royal Navy ships on two occasions the Bloodhound and the Abundance and afforded Cochrane no opportunities. In his autobiography he would compare the Arab to a collier and his first thoughts on seeing Arab being repaired at Plymouth were that she would "sail like a haystack. Despite this he still managed to intercept and board an American merchant ship the Chatham and create an international incident leading to the consignment of HMS Arab and her commander to protect Britain's important whaling fleet beyond Orkney in the North Sea. In 1804 St Vincent stood aside for the incoming new government led by William Pitt the Younger and Henry Dundas 1st Viscount Melville took office. In December of that year Cochrane received an appointment to command of the new 32-gun frigate HMS Pallas in which he undertook a series of notable exploits over the following eighteen months. In August 1806 he took command of the 38-gun frigate HMS Imperieuse formerly the Spanish frigate Medea. One of his midshipmen was Frederick Marryat who later wrote fictionalized accounts of his adventures with Cochrane. In Imperieuse Cochrane raided the Mediterranean coast of France. In 1808 Cochrane and a Spanish guerrilla force captured the fortress of Mongat which sat astride the road between Gerona and Barcelona. This delayed General Duhesme's French army for a month. On another raid Cochrane copied code books from a signal station leaving behind the originals so the French would believe them uncompromised. When Imperieuse ran short of water she sailed up the estuary of the Rhone to replenish. When a French army marched into Catalonia and besieged Rosas Cochrane took part in the defence of the town by occupying and defending Fort Trinidad 'Castell de la Trinitat' for a number of weeks before the fall of the city forced him to leave; Cochrane was one of the last two men to quit the fort. While captain of Speedy Pallas and Imperieuse Cochrane became arguably the most effective practitioner of coastal warfare during the period. Not only did he attack shore installations such as the Martello tower at Son Bou on Minorca but captured enemy ships in harbor by leading his men in boats in "cutting out" operations. He was a meticulous planner of every operation which limited casualties among his men and maximized the chances of success. In 1809 he commanded the attack by a flotilla of fire ships on Rochefort as part of the Battle of the Basque Roads. The attack did considerable damage but Cochrane blamed Admiral Gambier the fleet commander for missing the opportunity to destroy the French fleet. In June 1806 Cochrane stood for the House of Commons on a ticket of parliamentary reform a movement which would later bring about the Reform Acts for the potwalloper borough of Honiton. This was exactly the kind of borough Cochrane wished to abolish; votes were mostly sold to the highest bidder. Cochrane offered nothing and lost the election. In October 1806 he again ran for Parliament in Honiton and won. Cochrane initially denied that he paid any bribes but Cochrane himself revealed in a Parliamentary debate ten years afterward that he had paid ten guineas �10 10s per voter through Mr. Townshend local headman and banker. In May 1807 Cochrane was elected by Westminster in a more democratic election. Cochrane campaigned for parliamentary reform allied with such Radicals as William Cobbett Sir Francis Burdett and Henry Hunt. His outspoken criticism of the conduct of the war and the corruption in the navy made him powerful enemies in the government. His criticism of Admiral Gambier's conduct at the Battle of the Basque Roads was so severe that Gambier demanded a court-martial to clear his name. This made Cochrane important enemies in the Admiralty. Cochrane though popular with the public was unable to get along with his colleagues in the House of Commons let alone the government. Usually he had little success in promoting his causes though there were exceptions: in 1812 he successfully confronted the Admiralty's prize court. His conviction in the Great Stock Exchange Fraud of 1814 resulted in Parliament expelling him on 5 July 1814. However his constituents in the seat of Westminster re-elected him at the resulting by-election on 16 July. He held this seat until 1818. In 1818 Cochrane last speech in Parliament advocated parliamentary reform. Cochrane left the UK in official disgrace but that did not end his naval career. In May 1817 at the request of Chilean leader Bernardo O'Higgins he took command of the Chilean Navy in Chile's war of independence against Spain. He was the first Vice Admiral of Chile and Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Navy. Accompanied by Lady Cochrane and their two children he reached Valparaiso on 28 November 1818. Named a vice admiral Cochrane reorganized the Chilean navy introducing British naval customs. He took command in the frigate O'Higgins and blockaded and raided the coasts of Peru as he had those of France and Spain. On his own initiative he organized and led the capture of Valdivia despite only having 300 men and two ships to deploy against seven large forts. However he failed in his attempt to capture the Chilo� Archipelago for Chile. In 1820 O'Higgins ordered him to convoy the Liberation Army of General Jose de San Martin to Peru blockade the coast and support the campaign for independence. Later forces under Cochrane's personal command cut out and captured the frigate Esmeralda the most powerful Spanish ship in South America. All this led to Peruvian independence which O'Higgins considered indispensable to Chile's independence and security. Cochrane's victories in the Pacific were spectacular and important but the euphoria was almost immediately marred by accusations that he had been plotted against by subordinates and treated with contempt and denied adequate financial reward by his superiors. It is clear from the evidence that none of these accusations is true and that the root of the problem lay in Cochrane's own suspicious and uneasy personality. Cochrane is alleged to have made plans to free Napoleon from his exile on Saint Helena and make him ruler of a unified South American state.citation needed Before he could carry out his plan Napoleon died in 1821. Cochrane left the service of the Chilean Navy on 29 November 1822. Brazil was fighting its own war of independence against Portugal. Excepting Montevideo in today Uruguay then Cisplatina along the 1822 the southern provinces fell under the control of the patriots led by the Prince Regent later Emperor Pedro I but Portugal still controlled some north important capitals with major garrisons and naval bases like Bel�m do Par� Salvador da Bahia and S�o Lu�s do Maranh�o. Cochrane took command of the Brazilian Navy on 21 March 1823 and its flagship the 'Pedro I'. He blockaded the Portuguese in Bahia confronted them at the Battle of May 4 and forced them to evacuate the province in a vast convoy of ships which Cochrane's men attacked as they crossed the Atlantic. Cochrane then sailed to Maranh�o then called Maranham on his own initiative and bluffed the garrison into surrender by claiming that a vast and mythical Brazilian fleet and army were over the horizon. He then sent a subordinate Captain John Pascoe Grenfell to Belem do Par� to use the same bluff and extract a Portuguese surrender. As a result of Cochrane's efforts Brazil was now totally de facto independent and free from any Portuguese troops. On his return to Rio de Janeiro the Emperor Pedro I of Brazil rewarded him by making him the Marqu�s do Maranh�o Marquis of Maranh�o. Unfortunately as in Chile Cochrane's joy at these successes was rapidly replaced by quarrels over pay and prize money and a totally imaginary accusation that the Brazilian authorities were plotting against him. In mid- 1824 Cochrane sailed north with a squadron to assist the Brazilian army under General Francisco Lima e Silva suppress a republican rebellion in the state of Pernambuco which had begun to spread to Maranh�o and other northern states. The rebellion was rapidly extinguished. Cochrane then proceeded to Maranh�o where he took over the administration and demanded the payment of a vast sum of prize money which he claimed was owing to himself and the squadron as a result of the recapture of the province in 1823. He took all money from the public funds and sacked all merchant ships anchored in S�o Lu�s do Maranh�o. Then defying orders to return to Rio de Janeiro Cochrane transferred to a captured Brazilian frigate left Brazil on 10 November 1825 and returned to Britain. Cochrane then went to Europe where between March 1827 and December 1828 he took an active role in the campaign to secure Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire which had deployed an army raised in Egypt to suppress the Greek rebellion. Cochrane's efforts generally met with limited success due to the poor discipline of the Greek soldiers and seamen. Still one of his subordinates Captain Hastings attacked Ottoman forces at the Gulf of Lepanto which indirectly led to intervention by Great Britain France and Russia the destruction of the Turko-Egyptian fleet at the Battle of Navarino and the end of the war under mediation of the Great Powers. Greece was probably the only campaign in Cochrane's naval career in which the results of his efforts were disappointingly slight. At the end of the war he resigned and returned to England. For the first time since he was convicted for the 1814 Stock Exchange Scandal his lively nature was brought to a standstill. Despite reports to the contrary there is little evidence to suggest that he experienced a nervous breakdown. Cochrane inherited his peerage following his father's death on 1 July 1831 becoming the 10th Earl of Dundonald. He was restored to the Royal Navy list on 2 May 1832 as a Rear Admiral of the Blue but Cochrane's return to Royal Navy service was delayed by his refusal to take a command until his knighthood had been restored. Nevertheless he was further promoted up the list of flag officers as follows: Rear Admiral of the Blue on 2 May 1832; Rear Admiral of the White on 10 January 1837; Rear Admiral of the Red on 28 June 1838; Vice Admiral of the Blue on 23 November 1841; Vice Admiral of the White on 9 November 1846; Vice Admiral of the Red on 3 January 1848; Admiral of the Blue on 21 March 1851; Admiral of the White on 2 April 1853 and Admiral of the Red on 8 December 1857. On 22 May 1847 Queen Victoria reinstated him as a knight in the Order of the Bath. He then served as Commander-in-Chief of the North America and West Indies Station from 1848 to 1851. During the Crimean War the government considered him for a command in the Baltic but decided that there was too high a chance that he would lose his fleet in a risky attack. On 6 November 1854 he was appointed to the honorary office of Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom an office that he would retain until his death. . Very Good. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Manuscript. unknown‎

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‎Three centuries of thumb bibles: a checklist‎

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