‎Voyages‎

‎WOLFF, Joseph‎

‎Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara in the Years 1843-1845, to Ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly‎

‎8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xxvii, 515 pp, mounted lithographed frontis of author, half title page is present, index. original blind-stamped cloth and spine with gilt spine title lettering have been professionaly rebacked with new endpapers resulting in a solid and sound copy, inscribed on title, corners a little worn, very good, clean. A picture of this book is availabl Yakushi W108. Wolff was sent to Bokhara to determine the fate of the two British officers, who were executed, Wolff barely escaping the same fate. A fascinating narrative of this dangerous journey, with excellent observations. Blackmer 1833: 'An amazing series of adventures in which he barely escaped with his life.'‎

‎Wolff, Joseph.‎

‎Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the Years 1843-1856. To Ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly. Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood & Sons, 1848.‎

‎8vo. XXV, (1), 429, (1) pp. Publisher's original cloth. Fifth edition. The German-born oriental scholar and traveller Wolff (1795-1862), who knew both Arabia and Muslim Asia, brought the first authentic account of the fate of the two officers Stoddart and Conolly to England (having been commissioned to do so by a committee headed by Captain John Grover): they had been beheaded at the command of the Emir of Bukhara (Usbekistan), Nasrullah Khan, in 1842. Their executioner had been instructed to dispose of Wolff in the same way, but he escaped after a series of remarkable adventures. "A Jew who converted to Christianity, he spent much of his life attempting to persuade other Jews to follow the same course. His travels were often beset by extraordinary difficulties, but his enthusiasm and vitality enabled him even to endure, after rescue from slavery in Khorassan, a walk of six hundred miles through Bokhara to Kabul, having been robbed of everything including his clothing" (Blackmer). Between 1845 and 1852 his account of his mission went through seven editions. - Inscribed by the author in English and Arabic to the Victorian historical writer Agnes Strickland (1796-1874): "To Miss Agnes Strickland / from her admiring / friend Joseph Wolff" (dated May 14, 1849). Wilson 246. OCLC 1823836. Cf. Blackmer 1833 (1845, first American ed.).‎

‎Wolfson, William‎

‎Going Places‎

‎Red cloth covers show light spots. Some light stains on interior pages; no marking. 9 3/8"w x 7 3/4"h. Beautiful color illustrations and descriptions of children (all boys) from all over the world, showing how they live, what they wear, what they eat, etc.‎

‎WOLLHEIM, A.E‎

‎Die Fahrt der "Vega" um Asien und Europa;. nach Nordenskiöld's schwedischem Werke frei bearbeitet u. mit Anmerkungen begleitet.‎

‎Berlin, O. Janke, 1883. 12, 514 S. mit 66 Holzschnitten im Text u. auf Tafeln, 2 Porträt-Tafeln, 2 mehrfach gefaltete Karten (1 davon zweifarbig), 1 Bl. Brauner OLwdbd m. Goldprägung (etwas berieben u. gering bestoßen, Vorsätze stärker gebräunt, Gelenke etwas gelockert, innen etwas gebräunt u. leicht braunfleckig).‎

‎Wollheims freie Bearbeitung über die Vega-Expedition, bei der die Nordostpassage entdeckt wurde. Der Text wurde vor allem bei den meisten naturwissenschaftlichen Forschungen gekürzt, die zum Teil nur in ihren Resultaten wiedergegeben werden, während die Teile betreffend Geschichte, Geographie und die Abenteuer früherer Polarfahrer ausführlicher und die Fahrt der "Vega" selbst fast vollständig nacherzählt werden.‎

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‎Wolstenholme, Gordon; O'Connor, Maeve (ed.)‎

‎Man and Africa‎

‎Hardcover. Very good condition. With 24 illustrations. In unclipped dust jacket, with marking to front, slight foxing inside, and edgewear and a few nicks to upper edges. Printed boards, and foxing to page block head. Pages are clean and sound, text is clear. RB Used‎

‎Women's Social History Travel Laura L. Earl‎

‎Friendship album lasting 64 years and tracing a woman's life from Kentucky to Colorado‎

‎Kentucky Wisconsin Illinois Kansas Minnesota Ohio Wyoming Michigan South Dakota Colorado 1924. Red leather sheep over card ornately stamped in gilt. Album measures 8 x 9.75 inches and is comprised of 108 manuscript pages in a variety of hands with multiple entries per page. Also includes two pasted-in newspaper clippings and a series of loosely inserted ephemera two obituary clippings for the book's owner five calling cards a church bulletin a gown ad an envelope with a death notice of a friend and a car rental flyer from Oklahoma. Tracing the life of Laura Nethers nee Earl from her girlhood and marriage to her old age. Obituaries and census records show that Laura was a resident of Colorado Springs for 56 years following her family's move from the South through the Western US.<br/><br/>The inscription to the first page of the album reveals it to be a gift: "1860. A Christmas gift from father. Covington KY." Above this is the ownership stamp of Laura L. Earl. Little did Laura know the album would follow her across 64 years and to a variety of states documenting her relationships and major moments in her life. For researchers it is an opportunity to trace a woman's development from one century to the next across multiple states in the South and West as she grew into a teacher wife and woman's club activist. Growing up in Kentucky Laura's family moved West. Entries show that she and her father lived awhile in Minnesota and she became a teacher in Wisconsin before marrying and settling in Colorado Springs. Entries come from family pastors students neighbors and friends. Many entries show women's bonds across large stretches of space and together they show what a mobile lifestyle women were increasingly living. No longer confined so a small radius or single homestead they were maintaining relationships and making friends across the miles. <br/><br/>Some early entries like that of Celia E. Hay Illinois 1878 are traditional in nature: "Over our hearts and into our lives shadows may sometimes fall But the sunshine is never wholly dead And heaven is shadowless overhead And God is over all." Students politely thank her for her work and hope they made an impact too: "I ever remain your true friend James U. Cobb. To Miss Laura Earl much Respected Teacher Ellensboro Wisconsin Feb 25 1872." People write poetic verses on friendship or her new marriage throughout.<br/><br/>Yet more often entries are personal. In 1879 Laura's father leaves her a humorous message that "It is ten o'clock and your sixty-one year old father expects a long trip to the Injun Reservation two hundred miles north in the morning.So you see I cannot write any tonight." Elva Walker writes from Colorado in 1885 "We will ever remember our camping trip.and going in a cave" and John Dietrich writes of the same trip "Did it rain while we were camping! I hope we will meet again soon." In August 1919 a friend Emma Eggleston writes an original piece about their recent travel titled Pike's Peak by Auto which begins "19 and 19 was a year to remember from the last of July to the last of September" and which documents in 36 verses the landscapes they passed and the friendship they strengthened while driving. Moments like these are a reminder of changing times -- of early attitudes toward indigenous tribes or of women's freedom as suffrage approached. <br/><br/>A charter member of the Colorado Women's Club and a participant in Frances Willard's Women's Christian Temperance Union according to her obituary Laura's friendship album is a rich space for researchers to trace her movements through communities in the West for genealogists to study the families and lives of contributors and for historians to track which entries come from other educated women and activists. The present is one of the best we've seen. unknown books‎

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‎WOODS STUART‎

‎GUIDE-DICTIONNAIRE ILLUSTRE DES RELAIS ROMANTIQUES, ANGLETERRE, ECOSSE, IRLANDE‎

‎Harrap - Albin Michel. 1980. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. légèrement pliée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 300 pages. Dessin en noir et blanc en frontispice. Illustré de nombreux dessins en noir et blanc dans le texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 910.4-Voyages‎

‎Trad. de l'anglais par Roger Loriot. Classification Dewey : 910.4-Voyages‎

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‎Woodes ROGERS‎

‎Voyage autour du Monde, commencé en 1708 & fini en 1711 par le Capitaine Woodes Rogers‎

‎Chez la Veuve de Paul Marret | à Amsterdam 1716 | 9.50 x 16.50 cm | 2 volumes reliés‎

‎Edition originale de la traduction française de ce texte paru en anglais en 1712 sous le titreA cruising voyage round the world. Elle est illustrée de 2 frontispices, de 14 planches gravées et 7 cartes dont 2 très grandes (Paraguay et Chili - terre ferme du Pérou et du Brésil et du Pays des Amazones) et une mappemonde. Reliures de l'époque en plein veau jaspé brun, dos à cinq nerfs richement ornés, roulettes dorées sur les coupes, toutes tranches jaspées rouges.Quelques habiles restaurations à la reliure (coins, têtes et queues des mors). Deux déchirures sans manque restaurées à la mappemonde. Ex-libris à la plume "Sr Remy" en marge haute gauche de la page de titre du premier volume. Le livre qui fit connaître au monde Alexander Selkirk, modèle du célébrissime Robinson Crusoé de Daniel De Foe. C'est à la demande du boucanier William Dampier et dans le contexte de la guerre de succession d'Espagne que le corsaire anglais Woodes Rogers entreprit son «Voyage autour du Monde» entre 1708 et 1711. L'ouvrage, rédigé au retour de cette grande aventure, relate les nombreuses difficultés rencontrées par la flottille: désertions et mutineries des équipages, épidémie de scorbut... Il contient surtout la description du sauvetage d'Alexander Selkirk, un marin écossais abandonné sur l'île de Más a Tierra dans l'archipel Juan Fernández à plus de six cents kilomètres des côtes chiliennes. Après plusieurs campagnes décevantes à l'encontre des navires et des villes de l'empire espagnol en Amérique, son vaisseau fit escale sur cette île afin de ravitailler le navire en bois et en eau avant de regagner l'Angleterre. Selkirk fit remarquer que le vaisseau, qui avait subi de nombreux dommages, avait besoin d'un carénage au risque de sombrer. Le capitaine refusa et laissa l'Ecossais, qui ne voulait poursuivre la route, sur l'île déserte. Lorsque Selkirk prit conscience de l'absurdité et de l'extrémité de sa décision, il était trop tard et le bateau avait déjà levé l'ancre. Ironie du sort, le navire sombrera bien noyant la moitié de l'équipage. Quatre ans et quatre mois plus tard, le 2 février 1709, Rogers et son équipage abordent sur l'île et rencontrent cet «homme vêtu de peaux de chèvres, qui paraissait plus sauvage que ces animaux-là». Une gravure, bien présente dans notre exemplaire, illustre cette rencontre fortuite: «Quoi qu'il en soit, abandonné sur cette île, avec ses habits, son lit, un fusil, une livre de poudre, des balles, du tabac, une hache, un couteau, un chaudron, une Bible, quelques livres de piété, ses instruments et ses livres de marine, il s'amusa et pourvut à ses besoins le mieux qu'il lui fut possible. Mais, durant les premiers huit mois, il eut beaucoup de peine à vaincre sa mélancolie et à surmonter l'horreur que lui causait une si affreuse solitude. Il fit deux cabanes [...] avec du bois de piment; il les couvrit d'une espèce de jonc et les doubla de peaux de chèvres, qu'il tuait à mesure qu'il en avait besoin, pendant que sa poudre dura.[...] Il avait si bien oublié de parler, qu'il ne prononçait les mots qu'à demi, et que nous eûmes assez de peine à l'entendre. » Le Capitaine William Dampier, présent lors de l'abandon de Selkirk, encouragea Rogers à l'engager comme contremaitre et l'infortuné écossais rentra en Angleterre avec eux. La relation de Rogers rencontra un vif succès auprès du public, essentiellement parce qu'elle contenait le récit du sauvetage de Selkirk. Daniel De Foe, un proche ami de Rogers, s'empara de cette incroyable histoire, rallongeant le supplice du protagoniste de son histoire qu'il laisse vingt-huit ans sur une île déserte. Le roman, qui parut en 1719, fut un immense succès de librairie et demeure aujourd'hui encore l'une des grandes uvres de la littérature mondiale. - Photographies et détails sur www.Edition-Originale.com -‎

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‎WOOD, Christina; illustrations by Nancy Lou Gahan‎

‎Safari South America‎

‎8vo; 224 pp, illustrations from drawings. original cloth, spine lightly faded, dj, fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author, when hearing of the animal rescue mission in Surinam, South America, not only joined and wrote about animal life there but started her own effort to save threatened wildlife. Much of the book is on the rare Saki monkeys of Guyana.‎

‎Wood, Frances‎

‎THE SILK ROAD Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia‎

‎Lower corners slightly creased. ; 10.0 X 7.2 X 0.9 inches; 270 pages‎

‎WOOD, Hugh B.‎

‎Nepal Bibliography‎

‎8vo [24.5 x 18.5 cm]; [ii], 108 pp. paper covered boards (hardcover), cloth spine, title lettering on cover, small light cover erasure and light stain, few pencil marks in text, else very good. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A useful reference covering books and magazines. There are frequent brief comments by the author for many of the references. This copy has a typed review of book by Werner Levi, University of Minnesota, inserted loose. The original work was issued in wraps, but this copy has been bound in cloth backed cover with wraps mounted on boards.‎

‎Wood, Miriam; Simmons, David A‎

‎Covered Bridges: Ohio West Virginia Kentucky‎

‎Wooster Book Co 2007. Hardcover. Collectible: Very Good/Very Good. 11x1x11. Signed. Flat signed by both authors & the photographer on title page.Gently read hardback with jacket. Only slight wear. No owners' names/labels. Text is clean unmarked. Shelf: E3 Books are carefully sealed in waterproof poly and boxed to prevent damage during transit. Wooster Book Co hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 085933 ISBN : 1590980352 9781590980354

‎Wood, Stanley‎

‎Over the Range to the Golden Gate: a Complete Tourist's Guide to Colorado New Mexico Utah Nevada California Oregon Puget Sound and the Great North-West With Map‎

‎Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons. Very Good. 1897. Hardcover. The only indication of being library is the residue of pockets inside the back cover. Can't see any other reason for that remnant. The map is in it's pocket inside the front cover in "very fine" condition. Tempting to grade the book near-fine. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 283 pages . R. R. Donnelley & Sons hardcover‎

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‎WOODARD, DAVID.‎

‎Geschichte seiner Schicksale und seines Aufebthalts auf der Insel Celebes nebst Nachrichten von denselben und ihren Einwohnern. Aus dem Englischen. Mit einer Einleitung und einigen Anmerkungen herausgegeben von T.F. Ehrmann. Mit einer Charte.‎

‎Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1805. Unbound, but stitched. (4),XXVIII,159 pp. and 1 folded engraved map of Celebes.‎

‎WOODCOCK, George‎

‎Into Tibet; The Early British Explorers‎

‎8vo [20.5 x 13.5 cm]; 277 pp, frontis map, other double-page map, plates, portrait, bibliographical notes, index. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj (price clipped), clean, unmarked, near fine condition. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. An interesting work on the exploration of Tibet with emphasis on the first British explorers, George Bogle, Samuel Turner, Thomas Manning.‎

‎Woodcock, Percy‎

‎Kidnapped in Cornwall‎

‎Prize plate inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight sunning to top board edges and to slightly rubbed spine ends and no bumping to corners. 197pp. The adventures of two boys, given a yacht by their father who are involved in the search for a neigbour's son who mysteriously disappeared.‎

‎Woodcock, Roy . [et al.]‎

‎AA Tour Guide Britain & Ireland‎

‎144 pages, illustrated, maps, index. eng‎

‎Woodland, W. Lloyd‎

‎The Story of Winchester‎

‎Hardcover without jacket; Medieval Towns series. Spine is slightly tanned; small label on front pastedown; light wear to a handful of upper page corners - otherwise a very well-preserved volume with clean, sound pages and clear text, illustrations, maps and fold-out plan. First edition of 1932. TS Used‎

‎WOODS STUART‎

‎GUIDE-DICTIONNAIRE ILLUSTRE DES RELAIS ROMANTIQUES, ANGLETERRE, ECOSSE, IRLANDE‎

‎Harrap - Albin Michel. 1980. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. légèrement pliée. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 300 pages. Dessin en noir et blanc en frontispice. Illustré de nombreux dessins en noir et blanc dans le texte. Trad. de l'anglais par Roger Loriot.‎

‎Woods, Leonard, DD D D‎

‎A Sermon Preached at Haverhill Mass. in Remembrance of Mrs. Harriet Newell Wife of the Rev. Samuel Newell Missionary to India who Died at the Isle of France Nov. 30 1812 Aged 19 Years to Which are Added Memoirs of her Life 9th Edition‎

‎Published for Abel Brown 1830. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Original full dye-mottled leather rebacked in brown cloth with gilt lettering new endsheets. 238 pp. On front blank preceding main title is a pencil sketch of a home or possibly a church undated but likely near to date of issue. Interior shows foxing mostly light moderate in a few instances. A very presentable and durable copy. Published for Abel Brown Hardcover‎

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‎Woodward, Hiram‎

‎The Art and Architecture of Thailand from Prehistoric Times Through the Thirteenth Century. Handbook of Oriental Studies HDO volume 14‎

‎Leiden: Brill 2003. First edition. HardcoverHardcover w/pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo standard sized. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. issued. xix 277 p. w.mapsb &w illus. footntoes bibliography index. <br/><br/> Brill hardcover‎

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‎Woodward, Christopher‎

‎IN RUINS A Journey through History, Art, and Literature‎

‎In this enchanting meditation on ruins, Christopher Woodward takes us on a thousand-year journey from the plains of Troy to the monuments of ancient Rome, from the crumbling palaces of Sicily, Cuba, and Zanzibar to the rubble of the London Blitz. With an exquisite sense of romantic melancholy, we encounter the teenage Byron in the moldering Newstead Abbey, Flaubert watching the buzzards on the pyramids, Henry James in the Colosseum, and Freud at Pompeii. We travel the Appian Way with Dickens and behold the Baths of Caracalla with Shelley. An exhilarating tour, at once elegant and stimulating, In Ruins casts an exalting spell as it explores the bewitching power of architectural remains and their persistent hold on the imagination. ; 8.2 X 5.2 X 0.4 inches; 288 pages‎

‎World Travel Map‎

‎China & Mongolia - Scale 1: 6.000.000‎

‎Bartholomew‎

‎Très Bon État‎

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‎WORDSWORTH Christopher.‎

‎LA GRECE PITTORESQUE pittoresque et historique ancienne et moderne par Dr C. Wordsworth traduction de M. Elias Regnault illustrée de 366 gravures sur bois par les premiers artistes de Paris et de Londres. Edité à Paris chez Curmer. 1841.‎

‎Un volume in 4. 1/2 toile grise époque. dos lisse , reliure Lavallière. pièce de titre maroquin rouge. titre doré. un fleuron doré sur le dos. plats papier marron ciré. Ex libris de Joseph Eugène Brizon. couverture conservée. non rogné. faux titre illustré. titre avec vignette de titre. complet de toutes les vignettes in texte ( table in fine ) . 372 pages. incomplet de la plupart des hors texte ( 2 gravures sur 28 ) rousseurs nombreuses. reliure frottée.‎

‎SOLDES D'ETE : 30% de remise immédiate sur le prix marqué.‎

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‎WORTLEY MONTAGNUE. -‎

‎Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montague, written during her travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa; to which are added Poems by the same author.‎

‎Paris, Fortin, Masson, n.d., ca. 1850, sm. in-8vo, 320 p., early 20th c. halfleather binding.‎

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