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Baring, Maurice
Round the World in Any Number of Days
No dust jacket. Hardcover. Very scuffed and worn boards with several small surface marks. Spine is rather scratched and is faded, worn and bumped at ends. Spine is slightly cocked. Leading corners are worn and bent. Page block is faded and a little grubby. Unsigned note is penned on FEP, with a note in pencil, dated 1920, immediately above. Marginalia in blue pencil on pages 65 and 148. Label residue on FEP. Small red mark on FEP. Endpapers are rather foxed. Binding is sound. Contents are clear. AF Used
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Baring-Gould, Sabine
Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas
London: Smith Elder and Co 1863. Hardcover. Very Good -. Baring-Gould Sabine. xlviii 447 p.: color frontispiece 15 additional leaves of plates some color and 1 folded map of Iceland with the author's route indicated in red; 26 cm. Half contemporary morocco with six spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled spine title. Marbled paper over boards and marbled endpapers. Many in-text maps music and drawings. Appendices: A. "Notes on the Ornithology of Iceland" by A. Newton -- B. "Advice to Sportsmen" by J.W.R. -- C. "A List of Icelandic Plants" -- D. "A List of Icelandic Published Sagas" -- E. "Expenses of My Tour in Iceland." A scarce account of a mid-19th-century visit to Iceland. In Very Good- Condition: edges lightly rubbed; old repair to last leaf of text without loss of text; dampstain in margin of seven plates not touching images; occasional soiling in margins; old stains to a few pages; otherwise pages and plates are clean and tight. Smith, Elder and Co hardcover
Référence libraire : 002036
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Baring-Gould, S
In Troubadour-Land: a Ramble in Provence and Languedoc
NY: James Pott & Co. Good. 1891. First US Edition. Hardcover. The spine is darkened and the book is rubbed at the corners and spine ends. Rear inner hinge is starting to crack. Covers are soiled. Still an attractive book bound in red cloth with gilt decorations. Contents are very good with foxing only to the end papers. A good reading copy of the scarce first United States edition. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 339 pages . James Pott & Co. hardcover
Référence libraire : 16411
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BARING-GOULD, S.
Perpetua. A story of Nimes in A.D. 213.
London, Isbister and Company, 1897, 19'5 x 13'5 cm., tela original, 316 págs.
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Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
A Book of Cornwall
255 p. Hardcover Good condition First published 1899
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Baring-Gould, S.; Hicks, H. Ronald
Devonshire (The Little Guides)
Hardcover. Tenth edition, reprinted with corrections. Jacket is a little edgeworn, with a few marks, and slightly sunned spine; corners and spine ends are nicked. A few minor marks on page block. Previous owner's details penned on FEP. Fold-out map at rear, with two-inch tear at left side. Content is clear throughout. TS Used
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BARKER Ralph
The Last Blue Mountain
London: Chatto & Windus 1959 unclipped DW slight wear with some short edge tears chipping loss to head of DW spine faint foxing to closed edges 212pp plates a fateful expedition and rescue attempt. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Chatto & Windus hardcover
Référence libraire : 010620
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BARKER Ralph
The Last Blue Mountain
London: Chatto & Windus 1959 unclipped DW slight wear or chipping to corners and spine ends small tear and chipping top edge of rear panel small pen name to fep 212pp plates a fateful expedition and rescue attempt in the Himalaya. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Chatto & Windus hardcover
Référence libraire : 009386
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Barker, Edward Harrison
Two Summers in Guyenne. A Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside
London: Richard Bentley & Son. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Ex-lib. label on upper board. Cover rubbed. 1894. First Edition. Brown/gilt hardback cloth cover with beveleld edges. 230mm x 140mm 9" x 6". xii 411pp. Fold-out b/w map. . Richard Bentley & Son hardcover
Référence libraire : e3764
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Barker, George M
A Tea Planter's Life in Assam
Calcutta Bombay & London: Thacker Spink & Co. 1884. Illustrated with line drawings in the text small octavo pp viii 247 i publisher's catalogue 36 pages an early signature on the front endpaper R.B. Crothers becoming COMPLETELY loose and detached internally original brown beveled cloth with gilt decoration very blotched and marked the spine fraying at head and tail. The page signatures appear not to have been sewn - possibly gutta-percha and small staples Whatever the precise method it has now disintegrated ! RARE . First Edition. Cloth. Poor. Thacker, Spink & Co. Hardcover
Référence libraire : 021972
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Barker, W. H. & Brooks, Leonard
The Regions of the World
98 illustrations, previous owner's name on the FEP, page 16 has small blue ink spot, slightly worn cover and edges Used
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BARLEY, Nigel
EL ANTROPÓLOGO INOCENTE - Barcelona 1989 - 1ª edición en españól
Barcelona, Edit. Anagrama, 1989. Col. Crónicas. Prólogo Alberto Cardín. 234p. 8º mayor. Rústica editorial ilustrada. Muy buen ejemplar. 1ª edición. 1st edition.
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BARLOW Roger
A Brief Summe of Geographie. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by E.G.R. Taylor. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL SERIES BINDING
Hakluyt Society 1931. 8vo. First Edition with illustrations and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt gilt back uncut a near fine copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. A transcript of the MS dedicated to Henry VIII with a pedigree of Barlow. Hakluyt Society Second Series No. 69. Bridges & Hair p.278. Hakluyt Society, hardcover
Référence libraire : 33991
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BARLOW Roger
A Brief Summe of Geographie. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by E.G.R. Taylor. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL SERIES BINDING
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. A transcript of the MS dedicated to Henry VIII, with a pedigree of Barlow. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 69. Bridges & Hair, p.278.
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BARLOW, Nora. (Ed.).
CHARLES DARWIN AND THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE.
22x14. 279p. Maps. Ilstr. Fotogr. Enc. Tela ed.
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BARNARD, E. C., J. J. McArthur, O. H. Tittmann, W. F. King
Joint Report Upon the Survey and Demarcation of the International Boundary Between the United States and Canada along the 141st Meridian from the Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias
4to [31 x 23.5 cm]; 305 pp, 2 folding maps, 6 folding panoramas from photos, charts and sketches, numerous illus, index, tables. original green cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine and gilt map on front cover, light foxing on two leaves but a clean solid near fine copy, there was an atlas of maps sometimes found, not included here. A picture of this book is available Ricks p. 128. Wickersham 9375. A very well-illustrated survey of the border between Alaska and Canada.
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Barnes, Geraldine
Viking America: The First Millennium
D S Brewer Cambridge 2001. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good Hardcover slight scuffing to edge of front board else would be as new. Clean and unmarked. Hardback in red cloth with paper label on front board and gilt titles on spine. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. D S Brewer, Cambridge hardcover
Référence libraire : 61285 ISBN : 0859916081 9780859916080
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Barnes, Ian
Pocket Guide to Jersey 1994
128 pages, illustrated, maps. eng
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Barnes, Major R Money:
The Uniforms & History of the Scottish Regiments. Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, S.Africa. 1625 to the present day
Good+ (no dj, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, slightly dulled. ffeps has a prior owner's gift details. internally, a good sound tight copy with no marks or inscriptions.
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Barnes, Paul Brooke (editor)
50 Years of Cultural Travel
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 216pp. An account of the Association for Cultural Exchange to celebrate fifty years of world-wide cultural travel and cultural exchange.
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Barnes, Sara "Samm"; Foreman, Travel
Doctor Spectrum: Full Spectrum TPB
Marvel Comics 2005-08-03. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Marvel Comics paperback
Référence libraire : Q-0785115862 ISBN : 0785115862 9780785115861
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Barnett Barney D Laschever, SIGNED & Inscribed BY The Author ,Travel Editor NY Herald Tribune, Color Illustrated DRAWINGS by
Getting to Know Hawaii in Color DUSTJACKET of Little girl riding on Shoulders of Boy on SURFBOARD IN Ocean SIGNED by Author Barnett Barney D. Laschever Historical figures -- Mark Twain Explorer Captain Cook Queen Liliuokalani
<p> HBDJ 1959 1st edition. Lite wear VG/VG. Published while it was in the process of becoming a state HAWAII is a 64 INDEXED page book about the history and items of interest on these Pacific Islands. FRONT TOP CORNER OF DJ HAS LITE PENCIL # Beautiful Blue & White Illustrated Endpapers Introduction by Governor of Hawaii William F. Quinn Sanford Dole Hawaii's first president and governor --greet us as we get to know the background of fellow Americans of Oriental European and Caribbean stock who live on this eight-island chain. Only 1 of our 50 States Surrounded by Water. Newest State in Union. We admie Hawaiians whose Bravery in World War II made them among Most Decorated in U. S. History They R Equally Noted for Merrymaking WHETHER SKIING UNDER THE DOUBLE RAINBOWS That stretch frim Volcano to volcano R riding the Surf in Outrigger Canoes. <br /></p><br /> Coward, Mccann, New York, hardcover
Référence libraire : 28470
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Barnett, A Doak
China's Far West: Four Decades of Change
Boulder CO San Francisco & Oxford: Westview Press 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full red cloth gilt titles on spine maps on burnt orange endpapers xv 688 pp 26 ff b & w photos not in pagination footnotes index. Some marginal notes and underlining nearly all in pencil else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Barnett was in China during the war between the Communists and the Nationalist government in the late 1940s. In 1988 when much of China was re-opened to foreign visitors he revisited areas he had seen decades earlier and reported on the changes he saw in this book. Shipping weight 4 lbs. First Edition. . VG/Fine. 24 X 16 cm. Westview Press Hardcover
Référence libraire : TRCH00007 ISBN : 0813317738 9780813317731
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BARON A.
LES MERVEILLES DE L'ANCIEN MONDE / LES MAGNIFICENCES DU NOUVEAU MONDE
Eugène Ardant & C. Thibaut, Limoges. Non daté. In-4 Carré. Relié. Etat d'usage. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos à nerfs. Quelques rousseurs. 134 + 106 pages (2 ouvrages en 1 volume). Gravures en noir et blanc en frontispices. Titre et caissons dorés sur le dos. Tranche dorée (passée). Fichette de prix (Ecole de Sarlat, 1873) au dos du 1er plat. (Rare) 2e édition. Descriptions scientifiques, historiques et pittoresques de l'Asie, de l'Afrique et de l'Amérique. 2e partie: Les magnificences du Nouveau Monden, Les deux Amériques.
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Baron Alexandre de Théis - Alexandre Etienne Guillaume de Théis ( Nantes, 12 décembre 1765, Paris, 24 décembre 1842, Ecrivain très éclectiques puisqu'ils ont pour sujets aussi bien le roman d'amour ou archéologique, que la politique, la botanique ou
Voyage de Polyclète ou Lettres romanes, par le Baron Alexandre de Théis
Paris, Maradan, 1822 - complet en 2 volumes In-8 - Reliures de l'époque frottées veau marron - Dos ornés, Titre, tomaison dorés - Coins émoussés - Intérieur frais - XL, 454, 484 pages.- N° de réf. du vendeur 47837 Ce livre est destiné à faire connaître l'Italie antique et conçu sur le modèle du Voyage du jeune Anacharsis de l'abbé Barthélemy qui fit découvrir la Grèce à toute une génération.
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BARON AUGUSTE
AVENTURES INVESTIGATIONS ET RECHERCHES EN AFRIQUE DES PLUS INTREPIDES VOYAGEURS
Eugène Ardant et C. Thibaut, Limoges. Non daté. In-8 Carré. Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage. Plats abîmés. Dos frotté. Intérieur acceptable. 190 pages. Gravure en noir et blanc en frontispice (détachée). Etiquette de code sur le dos. Tampon et annotations de bibliothèque en page de titre. Plats très frottés avec manques en surface. Quelques feuillets détachés. Le Major Laing, Le Major Denham, Le Capitaine Clapperton, René Caillié, John et Richard Lander.
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BARON ETIENNE
GEOGRAPHIE GENERALE, CLASSES DE 2de
Magnard. Non daté. In-8 Carré. Relié. Etat d'usage. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos fané. Intérieur acceptable. 484 pages. Illustré de nombreux dessins et de nombreuses cartes et photo-gravures en noir et blanc, dans et hors texte. Page de faux-titre annotée et dachirée, avec manque sur le coin supérieur droit. 3e édition. Programme d'avril 1931. Géographie mathématique. Géographie physique. Géographie humaine...
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Barr, Nevada
A Superior Death - 1st Edition/1st Printing
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. As New in As New dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0399139168 . A very beautiful first edition/first printing in unread As New condition in alike dust-jacket SIGNED by author Nevada Barr on the title page; Nevada Barr's newest title in the National Park series with Park Ranger Anna Pigeon at a new post around Lake Superior. In typical fashion Ranger Pigeon stumbles upon the discovery of a gruesome murder at the bottom of Lake Superior. The secret lies in the link between the old man who drowned and a mysterious cargo ship ; 8vo; Signed by Author . G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
Référence libraire : 12844 ISBN : 0399139168 9780399139161
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Barr, Nevada
High Country - 1st Edition/1st Printing
New York: Putnam Publishing Group. As New in As New dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0399151443 . A very beautiful stated first edition/first printing in unread As New/As New condition SIGNED by author Nevada Barr on the title page; It's fall in Yosemite National Park's historic Ahwahnee Hotel. Four young people all seasonal park employees have disappeared. Needing an out-of-park ranger to work undercover Anna is detailed to dining-room duty; but after a week of waiting tables she knows the missing employees are only the first indications of a sickness threatening the park. What waits for her is a nightmare of death and greed-and perhaps her final adventure; 8vo; Signed by Author . Putnam Publishing Group hardcover
Référence libraire : 11075 ISBN : 0399151443 9780399151446
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Barr, Nevada
Liberty Falling - 1st Edition/1st Printing
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0399144595 . A nice stated first edition/first printing in unread Very Fine condition in alike dust-jacket SIGNED by author Nevada Barr on the title page; Nevada Barr's seventh title in the National Park series takes Park Ranger Anna Pigeon to New York City to care for her sister. While there she explores a very familiar landmark and becomes involved in a series of accidents all taking place at the Statue of liberty; 8vo; Signed by Author . G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
Référence libraire : 13203 ISBN : 0399144595 9780399144592
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Barratt, Glynn
Russia in Pacific Waters 1715-1825. A Survey of the Origins of Russia's Naval Presence in the North and South Pacific.
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 1981. xv 300pp index bibliography notes bw ills. Or brown cloth in jacket. Near new. The rise and fall of Russian naval influence in the North Pacific from the time of peter the Great to Tsar Nicholas I. Includes Bering Expeditions; Cook's final voyage and the Bilings and Mulovskii expeditions; the North Pacific fur trade; Krezenshtern-Lisianski voyages; Rezanov and Baranov; Golovnin and the Diana and more. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. University of British Columbia Press. Hardcover
Référence libraire : 039142 ISBN : 0774801174 9780774801171
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BARRAULT (Emile)
Barrière d'Italie, le 15 décembre 1832. A Paris! Adieu, Paris, Adieu!
In-8, broché, couverture papier fort (rel. moderne), 8 p. Edition originale. Au lendemain du retentissant procès fait aux saint-simoniens et de la dissolution du mouvement, Emile Barrault prend solennellement congé de Paris, fait le bilan de l'oeuvre passée et, sur un ton prophétique, annonce le début d'un nouvel apostolat pour libérer les prolétaires de leur asservissement et instaurer l'égalité de l'Homme et de la Femme. Le voyage devait le conduire avec les disciples dissidents à Lyon puis rapidement en Orient pour y accomplir la prophétie d'Enfantin sur la "Femme-Messie". (Fournel, II, p. 102, n°14 Walch-Gerits, n°14). Bon exemplaire.
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BARRES, Maurice
GRECO OU LE SECRET DE TOLEDE - Paris 1966 - Muy ilustrado
Paris, Flammarion, 1966. Numerosas ilustraciones en b/n. 141p. 8º mayor. Rústica editorial ilustrada. Muy buen ejemplar. Libro en francés. Book in french. Livre en français.
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Barrett, Frank
Family France
1st edition. VG pbk. ISBN 1852834315. 21186. eng
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Barrie J M:
Echoes of the War
VG/GOOD+ 2nd edition. Dj is crumpled to edges with small piece of loss at base, and is sunned to spine covering. not price-clipped. internally, ffeps carry pencil signature and pricing - but may well rub off. prior bookmark has browned first endpaper. and there is isolated foxing, and to edges of textblock - but text itself is clean.
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Barrie, J M
A Holiday in Bed
Chicago: Neely's Tourist Library No. 22 1898. Solid with a crease and a light roll on the spine creases on the covers and the covers show light wear and some soiling. A manufacturing flaw has part of the printed text on one page missing. The previous owner's name is on the inside front cover in pencil. 1st Printing. Paperback. Good . 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Neely's Tourist Library No. 22 paperback
Référence libraire : 40282
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Barrington, Hon Daines
THE POSSIBILITY OF APPROACHING THE NORTH POLE ASSERTED: A New Edition with an Appendix Containing Papers on the Same Subject and on a North West Passage by Colonel Beaufoy
<p>T. and J. Allman 1818. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 2nd Edition; iii-xxiv lacks half-title 258 pp Folding map vignette on title page. Ex libris rebound with gilt titling and library number on spine edges cut foldout map now bound in at front. This new edition of Barrington's "Probability of Reaching the North Pole Discussed" is accompanied by a new map of the north polar region and presents facts compiled from records of early navigators as well as information received from the present-day whaling and fishing captains on ice conditions in the northern Greenland Sea and Baffin Bay. The appendix reviews the probability of reaching the North Pole from the Island of Spitzbergen by means of reindeer during the winter months. The rare British edition of this series of pamplets that were republished as interest in reaching the North Pole was at its height. Published simultaneously in London and New York in 1818. Embossed library stamps. Library bookplate tipped in and library numbers on fep. Contemporary signatures on title page partly missing due to pages being cut down. Pages spotted age toned but overall Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 674. . This book is extra heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.</p> T. and J. Allman hardcover
Référence libraire : 674
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BARRINGTON, GEORGE.
An Account of a Voyage to New South Wales.
Turnhout, Time-Life Books, 1984. 8vo. In full imitated leather with red title-label to spine with gilt lettering and gilt lines to edges of front boards. Introductory sheet and bookplate loosely inserted. Two very nice and clean copies, near mint. (5), 472, (4) pp. + 3 coloured plates.
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BARRON, Louis.
Les fleuves de France. La Seine. Ouvrage orné de 134 dessins par A. Chapou.
Paris, Líbrairie Renouard, s.a. (fines del siglo XIX), 25 x 18 cm., 2 h. - 307 págs. (Ejemplar intonso con la cubierta anterior desprendida).
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BARROT Olivier
Longs courriers. Chroniques du bout du monde.
Broché. 212 pages.
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Barrow John
A Tour Round Ireland Through the Sea-Coast Counties In the Autumn of 1835
London: John Murray 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. xi 378 38 Appendix with folding map 8 plates and additional illustrations in the text. Marbled boards with later leather spine new endpapers. Stamp of the Isle of Wight Insitution on several pages. Title page frontispiece and some plates foxed as often found the remainder of the text quite clean. Map has a section meanuring about 1.5 x 3 inches missing from lower left with some loss of content. A good reference copy. The author was the son of Sir John Barrow who traveled and worked in China and South Africa and served in the British Admiralty where he was a great promoter of Arctic voyages of exploration and discovery. The younger man followed in his father's footsteps as a traveler and writer producing popular and well-received works on his travels in Ireland Iceland Northern Europe and Austria Lombardy and Bavaria. John Murray hardcover books
Référence libraire : 21534
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Barrow (Jean), auteur du dictionnaire géographique.
Abrégé chronologique ou histoire des découvertes faites par les européens dans les différentes parties du monde, extrait des Relations les plus exactes & des Voyageurs les plus véridiques. - Tome VII.
français In-12 de 428 pp.; basane mouchetée, dos lisse orné, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque). Traduit de l'anglais par M. Targe. Tome septième seul. Petits manques de cuir.
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BARROW John
Histoire chronologique des voyages vers le pole arctique, entrepris pour découvrir un passage entre l'océan atlantique et le grand-océan
- Librairie de Gide fils, Paris 1819, In-8 (13,5x20,5cm), (4) 357pp. et (4) 336pp., 2 volumes reliés. - Edition originale française dans la traduction de Defaucompret. Une carte dépliante sur papier fort des régions polaires boréales au frontispice du tome 1. Reliures en demi veau glacé havane d'époque. Dos lisses ornés de roulettes et fleurons. Pièces de titre et de tomaison de veau glacé chocolat. Coiffe du tome 1 arrachée (elle se trouve à l'intérieur du volume). Mors supérieur fendu. Mors du tome 2 très étroitement fendus en tête et queue. Ensemble très frotté. Importante compilation qui relatent l'ensemble des voyages qui eurent lieu dans le grand nord à la découverte du détroit de Bering. Elle début par les anciens Scandinaves et tous les voyages qui furent entrepris jusqu'au XVe siècle. Le premier volume se conclue en 1616. Le second en 1818. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
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BARROW John
Voyage dans la partie méridionale de l'Afrique ; fait dans les années 1797 et 1798
- Dentu, Paris 1801, In-8 (12,5x20,7cm), xvj, 403pp. (1) et (4) 326pp. (2), 2 volumes reliés. - Edition originale française illustrée d'une très grande carte dépliante rehaussée en couleurs, d'un tableau dépliant des bois d'Afrique du sud, et d'une figure d'une unicorne (sorte de gazelle avec une seule longue corne sur son front). Traduction par L. Degrandpré Reliures en pleine basane brune flammée d'époque. Dos lisses ornés de 2 fleurons et de 2 caissons à la grotesque, et de multiples roulettes. Pièces de titre en maroquin rouge, pièces de tomaison en maroquin vert. Frise d'encadrement sur les plats. Epidermures sur les plats, près des bordures externes. Frottements, notamment en coiffes et mors. Papiers de garde changés dans le second volume. Les tranches du tome 2 sont jaunes, blanches pour le premier, l'éditeur ayant certainement mélangé 2 tirages. Bon exemplaire, d'une bonne fraîcheur. John Barrow fut un des premiers explorateurs de l'Afrique australe et il a rédigé la meilleure relation de ces contrées. Doué d'un grand pouvoir en tant qu'auditeur de la chambre des comptes, de solides connaissances en botanique, en géographie et en histoire naturelle, d'un style limpide et simple, Barrow a pu explorer avec sagacité de nombreuses régions. Après avoir donné une description du cap et discuter de l'importance de cette place en tant que port baleinier, Barrow conte 5 expéditions ou voyages différents : Voyage depuis le Cap-de-bonne-espérance jusqu'au district de Graaff reynet, en passant par le Karoo ou désert aride ; Voyage au pays des Cafres ; Voyage au pays des Boshismans ; Voyage depuis le district de Graaff jusqu'à la ville du Cap, en longeant la mer ; Voyage au pays des Namaaquas. Intéressante préface du traducteur, lui-même auteur d'un voyage à la côte occidentale d'Afrique. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
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BARROW, Jean - Traduction de l' anglais par M. Targe
Abrégé chronologique ou histoire des découvertes faites par les Européens dans les différentes parties du monde, extrait des relations les plus exactes & des voyageurs les plus véridiques - Traduit de l' anglais par M. Targe .
A Paris, chez Saillant, Delormel, Desaint & Panckoucke - 1766 - Première édition française - 11 tomes sur 12 volumes (manque T. V) - In-12 - Reliure de l'époque veau (frottée, coiffe usagée)- Dos lisse orné - Tranches marbrées - Filets sur les coupes - 1 Vignette par Tome - IV-448, 461, 459, 454 + Errata, 439, 428, 431 + Errata, 447, 449, 440 & 438 + Errata + (é)Approbation & Privilège - Propre intérieurement
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Barrow, John
A Tour Round Ireland Through the Sea-Coast Counties In the Autumn of 1835
London: John Murray 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. xi 378 38 Appendix with folding map 8 plates and additional illustrations in the text. Marbled boards with later leather spine new endpapers. Stamp of the Isle of Wight Insitution on several pages. Title page frontispiece and some plates foxed as often found the remainder of the text quite clean. Map has a section meaauring about 1.5 x 3 inches missing from lower left with some loss of content. A good reference copy. The author was the son of Sir John Barrow who traveled and worked in China and South Africa and served in the British Admiralty where he was a great promoter of Arctic voyages of exploration and discovery. The younger man followed in his father's footsteps as a traveler and writer producing popular and well-received works on his travels in Ireland Iceland Northern Europe and Austria Lombardy and Bavaria. John Murray hardcover
Référence libraire : 21534
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Barrow, John
Travels in China Containing Descriptions Observations and Comparisons Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen and on a Subsequest Journey Through the Country from Pekin to Canton.
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1806. xii 632pp index 8 engraved plates 4 col 2 double page bw 1 single page bw. Rebound in marbled boards with leather spine 5 raised bands and gilt title and corners half-leather to a high standard. Occasional minor foxing faint damp mark to lower margin of several pages. Small bumps to top corners and bottom front corner a little rubbed. A very pleasing copy with generous wide margins of this early 19th century account of China in which " it is attempted to appreciate the rank that this extraordinary empire may be considered to hold in the scale of civilized nations". Barrow was private secretary to the Earl of Macartney and one of his suite as Ambassador from the King of Great Britain to the Empire of China. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to. T. Cadell and W. Davies Hardcover
Référence libraire : 050755
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BARROW, JOHANN.
Reisen durch die inneren Gegenden des südlichen Africa in den Jahren 1797 und 1798. Aus dem Englischen übersetzet un mit Anmerkungen begleitet von M.V. Sprengel. 2 Bde.
Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1801-05. Unbound, but both volumes stitched. XX,400 "(2),VI,410 pp. and 1 (of 2) large folded engraved maps, 1 folded table. Occassional light browning to leaves, a few scattered brownspots.
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BARROW, John
A Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic Regions: Undertaken Chiefly for the Purpose of Discovering a North-East, North-West, or Polar Passage between the Atlantic & Pacific, from earliest Periods of Scandinavian Navigation to Recent Expedition
8vo [22 x 14 cm]; [viii, ads], [viii], 379, 48 pp, large folding engraved map frontis of Arctic Regions dated 1818, 3 engraved illustrations/plans, with the half title page. later morocco backed marbled boards, gilt spine title lettering & gilt rules, light marginal stain on title & few other pages, faint number in margin, erased and barely perceptible, presentation copy from Arthur's mother 1821, very good, tight, clean. A p A detailed account by prolific author and Arctic expert who had access to the British admiralty papers, describing early voyages to the Arctic, through the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth centuries up to 1818 and the voyages of Ross, Kotzebue, Buchan, Parry and Franklin. The appendices include Buchan's expedition into the interior of Newfoundland (23 pages) and a relation of the discovery of the Strait of Anian made by Captain Maldonado in 1588 (25 pages) with a few illustrations. Mill31 (Catalogue of the Royal Geographical Society).
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Barrow, John
A Tour Round Ireland, Through the Sea-Coast Counties, in the Autumn of 1835
Hardcover, good condition. Fully bound in brown calf with gilding to the spine and embossed decortation to the corners. Boards are very worn at the edges and spine with both spine ends torn with missing bands. Both hinges are split and there are several loose pages within, however all pages and plates are present including a fold out linen map. Internally the pages are foxed and there is some minor staining here and there. Latin inscription penned of the FEP. DP Used
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