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ref. 222524Sans. Bon Etat autour de 1900 dos en cuir tranche taché papier chiffon reliure en bon état. in8. Sans date. Relié. Sans unknown
1912ref. biblio6217 volumes ship as one in the U.S.A. - not a complete set. Bracebridge Hall frontispieces of Washington Irving is from a daguerreotype by Plumb about 1850. Tales of a Traveller illus. of The Money Diggers drawn by Frank T. Merrill. The Alhamera preface to the revised edition is dated 1851. Astoria includes a couple of drawings by Frederic Remington Trappers Crossing the Rockies and Canadian Voyageurs. Sketch Book Abbotsford preface to the revised edition is dated 1848. Woefert's Toost and other Stories Newstead Abbey. Has a water stain drawings by various artists. Knickerbocker's History of New York with drawings by FOC Darby. Remember the Macaronis Has a closed tear in the tissue covering the frontis drawing. In VG condition. There is some foxing. The tissue paper is very discolored not acid free and some discoloration to rest of book. All are dated 1912. No dust jackets. Some soiling mainly to exterior pages of book. Some books have worn corners and edges of spine with some bent under. In VG condition overall. Please no international orders. Shelf space for the seven books is approx. nine inches. Current Literature Pub. Co. hardcover
1836ref. 1301841836. First Edition. IRVING Washington. Astoria or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1836. Two volumes. Octavo original patterned blue-gray cloth Volume I rebacked with original spine laid down; housed in a custom clamshell box. $2000.First edition first issue with the folding map of the routes of Hunt and Stuart Òan important milestone of western mappingÓ Wheat 157.In 1811 Wilson Price Hunt and his party of Astorians explorers financed by John Jacob Astor the most powerful fur merchant of the time embarked on the first expedition to the Pacific Northwest after Lewis and Clark. Steering away from the Missouri route of Lewis and Clark they traveled across unexplored territory becoming ""the first party to see the Black Hills Laramie Mountains of Wyoming first to come through the Wind River Mountains via Union Pass first across the Tetons first to attempt navigation of the 'mad' Snake River in Idaho and first to cross the Blue Mountains in southeastern Oregon"" before arriving at their final destination of Fort Astoria a small settlement founded by sea explorers financed by Astor in today's northwest Oregon Roscoe and Larkin 44-54. Irving was selected by Astor to write an account of the journey and to keep faithful reports of the terrain explored. Astoria is ""crowded with incidents of Indian subtlety or ferocity as well as with descriptions of the manners and peculiarities of the fierce lords of the great plains and the vaster mountains before civilization had enervated or corrupted them"" Field 760. First issue with copyright notice on verso of Volume I title page and garbled footnote on page 239 of Volume II. In BAL's cloth B no priority. BAL 10148. Graff 2158. Howes I81. Langfeld & Blackburn 35. Sabin 35130. Wagner-Camp 61:1. Bookplates early owner signatures.Moderate foxing to text folding map with expert paper repairs; cloth with mild rubbing Volume I with expert restoration to spine. A very nice copy in the original cloth. hardcover
1836ref. 34555Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1836. 2 volumes. First edition first issue state BAL of both the copyright page in Volume I and the footnote on page 239 of Volume II. Volume II with a folding map of the routes of Hunt and Stuart west of the Mississippi to the Pacific a map referred to by Wheat as “.an important milestone of Western mapping.” 8vo bound in contemporary polished calf over marbled paper covered boards sometime rebacked incorporating the original materials and contrasting red and black lettering labels gilt. xiii 14-285; ix 10-279 pp. A very good copy with expected age to the binding the original materials expertly included in the rebacking. IMPORTANT AMERICAN EXPLORATION AND SCARCE IN FIRST EDITION. This is Washington Irving’s chronicle of the Hunt and Stuart expedition written by Irving at the request of John Jacob Astor. Astor financed the first U.S. overland expedition to the Pacific after Lewis and Clark. The “Astorians” as the party led by Wilson Price Hunt was known took an entirely different route then Lewis and Clark thus this book chronicles a number of important firsts through unexplored territory. Hunt’s party was the first to navigate the Snake River the first to cross the Tetons and Oregon Blue Mountains and the first to come through the Union Pass. Carey, Lea, & Blanchard hardcover
ref. 0656076291.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1890ref. 35170New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. ca. 1890. 2 works bound into one volume. From the handsome edition of Irving's Works published by Crowell an early printing of both works. With a frontispiece photogravure from a drawing by Edmund B. Garrett 8vo handsomely bound in three-quarter tan calf over marbled paper covered boards the spines with raised bands gilt ruled the compartments with gilt tooled devices at the centers two compartments lettered in gilt on dark brown calf lettering labels endleaves marbled. 310; 152 pp. A very handsome copy very well preserved with very little evidence of age or use a fine copy. TWO FINE WORKS BOUND INTO ONE VOLUME. BRACEBRIDGE HALL is one of Irving’s most enduring works depicting in his best style the medley of ideas thrust upon him during his time spent living in England. Irving himself says that he had spent so much time in all stages of his existence reading and thinking about England how the differences between the old country and the new the country of his birth were bubbling all about him. BRACEBRIDGE HALL is his ode to England to tracing the footsteps of history and breathing the poetry of a sanctified land. Irving said that the popularity of his writing is due to an odd reason: “it has been a matter of marvel that man from the wilds of America should express himself in tolerable English. I was looked upon as something new and strange in literature; a kind of demi-savage with a feather in his hand instead of on his head; and there was a curiosity to hear what such a being had to say about civilized society.” WOLFERT'S ROOST AND MISCELLANIES is a collection of essays sketches and stories centered around Wolfert's Roost a historic Dutch stone cottage in Tarrytown New York. The property is named after Wolfert Acker 1667–1753 an early colonial American yeoman and local official who built the original 17th-century farmhouse on the Hudson River. Washington Irving purchased the historic property in the 1830s lovingly renovated and expanded it in the Dutch style and renamed the estate Sunnyside. The book features the title sketch about the estate alongside classic folklore travel pieces and reflections on Dutch-American history. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. hardcover
1895ref. 29276Macmillam 1895. 8vo. with frontispiece illustrated title and very numerous illustrations a number full-page in the text; handsomely bound in contemporary full tree calf boards with elaborate gilt frame border back with five raised bands second compartment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt all other compartments richly tooled in gilt marbled edges marbled endpapers expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down a most attractive crisp clean copy. Caldecott's edition was first published in 1876. Macmillam, hardcover
1998ref. 64877BBV Privanza 1998. piel. 2ª Mano - Bueno/2ª Mano. BBV Privanza. 1998. Selección e introducción por Enric Dolz. Ilustraciones a color por Lewis Roberts. Vivian y Girault de Prangey. Ejemplar numerado 415/6000. Símil piel con dorados en estuche de cartón forrado de papel pintado 315x22cm 232pp. BBV Privanza unknown
1820ref. 1306411820. IRVING Washington KNICKERBOCKER Diedrich. A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. London: John Murray 1820. Octavo early 20th-century half red morocco gilt elaborately gilt-decorated spine raised bands marbled endpapers top edge gilt. $1500.First English edition of Washington IrvingÕs first major production.Published under the name of Diedrich Knickerbocker one of Irving's many pseudonyms A History of New York is ""a monument of mock-eruditionÉ perhaps his greatest book"" ANB. Irving began this literary parody in response to Mitchill's Picture of New York 1807 ""but instead found himself writing a comic history of old New York in a compound of sense and nonsense which still brings chuckles of laughter reminiscent of nothing so much as Don QuixoteÉ this is the first completely original American non-scholarly book"" Grolier American 100. The success of ""Knickerbocker"" won Irving literary fame in America and Europe. ""Though this was one of the first-fruits of his inventive talent it is risking but little to affirm that in its peculiar qualities it has not been surpassed by any later effortsÉ of its accomplished author"" Allibone I:935. Sabin notes that ""Indeed it will not be saying too much to assert that a large portion of the readers of the present day owe their knowledge of the history of New York to the interest created by this unrivaled performance."" First published in 1809; the title page of this first U.K. printing states it is ""a new edition."" Bound by Root & Son. BAL 10227. Howes I83. Sabin 35152. Grolier American 100 28. Contents with faint foxing; sides and edges slightly rubbed spine gently toned small area of discoloration to lower front corner. A very good copy handsomely bound. hardcover
1899ref. 034949Boston: Desmond 1899. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 13 volumes. Complete set. Ex-library set. Green cloth. Desmond hardcover
1890ref. 35169New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. ca. 1890. 2 works bound into one volume. From the handsome edition of Irving's Works published by Crowell an early printing of both works. With a frontispiece photogravure from a painting by G.H. Brougton 8vo handomely bound in three-quarter tan calf over marbled paper covered boards the spines with raised bands gilt ruled the compartments with gilt tooled devices at the centers two compartments lettered in gilt on dark brown calf lettering labels endleaves marbled. xvi 17 -309 1; 217 1 pp. A very handsome copy very well preserved with very little evidence of age or use a fine copy. TOGETHER A WHIMSICAL AND BELOVED WORK AND A HANDSOME EDITION OF THE GREAT TESTAMENT TO IRVING'S OFT' NEGLECTED ABILITIES AS A HISTORIAN. A companion to his great work on Columbus and written while Irving was a diplomatic attaché in Spain 1826-29 these books were the most painstaking effort of Irving's life. " SPANISH VOYAGES chronicles the voyages of many of Spain’s most important explorers such as Alonzo de Ojeda Ponce de Leon Vasco Nunez de Balboa and Diego de Nicuesa. Irving's "COLUMBUS" was both a scholarly and popular biography based primarily on the work of the Spanish writer Navarrete. Navarrete had published his work on Columbus which contained a number of previously unknown and significant documents. However Irving felt that “the whole presented rather a mass of rich materials for history than a history itself.and the sight of disconnected papers and official documents is apt to be repulsive to the general reader who seeks for clear and continued narrative.” In fact he felt that nearly every account had been incomplete while many important documents and manuscripts had been ignored. Thus he hoped to offer a more rigorous and yet accessible account. Written while Irving was a diplomatic attaché in Spain 1826-29 "it was the most painstaking effort of Irving's life and it won him election to the 'Real Academia de la Historia' the friendship of Navarrete and a literary reputation in Spain where the work is still quoted respectfully" DAB. KNICKERBOCKER'S HISTORY OF NEW YORK is a whimsical history of the city by the mythical Diedrich Knickerbocker. Irving began this work with his brother as a parody of a recently published PICTURE OF NEW YORK a routine guidebook of the period. After his brother abandoned the project Irving moulded it to his own purpose creating a singular work of early American humour. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. hardcover
ref. 57525Lavigne - Libraire editeur Paris 1843 In-12 xxxvi-342pp. reliure demi-cuir de l'epoque basane dos plat orne usures aux coiffes coins frottes exemplaire avec rousseurs Nb-0258 unknown
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1850ref. 61229London: Henry G. Bohn 1850. Due opere in un volume di cm. 185 pp. viii 216; viii 268. Bell'antiporta incisa con l'immagine di Maometto. Legatura editoriale in percallina decorata. Ben conservato. Henry G. Bohn unknown
1890ref. 35162New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. N.D. ca.1890. 4 volumes. From the handsome edition of Irving's Works published by Crowell. Each volume with an engraved frontispiece from various sources including portraits and views and with full-page portraits and maps throughout the four volumes titles in red and black. 8vo handomely bound in three-quarter tan calf over marbled paper covered boards the spines with raised bands gilt ruled the compartments with gilt tooled devices at the centers two compartments lettered in gilt on dark brown calf lettering labels endleaves marbled. 400; 400; 405; 423 pp. A fine and pleasing set unusually well preserved the bindings all in fine condition the hinges in excellent order tight and strong internally clean and crisp. AN EXCELLENT SET OF IRVING'S POPULAR BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON VERY ATTRACTIVE AND IN VERY FINE STATE OF PRESERVATION. The extensive biography of George Washington written by one of the most popular American authors of his time. Already very famous for his Sketch Book that brought to life such Rip Van Winkle and the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow by the 1850s Irving decided to write a biography of George Washington. In the mid-nineteenth century biography was an increasingly popular literary genre and the much-admired Washington was an ideal subject. Previous biographies of Washington had been written by Mason Locke Weems who invented the cherry tree myth and Chief Justice John Marshall but given Irving’s literary talent a biography of George Washington by him was extremely appealing to his publishers. In 1853 Irving began his research about Washington. He utilized two important sources—The Writings of George Washington and a series of George Washington’s letters acquired through the State Department. After two years of research Irving began writing his Washington biography at his home in Sunnyside New York. In his preface Irving explained that he had long wanted to write a biography of Washington though ill health as well as his many travels to Europe delayed the project. According to Irving he sought to write in a narrative style that also rigorously grounded itself in historical fact. Following historians and reviewers have argued that by exploring Washington’s military and personal life in a realistic manner Irving was able to transform him from a demigod figure into a human subject far more approachable and understandable to the average reader. The historian George Bancroft lauded Irving for writing both with the qualities of good historian and with narrative tone that made the events portrayed seem natural. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. hardcover
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2012ref. x-144744955XPook Press 2012. Hardcover. New. 114 pages. 10.10x0.70x7.30 inches. Pook Press hardcover
1890ref. 124710London: Marcus Ward & co 1890. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. no date circa 1890 recent cloth backed marbled boards hardcover with original front card cover bound in but not the rear cover illustrated 20 pages title page browned otherwise very good. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf 308. Marcus Ward & co hardcover
