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1797réf. 035987London: G. Nicol 1797. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good . 11 1/8" Tall. Frontispieces Plates And Illustrations. Ii Xxxiv518; Ii Xx 626. The Two Complete Text Volumes In Full Size Text Blocks 10 5/8" Tall; The Plates Were Issued 1796 In A Separate Volume Not Present Here; But The Plate Of The Camellia Sesanqua Is Present Between Pp 466 And 467. Original Quarter Morocco Binding Five Bands Morocco Spine Labels Over Boards Covered With Marbled Paper Original Off-White Endpapers Preliminary And Final Blank In Each Volume. Bindings With Old Wear But Nicely Furbished Morocco Labels Clean With Brilliant Gilt A Little Loss Of Leather At Tops Of Spines And At Top Right Front Spine Edge Paper Frayed Along All Edges Of Boards Hinges Tight Contents Clean Just A Few Tiny Foxing Spots. Small Very Old Booksellers' Label Of The China Times Bookseller 94 Consular Road Tientsin. And Another From Sydney. Former Owner's Signature Dated 1894 Erased In Volume 1 Of George Ernest Morrison And A Few Marginalia Which Appear To Be His; George Ernest "G. E." Morrison 1862 - 1920 Also Known As Morrison Of Peking Or Chinese Morrison Was An Australian Adventurer Appointed In February 1897 As The Times Correspondent In Peking Despite His Lack Of Knowledge In The Chinese Language. He Traveled To Vladivostok And Reported To The Times That Russian Engineers Were Making Preliminary Surveys From Kirin Towards Port Arthur Then Sent A Telegram To Say That Russia Had Presented A Five-Day Ultimatum To China Demanding The Right To Construct A Railway To Port Arthur. This Was A Triumph For The Times And Its Correspondent But He Had Also Shown Prophetic Insight In Another Phrase Of His Dispatch When He Stated That "The Importance Of Japan In Relation To The Future Of Manchuria Cannot Be Disregarded". After A Visit To Siam And England Then To Australia 1899-1900 He Returned To Peking. When The Boxer Uprising Broke Out And During The Siege Of The Legations From June To August Morrison As An Acting-Lieutenant Showed Great Courage Always Ready To Volunteer For Every Service Of Danger. After A Siege Of 55 Days The Legations Were Relieved By A Multinational Force Which Then Ransacked Much Of The Palaces In Peking With Morrison Taking Part In The Looting. There Was Great Uncertainty Regarding The Future Of China In The Following Months And Through The Times Morrison Managed To Depict A Skewed Picture Before The British Public. While Russia And Japan United In Opposing Any Dismemberment Of China The Country Was Nevertheless Punished By The Imposition Of A Heavy Indemnity. In 1904 Morrison Became A Correspondent With The Japanese Army. He Was Present At The Entry Of The Japanese Into Port Arthur Early In 1905 And Represented The Times At The Usa Peace Conference. In 1907 He Crossed China From Peking To The French Border Of Tonkin And In 1910 Rode From Honan Across Asia To Russian Turkestan. From Andijan He Took A Train To St Petersburg And Then Traveled To London Arriving On 29 July 1910. A Great Chinese Physician Dr. Wu Lien-Teh Succeeded In Staying The Spread Of This Mortal Sickness Which Seemed To Threaten The Whole World. Morrison Published A Series Of Articles Advocating The Launching Of A Modern Scientific Public Health Service In China. When The Chinese Revolution Began In 1911 Morrison Took The Side Of The Revolutionaries. In August Morrison Resigned His Position On The Times To Become Political Adviser To The Chinese Government And Immediately Went To London To Assist In Floating A Chinese Loan Of £10 Million. In China During The Following Years He Had An Anxious Time Advising And Endeavoring To Deal With The Political Intrigues That Were Continually Going On. He Visited Australia Again In December 1917 And Returned To Peking In February 1918. He Represented China During The Peace Discussions At Versailles In 1919 But His Health Began To Give Way And He Retired To England Well Aware That He Had Only A Short Time To Live. He Died On 30 May 1920 . A Nice Historical Association. Later Ownership Signatures Of G B Wilson. G. Nicol hardcover
1779réf. 030118London: Alex. Hogg / R. Denham/ Erasmus Middleton / Printed By J W Pasham 1779 1780 1784 1779. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. Three Of Four Volumes Issued 1779-1784. X 520 With 13 Plates; Iv 512 With 13 Plates; Iv 512 Pp. With 12 Plates. Volume I 1779 Volume Ii 1780 And Volume Iii 1784. Vols. I And Ii In Matching Old Calf Morocco Spine Labels Worn And Dried But Intact Vol I Lacking Rear Endpapers And Rear Board; Volume Iii In Quarter Calf Five Compartments Rebacked With Original Spine Laid Down Very Worn Front Cover And Prelims Through Contents Page Are Detached But All Volumes Complete. Many Portrait Plates By Thomas Trotter Engraved After Original Paintings And In A Few Cases Original Medallions. Text Pages Clean And Complete Ownership Signatures Of American Rev. James J. Woolsey In Vols I And Ii With Ownership Signature Of Elizabeth Taylor Dated 1799; Bookplate Of Esther Fuller Maitland Later The Wife Of Ridley Herschell Father Of Lord Herschell In Volume Iii; Huntington Library Duplicate Stamps On Rear Endpapers. Short Biographies Two To Six Pages Good Minute Biographies Of Their Lives And Achievements. Very Scarce: Worldcat Only Locates A Few Institutional Holdings Most Consisting Of Only Partial Sets. Sold Only As A Group I Would Like To Buy A Volume Iv With Clean Undamaged Pages. International Shipping By Usps Insured Prority Or Express Mail At Cost. Alex. Hogg / R. Denham/ Erasmus Middleton / Printed By J W Pasham 1779 1780 1784 hardcover
1776réf. 015982Circa 1776: Millar 1776. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Framed. Very Good/No Jacket. 15 1/2" x 14. Fine revolutionary era map of North America showing the British colonies with Nova Scotia part of the same British group of colonies as the Future United States with the southern colonies extending to the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. A clean complete copy with three folds as issued. Millar unknown
1709réf. 021539Leiden Leide: Chez Pierre Vander Aa 1709. Derniere Edition . Full Leather. Very Good. 6 3/8" x 4. Folding Plates and Maps Throughout. Complete with two front endpapers illustrated title page no printed title page pp 1-140 with all plates maps folding maps. Original spine decorated in gilt five raised bands also decorated in gilt polished calf boards which appear to be replacements in the 17th or early 18th century. Watered colored endpapers. Contents clean and unworn binding worn and frayed but professionally refreshed and quite solid. Pencil signature of George Ellery Hale the astronomer. Chez Pierre Vander Aa hardcover
1755réf. 025159London: R and J Dodsley 1755. Second Edition Corrected . Full Leather. Very Good. 16 3/4" Tall. 41 Plates and 17 Illustrations in the Text. Frontispiece Vi 160 159-361 Second Edition With Corrections. 16 5/8" Tall.Full Diced Calf Green Morocco Spine Labels Full Gilt Decorations To Spine Covers And Turns. Marbled Endpapers Three Preliminary Blanks Two Final Blanks. Re-Backed With Original Spine Laid Down Over Newer Cloth Probably In Nineteenth Century. Much Of Top Compartment Of Spine Chipped Away With A Small Loss To Lower End Of Spine Neatly Repaired; Tips Bumped Worn Leather Worn Away At Tips All Neatly Repaired. Two Plates Torn One Repaired With Clear Tape No Losses A Few Tiny Edge Tears. A Little Faint Damp Staining At Bottom Edges Of A Few Plates Outside The Plate Marks. A Little Foxing To Some Pages. No Names Or Marks. The Extensive Illustrations Were Used As Models By The Wedgwood Manufactury. R and J Dodsley hardcover
1779réf. 000000000005367Boston: John Boyle and John Douglass McDougall 1779. First Edition . Full-Leather. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Brown leather boards.Vol I 7p1ii-xxiii460p Vol II34-620p From the Estate Of Levi LIncoln name on fep both vols. Bookplate of William Lincoln Interior very good. Vol I title off on spine leathe loss Small insecte damage on front board Front board off but present Vol II has vol off on spine John Boyle, and John Douglass McDougall hardcover
1726réf. 3479Paris: Andre Knapen 1726. First Edition . Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Paper Broad Sheet 8 Pages Folded Very clean copy De L'Imprimerie d' Andre Knapen au bout du Pont S. Michel a l'entree de la rue S. Andre des Arcs French Text Original no a paperback reprint Andre Knapen paperback
1745réf. 3474Paris: Chez Les Freres Guerin 1745. Second Edition . Full-Leather. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Brown boards. 3ii-lviii379pillusribbed 19 fold out plates. Tear on four plates in middle and edge. Faint gilt title on spine French Text. Chez Les Freres Guerin hardcover
1706réf. 3124Paris: Pierre Giffart 1706. New Edition . Full-Leather. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Brown boards. Unpag349p15illus. Interior very good. 2 3/4" vertical tear and 3/4" horizontal tear on Tp Illus frontis. Page 145 illus "Du Retablissement Des Arts Du Dessein Livre Troisieme Corners frayed. Early owners book plate on paste-down. French Text Pierre Giffart hardcover
1744réf. 112388London: J. Bettenham for the Company of Stationers 1744 Book. Good. Leather. First Edition. RARE copy of this 18th century work on the planets the heavens the solar system etc. The leather binding is worn; the text with its many tables is in very good condition. Title continues "Being Biffextile or Leap-Year and from the Creation of the World according to the Beft of Hiftory 5693 Years. Wherein is contained the Motions Afpects and Operations of the Planets; with Obfervations on the Eclipfes and Solar Ingreffes; with other remarkable Paffages. . . calculated according to Art and referred to the Meridian of the middle of Great Britain fitting the whole Monarchy without fenfible Error. Twenty-fixth Impreffion." . J. Bettenham, for the Company of Stationers hardcover
1797réf. 042012-EBoston Mass. USA: W. Spotswood & J. Nancrede 1797. Book. Illus. by Various Map Makers. Very Good. Full-Leather. 1st. American Edition. 1st. Edition USA 1797 . 1st. Printing Walnut brown leather with gilded letters on the spine. Volume 1 536 page book with 11 fold out maps . Both volume have been rebound with new leather and blank end papers aging and light staining on some pages and maps. Volume 2 573 page book with 5 fold out maps and errata at back page with directions to the binder for placing the charts with a list of books by the publisher Joseph Nancrede. Condition : Very Good see Image . Note no international sale. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. W. Spotswood & J. Nancrede Hardcover
1740réf. 36937La Haye: La Veuve Le Vier et Pierre Paupie 1740. First edition. Engraved allegorical frontispiece by Schley. 2 parts in one volumes. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary French mottled calf gilt spine marbled endpapers. Upper joint starting at bottom and apart from some minor toning this is a lovely unsophisticated copy in contemporary dress. First edition. Engraved allegorical frontispiece by Schley. 2 parts in one volumes. 1 vols. 4to. Printed by Prosper Marchand a Huguenot publisher and journalist who fled France in 1709 the work appeared at the 300th anniversary of the invention of printing. Marchand writes that he produced the book "a la sollicitation de quelques amis qui ont cru que le troisième jubile ou la troisième année séculaire de l'imprimerie reveilleroit infailliblement la curiosité du publique touchant l'origine de ce bel art at the request of some friends who believed that the third jubilee or the tercentenary of printing would infallibly wake the public curiosity concerning the origin of this beautiful art." The allegorical frontspiece by J.V. Schley show Minerva and Mercury descending from Heaven granting the gift of printing to Germany who in turn gives it to England Holland France and Italy. Bigmore & Wyman II p. 22 La Veuve Le Vier et Pierre Paupie unknown
1754réf. 28549Londres: Aux dépens de la Compagnie 1754. First edition. 2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf leather spine labels. Despite a small chip at foot of spine of volume I this is a very pretty set. First edition. 2 vols. 12mo. Barbier II 827 Aux dépens de la Compagnie unknown
1769réf. 36938Leipzig; Wien: Johan Paul Krauss 1769. First Edition. With 24 folding plates. xxv 436 12 index & errata; xl 524 18 index & errata. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary three quarter red morocco and marbled boards spine label. Exterior worn tear at foot of spine internally tight and clean. A very good copy. First Edition. With 24 folding plates. xxv 436 12 index & errata; xl 524 18 index & errata. 1 vols. 8vo. Includes notices of Berlin artists graphic arts engravers early woodcuts & woodcut books history of printing and account of a journey through Lower Saxony Westphalia & and Holland. Part Two with striking images from early printed books such as the "Eagle of John" from Ars Memorandi includes "a dissertation on the earliest forms of wood-cutting as applied to the illustration . Heinecken conjectures that Gutenberg took the idea of printing from the playing-card makers who are said to have been the first engravers of historical subjects intermingled with texts. . Heinecken is of opinion that their first productions were taken from wooden blocks." Bigmore & Wyman. Bigmore & Wyman p.320 Johan Paul Krauss unknown
1799réf. 214620Brussels: Emmanuel Plon 1799. First edition. 2 engraved plates 5 text engravings. 1 vols. 8vo. Half morocco and marbled boards. Slight foxing. First edition. 2 engraved plates 5 text engravings. 1 vols. 8vo. Bigmore & Wyman I 418 "One of the monument of typographical bibliography" Emmanuel Plon unknown
1795réf. List3024Philadelphia Pennsylvania 1795. Two pages measuring 10 x 16 ¼ inches. Toned folded with tears at folds and marginal damage; excellent. A contract dated December 11th 1795 between Philadelphia merchant John Godfried Wachsmuth and Secretary of the Treasury Oliver Wolcott Jr. in which Wachsmuth agrees to ship $113000 worth of coffee sugar and cocoa to Amsterdam for which the US government would advance Wachsmuth the funds. The items would be consigned to an Amsterdam banking house the bankers would pay the proceeds to the United States and the US would in turn pay Wachsmuth in specie. At the time the US was finally recovering from the precarious financial situation that followed the Revolutionary War and had successfully negotiated trade deals with Great Britain and Spain. Despite political upheaval in the Netherlands the country had been and remained a significant trading partner for and investor in the US. This contract specifies that the goods will be consigned to Wilhelm and Jan Willink Nicolaas and Jacob Van Staphorst and Nicholas Hubbard; this group in particular invested heavily in the US making large loans to the government and purchases of land via the Holland Land Company including investing in the Louisiana Purchase. A deal of this sort had a number of benefits for the new country; most importantly it would continue to build a positive trade relationship with the Netherlands and improve the US’s credit abroad and it would bring more specie into the US which was experiencing a specie drain due to its imports exceeding its exports.1 It involved significant risk for Wachsmuth—he would be responsible for ensuring the bankers ultimately received the value of the goods in specie—but the potential reward in terms of both profits and a relationship with Amsterdam’s most important bankers seem to have been worth it. Of interest to scholars researching the economic growth of the early United States especially in terms of foreign trade relations. 1 Nicholas A. Curott and Tyler A. Watts “What Caused the Recession of 1797” Studies in Applied Economics 48 February 2016. unknown
1792réf. 020796No Place: No publisher 1792. Unbound. Very Good. Includes wool cards linen cloth paper etc. Captain James Libbey led a company of men from New Hampshire in Colonel Evans' Regiment in 1777 during the Revolutionary War where they marched and joined the Northern Continental Army at Saratoga. VERY GOOD. Minor toning and foxing with a few wrinkles. No publisher unknown
1767réf. 020556Portsmouth: No Publisher 1767. Unbound. Good. Single sheet printed on a single side only. 12 ¼ by 7 ½ inches. Armorial ornament of King George III at the top of the sheet followed by printed text asserting that in pursuance of the Acts passed in the General Assembly of the Province of New Hampshire the town named Dover New Hampshire was required to pay the stated sum of taxes as well as naming the constables or collectors who collected the sums. Signed by George Jaffrey at the bottom with the remains of a wax seal present. George Jaffrey Esquire was part of a prominent New Hampshire family who essentially held an oligarchy in the province. They and a few others sought to separate New Hampshire from the province of Massachusetts and through various machinations and political maneuverings did so. George Jaffrey eventually became treasurer of New Hampshire. In the run up to and during the American Revolutionary War Jaffrey was a staunch Loyalist asserting that it was just a few people causing the turmoil and that eventually the colonies would remain with England. Despite his beliefs and the danger it caused him he held his post and remained in Portsmouth New Hampshire during the war. GOOD condition. Horizontal and vertical fold creases present with a few small tears along the folds. A 1 inch triangular area torn off from the upper edge. Uneven toning. Handwriting on the reverse clerical in nature. Many small old paper repairs present along the center fold. No Publisher unknown
1800réf. 039011Circa 1800 1800. 1st Edition . No Binding. Very Good. Original Silk Embroideries Circa 1800 Embellished With Gold Leaf-Wrapped Yarn Mounted On Old Paper Framed Under Glass. From The Collection Of Los Angeles Architectural Decorator Herman Sachs Bullock's Wilshire Los Angeles City Hall Etc. unknown
1800réf. 0356771800. Original Painting . No Binding. Very Good. Antique Painting On Paper Almost Certainly Nineteenth Century Or Earlier Depicting Blue Skinned Hindi God And His White Skinned Consort Shooting Each Other With Colored Water Using Water Guns Pichtari: Tubes With Plungers In The Hindu Indian Festival Of Holi. The Guns Were Made Of Brass And Most Date From The Mughal Period. Well Preserved Slight Edgewear 3/4" Faint Waterspot Near Center. Mounted On White Card Markedon The Verso With Signature And Stamps Of California Artist Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano 1901-2001 And From His Estate. unknown
1777réf. 017960Lisboa Rio De Janeiro.: Na Regia Officina Typografica. 1777. Book. Acceptable. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover 1777 Tom II edition. Text in full leather. Spine shows edge wear and chipping along with the corners. Binding firm. Discoloration to a number of pages throughout the text especially to front and back paste-downs. Text is acceptable. 320 pages. Na Regia Officina Typografica. Hardcover
1793réf. 003158Dublin: P. Byrne Grafton-Street 1793. Book. Very Good Minus. Full Calf. First Edition. First Edition full calf red label with gilt titles to spine. Calf rubbed front and rear boards moderate foxing throughout page block. prior owners names front endpages and title page front hinge just starting to separate. Contents are unmarked. One of the prior owners whose name is handwritten 3 times is "Alfred Balch Nashville". Balch was a close personal friend and neighboring plantation owner to President Andrew Jackson. He was a practicing lawyer in Nashville and eventually became head of the Nashville Bar Association. During Andrew Jackson's presidency Balch was appointed to the role of Commissioner of Indian Treaties. During this time he would be active in trying to resolve issues the Creek and Seminole tribes had with the United States government and may have helped resolve the Second Seminole War. Later in 1840 during the presidency of Martin Van Buren Jackson would pressure his former vice president to appoint Balch to the role of United States District Judge for the Middle District of Florida where he would serve as a Florida District Judge for only one year. In 1835 letters appear between Alfred Balch and Andrew Jackson suggesting a level of comfort that only friends would have with one another. In one letter Jackson seems to write angrily about a secret conspiracy to undermine his chosen successor Martin Van Buren. What evidence there is seems to suggest a very close relationship between Andrew Jackson and Alfred Balch.Balchepedia; the Encyclopedia of Balch History. A great association to Presidential and Tennessee history !. P. Byrne, Grafton-Street Hardcover
1796réf. 001121Rome: Presso I Lazzarini 1796. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. xii 502 pp. Full and rich history of Ariccia and surrounding towns on the outskirts of Rome to the Southeast of the City by Castel Gandolfo the Papal Summer Residence. Ariccia is one of the most ancient cities in Italy dating to at least the ninth century B.C. This history concentrates mostly on the seventeenth and eighteenth century when it was ruled by the powerful Savelli Chigi family which produced one pope Alexander VII and built a grand residence in the town that has been used many a time as a movie set such as in Visconti's "Il Gattopardo" "The Leopard". While it is over two millenia since the town yielded to Rome's preeminence as a city Ariccia continued to be the next most important city in Lazio for long stretches of history owing to its propitious location on the Via Appia the first way station on the road between Rome and Naples and its pleasant salubrious climate in contrast to malalial Rome made it a favored resort for the powerful of Rome in prior centuries. This copy of the history a model of municipal histories in its day is very good. There is some light and occasional foxing yet little that could be considered disconcerting. The exception would be the four places where a prior owner presses leaves which left a residue and in one instance may have created a tiny wormhole type of hole. However the small amount of loss has no effect on readability where it occurred. The vellum has an attractive mottled almost tiger striped design. Book is tight. Occasional light pencil notes a word or two in each case affecting a handful of pages. Still a very good copy. Presso I Lazzarini hardcover
1702réf. 001476Leeuwarden Netherlands: Karst Tjallings 1702. Paperback. Very Good -. 7 1 p.: 19 cm. Signatures: A4 4to. Woodcut title vignette. Not in Knuttell or Worldcat. A response to "Aanmerkingen op de Memorie van den Fransche Resident Barre Aan de . . . Staaten Generaal . . . den 31. Maart 1702" Gravenhage: Meyndert Uitwerf 1702 Knuttel 14755. Contents: Extract Uit het Register der Resolution van de . . . Staaten Generâl der Vereenig de Nederlanden. Sabbathi den 8 April 1702 -- Extract Uit de Aanspraak van de Heer Mourlag Ambassadeur van de Koning van Vrankrijk Hendrik de IV . . . 26. Augustus 1593 -- Als meede een Extract uit de Memorien van den heer de Sully. An extremely scarce pamphlet relating to the War of the Spanish Succession. In Very Good- Condition: title page stained; lightly creased and soiled; stitching is gone with slight tears at the stitching holes; otherwise a solid copy of a very scarce item. Karst Tjallings paperback
1710réf. 001487Netherlands 1710. Paperback. Good. 8 p.; 19 cm. Signatures: A4 4to. Possibly disbound from a larger volume. No publication information. Not in Worldcat or STCN; not in Knuttel. Intended as a continuation of J.M.G.V. Bouckart's satirical poem "Koning Lodewyk in de Griekse A tot Delft op het Eyndigen der Campangje 1702" 1702 Knuttel 14818. In this poem the speakers are Louis XIV the spirit of Abbe Porto-Carero and Lucifer. An extremely scarce pamphlet from the War of the Spanish Succession. In Good Condition: disbound; lacking stitching; outer two leaves separating; old dampstaining throughout. paperback
