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1420réf. 1002N9New York; London; New Haven: Crown; Picador; Penguin; Yale University Press 2014-2024. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 9.5" by 6.5". Various. Four fascinating first editions telling real-life stories of espionage and intrigue during the twentieth century from underworld Shanghai to Churchill's war rooms. Four first editions telling fascinating stories of espionage intrigue intelligence and spies during the twentieth century published between 2014-2024.In the publisher's original cloth in the original clipped Bird and unclipped dust wrappers. From the underworld of Shanghai to the Iranian Hostage Crisis of the 1980s these four true stories are thrilling reads.- The Good Life: The Life and Death of CIA operative Robert Ames written by Pullitzer Prize-winning author Kai Bird. Crown 2014.- City of Devils: The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld from Shanghai written by Paul French. Contains eight plates to the center of the book with numerous illustrations. Picador 2018.- The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama a bestseller written by Paul Macintyre. Contains sixteen plates with numerous colour illustrations as well as in-text illustrations. Penguin 2024.- Churchill's Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm written by Katherine Carter. Contains numerous in-text illustrations throughout. Yale University Press 2024. In the publisher's original cloth In the publisher's original cloth in the original clipped Bird and unclipped dust wrappers. Externally very smart with minimal marks to boards. Small knocks to heads and tails of spines of French and Bird. Dust wrappers are bright and clean with minimal edgewear. End papers are bright and clean with a couple of very small grazed marks to top edge of French front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine Crown; Picador; Penguin; Yale University Press hardcover
1416réf. 1418138London: printed by William Stansby for Walter Burre; Printed by R. Cotes T. Newcomb T. Mab and A. Coles for John Saywell 1614/1652. First Edition. Hardcover. Quartos 2 volumes. In Very Good condition. Rebound in 20th century quarter leather and buckram. Spines paneled with morocco label and gilt. Marbled endpapers. Edges of text blocks dyed red. Raleigh with the Poem and the engraved title page all 8 folding maps and the Errata leaf at the end. Engraved title page and letterpress title page with small amounts of reinforcement to versos. With closed tear to K3 Pp2 and 6R5 small burn hole to Ll3 lower fore corner of Rr2 3I2 5Z1 missing small repair to 4K4r and 5Q6-5Y6 with very small Japanese tissue repair to fore edge. Light and small scattered tide-marks along lower edge. Small amount of worming along upper gutter. With blank leaf 3K4 but lacking terminal blank 7C6. Printer's name and bookseller's address from colophon. "The first part of the historie of the vvorld . The third booke" caption title begins new pagination on 4A1r. Ross lacking half-title. Ross with bookplate to front pastedown original front blank entirely laid down. Ink name of R. Shelby Darbishire 1909 to recto of Poem in Raleigh and original front blank of Ross. Shelved case 4. ESTC: S116300. Pforzheimer: 820. ESTC: R218398. Written during his imprisonment in the Tower of London the History of the World consists of a million words spanning from the biblical creation of the world to 146 BCE. The work was intended to serve as an educational tool for Henry Prince of Wales 1594-1612 and includes numerous references to warfare law and kingship. It was entered 15 April 1611 in the Stationers' Register but not published until 29 March 1614 due to the death of Prince Henry. Once published James had it immediately suppressed and subsequently issued with no title page and therefore no authorial acknowledgement.; "In the century that followed the publication it was vastly influential.The book went through eleven editions in the 17th century outselling even Shakespeare's collected works. It was not until 5 January 1615 that a letter from Archbishop Abbot reached The Stationers Company telling them that he had express orders from His Majesty that the book should be suppressed and withdrawn from shops. By this time the book had nearly sold out and it does appear from the letter that the Archbishop may once have praised it." Raleigh Trevelyan; "Sir Walter Raleigh's book is called in by the king's commandment for divers exceptions but especially for being too saucy in censuring princes. I hear he takes it much to heart for he thought he had won his spurs and pleased the king extraordinarily." Letter from John Chamberlain Esq to Sir Dudley Carleton; Alexander Ross' continuation is titled: "The history of the world: the second part in six books: being a continuation of the famous history of Sir Walter Raleigh Knight: beginning where he left; viz. at the end of the Macedonian kingdom and deduced to these later-times: that is from the year of the world 3806. or 160 years before Christ till the end of the year 1640. after Christ". 1418138. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. printed [by William Stansby] for Walter Burre; Printed [by R. Cotes, T. Newcomb, T. Mab, and A. Coles] for John Saywell hardcover
1498réf. ABC_49311Colophon: Venice: Petrus Liechtenstein for Johannes Lucilius Santritter 1498. 20th-century limp vellum sewn on 2 thin vellum straps laced through the joints with the manuscript name of the wrong author and year of publication on the spine. The work is housed in a modern marbled paper slipcase. 4to. With a woodcut title page and numerous tables. Highly important 15th-century work on navigation which helped sailors navigate more accurately. According to Gunn the work "immediately helped to revolutionize ocean navigation. Prior to the Almanach navigators seeking to determine their position in the high seas had to correct for "compass error" the deviation of the magnetic north from the true north by recourse to the quadrant and the Pole Star. But this proved less useful as they approached the equator and the Pole Star began to disappear into the horizon. Zacuto's Almanach supplied the first accurate table of solar declination allowing navigators to use the sun instead."The work contains dozens of astronomical tables charting the position of the sun moon and five planets between 1473 and 1530. The calculations were based on the Alfonsine Tables and the work of other astronomers. As the data were presented in simple tables with the positions of a planet easily interpolated between entries the work was easy to use. Zacuto's success in fusing his mathematical and astronomical observations with practical aspects of oceanic navigation such as the preparation of sea charts and instruments vital for the most important navigators of the time undoubtedly makes him a major contributor to the creation of the world of today.Abraham Zacuto 1452-ca. 1515 was one the most important geographers and cosmographers in the age of Columbus. His astrolabe astronomical tables and charts played a fundamental role in Portuguese and Spanish navigation to America and India as they were used by Vasco da Gama and Columbus. The navigators to Brazil and India also took Zacutos charts with them. As such Zacuto is one of the men who helped usher Portuguese global expansion.With a later ownership annotation on the title page and contemporary annotations in the margins throughout. The vellum is somewhat creased and browned with a dent on the back. The lower corner of the first few leaves shows some thumbing with brown ink stains on some leaves a water stain in the lower outer corner of leaves 81 and 82 not affecting the text. Otherwise in good condition.l Bibl. Hisp. No. 1060; Brunet V 1518; Darmstadt LB: 33/7667; Goff R110; GW M37517; Hain-Copinger 13798; ISTC ir00110000; Panzer VIII p. 356; USTC 991591; cf. Chabás J. and B.R. Goldstein Astronomy in the Iberian peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the transition from manuscript to print. In: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society New Series 90 2 2000; Gunn Geoffrey C. Overcoming Ptolemy: The Revelation of an Asian World Region Lanham Lexington Books 2018; Jews and the Americas: 165 Years of Collecting at the JCB Fall 2010 - Winter 2011 https://jcblibrary.org/exhibitions/jews-and-americas-165-years-collecting-jcb. Petrus Liechtenstein, for Johannes Lucilius Santritter, hardcover
