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1801réf. 23544London: Printed at the Oriental Press by Wilson & Co. for Edward Harding 1801. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto pp 205 217 with two folding hand-colored maps and 47 engraved plates in a contemporary full calf binding with gilt rules spine in six compartments with red and black spine labels and gilt embellisment. Some rubbing to boards especially at joints and head of spine a little worming to boards. Binding sound scattered foxing but generally clean. The maps which are in very nice condition show Pennant's route from London to Dover and then from Dover to the Isle of Wight. "Thomas Pennant was a Welsh antiquarian and naturalist whose works were very popular in the eighteenth century. His reputation was built on his important natural history survey British Zoology first printed in 1766 and his accounts of two tours of Scotland undertaken in 1769 and 1772. Pennant made further tours in Wales and in England between 1773 and 1787 and his popularity among amateur naturalists and antiquarians resulted in the development of a comprehensive network of correspondents many of whom supplied him with additional information that he added to subsequent editions of his works. Aside from his 1783 book describing the antiquities on the road between Chester and London and his immensely popular account of the antiquities of London none of Pennant’s English tours were published during his lifetime. This account of his 1787 tour to the Isle of Wight was edited by his son David and published in 1801. Rather than heading directly to the island Pennant’s tour took in much of the south-east coast of England travelling first from London to Dover before traversing the coasts of Kent and Sussex" Royal Collection Trust. Printed at the Oriental Press by Wilson & Co. for Edward Harding hardcover books
1911réf. 851901911. TRAVEL - YOKOHAMA. AMENOMORI N. THE GRAND HOTEL LIMITED. H. E. MANWARING MANAGER. GUIDE BOOK FOR YOKOHAMA AND VICINITY. Yokohama: "Japan Gazette" Press 1911. A small pocket-size guide 14 x 10.5 cm in color illustrated paper wrappers that show the Grand Hotel on the front and a view of Fuji on the back side-sewn with ribbon ties. 46518 text pp. 81 adv. pp. folding map. Following the first section a description of the hotel and the surrounding area which also includes lists of holidays postage money weights and measures etc. there is a section of Anglo-Japanese conversation for tourists. The advertising section is comprised of a wide variety of merchants products and services pearls jewels and curios silks and embroideries photography studios fine hotels pharmacies cars for hire ship and rail lines etc. The small fold-out plan 12.5 x 20 cm of Yokohama City at the end is in fine condition. Negligible edgewear to wrappers and the first few text leaves have one slightly dog-eared corner otherwise it is quite fresh and in very good condition overall. unknown books
1577réf. 5425London: Richard Jugge 1577. SECOND EDITION GREATLY EXPANDED. Hardcover. Fine. A fine complete copy in 18th c. calfskin rebacked with some wear at the board edges. Title page lightly soiled the outer corner and lower margin a bit ragged a few light marginal stains in the text some text on p 30 lightly printed. Light damp-staining at the beginning of the volume heavier in gatherings B and C; small marginal wormhole to first 5 and last 2 leaves. Scattered light finger-soiling; last leaf verso soiled and lightly foxed. Text printed in black letter; woodcut illustrated initials. Illustrated with a woodcut of the South Pole showing "the order of the starres about the pole Antartike" on folio 436 verso. Provenance: bookplate of Thomas Pennant 1726-1798 Welsh naturalist and travel writer. Complete copies are rare especially in early bindings. The second and best edition of Richard Eden's translation of the first four books of Peter Martire d'Anghiera's "De Orbe Novo"On the New World only the third book in English to describe the Americas here revised and greatly expanded by Richard Willes who translated the remaining parts of d'Anghiera's original and added numerous additional travel accounts from the Americas Asia Africa and Europe. The book with its accounts of the voyages and travels of Columbus and Magellan and Cortes' conquest of Mexico ignited English interest in exploration and colonization. The account of Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe is the first in English as is the description of Japan. Among the other accounts are Frobisher's search for the Northwest Passage travels to Persia by English merchants and Ludovico de Varthema's travels to the Middle East and India in 1502-1507. Shakespeare likely derived the name of Setebos the unseen god in "The Tempest" from Willes's translation of Magellan's account of the Tehuelche people of Patagonia. Peter Martyr occupied a position of unrivalled authority among the early historians of exploration. A member and official Chronicler of Charles V's Council of the Indies Consejo de Indias he knew Columbus and had direct access to the original documents of his voyage as well as access to the documents from the voyages of da Gama Cortés Magellan Cabot and Vespucci. His "De Orbe Novo Decades" the first part of which was published in Latin at Alcalá in 1516 drew on this exceptional proximity to produce the first systematic history of the Americas. His works were "held in the highest esteem by his contemporaries and are indispensable as a primary source for the history of early European exploration of the Americas." Hill Richard Eden's translation of the first three Decades and an abridgment of the fourth published in 1555 as "The Decades of the Newe World" was a landmark in English publishing history. It made detailed knowledge of the New World available to English readers for the first time contained the first publication in English of Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe and helped to create a robust appetite for voyages of discovery among the English. Eden's "translations of the geographic works of other writers helped foster a spirit of overseas exploration in Tudor England. The new protector the Earl of Northumberland wished to challenge Spain's global empire and he encouraged publications that would help encourage such enterprise" Hadfield. Eden was "the pioneer of British geographic research the very first of our naval chroniclers and the herald and forerunner of all our subsequent discoveries". Arber Following Eden's death in 1576 Willes undertook a thorough revision and vast expansion of the work transforming the compilation into a comprehensive survey of the known world. In his preface Willes explains that Eden had intended to augment his earlier translations "by putting thereunto in English Ludovico de Varthema's navigation into Egypt Arabia Siria Persia and India with our Merchantes Muscovian and Persian travelles: but death prevented his purpose." Willes reorganized the book to make it easier to follow cut away superfluous translations filled gaps with Martyr's other writings and fulfilled Eden's wishes with his own translations. The volume is organized into four parts. The first part contains the first four Decades of Peter Martyr together with Oviedo's history of the West Indian navigation and accounts of New Spain Mexico Peru Rio de la Plata the lands of Labrador and Baccalaos and the discovery of Florida. The second part presents Frobisher's attempt to find the Northwest Passage together with accounts of China Japan and other parts of Southeast Asia. The third part describes travels to northern Europe including Russia Scandinavia Greenland Iceland Lapland and the Baltic Sea drawn from the writings of Jacob Ziegler Paulo Giovio Hayton of Corycus and Baron Sigismund Freiherr. Willes includes accounts of certain London merchants' travels through Russia into Persia "describing the resources customs of the people and trade authorized by the Shah." The fourth part sets down the merchants' voyages into Guinea and southeastern Africa and Varthema's travels into Egypt Ethiopia Arabia Syria Persia and East India. The account of Magellan's circumnavigation is drawn from Maximilian Transylvanus' letter to the Cardinal of Salzburg and from Martyr's other works. The book concludes with the abridgment of Martyr's last four Decades "wherein especially that noble and glorious conquest of Mexico is written." "Eden and Willes were the precursors of Hakluyt and lived in a time when many seamen were leaving British ports to penetrate the mysteries of the unknown world" Cambridge History. Both editions have long been considered crucial to the history of English exploration and to the ideological formation of England's imperial ambitions; the second edition with its extensive material on Asia the Northwest Passage and the wider world is regarded as the more important and influential of the two. Richard Jugge hardcover books
1903réf. 2697Cleveland: Winn & Judson 1903. About very good. 64pp. Original color printed wrappers. Light wear to wraps spine chipping at foot. Light toning internally. An extensively detailed and well illustrated promotional for the Winter 1903 Gates Tour of Mexico with optional itineraries for the Grand Canyon Las Vegas and California. A 1904 article in the National Magazine lauded Gates as a "world-renowned manager of Mexican tours" stating that no one should contemplate touring Mexico with anyone else. Traveling to Mexico by rail in proprietary rail cars Gates provided full service tourism to all the most interesting and prominent locales in Mexico -- tourism the American way. Participants traveled south from Chicago through Texas and central Mexico to Mexico City and returned to the United States by way of the Sonoran Desert and El Paso. Heavily illustrated with photographs and a map of the route and with painstaking descriptions of travel amenities and the many sights and towns on the journey. Winn & Judson unknown books
2001réf. S8167Kansas City:: Linda Hall Library 2001. 2001. 4to. 20 pp. Numerous illus. many color index. Pictorial wrappers. FINE. Linda Hall Library, 2001. unknown books
1931réf. LLV2250London:: Macmillan & Co. 1931-32. 1931. 3 issues. Small 4to. pp. 1053-88; 181-216; 413-448. Original self-wraps. Very good. Macmillan & Co.), 1931-32. paperback books
1925réf. 4849Various locations in the American Southwest West Coast and Pacific Northwest 1925. Very good. 30 leaves illustrated with 270 photographs of various sizes including two multi-panel panoramic photographs each leaf with a single printed caption identifying the subjects or location. Oblong folio. Contemporary red leather gilt titles on front cover. Some scuffing and abrading to covers a few short edge tears. Internally clean. A handsome annotated photograph album produced to commemorate a railroad trip by a well-to-do party of travelers from Kansas City through New Mexico Arizona Colorado California and up the West Coast to British Columbia and Alberta in 1925. The first photograph in the album is a panorama of a large group of well-dressed men and women at the Mission Hills Country Club in Kansas City captioned in the negative indicating the traveling party emanated from Kansas City as part of the "N.E.L.A. Red Special Delegation to San Francisco Convention" who were "Guests of K.C.P and L Co" presumably the Kansas City Power & Light Company. The second and much larger panoramic photograph is comprised of fifteen 5-x-8-inch photographs picturing the travelers posed outside the numerous Pullman cars that comprise the Red Special. The preponderance of the photographs are organized by location generally five or six photographs per page with a single printed caption per page mostly indicating the location. The body of photographs begins with facing pages of images featuring the travelers and some scenery in Colorado Springs and Garden of the Gods in Colorado. A sampling of subsequent groups of photographs feature the travelers at Pike's Peak Albuquerque the Grand Canyon San Bernardino Redlands Los Angeles Santa Barbara Del Monte Yosemite Valley Glacier Point Mariposa Grove San Francisco Shasta the Columbia River Victoria Vancouver Canadian Rockies Lake Louise Lake Agnes Moraine Lake Johnson's Canyon Banff and other locations. The album closes with four pages of photos picturing "Fellow Travelers Here and There" and a group photo of "The Train Crew." The latter photograph is the only one featuring African Americans who were likely working as Pullman porters on the Red Special. A wide-ranging series of photographs featuring much of the American and Canadian West before the Great Depression. unknown books
1781réf. 17045London: E Newberry 1781. First Edition. State B. Full contemporary calf. Good; recased at some point; 3-4 inch repaired tear in the map no loss; some offsetting and spotting; rubbing and chafing to the binding; snag at head of the spine. 8vo 4. xlvi 388 396 pp. folding frontispiece folding map four plates. The first full account of Cook's last voyage by the second lieutenant aboard the Discovery. The text contains reports of many incidents of the voyage that differ from the official record as well as many 'firsts' e.g. the descriptions of Hawaii. An important touchstone in the Pacific bibliography. Hill #1453; Forbes #33 State B no priority; Beddie #1607; Lada-Mocarski #32 - "Howay's research showed that Rickman's work may have been the first surreptitious issue of the Journal of Cook's last voyage to appear almost three years before the official authorized edition of 1784." E Newberry unknown books
1899réf. 16040Algeria: Not Published. 1899. Unique. Black cloth of the period. Very good. Oblong 4to 78 pp. 44 mounted photographs accompanied by four watercolors A travel account of Algeria by three comrades-in-arms in the French army during the year 1898 - 1899. The places visited include Sidi-Ben-Nour Kouba and Birmandreis Aïn Baïnem and Guyotville Boufarik and finally Duperré in Feb. 1899. The French in Algeria is a troubled story. Much of the interior i.e. land outside the large cities of army occupation was never under their control. A newly reconstituted colonial adminstration after 1898 was not a solution. Hence this trip to the 'interior' is perhaps extraordinary and revelatory for the photographic record of little visited people and places. Prevost was an accomplished watercolorist and provides a ground plan of part of an old Turkish fort map an ornate menu for the record of a meal at Aïn Baïnem and a frontispiece for the text. The participants were out to enjoy themselves but had a sensitivity to their surroundings that is recorded in the text. A most interesting narrative. Not Published. hardcover books
1930réf. 42942n.p. 1930. Paperback. Very Good. 2p. text plus 19 photos of Osaka Castle printed on one side only with captions above and below in English and Japanese. Original tied softcover pamphlet. Pictorial wrapper. Oblong 13 cm. Title in Japanese our English title is just a guess. Brief text and captions in Japanese and English. paperback books
1784réf. 50200London. ca. 1784. Engraved Cook Plate An individual plate from the atlas to Cook's Third Voyage. Engraving. Folio. Matted suitable for framing with the mat cut to near the plate mark. Very good. unknown books
1784réf. 50202London. ca.1784. An individual plate from the atlas to Cook's THIRD VOYAGE. Plate not captioned in print. Engraving. Folio. Matted suitable for framing with the mat cut to near the plate mark. Very good. unknown books
1784réf. 50203London. ca.1784. An individual plate from the atlas to Cook's THIRD VOYAGE. Engraving. Folio. Matted suitable for framing with the mat cut to near the plate mark. Very good. unknown books
1784réf. 50195London. ca.1784. An individual plate from the atlas to Cook's THIRD VOYAGE. - ALASKA AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. Engraving. Folio. Matted suitable for framing with the mat cut to near the plate mark. Very good. unknown books
1784réf. 50204London. ca.1784. An individual plate from the atlas to Cook's THIRD VOYAGE. Engraving. Folio. Matted suitable for framing with the mat cut to near the plate mark. Very good. unknown books
1784réf. 50194London. ca.1784. An individual plate from the atlas to Cook's THIRD VOYAGE. - ALASKA AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. Engraving. Folio. Matted suitable for framing with the mat cut to near the plate mark. Very good. unknown books
1784réf. 10710London. ca.1784. An individual plate from the Atlas to Cook's THIRD VOYAGE. - ALASKA AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. Engraving. Folio. Matted suitable for framing with the mat cut to near the plate mark. Very good. unknown books
1784réf. 50199London. ca.1784. An individual plate from the atlas to Cook's THIRD VOYAGE. Engraving. Folio. Matted suitable for framing with the mat cut to near the plate mark. Very good. unknown books
1784réf. 10711London. ca.1784. An individual plate from the Atlas to Cook's THIRD VOYAGE - KAMCHATKA. Engraving. Folio. Matted suitable for framing with the mat cut to near the plate mark. Very good. unknown books
1784réf. 50198London. ca.1784. An individual plate from the tlas to Cook's THIRD VOYAGE. Engraving. Folio. Matted suitable for framing with the mat cut to near the plate mark. Very good. unknown books
1828réf. E00212 Volumes: viii323 pages; iv304i ad pages with glossary. Small octavo 7 3/4" x 5" in original paper covered boards and spine title labels as originally issued. From the library of Professor George M Foster. Sabin:42852; Hill page 186 1st edition. G F Lyon was an English traveler born in Chichester England in 1795; died at sea in October 1832. He entered the British naval service in 1809 was present at the attack on Algiers by Lord Exmouth in 1816 and in 1818 was commissioned to accompany Joseph Ritchie on his tour of exploration into central Africa. Ritchie died in Fezzan and Lyon returned to England after encountering many dangers and privations which he described in his Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa London 1821. In 1821 in command of the Hecla he accompanied Captain William E. Parry on his arctic expedition publishing on his return The Private Journal of Captain G. F. Lyon 1824. In 1824 he sailed in command of the Griper' with the mission of exploring Melville peninsula and following its western shore as far as Turn-again he found after three months' searching a passage through the group of islets called Southampton island but was unable to enter Repulse bay through Sir Thomas Rowe's Welcome. On 13 September a violent tempest compelled him to return to England. The story of the voyage was told in A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt 1825. He subsequently passed several years in Mexico and died on his return from a second visit to America. His remaining works are The SketchBook of Captain G. F. Lyon during Eighteen Months' Residence in Mexico No. 1 London 1827 and Journal of a Residence and Tour in Mexico in 1828 London 1828. George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in. Condition: Spines renewed with original chipped spine labels laid on front end papers chipped and damaged at edges corners bumped and rubbed Foster's stamp on end papers old owner's signature on covers internally near fine else over all very good. John Murray hardcover books
réf. 37715LIBRAIRE DES ARTS ET VOYAGES REVUE DES ARTS ASIATIQUES. Volumes 1-12. Paris: 4to. Later cloth. First edition. An important review based on the collection of Musee Guimet Paris. With articles by Osvald Siren Sidney Kaplan Claude Marcel-Dubois R. Pfister M. Paul Pelliot Morimoto and others on the art and archaeology of Mesopotamia Iran India Tibet China Indo-China and Japan. Very good. unknown books
1905réf. List01130V.P. 1905. Twenty five silver gelatin photographs measuring 3 ⅜ square on slightly larger mounts. Slight fading to images excellent overall. Very Good. A collection of travel photographs most captioned likely taken by a N.E.A. delegate on a 1905 tour of the Southwest which ended in San Antonio and also including some photographs taken in Mexico in a presumed continuation of those travels. Several images mention delegates one sign on the side of a train car reads "welcome N.E.A. delegates" and the route matches one found in contemporary newspaper accounts of a trip through the Southwest in 1905. The images are mix of candid shots and tourist attractions with the Alamo represented as well as several events and some street scenes taken in Mexico. unknown books
1842réf. 5750Veracruz: November 7 1842. Good plus. Broadside form completed in manuscript approximately 12.5 x 8.5 inches. Previously folded with minor wear and soiling along old folds. A couple of small chips at right edge. Even tanning and scattered foxing. A passport granted to one Smith Thompson an "Oficial de la Marina Americana para que pueda transladarso à Mexico con el objecto de pasear" dated November 7 1842. An interesting side notes states that he carries "armas para su defensa en el camino." The passport was issued at Veracruz the main port of entry to Mexico from the eastern seaboard. It is remotely possible that this is the Smith Thompson who served as Secretary of the Navy under Monroe although at this point in his life he had been a Supreme Court Justice for nearly twenty years. November 7 unknown books
1855réf. 3164Flat Woods Va: December 10 1855. Very good. 4pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor wear. A detailed record of one man's travels upriver and overland to Missouri in search of a place to resettle. Jonathan Koiner 1820-1889 of Flatwoods West Virginia went on a western tour in 1855 to scout potential emigration destinations. He traveled with his brother Absalom who quite abruptly stepped off the steamboat in northern Iowa leaving Jonathan to continue alone. Most of this letter describes Jonathan's travels in Missouri: from Hannibal by hack to Paris and then 25 miles on foot to Mexico. There he saw a prairie fire a bustling courthouse with judges and lawyers chomping on cigars and several relatives of his wife's. He took a carriage thirty miles to Columbia "the Athens of the state where the state university is situated & several fine female institutions." At Marshall his westernmost point he saw the 300-acre hemp farm of a man named Bruce who "has a good many slaves but he is one of the largest hemp growers in the U.S." He also witnessed "scores of wild cranes & wild geese one cloudy day in the corn fields above Marshall." He met the well-known pro-slavery jurist William Barclay Napton "the great antagonist of T.H. Benton"; former governor Meredith Miles Marmaduke; and numerous extended family members and friends who had already made the move west. On his way home he was inspired by St. Louis and Cincinnati with their "living moving masses of men & things!" He concludes with his decision to sell his Virginia land and move his young family west though census records suggest that he never did so. An informative missive of an exploratory emigration journey. December 10 unknown books
