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Best.-Nr. 11952Nevill Hotel Newcastle; Yarmouth Roads; Ship Alice Walton; Stanley Harbour Falkland Islands; Callao Lima Peru. Dating from between November 1864 and October 1865. Eight items totalling 3pp. 4to; 19pp. 12mo. All are all addressed to 'Dear Sam'. All in good condition on lightly-aged paper. 'I never had such weather or suffered so much as I have this voyage from one thing and another' declares the author and this series of eight letters provides a vivid account by the captain of a Victorian cargo ship of a voyage packed with misfortune. As mishap is heaped upon mishap the author's spelling deteriorates. ONE. Neville Hotel Newcastle. Undated late 1864. Among other news he writes that the Alice Walton is 'a good little ship' on which he will be 'very comfortable . I think she will sail well.' TWO. Newcastle. 6 November 1864. Newcastle is 'a wretched place to me . I have no acquaintance and I cannot afford do go to any amusements. . I wish you could spare time to come up here if it was not so expensive travelling it would just suit Mother and Harriett for it is a nice ride in a steam boat down the river and you are on the sea shore at once.' He writes critically of 'Master John Abell' who has 'gone to Liverpool'. THREE. Yarmouth Roads. 3 December 1864. 'Dear Sam Here we are only about 200 miles from where we started. I have had most fearfull sic weather since we have been out and we lost most of our sails and forced to put in here for more. I sent a telegraph to Liverpool and they have sent one back to say that I am to wait here till I receive new sails so it will be Monday before I get away . I will write per the Pilot when he leaves'. FOUR. He gives more details of his misfortunes after leaving Newcastle on 18 November. 'The main Topsail blew away and on the 24th. we had a terrific Gale and nearly all our sails blew away leaving us compleatly sic helpless on a dead lea shore. Sam I have seen some Gales of winds since I have been travelling the Salt Sea but I think I was in as great danger as ever I was in for we were surrounded by sands but we managed to put the Ship before the wind and run clean into Hasborourgh Roads were sic we had to remain 5 days repairing sails but could not get on Shore There was a fishing Boat came along side but he asked me 5£ to land me and bring me back After we had repeared sic our sails we made another start and we got down as far as Orfordness Lights but the wind again increased again sic to a strong Gale and I was obliged to run into Yarmouth Roads were sic I am waiting for Sails from Liverpool which I expect tomorrow.' He is sending his brother 'a newspaper were sic you will see the dreadful wrecks there as sic been on and about this coast close to where I was and the Loss of life there was on the 24th 25 &c'. FIVE. Ship Alice Walton. 16 December 1864. Docketed 'Letters from John whilst Master of "Alice Walton"'. He gives a further description of the gale: 'The wind came a little fair the night before we started there several vessels started to go away one got stuck altogether another got on the sands and became a complete wreck another during the night ran on shore and filled with water I can assure you Sam this has been a fearfull Time about here for wrecks gales and destruction to Shipping'. SIX. Ship Alice Walton Stanley Harbour Falkland Islands. He begins: 'Dear Sam You will think by this time that I am lost but no not lost but very near it . We arrived off the Cape Horn on the 20th. of February when we had some of the most terrific weather and Gales of wind I ever experienced we had these one after another till the 2nd. March when I was off the pitch of the Horn one of those terrific Seas came on board carring sic away the Bulwarks stauncheons the Cabin and nearly all its contents Wheel &c taking nearly all the Clothes and Nautical Instruments that was in the Cabin belonging to myself and officers leaving us destitute and a complete wreck three men was washed overboard but we recovered them again one man killed one with his leg Broken and 4 or 5 more or less injured got the Ship before the Wind and the remainder of the crew came aft to me twice asking me to bear up for some Port for they were nearly done up I at last bore up for this port and arrived on the 6th. March'. He continues by describing his plans for the resumption of the voyage. SEVEN. Stanley Harbour Falkand Islands. 18 April 1865. 'I can assure you Sam I never had such weather or suffered so much as I have this voyage from one thing and another I have nearly lost all my clothes and will have to buy a few here to get along with I wrote in my last all about the accidance. sic My repears sic for the ship cost £594. 5. 5 it is a very bad job for me but I can say that I have done my duty and have been as carefull sic as I possible sic can.' EIGHT. Callao. 10 October 1865. He reports that he is 'starting for home . I came back from the Islands yestereday and will start from hear sic today but I am so busy that I have not a moment to spare & I have been verry sic ill with Fever but I am now better'. Nevill Hotel, Newcastle; Yarmouth Roads; Ship Alice Walton; Stanley Harbour, Falkland Islands; Callao, Lima, Peru. Dating from b hardcover
2025Best.-Nr. __1394227221Wiley–Blackwell 2025. Hardcover. New. 432 pages. 11.02x8.66x2.76 inches. Wiley–Blackwell hardcover
1797Best.-Nr. 107227BBParis, Didot l'ainé, An V. 1797. 12° (13 x 8 cm.). 255 S.; 239 S. mit gestoch. Portrait-Frontispiz von (Robert) De Launay und 8 Kupfertafeln von J(ean)-J(aques) Coiny nach L(ouis) J(oseph) Lefèvre. Weinrote Maroquin-Lederbände mit goldgepr. Rückentiteln, dekorativer Rückenvergoldung, goldgepr. Deckel- und Innenkantenfiletten und Goldschnitt. 2 Bände. Nouv. édition, augmentée d'une suite qui n'a point
1891Best.-Nr. 15492Paris, à la librairie illustrée, sans date [1891]. In-4 de [4]-480 pages, demi-chagrin vert empire, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons dorés, couvertures conservées.
1887Best.-Nr. 2444Lyon Imprimerie Pitrat Aîné 1887 in-8 de 8 pp. br., couv. impr
1754Best.-Nr. 15398Paris, Durand, 1754. Kl. 8°, 94 [74] Seiten, 1 Blatt. mit gestochener Titelvignette. Neuer marmorierter Pappband mit goldgeprägtem Rückenschild und 3seitigem Rotschnitt.
1897Best.-Nr. 9890Paris A. Pedone 1897 in-8 br., couv. impr
1879Best.-Nr. 236621Madrid: M. Tello 1879. xliv 328 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full brown morocco a.e.g. wrappers bound in rubbing at joints but sound. xliv 328 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. M. Tello unknown
1879Best.-Nr. 236621Madrid: M. Tello 1879. xliv 328 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full brown morocco a.e.g. wrappers bound in rubbing at joints but sound. xliv 328 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. M. Tello unknown books
1928Best.-Nr. 31878N.p.: s.i. 1928. Very Good. N.p.: s.i. 1928. First Edition. 12mo 16cm.; publisher's pictorial staple bound wrappers signed in image "GEL"; illustrated throughout including photograph of a kindergarten class in Lima. Very light wear to margins brief tape repair inside upper left-hand panel else a Very Good example. Transformation fund-raising pamphlet for American kindergarten students to raise money for supplies at a kindergarten in Lima Peru. The front wrappers open like a pair of doors into a kindergarten supply store "For we're buying with the money / Juniors give o'er all this land / For the Lima Kindergarten. / They already have the land." Through another door leads to a photograph of the students at the Lima Kindergarten sitting expectantly in a classroom for their Froebel school supplies: "There are balls and books and pictures / To be colored and cut out; / Blocks and shining letters on them / Pencil crayons. Hear that shout" Unrecorded in OCLC as of January 2025. s.i. unknown
1928Best.-Nr. 31878N.p.: s.i. 1928. Very Good. N.p.: s.i. 1928. First Edition. 12mo 16cm.; publisher's pictorial staple bound wrappers signed in image "GEL"; illustrated throughout including photograph of a kindergarten class in Lima. Very light wear to margins brief tape repair inside upper left-hand panel else a Very Good example. Transformation fund-raising pamphlet for American kindergarten students to raise money for supplies at a kindergarten in Lima Peru. The front wrappers open like a pair of doors into a kindergarten supply store "For we're buying with the money / Juniors give o'er all this land / For the Lima Kindergarten. / They already have the land." Through another door leads to a photograph of the students at the Lima Kindergarten sitting expectantly in a classroom for their Froebel school supplies: "There are balls and books and pictures / To be colored and cut out; / Blocks and shining letters on them / Pencil crayons. Hear that shout" Unrecorded in OCLC as of January 2025. s.i. unknown books
1984Best.-Nr. 65663Lima Peru: Secretaría del Ministro de Marina 1984. 3a ed. numerada corr. y ampliada. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Slight bowing at rear board oversize book. Text in Spanish. 441 p. : ill. some col. ; 29 cm. This work also commemorated the Sesquicentenario de su natalicio 1834/1984. Section entitled Grau el Marino Eponimo del Pery pro Fernando Romero starts at page 29 and goes to page 68. From Wikipedia: Miguel María Grau Seminario was a renowned Peruvian naval officer and hero of the Naval Battle of Angamos during the War of the Pacific 1879-1884. He was known as the el Caballero de los Mares Spanish for "Gentleman of the Seas" for his chivalry and is esteemed by both Peruvians and Chileans. He is an iconic figure for the Peruvian Navy and one of the most famous merchant marine and naval military leaders of America. His mother Luisa Seminario y del Castillo motivated Grau to love the sea from his youth. He entered the Paita Nautical School. He first went to sea when he was nine years old going to Fortune Colombia aboard a merchant schooner. Grau later went on various merchant ships to ports in Oceania Asia America and Europe. In 1853 at the age of 19 he left the merchant marine and became an officer candidate of the Peruvian Navy where he developed an outstanding professional reputation. In 1854 he was Military officer of the steamer Rimac. His career was rapid and brilliant. In 1863 he was promoted a year later. In 1864 he was sent to Europe to oversee the construction of ships for the Peruvian fleet. Upon his return Chile and Peru joined together in a bi-national fleet against Spanish attempts to reclaim their American colonies. In 1868 he was recalled to the Navy and was named commander of the Huáscar with the rank of Lieutenant Commander. By June 1 1874 he became the commanding officer of the Peruvian Navy's fleet and later became a member of the Congress of the Republic of Peru as an elected congressman in 1876 representing Paita. the War of the Pacific against Chile began on 5 April 1879 Miguel Grau was aboard the Huáscar as its captain and the Commander of the Navy. Capitán Grau played an important role by interdicting Chilean lines of communication and supply damaging capturing or destroying several enemy vessels and bombarding port installations. Grau's Huáscar became famed for moving stealthily striking by surprise and then disappearing. These actions put off a Chilean invasion by sea for six months. At the Battle of Iquique after Huáscar sank the Chilean corvette Esmeralda by ramming her Grau ordered the rescue of the surviving crew from the waters. Grau also wrote condolences to the widow of his opponent Arturo Prat returning his sword and personal effects. At the port of Antofagasta after sneaking up on an enemy ship he courteously asked the crew to abandon ship before opening fire. These and other gestures earned him the nickname of el Caballero de los Mares "Gentleman of the Seas" from his Chilean opponents acknowledging an extraordinary sense of chivalry and his gentlemanly behavior combined with his highly-efficient and brave combat career. Almirante Grau was killed by an armor-piercing shell during the Naval Battle of Angamos on 8 October 1879. Huáscar was captured by the Chileans after incurring severe casualties in the close-range artillery duel. Although most of Grau's body was not recovered his remains were buried with military honours in Chile which were returned to Peru in 1958. For many years after his death his name was called in a ceremonial roll-call of the Peruvian Navy. His final resting place lies at the Escuela Militar Naval del Peru in El Callao in an underground mausoleum. He posthumously received the rank of Gran Almirante del Perú Grand Admiral of Peru in 1967 by order of the Peruvian Congress. A portrait of Almirante Grau is on display in the museum ship Huáscar. In the year 2000 Miguel Grau was recognized as the "Peruvian of the Millennium" by popular vote. Secretaría del Ministro de Marina hardcover
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1874Best.-Nr. 2678Paris Au bureau du Journal de l'Agriculture, chez G. Masson [Chaix, Impr. centrale des chemins de fer] 1874 plaquette in-8 de 39 pp. br., couv. bleue impr
1894Best.-Nr. 6542[Leipzig Koehler], avec étiquettes de relais de la librairie Jean Maisonneuve [1894] in-8 de 2 ff.n.ch. et 67 pp. br., couv. verte impr., déch. et petits manques de papier, exemplaire non coupé
Madrid, Biblioteca Hispania, 1913-14, 2 tomos, 22,5 x 15 cm., holandesa piel de época, tejuelos y nervios, 354 págs. + 4 hojas = 434 págs. ? 6 hojas. (Reedición de la publicada en Sevilla 1571)
Best.-Nr. 256272 September 1850 from Trentham Staffordshire; and 4 September 1850 from London. Written during Prescott’s 1850 visit to England where he was greatly feted and lionized. Both items in good condition lightly aged and worn. Both folded for postage. Both to ‘Dear Lady Theresa’ and signed ‘Wm. H. Prescott’. See the Oxford DNB entry for the recipient Lady Maria Theresa Lewis 1803-1865 whose family home was the Grove Watford but who lived in Kent House in Knightsbridge with her second husband Sir George Cornewall Lewis Bart her first husband having been the novelist Thomas Henry Lister 1800-1842. ONE ‘Trentham / Sep. 2d.’ 1p 12mo. Begins by explaining that he will be ‘in London on my way to Ampthill on Thursday the 5th’. He asks her to allow him to avail himself of her kind invitation ‘to pass the night at Grove Mill House - & come down on the afternoon of Thursday’ He asks her to ‘drop a line’ to him at ‘Mivart’s - Upper Brook St - it will find me’. TWO: ‘London / Sept 4th’. 2pp 12mo. He has just returned to London and will be ‘most happy to come down to you to morrow - Thursday - by the train which reaches Watford at 3.45. I avail myself of your permission to pass four & twenty hours with when sic I shall be reluctantly compelled by my engagements to leave you at half past two on Friday’. He ends by sending his regards to ‘Mr Lewis’. 2 September [1850], from Trentham [Staffordshire]; and 4 September [1850], from London. unknown
Third edition, 2 vols., 8vo, xx, 379, [1]; xii, 304, 71, [1]pp., folding engraved map lightly browned, contemporary calf, upper joint of vol. I slightly cracked, spines tooled in gilt with contrasting leather labels, a nice set. "Hall was posted to the Conway, a 26-gun frigate on the South American station. His experiences are recorded in this journal, which includes accounts of bullfights, earthquakes, politics, revolutions, mining, trade, customs, and social life, of Valparaiso, Santiago, Callao, Lima, Payta, Guayaquil, and Panama. In Mexico, Acapulco, Tepic, and San Blas were visited." - Hill. Provenance: Volume one with the contemporary ink ownership inscription 'The Hon.ble The Bishop of Durham.' Hill, Pacific Voyages, p.134.
17852 voll. in 8° ant. (mm 185x110), entro mezze pelli verdi di poco posteriori, tagli spruzzati in azzurro, pp. XVI, 287, (3); VIII, 316; buona copia; prima edizione della traduzione di Ludovico A. Loschi. Lib / cat 14
2018Best.-Nr. A14581aPeru: Jurista Editores 2018. Soft cover. Very Good. 0x0x0. In Very Good Condition With No Remarks Or Highlights. Soft Cover. This Book Is Not Signed. 948 Pages Spanish Text.- Specializing in academic collectible and historically significant providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us. Jurista Editores paperback
1710Best.-Nr. 13374Franckfurt am Mayn, Friedrich Knochen., 1710. Pergamentband der Zeit; 180 x 11 cm; 16 Blatt inkl. Titel in Rot / Schwarz, 960 Seiten und 28 Blatt Register. - In sich abgeschlossene Ausgabe. Inhalt: bis Seite 636 die Geschichte von Asien mit Wiederholung der bibl. Geschichte und Kapiteln über Israel, Assyrien, Persien, China, Japan, Tartarisches Reich, Reich der Mogule, Syrien, Troja, Pergamon,. Türkei, Araber; ab Seite 637 Afrika mit Kapiteln über Ägypten, Karthago, Marokko, Nimidien, Tunis, Äthiopien; ab Seite 790 Amerika mit der Geschichte von Mexiko und Peru. - Anjetzo auß dem Englischen ins Hoch-teutsche übersetzt von C. J. W. (C.J. Wilke).1710.
Best.-Nr. 173671Paris, Henri Plon, 1863 in-8, [6]-472 pp., broché, non coupé.
1845IN 8°, pp. ( 4 ), 532, LEGATURA D'EPOCA IN MEZZA PELLE CON TITOLO E FREGI IN ORO, PIATTI RIGIDI MAREZZATI. L'OPERA E' DIVISA IN PIU' PARTI COSI' RIPARTITA :DE LARENAUDIERE - MESSICO, pp.1 - 255. GUATEMALA, pp.257 - 331. FEDERICO LACROIX - PERU' E BOLIVIA, pp.333 - 532. A SEGUIRE : 2 CARTE, 1 DEL MESSICO E GUATEMALA, L' ALTRA ANAHUAC COMPRENDENTE I REGNI DI MESSICO, D' ACOLHUACAN DI MECIOACAN E LE REPUBBLICHE DI TLASCALA DI CHOLULA, DI HUEXOTXINCO, ECC. COM'ERANO NEL 1521. ENTRAMBE f.t.+v.r. SEGUONO TAVV. 44 PER IL MESSICO, 22 GUATEMALA. 8 IUCATAN, 1 CARTA + v.r. DI PERU' E BOLIVIA, 12 PERU' E BOLIVIA. IL TUTTO f.t. in b/n. OPERA FACENTE PARTE DELLA COLLANA " L'UNIVERSO " O STORIA E DESCRIZIONE DI TUTTI I POPOLI, ECC. TRADUZIONE DI A. F. FALCONETTI, TESTO SU DUE COLONNE. COMPLESSIVAMENTE, LE TAVV. SONO 89 E NON 78, COME RIPORTATO NEL FRONTESPIZIO. OTTIMA CONSERVAZIONE.5377
1820Best.-Nr. LBW-3709[circa 1820]. 592 x 426 mm.
