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1889rif. GITk481Paris Hachette 1889. In-12 351pp. Pleine toile noire, dos lisse, reliure de l'époque. Orné de 56 illustrations dont 42 hors texte; 2 cartes à pleine page. Reliure modeste avec manque sur le mors du 2e plat, rousseurs.
in-8, 474 pp., illustrations en noir, cartonnage. Bon état. [MA-3]
1914Pages 303-396 plus 28 pages of ads, many wonderfully illustrated. Numerous black and white illustrations and photos in text. Features: Saved by Two Inches - How a big-horn sheep brought a veteran hunter to the verge of destruction in Montana; Gun-Running with Mexican Outlaw Emiliano Zapata - article with great photos; A Terrible Trip - Gold Searching in German New Guinea; Twenty Years in Newfoundland (Part II) - article with nice photos; Fishermen's Luck - a story from New Zealand involving T. Colthart, H. Hewlett and D.G. FitzGibbon; Across the Andes and Down the Amazon - the story of an adventurous journey (part II); The Well of Skulls - a story from Hyderabad; The Lake of Life - the Idiong secret society in Africa; The King Who Met His Match - a story from Sierra Leone; Trapped in a Tank (cover illustration); Captured by the Monkey-Men - an explorer's tale from the Orinoco River; The Smugglers of Gibraltar; Pete the Pup - an adventurous dog in New Mexico. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Minor chipping to back strip. Three inch opening between front cover and base of spine. Overall a pleasing copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
1987rif. 9612Stuttgart : Pietsch, 1987. 238 S. : zahlr. Ill., Kt. 8°. 1. Aufl. Ill. OPpbd.
rif. 71531Robert Marin 1952 livre récit 25,5*19,5 sp pages
rif. 7762NRF, 1952. In-8* broche, couverture souple illustree, 390 pages.
1974rif. VENEZUELA710Gallimard, "Exploits", 1974, 12 x 21, 210 pages sous cartonnage éditeur illustré. Iconographie n&b.
1998IN-16°, PP. 59 (5), ILL. COL. N.T., BROSS. EDIT. CON BANDELLE, COP. ILL. COL., COME NUOVO (M), (OMNIBUS). M 488
rif. 9437À Paris. De l'imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné. Chez G. C. Hubert, libraire & chez Michaud, libraire. 1819. In-8°, reliure demi-basane (reliure postérieure). 164 pages. E.O. française parue la même année que l'originale anglaise.
grand in-8°, 573 pp., 6 pl. h.t., 2 cartes et 1 tableau geneal., glossaire, broche, couv. illustree à rabats. Contient : L'Orenoque et le Caura. Voyage aux sources de l'Orenoque par Jean CHAFFANJON.- Le Superbe Orenoque part Jules VERNE. Bon etat. [CA28-1][NV-4] Bon etat.
rif. FRE100Folio bifolium ca. 323x202cm 12 ¾ x 8 in. 3 pp. of manuscript text in English. Brown ink on yellowish watermarked laid paper. Docketed on the last page. Tears at the edges and fold marks but otherwise a very good document written in a legible hand. A rare English manuscript translation of the official Spanish sailing directions for the Boca Grande the main navigable mouth of the Orinoco received from Col. James Towers English and apparently intended for vessels carrying British volunteers upriver to Angostura today's Ciudad Bolívar Bolívar's headquarters during the Venezuelan War of Independence. The manuscript was likely supplied to the master of one of these transports who relied on it to navigate the treacherous approach and bring his vessel safely into the river. Following military reversals that forced Bolívar to retreat from Venezuela he established his provisional capital and military base at the remote Orinoco outpost of Angostura. From 1817 his agents in London recruited volunteers — many of them veterans of the Napoleonic Wars — to join the British Legions. Among their organizers was James Towers English who had served with Bolívar in 1818 before returning to Britain where he raised more than a thousand men. They began arriving at Angostura late that year. For the merchant vessels transporting them the approach to the Orinoco was especially hazardous: its low featureless delta was obstructed by a shallow bar and flanking shoals. Reliable sailing directions were therefore essential for reaching the river mouth where a local pilot could take the vessels safely upriver. English apparently provided this translation for precisely that purpose. The manuscript opens with the title “Directions for entering the River Orinoko translated from the Derrotero published at Cadiz in 1810 by Authority.” Despite extensive research we have been unable to locate the Cadiz edition to which this refers. The translator almost certainly meant the Derrotero de las islas Antillas de las costas de Tierra Firme y de las del seno Mexicano compiled by the Dirección de Trabajos Hidrográficos and printed in Madrid by the Imprenta Real in 1810. The manuscript translates the section on the Guiana coast pp. 49–51 dealing with the approach to the Boca Grande the principal mouth of the Orinoco. Following the coast westward from the Pomeroon River the directions give compass courses distances in leagues and soundings in fathoms. They guide the navigator by the few visible landmarks and by changes in the seabed from loose mud and small shells to hard sand “the colour of ground Coffee.” The directions explain how to cross the bar while keeping to the muddy bottom and avoiding the shoal off Cangrejos Crab Island ending at a sheltered anchorage where vessels were to await a local pilot since “any little vessel of the Country can supply a Pilot.” The translation ends with a table of latitudes for the principal points. A text-to-text comparison with the Spanish original shows a close and faithful translation which even reproduces most of the Spanish margin headings. Apart from a few minor slips and omissions and one doubtful compass bearing the principal alteration is the table which has been abbreviated and supplemented by an additional entry for the Great Mouth itself. Overall a rare navigational document from the British volunteer effort in Bolívar's war of independence and a careful English version of the Spanish directions for entering the Orinoco passed on by one of the British Legion's own organizers. unknown
1988rif. AMERIQQQSUD30315Paris, Seghers, 1988, 13,5 x 21,5, 355 pages sous couverture illustrée. Avec XVI pages (cahier central) d'illustrations en couleurs.
2014rif. 014130Cannes Centre d'art la Malmaison 2014 In-4 Broché, couverture illustrée à rabats
rif. 2351paris 1901 tome III numéro 2 in 4 broché paginé 128 à 212
1906rif. ABE-6543413613FORMAT A3-EN COUVERTURE INTERIEURE: "LA SAINTE CATHERINE"-UNE TERRIBLE COLLISION DE TRANSATLANTIQUES/ORENOQUE/KAISER WILHELM/3 PHOTOS-LE DRAME DE BOIS LE ROI/HEBERT/CESBRON/1P/8 PHOTOS-MINISTRE PENDANT UNE NUIT-TOULON: L'INCENDIE D'UN BATIMENT DES CHANTIERS DE LA SEYNE/2P/5 PHOTOS-UNE FONDATION IMPERIALE SOLFERINO/2P/9 PHOTOS-CORPS DE SOLDATS POSTAUX A PETERSBOURG/1P/PHOTOS-LES ESSAIS DU BALLON LA "PATRIE"/1P/4 PHOTOS
