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ref. 215303Paris, Berlandier, 1839 2 vol. in-8, 382 pp., 1 feuillet d'errata et 384 pp., bradel demi-veau caramel, dos orné (reliure postérieure). Rousseurs.
1748ref. P2-1B-2Paris, Nyon, 1748. Complet en 2 volumes in-12 (170x100mm), 4(f)-CVIII-505pp-Errata + XXXVI-484pp-Errata, reliure plein veau marbré d’époque, dos à 5 nerfs à caissons ornés, pièces de titre et de tomaison en maroquin rouge et vert, tranches rouges. Première Édition française traduite de l’anglais par Auguste-François Jault. Ex-Libris, armes non identifiées. Très bel exemplaire. 2 vols in-12°, Paris, 1748, full contemporary calf. Very nice set.
1825ref. W1883New York: Collins and Hannay 1825. 459 pages fold-out map of the "western country" and 3 engraved plates missing is the sketch of the lead mine district. First printing. Octavo. 3/ leather over marbled paper-covered boards. According to Wikipedia Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1793-1864 was an American geographer geologist and ethnologist noted for his early studies of Native American cultures as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River. He is also noted for his major six-volume study of Native Americans published in the 1850s. The book offered here is his report on an 1821 expedition from Missouri through Illinois and Indiana into Michigan. There is heavy emphasis on lead mining in Missouri and on treatymaking with the Chippewa and Potawatomi tribes. Howes S196. Quite scarce. The book is in about very good condition: sympathetically rebacked in gilt-ruled tan leather with new brown leather title patch; clean and tight; foxing throughout; previous owners' names and date on front endpaper. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible-Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Collins and Hannay Hardcover
1902ref. 25076Perth: Wm. Alfred Watson Government Printer 1902. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Perth Wm. Alfred Watson Government Printer 1902. Foolscap folio 62 pages with 4 illustrations plus a very large folding map 625 × 865 mm. Title-wrappers relatively recently bound in half calf and cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; title leaf slightly marked with trifling loss to the bottom corner-tip; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. Western Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 46 of 1902; only 1200 copies were printed. The 'expedition was fitted out to explore the remaining unknown regions of Australia on similar lines to the Elder expedition'. Lawrence Allen Wells third in command on the ill-fated Elder expedition of 1891-92 was leader. The party set out from Mullewa east of Geraldton on 13 June 1896; lack of water and the gruelling conditions brought the official expedition to an end on 6 November at Noonkanbah Station on the Fitzroy River with two men unaccounted for. It was not until late May of the following year that Wells located the bodies of the missing men his cousin Charles Wells and George Lindsay Jones nephew of the explorer David Lindsay. The detailed accounts of the three search expeditions undertaken by Wells accompanied by Nat Buchanan George Keartland and Sub-Inspector Ord respectively are included. Not least strong on contemporary race relations. Wm. Alfred Watson, Government Printer paperback
1675ref. P1-4D-6Milan, Recaldini, 1675. 2 parties reliées en un in-12 (140x70 mm), plein vélin époque, 6ff.n.c.-336 pp. Première édition Italienne. Petit trou de vers dans la reliure. First edition in Italian, 2 parts in on volume 12mo (140x70mm), contemporary vellum, binding slightly stained and rubbed.
1902ref. 13354London: John Murray 1902. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Pp. xxxvii 183; 184-383. Index. Top edges gilt. Illustrated with 122 plates with tissue guards of which 39 are color-printed 14 chromolithograph landscape views by R. Swain Gifford and Fred S. Dellenbaugh including frontispieces numerous letterpress illustrations. 16 plates of birds 2 of mammals and 7 of flowers and 83 are photogravures by Edward Curtis and others as well as maps and numerous text illustrations. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt light rubbing and wear to spines light rubbing to boards. Volume II includes contributions by William H. Dall Charles Keeler Henry Gannett William H. Brewer C. Hart Merriam George Bird Grinnell and M.L. Washburn. John Murray hardcover
1785ref. BOOKS0033095 volumes: 520 pages with frontispiece tables and six plates; 492 pages with tables 479 pages 587 pages 504 pages with nine plates. Octavo 8" x 5" bound in leather with raised spine bands and black labels with gilt lettering to spine. Complied by John Kent principally from Campbell's Lives of the Admirals Hill page 358 First Dublin edition. A London man of letters Campbell was quite successful with his numerous works of an historical and biographical nature. He collect a large and valuable library. He first published his Lives of the Admirals in four volumes in the years 1742 to 1744. There were several later editions. From 1744 to 1748 he compiled and published what became known as Campbell's enlarged edition of John Harris's Complete collection of voyages and travels originally published in 1702-1705. Campbell also made numerous important contributions to the Biographia Britannica under the signatures E and X including his own noble Scottish ancestors the Campbells. A memoir of him was inserted by Andrew Kippis in this same work. Campbell was an expert on the histories of Spain Portugal France and the British and the Dutch. In 1765he was appointed the royal agent for the province of Georgia and held that office until his death. There are many interesting references to him in James Boswell's Life of Johnson. John Kent published only tow editions of his compilation; this one and one published in London in 1776-1777. Condition: New spines with original leather boards. Volume one closed page edge tears with occasional page edges chipped only affecting margins. volume two damp stain to title gutter some occasional foxing. Some pages stained else a good to very good set Printed for J Williams hardcover
1785ref. BOOKS0033095 volumes: 520 pages with frontispiece tables and six plates; 492 pages with tables 479 pages 587 pages 504 pages with nine plates. Octavo 8" x 5" bound in leather with raised spine bands and black labels with gilt lettering to spine. Complied by John Kent principally from Campbell's Lives of the Admirals Hill page 358 First Dublin edition. A London man of letters Campbell was quite successful with his numerous works of an historical and biographical nature. He collect a large and valuable library. He first published his Lives of the Admirals in four volumes in the years 1742 to 1744. There were several later editions. From 1744 to 1748 he compiled and published what became known as Campbell's enlarged edition of John Harris's Complete collection of voyages and travels originally published in 1702-1705. Campbell also made numerous important contributions to the Biographia Britannica under the signatures E and X including his own noble Scottish ancestors the Campbells. A memoir of him was inserted by Andrew Kippis in this same work. Campbell was an expert on the histories of Spain Portugal France and the British and the Dutch. In 1765he was appointed the royal agent for the province of Georgia and held that office until his death. There are many interesting references to him in James Boswell's Life of Johnson. John Kent published only tow editions of his compilation; this one and one published in London in 1776-1777. Condition: New spines with original leather boards. Volume one closed page edge tears with occasional page edges chipped only affecting margins. volume two damp stain to title gutter some occasional foxing. Some pages stained else a good to very good set Printed for J Williams hardcover books
1895ref. 31933København 1895-96. Alle 3 bind i originale bogtrykte omslag ubeskårede og uopskårede. Omslagene lettere falmede og med et par smårifter ellers aldeles frisk eksemplar. 8374;8513;8272 pp. talrige tekstillustrationer 40 plancher heriblandt farvelitograferede plancher kort m.v. First edition of one of the first scientific expedition to Greenland lead by The Greenlandic Commission. It contains the first scientific survey of the huge areas around Scoresby Sound. Meddelelser om Grønland Bind 17-19. unknown
1904ref. 31978Kjøbenhavn Reitzel 1904-11. Ubeskårede og delvist uopskåret i originale bogtrykte omslag bagomslaget til første bind mangler. 12372;446;463;XIII431 pp. talrige tekstillustrationer 7 litograferde foldekort 32 plancher heraf flere i farvelitografi. Ekspeditionens resultater var meget omfattende både de geografiske opmålinger de zoologiske og botaniske men særligt må nævnes de betydningsfulde etnografiske samlinger som hjembragtes og som er beskrevet her Thalbitzer og Amdrup. - Meddelelser om Grønland Bd. 27-30. unknown
1751ref. SB-22550Göttingen, Vandenhoeck, 1751. 13 Bl., 467 S. Neuerer brauner Halblederband mit Lederecken und dreiseitigem Farbschnitt.. Mit 2 Kupfertafeln. Reisebeschreibung des Botanikers und Forschungsreisenden Johann Georg Gmelin (1709 - 1755) über seine Teilnahme an der "Großen Nordischen Expedition" bzw. "Zweiten Kamtschatkaexpedition" in den Jahren 1733 bis 1743. Ziel dieser unter der Leitung des Marineoffiziers Vitus Bering ("Kolumbus des Zaren", 1681 - 1741) unternommenen Expedition war vor allem die nähere Erkundung des bis dahin wenig erforschten Sibiriens und der nördlichen Küsten Rußland sowie der Seewege von Ostsibirien nach Nordamerika und Japan. Gmelin, der 1728 im Alter von erst 19 Jahren an der Universität Tübingen in den Fächern Medizin und Naturwissenschaften promoviert hatte, erlangte zur Fortsetzung seiner Studien ein Stipendium der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in St. Petersburg und 1731 eine Professur für Chemie und Naturgeschichte an der dortigen Universität. Ein Jahr darauf wurde er auf seine Bewerbung hin von Zarin Anna Iwanowna für die große Expedition ausgewählt. Die zehnjährige Reise bildete die Grundlage für Gmelins einschlägiges, in vier Bänden herausgegebenes Werk "Flora Sibirica sive Historia plantarum Sibiriae". Im hier vorliegenden Band 1 seines umfangreichen Berichtes beschreibt Gmelin den ersten Teil seiner Reise, die ihn über die Stationen Jaroslawl, Kasan, Tobolsk, Semipalatinsk, Ust-Kamenogorsk (Öskemen), Tomsk, Jenisseisk und Irkutsk bis Jakutsk führen sollte, von 1733 bis zum Mai 1735.
1973ref. 7695AMünchen, 1973.
1799ref. 74583Berlin, Haude und Spener, 1799. VII, (1), 325, (1) S., 1 Bl. Mit gestoch. Frontispiz (Porträt) u. 5 teilw. gefalt. Kupfertafeln. HLdr. d. Zt. mit Rückenschild u. linearen Fileten.
1876ref. 61115030126John Murray London 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Report to the Admiralty of the expedition that left Upernivick on 22 July 1875 and returning in October 1876. This is an ex-library copy with flaws as described. Black half-leather binding with banded spine and dark blue covers are lightly rubbed at edges binding is sound with strengthened inner hinges. Crossed and stamped large library label is pasted to the inside of the front cover additional end-papers darkened no half-title-page frontis map has been pasted to previous end-paper with resultant wrinkles on both surfaces and a stamp of "Free Public Library Westminster S.W." on the obverse of the frontis shows through the pasted end-paper although not visible from the map. Title-page is darkened has a crossed out reference number in the upper leading corner and a psted paper rectangle covering a "Free Public Library Westminster S.W." stamp small feint stamp on reverse and short closed tear approx 1cm on leading edge. Pages are little darkened with some smudge marks mainly in margins page 84 to 91have a very small ink mark on the lower corner "Free Public Library Westminster S.W." stamp acorss the bottom of the final page. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 61115030126. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. John Murray hardcover
1975ref. 61484Graz, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1973-1975. Fol. bzw. (Bd. 4) Gr.-Fol. Mit zahlr. tlw. farb. bzw. ganzs. Abbildungen im Text u. auf 207 Tafeln. Zus. ca. 375 S., Illustr.-OLwd.-Bde.
1804ref. P1-4D-4Paris, Buisson, 1804. In-folio (37x28 cm) cartonnage orangé, non rogné (Reliure de l’époque). 2ff- 2 cartes dépliantes – 28 planches. Atlas seul, contenant deux cartes dépliantes et 28 planches de costumes, vues et histoire naturelle, gravées en taille-douce par Tardieu, Delignon, Niquet et Delvaux. Cartonnage un peu frotté, dos manquant, mais intérieur bien frais. Non rogné, sans les 3 volumes de texte. Atlas of the French translation “an account of an embassy to the kingdom of Ava”, 2 folding maps and 28 plates bound in contemp. board, binding worn, the plates are very clean, no foxing or water stain. Size folio (37x28 cm).
1779ref. BOOKS0003374282 pages lacking the map. Small quarto 10" x 7½" rebound in ¾ morocco & marbled boards spine lettered in gilt top edges gilt. Sabin 22572 First edition. Rare account of travels into the arctic most notably Nova Zemblya to the north of Europe. Twelve years earlier Engel wrote his notable work on explorations on the other side of the Arctic Circle Memoires et observations geographiques et critiques sur la situation des pays septentrionaux de l'Asie et de l'Amerique. Lausanne 1765. Condition: Rubbing to joints and extremities; some minor staining and soiling within hinge professionally repaired else a very good copy. Only five copies found on worldcat. F Sanuel Fetscherin hardcover
1779ref. BOOKS0003374282 pages lacking the map. Small quarto 10" x 7½" rebound in ¾ morocco & marbled boards spine lettered in gilt top edges gilt. Sabin 22572 First edition. Rare account of travels into the arctic most notably Nova Zemblya to the north of Europe. Twelve years earlier Engel wrote his notable work on explorations on the other side of the Arctic Circle Memoires et observations geographiques et critiques sur la situation des pays septentrionaux de l'Asie et de l'Amerique. Lausanne 1765. Condition: Rubbing to joints and extremities; some minor staining and soiling within hinge professionally repaired else a very good copy. Only five copies found on worldcat. F Sanuel Fetscherin hardcover books
1871ref. 56561Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Solid Copy Clean No External Markings Hand Stamp Of Clinton Hall Merchantile Library 1855-1932 formerly The Aster Place Opera House 13 Astor Place New York City Small Loss At Fore Corners Of Front Cover Hinges Reinforced Fore Edge Chipping To Page Edges. Octavo Green Blind Stamped Pebbled Cloth. Tissue Guarded Color Frontis Folding Color Map Chart Of Patagonia Twenty Total Plate Engravings Several Colorized. Dedication To Joseph Dalton Hooker Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas hardcover
1910ref. 5059ACa. 1910. Quer 8°. 24 Orig. Fotografien und 4 Beigaben. Pappalbum der Zeit mit Kordelheftung. [4 Warenabbildungen]
1960ref. 144913London: The Trans-Antarctic Expedition Committee 1960-1. Large quarto. 14 volumes. Original printed wrappers string-bound. Edges of wrappers slightly sunned. Fifteenth part comprises 15 folding maps and the written report housed in a slipcase. Front board of slipcase bowed-in with a few creases to the spine. All volumes complete tightly-bound and clean internally. Most parts in modern blue card slip cases. A beautiful set. Spence 1213. The complete scientific reports from the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958 lead by Dr. Vivian Fuchs who was knighted for his efforts and Sir Edmund Hillary. The TAE was the first complete overland crossing of Antarctica and the third expedition ever to reach the South Pole overland after Amundsen in 1911 and Scott in 1912. The expedition conducted a variety of oceanographic glacial geological meteorological and biological sampling the results of which are presented here and illustrated by hundreds of figures from photographs folding maps and tables. Although the reports were issued in 15 parts #6 was never printed. Uncommon to find this set complete and in fine condition. 1960 The Trans-Antarctic Expedition Committee unknown
ref. 222773S.l., s.d. (1800) petit in-8, [4] ff. n. ch., couverts d'une écriture fine, soignée et lisible (environ 20 lignes par page), 13 ff. vierges, en feuilles, reliées par un ruban jaune à noeuds.
1795ref. P1-2M-2Paris, Pierre Didot l’Ainé, 1795. Un volume in-4 (320x240mm), pleine percaline rouge, un portrait et deux gravures en frontispice, LV-176pp, 59 planches. Non rogné, imprimé sur papier vergé à la cuve. TOME 1 SEUL SUR 3. Bel état. Etude sur l’Egypte la plus complète avant la « Description de l’Egypte » ordonnée par Bonaparte. Second edition of the famous work of the Danish explorer, illustrated with a frontispiece, a portrait of Norden and 59 full page engraving. Modern red cloth. First volume only.
1725ref. P1-3K-2Amsterdam, Etienne Roger, 1725-1726. 2 volumes in-12 (15.5x9.5cm) reliés maroquin du levant, cerise époque, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre et de tomaison, filets d’or sur les plats, dentelles or sur les plats intérieurs, tranches dorées. Relié par ANGUERRAND de la Bibliothèque de LAMOIGNON avec le numéro de référence, cachet à la première page. 663pp.-17ff, illustré de 6 planches dépliantes. TOME 5 en 2 parties comprenant Voyage à Formose. TRÈS BEL EXEMPLAIRE, PROVENANCE PRESTIGIEUSE. Chrétien-François de Lamoignon (1735-1789), président à mortier du Parlement de Paris, fut le dernier gardien d’une collection familiale de près de 5000 ouvrages commencée au milieu du XVIIe siècle. Ces livres sont caractérisés par un numéro d’inventaire au dos, un ex-libris imprimé Bibliotheca Lamoniana au contre plat supérieur, avec une côte manuscrite, et un timbre humide L couronné dans la marge de la page 3 du texte. Etienne II Anguerrand, reçu maître en 1747, nommé relieur du Roi en 1767, habilla nombre de ses volumes en maroquin.
1799ref. biblio153a1-42 binders direction8 subscribers4c-4204 additional subscribers pages with 7 maps 5 folding and 6 plates. Quarto 11 3/4" x 9 1/2" with new spine in six compartment with red label in gilt over original decorative blind stamped calf boards. Ferguson 329; Sabin 104.633 First edition first printing. Captain James Wilson brought the first British missionaries to Tahiti on ship Duff in 1797. Wilson was a deeply religious man. The missionaries he brought were from the London Missionary Society. There were thirty men six women and three children. Wilson on the Duff also explored and visited many islands in the Pacific some of which had never had any recorded visit by a European. Among these the most important are Mangareva in the Gambier Islands and Pukarua in the Tuamotus. Duff paid a visit as a missionary ship to Tahiti during 1796 as a result Missionary Society has first been established in Tahiti. Three years after the establishment the directors of the Society appointed a committee to consider a suitable memorial for presentation to Wilson for his services in helping to establish the first mission in the South Seas. Wilson fought with the British army during the American War of independence and then served nine years with the East India company. While in India he was captured by Hyder Ali and after a daring bid for escape was imprisoned in the black hole of Seringapatam. After his release he continued service as a captain and despite illness and further dangerous missions accumulated sufficient sources to retire. throughout it all Wilson remained fast in his irreligious opinions. While living in England with his niece however he was converted to an evangelical faith. he felt called to volunteer for missionary service after reading the Evangelical Magazine. Haweis did not know Wilson before receiving a letter volunteering his services in the Pacific. his skills and newfound devotion seemed perfectly suited to the situation and Haweis saw him as "God's man." the Duff arrived at Tahiti on march 5 1797. the settlement at Tahiti of twenty of the missionaries five of them with wives and two children gives further examples of the role of the missionary captain. A pattern of intercourse had already been established by other voyagers according to which the captain of a vessel would take the leading role in meetings. It is therefore not surprising that the focus of the chapter describing the arrival is on meetings between significant island figures and Captain Wilson. For example Manemane a "high priest" Frommo'orea sought Wilson as a tayo or friend not Jefferson the president of the missionaries. The official account of the first mission appeared in 1799 under the lengthy title A missionary voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean performed in the years 1796 1797 1798 in the ship Duff commanded by Captain James Wilson compiled from the journals of the officers and the missionaries; and illustrated with maps charts and views drawn by Mr William Wilson..it was placed firmly within the tradition of the voyages of discovery by an introduction compiled by Samuel Great heed that described previous European contacts with the islands and an appendix "including details never before published of the natural and civil state of Otaheite." the main narrative was taken from Wilson's journal with additions from his son and a journal kept by the missionaries during the period when the Duff was away from Tahiti at Tonga. Wilson dominated the events recorded in the narrative. Condition: Some offset toning from maps occasional foxing water mark to upper margin on some leaves two leaves miss-bound at back re-backed with contemporary blind stamped calf boards. S Gosnell for T Chapman hardcover