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réf. P2-4ALondon, Henry Colburn, 1819. 2 volumes in-8 (21x13.5 cm), reliés plein veau époque, dos à nerfs ornés, filets d’or sur les plats. XV-375pp.-396pp. Illustré d’une carte dépliante et de 7 planches H.T. en couleurs, tranches marbrées. Une des meilleures relations sur le royaume de Tripoli avec les intrigues et mœurs de la Cour. TULLY RICHARD. Letters Written During A Ten Year’s Residence At the Court Of Tripoli. Seven hand-colored aquatints, one folding engraved map of the Regencies of Tripoly and Tunis. One of the best relations on the court and customs of Tripoli. 2 vols in 8°(21x14 cm), 375, 396 pages, binding in contemporary calf.
1835réf. SB-24720Leipzig, J. J. Weber, 1835. XL, 398 S., 1 Bl.; 462 S., 1 Bl. Braune Original-Halblederbände mit goldgeprägten Rükentiteln auf hellgrünen Rückenschildern, farbiger Wappenprägung und goldgeprägten Ornamentbänden an den Kapitalen; ferner mit Lederecken und dreiseitigem Rotschnitt. Mit einer großformatigen, mehrfach gefalteten Karte im Format 61 x 50 cm, zwei ganzseitigen Bildtafeln in Stahlstich sowie gestochenem Porträt des Verfassers als Frontispiz. Der britische Marineoffizier John Ross (1777 - 1856), von 1812 an im Range eines Commanders, wurde 1818 mit dem Kommando einer Expedition zur Suche nach der Nordwestpassage betraut, in deren Verlauf er in dem von ihm entdeckten grönländischen Thulebezirk zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte der westlichen Zivilisation Kontakt zu den Polareskimos aufnehmen konnte. Eine weitere 1829 mit einem Dampfschiff unternommene, von Ross privat organisierte und auch mit Privatmitteln finanzierten Expedition in die Nordpolregion blieb im Packeis stecken, wodurch die Crew zur viermaligen Überwinterung in der Eisregion gezungen wurde, bevor ihre Rettung durch den Walfänger Isabella erfolgte. Ein Erfolg der Expedition waren unter anderem die Entdeckung des magnetischen Nordpols durch Ross' Neffen James Clark Ross auf der Boothia-Halbinsel. in dem hier vorliegenden zweibändigen Expeditionsbericht [5 Warenabbildungen]
1956réf. 110549Carlton: Melbourne University Press 1956. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Carlton Melbourne University Press 1956. Quarto xxx 513 pages with 68 figures and 157 plates plus 2 colour plates. Original textured card covers with the title 'Arnhem Land. Art Myth and Symbolism' and the author's name on the spine and front cover; spine sunned cracked and chipped with minor loss; minimal expert conservation to the front joint; front and rear covers marked and unevenly discoloured with a few minor surface blemishes; edges a little marked and foxed with occasional foxing elsewhere; a decent copy internally in very good condition. The first and most important of the four volumes in the series published between 1956 and 1964. This copy is inscribed on the front free endpaper 'To Mr and Mrs W. McCaffrey with all good wishes from Charles P. Mountford 1960'. The standard binding is green cloth with a dustwrapper. We have handled a number of presentation copies of the first volume in wrappers and presume these less-expensive versions were provided to the author for this purpose. Melbourne University Press paperback
1756réf. BB0568London: Printed by H. Woodfall 1756. Quarter-bound Leather. Near Fine. First Edition "printed for presentation only and not sold." DNB. The more common second edition published in octavo appeared the following year. 4to: 62015203-3611pp with engraved frontispiece and engraved plate opposite the divisional title to the Essay on Tea both by Thomas Major after Samuel Wale. Modern quarter-calf over plain paper-covered boards flat spine in six compartments between decorative gilt bands red morocco lettering piece gilt; all edges stained red end papers renewed. Title page and preliminaries lightly foxed but contents otherwise clean and bright the binding tight and firm. A splendid wide-margined copy. ESTC Citation No. T127188. Gibson's Library p. 144. Goldsmiths'-Kress 9083. Cox I p. 19. Hanway was both a widely traveled merchant with connections to the Russia Company and a philanthropist whose causes included foundlings prostitutes and the climbing apprentices of chimney sweeps. His mother's death in 1755 prompted him to return to Portsmouth where she was buried that sojourn served as inspiration for this his second book to which he appended An Essay on Tea. Hanway describes many of the places he visited including Salisbury with its great cathedral and Stonehenge with digressions on tombstones sacred music and oratorios divine poetry temperance lapdogs false grief the ruling passion of women and much else. His Essay on Tea indicts the beverage for causing everything from insomnia weak nerves and scurvy to bad teeth and proposes 'Herbs of our own growth in lieu of tea.' Oliver Goldsmith Samuel Johnson and other ardent tea-drinkers criticized these eccentric views in The Idler and other publications. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. Printed by H. Woodfall unknown
1777réf. BB0796London: printed for T. Durham at Charing-Cross; and G. Kearsly at No. 46 in Fleet-Street 1777. First Edition. Quarter-bound Leather. Near Fine. First Edition in English of this novelized first-person account of a young English lord's debauched sojournprostitutes gambling horse-racing drinkin the French capitol. Crown 8vo 206 x 121mm: 2x222pp. Contemporary leather spine in six compartments between raised bands recent red morocco lettering piece gilt marbled sides and end papers. Joints skillfully reinforced marbled sides heavily rubbed top of title page including word 'The' supplied in excellent facsimile. Internally a Fine bright copy pages fresh and free of foxing browning and stains. ESTC Citation No. N31079 distinct from ESTC T131522 which Durham and Kearsly brought out the same year in duodecimo and which does not have the following note below the date on the title page present in our copy: "This work may be had of the above booksellers in French printed from the Paris edition which was suppressed in that country.". Translated by the author from his La quinzaine angloise à Paris first published the previous year. Rutledge was the grandson of an Irish Jacobite who settled in France and son of Walter Rutledge a banker and ship owner at Dunkirk who assisted the Pretender in his expedition of 1715 and in consequence was named a baronet. "This sketch which depicts the rapidity with which a plunger may be reduced to destitution by the harpies of Paris and purports to be a posthumous work by Sterne to whose works it bears no sort of resemblance . . . The writer states that attempts had been made to suppress the work in Paris. A species of sequel entitled Le Second Voyage de milord appeared in 1779." DNB N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. printed for T. Durham, at Charing-Cross; and G. Kearsly, at No. 46, in Fleet-Street unknown
1857réf. 324349New Haven 1857. Separately-issued offprint from the American Journal of Science and Arts 2nd series Vol. xxiv July 1857. 21-38 pp. plus folding map. 8vo. Period plain green wrappers stitched. Separately-issued offprint from the American Journal of Science and Arts 2nd series Vol. xxiv July 1857. 21-38 pp. plus folding map. 8vo. "Redfield's last contribution to meteorological science was a memoir upon the cyclones or typhoons of the north Pacific Ocean prepared at the request of Commodore Perry to accompany his Narrative of the United States Expedition to Japan; and was printed in the second volume of that work . He showed that the hurricanes of the Pacific followed the same general laws as those of the Atlantic and traced the paths of several remarkable storms among which was one of great force encountered by the steamer 'Mississippi' one of the vessels of Commodore Perry's squadron on route from Simoda to the Sandwich Islands in October 1854" Recollections of John Howard Redfield p. 302. Page 37 includes a description of the Kona or southerly winds of Hawaii as well as the effects of cyclones on the Hawaiian islands. Following its publication within Perry's Narrative in 1856 the work was issued in a slightly more condensed form within the July 1857 issue of the American Journal of Science and Arts. The present separately-issued offprint from the AJSA is the only separately-issued edition of the work. Scarce. Sabin 68512. Not in Forbes unknown
1857réf. 324349New Haven 1857. Separately-issued offprint from the American Journal of Science and Arts 2nd series Vol. xxiv July 1857. 21-38 pp. plus folding map. 8vo. Period plain green wrappers stitched. Separately-issued offprint from the American Journal of Science and Arts 2nd series Vol. xxiv July 1857. 21-38 pp. plus folding map. 8vo. "Redfield's last contribution to meteorological science was a memoir upon the cyclones or typhoons of the north Pacific Ocean prepared at the request of Commodore Perry to accompany his Narrative of the United States Expedition to Japan; and was printed in the second volume of that work . He showed that the hurricanes of the Pacific followed the same general laws as those of the Atlantic and traced the paths of several remarkable storms among which was one of great force encountered by the steamer 'Mississippi' one of the vessels of Commodore Perry's squadron on route from Simoda to the Sandwich Islands in October 1854" Recollections of John Howard Redfield p. 302. Page 37 includes a description of the Kona or southerly winds of Hawaii as well as the effects of cyclones on the Hawaiian islands. Following its publication within Perry's Narrative in 1856 the work was issued in a slightly more condensed form within the July 1857 issue of the American Journal of Science and Arts. The present separately-issued offprint from the AJSA is the only separately-issued edition of the work. Scarce. Sabin 68512. Not in Forbes unknown books
1925réf. 24120Oxford: Oxford Univ. Exploration Club by the Oxford University Press 1925 & 1929. First Editions. Original publisher's blue cloth with period press-mark at the base of the spine. Very good. This is the OUP's own copy of record. It has a call number on the spine that was the house location number. Royal 8vo; I - xi 1 - blank 33 individual offprints from various journals includes the Appendix; II - xi 1 - blank 25 individual offprints from various journals includes the Appendix. The OUP printed the title preface and then bound up the offprints as the "text" - the OUP purchased a number of copies of each of the offprints that make up the text. It is doubtful if more than 100 copies were produced. The reports of all three expeditions. Originally planned as a trip to study the bird life of the island it was soon enlarged to include an exploration of the interior. The original number of participants was 18 under the leadership of F C R Jourdain and was funded by subscription. A return trip occurred in 1922 by three of the original participants. This led to the organization of a second expedition in 1923 under the leadership of F G Binney devoted to exploration and a final expedition under Binney in 1924. Though Spitsbergen was a relatively well known area of the Arctic the interior had scarcely been seen.The goal of the expedition was a study of the "ecology" of the environment - something that was new. The Oxford University Expedition Club made small number of such trips to remote parts of the world prior to WWII issuing similar scientific reports. Oxford Univ. Exploration Club by the Oxford University Press hardcover books
1796réf. P2-6DParis, Jansen, 1796. 2volumes in-4° (270x220mm), cartonnage d’attente d’époque, manques au dos , plat du tome 2 détaché. TOME 1: 9ff., 224pp., manque pp. 224-228, illustré de 7 planches Hors-Texte dont 4 dépliantes. TOME 2 : 373pp., 1f., 18 planches. Exemplaire non rogné, bon état intérieur, page de titre du T.2 effrangé. Rare édition in-4 du second voyage de LEVAILLANT.
1854réf. 215028Japan. Circa1854. Black and white woodblock map with illustrations 32.2 x 41.5cm. Laid down on thick paper. Printed black border line at lower corner and occasionally in other areas along the border not printed otherwise good. This woodblock print map shows the defence layout around Tokyo Bay against the arrival of the American fleet. Names of lords who are responsible for defending particular areas are written with their rankings in terms of wealth sizes. In the centre the American ships are illustrated in detail. There are five sailing ships painted in red and three steam ships. These eight ships entered the bay on 6 February 1854. Thus this map most likely depicts the scene around that time. A caption on the left reads: 'The United States of America founded by Washington 77 years ago sent Matthew Perry with the President's letter in 1853; Perry revisited Edo in 1854.' . unknown
réf. 225135Paris, 1814 8 pièces en un vol. in-8, basane fauve racinée, dos lisse orné de filets, guirlandes et symboles militaires dorés, pièce de titre cerise, encadrement de simple filet à froid sur les plats, tranches marbrées (reliure de l'époque). Coiffes rognées, coins inférieurs abîmés.
réf. 144394Paris, Bourdin, s.d. (1842) gr. in-8, XVI-331 pp., frontispice, texte dans un double encadrement de filet noir ; nbses vignettes in-t., 16 pl. sur Chine appliqué, demi-basane acajou, dos à nerfs orné de filets et de frises dorés, palmette à froid aux entre-nerfs, tête dorée, couverture ill. de rinceaux et un médaillon central, et dos conservé, couverture des 17 livraisons conservées (Marcel Martin). Bon exemplaire.
1789réf. 100092317maradan 1789 in4. 1789. Relié. iconographie en noir et blanc nombreux documents illustrations cartes dépliantes 498 pages de texte + 46 pages d'appendices eux aussi agrémentés de tableaux et illustrations + 2 pages: approbation privilège du Roi
réf. 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.
1748réf. 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.
1825réf. 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
1675réf. 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.
1902réf. 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
1785réf. 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
1785réf. 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
1895réf. 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
1904réf. 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
1751réf. 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.
1973réf. 7695AMünchen, 1973.
1799réf. 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.