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réf. 0666346135.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1869réf. 4478London: MacMillan. Near Fine. 1869. xi 271pp 53 pg list of publisher's adverts dated 1869 at rear. Rebound in 1/4 leather marbled sides leather spine with raised bands gilt dec & title pieces. 1cm piece missing to top corner pg 72 date pencilled onto preface pg contents otherwise very good.; 225 x 150mm . MacMillan hardcover
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1821réf. 138738London: Sir Richard Phillips 1821. Fair. iv 124 p. 23 cm. 3 engraved plates. Disbound. Plates title and Preface detached. Foxing. Map missing. Sir Richard Phillips unknown
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réf. thl89London: Trübner & Co. 1886. First Edition. Meteorological and magnetic observations made at Fort Rae a Hudson’s Bay Company post on the north shore of Great Slave Lake from Sept. 1 1882 to August 31 1883. Fort Rae formed one of a series of circumpolar positions occupied in accordance with the scheme proposed by Lieut. Weyprecht for concerted physical observations to be carried on for at least a full year at different stations situated around the Poles. The four-man expedition under the command of Captain Henry P.Dawson was organized by the Royal Society of London and financed by the Government of Canada and Great Britain. Arctic Bib. 7748. folio. pp. xiv 326. 32 folding charts. 3 plans in text. A very good copy in original blind-stamped cloth title & verso of last chart browned. thl89 London: Trübner & Co., 1886 hardcover
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1960réf. 92662Jerusalem: Magnes Press Hebrew University 1960. Hardcover. Near fine with gently rubbed corners; in a very good jacket with a few small closed edge-tears to rear and now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Folio in pale orange-yellow illus jacket; xxiv 174 pages ccx plates 12 folded: illustrations maps plans; 35 cm; bibliographical references page xvii. Antiquities. Ausgrabung; Hazor Extinct city Israel -- Hazor Extinct city Hazor; Excavations Archaeology; Israel; Geschichte; 1956; Hazor Extinct city; Bible -- Antiquities. Biblical archaeology. A large heavy book. Extra shipping charges may apply for international & expedited orders.Weighs close to 6 lbs before packing. Please inquire. Magnes Press, Hebrew University hardcover
1749réf. E05292 volumes. 182 pages with fold out frontispiece map and three additional folding engravings; 319 pages with seven folding engravings. half-titles in each title pages improperly marked first volume as second and vice versa. Duodecimo 6 1/2" x 3 1/2" bound in original publisher's full uniform contemporary French sponged calf with gilt-tooled spines. First French edition after the 1748 English edition. Henry Ellis was a traveler hydrographer and colonial governor returned from Italy in 1746 just in time to find an expedition to search for a north-west passage on the point of sailing. He appears to have been in easy circumstances; his name stands in the list of subscribers to the north-west expedition and he had sufficient interest to get attached to it nominally as agent for the committee and really as hydrographer surveyor and mineralogist the expedition consisting of two vessels the Dobbs galley of 180 and California of 150 tons left Gravesend on 20 May 1746 joined the Hudson's Bay convoy in Hollesley Bay and finally sailed from Yarmouth on the 31st. They parted from the convoy on 18 June made Resolution Island on 8 July and after a tedious passage through Hudson's Straits rounded Cape Digges on 8 August and on the 11th 'made the land on the west side the Welcome in latitude 64° N.' Bad weather drove them to the southward and prevented their doing anything more that season. They wintered in Hayes River in a creek about three miles above Fort York where a quarrel with the agent of the Hudson's Bay Company gave an unwonted piquancy to the dark and weary days. They suffered much from scurvy the prevalence of which Ellis attributes to their having got two kegs of brandy from Fort York for their Christmas merrymaking and in a minor degree to the 'governor' not permitting the Indians to supply them with fresh provisions. On 29 May 1747 the ice broke up and they were able to warp to the mouth of their creek; on 9 June they got down to Fort York. There they were allowed to get some provisions and stores and on the 24th cleared the river and 'stood to the northward on the discovery'. On 1 July each of the two ships sent away her long-boat but owing apparently to some ill-feeling between the two captains without any prearranged plan for working in concert. The consequence was that they separately went over the same ground discovering naming and examining the several creeks and inlets on the west side of Hudson's Bay the double examination perhaps compensating for the confusion arising from the double naming. Before the season closed in they had satisfied themselves that the only possible exit from Hudson's Bay on the west must be through the Welcome and that very probably there was no way out except that on the east by which they had come in. The result may not seem much; but as it served to put an end to the idea that the passage must lie through Hudson's Bay it was at least so much gain to accurate knowledge. After 21 August the weather broke and they decided in council 'to bear away for England without further delay.' On the 29th they entered Hudson's Straits passed Resolution Island on 9 September and arrived at Yarmouth on 14 Octivwe. Ellis's share in the work of the expedition had really been very slender but the reputation of it has been commonly assigned to him by reason of the narrative which he published the following year under the title A Voyage to Hudson's Bay by the DobbsGalley and California in the years 1746 and 1747 for Discovering a North-West Passage 1748; a work which with many valuable observations on tides on the vagaries of the compass and on the customs of the Eskimos a people then practically unknown mingles a great deal of speculation on the certain existence of the passage on magnetism on fogs on rust and other matters all more or less ingenious but now known to be wildly erroneous. Such as it was the book commended its author to the scientific workers of the day and on 8 February 1748-9 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. Possibly in acknowledgment of his scientific labors but more probably by some family interest he was afterwards appointed successively governor of Georgia and of Nova Scotia from which employment he retired about 1770. He seems to have spent his later years as a wanderer on the continent was at Marseilles in 1775 and died at Naples on 21 January 1806. Condition: Some dark spots to spine else a very good copy. Ballard Fils hardcover
1918réf. 880611918. SIBERIAN EXPEDITION. Teikoku Gunjin Kyoiku-kai editors. SHIBERI JIHEN KINEN SHASHIN-CHO. Tokyo Taisho Tsushinsha Taisho 7 1918 Oblong folio bound western-style in cloth gilt. Illustrated throughout in collotype. Photos and cations on the International Siberian Expedition in support of the Whites against the Red Army in which the Japanese played a prominent role. 4 page folding panorama of Vladivostok harbor and views of the cities the countryside troops inhabitants diplomats war preparations etc. etc. One can feel the Winter coming. Very good condition throughout. Very scarce. unknown
réf. 7712Several dozen manuscripts in various formats incl. long folded sheets stitched pamphlets sewn volumes and letters. Japan: ca. 1853-63. A substantial group of documents revealing internal high-level debates and discussions in response to Commodore Perry’s landings and later controversies that arose as Western powers established a foothold in Japan. This is an exceptional collection filled with top-secret information on government intrigues as the Japanese state responded to aggressive foreign expansion and dissenting groups within the government urging top-to-bottom reforms. The manuscripts touch upon pivotal events in Japan’s history: –Commodore Perry’s two expeditions July 1853 & February-March 1854 and the resulting ratification of the Treaty of Shimoda. –Japanese translations of the treaties signed with the United States Russia France and the United Kingdom from 1854 to 1858. –The assassination of Ii Naosuke in March 1860 also known as the Sakuradamon Incident which precipitated a violent backlash against foreigners under the banner of Sonno joi “Honor the Emperor expel the barbarians”. –General dissatisfaction with the bakufu and efforts to reform it. –The attempted assassination of Ando Nobumasa a chief councillor during this period. –The Namamugi Incident in September 1862 when the British merchant Charles L. Richardson was killed by Satsuma domain warriors. –The bombardment of Kagoshima August 1863. Among all these materials we must highlight several examples of manuscript kengen proposals and commentaries written by aristocrats with policy advice on the difficult situations faced by the Japanese state. These offer compelling perspectives on the most pressing dilemmas of the day. While they were not composed by the decision-makers these documents are filled with the minutiae and data employed in the policy-making process. All of the items are in a fine state of preservation. ⧠John McMaster “Alcock and Harris. Foreign Diplomacy in Bakumatsu Japan” Monumenta Nipponica Vol. 22 No. 3/4 1967 pp. 305-367. unknown
1985réf. mon0003599644Univ of Tokyo Pr 1985-09-01. Hardcover. Good. . Univ of Tokyo Pr hardcover
1857réf. 000151London: J.B. Nichols and Sons 1857. Hardcover. See Description. Tall 4to. pp. viii 2 508. Volume XXVII. 12 plates including several in color and 2 folding maps one map is folded in six sections and backed with thin gauze or mull. B&W illustrations with the text. Pages are generally clean with a couple small marginal tears. Light brown cloth; re-backed preserving part of the original spine minus 25mm at the tail and 15mm at the top. Inner hinges neatly strengthened. Some rubbing and wear; corners bumped. Contents include: An accound of the discovery of Anglo-Saxon remains at Kemble in North Wilts; On choirs and chancels particularly as to their use in the South of Europe; Remarks on some early churches in France and Switzerland partly in the time of Charlemagne; The City of Cumae and the recent excavations there; An account of the investigation of some remarkable circular trenches and the discovery of an ancient British cemetery at Stanlake Oxon.; The Burning and burial of the dead.and many other articles. J.B. Nichols and Sons hardcover
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1799réf. 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
1779réf. 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
