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réf. 1017317356.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1995réf. EXNW00005New Haven & London: Yale University Press 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth gilt-on-black titles on spine black endpapers lxvi 291 pp 25 ff plates not in pagination including 4 oversized folding plates footnotes index. Light soil to fore-edge else fine. DJ has two tears with creasing to top edge of rear panel; in Brodart archvial cover. The Vinland map believed to have been drawn in about 1440 shows the Old World Iceland Greenland and the coastline of northeastern North America. It was discovered bound in a volume with a manuscript copy of the Tartar Relation "an account of Friar John of Plano Carpini's mission to the Mongols from 1245 to 1247." This volume contains facsimiles of the map and the Relation a transcription and translation of the Relation history and description of the manuscript by Marston a study of the map by Skelton and an interpretation of both by Painter. The preliminaries include essays by Wilcomb E. Washburn on the controversy surrounding the map Thomas A. Cahill & Bruce H. Cosko on forensic studies of both and antiquarian bookseller Laurence C. Witten II on his acquisition of the map in 1957. Shipping weight 6 lbs. Revised Ed. . Fine/Fine. 30 X 23½ cm. Yale University Press Hardcover
réf. EXNW00004New York: Oxford University Press WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Both volumes: tan cloth with navy blue cloth spine blue titles on front board & gilt titles on spine color frontispiece chapter bibliographies many b & w illustrations in text index DJs in Brodart archival covers. Northern Voyages: 1971 BOMC edition xviii 712 pp chapter notes; shaken front hinge repaired previous owner's address label on fpd else fine; DJ very good extremities rubbed; in Brodart archival cover. Southern Voyages: 1974 ISBN 0-19-501823-0 xvii 758 pp footnotes; Fine/Near Fine; DJ extremities lightly rubbed. In addition to being trained as an historian Morison was a sailor and served in the U. S. Navy during World War 2. He brings a sailor's knowledge and experience to all his books on voyages and discovery "has made transatlantic voyages under sail and coasted the eastern shores of the United States and Canada; and in preparation for this book Northern Voyages he flew at low altitude in a small plane from Maine to Labrador around the Gulf of St. Lawrence and along the North Carolina Outer Banks. These personal investigations have allowed him to identify almost every place mentioned by the discoverers." From the DJ for Southern Voyages: "Admiral Morison personally retraced the routes of the explorers he writes about including every part of Magellan's voyage which forms the core of the book." He had previously in the 1930s sailed the routes taken by Columbus in his four voyages in the cases where records survived to recreate them. Fits in medium flat-rate box. Shipping weight 6 lbs. . 23½ X 16 cm. Oxford University Press Hardcover
1903réf. EXNW00003New York: New Amsterdam Book Company 1903 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ribbed maroon cloth gilt titles on front board & spine top edge gilt maroon endpapers frontis. 368 2 pp footnotes index. A bit of rubbing to extremities and faint spotting to rear board else fine. Scholarly biography of Amerigo Vespucci which collects in English translalion many of the documents relating to his life & voyages. This is a rather attractive little reprint in a size convenient to carry around. Shipping weight 2 lbs. Reprint. . VG/No dj. 18 X 11½ cm. New Amsterdam Book Company Hardcover
1790réf. 029884London: J. Johnson 1790. Volume I: folding map xvi 283 pages; volume 2: viii 408 pages. De Lesseps accompanied La Perouse on the first part of his attempted circumnavigation of the globe. After investigation of the west coast of North America La Perouse sent de Lesseps overland to take the journals and maps of the expedition to Paris. La Perouse and his ships subsequently were lost after they left Australia and the journals carried by de Lesseps assumed great historical significance when published. Even more scarce than those records today are de Lesseps' report of his own overland travels through the Kamtschatka peninsula. The report also includes 25 pages of vocabulary translating common English words into Russian Kamtschadale Koriac Tchouktchi and Lamont languages. Internally clean with only minor foxing the two volumes in 3/4 leather over marbled paper covered boards have recently been sympathetically rebacked original title and volume patches retained. Very attractive example of a quite scarce title. Howes L269 Howes & Hartley rate this item dd "superlatively rare". First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Collectible-Very Good . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. J. Johnson hardcover
réf. 1021164852.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1843réf. E01482 volumes. xxxvii23878 ad pages with frontispiece woodcuts in text and 7 steel-engraved plates; vi2474 pages with frontispiece woodcuts in texts and 10 steel-engraved plates. Royal octavo 9¼x5½" in publisher's original green cloth spine lettered in gilt covers decorative blind stamped. First Edition. In 1825 Edward Belcher accompanied Frederick William Beechey's expedition to the Pacific and Bering Strait as a surveyor. In 1836. he commanded a surveying ship on the north and west coasts of Africa and in the British seas. Belcher took up the work which Beechey had left unfinished on the Pacific coast of South America. He was on board the bomb vessel HMS Sulphur which was ordered to return to England in 1839 by the Trans-Pacific route. Belcher made various observations at a number of islands which he visited having been delayed by being dispatched to take part in the war in China in 1840. On 26 January 1841 the then Commander Belcher landed on Possession Point at the north shore Hong Kong Island and made the first British survey of Hong Kong harbor. After the war's end in 1842 he reached home and for his services was made a Knight Bachelor in the following year. He was then engaged in HMS Samarang in surveying work in the East Indies the Philippines Geomun-do Port Hamilton and other places until 1847. In 1852 Belcher led the last and largest Admiralty expedition to rescue Sir John Franklin. He was also to look for his former surveying officer in Hong Kong Richard Collinson and Robert McClure whose ships had not been seen after entering the Bering Strait. He did a great deal of sledge exploration rescued McClure and abandoned four of his five ships in the ice. He had five ships: Assistance Belcher Resolute Henry Kellett second mate George Nares the steam tenders PioneerSherard Osborn and Intrepid Leopold McClintock and the depot ship North Star William Pullen. Belcher and one tender were to enter Wellington Channel where Franklin was thought to be while Kellett was to go west to Melville Island and look for Collinson and McClure. North Star was to stay at Beechey Island as a supply base. He left the Nore in April 1850. By early winter Assistanceand Pioneer were frozen in at Northumberland Sound to the north of Wellington Channel while Resolute and Intrepid were frozen in off Melville Island Arctic—the first ships this far west since William Edward Parry in 1819. A great deal of exploration was done by man-hauled sledges. In April 1853 Leopold McClintock and others left the Resolute on sledges and returned 105 days later having covered 1400 miles and discovered Prince Patrick Island. Another party went west and discovered Robert McClure whose ship was frozen in at Mercy Bay. Belcher went north by sledge and found a channel at the northern tip of Devon Island hinting that Franklin might have used it to escape to Baffin Bay. When the ice broke up that summer he pushed his ships up Wellington Channel and became trapped again. By February 1854 Belcher was becoming increasingly worried about the safety of his ships and men. In April he ordered Kellett to abandon his ships and return by sledge to North Star. Belcher abandoned his two ships in late July. Aided by two ships that showed up at Beechey Island Phoenix and Breadalbane the whole party returned to England. Belcher went through a court martial which was automatic for any captain who had lost a ship. He was exonerated but his sword was returned to him 'without observation'. He never again received an active command. Curiously Resolute broke free of the ice and drifted all the way to Davis Strait where it was picked up by an American whaler. Condition: Some staining and wear to covers spines a bit faded ends chipped and worn rear joint of Vol. I with chipping and loss; hinges repaired at endpapers some light foxing and occasional mostly marginal damp staining within the three folding maps which should be loose in a pocket not present; overall good uncommon in the original cloth. Henry Colburn hardcover
1717réf. E01353559index pages 36 of 37 maps and copper cuts of the coasts harbor cities plants and other curiosities comprising: 14 plates 3 folding 22 maps charts or plans 14 folding. title page printed in red and black. Printed from the author's original plates inserted in the Paris edition. Lacks the frontispiece map. Royal octavo 9 3/4" x 7 3/4" bound in leather with raised spine bands and red label with gilt lettering. Postscript by Dr Edmund Halley and an account of the settlement commerce and riches of the Jesuits in Paraguay. Palau 94965 Sabin 25926 Nissen ZBI 1433 Hill p117 First English edition. Frézier was educated in Paris and served as lieutenant of infantry from 1702 til 1707 when he entered the engineer corps. In 1712 the government sent him to examine the condition of the Spanish colonies in America. After visiting the principal points in Peru Chili and Brazil he returned to Marseilles. He pointed out several mistakes in the "Relation" of Father Feuille and this led to a bitter controversy between the two travelers. Frézier introduced the large Chili strawberry into France. First published in France in 1714. The first edition into English is preferable to the French original "because it contains Halley's. postscript which corrects certain geographical errors made by Frézier" Hill. "The first part of this book gives an interesting account of the voyage from France around Cape Horn. The second part relates to the voyage along the coasts of Chile and Peru describing the chief towns and cities. Frézier a man of observation brought back information of considerable geographical and scientific value. Much data is included about the native inhabitants. Condition: Rebacked with original spine label laid down; lacking frontispiece map and binder's leaf free endpapers renewed intermittent foxing else a very nice copy. Jonah Bowyer hardcover
1914réf. 33465Victoria : King's Printer 1914 . First Edition . Good . 8VO . Newcombe 1851-1924 physician natural historian and artifact collector was an important figure in the rush to collect Northwest Coast art and objects most of which were collected for foreign institutions although he collected for the Provincial Museum later in in his career and ulitmately his enormous personal collection was sold to the British Columbia Government and is now housed in the RBCM and the Provincial Archives. The memoir was written to vindicate the contention of Vancouver that his ships were the first to complete the navigation of the inner channels which separate Vancouver Island from the mainland. With 8 guarded maps including one fold-out and errata sheet. This is a non-circulating ex-library copy with a stamp on the title page library accession numbers on the first page of the covering letter and stamp and catalogue numbers on the last page. Rebound in stiff blue card library boards without the original covers which were identical to the title page. Strathern 399. King's Printer hardcover
1925réf. 3088Oxford: Oxford University Press 1925. First edition. Original Cloth. Fine significant water damage and warping to interior. octavo. pp 444. contains appendix. contains information about the ecology of Spitsbergen from the early 20th century. Oxford University Press hardcover
1970réf. 005533Frank Cass Publishers 1970. A lovely copy of this SCARCE Facsimile edition. 180pp. Number 64 in the Cass Library of African Studies Travels and Narratives. This book is POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED UK ONLY . .Please email for further details. NOT Inscribed or Signed. The 1970 Reprint of the 1797 2nd Edition. Red Cloth. FINE AS NEW/No Jacket. Illus. by Black and White Drawings. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Hard Back. Frank Cass Publishers Hardcover
1854réf. 1102250022Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea 1854. Ninth Edition Revised. Leather Bound. Very Good. Published in 1854. Large 8vo. 509 pp. Collated. Complete. Two maps and multiple illustrations all in very good condition. Clean unmarked pages no foxing. Bound in contemporary leather somewhat worn. Covers in good shape with only slight bumping gold gilt spine lettering and imprint on front cover. Back cover looks like it was imprinted as well but the gilt is missing. Binding is in excellent shape. Ships daily. Captain William Francis Lynch commander of the 1847 USN expedition to the Dead Sea wrote this chronicle of the journey upon his return to the United States. A native Virginian he later served in the Confederate Navy but he was repatriated to the United States after the American Civil War. Blanchard and Lea hardcover
1859réf. 70480Harper 1859. Hardcover. Fair. 5 x 7 inches. 340 pp. Illustrated. Folded map at rear. Ex-library book rebound in older buckram cloth spine label stickers on rear cover. Few normal reference non-circulating library markings else interior good text block secure. Title page little soiled scattered light margin foxing. Map has few stains one inch tear to left margin. Ships in box. Professional bookseller for 20 years. Orders shipped daily in cardboard bookfolds. Harper hardcover
1588réf. E05544-5702 blank28 pages with woodcut device on title woodcut historiated initials and decorations. Folio 12 1/2" x 8 1/4" bound in contemporary vellum. European Americana 588/57; Palau 146976; Sabin 146976 Western Travellers in China 11 First edition of Maffei's great history of India. Ten Latin editions two in Italian and two in French appeared before 1621. Based on primary material it still remains a valuable account today. The work is divided into 16 books. Most of it deals with the Portuguese conquests and Jesuit missionary work in the East Indies and India up to about 1557 Borba de Moraes page 508 "a classic work on the subject . writes extensively about Brazil describing it very accurately"; Maffie was the firs author to use Jesuit letters extensively as well as many secular sources including Fernando Mendes Pinto. Condition: Contemporary velum with moderate wear re-backed in vellum with original spine label laid down; minor worming and foxing intermittent moderate damp staining pages 410 and 419 blank due to a printing error; early inscription and inked stamped on title page new end papers and paste-downs else a good to very good copy. Apud Philippum Juncatam hardcover
réf. 4817The Fight for Everest: 1924 Lieutenant-Colonel E.F. Norton And Other Members of the Expedition. Published by Edward Arnold & Co. London 1925. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 372pp. with 32 plates from photographs 8 of them in color plus a folding map and folding panorama map. Dark green cloth boards with gilt titles front and spine. Black inked name and date of 1926 to free endpaper and light pencil notes to rear free endpaper. Contents are otherwise in very nice condition without tears markings or folds. All maps and plates are accounted for and in fine condition. Front board has scratching near foredge and rubbing to edges; binding is secure and boards are square. A very collectible copy. The story of the third expedition to Everest by the surviving members of the team. Includes an account by Noel Odell of the disappearance of George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine on the Northeast Ridge. Also contains the letters George Mallory sent to his wife from the expedition as well as essays of physiology natural history geology oxygen photography and suggestions for future expeditions. hardcover
1700réf. E0566xxiii43313 table pages with two folding maps of the Marsianes and Guam. Duodecimo 6 1/2 x 3 1/4" bound in contemporary full sheep with red label in gilt spine and five raised spine bands speckled red end pages. Brunet 28230 Cioranescu 41783 First edition. Charles Le Gobien was a French Jesuit writer founder of the Lettres édifiantes et curieuses a collection of reports from Jesuit missionaries in China. It is a major source of information for the history of Catholic missions and life in China in those times. Le Gobien was born at Saint-Malo Brittany. He entered the Society of Jesus on 25 November 1671. As professor of philosophy and especially while procurator of the Franco-Chinese mission he sought in a series of papers to awaken interest in the work of Christianizing Eastern Asia. In 1697 appeared at Paris his Lettres sur les progréz de la religion à la Chine. Apropos of Chinese Rites controversy he published among other things Histoire de l'édit de l'empereur de la Chine en faveur de la religion chrétienne avec un éclaircissement sur les honneurs que les Chinois rendent à Confucius et aux morts Paris 1698; and in the year 1700: Lettre à un Docteur de la Faculté de Paris sur les propositions déférées en Sorbonne par M. Prioux. Under the same date there appeared in Paris the Histoire des Isles Mariannes nouvellement converties à la religion chrétienne. The second part translated into Spanish by J. Delgado is found in the latter's Historia General de Filipinas Manila 1892. In 1702 Père Le Gobien published Lettres de quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus écrites de la Chine et des Indes Orientales; this was the beginning of the collection soon to become celebrated under the title of Lettres édifiantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangéres par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus. The first eight series were by Le Gobien the latter ones by Fathers Du Halde Patouillet Geoffroy and Maréchal. The collection was printed in thirty-six volumes duodecimo Paris 1703–76 and reissued in 1780-81 by Fathers Yves de Querbeux and Brotier in twenty-six volumes duodecimo omitting the prefaces. New editions appeared in 1819 1829–32 and 1838-43. One abridgment in four volumes octavo was entitled Panthéon Littéraire by L. Aimé Martin 1834–43. A partial English translation came out in London in 1714. The publication incited the Austrian Jesuit Stöcklein to undertake his Neuer Welt Bott about 1720 at first considered merely a translation but soon an independent and particularly valuable collection five volumes folio in forty parts substantially completing the Lettres Edifiantes. This is a history of the Christian missions in the Marianas or Ladrones Islands in the north-western Pacific the principal island of which is Guam. Reprinted in the text are several letters from early missionaries Medina Clain Sanvitores &c. The Jesuit mission was established there by Diego Luis de Sanvitores. Father Le Gobien never visited the Mariana islands but based his account chiefly on the relations and letters of missionaries sent to him from Rome Spain the Netherlands etc. Includes a letter by P. Clain about the discovery of the Caroline Islands. Condition: Rebacked with original spine laid down provenance: Jesuit College library with old stamps to front free endpaper half title and title page else about very good. Nicolas Pepie hardcover
réf. CG-AKQT-X0R2Leather Bound. Good. Leather bound flap no marks in text 1903 no marks in text inscription shipping daily. hardcover
1970réf. BOOKS0001802 Volumes: xxxii368 pages with frontispiece five folding maps and ten plates; ix369-640 pages with frontispiece two folding maps six plates bibliography and index. Octavo 8 3/4" x 5 1/2" issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship to front cover. Translated by Anthony Mango. Second Series volumes 138 and 139. First edition. By the early sixteenth century the loosely knit kingdom of Georgia had disintegrated from the strong monarch of the middle ages to a number of small states and principalities. This internal disunity made the Georgians easy victims of the power politics of the neighboring Ottoman and Safavid empires and by the end of the century the southward drive of the Russians intensified the struggle for military and diplomatic control over the whole of the Caucasian isthmus. As a result of this struggle seventeen embassies were exchanged between the Russian tsars and the Georgian kins ruling in Kakheti during the years 1564-1605. W E D Allen and Anthony Mango who undertook the translation have selected the documents relating to the embassies of 1589-90 and 1604-5. Although the writers seem to be frequently pre-occupied with questions of protocol their observations give a clear picture both of current Russian administrative and diplomatic practice and of the life and customs of the people of the Caucasus and Georgia. The texts are further enlivened by dramas such as the murder of the Kakhian King Alexander II and the secret negotiations for the marriages of the son and daughter of the Tsar Boris Godunov. The documents are of considerable geographical interest as they provide the earliest extant accounts of the crossing of the main chain of the Caucasus from north to south. Allen provides both a detailed background introduction and full commentary and notes on the texts. The second volume also contains some valuable genealogical tables which clarify the complicated relationships between the Caucasian royal and princely families and their connection with the Russian Ottoman and Persian ruling houses. Condition: Some light rubbing to spine ends else better than very good copies in liker jackets. Hakluyt Society hardcover
