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1982réf. BOOKS0001824 Volumes: xvii182 pages with frontispiece 5 plates some folding and 1 folding map: viii183-370 pages with 8 plates and 5 maps; vii371-553 pages with 9 plates and 5 maps; vii555-831 pages with 9 plates 6 maps appendixes 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. Second Series volumes 152-155 and 139. First edition. Overshadowed for nearly two hundred years in European scholarship by the literary and scientific achievements and reputation of his eldest son George Forster the author of this journal J R Forster Principal naturalist on James Cook's second voyage was nevertheless recognized by many contemporaries as one of the 'universal geniuses' of the late eighteenth century. Despite Forster's diverse prodigious and sometimes brilliant output the constant circumstances of his career and personality were such that his work was dogged by debilitating disputes and vendettas with the result that those many longer more epoch-making and polished works which would have established him as the leading pioneering comparative anthropologist linguist geographer and zoologist of the Pacific and a most competent student in those disciplines of Africa North America and Europe especially Russia have remained only as obscure and seldom-used manuscripts. After Forster's death in 1798 his books and manuscripts - 'there has never been . a private library in Germany to compare with it.' wrote the royal Librarian in Berlin - were sold to the royal Library of the King of Prussia later the Prussian State Library. Among the numerous Forster 'treasurers' deposited in Berlin as his six volume journal in the Resolution. As the journal o a highly literate landsman-at-sea it offers many new typically unrestrained insights into the day-to-day relationships life and thinking and theory-testing on this the most scientific and epic of Cook's three voyages. It is also the fundament upon which George Forster wrote his classic travelogue A Voyage round the World 1777 that humane influence - in many translations - upon science and belles-lettres. It is too the key to the science and anthropology of this voyage the central document to understanding the naturalists' day-to-day work and finds. Set alongside the journals of Cook and his other principals - which it often surpasses intellectually and empirically - anthropologists ethnolinguists geographers geologists botanists zoologists especially ornithologists and medical and literary historians as well as students of James Cook and the eighteenth century mind will find much new observation and theory. For the two Forsters fashioned forces to influence Alexander von Humboldt and foretell Charles Darwin. Condition: Jackets with light edge wear spine ends rubbed else very good to fine in like jacket. Hakluyt Society hardcover
1963réf. BOOKS000690xxxv464 pages 12 plates including frontispiece 5 maps one of which folds out appendixes bibliography and index. Octavo 8 3/4" x 6" bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria embossed on front cover with cover edges blind stamped in original jacket. Edited by E G R Taylor. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society second series volume 121. First edition. William Bourne of Gravesend by trade a gunner was a successful writer of a new type of textbook. Neither a scholar not of gentle birth both of which were regarded as the prerequisites of authorship in the sixteenth century when scientific books were expected to appear only in universities and to be read only by those fluent in Latin Bourne nevertheless produced a whole series of technical manuals written in English for the artisans and craftsmen of his own class. A Regiment for the Sea which forms the core of the volume is perhaps the earliest technical manual written by an Englishman. It is not simply his rules for navigation for Bourne wrote much as he spoke so that out of this instruction book for sailors a clear picture of the man himself emerges: serious reliable patriotic and with this inborn impulse to pass on his knowledge to others. The first edition of 1574 is printed here in full with the additional material which was added to the 1580 edition. Taylor has also included two Almanackes. She has written an introductory section to each text and in her General Introduction she fills in the details of Bourne's life and discusses his various writings. Condition: Pages uncut corners bumped. Jacket spine soiled and sunned edges sunned. A better than very good copy in like jacket. Hakluyt Society, by Cambridge University Press hardcover
1967réf. 013782LondonAmsterdamNew York : Frank Cass/N. Israel/Da Capo Press 1967. Facsimile of 1803 Edition.Bibliotheca Australiana # 3 4 5 6 & 7.Original mottled fawn buckram with blue title labels to upper boards and spines. .This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED UK ONLY . Please email for further details NOT "Signed by the Author". Not Signed or Inscribed. Mottled Fawn Buckram . FINE AS BRAND NEW/Plastic Jacket AS NEW. Illus. by numerous Illustrations Maps Views & Charts Including Several Folding . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". HARDBACK. Frank Cass/N. Israel/Da Capo Press hardcover
1937réf. 28406Toronto : Champlain Society / University of Toronto Press 1937 . Limited Edition . VG . 8VO . Limited to 550 sets of which this is #29. Campbell's journeys focused on possible immigration opportunities for Highland Scots and provide the earliest and best description of New Brunswick of the time. Bound in gilt-stamped red cloth TEG. Champlain Society Publication XXIII. Uncommon. A very lightly worn non-circulating ex-library copy with label on front endpaper library stamps at the bottom of several pages white accession numbers on spine. Champlain Society / University of Toronto Press hardcover
1938réf. 25954London : Blackie 1938 . First Edition . VG/G . 8VO . The story of Scott's ship. Illustrated with black and white photos folding maps. Light wear to book jacket quite worn with some losses at extremities. Blackie unknown
1876réf. 25426London : Chatto and Windus 1876 . First Edition . Fair . 8VO . Nicely illustrated with black and white wood engravings two of which are missing. Neither map is present. Bound in decorated maroon cloth. An ex-library copy with usual markings. Covers show considerable wear. Chatto and Windus hardcover
1972réf. 002879Hong Kong: Self-published 1972. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION 1972. Original staple-bound textured gray wrappers black lettering front black image of mountain on front. Minor bump lower outside front corner tip otherwise like new with clean covers no previous owner marks or writing on any pages no foxing never used acquired new directly in-person from Jack Baines in the early 1980s during a UK book-scouting trip. The book measures 258mm tall x 187mm and has 28 pages 43 b/w photos 2 maps. Account of the third ascent of Carstenz Pyramid by a new direct route up the N. Face first ascent of N. Face of Sunday Peak ascent of Ngga Poloe ascent of Middenspitze scramble up Pk 14100 ft ascent of the 5 summits along the ridge south of Ngga Poloe. Very uncommon. PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED. Self-published hardcover
réf. 009534London England: Frank Cass and Co Limited 1877. This was the first work devoted to an account of the geography people history and administration of Aden to be published and as such rates a special place amongst works on this controversial part of the Yemen. Written in 1877 of the request of the Indian government it is a comprehensive survey of Aden at that time which remains of considerable value today. There is a full geographical and physical description of the settlement and account of the population the various tribes their habits and occupations and a careful summary of the trade and commerce carried out within the peninsula. xii 232pp A FINE COPY in a near fine dustwrapper. In the 1870s ate them was administered by the Indian government and the author describes the various means of administration in detail the history of Aden before the British settlement in 1939 is briefly summarized and that of the following is told more fully. In view of the present situation in Eitan. It is felt that many readers will find this insight into the early years of the British involvement of great interest.This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED UK ONLY . Please email for further details. Not Signed or Inscribed. This the First New Edition of 1968. Red Cloth. NEAR FINE NEAR BRAND NEW/VERY GOOD AVERAGE. Illus. by Two Large Foldout Maps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". HARDBACK. Frank Cass and Co Limited Hardcover
1932réf. E0047136 pages with 12 plates including frontispiece folding map and index. Royal octavo 10" x 6 3/4" in vellum Over brown boards with gilt titles. Deckle edges. This is the Account of the First Expedition of Don Diego De Vargas Into New Mexico in 1692. This is the first modern printing and contains a facsimile of the "Noticia de la Recuperacion." Translated by Irving A Leonard. Publications of the Quivira Society volume III. Number 628 of the limited edition of six hundred sixty-five copies. Sigüenza was born in Mexico City in 1645 the youngest of eight siblings. He was related to the famous baroque poet Luis de Góngora. He studied mathematics and astronomy under the direction of his father a Peninsular who had been a tutor for the royal family in Spain. Sigüenza entered the Society of Jesus as a novice August 17 1660 took simple vows August 15 1662 at Tepotzotlán and left the society or was expelled in 1667 or 1669. On July 20 1672 he was named to the chair of mathematics and exact sciences at the University of Mexico and was ordained a priest the following year. He was chaplain of the Hospital del Amor de Dios now Academia de San Carlos from 1682 until his death. He was well-known in the colony as a man of science. He was also a poet non-fiction writer historian philosopher cartographer and cosmographer. Such was his prestige that the French King Louis XIV tried to induce him to come to Paris. He published his first poem in 1662. In 1671 he published an almanac. In 1693 he published El Mercurio Volante the first newspaper in New Spain. At the hospital he became a close friend of Juan de Alva Ixtlilxochitl who put at his disposal a rich collection of documents of his ancestors who included the historian Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl and the kings of Texcoco. In 1668 Sigüenza began the study of Aztec history and Toltec writing. On the death of Ixtlilxochitl he inherited the collection of documents and devoted the later years of his life to the continuous study of Mexican history. Condition: Some darkening to and slight staining to spine else a very good copy. Quivira Society hardcover
réf. 1004667London: Frank Cass 1945. POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! UK ONLY.Please e-mail for further details and don't hesitate to ask if you require photographs. Not Signed or Inscribed. This is the Second Impression 1971. Blue Cloth Black Embossed. FINE AS BRAND NEW/FINE AS BRAND NEW. 4to - over 9¾" - 12". HARDBACK. Frank Cass Hardcover
réf. 009849London England: Frank Cass and Co Limited 1877. This was the first work devoted to an account of the geography people history and administration of Aden to be published and as such rates a special place amongst works on this controversial part of the Yemen. Written in 1877 of the request of the Indian government it is a comprehensive survey of Aden at that time which remains of considerable value today. There is a full geographical and physical description of the settlement and account of the population the various tribes their habits and occupations and a careful summary of the trade and commerce carried out within the peninsula. xii 232pp A FINE COPY in a near fine dustwrapper. In the 1870s ate them was administered by the Indian government and the author describes the various means of administration in detail the history of Aden before the British settlement in 1939 is briefly summarized and that of the following is told more fully. In view of the present situation in Eitan. It is felt that many readers will find this insight into the early years of the British involvement of great interest.Small Damp stain to front board.This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED UK ONLY . Please email for further details. Not Signed or Inscribed. This the First New Edition of 1968. Red Cloth. Very Good Contents Fine/NEAR FINE NEAR BRAND NEW. Illus. by Two Large Foldout Maps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". HARDBACK. Frank Cass and Co Limited Hardcover
réf. 1004668London: Frank Cass 1945. POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! UK ONLY.Please e-mail for further details and don't hesitate to ask if you require photographs. Not Signed or Inscribed. This is the Second Impression 1971. Blue Cloth Black Embossed. Near Fine NEAR NEW/Near Fine NEAR BRAND NEW. 4to - over 9¾" - 12". HARDBACK. Frank Cass Hardcover
réf. 1003776London: Frank Cass 1945. POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! UK ONLY.Please e-mail for further details and don't hesitate to ask if you require photographs. Not Signed or Inscribed. This is the Second Impression 1971. Blue Cloth. FINE AS BRAND NEW/Near Fine NEAR NEW. 4to - over 9¾" - 12". HARDBACK. Frank Cass hardcover
1985réf. 004553Brazil: EdITora Universidade De Brasilia 1985. These are the two volumes published by the university of Brazil in Portugese by the world's leading authority on the birds of Brazil. VERY RARE! Very Nice. Sighed Neatly By a Previous Owner. This is the SECOND Brazilian Edition . Brown Cloth. Very Good/Very Good Not Price Clipped. Illus. by Numerous Illustrations By Paul Barruel . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Near Folio. Hard Back. EdITora Universidade De Brasilia hardcover
1970réf. 009165Frank Cass Publishers 1970. Published for the Royal Commonwealth Society Imperial Studies series this is number XXIX in that series.xxviii 330pp 4 maps in text. This excellent biography includes a genealogical table and a 38pp bibliography along with a 12pp index. A FINE AS NEW copy in a FINE AS NEW dustwrapper. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED UK ONLY . Please email for further details. NOT Inscribed or Signed. Blue Cloth. FINE AS BRAND NEW/FINE AS NEW. Illus. by Black and White Drawing & Maps. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Hard Back. Frank Cass Publishers Hardcover
réf. 013650London England: Frank Cass and Co Limited 1877. This was the first work devoted to an account of the geography people history and administration of Aden to be published and as such rates a special place amongst works on this controversial part of the Yemen. Written in 1877 of the request of the Indian government it is a comprehensive survey of Aden at that time which remains of considerable value today. There is a full geographical and physical description of the settlement and account of the population the various tribes their habits and occupations and a careful summary of the trade and commerce carried out within the peninsula. xii 232pp A FINE COPY in a near fine dustwrapper. In the 1870s ADEN them was administered by the Indian government and the author describes the various means of administration in detail the history of Aden before the British settlement in 1939 is briefly summarized and that of the following is told more fully. In view of the present situation in Eitan. It is felt that many readers will find this insight into the early years of the British involvement of great interest.This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED UK ONLY . Please email for further details. Not Signed or Inscribed. This the First New Edition of 1968. Red Cloth. NEAR FINE NEAR BRAND NEW/NEAR FINE NEAR NEW. Illus. by Two Large Foldout Maps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". HARDBACK. Frank Cass and Co Limited Hardcover
1970réf. 009533Frank Cass Publishers 1970. Published for the Royal Commonwealth Society Imperial Studies series this is number XXIX in that series.xxviii 330pp 4 maps in text. This excellent biography includes a genealogical table and a 38pp bibliography along with a 12pp index. A FINE AS NEW copy in a FINE AS NEW dustwrapper. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED UK ONLY . Please email for further details. Not Inscribed or Signed. Blue Cloth. Near Fine NEAR NEW/NEAR FINE NEAR BRAND NEW. Illus. by Black and White Drawing & Maps. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Hard Back. Frank Cass Publishers Hardcover
1928réf. 000893SAN PEDRO CALIFORNIA CA. Good. 1928. On offer is a fascinating vintage collection autograph materials an ALS clippings and maps of Congressional Medal of Honor winner Admiral Richard Byrd's First Antarctic Expedition 1928-30. Included are original newspaper clippings from The New York Times including a full page from May 19 1929 headline "What Byrd's Men Do In The Antarctic Night" with photographs of one of Byrd's planes his two ships the Headquarters Hut the setting sun and radio equipment and antennas. Also included; an 8pp rotogravure section from May 4 1930 illustrating "Admiral Byrd's Great Adventure in the Antarctic" with numerous photographs of Little America including the expedition members landscapes polar life and much more; also a column-length article relating to his second expedition headlined "Byrd's Ship Bear To Sail Tomorrow" 1933-35; two color maps approx 28"x20" one a 1930 Geographic Society detailed lithograph of the "Antarctic Regions" with insets of "Byrd's South Pole Flight" "King Edward VII Land" "Part of Marie Byrd Land" and "Antarctic Archipelago" indicating routes of various explorers including Admunsen and Shackleton; and the other a 1933 "Little America Aviation and Exploration Club Map Used by Admiral Byrd exclusively on both of his Antarctic Expeditions" courtesy of "The Tide Water Oil Co." Also present is letterhead of the Freeport NY Order of Elks signed by eight members of both the first and second expeditions with second page penned in another hand adding further information; plus an ALS by expedition member ARTHUR B. CREAGH San Pedro CA Sep 28 1930 to Albin Johnson "Part Exalted Ruler" of the Order of Elks in Freeport. Creagh thanks him "for the wonderful time you and your brother Elks gave us that night at Freeport Long Island on our return from the Byrd's South Pole Expedition " accompanied by original mailing envelope. Lastly a lengthy printed Washington Bureau biographical printed pamphlet 4pp 7"x8½" by Ruth Robertson entitled "A Brief Account of Read Admiral Byrd's Flights Over the North and South Poles and Other Achievements". The newspaper clippings are generally toned and brittle the photogravure in particular is fragile. All evidence usual folds with occasional partial fold separations with only small paper loss. Letter is in excellent condition. All have been preserved in large vintage envelope. This period collection of historic content remains an important reflection of the early exploration of Antarctica by America's foremost explorer of the time. G.; English; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION TRAVEL CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR EXPLORER AMUNDSEN SHACKLETON ELKS HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL PERSONAL HISTORY RELIGION ROYALTY NOBILITY CALLIGRAPHY PAPAL VATICAN CATHOLIC ROMAN CATHOLIC ECCLESIASTICantiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento Manuscrito . unknown
1926réf. 2222001First edition "October 1926". Octavo. Four page foreword by Bob Bartlett. Illustrated with 47 photographs and drawings by the Eskimo Kakutia; endpaper maps. Dust jacket unclipped; few nicks and creases. Very good. 167 pages. Signed and inscribed on verso of frontispiece by the publisher and father of the author: "From one who is merely. David's Dad! G. P. Putnam." G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
1920réf. 501237"V. Stefansson" in black fountain pen ink on pictorial American Geographical Society letterhead Ottawa Ontario Canada July 9 1920. 8 1/2" x 11"; 1 page; very good. Together with the original typed envelope stamped and postmarked Ottawa Ont. July 9 1920 with two stamps. To Dr. William C. Thro East Northport Long Island New York "Dear Dr. Thro: If I were only in New York I should take instant advantage of your invitation to visit you on the Long Island coast but I shall be spending most of my summer in Canada with only an odd visit to the city. I shall look you up in the fall or whenever I come to be regularly in New York. I hope both you and Mrs. Thro have a delightful summer. V. Stefansson." Stefansson 1879-1962 American ethnologist/explorer/author; lived amongst the Eskimo 1906-07; Canadian/Alaskan Arctic expedition commander 1913-18; consultant to Dartmouth College's Northern Studies program 1947-62. unknown
1991réf. CA0239654 pages with plates reproductions illustrations maps bibliographies and indexes. Quarto 12" x 8 1/2" bound in pictorial stiff boards. Translated by Luciano F Farina and Carla Onorato Wysokinski. Edited by Gianni Eugenio Viola. Volume XI of National Commission for the Celebration of the quincentennial of the Discovery of America. First edition.Contents:In Search of an Image by Gaetano Ferro; Landscapes Plants and Animals by Gaetano Ferro; Peoples and Cultures of the New World by Luisa Faldini; Sixteenth Century Cartography and the Origin of the Columbian Tradition by Marcia Milanesi; In Search of an Image: Illustrations by Carla Pampaloni; Other Landscapes Other Plants Other Animals: Text and Illustrations by Carla Pampaloni; People and Cultures of the New World: Illustrations by Luisa Faldini and Laura Monferdini; New World Images from Cartographic Sources: Illustrations by Maria Teresa de Palma.Condition:Light edge wear else a near fine copy. Instituto Poligrafico e Zecca Dello Stato Liberia Dello Stato hardcover
1987réf. 2640Arthaud 1987 211 pages in8. 1987. broché. 211 pages.
1961réf. 6322Hachette 1961 190 pages in12. 1961. Cartonnage editeur. 190 pages. Livre documentaire du célèbre volcanologue Haroun Tazieff qui raconte ses expéditions à travers le monde pour étudier les éruptions volcaniques. L'ouvrage structuré en cinq parties mêle récit personnel et observations scientifiques enrichi de nombreuses illustrations et photographies
1899réf. 6509Georges decaux 1899 2240 pages in8. 1899. reliure editeur demi basane. 2 volume(s). première édition. 2240 pages. Cet ouvrage de Michel Morphy publié en 1899-1900 est une histoire complète et anecdotique de la mission Marchand (1895-1899) une expédition française à travers l'Afrique centrale. Il s'agit d'un récit très documenté marqué par une veine nationaliste et révélateur de l'idéologie coloniale de l'époque
1966réf. 7593Presses de la Cité 1966 252 pages in8. 1966. cartonnage editeur avec jaquette. 252 pages. Une jeune femme kabyle vivant à Paris en 1987 est condamnée à mort par sa famille pour avoir eu une relation avec un Français et conçu un enfant avec lui. L'histoire présentée comme un témoignage de l'auteure elle-même fondatrice du groupe musical Djurdjura explore les thèmes du crime d'honneur du choc culturel et de la violence familiale
