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1996réf. Adhya-9780792338338SPRINGER 1996. Hardcover. New. SPRINGER hardcover
1996réf. Adhya-9780792338338SPRINGER 1996. Hardcover. New. SPRINGER hardcover
19578vo., First Edition thus, with 11 plates on 8 and an illustration in the text; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The truly remarkable story of a unique vessel - a largely Free French Q-ship enrolled wholesale into the Royal Navy and eventually sunk in the Atlantic in December 1942. This account is based largely on facts provided by Pat O'Leary who survived the sinking to organise the 'Pat' escape routes from France. First published in France in the preceding year. An elegant copy. Enser, p.381; Law, 0861.
19458vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 8 plates on 6; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled with gilt anchor, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as gift or for presentation. The first collected edition of Monsarrat's well-known trilogy. The three constituent volumes - 'HM Corvette' (1942), 'East Coast Corvette' (1943) and 'Corvette Command' (1944) - are here reproduced in their entirety (but with fewer plates). Taken in sequence they provide a near-continuous record of Monsarrat's early wartime service; furthermore they contain much of the inspiration and context, and in several cases actual incidents, which reappear in his masterpiece 'The Cruel Sea'. The first edition is now very scarce in any condition. Enser, p.120; Law 1010.
19538vo., Second Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 8 plates on 6; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with anchor motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The collected edition of Monsarrat's well-known trilogy, first published in October 1945. The three constituent volumes - 'HM Corvette' (1942), 'East Coast Corvette' (1943) and 'Corvette Command' (1944) - are here reproduced in their entirety (but with fewer plates). Taken in sequence they provide a near-continuous record of Monsarrat's early wartime service; furthermore they contain much of the inspiration and context, and in several cases actual incidents, which reappear in his masterpiece 'The Cruel Sea'. This second edition carries a new Preface by the author giving an account of the works' genesis. Enser, p.120; Law 1010 (both recording the first edition).
1813réf. List1947Plymouth 1813. Plymouth Devon England: 21st July 1813. Folio 7 pages 13 1/8 x 8 ¼ inches duty blindstamp small ink stamp to upper inner margin of the first page two seals to the last page signed twice by Galindo. Toned some small repaired tears using reversible archival ph-neutral paper-repair tape very good to near fine. Very Good. An interesting document of privateering in the Peninsular war this 'Public Instrument of Protest' documents a Portuguese captain and crew complaint in detail to an English notary. After sailing from Calcutta to Brazil and then from Rio to just outside of Lisbon their ship the 700-ton 'Oceano' was seized and comprehensively ransacked by a French privateer the 'Lion' out of Lorient. Most of the crew and passengers were offloaded onto a passing American vessel the 'Leda' bound for Lisbon. Meanwhile the 'Lyon' escorted her prize towards the nearest French port but before a friendly haven was reached they were both set upon by the brigantine HMS 'Achates'. The 'Lyon' escaped but the 'Ocean' was captured by Commander Morrison and the 'Achetes'. The 'Ocean' was taken to Plymouth and moored in the Hamoaze. The remaining Portuguese crew who had been forced to remain aboard the 'Ocean' by the French got a message to the 'Ocean's Master Dn. Ignacio Joze Martins and he and the boatswain made their way to Plymouth as quickly as possible. The sworn statement presented here is in English thanks to the translation given by Francisco Martins d' Magalhaens master of a Portuguese ship "now dwelling in Plymouth" The 'Oceano' sailed from Calcutta to Brazil arriving 10th February 1813. She left Rio on 4th April all was plain sailing until the afternoon of the 7th June off the Rock of Lisbon when the 'Lion' showed up first under false British colors then French. The fighting was fierce the privateer was driven off once but eventually the 'Oceano' was taken. The night of the 7th June was spent by the French 'conveying everything Moveable and Valuable from the Ocean to the Privateer'. The 'Leda' the US vessel landed the majority of the 'Ocean's crew including the Master in Lisbon on the evening of the 9th June.Monday 14th June the 'Lyon' engaged in a running battle with HMS 'Achates' and escaped but the 'Achates' did capture the 'Ocean'. Wednesday 16th June the 'Ocean' arrived in Plymouth under the watchful eye of the 'Achates'. Receiving the crew's message the Captain of the 'Ocean' left Lisbon for Falmouth and then Plymouth arriving on the 20th July. The document was dated 21st July 1813. Full transcription available. unknown
1813réf. List1947Plymouth 1813. Plymouth Devon England: 21st July 1813. Folio 7 pages 13 1/8 x 8 ¼ inches duty blindstamp small ink stamp to upper inner margin of the first page two seals to the last page signed twice by Galindo. Toned some small repaired tears using reversible archival ph-neutral paper-repair tape very good to near fine. Very Good. An interesting document of privateering in the Peninsular war this 'Public Instrument of Protest' documents a Portuguese captain and crew complaint in detail to an English notary. After sailing from Calcutta to Brazil and then from Rio to just outside of Lisbon their ship the 700-ton 'Oceano' was seized and comprehensively ransacked by a French privateer the 'Lion' out of Lorient. Most of the crew and passengers were offloaded onto a passing American vessel the 'Leda' bound for Lisbon. Meanwhile the 'Lyon' escorted her prize towards the nearest French port but before a friendly haven was reached they were both set upon by the brigantine HMS 'Achates'. The 'Lyon' escaped but the 'Ocean' was captured by Commander Morrison and the 'Achetes'. The 'Ocean' was taken to Plymouth and moored in the Hamoaze. The remaining Portuguese crew who had been forced to remain aboard the 'Ocean' by the French got a message to the 'Ocean's Master Dn. Ignacio Joze Martins and he and the boatswain made their way to Plymouth as quickly as possible. The sworn statement presented here is in English thanks to the translation given by Francisco Martins d' Magalhaens master of a Portuguese ship "now dwelling in Plymouth" The 'Oceano' sailed from Calcutta to Brazil arriving 10th February 1813. She left Rio on 4th April all was plain sailing until the afternoon of the 7th June off the Rock of Lisbon when the 'Lion' showed up first under false British colors then French. The fighting was fierce the privateer was driven off once but eventually the 'Oceano' was taken. The night of the 7th June was spent by the French 'conveying everything Moveable and Valuable from the Ocean to the Privateer'. The 'Leda' the US vessel landed the majority of the 'Ocean's crew including the Master in Lisbon on the evening of the 9th June.Monday 14th June the 'Lyon' engaged in a running battle with HMS 'Achates' and escaped but the 'Achates' did capture the 'Ocean'. Wednesday 16th June the 'Ocean' arrived in Plymouth under the watchful eye of the 'Achates'. Receiving the crew's message the Captain of the 'Ocean' left Lisbon for Falmouth and then Plymouth arriving on the 20th July. The document was dated 21st July 1813. Full transcription available. unknown books
1813réf. BK0183Lisbon 1813. Autograph letter signed 3 pp. on a folded sheet with integral address panel to Messrs. Brown & Ives Providence Rhode Island and Newport "SHIP" and circular datestamps. 8 x 9 ¾ inches. Folded for mailing with considerable wear along the folds several tears and small losses including losses from opening the seal affecting scattered words. Good overall and substantially legible. A commercial letter written from Lisbon during the War of 1812 by "P. Falconer" probably the Baltimore merchant Peregrine Falconer. The identification remains somewhat tentative but the 1812 Baltimore directory lists Comegys Falconer & Co. merchants at 190 Baltimore Street while later Maryland Chancery records document the estate of Peregrine Falconer; Missouri archival records also document Falconer and Comegys and both "Perregrine" and "Perry" Falconer. Falconer was preparing to sail from Lisbon for Falmouth and writes Brown & Ives with the latest commercial and political intelligence reaching Portugal. He expected the widening European opposition to Napoleon to bring still more nations into the war then turned immediately to British policy toward American trade: "from the complexion of affairs that in the course of the Summer all the powers in Europe will be joined against France. If I am correctly informed a new duty of 6d. pr lb in addition is imposed in Britain upon American Cotton . Savannah Charleston & New York in a state of Blockade - this with the new duty has advanced the Price of Cotton .". The Russo-Prussian alliance had been concluded only weeks earlier Sweden joined the anti-Napoleonic alliance on March 24 and the coalition would continue to expand during the year. At the same time the English Parliament was debating additional duties on American cotton: on March 31 the government proposed sixpence per pound on American cotton imported in foreign vessels while Alexander Baring warned that American cotton carried by neutral ships would consequently bear a total duty of ninepence per pound. British naval pressure on the American coast was also rapidly increasing during the spring of 1813 trapping increasing amounts of American shipping in port. Falconer's letter thus records from Lisbon the immediate commercial relationship between the blockade British taxation and the price of American cotton. The war also forced Falconer to reconsider how Brown & Ives should communicate with him once he reached Britain. He gives explicit instructions intended to obscure their route: "I presume the only means of corresponding with Liverpool will be by the way of Lisbon. I have to request that you will write to me . frequently enclosing your letters under cover to Messrs. - & Brown without marking 'Via Lisbon' as letters coming from America are all opened in Britain." The remainder concerns the practical movement of merchants and shipping through the same wartime network including Falmouth and Liverpool passage arrangements vessels preparing to sail and convoying. Overall a useful merchant's-eye letter from the spring of 1813 with the blockade of American ports the British cotton duty the developing coalition against Napoleon and the routing of commercial correspondence all appearing as parts of the same Atlantic problem. . unknown
1813réf. BK0183Lisbon 1813. Autograph letter signed 3 pp. on a folded sheet with integral address panel to Messrs. Brown & Ives Providence Rhode Island and Newport "SHIP" and circular datestamps. 8 x 9 ¾ inches. Folded for mailing with considerable wear along the folds several tears and small losses including losses from opening the seal affecting scattered words. Good overall and substantially legible. A commercial letter written from Lisbon during the War of 1812 by "P. Falconer" probably the Baltimore merchant Peregrine Falconer. The identification remains somewhat tentative but the 1812 Baltimore directory lists Comegys Falconer & Co. merchants at 190 Baltimore Street while later Maryland Chancery records document the estate of Peregrine Falconer; Missouri archival records also document Falconer and Comegys and both "Perregrine" and "Perry" Falconer. Falconer was preparing to sail from Lisbon for Falmouth and writes Brown & Ives with the latest commercial and political intelligence reaching Portugal. He expected the widening European opposition to Napoleon to bring still more nations into the war then turned immediately to British policy toward American trade: "from the complexion of affairs that in the course of the Summer all the powers in Europe will be joined against France. If I am correctly informed a new duty of 6d. pr lb in addition is imposed in Britain upon American Cotton . Savannah Charleston & New York in a state of Blockade - this with the new duty has advanced the Price of Cotton .". The Russo-Prussian alliance had been concluded only weeks earlier Sweden joined the anti-Napoleonic alliance on March 24 and the coalition would continue to expand during the year. At the same time the English Parliament was debating additional duties on American cotton: on March 31 the government proposed sixpence per pound on American cotton imported in foreign vessels while Alexander Baring warned that American cotton carried by neutral ships would consequently bear a total duty of ninepence per pound. British naval pressure on the American coast was also rapidly increasing during the spring of 1813 trapping increasing amounts of American shipping in port. Falconer's letter thus records from Lisbon the immediate commercial relationship between the blockade British taxation and the price of American cotton. The war also forced Falconer to reconsider how Brown & Ives should communicate with him once he reached Britain. He gives explicit instructions intended to obscure their route: "I presume the only means of corresponding with Liverpool will be by the way of Lisbon. I have to request that you will write to me . frequently enclosing your letters under cover to Messrs. - & Brown without marking 'Via Lisbon' as letters coming from America are all opened in Britain." The remainder concerns the practical movement of merchants and shipping through the same wartime network including Falmouth and Liverpool passage arrangements vessels preparing to sail and convoying. Overall a useful merchant's-eye letter from the spring of 1813 with the blockade of American ports the British cotton duty the developing coalition against Napoleon and the routing of commercial correspondence all appearing as parts of the same Atlantic problem. . unknown books
1871réf. 66Boston; Nov. 1 1871. 1871 9 pp. folio. This indenture was made the first day of November 1871 between the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company and Oliver Ames and Charles F. Choate. The Atlantic and Pacific was to be built from Missouri and Arkansas to the Pacific Coast. From the very beginning the Atlantic and Pacific was plagued with problems even though they had the same rights as other transcontinental railroads regarding bonds land grants etc. Ames and Choate noted bankers of railroads and other various schemes were to loan to the railroad in gold coin. The amount is left blank in this document and the document is not signed by the parties. They were to be repaid in gold coin with an annual interest rate of 6%. In addition to the indenture listed above another indenture was made with George Bigeldow and James Dixwell. 2 pp. with manuscript corrections and additions. Including a provision to enable the Atlantic and Pacific to mortgage the road. This document was written earlier and does not have nearly as many provisions as in the Ames and Choate indenture. Four years later the Atlantic and Pacific would lapse into receivership. Oliver Ames then the largest stockholder purchased 96697 acres of the road's Missouri lands. After reorganization the A & P had some life until the panic of 1893 and the spoils were then divided between the Santa Fe and Frisco. These two documents are important in understanding the financial development of this railroad. Atlantic and Pacific material is quite scarce. Oliver Ames was the brother of Oakes. This railroad was to have been a very important development for Arkansas and Missouri. These documents are housed in a very attractive folding box 9 x 7 3/4 inches with green cloth-covered boards and a green morocco spine label with gilt lettering. 3214013 OG2080. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Boston; Nov. 1, 1871. hardcover
1971réf. 14271New York: Collectors Editions Ltd. Near Fine. 1971. Hardcover. Text volume Catalogue Raisonne. Alexanddre De Vesme with introduction and additions by Phyllis Dearborn Massar. English & French text. 230pp. An unaltered reprint of the chapter on Della Bella appearing in Alexandre De Vesme 1906. Plate volume 241pp. With over 1050 B/W images. New York Collectors edition. Both volumed bound in clean grey cloth. Bright gilt title on spine. Texts tight clean & intact. Art Catalogue ; B/W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 471 pages . Collectors Editions Ltd. hardcover
1911réf. 44851H. P. Griffith. G/NONE. 1911. Hardcover. Hardback first edition of reminiscences signed by Civil War Captain Harrison Patillo Griffith 1837-1928 of Laurens County South Carolina. Furman-educated Griffith served with Company E 14th South Carolina Regiment and was badly wounded both at the Battle of the Wilderness and at Gettysburg. After the war he returned to Woodruff South Carolina ran a small store for a while and served as a school teacher. Later he was president of Limestone College. The author of "Life of Landrum" and "Life and Times of John Ezell" Griffith recounts in this surprisingly well-written volume his war experiences at Chancellorsville and his regard for Henry Timrod Charleston South Carolina poet among a number of other subjects. This copy is bound in textured red cloth with light soil and wear at extremities; gilt-lettering on spine is faded. Hinges sound uncracked; nonauthorial gift inscription in ink. SIGNED by Griffith in ink in a rather shaky hand on frontis photo page; tissue guard intact. Pages tight clean but bit "wavy" perhaps due to humidity or bindery error. Erasure of old price on first free endpaper. No DJ. ; . H. P. Griffith, hardcover
1990réf. Adhya-9780792308133Springer 1990. Paperback. New. Springer paperback
1990réf. Adhya-9780792308133Springer 1990. Paperback. New. Springer paperback
réf. SONG9400711883Used: Good unknown
1851réf. 16424Albany N. Y.: State of New York. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1851-63. First Edition. Hardcover. 13 Annual Reports beautifully bound into 4 blue cloth volumes with gilt lettering on the spines. Text interior is clean & tight with a few small tears where fold-out attaches to text. Reports published in1851-1863 for the years 1850-1862. Illustrated with canal plans tables charts maps & descriptions. 1850 No. 26 : 118pp w /index 1851 No. 33 : 120 pp w/ index & fold-out map 1852No. 23 : 192pp w /index 1853 No. 65 : 199pp w /index 1854 No. 32 : 302pp w /index & 3 fold-outs 1map 1855 No. 100 : 320pp w /index & 2 fold-outs 1856 No. 145 : 301pp w /index 1857 No. 20 : 237pp w /index 1858 No.40 : 304pp w /index 1859 No 51 : 150pp w /index 1860 No 57 : 160pp w /index 1861 No. 9 162pp w /index & fold-out map 1862 No. 6 : 134pp & 24 fold-outs 1 Map. Originally from the Harry Rinker research library relating to the American canal era. New York Canals: Erie Champlain Black River Genesee Chenango Oswego Cayuga & Seneca Chemung Crooked Lake Oneida Baldwinsville; Charts maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 2543 pages . State of New York hardcover
1850réf. 15401850 1 Première partie complète, 1 frontispice et 30 planches hors-texte. Seconde partie partielle, 27 planches hors-texte dont 5 de costumes. Nantes, Charpentier, 1850, in-plano relié demi-chagrin rouge, dos lisse orné (Alexandre Locard relieur à La Rochelle), fortes rousseurs aux planches.
1902réf. 12944New York 1902. 8pp. Illustrated. Folio. Original self wrappers stapled. Moderate staining and soiling old folds minor edge wear. Good condition. Illustrated with black & white photos and two maps one of holdings in Knox County Kentucky the other in the East Texas Oil Belt centered on Beaumont. The company -- miners and producers of crude lubricating and illuminating oils -- was incorporated in April 1901 under the state laws of Delaware. This prospectus solicited investors and presented its balance sheet and current activities listed officers and presented the "expert opinions" of geologist Major J.W. Otley the original surveyor of the Beaumont and other fields as to the worthiness of the company's properties at nearby Sour Lake Texas. No listings found on OCLC. A unique and early oil company prospectus with notable content on Kentucky and Texas oil. unknown
1902réf. 12944New York 1902. 8pp. Illustrated. Folio. Original self wrappers stapled. Moderate staining and soiling old folds minor edge wear. Good condition. Illustrated with black & white photos and two maps one of holdings in Knox County Kentucky the other in the East Texas Oil Belt centered on Beaumont. The company -- miners and producers of crude lubricating and illuminating oils -- was incorporated in April 1901 under the state laws of Delaware. This prospectus solicited investors and presented its balance sheet and current activities listed officers and presented the "expert opinions" of geologist Major J.W. Otley the original surveyor of the Beaumont and other fields as to the worthiness of the company's properties at nearby Sour Lake Texas. No listings found on OCLC. A unique and early oil company prospectus with notable content on Kentucky and Texas oil. unknown books
1900réf. 031999Lebanon East Greenville and Lititz PA: P. C. Croll/H. W. Kriebel/The Pennsylvania German/Penn Germania Publishing Co. 1900. Book. Very Good. Original Wraps. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Almost complete run of the pioneering journal The Pennsylvania German uniformly bound in decorated wraps variously paginated 107 of 110 issues lacking 2.3 3.2 and 7.8 for completion. All issues complete and intact except for the following: 7.2 lacks front cover 10.2 replacement covers 10.6 lacking both covers. Most issues show modest handling/shelf wear with the inevitable spine chipping typical of this issue a few other issues with loose or detached but present covers; condition ranges Fair on issues just noted to Near Fine most at least VG many VG to Near Fine. Vols. I-VI issued quarterly 4/year Vol. VIII in 8 issues Vols. VIII-XII issued monthly 12/year Vol. XIII w/ 12 issues in 10 Vols. XIV XV each in 3 issues thus 110 issues total. Vols. XIII-XV otherwise numbered as New Series Vols. I-III. Early issues royal 8vo later issues 4to. Initiated in Jan. 1900 by Rev. Croll The Pennsylvania-German was taken over by H. W. Kriebel and issued in a slightly taller format commencing with Vol. VII in 1906 changing format again beginning with Vol. XIII New Series Vol. I. Meant to capitalize upon the wide-ranging interest in the Pennsylvania German Society annual volumes begun in 1893 The Pennsylvania-German initiated a new era in ethnic identity and offered a variety of both entertaining and scholarly articles focusing on various aspects of PA German folklife. Scarce in any form rarely offered complete. P. C. Croll/H. W. Kriebel/The Pennsylvania German/Penn Germania Publishing Co. Paperback
1890réf. 17657Washington D. C.: E. Robinson. Very Good. 1890. First Edition. Map. Each map is backed by cardboard & encased in clear wrap. ; Original antique maps: each is 30 1/2" x 21". Cadastral type maps. Includes Outline & Index Map of Essex County; East Orange--Plates #1 #2 #3 & #4; Orange-- Plates #6 #8 & #9; West Orange--Plates #11 #12 #13 & #14; Montclair--Plate #17 ; Bloomfield--Plate #22 & #23; Franklin-- Plate #24; Irvington South Orange & Vailsburgh -- Plate #34; Clinton South Orange --Plate #35; Millburn Wyoming --Plate #37. All in VG condition: some with light age toning at edges. Clear wrap has a tear on Plates #1 #23 #24 not affecting the integrity of the maps. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 20 pages . E. Robinson unknown
1793réf. 007662Philadelphia: Benjamin Johnson 1793. Paperback. Good. 36 p.: illustration; 17 cm. Stitched. Wrapper included in page count. Woodcut illustration of "The Anatomy of Man's Body as governed by the Twelve Constellations." "David Jenkins" written in the margin of one page. Not in Early American Imprints or Morrison's Preliminary Check List of American Almanacs. One copy in WorldCat. This appears to be the earliest of the many almanacs for which Abraham Shoemaker provided calculations. Very scarce. In Good Condition: restitched at some point; loss at edges of front wrapper; old dampstaining heaviest on back wrapper and preceding leaf; loss at lower edge of back wrapper without loss of text; minor ink marks in a few margins; corners creased. Benjamin Johnson paperback
1629réf. 21438Lugd. Batav. (Leyde), ex officina Elzeviriana, 1629 ; in-24 (108 mm), vélin rigide de l’époque, titre manuscrit au dos ; [16], 498 pp., [1] f. de Privilège, titre gravé illustré de blasons.
1881réf. 22933BLAIN 1881-1898 -in-folio pleine toile un registre (fort volume), reliure pleine toile grise in-folio(39,3 x 26 cm), RELIURE D'EPOQUE, dos long muet (spine without title and without raised bands), plats muets, noté : "LIVRE DE MARQUE APPARTENANT A LOUIS LEBEAU FORGERON A BLAIN." à l'encre brune au dos de la première de couverture, Registre Manuscrit à l'encre brune, sans pagination (174 pages), 1881-1898 A BLAIN (LOIRE-INFERIEURE) ,
réf. 243866Paris, Proux, Dentu, 1848 5 vol. in-8, demi-basane verte, dos à nerfs, filets et pointillés dorés Rousseurs. Les tomes 1 à 4 sont des reliures à l'imitation, le tome V en reliure de l'époque.
