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Broadside - [East India Company - China - George II of Great Britain] Görtz, Fr. W. von Schlitz gen. "Georg der Andere [-] Es ist bekant, was vor eine Ost-Indische Handlungs-Compagnie zu Altona anzulegen, und Actien daraus zu machen projectiret worden [-]". Hannover den 1. Junii 1728. by Görtz, Fr. W. von Schlitz gen. [George II forbids investing in new East Indian Company in Altona] - 1728, June 1.

by Görtz, Fr. W. von Schlitz gen. [George II forbids investing in new East Indian Company in Altona]

Broadside - [East India Company - China - George II of Great Britain] Görtz, Fr. W. von Schlitz gen. "Georg der Andere [-] Es ist bekant, was vor eine Ost-Indische Handlungs-Compagnie zu Altona anzulegen, und Actien daraus zu machen projectiret worden [-]". Hannover den 1. Junii 1728. by Görtz, Fr. W. von Schlitz gen. [George II forbids investing in new East Indian Company in Altona] - 1728, June 1.

Broadside - [East India Company - China - George II of Great Britain] Görtz, Fr. W. von Schlitz gen. "Georg der Andere [-] Es ist bekant, was vor eine Ost-Indische Handlungs-Compagnie zu Altona anzulegen, und Actien daraus zu machen projectiret worden [-]". Hannover den 1. Junii 1728.

by Görtz, Fr. W. von Schlitz gen. [George II forbids investing in new East Indian Company in Altona]

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George II forbids investing in new East Indian Company in Altona.

Broadside - [East India Company in Altona - China - George II of Great Britain] Görtz, Fr. W. von Schlitz gen. "Georg der Andere [-] Es ist bekant, was vor eine Ost-Indische Handlungs-Compagnie zu Altona anzulegen, und Actien daraus zu machen projectiret worden [-]". Hannover den 1. Junii 1728. (Hannover, n.p., 1728). Large oblong folio. 1 Leaf, ca. 41 x 34 cm.

Very rare broadside warning and forbidding potential investors about buying shares in the 'Ost-Indische Handlungs-Compagnie zu Altona'. In 1728, under Frederick IV of Denmark (1699-1730) efforts were made to establish an East Indian trading company in Altona, then Danish territory. This was prevented by the Netherlands, England and France in order to protect their own successful trade with China. In the present broadside George II (1683-1760) warns against the imminent failure of the initiative and simply forbids any investments in the company. Any offender will face a fine of 4 times the amount of money which he invested. Consequent to the campaign, the Ost-Indische Handlungs-Compagnie zu Altona failed to raise sufficient capital to start a business. It was not until 1732 that Christian IV signed the charter for a successful 2nd initiative, the Danish Asiatic Company (Dansk Asiatisk Compagni) in Copenhagen, that would significantly stimulate the Danish trade with China, which had already existed since the 17th century. This charter was twice renewed, in 1772 and 1792. The present broadside is signed by Friedrich Wilhelm von Schlitz genannt von Görtz (1647-1728) the Privy Councilor to George I and II of Britain. He was President of the Chamber of Elector Georg Ludwig of Braunschweig and Lüneburg (Hanover), who as King George I (1660-1727) founded the Hanoverian line on the English throne. For routine matters, George I relied on his Chamber President Görtz, who was known as incorruptible and a great financial expert. - Some sm. faults, but - A good copy.

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The History of the Church of Japan. Written originally in French by Monsieur L’Abbe de T. And...
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The History of the Church of Japan. Written originally in French by Monsieur L’Abbe de T. And now translated into English. By N.N.: Two Volumes

by Crasset, Jean; [Webb, George transl.]

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Two volumes. First editions. s.n. London. 1705. s.n. London. 1707. Small quartos. (22), 544, (8)pp; (10), 549, (6)pp. Later full calf, spines in 6 compartments with raised bands and leather labels. Renewed endpapers. All edges sprinkled to volume I. Variable light toning and occasional spotting to Volume I; intermittent light water staining, spotting and toning to Volume II. Minor insect damage to gutter margin p211-250 Volume II. Paper fault: 2 small holes and corner loss to penultimate page of Volume II with no loss to text.
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Impressions of America, During the Years 1833, 1834, and 1835 [Signed]
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Impressions of America, During the Years 1833, 1834, and 1835 [Signed]

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London: Richard Bentley, 1836. Signed first edition. 2 volumes finely bound in crimson 3/4 morocco by Stikeman with raised bands and gilt titles. Power's autograph signature bound in. Published London: Richard Bentley, 1836. Large 8vo., 6" x 9", xv+440pp.; vi+408pp., with half titles and frontispieces etched by Hervieu present. Marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. Name plate of noted collector Benjamin DeForest Curtiss on front pastedown of each volume. Power was a well known Irish comedian, actor and author. He toured the Eastern U.S. extensively and was lost at sea returning home from his last tour of 1841. He was great-grandfather of the Hollywood actor of the same name. Pages clean and bright white, page block crisp. Minor rub/scuff at extremities. A fine set in an elegant binding.. Signed. 1st. Hard. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.
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SMOLLET'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. 11 volumes complete plus one.
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SMOLLET'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. 11 volumes complete plus one.: A Complete History of England, from the Descent of Julius Caesar, to the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle, 1748. Containing the Transactions of One Thousand Eight Hundred and Three Years.

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11 vols in the set : the 12th is a matching mock-up with a hidey-hole. The image shows vols 9 and 11. All books have original leather spines with 5 raised bands and new gilt titles on red skivers; the vol numbers have been re-worked. The eps are original; all pages slightly yellow but with virtually no foxing nor dirt marks; all edges browned; no tissue guards. On the spines Smollett has been spelled with one "T". My attractive bookplates on verso of front covers. #1: 2nd Edn, 1758; old ink inscription "E H Reeves/ Bally Glifsune". 10 of 12 illustrations - MISSING Map of England & Battle of Hastings. 479pp. #2 .1758, 4 plates complete, 478pp. #3: 4 plates complete 479pp. #4: 4 plates complete 479pp. #5: worn over 1.5mm on tail. 8 plates complete 478pp. #6 : 1759, MISSING 1 plate of 23, worn over 3mm at tail, 480pp. #7::1759 MISSING 1 plate of 43, 473pp. #8 : 1759, 16 plates complete, 478pp. #9 : 1759; 11 plates complete. #10 : 1759, 24 plates complete, 465pp. #11: 1760, 18 plates complete,… Read More
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East India Archipelago Chart No. 7 (1878)

East India Archipelago Chart No. 7 (1878): Formosa

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A Comparative History of the Increase and Decrease of Mankind in England, and Several Countries...
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A Comparative History of the Increase and Decrease of Mankind in England, and Several Countries Abroad, According to the different Soils, Situations, Business of life, Use of the Non-Naturals, &c. faithfully collected from, and attested by, above Three Hundred Vouchers, and Many of them for a long Course of Years, in two different Periods. To which is added. A Syllabus of the general States of Health, Air, Seasons, and Food for the last Three Hundred Years; And Also a Meteorological Discourse.

by Thomas Short, M.D.

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4to. Modern half-calf over marbled boards, red leather label on spine. London: Printed for W. Nicoll and C. Etherington, 1767. First Edition. With a list of subscribers and a fold-out chart measuring rainfall in England for 1755-66. A fascinating set of contemporary statistics and observations on population patterns, cultural movements, food supply and meteorology in England for three hundred years – well within the life of Shakespeare. Therefore, it gives some implications for society in the time of Shakespeare. It is thought that Malthus may have used some of Short's methodologies; also it is known that Benjamin Franklin read the book. With the bookplate and perforated stamps of the John Crerar Library; minor bowing of the boards; light foxing on initial and final leaves; o/w a Fine Copy.
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Picturesque Palestine, in Three Volumes. Volumes I-III [COMPLETE].

Picturesque Palestine, in Three Volumes. Volumes I-III [COMPLETE].

by Wilson, Charles W. (Editor). Assisted by the Most Eminent Palestine Explorers, Etc.

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London, Virtue, (1889).. Hardcover. .. Three volume set. Complete. Royal quarto (32 x 27 cm). Pp. x, 240 plus 10 steel-engraved plates; vi, 240 plus 12 steel-engraved plates; vi, 240 plus 11 steel-engraved plates and a double-page engraved map of Palestine, printed in orange and blue, with inset plan of Jerusalem. The total number of 33 plates includes four different steel-engraved frontispieces and four different, large steel-engraved title vignette, all printed on heavy paper bound-in, with tissue-guards. The three volumes are illustrated with a total of 429 wood-engraved illustrations, many of which are full-page, all with explanatory captions. Index to each volume. Titles printed in red and black. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher's richly decorated green cloth, gilt panelled and lettered, spine gilt, bevelled boards, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers. In about fine condition (occasionally some spotting; slight wear to spine ends.) A very handsome set, very well preserved.… Read More
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[Color Plate] Tour of The Grand Junction, illustrated in a series of engravings; with an...
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[Color Plate] Tour of The Grand Junction, illustrated in a series of engravings; with an Historical and Topographical Description of those parts of the counties of Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Northhamptonshire, through which the canal passes

by HASSELL, John (d. 1825)

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London: Printed for J Hassell, 27, Richard Street, Islington; and sold by all book sellers, 1819. Full Leather. Very Good +. First Edition of this work issued as a celebration of the newly completed Grand Union Canal. 8vo: viii,147,[5] pp, with hand-colored frontispiece and 23 full-page hand-colored plates "of great topographical interest" (Hardie; according to Abbey, some copies were issued uncolored). Full period black straight-grain morocco, spine elaborately tooled gilt in six compartments, boards tooled in blind and gilt, turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt. A Very Good or better copy, the plates clean and bright, with sporadic, mostly marginal (occasionally heavy) foxing to text. Provenance: book plate to front paste-down of Howard Calhoun Davidson (1890-1984), U. S. Air Force Major General and veteran of both World Wars. Abbey (Scenery) 30. Tooley 252. Martin Hardie, pp. 140-141. Prideaux, p. 272. The Grand Junction Canal's 93 miles of waterway, from Braunston in Northhamptonshire to the River… Read More
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Antiquities of London and its Environs
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Antiquities of London and its Environs: Containing views of houses, monuments, statues and other curious remains of Antiquity

by John Thomas Smith

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Collection of 96 engraved plates by Smith after original drawings by members of the Society of Antiquaries. Engraved title-page and 96 plates, of which 3 tinted (One duplicated plate bound in.) Plates include portraits of King Lud, King Richard II, King James I, Sir Thomas Gresham, William Earl of Craven, historian John Stowe, famous London buildings such as Bruce Castle, Sion College, Lincoln's Inn Gate, Bloody Tower, Newgate, Savoy Prison, Lollards Prison, old Tudor houses, ruins, gravestones, etc. The engraver John Thomas Smith was Keeper of Drawings at the British Museum, and this series of prints earned him the nickname Antiquity Smith.Condition: Leather spine with five-raised bands and gilt lettering, marble boards, scuffed and worn. Engraved plates mostly clean and bright with slight spotting and foxing to a few. Damp stain to lower edge of first 15 plates outside the plate area.
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Liber Qvintvs Chronici Carionis A' Friderico Secvndo usq[ue] ad Carolum Quintum. Expositvs Et...
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Liber Qvintvs Chronici Carionis A' Friderico Secvndo usq[ue] ad Carolum Quintum. Expositvs Et Avctvs A' Casparo Pevcero. Pertinet Hic Liber ad partem tertiam Chronici. Accessit In Hac Postrema æditione locupletissimus rerum & verborum memorabilium index.

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1566 Caspar Peucer Holy Roman Empire Charles V Reformation RARE German Binding

Caspar Peucer was a 16th-century German scholar who was involved in the Reformation, studied philosophy, and was an aid to Tycho Brahe and his astronomical findings. Peucer also published an important history of the Holy Roman Empire beginning with Frederick II in the 13th-century through Charles V.

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PEUCER, Caspar

Liber Qvintvs Chronici Carionis A' Friderico Secvndo usq[ue] ad Carolum Quintum. Expositvs Et Avctvs A' Casparo Pevcero. Pertinet Hic Liber ad partem tertiam Chronici. Accessit In Hac Postrema æditione locupletissimus rerum & verborum memorabilium index.
Frankfurt am Main: P. Fabricius für S. Feyerabend und Simon Huter, 1566.

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Voyage en Perse, en Arménie, en Asie-Mineure et à Constantinople, fait dans les années 1808...
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Voyage en Perse, en Arménie, en Asie-Mineure et à Constantinople, fait dans les années 1808 et 1809

by MORIER, James Justinian

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1813 1ed Morier Voyages in Persia IRAN Armenia Constantinople ISLAM Illustrated
James Justinian Morier was a 19th-century British diplomat to Iran best known for his voyages to the Middle East. Following his career in Iran, Morier published an account of his experiences in Iran, Armenia, and Constantinople. This book provides important information on Islamic traditions and temples, Persian sultans, ruins of Persepolis and the Achaemenid Empire, views of Tehran, and much more!
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MORIER, James Justinian
Voyage en Perse, en Arménie, en Asie-Mineure et à Constantinople, fait dans les années 1808 et 1809
Paris : Nepveu, 1813. First edition.

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The Berenstain Bears Go To Camp, A First Time Book
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The Berenstain Bears Go To Camp, A First Time Book

by Berenstain, Stan and Jan

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Berenstain, Stan and Jan: The Berenstain Bears Go To Camp ( A First Time Book) Random House 1982 First Edition, full number line. Ex-lib hardcover library-bound edition Brown cloth boards. Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice find for Berenstain Bears fans.
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Conquistador
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Conquistador

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Guedalla, Philip: "Conquistador " 1928 First Edition, Harper & Brothers. New York and London Used. VG/ No DJ included. Attractive red boards with gilt titling on front and spine. 5 7/8 X 8 7/8. 1928 First Edition Impression A-C on copyright page. 276 pages plus adverts.. HISTORICAL FICTION.
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South American Journals 1858-1859
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South American Journals 1858-1859

by Peabody, George Augustus

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Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum, 1937. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 209pp. Marbled boards, black spine, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, slipcase. Corners lightly rubbed, spine lettering mildly sunned, contents are clean and some pages still unopened. Slipcase is lightly edge-chipped. One of 481 copies printed on Hazelbourn paper by The Southworth-Anthoensen Press.
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A General Description of the East Coast of Scotland from Edinburgh to Cullen
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A General Description of the East Coast of Scotland from Edinburgh to Cullen

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Paisley, 1782. Hardcover. Fair. PRESUME FIRST EDITION ??? >>>Title page has large top corner trimed off. Ink name top of preface. Foxing / spotting . TP 1782 (roman numerals) "Printed for the author, by Alexander Weir ,M.DCC.LXXXII. Preface dtd feb,13 1782 . 310 pg. List of subscribers + errata .Rear endpaper missing. Pencil notes on front & rear pastedowns Bound content tight. No loose/pulled pages. Rear board detached.
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The Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-west Coast of America, in the...
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The Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-west Coast of America, in the Pacific and in New South Wal

by Bishop, Charles (1765?-1810), edited by Michael Roe

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lvi+342 pages with frontispiece, 6 maps including two folding maps, 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 and blind stamped ruled edges with original jacket. Edited by Michael Roe. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, second series, volume 131. First edition.In 1794, Charles Bishop sailed from Bristol as master of the Ruby, a trading ship bound for north-west America. He had instructions to procure otter furs fro the Indians and then to proceed to Canton via japan and sell the cargo. During the years 1794-1802, he rounded South America to reach the Pacific coast, then visited the Pacific islands and the coasts of Asia and Australia. In the Moluccas, he sold the Ruby and purchased the Nautilus; correspondingly, the test is divided into two sections. This narrative is Bishop's journal of his voyages and relates a minor epic of adventure,… Read More
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The Discovery of River Gambra (1623)
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The Discovery of River Gambra (1623)

by Richard Jobson edited by David P. Gamble and P. E. H. Hair

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xvi+341 pages with 2 color plates including frontispiece, 13 half tone plates and illustrations, 8 line drawings, 3 maps, bibliography and index. Small quarto (10" x 7") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial sailing ship to front cover. Edited by David P Gamble and P E H Hair. Third Series, volume 2. First edition.In 1623 Richard Jobson published an account of a 1620-1621 English voyage up River Gambia, during which a party, led by himself, penetrated to a point some 460 miles up river. The purpose of the voyage was to make contact with the gold trade of the West African interior, but in this there was little success. However, Jobson's account of the river, its commerce, natural history, peoples, religions, and politics, was the earliest to appear in print, in this fullness of detail, in any language. it was also the earliest detailed account of any part of Black Africa, by an Englishman. Although, in contemporary English, a probing of access to a new trade might be accounted… Read More
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Panama
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Panama: And The Canal In Pictures and Prose

by Willis J. Abbot

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This book is an antique but it is in poor condition. The binding is loose and peeling off the spine of this book. The cover is worn substantially on the edged, corners and all over. The previous owners name is written on the inside front board and the front end page. The inside pages are yellowed and tanned and the page is torn. "A complete story of Panama, as well as the history, purpose and promise of its world famous canal - the most gigantic engineering undertaking since the dawn of time. Approved by leading officials connected with the great enterprise. Profusely illustrated by over 600 unique and attractive photographs taken expressly for this book by our special staff." - Panama
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Across the Continent. A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific...

Across the Continent. A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States...

by Bowles, Samuel, 1826-1878

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Springfield, Mass., S. Bowles & Co.; NY, Hurd & Houghton, 1865. First Edition. Hard Cover. xx, 452 p., fold. map; 20 cm. Advts. [2] p. at front and 6 p. at end. The second issue with the added pages on California and the mines by William Ashburner. Published in 32 Letters. Bowles, publisher of the influential Springfield Weekly Republican, friend of the Dickinsons (thought to be Emily's secret love), claims to be the first to cross the country just to see it. Wagner-Camp 410: 2; Flake 767; Sabin 7077; Graff 370; Cowen p. 67. Good+, original brown publisher's cloth, spine faded; sound, tight copy, folding map repaired & vg; some foxing. Stock#OB956.
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Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings (1589-1605)
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Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings (1589-1605)

by Allen, W[illiam] E[dward] D[avid] (1901 – 1973) [editor]

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2 Volumes: xxxii+368 pages with frontispiece, five folding maps and ten plates; ix+[369]-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… Read More
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Volunteers in the African Bush: Memoirs from Sierra Leone
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Volunteers in the African Bush: Memoirs from Sierra Leone

by David Read Barker

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1457516187
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Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, January 2013. Trade Paperback. Fine. Slight reading wear to corners, otherwise pristine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Not damaged. Suitable for gifting. 163 pages. The 25 authors of this book were volunteers in the first Peace Corps rural community development project in Africa: Sierra Leone, 1965-67. They are also the first group to tell a collective story of Peace Corps volunteers, anywhere. The Peace Corps was in its infancy then, and memories of John Kennedy were strong among the young volunteers. Sierra Leone was also in its infancy in the first few years after independence, before military coups and tribal warfare became common. The authors forthrightly recount their feelings of loneliness and isolation, and their frightening experiences with secret societies and witchcraft, but their uniquely optimistic "can-do" American attitude brought most through a great life experience.
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