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London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Issued. Half calf and marbled boards, modern leather spine label. Marbles textblock and endpages. Bindings tight and square. Moderate handling wear. Text clean, no ownership markings, light even toning. 8vo; (iii)-viii, 472 pages. 8.5 by 5.25 inches. First Edition. Woodcut illustrations.. Reports about life under the Ottoman Turks and descriptions of regional monuments, Pyramids, etc. This is a curious mixture of information from St. John's own travels in 1832-3 with details from many other writers on Egypt, e.g. Alpinus, Light, Wilde, Burckhardt, Belzoni. A shortened and "more literary" description of the author's Egypt and Mohammed Ali REF: OCLC: 25950873. Bold: 013781126; Hilmy: 204ff [vii]
[Engraving, Hand-colored] A Chief And Other Natives Of O-Taheitee Visiting Capt. Cook In His Second Voyage To The Southern Hemisphere -
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[Engraving, hand-colored] A Chief and other Natives of O-Taheitee visiting Capt. Cook in his Second Voyage to the Southern Hemisphere
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Egypt and Nubia; their scenery and their people. Being incidents of history and travel, from the best and the most recent authorities, including J.L.Burckhardt and Lord Lindsay
by St. John, J.A. [James Augustus, 1795 - 1874]
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The Rainbow's End: Alaska
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Chicago / New York: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1898. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Bound in blue cloth covers, with stamped gilt lettering and ornamentation on the spine and covers. The book shows mild shelf wear, with some rubbing in the center of the covers. Bindings tight with a hint of a shelf lean. The text block is adorned with deckled edges. There is an institutional notation in ink in the top left corner of the front pastedown. An inscription by the previous owner is on the front flyleaf. The pages are clean with mild age toning. First Edition. Illustrated with photographic plates. 8vo; 3 preliminary leaves, 296 pages frontispiece, plates, portraits 20 cm. 7.75 inches tall.. "The book takes the reader not only along the Yukon into the heart of the Klondike, but to the Bering Sea, Dawson, Pribyloff Islands, .. .the technicalities of mining, the natural history of dogs and reindeer, Indian Myths and Christian missionary work. Hunting grounds, fishery waters, the seal…
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[West Indies, Slavery, Cuba] The Cruise of the Montauk to Bermuda, The West Indies and Florida
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New York: Thomas R. Knox & CO, 1885. A Very Good Hardcover. A Very Good Hardcover; No Dust Jacket Issued.. Publisher's dark brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt and spine and front stamped decoration in black. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with frayed spine tips and minor rubs on corners. Endpages renewed. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall; xv, [i], 441 pp. Frontispiece & 15 plates.. The Montauk's cruise was from New York to the Caribbean, which set sail February 21, 1884 and returned May 3, 1884 stopping at Bermuda, St. Kitt's, St. Pierre, Martinique, Trinidad, Curacao, Jamaica, Cuba, Havana and Florida. An interesting amount of sheet music and poetry add to the narrative. Gives very detailed descriptions of social conditions with notes on slavery and the natives in the places visited. The author was an accomplished stylist including ironic humor, puns and amusing turns of phrase in his narration. REF: Toy,1057; Morris & Howland, 92;…
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A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters
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Boston: Printed at the Apollo Press by Belknap and Young, for David West, 1792. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/None Issued. Bound in full leather, with red leather spine label and gilt lettering to the spine. The text is adorned with an engraved headpiece. Page 215 mis-numbered [115]; page 187 mis-numbered [178]. [ESTC 006454642] Displays external wear, with rubbing and scuffing visible to the covers; and faint vertical cracking and chipping visible to the spine and spine edges. The hinges of this volume are cracked. The armorial bookplate of Bibliotheque Schorsch is present to the front paste-down, and a previous owner's signature appears on the front flyleaf. The interior of this volume exhibits foxing and toning, as well as occasional faint moisture markings. 430 pages; 8.5 inches tall; 5.75 inches wide. A very handsome copy of the American edition. This volume and his subsequent volume of travels in Italy were immensely popular. This book relates, via series of letters, Moore's…
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Copperplate 18th Century Engraving Two views of villages on the Islands of St Anthony and St Vincent, East-Indies, populated by the Portuguese and their slaves
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London: John Walthoe et.al, 1740. Very Good. Main author: Churchill, Awnsham, d. 1728. London : Printed by assignment from Messrs. Churchill for John Walthoe, Tho. Wotton, Samuel Birt, Daniel Browne, Thomas Osborn, John Shuckburgh and Henry Lintot Published: c1740 Engraver undisclosed. Top has this written: V. II. .. In ye east indies ... betwixt page 147 148 and at the lower right .5. --- The plate measures 35.5 by 42 cm (14 by 16.5 in.) Actual engraving 29 by 35 cm (11.5 by 13.875 in.). There is a centerfold beginning to open on the bottom 1.5 in. Light age-toning, two minor edge fox marks on the upper edge. An appealing picture of early colonial life. Turtles are being prepared for eating in a large pot; game is being brought into the camp; domestic goats and chickens are visible in the yards before the huts in the St. Vincent vista. A second style of building and a rather nice observation of the mountains in the distance as 8 portraits of people are observed in the vicinity of the huts…
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Egypt and Nubia; their scenery and their people. Being incidents of history and travel, from the best and the most recent authorities, including J.L.Burckhardt and Lord Lindsay
by St. John, J.A. [James Augustus, 1795 - 1874]
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Issued. Half calf and marbled boards, modern leather spine label. Marbles textblock and endpages. Bindings tight and square. Moderate handling wear. Text clean, no ownership markings, light even toning. 8vo; (iii)-viii, 472 pages. 8.5 by 5.25 inches. First Edition. Woodcut illustrations.. Reports about life under the Ottoman Turks and descriptions of regional monuments, Pyramids, etc. This is a curious mixture of information from St. John's own travels in 1832-3 with details from many other writers on Egypt, e.g. Alpinus, Light, Wilde, Burckhardt, Belzoni. A shortened and "more literary" description of the author's Egypt and Mohammed Ali REF: OCLC: 25950873. Bold: 013781126; Hilmy: 204ff [vii]
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The Rainbow's End: Alaska
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Chicago / New York: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1898. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Bound in blue cloth covers, with stamped gilt lettering and ornamentation on the spine and covers. The book shows mild shelf wear, with some rubbing in the center of the covers. Bindings tight with a hint of a shelf lean. The text block is adorned with deckled edges. There is an institutional notation in ink in the top left corner of the front pastedown. An inscription by the previous owner is on the front flyleaf. The pages are clean with mild age toning. First Edition. Illustrated with photographic plates. 8vo; 3 preliminary leaves, 296 pages frontispiece, plates, portraits 20 cm. 7.75 inches tall.. "The book takes the reader not only along the Yukon into the heart of the Klondike, but to the Bering Sea, Dawson, Pribyloff Islands, .. .the technicalities of mining, the natural history of dogs and reindeer, Indian Myths and Christian missionary work. Hunting grounds, fishery waters, the seal…
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[West Indies, Slavery, Cuba] The Cruise of the Montauk to Bermuda, The West Indies and Florida
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New York: Thomas R. Knox & CO, 1885. A Very Good Hardcover. A Very Good Hardcover; No Dust Jacket Issued.. Publisher's dark brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt and spine and front stamped decoration in black. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with frayed spine tips and minor rubs on corners. Endpages renewed. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall; xv, [i], 441 pp. Frontispiece & 15 plates.. The Montauk's cruise was from New York to the Caribbean, which set sail February 21, 1884 and returned May 3, 1884 stopping at Bermuda, St. Kitt's, St. Pierre, Martinique, Trinidad, Curacao, Jamaica, Cuba, Havana and Florida. An interesting amount of sheet music and poetry add to the narrative. Gives very detailed descriptions of social conditions with notes on slavery and the natives in the places visited. The author was an accomplished stylist including ironic humor, puns and amusing turns of phrase in his narration. REF: Toy,1057; Morris & Howland, 92;…
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A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters
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Boston: Printed at the Apollo Press by Belknap and Young, for David West, 1792. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/None Issued. Bound in full leather, with red leather spine label and gilt lettering to the spine. The text is adorned with an engraved headpiece. Page 215 mis-numbered [115]; page 187 mis-numbered [178]. [ESTC 006454642] Displays external wear, with rubbing and scuffing visible to the covers; and faint vertical cracking and chipping visible to the spine and spine edges. The hinges of this volume are cracked. The armorial bookplate of Bibliotheque Schorsch is present to the front paste-down, and a previous owner's signature appears on the front flyleaf. The interior of this volume exhibits foxing and toning, as well as occasional faint moisture markings. 430 pages; 8.5 inches tall; 5.75 inches wide. A very handsome copy of the American edition. This volume and his subsequent volume of travels in Italy were immensely popular. This book relates, via series of letters, Moore's…
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Copperplate 18th Century Engraving Two views of villages on the Islands of St Anthony and St Vincent, East-Indies, populated by the Portuguese and their slaves
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London: John Walthoe et.al, 1740. Very Good. Main author: Churchill, Awnsham, d. 1728. London : Printed by assignment from Messrs. Churchill for John Walthoe, Tho. Wotton, Samuel Birt, Daniel Browne, Thomas Osborn, John Shuckburgh and Henry Lintot Published: c1740 Engraver undisclosed. Top has this written: V. II. .. In ye east indies ... betwixt page 147 148 and at the lower right .5. --- The plate measures 35.5 by 42 cm (14 by 16.5 in.) Actual engraving 29 by 35 cm (11.5 by 13.875 in.). There is a centerfold beginning to open on the bottom 1.5 in. Light age-toning, two minor edge fox marks on the upper edge. An appealing picture of early colonial life. Turtles are being prepared for eating in a large pot; game is being brought into the camp; domestic goats and chickens are visible in the yards before the huts in the St. Vincent vista. A second style of building and a rather nice observation of the mountains in the distance as 8 portraits of people are observed in the vicinity of the huts…
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South American Journals 1858-1859
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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 Holiday in Italy
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Walter Scott, London, 1889 revised edition, Very Good Hardcover / no dustjacket, 79 pages, 5" x 7.5", waterstain on front board, otherwise clean and tight, inscribed by author on ffep.
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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
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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,…
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The Silence Of The North
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Volunteers in the African Bush: Memoirs from Sierra Leone
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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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Emin Pasha in Central Africa, being a collection of his letters and journals. Edited and annotated by Professor G. Schweinfurth, Professor F. Ratzel, Dr. R.W. Felkin, and Dr. G. Hartlaub.
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547 pages. Black cloth boards; gilt lettering on spine. Spine detatched on one side. JWSC LLC is listing this property on behalf of a private collector's estate. Documentation on file indicates this book was purchased by the estate in the 1970s from (a UK dealer). Additional photos available.
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TRAVELS IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1823. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [viii]ix-xii [1]2-544. FIRST EDITION. Bound in brown half-leather over marbled boards, title in gilt within a red title piece. The first edition of the author's first book. William Wilson (1772-1849) inherited a substantial sum from an uncle, and decided to indulge his passion for travel. He travelled throughout Europe and The Middle East and wrote a series of books. This was his first, and it was the most popular, going through several editions. This is a good copy as all plates, including the frontispiece, have been excised. The boards show moderate wear, heavier at the spine ends. The front hinge is cracked. The text block is mainly clean with a few marks of unknown origin.
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BRNSTN BRS GO TO CAMP (First Time Books)
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Berenstain, Stan and Jan: The Berenstain Bears Go To Camp ( A First Time Book) Random House 1982 First Edition. Number line starts with 1. 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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Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings (1589-1605)
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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…
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Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage, 1741-1747: Volumes I & II: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton, 1741-1742; The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith, 1746-1747.
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2 Volumes: Volume 1 subtitled: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton 1741-1742 xii+333 with 8 maps, 3 illustrations including frontispiece, bibliography and index; Volume 2 subtitled: The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith 1746 1747 xv+393 pages with frontispiece, 13 maps, 6 illustrations, 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 177 and 181. First edition.The eighteenth century saw a resurgence of hope that a Northwest Passage - that elusive target of European seamen over the centuries - might yet be found. Prompted by the Irish MP Arthur Dobbs, the Admiralty sent the Furnace and Discovery to Hudson Bay in 1741 in search of navigable passage to the Pacific. The expedition was commanded by Christopher Middleton, until his resignation in March 1741 a sea-captain in the service of the Hudson Bay Company. With his actions closely scrutinized by his former…
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