Memoirs of Lady Hester Stanhope, as Related by Herself in Conversation with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time. In Three Volumes by Stanhope, Lady Hester - 1845

London, United Kingdom: George Routledge/Piper, Stephenson & Co, 1850. Omoo, Early Edition. Brown Marbled bds with Black Leather spine and cnrs, bright Gilt title in Burgundy flag to spine, pp ix 242.. BOUND with The Post and the Paddock, Nice frontis engraving by H. Beckwith, pp vii 232. CONDITION Very nice copy with mild wear to bds, named to both title pages with partial erasure causing minor damage to titlepage of Omoo, minor page browning o/w tight and clean.. Re-Issue. Half-Leather. Very Good/Not Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

British Guiana: Argosy. Very Good+. 1931. Second Edition. Hardcover. Clean olive green cloth has dark green titles on spine & front cover viii, 202pp. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Six full page b/w Illustrations and a large fold out map. First edition was published in 1841. Ink stamp "The Tourist Bureau Georgetown British Guiana". First edition was published in 1841. Ink stamp "The Tourist Bureau, Georgetown British Guiana". (New Guiana since 1966). South America; B/W Illustrations & Lg. Map; 202 pages .

New York: Eastburn & Co. Good+. 1818. New Edition. Hardcover. First printed in 1775 and 1776 as “Probability of Reaching the North Pole Discussed, ” this edition of Daines Barrington’s work includes the Appendix by physicist Mark Beaufoy. Later nineteeth century 3/4 leather over speckled paper cover boards. Spine with raised bands and gilt . (xiii) 14 to 187pp. Top edge gilt. Interior of text is tight and intact. Light to moderate foxing. Last 4 pages have a damp stain on bottom corner. Illustrated with map of the North Pole frontispiece and pictorial title page. Polar, Arctic; Fold out Map; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 187 pages .

Fourth edition. Printed for T. Cadell and G. Robinson. London. 1779. Octavo. Lacking half-title, xxiv, 311pp. Full calf, spine renewed, original boards showing small areas of surface wear. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering, blind tooling and leather label. Hinges reinforced. Spotting to title and prelims, and occasionally elsewhere. Circular Medical Society of London stamp to title; Unobtrusive 'Withdrawn By The Wellcome Library' to verso of title page. Neat lettering to upper margin of title page, and to verso of ffep.
Cleghorn, George (1716–1789), physician. Stationed in Minorca 1736-1749. The comprehensive introduction which covers the Minorquines, festivals, witchcraft and evil, climate, agriculture, wine, minerals, the natural history of the island, lists of plants and animals, together with the native names of several species, is followed by seven chapters on epidemical diseases, plus weather and Meteorological tables.
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NY: Harper & Brothers, 1864. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY: Harper & Brothers, 1864. 8vo., 590pp., plus 6pp. publisher's ads, illustrated with engraved plates, including a large fold-out color map. Blind embossed brown cloth with bronze spine titles, yellow endpapers. Gentle wear at the heel and crown, else very good plus, binding sound and tight, pages, plates and map clean with no foxing. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

[Edward Teller] Blumberg, Stanley A. and Gwinn Owens. Energy & Conflict: The Life and Times of Edward Teller, New York: Putnams, 1976. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with light edge wear to the spine edges. This copy is inscribed by Edward Teller on the front flyleaf and also laid-in is a small photograph of Teller that he has signed. In this 1976 biography of Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb, the authors present exclusive interviews, memorabilia, and photos provided by Teller. and delves into each stage of his life and career. The controversial Teller spearheaded America's effort to build the hydrogen bomb, and then testified against Robert Oppenheimer in his security clearance trial. The book explains his early persecution by the Hungarian communists, then the Nazis in Germany. His role in the Manhattan Project is described in detail. Also portrayed is the development of the H-bomb, including descriptions of its evolving… Read More

First English edition. Henry Colburn. London. 1828. 8vo. Title, xii, 428pp. Full marbled paper covered boards, 19th Century pseudo tree calf papier croisé pattern. Red spine label with gilt lettering and edge rules. Blue endpapers. Title page slightly toned. Lacking half-title. Rubbing to spine edges. A crisp copy of the rarer London first edition.
In making a Papier Croisé, the final step required that the paper be lifted up and carefully moved while still wet. This caused the characteristic knotting in the design.
John Ledyard (1751-1789) American explorer and adventurer. Ledyard accompanied Cook on the third and final voyage 1776-1780. Visiting the Sandwich Islands, Cape of Good Hope, the Prince Edward Islands off South Africa, the Kerguelen Islands, Tasmania, New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Tonga, Tahiti, and then Hawaii. It continued to the northwest coast of North America, making Ledyard perhaps the first U.S. citizen to touch its western coast, along the Aleutian islands and Alaska into the… Read More

Lot of 5 books Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gréce By Jean Jacques Barthelemy (Voyage of the young Anacharsis in Greece) – In French language. Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4 5. Complete work.
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Jean Jacques Barthelemy's famous "Voyage du jeu Anacharsis en Gréce". He had begun it in 1757 and had been working on it for thirty years. The hero, a young Scythian descended from the famous philosopher Anacharsis, is supposed to travel to Greece for instruction in his early youth, and after making the tour of her republics, colonies and islands, to return to his native country and write this book in his old age, after the Macedonian hero had overturned the Persian Empire. In the manner of modern travellers, he gives an account of the customs, government, and antiquities of the country he is supposed to have visited.
Pp. (1): 476Pp. (2): 486Pp. (3): 502 + /2/ of indexPp. (4): 509 + /1/ of index – atlas missing Pp. (5): 470 + /2/ of index
Foxing, textblock clean. Folding map missing from vol.4.

205pp. Decorative endpapers. Very Good condition with light foxing to the closed page edges, and corner 'crumple' to lower margin/corners of pages 137-144.In near Very Good original price-clipped dustwrapper with some edge tears and toning.Rare memoir by Barbara Greene of the 350-mile, 4-week walk through the unmapped interior of Liberia undertaken in 1935 with her cousin, Graham Greene (republished in 1981 as 'Too Late to Turn Back'). Graham Greene's own account of the journey "Journey Without Maps" had been published in 1936.

Two-volume set in Very Good condition. Second UK edition issued without DJs. Elaborately decorated green cloth over beveled boards with designs and lettering in gold, silver, and red. Gilt edges. Boards feature the ice-bound ship, The Fram; spine depicts solitary figure on mountaintop. Vol. I frontispiece is portrait of Nansen. Very slight yellowing to the title page likely due to loose tissue guard over frontispiece. Also included is a full color plate along with other sketches by Nansen and numerous photographs. Front board shows dull area lower right; fold out map is lightly foxed and has 2-inch closed tear but remains firmly bound in. Edge wear along bottom of spine, front and rear boards; corners lightly bumped. Vol. II frontispiece titled, "Sailing Kayaks" has 1/8 inch closed tear. Numerous sketches and photographs also included in Vol. II are by Nansen of the landscape, people, camp, ships and animals that make up this extraordinary journey. Slight lean to text block; edge wear along… Read More