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1834 Mariner's Chronicle 1ed PIRATES Shipwreck NAVY Boat Ship Sailing Navigation

A rare first edition of 'The Mariner's Chronicle' – a collection of sea narratives, shipwreck stories, naval battles, and pirate adventures! Written and collected by an unknown author, this work features accounts of specific ships and their crew lost to sea, explosions of boats in wharfs, and is filled with charming woodcut illustrations!

Item number: #24656
Price: $499

DUNCAN, Archibald

The mariner's chronicle: containing narratives of the most remarkable disasters at sea, such as shipwrecks, storms, fires, and famines: also naval engagements, piratical adventures, incidents of discovery, and other extraordinary and interesting occurrences.

New Haven: Durrie and Peck, 1834. First edition.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o xii, 13-504
o 25 engravings (on 13 leaves)
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~7.75in X 4.75in (19.5cm x 12cm)

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1901 Booker T Washington 1ed Up from Slavery American Poverty KKK Racism

"Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others."
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

Booker T. Washington was a famous 19th-century American civil rights activist known for his anti-slavery platform during the height of Negro lynchings in the American South. Born as a slave child during the American Civil War, Washington describes his difficulties and obstacles in his autobiography 'Up From Slavery'. This work follows more than forty years of his life, the state of race relations, and the rise and fall of the Negro social ladder.

While many authors and political leaders, such as WEB du Bois, were highly critical of Washington's work, he still emphasized the importance of education among the black population, especially in the South, which was a realistic tactic to easing racial tensions. This book was also gives the first mention of extremist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.

Item number: #24926
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1787 Daniel Defoe Voyage Round the World English Colonization Robinson Crusoe 2v

"It is never too late to be wise."
– Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe was an English author who gained enduring fame for his novel, Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularize the genre in Britain. In some texts he is even referred to as one of the founders, if not the founder, of the English novel.

While Robinson Crusoe is his best and most iconic work, he wrote numerous other works including another adventure voyage book called "A New Voyage Round the World". Certainly this work is nowhere near as popular or as well-known as 'Robinson Crusoe', it does show Defoe's interest in world travel and English colonization. According to Jane Jack,
"Colonization made a deep appeal to Defoe's imagination. To him, a colony was a symbol. It stood for his optimistic conception of human nature, representing his conception of the good life of… Read More

1775 Revolutionary War MONEY 1ed Early American Banknote $2 Bill Dollars Finance
An incredibly rare and valuable 18th-century example of Revolutionary War money!
During the height of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress needed finding a way to pay the newly found American army. In 1775, the Continental Currency was first printed to supplement income. And while the value of these notes depreciated in value throughout the war, they hold significant historical and financial value today. These notes hold a reminder of the horrors of uncontrolled inflation and provide an important view into the history of American finance.
This two-dollar note was printed in Philadelphia by Hall and Sellers in 1775 – an incredible example of first edition American money!
Item number: #24984
Price: $499
United States
Five Dollars
[Philadelphia:] Hall and Sellers, 1775.
Details:
· One banknote
o November 29, 1775 edition
o Serial number illegible
o Signed by Luke Morris
· Language: English
· Size: ~3.75in X… Read More

1769 BRITISH Peerage Scotland IRELAND Illustrated Coat-of-ARMS Scottish Heraldry
'The Peerage of Scotland' is a rare, 18th-century reference of Scottish and British genealogy and heraldry. This 1769 edition of Edward Kimber's "Peerage" contains hundreds of engraved figures of Scottish, English, Irish, and British coats-of-arms – arms of earls, dukes, barons, and viscounts. Each of the fine engravings contains a thorough description of the peerage and nobility.
Item number: #24983
Price: $599
KIMBER, Edward
The pocket herald : or, a complete view of the peerage of England, Scotland and Ireland. With all the arms engraved and blazoned. In two volumes
London: Printed for J. Almon, 1769.
Details:
· Collation: Complete; 3 volumes in 1
o Peerage of England – 303, [5]
56 plates with 2-12 figures on each page!
o Peerage of Scotland – 101, [1]
o Peerage of Ireland – [2], 5-145, [1]
· Provenance: Handwritten – Joseph Steevens, 1771
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size:… Read More

1685 Cambridge 1ed Imitation Christ Thomas Kempis + Widdrington Coena Dominica "Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." ― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristThomas a Kempis's most famous and important work has, for centuries, been 'The Imitation of Christ.' It has widely been known to have influence important Christian conversion including that of John Wesley and John Newton.This 1685 edition of Kempis is bound with Ralph Widdrington's 1688 'Deipnon kai epideipnon Coena Dominica'. These two works were printed and bound together, as expected.Item number: #5583Price: $499KEMPIS, Thomas aDe Christo imitando, : contemnendisque mundi vanitatibus libellus authore Thoma Kempisio, libri tres, interprete Sebastiano Castellione. Quibus anjungitur liber quartus De coena dominica Latinè redditus,Cantabrigiae : ex officina Joan Hayes, celeberrimae Academiae typographi. 1685-1688.Details: Collation: Complete with all pages[12],… Read More

1678 CRUSADES Tasso MINIATURE Jerusalem Delivered Italian Gerusalemme Liberata

"All he regarded; but in Syria most,
He mark'd the leaders of the Christian host:
That eye, whose penetrating glances dart
To each deep secret of the human heart"
– Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, canto I

Originally written in 1575, Torquato Tasso's famous "Jerusalem Delivered" tells a mythical story of the First Crusade complete with Christian Knights battling Muslim warriors.

This 1678 edition is a very rare, miniature 17th-century printing of Torquato Tasso's 'Jerusalem Delivered' with 10 illustrated plates by Sébastien Le Clerc and an engraved half-title.
Item number: #7459
Price: $499
TASSO, Torquato
Il Goffredo, overo Gierusalemme liberata : poema heroico del sig. Torquato Tasso. Con l'allegoria universale dell istesso, et con gli argomenti del sig. Horatio Ariosti, & di bellissime figure adornato.
In Amsterdam: Nella stamperia del S.D. Elsevier. Et in Parigi si vende appresso Thomaso Jolly..., M. DC.… Read More

1852 Voyage US Exploring Squadron Science Wilkes Expedition Dead Sea GOLD MAP

John Jenkins' book 'Voyage of the U.S. exploring squadron' is a
condensed voyage anthology, covering the United States Exploring Expedition, the discoveries of Dumont d'Urville and Captain Ross, and an account of the expedition to the Dead Sea under Lieutenant Lynch. The book focuses on the Wilkes expedition and Lynch's Expedition which were important for American Oceanography. Jenkins broke the book down into expeditions in the Pacific and the South Seas and Lynch's expedition to the Dead Sea and the River Jordan two parts.

This 1852 edition is illustrated with 10 black and white full-page plates one of which is a map of '(Marshall's) Gold Placera first Discovered'.

Item number: #9608
Price: $499
JENKINS, John S
Voyage of the U.S. exploring squadron, commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes, of the United States Navy, in 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842: together with explorations and discoveries made by Admiral d'Urville,… Read More

1796 Paradise Lost BOSTON John Milton Poetry + Regained RARE American ed Newton

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

'Paradise Lost' follows the biblical story of the Fall of Man and the temptation of Adam and Eve. Milton himself states that purpose for this book was to "Justify the ways of God to Men". It covers the characters Adam, Eve, and Satan and the roles each played in the development of religious culture and idolatry.
It was critically acclaimed and well-received by many famed personalities, including Samuel Johnson who states.
"[Paradise Lost shows] Milton's peculiar power to astonish…and he seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was the Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others: the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful.
Christian writer C.S. Lewis also… Read More

1842 FABLES Illustrated by J.J. Grandville Famous Fontaine Aesop CLASSIC German
A rare 1842 German edition of the Fables of Jean de la Fontaine While the fables themselves are always popular, this edition features 127 impressive illustrations by J.J. Grandville which are notably desirable, especially those of anthropomorphized animals!
Item number: #12822
Price: $499
GRANDVILLE, J.J.
Fabeln
Stuttgart: Erhard, 1842.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o
VIII, 160
o 127 engravings
· Language: German
· Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
· Size: ~7.75in X 5.5in (19.5cm x 14cm)
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