Three Years Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China,: including a visit to the tea, silk and cotton countries: with an account of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants, etc. by Fortune, Robert - 1847

London: Constable, 1928. First Edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 930 8vo. In original cloth-covered boards. Fold out map at rear, diagrams (most in the run of the text) and crisply-reproduced photographs, all as called for. With three appendices and an index. Philby's final volume of his account of his time in Arabia in 1917 and 1918. "I was, I think, the very last European to sojourn in the Wahhabi Arabia before the advent of the motor-car". He offers a view of the country, and of Ibn Saud himself, some years before the coronation of Ibn Saud and the establishment of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Condition notes: Boards bumped, internally clean, crisp and sound; the map and photographs are in excellent condition. This copy misses being classed as Very Good because of staining to the rear board, and some fraying of the joint between that board and the spine. Photographs available.

1637. Prima edizione del 1637 di questo trattato di diritto marittimo dello storiografo, filologo e pensatore politico danese Joannes Isaac Pontanus (1571-1639), discepolo dell'astronomo Thyco Brahe. Pontano si trasferì prima in Francia poi in Olanda dove percepì il clima politica culturale che portò all'elaborazione delle teorie di diritto internazionale espresse in quest'opera, una vivace confutazione delle teorie sul mare chiuso di John Selden. In appendice il testo dedicato alla navigazione "De Ophyra" di Gaspar Barreiros (m. 1574) e "Problemata nautica" di Bartholomaus Keckermann (1573-1609). Alcune incisioni all'interno. Timbro al verso del frontespizio di biblioteca tedesca privata "Bibliothek Mecklenburgh Ritter Landschaft". In ottime condizioni e completo. Copertina in piena pergamena coeva con titolo manoscritto al dorso in ottime condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso. Legatura in buone condizioni.… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1901. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. "Outstanding work, Superb Primary Resource" Omi-shan is a Sacred Mountain in north-west Szechuan. The description of Omi a high peak within sight of the snowy ranges of Thibet is particularly interesting for its account of life in the mountain monasteries. [TDN] Light blue cloth, sun faded with gilt titles and front decoration. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with bumped upper corners. Erased inscription on front free end page lightly showing; gift inscription on the half-title page. Tissue guard of the frontispiece has age-toned. 8vo; 9 inches tall. vi, 272 pages with an index contains a Sketch Map of Northern and Central Szechuan and fifteen black and white photographs.. This very lengthy tour of 1899 includes commentaries on the various Christian Missions, the land, people, flora, fauna, rivers, mountains, opium, customs, native… Read More

1681 1ed Greek Orthodox Zialowski Byzantine Voyage PERSIA Egypt Athanasian Creed
The 'Brevis Delineatio Ecclesiae' is a 17th-century treatise on the history of the Greek orthodoxy, discussing the Greek church both in Greece and in Russia and the Middle East. Originally written by Eustratius Johannides Zialowski, this work covers the Greek Athanasian Creed and the religions formed from the Greek orthodox.
This 1681 first edition of Zialowski, edited by Wolfgang Gundling, includes accounts of Persian and Middle Eastern voyages such as those of Adam Olearius and Chrishoph Furer who both traveled into Egypt, Persia, and Palestine.
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ZIALOWSKI, Eustratius Johannides

Eustratii Johannidis Zialowski, ... Brevis delineatio Ecclesiae orientalis graecae, nunquam antehac, nunc vero cum notis evulgata a Wolffgango Gundlingio, ...
Noribergae [Nuremberg]: Literis A. Knorzii, 1681. 1st edition

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Flat with plastic against dirtExcellent early map of the region. Kansas counties cover only the eastern third of the state. Nebraska counties cover less than half the state. Colorado has only approximately 15 counties. The gold regions near Denver are shown, as are a number of Indian tribes, early towns, forts, etc. Dakota includes all of Wyoming.
The map shows early proposed railroads, forts, Indian tribes, rivers, mountains, etc. The plains region is still very much in transition, with the results of several major explorations commenced immediately after the civil war are not yet in evidence.
Also shows portions of New Mexico, Texas and Indian Territory.

West Norfolk, Connecticut: Self-published, 1898. Autobiography of Mary E. Beecher Snowe, born at Canaan Mountain near Norfolk, Connecticut in 1853, and who lived in West Norfolk, Connecticut at the time she wrote this brief booklet. Includes details of life in Litchfield County in the mid to late nineteenth century, including farming, the experience of having a home burnt to the ground (whereupon she was sent to her grandparents' in Goshen until the home was rebuilt), about travel to New Haven, marriage at age eighteen to live with her new husband's family, of hard work and little pleasure, of loss of a child, of illness, of a new war reminding one of the sorrows left by the Civil War. It is the story of a hard life, and the author makes no attempts to sugar-coat the facts as she sees them. Includes some original verse by the author. Mary Beecher, later Snowe, was most likely related to the Beecher family (Lyman Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, etc.), who were originally… Read More

London: Printed by W. Bowyer for R. Williamson near Grays Inn Gate in Holborn, 1727 Book. Good. Full leather. [viii], 238 pages + folding plate. ESTC T94741 which gives the same pagination but refers to a haf title page, this seems to refer to the divisional title page here bound in after the dedication. Old full leather but with replacement spine. Boards are worn and marked. Astle Library ink stamp to the front pastedown and old pencil shelf marks. Some dust to upper edges of pages. Light brown stripe to the folding print of Door Church. ESTC states that Bowyer's records show 300 copies printed..

The Justice of the Peace and the Parish OfficerSixth Edition in three volumes. ( Volumes 1 and 2)Richard BurnA Millar, London, 1758. Gd+. two volumes. Full calf with raised banding to spine. Title plates almost entirely obliterated. Blind embossed borders. Worn on all corners, boards scuffed. Here are volume 1 ( A - E) and volume 2 ( F - P). Covers laws and by-laws of the era. Antiquarian, law, Parish Law, Local By-laws42469 ANTI £400.00

1695 Bible Translation Problems Frassen Disquisitiones Greek Hebrew Vulgate

While Claude Frassen was best-known for his scholarly works on Duns Scotus, the 17th-century French scholar also published an important commentary on early Greek and Hebrew texts. This book, 'Disquisitiones Biblicae', provides notes on numerous Old and New Testament books, issues with translations from the Greek and Hebrew into the Vulgate Latin, and discusses the books of the Apocrypha.
Item number: #13822
Price: $499
FRASSEN, Claude
Disquisitiones Biblicae quatuor libris comprehensae...
Parisiis : apud Joannem Anisson Typographiae regiae directorem, M.DC.XCV. [1695].
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. Copyright 1929. Illustrated by John Tenniel. Cover shows some age and so does the top of the spine. Binding is intact, all pages are firmly in place. "With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel" The Macmillan Company, New York.