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London: Sampson, Low, Marsto, Searle & Rivington, 1885. First Edition. Octavo. In two volumes, 528, 483pp., 32 pages publisher's ads. A full account of Stanley's five years of prodigious industry in founding the Congo Free State and setting it on its feet for Leopold II of Belgium. Illustrated with over one hundred full-page and smaller illustrations, two large folding maps in rear pockets and several smaller maps, lacks the last page of the preface. Handsomely bound by Bayntun in 3/4 dark brown crushed morocco over brown cloth, raised bands with compartments lettered and decoratively stamped in gilt, top edges gilt. While it lacks the last page of the preface, this set is in remarkable condition. Very nice.
A System of Geography: or, A New & Accurate Description of the Earth in all its Empires, Kingdoms and States. Illustrated with History and Topography and Maps of every Country. Fairly engraven on copper, according to the latest discoveries and Corrections by Moll, Herman and Rober Falconer - 1701
by Moll, Herman and Rober Falconer
A System of Geography: or, A New & Accurate Description of the Earth in all its Empires, Kingdoms and States. Illustrated with History and Topography and Maps of every Country. Fairly engraven on copper, according to the latest discoveries and Corrections
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London: For A. and J. Churchil and T. Childe, 1701. First Edition. Folio. From the library of John, Earl of Loudoun (John Campbell, Fourth Earl of Loudoun (5 May 1705 - 27 Apr. 1782) In 1727, Campbell entered the Army. He was commissioned major general in 1755, and appointed the following year as commander-in-chief of British forces in America during the French and Indian War, and named titular governor of Virginia. Variant issue, with both Churchil & Childe in imprint, 2 parts in 1 volume. Frontispiece, title page in red and black, 4; [24] contents, 444pp; 1-230; [28]pp. index. While the collation is haphazard, the book itself is complete with all catchwords matching, (with dupicate 125 pagination as in all copies) Frontispiece, 2 Engravings of Ptolomei and Copernici systems; 2 engraved compasses; and 44 textual maps, (45 maps if one counts the small china strip map).Contains the following maps. 1. Earth 2. Europe 3. Britain 4.Scotland 5. Ireland 6. France 7. Netherlands 8. United Netherlands(Holland) 9. Germany 10. Small Map of Strasburg 11. Savoy and Piedmont (Rob Falconer) 12. Italy 13. Spain (Rob Falconer) 14. Scandinavia 15. Denmark 16. Sweden 17. Poland 18. Russia 19. Hungary 20. Turkey Part II. 21. Asia 22. Turkey in Asia 23. Canaan-Palestine 24. Great Tartary-Japan (with part of China)2 small maps 25. China 26. East Indies 27. India 28. Persia 29. Africa 30. Africa (five maps) Barbary, Guinea, Egypt and Abyssinia and Nubia 31. Africa-Congo, Angola. 32. America 33. Calf. As Island 34. English Empire(East Coast) 35. Mexico 36. Terra Firma and the Cari-bbe Islands 37. Brasil 38. Rio De La Plata 39. Kingdom of Peru(and Amazon) 40. Chili Bound in full contemporary paneled calf, raised bands with compartments fully gilt decorated in red morocco spine label gilt, large chip to foot, corners worn, some splitting to joints holding firmly by bands, damp staining throughout mostly at gutter but with some leaves of text, most maps are clean and bright with only a handful touching lower portion of maps. No tears or repairs. ESTC N24605.
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The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State: a Story of Work and Exploration
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Almanack for 1884
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London; [1883]: George Routledge and Sons. First Edition. 12mo. no pagination. Charming colored illustrations produced by color printer Edmund Evans who gave English speaking children the benefit of lithographic illustrations. A very nice copy bound in white pictorial gilt paper wraps with very faint finger soiling to covers. An exceptionally nice copy.
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A View of Chaco Pueblo Bonita
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This item is currently on reserve; please contact dealer for more details. (19.5 x 21.2). Photograph from the Paul Coze Estate Photographers not identified A view of Chaco Pueblo Bonita. The site was the main social and ceremonial center of the Anasazi culture. Its construction began AD 900 to 1100. Paul Coze (1903-1974) was a French-American anthropologist, artist, and writer, most notable as a French authority on Native Americans. Coze moved to the United States in 1938, and lived in Pasadena, California since 1942, spending two years producing murals at Mesa Verde National Park. In 1951, Coze moved to Phoenix, Arizona. He soon founded an art school and created nine major pieces of public art in the city, including large multimedia installations at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum and other civic landmarks, most with Native themes. He also provided artistic designs for Arizona's celebration of 50 years of…
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A Family Herbal: Or Familiar Account of the Medical Properties of British and Foreign Plants Also Their Uses in Dying, and the Various Arts, Arranged According to the Linnaean System
by Thornton, Robert John M.D.
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London: for B. And R. Crosby and Co, 1814. Octavo. 2nd edition considerably enlarged and improved. one volume in two. Engraved portrait frontispiece 480 through 902pp [1]pp. table and [13]pp. general index(though it is paginated [899]-901) Volume two contains the half-title. Contains 258 hand-colored engravings by Henderson and engraved by Bewick, bound in contemporary 3/4 red morocco over marbled paper covered boards, spines elaborately gilt lettered and decorated, outer joints appear to have been strengthened at some point, corners rounded, internally clean and bright with the exception of the index which has browning. A handsome copy.
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Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Containing Amusing Dissertations and Enquiries Concerning a Variety of Subjects the Most Remarkable and Proper to Excite Curiosity....
by Hutton, Charles, M. Ozanam and M. Montucla
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London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814. Octavo. Improved with many additions and observation by Hutton. Four Volumes in Two, Four Title pages, 98 plates on 97 leaves(some folding) with 4 manuscript pages bound in(mathematical) some plates hand colored(most likely by previous owner?) Hutton was an English mathematician and surveyo. He was a professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bound in 3/4 maroon polished calf over marbled paper covered boards, raised bands with compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, joints and corners rubbed, some toning or scattered foxing to plates, text clean. A good set of this scarce work.
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The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State: a Story of Work and Exploration
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London: Sampson, Low, Marsto, Searle & Rivington, 1885. First Edition. Octavo. In two volumes, 528, 483pp., 32 pages publisher's ads. A full account of Stanley's five years of prodigious industry in founding the Congo Free State and setting it on its feet for Leopold II of Belgium. Illustrated with over one hundred full-page and smaller illustrations, two large folding maps in rear pockets and several smaller maps, lacks the last page of the preface. Handsomely bound by Bayntun in 3/4 dark brown crushed morocco over brown cloth, raised bands with compartments lettered and decoratively stamped in gilt, top edges gilt. While it lacks the last page of the preface, this set is in remarkable condition. Very nice.
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A Family Herbal: Or Familiar Account of the Medical Properties of British and Foreign Plants Also Their Uses in Dying, and the Various Arts, Arranged According to the Linnaean System
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London: for B. And R. Crosby and Co, 1814. Octavo. 2nd edition considerably enlarged and improved. one volume in two. Engraved portrait frontispiece 480 through 902pp [1]pp. table and [13]pp. general index(though it is paginated [899]-901) Volume two contains the half-title. Contains 258 hand-colored engravings by Henderson and engraved by Bewick, bound in contemporary 3/4 red morocco over marbled paper covered boards, spines elaborately gilt lettered and decorated, outer joints appear to have been strengthened at some point, corners rounded, internally clean and bright with the exception of the index which has browning. A handsome copy.
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Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Containing Amusing Dissertations and Enquiries Concerning a Variety of Subjects the Most Remarkable and Proper to Excite Curiosity....
by Hutton, Charles, M. Ozanam and M. Montucla
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London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814. Octavo. Improved with many additions and observation by Hutton. Four Volumes in Two, Four Title pages, 98 plates on 97 leaves(some folding) with 4 manuscript pages bound in(mathematical) some plates hand colored(most likely by previous owner?) Hutton was an English mathematician and surveyo. He was a professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bound in 3/4 maroon polished calf over marbled paper covered boards, raised bands with compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, joints and corners rubbed, some toning or scattered foxing to plates, text clean. A good set of this scarce work.
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Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia: a Scientific and Popular Treasury of Useful Knowledge (in 4 Large volumes)
by Barnard, Frederick A P; Arnold Guyot
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New York: A.J. Johnson & Son, 1876. Thick Quartos. In four volumes Illustrated with maps, plans and textual engravings. With numerous contributions from writers of distinguished eminence in every department of letters and science in the United States and in Europe. The editors included such scholars as Asa Gray of Harvard and Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian who also wrote definitive articles (many of which are cited today). Originally designed to have 4700 pages in three volumes, it became evident that a fourth volume would be required. The plan led to 6,983 pages of text with intext illustrations. The maps are unnumbered as is the various pages of those who reviewed the set's importance. Former President Grant considered it essential as did Hamilton Fish, Winfield Hancock and Alexander Stephens. A lavishly bound set in full brown morocco, lettered and decorated in gilt, spine and all edges gilt, marbled endpapers (volume two lacking a front endpaper) Each volume has fabric sewn on the free marbled…
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(Shogun Edition) Japan, Described and Illustrated By the Japanese (10 volumes) and The Art of Japan (2 volumes)
by Brinkley, Captain
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Boston(1897 and 1901): J.B. Millet Co. Folio. The Shogun Edition limited to only 25 lettered copies of which this is Letter "M". In 10 volumes. With an essay on Japan art by Kakuzo Okaura, director of the Imperial Art School at Tokyo Japan. Limitation pages within each volume. This set includes the two rare supplemental volumes The Art of Japan which were issued in 1901. Captain Brinkley's work was already being collected as early as 1903 when the Yamanaka Company featured their work in their catalog Rare Japanese Prints. In the same year, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle wrote on the finest rare books which featured the "Shogun Edition" noting that it was issued in an edition of only 25 copies. The feature explained that each volume had an original picture by a major Japanese artist and that some were delicately printed on silk. When the estate of James A. Bailey of the Barnum and Bailey circus came on the market in 1931, this set headed the list of rare books at the George Fischer Galleries on Wilshire…
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Old Decorative Maps and Charts
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London: London: Halton & Truscott Smith, LTD>. Limited Edition of 1500 copies of which this is number No. 906---Clean, no marks, pages pristine. 79 maps dated 1482-1776 from engravings in the MacPherson Collection. Top Edge Gilt--No DJ Covers rubbed and very slight lean to spine----interior in excellent condition. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1926.
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Plat Book: Pierce County, Wisconsin
by Rhame, A. E
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1930. Soft Cover. Fine. Unpaginated. Tan colored book is in Fine condition, no sign of wear.
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![Alaska and Klondike Region; [With inset of Klondike Region on the Upper Yukon detail] [From an...](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/062/537/1339537062.0.m.jpg)
Alaska and Klondike Region; [With inset of Klondike Region on the Upper Yukon detail] [From an atlas, "Gazetteer of Alaska and Yukon Region " pp. 105 and 106]
by Miller, J. Martin
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Chicago: J. Martin Miller, 1899. Unknown. Map. Very Good. [Map copyright 1899, printing date of Atlas later] [19.875x15.125in]; Colored map of Alaska with steamer routes from Portland and Seattle, insets of the Klondike Region on the Upper Yukon and Western portion of Aleutian Islands; On verso index of places and names with two large black and white images; Age toning to all edges, water stain marks on bottom, slight printing offset of colors, small chips and closed tears to lower edge;.
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Zemepis Sveta - Monsunova Asie
by De La Blache, P. Vidal; Gallois, L
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Aventinum, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Text entirely in Czech. Geography book on Asia with numerous photographs and maps. 1931 edition also available. Size: 4mo - over 9 3/4" - 12" tall. 400 pp. Pages are yellowed, but are tight and clean. Moderate shelfwear along the spine. Corners are lightly bumped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-5 pounds. Category: Travel & Places; Non-English Language::Czech; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001227. . Additional shipping charges may apply.
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Last Tales
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Dinesen, Isak: Last Tales, A Collection of Twelve New Tales of Compelling Beauty 1957, Random House. First Edition. Stated First Printing Thus. Used. Very Good/Good+ original red dust jacket, price-clipped. Jacket states 11/57 on front flap. 5 3/4 X
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Zemepis Sveta - Monsunova Asie
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Aventinum, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Text entirely in Czech. Geography book on Asia with numerous photographs and maps. 1930 edition also available. Size: 4mo - over 9 3/4" - 12" tall. 400 pp. Pages are yellowed, but are tight and clean. Moderate shelfwear along the spine. Corners are lightly bumped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-5 pounds. Category: Travel & Places; Non-English Language::Czech; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001228. . Additional shipping charges may apply.
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The Adventure of Wrangel Island
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The Adventure of Wrangel Island, Alaska (1925 Macmillan 1st Edition) HISTORY OF ALASKA. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ included. Fold-out map affixed to binding at the back of the book has never been opened. The story of the (unsuccessful) attempted colonization of Wrangel Island Alaska. 413 pages plus appendix, Index. Titling is still bright. A clean, solid copy. Scarce.
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Seven Pillars Of Wisdom, A Triumph
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T.E. Lawrence. SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM, A TRIUMPH. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Privately Printed, 1926. First Published for general circulation 1935. First American Edition. States MCMXXXVI on the title page. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Garden City, NY. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET IS INCLUDED. 672 pages, indexed. Beige buckram boards. Spine has darkened a bit. 6 7/8 X 9 ½.
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North America from the Best Authorities, Russell, ca.1800
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Russell, J. : A General Map of North America from the Best Authorities. Nd but ca.1800. From "A New Geographical, Historical and Commercial Grammar and Present State of Several Kingdoms of the World." Copper engraving. Size approx 200 x 230mm. Two neat folds. Some age colouring to edges, otherwise very clean and bright.
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