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Memoirs Of Don Juan Van Halen; Comprising The Narrative Of His Imprisonment In The Dungeons Of...

Memoirs Of Don Juan Van Halen; Comprising The Narrative Of His Imprisonment In The Dungeons Of The Inquisition At Madrid. And Of His Escape, His Journey To Russia, His Campaign With The Army Of The Caucasus … Second Edition, with Alterations and Additions.

by VAN HALEN, Don Juan.

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London, Henry Colburn, 1830. Two volumes, 8vo. Contemporary fine olive-green full calf, ornamented in gilt, each spine with two morocco lettering pieces; pp. x, 330; [ii], 366, engraved portrait-frontispiece and two large folding panoramas in aquatint; occasional spotting, but a very attractive set with contemporay engraved armorial bokplates inside front covers.. Van Halen, a Spanish soldier and adventurer can be described as an 19th-century condottiere, who was in charge of a Dragoon Regiment in Tbilisi, Georgia. He fought in the Caucasus campaign in 1820, serving the Armenian prince Valerian Madatov against the troops of Surghai Khan (later replaced by Ashan Khan) in the Kazikoumik region of Daghestan.
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Sketches from the Dream Island of Birds.

Sketches from the Dream Island of Birds.

by VAN SANDWYK, Charles (author and illustrator).

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2005. [North Vancouver; The Fairy Press.] Anno 2005. Landscape royal 8vo. Original card covers with a beautiful pictorial wrap-around jacket, lettered and panelled in burnished silver, copper, and black surrounding an onlaid pictorial plate, with elaborate patterned gilt endpapers; the book hand-sewn, as issued; pp. [28] on variously coloured card, with text throughout in calligraphic font; a feast of beautiful design and illustration with a total of 18 fine tipped-in coloured plates of various dimensions surrounded by panelled borders, designs and maps printed in colour and line and heightened in gilt, including one unusual 3-panel folding plate; a fine copy. First edition in the larger format. A glorious book, hand-produced to meticulous standards, describing a dreamlike island world of fantastical creatures and birds: "I am the sketchbook belonging to Charles van Sandwyk. I travelled through a dream - and returned with many tales to tell". This copy signed in ink by the artist Charles… Read More
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Carl Van Vechten.  A Bibliography.  With a Preamble by Grace Zaring Stone.

Carl Van Vechten. A Bibliography. With a Preamble by Grace Zaring Stone.

by [VAN VECHTEN, Carl] JONAS, Klaus W. (Compiler)

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1955. New York. Alfred A Knopf. 1955. 8vo., original cloth backed patterned boards with dust wrapper. A near fine copy. First edition , one of 400 copies. Inscribed by Van Vechten to one of his favourite subjects the prima ballerina Dame Alicia Markova, "For dearest Alicia with much love from Carlo, and a warm embrace. May 20 1955 New York."
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Campaigning on the Upper Nile and Niger.

Campaigning on the Upper Nile and Niger.

by VANDELEUR, Seymour.

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1898. London, Methuen & Co., 1898. 8vo. Original green cloth, vignette in gilt to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt; pp. xxvii, 320, 40 [advertisements]; 15 plates (a few folding), 4 maps (3 folding to throw clear, one with repaired tear); cloth a little marked and with light discolouration, toning to fly-leaves, as usual, else a very good copy. First edition. Vandeleur's accounts of his military experiences in Uganda on the Upper Nile, notably against the Arab slave station in Southern Unyoro, and of his various expeditions on the Niger and the Nile. He also offers descriptions along the way of the people and country through which he passes, i.e. introducing British rule by force.
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Agin the Governments. Memoirs and Adventures … Foreword by AE.

Agin the Governments. Memoirs and Adventures … Foreword by AE.

by VANE, Sir Francis Patrick Fletcher.

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London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., [1929]. 8vo. Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt; pp. xvii, [3], 332, portrait frontispiece, 8 plates after photographs; binding a little darkened and marked, occasional toning and spotting internally, previous bookseller's pencil notes to endpapers; a good association copy (see below). First edition of these memoirs by an Irish aristocrat and soldier in the Boer War, who served during the Easter Uprising, and was a Pacifist. In 1913 he even considered militant support for the Suffragettes. 'In 1913, as the suffragette movement escalated, Sylvia Pankhurst's East London Federation intermittently fought the police in the East End. She appealed for an ex-army man to help them with 'drilling'. Vane responded, and in November assumed the title of 'leader' of her 'People's Army' and 'People's Training Corps'. He did little, then withdrew to Italy' (ODNB). Although he published an anti-war pamphlet in 1914 he served as major in the 9th service battalion of the… Read More
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Gemini: The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine. A Complete Run in 5 Volumes.

Gemini: The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine. A Complete Run in 5 Volumes.

by VARIOUS; William DONALDSON & Julian MITCHELL, [Ed.].

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1957. London: Gemini Magazine, 1957-1958. 5 vols. 4to., card wrappers; sunning to spines; slight sunning to panels, with a few light marks, a very good complete set. First editions. Edited by William Donaldson and Julian Mitchell. Contains poetry and reviews from a range of contributors including writers such as Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, W. H. Auden, Malcom Bradbury, Elizabeth Jennings, Bernard Bergonza, Philip Hobsbaum.
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Opera quæ supersunt. In lib. ling. Lat. Coniectanea I. Scaligeri. In lib. de re rust. notæ...

Opera quæ supersunt. In lib. ling. Lat. Coniectanea I. Scaligeri. In lib. de re rust. notæ eiusdem … Editio ultima, recognita & aucta.

by VARRO, Marcus Terentius.

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Paris, Claude Baaleu, 1581. 8vo. Near-contemporary vellum with yapp edges, pp. 143, 255, [88], 48, [4, blank]128, [16], 67 [recte 77]; black morocco-piece renewed, otherwise a very good and crisp copy. The first scientific treatise on agriculture and food production, contained in the collective edition (first, Geneva, Estienne, 1573) of the major extant works of the Roman polymath, annotated by the eminent Renaissance scholar Scaliger. Marcus Terentius Varro (1st century BC) inherited a large farm neear Rieti, not far from Rome. After the Civil War Caesar appointed him to oversee the public library of Rome in 47 BC. His only complete work extant, Rerum rusticarum libri tres (Three Books on Agriculture), has been described by Harrison in his Note Upon the Roman Agronomists (1918) as 'the well digested system of an experienced and successful farmer who has seen and practised all that he records' (p. 10). Schweiger II, 1116; Adams, V-284; cf. Smitskamp, The Scaliger Collection, 192-3 (earlier editions).
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New Guide of Rome.

New Guide of Rome.

by VASI, Mariano, and Antonio NIBBY.

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Rome, Monaldini, English Reading Rooms, Piazza di Spagna, 1845. 8vo. Contemporary Italian full vellum (probably commissioned by the publisher), spine ornamented in gilt and two contrasting lettering-pieces; pp. xxxvi, 532, wood-engraved vignette to title, 28 fine wood-engraved plates, large engraved folding city map at rear, vellum a little spotted and toned in places, title-page with upper margin replaced with an old strip of matching paper, occasional light spotting, mainly marginal, to plates, a very attractive copy. First edition. Edited by Luigi Piale, this English language guide book (printed first, the year before, this being the second unaltered printing) is divided into eight days of sight-seeing for the serious tourist interested in antiquities and architecture. Antonio Nibby was the authority of Rome in the first half of the 19th century and an eminent early archaeologist, who worked together with William Gell and excavated both the Cloaca Maxima and the area of the Forum Romanum.
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Krimskie puteshestvia.

Krimskie puteshestvia.

by VETLINA, Vera.

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[Moscow, "Molodaia Gvardia", 1955. 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and ornamented in green and gilt, front cover lettered in gilt and with mounted colour illustrations, ornamented endpapers; pp. 389, [3], sketch maps and illustrations after drawings in the text, plates in colour and black and white, folding map in black and yellow at rear; binding a little rubbed, internally very clean and fresh. First edition. Not only a tourist guide book pointing out the beauty and Spas of the peninsula, before it was given to Ukraine, but a thorough monograph dealing with the economy, topography and geology, agriculture, communication and fishing after the devastations of the Second World War. - Rather rare now, despite the print run of 50,000.
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Ramsamperl; Eine Geschichte für Kinder.

by VIENNA SECESSION - KENNER, A.[nton] Ritter von (illustrator). Fritz von KENNER (author).

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1903. Wien; A. Pichlers Witwe & Sohn. [1903]. Small folio; red cloth-backed grey pictorial boards, illustrated to both cover; pp. [ii], 3-32; every page designed and illustrated in 3 colours by letterpress and photolithography by Anton Josef von Kenner; a very nice copy of a rare book; sometime carefully recased retaining the original cloth spine, with a small, and skilful, restoration to top fore-corner of lower cover, and some wear to the others, inner hinges cracked with some adjacent abrasion to pastedowns, internally generally clean and very sound with some marginal thumbing, a few light marks and spots, and a couple of very short closed tears to lower edge. First edition, an ink inscription, apparently by Anton von Kenner, in German, to the title-page translates as "To the children of the esteemed J.N. Further this book is dedicated in the name of the authors. Proof copy". A renowned picture book which C.F. Heller classifies as "Bose Buben", or literature in the… Read More
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The Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates, Collected from the Original Journal...

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1797. London: T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies (successors to Mr. Cadell), 1797. 4to. Contemporary calf, rebacked with new paste-downs and spine; pp. xv, 530, [2, errata and directions to the bookbinder]; engraved frontispiece by C. Turner, 6 engraved maps after J.B.B. d'Anville, Vincent, Alexander Dalrymple, A. Blair, et al., 4 folding, wood-engraved illustrations and letterpress tables in the text; the old endpapers with offsetting to frontispiece, a little marginal staining to double-page 170/171, torn away corner, far away from printed surface or page numbers of pp. 445/6, old ink annotations to upper margins of two pages, otherwise merely here and there a little spotting or offsetting from engravings, a good copy. First edition. Nearchus (d. c. 312 BC) was one of Alexander the Great's foremost admirals, and is remembered for his celebrated voyage from the Indus to the Euphrates, which was recorded in his now-lost journal, of which the text was preserved by Arrian of Nicomedia in his Indica;… Read More
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Report on the Improvement of Indian Agriculture.

Report on the Improvement of Indian Agriculture.

by VOELCKER, John Augustus.

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London, Eyre and Spottiswode, 1893. 8vo. Publisher's full calf, spine with raised bands and two red morocco lettering-pieces, ornamented in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers; pp. Xxxiii ,460pp, 3 folding lithographic maps with colour printing; a very good copy, presented by the author's daughter in 1940 to the Executive Council of the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux (typed presentation note inside front cover). First edition of a rather uncommon work analyzing the agriculture of India, possibilities for improvement, as well as social relations determining the status quo. The author was the son and successorto an agricultural chemist of German origin, who had attended Liebeig's famous lectures.
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Zum Rudolf-See und Stefanie-See. Vortrag, gehalten den 22. Jänner 1890.

by VON HOHNEL, Ludwig Ritter.

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1890. Wien: Commissionsverlag von Ed. Hölzel, 1890. Small 8vo. Original printed wrappers; pp. 34; 12 illusts., one sketch map; slightly chipped and soiled to spine, else very good. First edition, published in the series 'Vorträge des Vereines zur Verbreitung naturwissenschaftlicher Kenntnisse in Wien XXX. Jahrgang. - Heft 8'. A lecture in which von Höhnel relates his discovery of the lakes. The full narrative of his discoveries was told in his Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie (1894).
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Vulkanologische Studien auf eingen inseln des Atlantischen Oceans.

Vulkanologische Studien auf eingen inseln des Atlantischen Oceans.

by VON KOMOROWICZ, Maurice.

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1912. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Nägele & Dr Sporesser. 1912. 4to. Original paper wrapper, printed in black ink; pp. xvi + 189 + [3], frontispice, 100 fig./phot. partly on fold-out plts. or on plates of stiff paper, 7 folding coloured plates. with reproductions of oil-paintings by Cécile von Komorowicz; margins of title page dulled,wrapper a little chipped to edges, very good. First edition. Text in German. Mainly dealing with Icelandic volcanoes and dramatically illustrated, this is a fascinating work of vulcanology.
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Notitia Venatica. A treatise on fox-hunting embracing the gneneral management of hounds.

Notitia Venatica. A treatise on fox-hunting embracing the gneneral management of hounds.

by VYNER, Robert T.

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1892. John C. Nimmo. 1892. 8vo. Original red cloth, blocked in gilt and black to front, gilt lettering to spine; pp. xxii + 406, 12 handp-coloured plates by Henry Alken and others; previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown with inscription to flyleaf, spine sunned, a little faint foxing mainly to title page, very good. New edition, enlarged by William Blew. A handsome reissue of this classic work on fox-hunting, the first with these colourful illustrations.
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