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New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830. JAMES, Edwin. . TANNER, John [author]. A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner. (U.S. Interpreter at the Saut de Ste. Marie,) During Thirty Years Residence Among the Indians in the Interior of North America. New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830. First edition. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 222 x 140 mm). [1]-426, [2 blank] pp. With engraved frontispiece portrait of Tanner. Numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text. Part I is the Narrative by as told by Tanner to Edwin James, and Part II which is written by James, covers Native American customs, astronomy, music, poetry, medicine hunting, and includes a vocabulary of Chippewa words and phrases. Quarter contemporary (?) black cloth over drab brown boards. Spine with original printed paper spine label. Boards and edges lightly rubbed. Previous owner's armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Some minor soiling and toning to pastedowns front glue. Scattered foxing as is usual of American… Read More

London: Trubner and Co, 1876. First edition. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches; 215 x 139 mm). clxi,, [1, blank], [2], 354, [2, blank] pp. With frontispiece portrait of Warren Hastings, and seven engraved plates, one of which is folding. And with four folding maps, two of which have color. A few small illustrations in the text. With errata slip bound before Introduction. Publisher's maroon morocco-grain cloth. Boards paneled in blind. Spine lettered in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. To edge dyed gray. Spine lightly sunned and wrinkled. Some wear to head and tail of spine and a bit of light rubbing to boards. A small, unobtrusive oval blindstamp of the "Royal United Service Institution Library" stamped on frontispiece, title-page and all plates and maps. Overall a very good copy. "Clements R. Markham, the then president of the Royal Geographical Society of Britain, did a marvelous job when he started editing the largely unpublished accounts of the first British voyages to Tibet of George Bogle… Read More

London: Printed for J. Johnson and J. Edwards, 1796. BLAKE, William. With Eighty-Three Plates and Maps, of Which Sixteen are Engraved by Blake STEDMAN, Captain J.G. Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadruple, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. Illustrated with 80 elegant engravings, from drawings made by the author. London: Printed by J. Johnson, 1796. First edition, among Blake's finest work as a book illustrator. Two quarto volumes (10 7/16 x 8 1/8 inches; 265 x 206 mm). xviii, 407 (ie 415 as usual), [1, blank], [7, index, directions for placing the plates and errata], [1, blank]; iv, 404, [7, index, directions for placing the plates and errata], [1, blank] pp. Plates watermarked 1794. Complete with eighty-three… Read More

New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1845. Narrative of the Texan Santa Fé Expedition. Comprising a Description of a Tour Through Texas, and Across the Great Southwestern Prairies, the Camanche and Caygüa Hunting-Grounds, with an Account of the Sufferings from Want of Food, Losses from Hostile Indians, and the Final Capture of the Texans, and Their March. as Prisoners, to the City of Mexico. With Illustrations and a Map.. New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1844. First edition, second issue binding with 1845 imprinted on spine. Two volumes, octavo size in sixes. [2], 405; xii, [11]-406 pp. Five plates and one folding map. Brown cloth blindstamped on covers and spine, lettered and decoratively stamped in gilt on spines. Spine imprint 1845. Some foxing throughout. Otherwise, near fine set. Howes K75. HBS 66855. $1,600.

London: Trubner and Co, 1879. Second edition. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm). clxv, [1, blank], [2], 362 pp. With frontispiece portrait of Warren Hastings, and seven engraved plates, one of which is folding. And with four folding maps, two of which have color. Publisher's maroon cloth. Boards paneled in blind and stamped in blind with a central device. Spine lettered in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Spine lightly sunned. Two small library stickers on front pastedown, but with no library markings. Overall a very good copy. "Clements R. Markham, the then president of the Royal Geographical Society of Britain, did a marvelous job when he started editing the largely unpublished accounts of the first British voyages to Tibet of George Bogle (1747-1781) and scholar Thomas Manning (1772-1840), who followed him. In the preface to the book Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet, and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa (London: Trubner & Co., 1876), Markham clarifies: 'In the… Read More

London: Printed for the author, and sold by Mr. Sandby, 1765. Harrison, John. A Narrative of the Proceedings Relative to the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea; by Mr. John Harrison's Time-Keeper; Subsequent to Those Published in the Year 1763. London. Printed for the author, and sold by Mr. Sandby, 1765. First edition. Small octavo (6 7/8 x 4 9/16 inches; 175 x 115 mm). [2], 18 pp. Bound without half-title and final blank. Engraved initial and headpiece on page [1]. We could only find four copies of this at auction in the past 40 years, present copy included. Of these four copies, only one was complete with both the half-title and final blank. Pamphlet bound in half brown morocco over brown library cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Drab dark blue endpapers. Title-page lightly soiled, otherwise internally very clean. Small stamp of The Birmingham Assay Office Library on newer front free endpaper leaf and on verso of title-page. Overall a very good copy. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell. "The… Read More

London: Henry Colburn, 1843. First edition. Two octavo volumes (9 1/4 x 5 13/16 inches; 235 x 150 mm). xxii [i.e. xxxviii], [2], 387, [1, blank], [16, ads]; vi, [2], 324, [2], 325-474 pp. Complete with all nineteen engraved plates, hand-colored with gum arabic. Each color plate with a protective tissue guard. Also with numerous black and white vignette and three folding maps in the rear pocket of volume I. Publisher's blue-green blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Uncut. Spines a bit sunned. Some glue residue along edges of pastedowns. Maps each with an old perforated library stamp, mostly in the margins, and a couple of fold line tears, but generally very good. No other library markings in books. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Inner hinges a bit cracked. An excellent copy of this classic of naval exploration. The purpose of this expedition was to explore and survey the Pacific Coast of North and South America, from Valapraiso, Chile to Alaska. Among the… Read More

Philadephia: Lea and Blanchard, 1845. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1845. Third Edition, first generally obtainable edition. Preceded by the extremely rare official quarto edition of 100 copies (of which sixty-three were given to foreign nations and twenty-five destroyed by fire), and the unofficial edition of the same size limited to 150 copies. The present edition is limited to 1,000 copies, which also includes the atlas which was omitted from later editions. Five small quarto text volumes and atlas (11 1/16 x 7 1/8 inches; 280 x 182 mm). [4, blank], lx, [1]-434, [2, blank]; [6, blank], xv, [1,blank], [1]-476, [6, blank]; [6, blank], xv, [1, blank], [1]-438, [8, blank]; [6, blank], xvi, [1]-539, [7, blank]; [6, blank], xv, [1, blank], [1]-558, [8, blank] pp. With sixty-four engraved plates and 295 inter-textual vignettes and woodcuts and nine double-page engraved maps. Atlas with five folding maps, one of which ('Chart of the World') is hand-colored. Each plate with protective tissue guard.… Read More

London: Printed for J. Johnson and J. Edwards, 1796. BLAKE, William. . Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam,. in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the indians of Guiana, & negroes of Guinea....illustrated with 80 elegant engravings from drawings made by the author. London: Printed for J. Johnson and J. Edwards, 1796. Full Description: STEDMAN, Captain J.G. Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadruple, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. Illustrated with 80 elegant engravings,… Read More

London: Printed for Longman. Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. ABEL, Clarke. Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China. And of a Voyage to and from that Country in the Years 1816 and 1817, Containing an Account of the Most Interesting Transactions of Lord Amherst's Embassy to the Court of Pekin, and Observations of the Countries which it Visited. Illustrated by Maps and other Engravings. London: Printed for Longman. Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. First edition. Quarto (10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches; 269 x 210 mm). [4, blank], xvi, 420, [6, blank] pp. With four maps, three of which are folding, and nineteen plates, eight of which are hand-colored, some others are sepia tone. Two of the uncolored botanical plates are folding. Additional engravings in text. With errata slip tipped in on verso of dedication page. Contemporary full speckled calf, rebacked with original spine laid down. Marbled endpapers. All edges dyed yellow. Plate facing page 165 trimmed close, affecting the imprint but not the… Read More

London: Printed for the author, sold by J. Robson, 1786. BLANCHARD, Jean Pierre. Blanchard; with meteorological observations and remarks. The first voyage, on the thirtieth of November, 1784, from London into Kent: the second, on the seventh of January, 1785, from England into France. By Doctor Jeffries. Presented to the Royal Society, April 14, 1785; and read before them, January, 1786. London: Printed for the author, sold by J. Robson, 1786. First edition of the narrative of the first crossing of the English Channel by Balloon, by the first American to "fly". Small quarto (10 7/8 x 8 3/4 inches; 276 x 220 mm). [2], 60 pp. With frontispiece portrait of Jeffries and one engraved plate. With a general title and separate half-titles for each voyage. Newer quarter brown calf over marbled paper boards. Spine ruled in gilt, with red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Newer endpapers. All edges uncut. Portrait with some minor edge repair, not affecting engraving. Housed in a cloth clamshell.… Read More

London: Printed for Thomas Cox, 1803. First Edition. Quarto (10 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches; 275 x 225 mm). viii, 100, [13, explanation of plates], [1, blank] pp. Presentation copy from the author on a slip tipped in at the head of the title-page, which reads "Mr. Pitt with best respects/from the Author". With thirteen copper-plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, rebacked with original spine neatly laid down. Spine with green calf spine label. Label lettered in gilt. Spine tooled in gilt. Calf ruled in blind. Newer endpapers. Some mild oxidation, mainly to title-page and first few leaves, as well as some mild foxing to a few plates, but mainly along edges. A small wormhole at the very edge of the lower margin, not affecting text. Overall a very good copy. "Fox's classic treatise on the teeth is the first to include explicit directions for correcting dental irregularities. It is the first work on orthodontics"--Garrison-Morton 3679. "In the spring of 1799 Fox began a course of lectures on the… Read More

London: Printed for T. Osborne [and seventeen others], 1764. Third and best edition, much enlarged. Two folio volumes (16 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches; 410 x 260 mm.). [10], xvi, 984; [12]. 1056, [19, index], [1, plate list] pp. (þ2 a2É‘2 b-e2 2É‘2 B - 11R2; a2 b-c2 (-C2) B - 12R2). Complete with sixty-one engraved plates, including fifteen folding maps. Title-pages in red and black. Beautifully bound in period-style Cambridge-paneled speckled calf with blind-tooling, spine compartments densely gilt in a repeating leaf pattern, red and green morocco gilt lettering labels, marbled endpapers. Scattered light foxing. A small owner's stamp in purple ink to the outer margin of the title-page of Volume II. A closed tear in the center of leaf 5Z2 in Volume II has been expertly repaired. Overall a very good, remarkably clean and bright copy of this important collection of voyages. "A collection of all known voyages ... [Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca] is valuable for the original impressions of… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. COVARRUBIAS, Miguel. . Negro Drawings. By Miguel Covarrubias. With a Preface by Ralph Barton and an Introduction by Frank Crowninshield. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies with an original pen drawing and signed by Covarrubias. Quarto. Illustrated with 56 drawings, including some in color. Dark blue cloth backstrip over royal blue cloth boards, stamped in gilt. An excellent copy of this very scarce book. Housed in a custom blue cloth slipcase. HBS 66852. $4,500.

London: Printed For Hatchard And Son, Piccadilly, And J. And A. Arch, Cornhill, 1823. Full Description: [MACAULAY, Zachary]. Negro Slavery; Or, A View Of Some Of The More Prominent Features Of That State Of Society, As It Exists In The United States Of America And In The Colonies Of The West Indies, Especially In Jamaica. London: Printed For Hatchard And Son, Piccadilly, And J. And A. Arch, Cornhill, 1823. First Edition, published anonymously. Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 5/16 inches; 207 x 130 mm). [4], 118, [1, publisher's advertisements], [1, blank] pp. Bound in contemporary drab wrappers. A bit of light toning, mainly to title-page. Some minor dampstaining to blank margin. Overall very good. "Zachary Macaulay was a Scottish statistician, one of the founders of London University and of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, an antislavery activist, and governor of Sierra Leone, the British colony for freed slaves. He worked endlessly to end the slave trade and to Christianize and improve the world."… Read More

London: Ri[chard] Chiswell, 1698. Full Description: FRYER, John. A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672, and Finished 1681. London: Ri[chard] Chiswell, 1698. First edition. Small folio (12 5/16 x 7 1/2 inches; 312 x 191 mm). [8], xiii, [1, errata], 427, [1, blank], [xxiv index] pp. With a total of nine engraved plates, including the engraved frontispiece, four engraved plates, three of which are double page, one small folding plan, and three engraved map plates (one of which is page 60 with the printed key over-slip). Numerous other engravings in the text. Title-page in red and black. Without free endpapers. Half-title printed on the verso of the frontispiece portrait. With a separate title-page for Collections of the coins, weights, and precious stones, usual in those places of trade within the charter of the Honourable East-India-Company which is part of the pagination. Full period paneled calf. Spine printed in gilt. Red morocco spine… Read More

London: Printed at the Sign of The Grasshopper, by Unwin Brothers, The Gresham Press, 1877. BIBLE IN ENGLISH. [WYCLIFFE, John]. A New Biblia Pauperum. Being Thirty-Eight Woodcuts Illustrating the Life, Parables & Miracles of Our Blessed Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ, With the Proper Descriptions thereof, extracted from the Translation of the New Testament, by John Wiclif, Sometime Rector of Lutterworth. London: Printed at the Sign of The Grasshopper, by Unwin Brothers, The Gresham Press., 1877. First edition. One of 257 copies printed and signed by the Unwin Brothers. This being number 212. Two separate parts, each numbered and signed. The first being the prospectus with the title-page as above and [12] pp. (9 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches; 248 x 187 mm). The second and main part being the bible (10 x 7 7/8 inches; 253 x 200 mm) and comprising [3], 38, [3] leaves and with thirty-eight woodblock plates each facing a page of text. The text is printed in black with red initials on verso, recto blank. Woodblock… Read More

In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling.., 1729. Containing, the interpretation and definition of words and terms used in the law; and also the whole law, and the practice thereof, Under all the Heads and Titles of the same. Together with such Informations relating thereto, as Explain the History and Antiquity of the Law, and our Manners, Customs, and Original Government. Abstracted from all Dictionaries, Abridgments, Institutes, Reports, Year-Books, Charters, Registers, Chronicles, and Histories, Published to this Time. And fitted for the Use of Barristers, Students, and Practisers of the Law, Members of Parliament, and other Gentlemen, Justices of Peace, Clergymen, &c. By Giles Jacob, gent. [London] In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq;) for J. and J. Knapton, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, F. Fayram, W. Mears, J. Pemberton, J. Osborn and T. Longman, C. Rivington, F. Clay, J. Batley, and A. Ward, MDCCXXIX. [1729]. First edition. Large quarto… Read More

Philadelphia: Cowperthwait & Co, 1852. Complete with seventy-three full colored maps, one of which is double-paged, color frontispiece, vignette title-page and table of contents, heightened in gilt. Folio (17 x 14 inches; 430 x 355 mm). Half red morocco over marbled boards. Front board with red morocco label, lettered in gilt. Binding scuffed and bumped. Hinges professionally repaired. Some toning throughout, mainly to blank versos of maps and margin edges, only occasionally affecting the maps. Closed tear to front free endpaper. A few instances of foxing on maps, mainly to map 51 "Holland and Belgium." A small dark spot in Buenos Ayres on map 44. A small piece scraped off of map 73, "Oceana" but not making a hole all the way through. Also a marginal closed tear to this map, professionally repaired. Overall a very good copy. This atlas was first published in 1846 by Mitchell & Sons after acquiring the rights to Tanner's New Universal Atlas in 1845. Mitchell & Sons reprinted it several times until… Read More

Lambeth, 1870. DICKENS, Charles. Lambeth: 1870. Original pen and ink letter, dated Feb.2, 1870 asking permission to use Dickens name (who was also president at the time) to appear "upon our influential cast of Stewards." Signed by Walker W Jones on blue letterhead from the Newsvendors' Benevolent & Provident Institution. Measures approx 8 x 9/12 inches. Matted, framed and glazed. Some soiling to bottom and corners. Otherwise, a very good piece of Dickens history. HBS 66579. $750.