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8vo. x,144pp. Frontispiece engraving of the Emperor Tchien Loong. Original paper covered boards, printed label on the upper board. Half-title present. Spine entirely perished, boards well rubbed and worn, upper hinge neatly mended; a good copy in scarce irignal temporary binding. An abridgement of Aeneas Anderson's 'Narrative of the British embassy to China printed in the same year. See Cox, I, 344. ESTC T133375; Lowndes, p. 40. The author was on the staff of Earl Macartney's embassy to China in 1792-1794, historically important as it was the first British mission to China. Protected in a custom clamshell case.
An Accurate Account of Lord Macartney's Embassy to China Carefully Abridged from the Original Work: with Alterations and Corrections, by the Editor, Who Was Also an Attendant at the Embassy
Anderson, Aeneas
London: Vernor and Hood, 1795.
Price: $1,000.00
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Father Kino: Priest to the Pimas
Clark, Ann Nolan
NY: Vision/Farrar, Straus & Co., (1963).
Price: $125.00
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Thick 8vo. xiv,17-426pp followed by six page publisher's catalogue. Illustrated with woodcuts from photographs. Folding map. Publisher's black cloth, gilt spine title, blocked in blind. Hinges and corners neatly mended, lightly foxed, else a very good copy. First printedin London in 1858, and many times reprinted.
Three Visits to Madagascar, During the Years 1853--1854--1856. Including a Journey to the Capital ...
Ellis, William
Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, 1859.
Price: $150.00
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8vo. 151pp plus the Facsimile. Original green cloth, gilt titles. Ownership names on the front free end paper, a couple of small marginal stains on the title and frontispiece else this is a near fine copy. Edited by C. G. Herbermann. United States Catholic Historical Society Monograph IV.
The Cosmographiae Introductio of Martin Waldseemuller in Facsimile: Followed by the Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci, with their Translation into English; to which are added Waldseemuller's Two World Maps of 1507....
Fischer, Joseph, S. J., and Franz von Wieser
NY: United States Catholic Historical Society, 1907.
Price: $250.00
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4to. 482pp plus errata page. Publisher's green silk finish cloth; gilt spine title; sprinkled edges; patterned endpapers. Spine and top of upper board sunned else a very good copy. Memoria Historia de las Posesiones Hispano-Africanas. Landmark history of Spanish activity in Africa. Scarce. In Spanish.
Historia Vicisitudes y Política Tradicional De España, Respecto De Sus Posesiones En Las Costas De Africa Desde La Monarquía Gótica y En Los Tiempos Posteriores a La Restauración Hasta El Último Siglo: Memoria escrita por D. Leon Galindo y de Vera premiada por la Real Academia de la Historia en el Curso Público de 1861
Galindo y de Vera, Leon
Madrid: Manuel Tello, 1884.
Price: $125.00
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Griffin: On the Route of an Indiaman
Goddio, Franck, and Evelyne Jay Guyot de Saint Michel
London: Periplus, 1999.
Price: $150.00
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Pyramidographia: Or, a Description of the Pyramids in Egypt
Graves, John
London: Henry Lintot & John Osborn, 1746.
Price: $500.00
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Small 4to. xxix,244pp. Original bucktam, gilt. 16 illustrations. One of 500 numbered copies. The diary of Dawtrey Cooper, 1628, kept during the expedition to relieve La Rochelle; the journals of Jeremy Roch, 1666, describing voyages and adventures at sea under Charles II, James II and William III; and the diary of Francis Rogers, kept on his voyages to the West Indies, the East Indies and elsewhere in 1703 & 1704. Transcribed from the original manuscripts by Bruce S. Ingram. Cloth faded, and worn on the surface; else a very good copy. With a neat inscription on the front free endpaper: 'Michael Higgins presents this long-valued book with his respects to the Hon. Roark Bradford, N(ew) O(rleans) La. 1942.' The actor Michael Higgins later starred in a Hallmark production based on Bradford's 'All God's Chillun'.
Three Sea Journals of Stuart Times: Dawtrey Cooper; Jeremy Roch; and Francis Rogers
Ingram, Bruce S., ed.
London: Constable & Co, 1936.
Price: $150.00
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12mo. (vii),8-28,(viii)pp. Original publisher's quarter leather; spine in 5 compartments, gilt. Textured cloth boards. Marbled endpapers. Finely printed in two colors. Frontispiece portrait of Cortes. Folding facsimile of the 1769 map of the expedition. One of 225 numbered copies for private distribution. This copy has an inscription from the printer: Para mis buenos y estimados amigos los Hermanos Sanchez....Jose Porrua. 4pp. publisher catalogue follows the limitation. There are seminary library markings on the second title page: a neat acquisition number, a penned shelf number and a small stamp. The stamp is repeated on the rear pastedown. Aside from the title page stamps there are a couple of small scuff marks to the leather else this is a fine copy.
Viage de Hernan Cortes a la Peninsula de Californias
Lorenzana, Don Francisco Antonio
Madrid: Jose Porrua Turanzas, 1958.
Price: $250.00
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Travels in the Interior of Africa, in the Years 1795, 1796, 1797, also in 1805 and 1806.: Including Both Expeditions of that Celebrated Traveller. Compiled from His Original Works, and Other Authentic Sources, by John Campbell, Esq.
Park, Mungo
London: A. E. Newman & Co., 1817.
Price: $300.00
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Folio. An extract of pp. 743-755 of Vol. IV of the third edition of Churchill's Voyages. Also included are pp. 756-776: 'A Journey of John Baptist Merin To the Mines of Hungary' and 'An Account of the Cape of Good Hope' by Wiliam Ten Rhyme. For Pelham, see Cox, 1631. The eight Englishmen were left by mistake in Greenland in 1630; by careful preparation, they pulled through. This was the first time an Artic winter was successfully braved on the shores of the Spitzbergen. Pelham's account of the feat attracted great attention. It was also reprinted in the Hakluyt Society volume for 1902. Bound to style in quarter leather, red leather lettering piece, gilt; marbled paper boards. Light marginal damp stain not affecting the text, else a fine copy; without the map mentioned on the title page.
God's Power and Providence, Shewed in the Miraculous Preservation and Deliverance of Eight English-Men ....
Pelham, Edward
London: Henry Lintot and John Osborn, (1745).
Price: $500.00
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Rare Books, etc. relating to America
Stevens, Henry
London: Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles, 1927.
Price: $100.00
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First edition. 8vo. (xxiv),319pp. Original printed cream colored cloth. Illustrations from early printed works on the Americas in the sixteenth century. Index, notes, bibliography. Consists of 12 individual essays by expert scholars. A fine, as new copy. Dustwrapper is similarly fine and unclipped.
Early Images of the Americas
Williams, Jerry M., and Robert E. Lewis, eds.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993.
Price: $100.00
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