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Editore: [ Barnard & Simonds Co., Inc, Grand Rapids, MI, 1964
Da: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
post bound. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. 8 x 10. Post bound with printed oversized wrappers. Over 100 leaves printed on one side, each focused on one or two pieces of furniture. Several colored pages as well. In rear are several oversized items. A seven page price list dated 1964, a full color sheet with sample color panels showing representative finishes, and a three page foldout brochure for the company. Bright and clean internally. Oversized wrappers (and brochure additions in the rear) are curled and creased, with several edge tears. No loss of content. post bound. One similar catalog in OCLC. Date derived from pricelist bound in the back of the catalog.
Editore: collins, London
Da: GT Desirable books, Helensvale, QLD, Australia
Libro
Hard Cover Illustrated. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 25 TITLES from the Britain in Pictures series many are first Inns, editions , many have dustwraps and all the books are very good or better including: Fairs circuses &music halls, British Soldiers British Botanists, British Weather, British universities, British Mountaineers, British Marine Life, British Clubs British Railways, British Ports and harbours, British Portrait Painters, British Furniture Makers, British theatre, The story of Ireland, The story of Wales(2), The story of Scotland, The Labour Party, The Birds of Britain, English Diaries and Journals, English Cities and Small towns, English Fashion, English Country Houses, English Music, English pottery and Porcelain, and Women's Public schools,The Government of Britain,Ports and harbours,At the Seaside The Engish HousesBible,Dogs,watercolour, painters, Journalists and newspapers, Sea Fishermen, Country Houses,(2) Poets, Red Cross, Furniture Makers,Essayist, weather (2) Will split but each one costs $15 + postage.
Editore: Printed and published for the Author by W. S. Johnson, 'Nassau Steam Press,' 60, St Martin's Lane, Charing Cross, W.C. No date but c.1845., London, 1845
Da: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, Regno Unito
Miniature 8vo. 2.25 x 3.35 inches. xvi + 786 pp. + 29 + [1] + [26]. Running title: The Miniature Universal Gazetteer. Bound in original maroon cloth, decorated gilt. All edges gilt. A little wear to extremities but otherwise in good condition. Inscription on first free endpaper 'To Miss Woodcock from Louis St Valentines 1861.' Illustrated by frontispiece and engraved title page. A comprehensive gazetteer of the world in a single sequence. At the end are population tables of the British counties, principal cities and boroughs, of the principal countries, provinces and cities of the world and a list of the cities, boroughs and market towns in the UK. Samuel Maunder (1785-1849) was a prolific compiler of reference works, from 1825 onwards, and also a publisher. Another edition was published by T. Noble in 1846. An attractive and scarce little volume. HISTORY/THEOLOGY MINIATURE TOPOGRAPHY 19TH CENTURY HISTORY/THEOLOGY.
Editore: Brownsville, Tex. Brownsville Historical Association et al, 1959, 1959
Da: Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books, A.B.A.A., Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Profusely illustrated with hal-tones; 48 pp. folding map pp. Large folio, printed gray wrappers; very slight sunning to spine. Excellent condition. A facsimile of the New Orleans publication, originally printed by E. P. Brandad. OCLC lists 7 holdings for the original edition.Cracker Barrell Chronicles p. 66.
Editore: London: Printed by T. Cooper, 1740
Da: Forest Books, ABA-ILAB, Grantham, LINCS, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
First edition, 12mo (170 x 100 mm), [4], 272pp., with 3 folding maps (map of the World, fore-edge chipped, a couple of small stains the margin; A map of England & Wales, fore-edge repaired with archival paper; A plan of the cities of London and Westminster with the borough of Southwark, closed tear repaired with archival paper), new endpapers, recent amateurish quarter morocco, marbled boards. This 'Universial Pocket-book' ran to five editions between 1740-1745, all editions being rare. Provenance: Early ownership signature of Thomas Bilbie? to head of title page.
Editore: London, Suttaby & Co. + (T. C. Hansard); James Ridgway and Sons; James Ridgway, (1838); 1835; 1838; 1838;., 1838
Da: Antiquariat Hohmann, Schemmerhofen, Germania
Prima edizione
xxxiv (11)-408 (57), 180; (4) 180 S.; Tit., iv 187 (1) S. (1) Bl. 72; 156 40 S., 2 Bde., kl.okt., goldgepr. Ldr., erster Band etw. fleckig, Goldschnitt. -- Rückentitel: Royal Kalender .- [ Geschichte Institution Biographie Nachschlagewerk " Staatshandbuch LandGB SpracheEN J| 1838 ] --.
Editore: G.G.J. and J. Robinson London, 1788
Da: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[title continued]: the state of its population, the natural history of its animals, vegetables and minerals. Together with the latest accounts that have reached Europe, of the government, religion, manners, customs, arts and sciences of the Chinese. Ilustrated by a new and correct map of China, and other copper plates. . Tr. from the French of Abbe Grosier.First edition.Two volumes. 15 engraved plates, one folding, and folding engraved map coloured in outline with cartouche, 1 inch tear to margin without loss. 8vo (8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches), pages: vii:582 & viii:524, contemporary full tan polished calf, spines gilt extra with crimson lettering piece and small black circular numbering piece. Old signature to head of titles, modern bookplate on front pastedown. With the half-titles. Some foxing to prelims. Joints cracked, upper board of volume 1 held on one cord only, corners rubbed.
Editore: n.d. circa, 1877
Da: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, Regno Unito
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo
manuscript in black and red ink on blue paper (watermarked 'Thomas James Hurcott Mill 1877') in a fine copperplate hand with pen flourishes, headings in blackletter, red borders to pages, edges a little toned with some light handling marks, pp. [2], 111 (hand numbered), small folio, contemporary sea green morocco, gilt tooled borders, upper panel lettered in gilt, panels scuffed with faint red stains (spilled ink?) to upper panel, extremities worn and backstrip rubbed with fair amount of surface loss, 1cm loss at head of backstrip with split to upper hinge, all edges red, endpapers a little foxed, good. A fascinating, unpublished manuscript account of late Victorian policing in Britain and Australia, by then-Detective-Sergeant John Dowdell (1840-1907) of Scotland Yard. Dowdell's pursuit of Charles Biggs a clerk of Staveley Coal and Iron Company who absconds to Melbourne with over £340 in company funds takes him on a voyage around the world that lasts 209 days, features three train journeys, four steamships, one sailing ship, and ends with a sentence to nine months of hard labour. It is as much travel memoir as it is documentary of the advancements in international police cooperation and crime-detection. As Dowdell notes within the opening pages, a recent photograph of Biggs 'ultimately led to his Apprehension.' Likewise, it is the expansion of global trade and commercial routes (the Suez Canal having opened less than a decade ago) and increasing efficiency of steamships versus sailing vessels that allow Dowdell to reach Melbourne eleven days before Biggs, despite Biggs' ship setting sail five weeks earlier. Despite the popularity of detective fiction at the time, 'few police detectives in the British Isles published books relating to their work experience before the 1880s' (Shpayer-Makov), making this an early entry in the detective-author genre, albeit an unpublished one, and unusual in that it appears to have been written whilst Dowdell was still in the middle of his Metropolitan career instead of the more typical retired author-detective. Although there is no date on the composition, it was likely written soon after the events, given the close date of the watermark. Dowdell's writing is accomplished for an amateur: often entertaining and occasionally veering into the poetic. He is greatly taken with Melbourne in particular, declaring 'When it is considered that the City is not more than forty years old, [] it affords a striking proof of, and is a remarkable monument to what the enterprise of man [] can effect in a short time'. He provides a lively snapshot of Melbourne and its people, remarking on the slang, fashionable society, and the trappings of a very modern city steam cranes on tracks at Sandridge Pier (now Station Pier at Port Melbourne), and telegram communications between post office officials and ships, with different coloured flags hoisted from public buildings to indicate the location of the mail boats in real time. The voyage home aboard the basque Essex is in contrast a reminder of the not-so-distant pre-industrial age, taking the traditional Clipper Route around Cape Horn in a journey of almost four months. The ship encounters storms so strong it washes 'the poultry off the deck, as well as the piggeries on the forecastle', but when the weather is fine passengers entertain themselves by catching seabirds and putting on Shakespeare. There is even a birthday party thrown for the Captain, for which the ship is festooned 'with all available flags and bunting' and Biggs, despite being under arrest, 'perched on a barrel with a concertina which he played very well'. Puzzlingly, a transcription of a purported letter to his sister appears to have been lifted wholly from passages on Melbourne in Lady Barker's 'Station Life in New Zealand' (1870), with policing references added and incriminating specifics removed: a jarring reminder that despite the upstanding image created by detectives in their writings, 'author-detectives also tended to give free rein to the imagination' (Shpayer-Makov). Dowdell also copies extensively from 'Bailliere's Victorian Gazetteer and Road Guide' (1870), filling some forty pages with facts on Melbourne and its surrounding towns; although not cited these, at least, are more clearly presented as information garnered elsewhere. Dowdell had a long and storied career at Scotland Yard, during which he worked under Captain William Harris and Chief-Constable 'Dolly' Williamson. He was a contemporary of future author-detectives George Greenham and Andrew Lansdowne, as well as John Littlechild, later the first commander of the Special Irish Branch. Alongside Greenham and an Inspector Marshall, Dowdell received the Order of Stanislaus from Russia in 1879 for his part in tracking forged rouble notes; according to 'The Globe' in 1887, 'the only officers in the detective service who have been allowed to receive any foreign decoration'. Following his retirement in 1887, 'The Globe' described him as 'one of [Scotland Yard's] most trustworthy and experienced officers'. ('The Ascent of the Detective: Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England', Haia Shpayer-Makov, 2011).
Editore: Skibbereen (County Cork), Inanna Rare Books Publishing, 1788., 1788
Da: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Irlanda
Libro
Luxury Limited-Edition-Reprint of the First Edition by Luckombe in 1788. Two Volumes plus extra Folder with 31 Plates reprinted as Artworks for framing. Octavo (13.5 cm x 21 cm). Pagination: Volume I: Frontispiece, engraved Titlepage, XXX, 189 pages plus recently published Index (July, 2023) / Volume II: Engraved Titlepage, 263 pages plus recently published Index (July, 2023). Plus large, bespoke made Folder with thirtyone (31) Reproductions of the Maps, Plans and Illustrations which usually were folded inside this publication and now for the first time have been liberated from the book and were published as the beautiful works of art they are. Textvolume: Volume I and II of the text bound in one beautiful half-leather-volume with gilt lettering on spine, bound in the style of the 18th century / Illustrations-Folder with 31 reprinted illustrations of Towns and Maps of Ireland but mainly of Munster, bound in bespoke made half-cloth with paper-covered boards and pasted Reprint of the original titlepage. Excellent, new condition. One of only 300 printed. [Inanna Rare Books - Reprint & Facsimile - Series]. The here reprinted publication is famous and rare due to it being the final product of one of the most daring acts of piracy by an english publisher, Philip Luckombe, who first published this text under the title "A Tour through Ireland" in the year 1780. What makes the 1788-edition valuable are the addition of several excellent Engravings, Maps and Plans of Cities in Munster (see here below a full list of the large and medium size reproductions of Maps, Plans and Engravings which come in a separate Folder, accompanying the two text-volumes). The publication we see here warranted a Reproduction for it is very hard to find with all Illustrations present and especially the Engravings of Cork City, Kinsale, Youghal, Dungarvan and Waterford are possibly the finest and some of the earliest Illustrations of these Irish Cities and Irish Towns in the 18th century and should be present in every serious Irish History Collection. The Maps of County Cork, County Kerry and County Waterford show not only the clarity of 18th century map-making but also give wonderful historical detail of the families who ruled and lived on the land by the placing of these families' Coats of Arms on the Maps. "The Compleat Irish Traveller" is the pinnacle of pirated Travel-Writing in Ireland and proof of its enduring success for the english audience of the 18th century. American historian Susan M. Kroeg writes in her essay "Philip Luckombe's 'A Tour through Ireland' (1780) and the Problem of Plagiarism" about the publication we have reprinted: "According to Joep Leerssen, the reliability of a travel narrative, the extent to which the author actually experienced the events of which he writes, is ultimately 'insignificant'; what matters is the degree to which the work met its audience's expectations. Luckombe found and exploited the productive intersection of his readers' expectations of Ireland and their expectations of travel writing and succeeded in plagiarising some of the most popular and prominent Irish travel narratives of the late eighteenth century. In a final irony, the entire text of Luckombe's Tour ['A Tour through Ireland'] was pirated and republished anonymously in 1788 as "The Compleat Irish Traveller"- which, in a sense, it was." Philip Luckombe took most of the Illustrations, but not all, from the following publications by Charles Smith: 1. Charles Smith's "Antient and Present State of the County of Waterford" 2. Charles Smith's "Antient and Present State of the County and City of Cork" What Luckombe did not do was altering the source of the engravings and who produced them. Complete List of Reproductions of Plates included in the bespoke made Folder of the Luxury Reprint of this work: 1. Allegorical Frontispiece: "The Proprietor of the Irish Traveller presenting a Copy of that Work into the hand of Futurity to be preserved from the devastation of Time" 2. "A View of the Lighthouse in Dublin Harbour" 3. "View of Ringsend and Irishtown from Belmont, near Miltown" 4. "The Monument of Arthur Smith, D.D. late Archbishop of Dublin" 5. "Clark's Skeleton" (Foldout Plate) 6. "Powerscourt Waterfall" (Foldout Plate) 7. Large Illustration of Waterford City in the 18th century: "To the Gentlemen of the Common Council of the City of Waterford this South Prospect of that City is humbly presented by their most obedient humble Servant Charles Smith" 8. Large Map of County Waterford in the 18th century: "A New and Correct Map of the County of Waterford by Charles Smith" 9. "Round Tower at Kildare" 10. "Abbey of Saint John in Kilkenny" 11. Large Illustration of Dungarvan in the 18th century: "'To his Excellency Henry Boyle Esq., one of the Lords Justices of Ireland and Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons this N. E. Prospect of the Town of Dungarvan is Inscribed by his most obedient humble servant Ch. Smith" 12. Large Illustration of Youghal in the 18th century: "'To the Right Honorable James Tynte, one of his Majesty's most Honorable Privy Council & Representative in Parliament for this Town. This East Prospect of Youghal is Presented by his most obedient, humble servant, Ch. Smith" 13. Large Illustration of Cork City with Shandon in the 18th century: "To the Right worshipful the Mayor, Sheriff's and Common Council of the City of Cork, this View of that City from the North is Inscribed by their most devoted humble servant, Ch. Smith" 14. Illustration of "The Exchange" [Meeting-Place and General Place of Commerce for Tradesmen and Merchants in Cork City in the 18th century (between the years 1705 and 1811) [Built between 1705 and 1710 by Architect Twiss Jones and demolished in 1837] 15. Large Illustration of "A New Plan of the City of Cork" [Bird's Eye Plan of Cork City in the mid-18th century, with the Parishes of St. Finbarr, Christ Church, St. Peter's, St. Mary - Shandon, St. Anne's, St. Paul's]: "To the Gentlemen of.