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TRAVELS AND VOYAGES<br>THE FIRST DETAILED ACCOUNT OF A EUROPEAN TRAVELER TO EAST AFRICA<br><br>Historia de las Cosas de Etiopia, en la qual se Cuenta muy copiosamente, el estado y potécia del Emperador della, (que es el que muchos an pesado ser el Preste Juan)...

TRAVELS AND VOYAGES
THE FIRST DETAILED ACCOUNT OF A EUROPEAN TRAVELER TO EAST AFRICA

Historia de las Cosas de Etiopia, en la qual se Cuenta muy copiosamente, el estado y potécia del Emperador della, (que es el que muchos an pesado ser el Preste Juan)... by ALVARES, Francisco

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Title
TRAVELS AND VOYAGES
THE FIRST DETAILED ACCOUNT OF A EUROPEAN TRAVELER TO EAST AFRICA

Historia de las Cosas de Etiopia, en la qual se Cuenta muy copiosamente, el estado y potécia del Emperador della, (que es el que muchos an pesado ser el Preste Juan)...
Author
ALVARES, Francisco
Seller
Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Description
8vo. (20), 207 ff., 1 blank. Bound in 19th-century calf, gilt title on spine, gilt-ruled borders on covers, fore-edges gilt. Repair to tear in blank margin of title and wormhole filled; cuts to lower blank margin of p. 132, just grazing a signature letter; apart from some toning in the margin, very good.Rare first Spanish language edition of one of the earliest detailed reports on Ethiopia available to Europeans: "incomparably more detailed than any earlier account of Ethiopia that has survived, it is also a very important source for Ethiopian history, for it was written just before the country was devastated by the Moslem Somali and pagan Galla invasions of the second quarter of the 16th century." -- Hakluyt Society I., p. 12. The work appears on all four 16th century book lists employed in the influential exhibit, Europe Informed, which identified in a historically controlled way the most widely disseminated early travel accounts informing 16th century Europeans about Asia and Africa.The account is the fruit of an embassy made by the author in connection with the search for eastern Christians. The journey had roots in the medieval legend of Prester John, a mythical King whose vast domains contained wondrous panaceas and who was, to boot, a Christian. The legend proved a well-known stimulus to European exploration, and just as importantly provided Catholic Europe with an influential eschatological fantasy: reunited with their long lost eastern brethren, they would finally subdue Islam or, in a later generation, Protestants etc. Although the work is much concerned with the activity and structure of the Eastern Church, the fact that Alvares recognizes Ethiopians as equals paradoxically makes him more observant, and the work contains much information about agriculture, natural history (wild life and the terrible locusts), the curious architectural tradition of carving churches out of rock etc.According to Rogers, Alvares was constrained from publishing his account, but an unauthorized version appeared in Portuguese 1540. An Italian translation with a somewhat different recension of the text appeared in Ramusio's volume devoted to Africa (1550); this first Spanish language edition by Tomás de Padilla was the first of three 16th century editions in that language*Adams A-848; BL Spanish, p. 7; Francis M. Rogers, Europe Informed, 51 and The Quest for Eastern Christians, 162; revised Hakluyt Society edition Series 2, vols. 113-14, prepared by C. F. Beckingham & G. W. B. Huntingford (1961).
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Works by TARKINGTON Booth

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Works
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TARKINGTON Booth
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1918. TARKINGTON, Booth. The Works of Booth Tarkington. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1918-1919. Fourteen volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco and purple cloth, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, marbled endpapers, uncut and largely unopened, top edges gilt. $2800.Autograph edition, one of only 565 copies, signed by Tarkington in Volume 1, containing frontispiece portraits and plates, handsomely bound by Strikeman in three-quarter morocco gilt.This splendid limited edition of Booth Tarkington's Works features his first published work, The Gentleman from Indiana, which made him ""the most famous young man in America,"" and classics such as The Two Vanrevels, The Quest of Quesnay, The Flirt, Penrod, Pendord and Sam, In the Arena, The Turmoil, The Conquest of Canaan, Seventeen, The Magnificent Ambersons and Ramsey Milholland, together with major short works such as Monsieur Beaucaire, Harlequin and Columbine, The Beautiful Lady, His Own People and many more. Tarkington, who died in 1946, twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature and was beloved for his portrayal of American life in works that possess a ""lightness of touch… a profound grasp of the human foibles"" (New York Times). A fine 14-volume set.
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by KHAYYAM Omar POGANY Willy

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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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KHAYYAM Omar POGANY Willy
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1930. First Edition. Signed. POGÁNY, Willy (illustrator). Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. London: George G. Harrap & Co., (1930). Octavo, original full turquoise morocco, gilt-stamped floral medallion with multicolored onlays to front cover, raised bands, top edge gilt, uncut, original publisher's box. $2200.Signed limited edition of Willy Pogány's illustrated Rubaiyat, number 25 of 750 copies for sale in the U.K. (of a total edition of 1250 copies), with 12 mounted color plates and intricate in-text decorations, signed twice by the artist, elegantly bound in gilt-decorated morocco, in the publisher's original box.Hungarian-born Pogány ""specialized in gift book embellishment both before and after the First World War"" (Harthan, 242). A prolific artist, Pogány produced illustrations for more than 150 books in his lifetime, including many classics of children's literature such as Mother Goose. He first illustrated the Rubaiyat in 1909 and provided a new, entirely different set of illustrations for this 1930 signed limited edition of Edward FitzGerald's classic 1859 translation. Khayyam's ""brief verses vary in theme… from sophisticated satires on the unreasonableness of human passion to the passionate lyrics on the joys and sorrows of love and wine and on the wisdom of grasping pleasure while we can"" (Hornstein, Percy and Brown 377). Signed by Pogány in ink at the limitation page and in pencil on the additional etched frontispiece. Greer 121d. Contemporary owner signature.A fine copy in a worn original publisher's box.
The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL.D., Carefully Compiled from Reliable Sources

The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL.D., Carefully Compiled from Reliable Sources

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The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL.D., Carefully Compiled from Reliable Sources
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James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
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Contemporaryp half brown morocco, red leather title labels. VG
Description
London and Newcastle-on-Tyne: Adam & Co, 1874. Illustrated with 48 and 39 full page tinted lithographs plus litho. title-pages. 508; v, [iii], 509-973. 2 vols. Contemporaryp half brown morocco, red leather title labels. VG. Illustrated with 48 and 39 full page tinted lithographs plus litho. title-pages. 508; v, [iii], 509-973. 2 vols.
The Tables of the Law and The Adoration of the Magi

The Tables of the Law and The Adoration of the Magi by Yeats, W. B. [William Butler]

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The Tables of the Law and The Adoration of the Magi
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Yeats, W. B. [William Butler]
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Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: Elkin Mathews, 1904. First Edition, Deluxe Issue. Hardcover. Very Good. First published edition, one of an unspecified number of copies in the deluxe issue, bound in quarter buff linen cloth and blue-grey paper over boards (Wade 25). 60, 4 pp. Very Good. Small damp stain at head. Covers darkened with age and lightly marked and soiled; small nick to edge of boards. Crease to bottom corner of title page. Pages lightly toned and dust soiled; slightly exposed hinge toward center of text block though binding remains solid. Printed on slightly thicker paper than the wraps issue, and also far more uncommon.
Souvenir Pour l’an 1816. Contenant le lever et le coucher du soleil et de la lune

Souvenir Pour l’an 1816. Contenant le lever et le coucher du soleil et de la lune by CALENDAR

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Souvenir Pour l’an 1816. Contenant le lever et le coucher du soleil et de la lune
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CALENDAR
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Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
Paris: (Doublet for) Caillot, 1815. Vertically oriented oblong 32mo (93 x 52 mm). Collation 1-48 (nested quires, stitched in the middle). [32] leaves, printed vertically, title-page printed on verso, woodcut royal arms on title, thick and thin page rule borders, colophon on recto of last leaf; first and last leaves mounted to wrappers. Contemporary pale orange wrappers, original pasteboard slipcase with scalloped gold-tooled border and title Souvenir on one side. Early signature of “Mme Dalmon” on slipcase (very sliightly rubbed).*** An ephemeral survival, in fine condition: a 19th-century version of the strip calendars that were popular in the previous century, it reads “vertically,” the book opening from the top or bottom of each double-page, the latter being imposed to extend from the top to the bottom of each leaf-opening. The almanac opens with the year 1816 in different calendars, most of which are wildy inaccurate, e.g., the Julian calendar (6531), or years from the foundation of Rome or from the birth of Naboassar. The Hebrew calendar is (glaringly) omitted. Each month has two page openings, one for the calendar of saints’ days, and one for times of sunrise and sunset and phases of the moon. The last four double-pages contain lists of the accessions to power of the “Principales puissances de l’Europe.” The calendar appeared after the restoration of Louis XVIII (following the 100-day interruption of Napoleon’s return) and is resolutely royalist, up to the last entry: “Etats-Unis d’Amér. James Madisson, président le 4 mars 1809. La durée de ses fonctions est de quatre ans.” (Thank you for your attention to this matter.) I locate no other copies. Cf. Grand-Carteret 1684, 1813 issue.
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WHY NOT by WIDDEMER, Margaret

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WHY NOT
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WIDDEMER, Margaret
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Antic Hay Books (United States)
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NY: Hearst's International Library Co.;, 1915. First Edition. 12mo., green pictorial cloth; 338 pages. Illustrated.. Very Good (covers nice; some minor spotting to a few pages, else contents clean & tight).
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XUL SOLAR: VISIONES Y REVELACIONES

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XUL SOLAR: VISIONES Y REVELACIONES
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Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
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9789872144562
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Buenos Aires; São Paulo: Malba - Colección Costantini, Buenos Aires del 17 de junio al 15 de agosto de 2005; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo del 17 de septiembre al 6 de noviembre de 2005, 2005. b/w and color plates, facs., cat., bio/chron., bibl, color pict fldg. wrps. Retrospective exhibition presenting 130 paintings and objects by Xul Solar (b. Argentina 1887-d.1963) considered one of the main artists of the Modernism and Avant-Garde in Argentina during the first decades of the 20th century. The show highlights the artist as a visionary, a mystic and his multiple links with the occult and esoteric aspects in better understanding the artist's spiritual universe. This is the first exhibition of Xul Solar in Brazil and the catalogue includes a curatiorial essay by Patricia Artundo, along with expert texts by Jorge Schwartz, Daniel Nelson and others. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXT. The show also expanded to include: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston del 27 de enero al 16 de abril de 2006 ; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, México del 18 de mayo al 20 de agosto de 2006.
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Fluxus: Today and Yesterday

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Fluxus: Today and Yesterday
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Art and Design, 1993. Very Good. Fluxus: Today and Yesterday. Cambridge, UK: Art and Design, 1993. 95pp. Illustrated. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gentle bumping and rubbing.
Report to the ECA Mission to the United Kingdom. Volume One: The Highlights

Report to the ECA Mission to the United Kingdom. Volume One: The Highlights by Economic Cooperation Administration

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Report to the ECA Mission to the United Kingdom. Volume One: The Highlights
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Economic Cooperation Administration
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The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
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London: Economic Cooperation Administration, 1948. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Oblong Quarto. In green paper wrappers with white title to front cover. Minor wear to edges of wrappers. Clean, bright interior with graphs throughout. 184 pages. ECO/041416.

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