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Atlas du Voyage de La Perouse by LA PÉROUSE, Jean François de Galaup

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Seller: Argonaut Book Shop

Title: Atlas du Voyage de La Perouse
Author: LA PÉROUSE, Jean François de Galaup
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Atlas to the first edition of "Voyage de La Perouse" Folio. 17 ¼ x 11 ¼ inches.Frontis portrait, engraved title page, 69 engraved plates. Extra map from English edition.Contemporary binding of leather over marbled boards. Covers very worn, front cover completely detached, remnants of a hand-written label. Embossed stamp to corner of the title page. A few plates with minor discoloration in the gutter from old tape residue, but the plates generally clean, some trimmed a bit close. A good copy, collated complete and with maps and plates in generally fine condition. First edition. Atlas volume only. Bound into this copy is an additional map from the English version of the Atlas; Plate 3, "Chart of the Great Pacific Ocean" as well as a partial piece of the English Plate 4, "Plan of the Bay of Conception in Chili". La Perouse sailed to the Pacific and the west coast of North America to examine regions not explored by Cook; to seek the famous Northwest Passage; to obtain information about the fur trade and the Spanish settlements in California; to make scientific observations; and to promote French enterprise in the region. He made valuable contributions to the history of geographical discovery, particularly in regard to the American coast. He sent his dispatches from Kamchatka and Botany Bay. After leaving Botany Bay, his expedition disappeared and his ships' wrecks were not discovered for another 39 years on one of the Santa Cruz Islands.

Southern trans-continental railway : supplemental argument showing the legal status of the Memphis, El Paso, and Pacific Railroad Company in Texas: for the use of the Pacific Railroad Committee

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Title: Southern trans-continental railway : supplemental argument showing the legal status of the Memphis, El Paso, and Pacific Railroad Company in Texas: for the use of the Pacific Railroad Committee
Seller: De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description: Washington, D.C.: M'Gill & Witherow, 1870. Fair condition with soiling, minor library marks, discoloring of some pages. 11 copies located. No copies for sale online.

An Illustrated Manuscript Of A Shot Tower by (SHOT TOWER)

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Title: An Illustrated Manuscript Of A Shot Tower
Author: (SHOT TOWER)
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: (CANNONS). AM. 5pg. 8 x 11. No date. No place. A lengthy autograph manuscript that appears to regard making shot for cannon, or some other form of metal working. The document seems to be in German and has four detailed, elaborate drawings on the fourth page of a tower. It has a pulley at the top and shows a carload being hauled upwards. The manuscript is in fair condition with folds, a couple of holes that go through all four pages, and a fifth page attached to the other four that has some larger holes in it.

Elements of Astronomy, Descriptive and Physical... by Wilbur, Hervey

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Title: Elements of Astronomy, Descriptive and Physical...
Author: Wilbur, Hervey
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
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Description: New Haven: Durrie and Peck, 1831. Second Edition, with an Appendix of Problems on the Globes and Useful Tables. Hardcover. Fair. Marbled paper over boards, backed in gilt-ruled morocco; 16mo (3.75 x 5.75 inches); pp. [8] (mispaginated), [9]-144, plus folding frontispiece and 7 plates (collates complete). Backstrip perished; front board missing. Text block browned, as usual, but still perfectly legible. Sold as is.

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