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Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers, Under the Direction of the Office of Explorations and Surveys, A.A. Humphreys. Captain Topographical Engineers, in Charge

Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers, Under the Direction of the Office of Explorations and Surveys, A.A. Humphreys. Captain Topographical Engineers, in Charge by Joseph Christmas Ives (1828 1868)

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Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers, Under the Direction of the Office of Explorations and Surveys, A.A. Humphreys. Captain Topographical Engineers, in Charge
Author
Joseph Christmas Ives (1828 1868)
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The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
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Part I "General Report": 131 pages with the 2 large folding maps, profile of area, 12 engraved plates, including frontispiece, (one, "Interior of Moquise House", being colored), 7 colored chromolithic plates titled "Indian Portraits", 8 folding panoramas, and 41 wood cut illustrations in the text; Part II "Hydrographic Report: 14 pages; Part III " Geological Report": 154 pages with 3 plates, 3 lithographic plates, 27 wood cut illustrations in text, tables, 2 maps; Part IV "Botany": 30 pages; Part V "Zoology": 6 pages; and Appendices 32 pages. Quarto (ll 3/4" x 9") 36th Congress, 1st Session, Senate EX Document. Original gilt pictorial blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering to spine. ((Howes 194) First edition.Ives was born in New York City in 1828 and was a graduate of the United States Military Academy in 1852. As a Lieutenant from 1853 to 1854 he was appointed by the U.S. Army to the Topographical Engineers as assistant to Lt. A.W. Whipple in the Pacific Railroad survey along the 35th parallel. From 1857 to 1858 Ives commanded an expedition to explore up the Colorado River from its mouth. At Robinson's Landing he built then used the 54 foot paddlewheel steamboat Explorer to map and survey the river. His party included Smithsonian associate John Strong Newberry as geologist. He led his party up the Colorado to the lower end of the Grand Canyon, then struck out across the desert to Fort Defiance in Colorado. Ives Reported his findings in his 1861 Report upon the Colorado river of the West. The Ives expedition produced one of the important early maps of the Grand Canyon drawn by F. W. v. Egloffstein, topographer to the expedition. Ives next served as engineer and architect for the Washington National Monument from 1859 to 1860. During the American Civil War he joined the Confederate Army and served in several engineering capacities, and was finally appointed aide-de-camp to President Jefferson Davis from 1863 to 1865. After the war he settled in New York City where he died November 12, 1868Condition:New spine and paste downs, large frontispiece maps with tears from gutter to first fold about six inches with tape repair else a very good copy.
Voyage of His Majesty's ship Alceste, along the coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew, with an account of her subsequent shipwreck

Voyage of His Majesty's ship Alceste, along the coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew, with an account of her subsequent shipwreck by John M'leod (1777?-1820)

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Voyage of His Majesty's ship Alceste, along the coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew, with an account of her subsequent shipwreck
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John M'leod (1777?-1820)
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Very Good
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323 pages with a portrait frontispiece and five colored aquatints. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in attractive half leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. (Hill 1168) Second and best editionThe Alceste brought Lord Amherst to China to serve as ambassador, and specifically to negotiate the China trade, at the time a matter of dispute between China and Great Britain. M'Leod, who was surgeon on the ship, describes the voyage out, the various calls in the East Indies including touching at Batavia, surveying off Korea, the visit to Okinawa, another to Manila, and the shipwreck off the coast of Sumatra and subsequent rescue from Malay pirates. A brief but interesting interview with Napoleon at St. Helena is also included in the narrative. This was one of the most popular travel books of its time, portraying the Far East to a much wider audience than had been reached by earlier accounts. The idyllic descriptions of Lewchew undoubtedly appealed to the romantic sensibilities of the era. Indeed, buoyed by its success, M'Leod published another work recounting his time as a slaver, A Voyage to Africa, with some Account of the Manners and Customs of the Dahomian People.Condition:Attractive half rebind, some foxing through out, with no spotting to plates else a very good copy.
The Theory of Colouring

The Theory of Colouring by BACON,J

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The Theory of Colouring
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BACON,J
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1872. BACON, J. The Theory of Colouring. Being an Analysis of the Principles of Contrast and Harmony in the Arrangement of Colours with Their Application to the Study of Nature and Hints on the Composition of Pictures. viii, 58 pp., illustrated with 6 colour plates, plus 48 pp. of advertisements for artists' materials. 8vo, 183 x 120 mm, bound in publisher's blue pebbled cloth stamped in blind, title gilt on front cover, a.e.g. London: George Rowney, 1872. Second revised edition. A standard work of which Herbert says: "In the next generation of British writers, one continues to feel a modern sense of color that is usually regarded as a prerogative of French Impressionists. The manual by Bacon stresses binary and triadic color harmonies unencumbered by the long disquisitions on aesthetics that mark most French treatises, and its plates, although in rather conservative figurative imagery, show color opposites directly opposed, and three color harmonies, that look forward to Neo-Impressionism and Fauvism." Yale Library Gazette, July 1974, p. 14. Birren Collection 23.
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The life of Sir Isaac Newton by BREWSTER, David

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The life of Sir Isaac Newton
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BREWSTER, David
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London: John Murray, 1831. FIRST EDITION. With a frontispiece portrait of Newton by Sir G. Kneller and W. C. Edwards, an engraving of the birth-place of Newton on title by S. Williams, numerous text illustrations. Original printed boards, part of The Family Library, No. XXIV; boards soiled and spine crudely repaired, interior very good, partially unopened. First edition. Considered the best biography of Newton by most historians, the work was reissued several times. Wallis, 370.04; not in Babson.
Search for Modern Nationalism: Zhang Binglin and Revolutionary China 1869-1936

Search for Modern Nationalism: Zhang Binglin and Revolutionary China 1869-1936 by [Zhang Binglin] Young-tsu Wong

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Search for Modern Nationalism: Zhang Binglin and Revolutionary China 1869-1936
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[Zhang Binglin] Young-tsu Wong
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
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9780195827408
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Very Good +/Very Good +. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. First Edition. Octavo; photo-illustrated dust jacket; tan cloth boards stamped in gilt; 233pp. Rubbing to edges of dust jacket; sunning to spine. Mild shelfwear to boards; Very Good or better.
Happy Hour: or, Holiday Fancies and Every-Day Facts for Young People

Happy Hour: or, Holiday Fancies and Every-Day Facts for Young People

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Happy Hour: or, Holiday Fancies and Every-Day Facts for Young People
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New York: Appleton, 1874. Hardcover. Good. Illustrated. Ends of backstrip and cover corners worn. Institutional stamp (stamped withdrawn) on title-page. Former owner's label on endpaper.
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Miles Chapel C. M. E. Church Presents Midwest Wonder Quartet, Friday, March 15, 1946, Arkansas Municipal Auditorium, 8:00 P.M. [Texarkana, Arkansas]

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Miles Chapel C. M. E. Church Presents Midwest Wonder Quartet, Friday, March 15, 1946, Arkansas Municipal Auditorium, 8:00 P.M. [Texarkana, Arkansas]
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McBlain Books (United States)
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1946. Paperback. Very Good. 6p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23 cm. Browned. The members of the quartet were Nathan Gentry, Marion Crockett, Oliver Neal, and John Reagans.
Recent Collages and Rock Drawings by John Wood

Recent Collages and Rock Drawings by John Wood by WOOD, John and Laurie Sieverts Snyder

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Recent Collages and Rock Drawings by John Wood
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WOOD, John and Laurie Sieverts Snyder
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Cortland, NY: Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, State University of New York, College at Cortland, 1988. First edition. Softcover. [8 pages.] Exhibition catalog for a show that ran January 22 through February 19, 1988. Features text by Laurie Sieverts Snyder. Includes several small black and white illustrations, biographical information, list of previous exhibitions, a selected bibliography, and a checklist. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon with no copies listed in OCLC.
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Bricks and Mortar by Ashton, Helen

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Bricks and Mortar
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Ashton, Helen
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Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Very Good+. 1933 (c.1932). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy with just a bit of external wear, some fading to spine cloth]. Novel covering four decades in the life of an architect and his family, set mostly in London. Reprinted by Persephone Books in 2005; laid in are printed copies of their catalog blurb, and an online review which calls it "just another brilliant book brought back to life by Persephone." .

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