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Atlas du Voyage de La Perouse

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.
Lord Tennyson and His Friends

Lord Tennyson and His Friends by CAMERON Julia Margaret

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Lord Tennyson and His Friends
Author
CAMERON Julia Margaret
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1893. First Edition. CAMERON, Julia Margaret. Alfred, Lord Tennyson and His Friends. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. Folio (15 by 18 inches), original beige cloth gilt rebacked and recornered in brown morocco, uncut. $4800.Limited first edition, number 209 of 400 copies, of this collection of 26 rich photogravures, most by significant Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, depicting such notables as Tennyson, Browning, Longfellow, Carlyle, Gladstone, Herschel and Darwin.""Julia Margaret Cameron was not the only Victorian woman photographer, but for most others, however enthusiastic, photography was primarily a means of creating a family record. Although her images are often deeply informed by her feelings for her sitter, they go far beyond the personal to epitomize particular qualities or essences—typically, genius in men and beauty in women"" (DNB). This album, published 14 years after Cameron's death, presents many of her finest and most famous portraits, including an iconic image of the Poet Laureate: ""Tennyson, a reluctant model, was persuaded to sit for her on many occasions: her best-known portrait of him shows him in profile, swathed in a cloak, with a book in his hand. It was a favorite of his, and he famously called it The Dirty Monk"" (DNB). ""Cameron's was a luminous and visionary art of photography, pursued against the positivistic tendency of the day"" (Frizot, 195). Text by Anne Thackeray Ritchie (author and William Makepeace Thackeray's eldest daughter). Introduction by Cameron's son, Henry Herschel Hay Cameron, some of whose own work is also included. Contemporary gift inscription.Images fine. Light marginal dampstaining to Dirty Monk plate (not affecting image), front endpapers. Some rubbing and soiling to cloth, as usual. Very good condition.
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SEDITION AND DEFAMATION DISPLAY'D: IN A LETTER TO THE AUTHOR OF THE CRAFTSMAN by [Amhurst, Nicholas]

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Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC
Title
SEDITION AND DEFAMATION DISPLAY'D: IN A LETTER TO THE AUTHOR OF THE CRAFTSMAN
Author
[Amhurst, Nicholas]
Seller
David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1731. [4], viii, 48pp, stitched with the half title. Mild dusting, untrimmed, Very Good. [offered with] A PROPER REPLY TO A LATE SCURRILOUS LIBEL; INTITLED, SEDITION AND DEFAMATION DISPLAY'D. BY CALEB D'ANVERS, OF GRAY'S-INN, ESQ. London: Printed for R. Francklin. 1731. 36pp, stitched. Upper corner area spotted for about half the text, Good+. [offered with] AN ANSWER TO ONE PART OF A LATE INFAMOUS LIBEL, INTITLED, REMARKS ON THE CRAFTSMAN'S VINDICATION OF HIS TWO HONOURABLE PATRONS; IN WHICH THE CHARACTER AND CONDUCT OF MR. P. IS FULLY VINDICATED. IN A LETTER TO THE MOST NOBLE AUTHOR. London: Printed for R. Francklin. 1731. 62pp, stitched and untrimmed. Title and last page dusted, else Very Good. Several pamphlets on the annoyances caused by Amhurst, whose nom de plume was Caleb D'Anvers, and who edited a popular periodical, 'The Craftsman,' which criticized the government. It was the leading anti-Walpole journal of its time. At this time in England, animadversions upon the government, whether true or not, whether opinion or fact, were sufficient to charge the publisher with libel. ESTC T47414, T42775, T22028. Sabin 66643.
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

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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Seller: De Wolfe and Wood
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

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

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Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc.
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.
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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)
Condition
Fair
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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