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Theresiade, ein Ehren-Gedicht. by SCHEYB, Franz Christof von

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Title: Theresiade, ein Ehren-Gedicht.
Author: SCHEYB, Franz Christof von
Seller: Ursus Books (United States)
Description: 1746. SCHEYB, Franz Christof von. Theresiade, ein Ehren-Gedicht. Two parts in one volume. [369] pp. Engraved allegorical portrait frontispiece, engraved title-page vignette, engraved dedication leaf, 13 historiated engraved initials, and 29 engraved vignettes by Salomon Kleiner after his own designs and those of Preissler and Buch. Each leaf is enclosed by a narrow ornamental woodcut border. 4to., 300 x 214 mm, full contemporary speckled calf. Vienna: Joh. Jacob Jahn, 1746. First Edition of one of the high spots of German Baroque book production. "In his Theresiade, Scheyb created the last great Baroque encomium, very impressive and luxuriously executed in twelve books comprising nearly eight thousand lines ...in all, a laudatory poem which entangles its subject in a net of allegory" (Faber du Faur). In addition to the fine frontispiece portrait of the Empress, the work contains numerous vignettes by Kleiner. The latter have been highly praised by Lanckoronska for their extraordinary refinement and miniature-like precision. She notes also that the contrast between the woodcut technique employed for the frames of each leaf and the engraved decorations creates an unusual and impressive visual effect. Head of spine restored, otherwise in excellent condition. Faber du Faur 1721. Lanckoronska-Oehler I, 29. Goedecke III, 376, 115. Seebass-Edelmann 874.

A Voyage Round the World; But More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon by Nathaniel Portlock (c1748-1817)

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Title: A Voyage Round the World; But More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon
Author: Nathaniel Portlock (c1748-1817)
Seller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nathaniel Portlock sailed from England and was in command of the King George. On their return Portlock published an account of the voyage.xii+384+xl pages with 19 plates (6 folding copper-engraved charts, and 13 copper-engraved plates). Quarto (11¼" x 9") bound modern quarter calf-backed marbled boards, raised bands on spine with gilt design, black title label with gilt lettering over marbled boards. (Forbes 177; Hill, Pacific Voyages, p.239; New Hill 1376; Howes P497; Lada-Mocarski 42; Sabin 64389; Wagner Northwest Coast 738-43) First Edition.Nathaniel Portlock entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St Albans. In 1776 he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of James Cook. During the expedition, in August 1779, he was transferred to the HMS Resolution. On Cook's third voyage, furs obtained in present-day British Columbia and Alaska sold for good prices when the expedition called at Macao. In 1785 Richard Cadman Etches and partners, including Portlock and George Dixon formed a partnership, commonly called the King George's Sound Company, to develop the fur trade. Dixon had also served on Resolution in the Pacific Ocean under Cook. In September 1785 Portlock and Dixon sailed from England. Portlock was in command of the larger vessel, the 320-ton King George, with a crew of 59. Dixon's was in command of the 200-ton Queen Charlotte, with a crew of 33. Dixon and Portlock sailed together for most of their three-year voyage. They crossed the Atlantic Ocean, reaching the Falkland Islands in January 1786, and transited Cape Horn to enter the Pacific Ocean. They reached the Hawaiian islands on 24 May and anchored in Kealakekua Bay (where Cook had been killed in 1779), but did not go ashore. They took on fresh food at other Hawaiian islands and proceeded on to what is now Alaska. After two years of plying the waters, Portlock and Dixon departed North America, reaching Macao in November 1788. On their return Portlock and Dixon published an account of the voyage, based in part on letters written by William Beresford, the trader on the expedition.Condition:Portrait frontispiece lacking. Light wear to binding with some rubbing to extremities and corners; lacking frontispiece but all other plates and maps intact, folding charts with occasional minor creasing or minuscule closed tear, offsetting to adjacent pages, scattered foxing throughout, including some charts and plates, Provenance: Hector Macdonald Buchanan of Ross Priory, Scotland, manuscript ex libris, signed and dated 1817 on preliminary blank. Sir Walter Scott was a close friend of Buchanan and a frequent visitor to Ross Priory. Overall a very solid copy; very good.

Scenery, Antiquities, and Biography, of South Wales by MALKIN Benjamin Heath

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Title: Scenery, Antiquities, and Biography, of South Wales
Author: MALKIN Benjamin Heath
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Description: 1804. First Edition. (WALES) MALKIN, Benjamin Heath. The Scenery, Antiquities, and Biography, of South Wales, from Materials Collected during Two Excursions in the Year 1803 Embellished with Views. London: T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804. Quarto, contemporary full mottled calf rebacked in gilt-decorated calf spine, original red morocco spine label, original marbled endpapers. $3000.First edition of this picturesque travelogue through the Welsh countryside, illustrated with frontispiece and 11 full-page soft-ground etchings by J. Laporte after views drawn on the spot by him, each hand-colored with a wash of blue, tan or gray, and with large folding map. Handsome in contemporary calf boards.Malkin (1769-1842), schoolmaster and antiquary, was a friend of William Blake, ""with whom he shared an interest in radical politics"" (ODNB). As headmaster of the grammar school at Bury St. Edmunds from 1809-28, he was known as an inspiring, idiosyncratic teacher who encouraged independence of mind and character. ""Malkin's taste for the picturesque is to be seen in his topographical work The Scenery, Antiquities and Biography of South Wales, published in 1804 and reissued in a two-volume edition in 1807. Written after a tour of south Wales in 1803, it was one of the best travel books of its kind, displaying Malkin's acute observation and considerable knowledge of Welsh history"" (ODNB). Bound with directions to the binder leaf, without half title. Engraved armorial bookplate. Binder's ticket.Interior clean, plates fine, expertly repaired closed tear to map at stub. Light expert restoration to contemporary calf boards. An extremely good copy, attractively bound.

Arrest Du Conseil D'Estat Du Roy, Concernant les Soldats, Ouvriers, Et autres gens Engagez au Service de la Compagnie d'Occident, & des Habitans qui passent à la Loüisianne pour s'y Establir. Du 8. Novembre 1718.

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Title: Arrest Du Conseil D'Estat Du Roy, Concernant les Soldats, Ouvriers, Et autres gens Engagez au Service de la Compagnie d'Occident, & des Habitans qui passent à la Loüisianne pour s'y Establir. Du 8. Novembre 1718.
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1718. No Binding. Fine. quarto, 4 pages, untrimmed, foredge of first page a bit ruffled, else a fine copy. "Le Roy s'estant fait representer en son Conseil, les Lettres Patentes en forme d'Edit du mois d'Aoust 1717, portant Establissement de la Compagnie d'Occident, Sa Majesté a esté informée que pour garder & peupler la Province de la Loüisianne, Pays de la concession faite à ladite Compagnie, Et pour le défrichement & la culture des Terres, Elle y fait passer journellement des Soldats des Engagez, & des Habitans qui emmennent avec eux des ouvriers, & d'autres gens pour y ester employez au défrichement & à la culture des Terres, & à d'autres travaux; Et que lesdits Soldats & Engagez au prejudice des conditions & Engagemens faits entr'eux & ladite Compagnie, ne se rendent point sur les Ports qui leur sont indiquez, ou qu'aprés y estre arrivez ils s'absentent pour ne se point Embarquer sur les Vaisseaux destinez à les transporter en ladite Province de la Loüisianne, ce qui cause à ladite Compagnie & audits Habitans un prejudice considerable, & retarde les progrés de L'Establissement de ladite Colonie." Contains three articles concerning soldiers and others engaged in the service of John Law's Compagnie d'Occident, or Mississippi Company, or those who had emigrated to the colony of Louisiana. The company had been granted a monopoly over trade in Louisiana in August 1717 Wroth and Annan 659, Maggs French Colonisation of America, 117, listing a variant issue (£ 7 10s).

The Works of Shakspere [Shakespeare] Revised from the best Authorities: with a Memoir, and Essay on his Genius [Three volume set, with] Vol. I: Memoir and Essay, Comedies; Vol. II: Tragedies; Vol. III: Historical Plays, Poems & Sonnets by William Shakspere [Shakespeare]; Barry Cornwall [essay]; Kenny Meadows [illus.]

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Title: The Works of Shakspere [Shakespeare] Revised from the best Authorities: with a Memoir, and Essay on his Genius [Three volume set, with] Vol. I: Memoir and Essay, Comedies; Vol. II: Tragedies; Vol. III: Historical Plays, Poems & Sonnets
Author: William Shakspere [Shakespeare]; Barry Cornwall [essay]; Kenny Meadows [illus.]
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Published by Wm. S. Orr & Co., Paternaster Row, 1844. Very Good. London: Published by Wm. S. Orr & Co., Paternaster Row, 1844. Early edition with the Meadows illustrations. Three quarto volumes. Full engraved plates throughout with numerous in-text illustrations. Bound in full contemporary brown morocco; five raised bands; gilt decoration to front, rear, and spine; all edges gilt; maroon endpapers. Light wear and minor scuffing to boards; corners bumped. Bindings sound. Contemporary gift inscription to an Isabella Downer dated 1847 to volume I preliminaries; "Western Supply Co." stamps to preliminaries of each volume; light spotting and smudging; interiors else unmarked. A Very Good and attractive set, notable for the appearance Kenny Meadows' illustrations. Though his Shakespeare work received mixed reviews in England, it was much lauded in Germany, in particular his depiction of Falstaff. [Everitt, Graham. "English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century." pp. 356-361].

Lovely Woman: A Collection of Fun, Fancy and Fact

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Title: Lovely Woman: A Collection of Fun, Fancy and Fact
Seller: Eclectibles (United States)
Condition: Very good. Wrappers chipped, a couple short tears, modern pink coloring to a couple of the images.
Description: Lowell, Massachusetts: C.I. Hood & Co, 1891. Very good. Wrappers chipped, a couple short tears, modern pink coloring to a couple of the images.. Featuring an illustration of a pretty young lady on the front, "Lovely Woman" was published as a marketing tool by the makers of Hood's Sarsaparilla, targeting women and homemakers in search of family medicines and remedies. Promotes Hood products for curing everything from "nervousness" in women to dyspepsia, alongside charming stories, illustrations, and anecdotes. Sentimentality abounds, such as in this section on page 5 titled "Very Heavy": "Of all heavy bodies, the heaviest is that of the woman we have ceased to love. N.B. Be sure to get Hood's Sarsaparilla." (p.7). Interesting from a gender studies point of view, as well as for those interesting in the history of advertising. Note the advert for the upcoming 1891 Hood calendar on the lower wrapper. Single vol. (6" by 5.25"), pp. 16, original illus. wrps.

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