WILKES CHARLES

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition during the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842.

Philadelphia, LEA & BLANCHARD, 1845. grand in-8, toile de l'éditeur estampée à froid, au centre des plats et au bas des dos fers dorés, 5 volumes et 1 volume d'atlas. : I : [2]ff + ix + 434p + [4]ff ; 8 planches, 1 carte. II :[3]ff + xv + 476p + [3]ff ; 14 planches , 3 cartes. III : [3]ff + xv + 438p + [4]ff ; 12 planches IV : [3]ff + xvi + 539p + [3]ff ; 15 planches, 1 carte V : [3]ff + xv + 558p +[4]ff ; 15 planches , 4 cartes. Atlas :[5]ff + 5 cartes + [3]ff .. bel ex (reliure du premier volume soigneusement restaurée) , ex dono manuscrit sur feuille de garde du vol 2, mouillures aux premiers ff de l'atlas.
¶ first regularly trade edition of the narrative of the expedition. taurus 6, spence 1262, [haskell 2B], renard 1697

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Book number: W1498-015

Catalogue: 3183 WILKES Charles Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition during the Years 1838

Keywords: Antarctique, océanie

CHARLES WILKES, COMMANDER.

Pacific Ocean. GILBERT ISLANDS or KINGSMILL GROUP. 1841 With additions from other authorities to 1899.

Washington., Hydrographic Office., 1908. SEAMAP, 96 x 70 cms. Soundings in fathoms. corrections up to 1904. issued 1908. Map number 119. With fold.

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Book number: 15164

Keywords: Pacific.

CHESTERFIELD, LORD. HARDWICKE, LORD. LYTTLETON, WILLIAMS, SIR C.H.WILLIAMS, LORD.WILKES, MR. CHURCHILL, MR. GARICK, MR.POTTER, DR. ARKENSIDE, ; WILLIAMS, SIR CHARLES HANBURY.

New Foundling Hospital for Wit, Being a Collection of Several Curious Pieces, in Verse and Prose; Bound with: A Collection of Poems, by Williams.

London: Lynch, 1768,1763. First editions, 2 volumes bound as one, 8vo., pp.vi,136,(2),viii [adverts]; (2),73, b/w engraved frontispiece to first title, half calf over marbled boards, gilt rules, contrasting label; small bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, small bookplate to upper margin of title, extremities and boards lightly rubbed, marginal repair to K4 and small repair to second title, contents crisp and clean, a very good copy.

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Book number: 6514

Catalogue: LITERATURE

Keywords: LITERATURE

HADDON CHAMBERS AND COMYNS CARR [STARRING WILLIAM TERRISS, CHARLES CARTWRIGHT, J. D. BEVERIDGE, HARRY NICHOLAS, LAWRENCE CAUTLEY, CHARLES FULTON, ALBERT SIMS, ERNEST WILKES, JARVIS WIDDICOMBE, WEBB DARLEIGH, MILLICENT BARR, VANE FEATHERSTON, MARION TERRY

In the Days of the Duke: Souvenir Theatre Programme Performed at Royal Adelphi Theatre, Strand, London

Performance Programme Dated Thursday September 9th 1897. Original souvenir theatre programme 7'' x 5'' in blue tinted text. Contains 8 printed pages of text with 4 pages of detailed text about each act. In Very Good condition.

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Book number: 59709

Catalogue: THEATRE PROGRAMMES BOOK FIVE [5

SCHMUCKER, SAMUEL M. (BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN CHARLES FREMONT; ELISHA KENT KANE; JOHN LEDYARD; MATTHEW C. PERRY; CHARLES WILKES.)

The Life of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, and of Other Distinguished American Explorers Containing Narratives of Their Researches and Adventures in Remote and Interesting Portions of the Globe

Philadelphia, Keystone Publishing. 1890. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 406pp. Frontispiece. Recently rebound in tan cloth with gilt lettering. Biography of John Charles Fremont, Elisha Kent Kane, John Ledyard, Matthew C. Perry & Charles Wilkes. Book about James Cook. Locale: ; Africa; Japan; New Zealand; North Pole; Peru; Siberia; South America; Tahiti; Western America.

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Book number: 105253

Catalogue: Travel and Adventure

Keywords: Travel and Adventure, Explorers

TOMPSON, CHARLES JNR; WILKES, G. A. (INTRODUCTION); TURNBULL, G. A. (INTRODUCTION).

Wild Notes, from the Lyre of a Native Minstrel.

Sydney Sydney University Press, 1973. Facsimile ed. Hardback quarto, dustjacket (flaps all sides), as new condition (in as new dustjacket), cream-coloured pages. 68 pp. The first book of verse by an Australian-born poet (who was of convict descent) to be published in the colony. This facsimile edition makes it available again for the first time since the original edition of 1826, and contains an introductory essay about Tompson's life and commentary on the poems. ISBN: 0424065606.

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Book number: 25260

Catalogue: australian history

Keywords: australian history, literature, poetry 0424065606

WILKES, CHARLES MORGAN, WILLIAM JAMES EDITOR

Autobiography of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes, U.S. Navy 1798-1877

Washington,DC, Department Of The Navy. 1978, First Edition. Hard Cover Cloth. Near fine, no dj as issued. Clean and tight. May require additional postage. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued.

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Book number: 019180

Catalogue: US Navy History

WILKES, ABRAHAM S. & PARDON, CHARLES F.

How to Play Solo Whist. Its methods and principles .. practice demonstrated .. comprehensive code of laws.

London, Chatto & Windus 1888. Octavo publisher's cloth with a paper 10 of hearts mounted; illustrative hands in red & black. A used copy.
¶ With the inscription of J. Whiteford 1889 and the liberal use (I count 14) of his large and rather fabulous circular stamp: Whiteford & Berry Tobacconists and Turf Commission Agents Opposite Metropolitan Hotel .. Castlereagh Street, Sydney around a vignette of a horse race. It's easy to envisage this being kept to hand to rule on any disputes in the endless game playing up the back of the shop while waiting for the race results to come in. I'm surprised that it hasn't a hole punched through it so it could be strung to the wall.

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Book number: 8811

Keywords: social history games pastimes c19th England Australia association cards

WILKES, CHARLES, RICHARD E. MOORE, EDITOR

Life in Oregon Country Before the Emigration

Ashland, Oregon Book Society, 1974. Limited edition. Original tan cloth with gilt illustration on front board; quarto (7.25 x 11 inches); 83 pages. Black & white illustrations throughout. A fine copy, entirely clean and unworn Exerpted from Wilke's "Narrative.

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Book number: 17503

Catalogue: California and the West

WILKES, CHARLES.

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Vol. Iii.

Suva. Fiji Museum. 1985. Soft Cover, 4to. Reprint of Volume 3 of the 5 volume 1845 Lea & Blanchard set. This volume narrates the expedition's activities on Tonga (40pp), Fiji (320pp), and Hawaii (25pp. on Honolulu). 438pp. Reprint. Good.

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Book number: BBP-10165

Catalogue: PACIFIC

Keywords: Exploration; Fiji; Hawaii, History; Tonga;

WILKES, CHARLES.

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. [5 Vols. ]

Upper Saddle River, NJ. Gregg Press. 1970. (ISBN: 0839821697) . Very good. Five volumes. Facsimile reprint of 1845 Philadelphia edition. Maps, profusely illustrated. Illus. tan cloth covers. Wilkes was in command the 1838-42 expedition which circumnavigated the globe while collecting a wealth of information. Departing from England, numerous stops in the South Seas included visits to Samoa, Sydney, Tonga, Fiji, Hawaii. This is the complete record of the journey. 2,445pp. Index. Reprint. Very Good.

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Book number: BBP-07017

Catalogue: PACIFIC

Keywords: Exploration; 0839821697

WILKES, CHARLES.

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842; Volume I.

Philadelphia:, Lea & Blanchard,, 1845. Hardcover. Good. early reprint full brown calf, 434 pages (8 engraved plates, 2 fold-out maps, 2 fold-out charts). Spine leather darkened & brittle, spine labels missing, boards scuffed & lightly soiled, foxing in text, pages 343-345 damaged affecting some text. This vol. only (of 5). This vol. only (of 5).

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Book number: 218072

Catalogue: SOUTH AMERICA

WILKES. CHARLES.

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. - Ellice's and Kingsmill Group

London, 1995. 61pp. A4. Facsimile reprint of the 1845 publication. Illus. Softcover. Early detailed account of the Gilbert & Ellice islands.

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Book number: 105878

Keywords: Ellice Gilbert Islands Reprint Pacific Exploration

WILKES. CHARLES.

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842

London, Ingram, Cooke, and Co. 1852. 2 vols. 8vo. 318 + 326pp. Numerous illustrations. Original cloth binding. Clean copies.

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Book number: 158410

Keywords: Pacific Fiji Gilbert Islands Samoa Tonga Tahiti Hawaii

WILKES, CHARLES.

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838. . . 1842. [Extracts on Gilbert & Ellice Islands].

Corners bumped, o/w good. Comb-bound 4to. This is an unattributed facsimile reprint of chapters II and III of the 1845 Lea & Blanchard publication. These chapters deal with travels in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. Wilkes was in command the 1838-42 expedition which circumnavigated the globe while collecting a wealth of information. pp37-110. B/w illus. Good.

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Book number: BBP-12073

Catalogue: PACIFIC

Keywords: Ellice Islands; Exploration; Gilbert Islands;

WILKES, CHARLES.

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. 5 Volumes.

Philadelphia. Lea and Blanchard. 1845. Hard Cover. Ex-lib, foxed, covers worn, good. Cloth 8vo. This smaller octavo edition differs from the imperial octavo 1st edition in quality and size of the paper, the substitution of 47 woodcuts for that number of steel vignettes in the other, the omission of 64 plates and the use of 10 of the 14 maps. The text is identical. Wilkes was in command of the 1838-42 expedition which circumnavigated the globe while collecting a wealth of information. Departing from England, numerous stops in the South Seas included visits to Samoa, Sydney, Tonga, Fiji, Hawaii. This is the complete record of the journey. 2,445pp. Index. Maps, profusely illus. 2nd ed.

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Book number: BBP-08305

Catalogue: PACIFIC

Keywords: Exploration;

WILKES, CHARLES

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842

Philadelphia, Lea and Blanchard. 1845, later printing. (Hardcover set) Very good. lviii, 434, xii, 476, xii, 438, xiv, 542, xii, 558pp. Issued in 5 volumes in the smaller format (23.5x15cm) and without the atlas. This set is bound in full calf with leather spine labels. 10 folding maps and 2 folding tables, woodcut illustrations, complete crew list, appendices, index. This is a tight and generally clean set with some occasional spotting and browning on the pages, there are no tears on the maps. The inner hinges have been expertly repaired with rice paper and the spines have also been reinforced with rice paper (unfortunately the binder didn't get a good match on the coloring and thus the repairs are obvious). Digital photo available. "The Wilkes Expedition played a major role in development of 19th-century science, particularly in the growth of the U.S. Scientific establishment. Many of the species and other items found by the expedition helped formed the basis of collections at the new Smithsonian Institution. With the help of the expedition's scientists, derisively called "clam diggers" and "bug catchers" by navy crewmembers, 280 islands (mostly in the Pacific Ocean) were explored, and over 800 miles of Oregon were mapped. Of no less importance, over 60,000 plant and bird specimens were collected. A staggering amount of data and specimens were collected during the expedition, including the seeds of 648 species, which were later traded, planted, and sent throughout the country. Dried specimens were sent to the National Herbarium, now a part of the Smithsonian Institution. There were also 254 live plants, which mostly came from the home stretch of the journey, that were placed in a newly constructed greenhouse in 1850, which later became the United States Botanic Garden." Wikipedia. Locale: Antarctic; Australia; California; Hawaii; New Zealand; Pacific Ocean.

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Book number: 130747

Catalogue: Travel and Adventure

Keywords: Antarctica, Exploration, U.S. S. Flying Fish, U.S. S. Oregon, U.S. S. Peacock, U.S. S. Porpoise, U.S. S. Relief, U.S. S. Sea Gull, United States Exploring Expedition 1838-1842, U.S. S. Vincennes, Voyages and Travels, Wilkes Expedition

WILKES, CHARLES.

Narrative of the United States' Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838. . . 1842. Condensed and Abridged.

London. Whittaker and Co.. Green clth 8vo. Condition: Professionally rebacked, new endpapers, cover wear, good.Text in two columns. (Haskell, US Exploring Expedition and its Publications, pg 41). vi, 372pp. Index.

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Book number: BBP-08916

Catalogue: PACIFIC

Keywords: Exploration;

WILKES. CHARLES.

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. - Tokelau

1845. 32pp. A4. 2 illus. Facsimile reprint (1999) of the chapter on the Tokelau Islands from the 1845 publication. Illus. Softcover. Early detailed account of Tokelau.

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Book number: 124576

Keywords: Tokelau Is Islands Reprint

WILKES. CHARLES.

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. - Singapore

1845. 40pp. A4. Facsimile reprint (1999) of the chapter on Singapore from the 1845 publication. Illus. Softcover. Early detailed account of Singapore.

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Book number: 124557

Keywords: Singapore Reprint

WILKES, CHARLES.

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842.

Philadelphia 1849. Vol. 2 (of 5). 4to. XV, 476pp. With engr. frontispiece, 13 engr. plates, 3 engr. maps and numerous text-illustrations Orig. full calf, 2 labels, gilt, with gilt-stamped vignette to front cover. Edges rubbed. Some browning and foxing throughout else a very good copy.

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Book number: 19764AB

Keywords: Australien; englisch; Neuseeland; Pazifik; Samoa; Tahiti

WILKES, CHARLES

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842

London, Ingram, Cooke & Co, 1852. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in full brown leather . Volumes I and II bound together. Pages clean; binding tight; slight wear to leather at board corners & spine joints. Bound in full light brown calf; raised bands on spine, with gilt decoration & leather title label; gilt rules on boards; end papers & page fore-edge marbled..

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Book number: BOOKS141448I

WILKES. CHARLES.

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842

Papakura. New Zealand, R McMillan. 1986. 372pp. d.j. Facsimile reprint of the 1845 abridged London edition of Wilkes narrative. "containing the pith and marrow of the original work at one sixteenth the cost. Mint.

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Book number: 105804

Keywords: Pacific Exploration

WILKES. CHARLES.

Singapore.

London. . 40pp. A4. Card wrappers. Spiral bound Laser facsimile (1996) reprint of the 1845 chapter of the Narrative of The united States Exploring Expedition with a detailed description of Singapore in 1842.

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Book number: 104781

Keywords: Singapore Reprint

WILKES, CHARLES, COMMANDER OF THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION OF THE U.S.

"Southern Continent -- Capt. Wilkes' Official Despatch" in the Albion (August 1, 1840)

New York, The Albion, 1840, First Edition. Disbound , Fine, Complete, original disbound issue in near fine condition with minor wear.

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Book number: b18522