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Captainens vid engelske ammiralitetet William Bligh's resa i Söderhafvet åren 1788, 1789, 1790. Hans half-årige vistande på ön O-Taheiti och hemresa från ön Timor till England. Part I. (all published). Nyköping, Joh. Pet. Hammarin, 1795.
. Pp. xvi, 220. Modern boards, title label on spine. A Swedish version of Bligh's famous "Voyage to the South Sea", anonymously translated by Carl Fr. Landell from the German edition (Berlin 1793), including the Forster introduction. The main purpose of the expedition was to introduce the breadfruit plant from the South Sea Islands to the West Indies. Rare. Du Rietz, Bibliotheca Polynesiana 96. Ferguson 216. Cf Howgego B107. Kroepelien 96. Not in Hill.
Charlotte Du Rietz Rare BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 44010
€ 1200.00 [Appr.: US$ 1357.61 | £UK 1020 | JP¥ 197091]
Catalogue: Oceania incl. Pacific
Keywords: Oceania incl. Pacific, pacific, travel, exploration, tahiti, south sea, voyage
Copy of Lease & Release for the Sale of Properties.
Sudbury: 21st July, 1768 . 0. Copy of Lease & Release for the Sale of Properties by Solomon Henry, New Basinghall St, London, to Samuel Moulton the elder, Sudbury, Lath River. The properties located in Cornard End, Cornard Street Sudbury, Suffolk. Tenants: John Murrels, James Webb, William Parish and Shadrick Brown. 5 sheets paper - watermarked 1806 - signed by Jno. Adolphus, H. Brockard, Fulham.
Chilton BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 39108
GBP 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 94.25 US$ 106.5 | JP¥ 15462]
Catalogue: Documents: : 18th Century
Keywords: Sudbury Jno Adolphus Cecil Street Solomon Henry Samuel Moulton John Murrels James Webb William Parish Shadrick Brown Cornard Suffolk Documents: : 18th Century
Fox and Pitt's Speeches in the House of Commons, on Tuesday, June 8, 1784. These speeches (which are an abridgement of all the arguments of both parties, upon (the business of the Westminster scrutiny, and contain the accusation of government by the former, and the defence of it by the latter leader ) are preceded by a brief impartial detail of the progress and proceedings in this affair, from the close of the poll to the determination of the House of Commons, comprehending in the whole a body of information, which will enable the plainest understanding to form a decisive opinion upon a question of the very first moment to every citizen of this country.
London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1784. First edition, 8vo, [4], vii, [1], 160pp., with half-title, disbound.
Forest BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 38404
GBP 48.38 [Appr.: EURO 57 US$ 64.41 | JP¥ 9351]
Keywords: POLITICS HISTORY HOUSE OF COMMONS
The History and Antiquities of Tewkesbury, From the Earliest Periods to the Present Time: Collected from Ancient Records and Other Authentic Materials: Tow Which is Added Some Account of the Medicinal Water near Tewkesbury.
Tewkesbury: Printed and Sold by Dyde and Son, 1790. First edition, 8vo (185 x 120 mm), 3 parts in one, [2], vi, [8, list of subscribers], 32, 29*-32*, 33-131, [1], iv, [5]-30, [2], 19, [1]pp., with half-title, folding engraved frontispiece (spotted and offset onto title), 2 engraved plates, one folding list of inscriptions in the church yard, cont. half calf, marbled boards, corners rubbed, head and foot of spine chipped. 'Some account of the medicinal water, near Tewkesbury' with separate title page, pagination and register, includes another part: 'Thoughts on the function and diseases of the lymphatic glands' by by James Johnstone, with a separate half title, register and pagination. Provenance: Maggs Bros. pencil not to front paste-down 'Ex Sir Thomas Phillipps Library', with Sir Thomas' Ms. press-mark in pencil to front free-endpaper.
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GBP 107.50 [Appr.: EURO 126.75 US$ 143.12 | JP¥ 20777]
Keywords: ENGLISH TOPOGRAPHY GLOUCESTERSHIRE TEWKESBURY
Pedigrees of the family of James of Culgarth, West Auckland, and Barrock, and their kinsfolk : Corrected as far as possible up to June 1913 [3 volumes].
Exeter: William Pollard & co, 1913-1914. Privately printed for confidential and family use : three hardback volumes. 4to (32cm by 26cm), with text and numerous folding pedigrees. Uniformly bound in the original half white vellum, grey boards, gilt titling to the spines. The bindings are rubbed and dusty, and there is some light scattered foxing of the contents, but the bindings are tight and this is a good, solid set overall. Volume 1 (the main volume) is 10cm thick, and contains 40 folding pedigrees. It als has the inscription of W A James of 22 Norfolk Square (dated 2 Dec 1913). The other two volumes are supplements. The first is entitled "Extracts from the Pedigrees of James of Barrock", and 10 folding pedigrees, with amplifying text pages. This volume has the bookplate of W Ashton James, and has a few pages of manuscript additions at the back of the book. The second supplementary volume was published in 1914, and is entitled "Additions and Corrections to the Pedigrees of James of Culgarth, West Auckland and Barrock, and their kinsfolk". It contains 35 pages of text and two folding pedigrees. Bound in at the back of the second supplement is a further pedigree, of the Graham branch of the family, dated 1917. An important and extremely scarce family history monograph.
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GBP 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 353.25 US$ 399.39 | JP¥ 57982]
Catalogue: 3
Report to the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education on the Action of Light on Water Colours.
London: H.M.S.O. 1888. First and only edition, large 8vo, [2], 77, [1]pp., 14 lithograph plates, diagrams in the text, orig. blue printed wrappers, some light chipping. This significant and important work which explores how light affects watercolour pigments. The report highlighted the impact of continuous exposure to daylight on watercolours exhibited in museums, at the time The National Gallery in London faced controversy over keeping watercolours on display during the day, with some watercolours were practically ruined by prolonged exposure.
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GBP 209.63 [Appr.: EURO 246.75 US$ 279.08 | JP¥ 40516]
Keywords: COLOUR THEORY WATERCOLOURS APPLIED ARTS
Sudbury - Attested copy of Lease for a year.
29th August, 1768 . 0. 1768 - Attested copy of Lease for one year. Between Henry & Thomas Rogerson of Swithins Lane, London, Watchmaker and Thomas Greive, Swithins Lane, London, Gentleman The properties located in Cornard End Street, Sudbury, Suffolk. Tenants: ? Haskell; William Archer, Christopher Bourney; John Berry; ? Godwin; and ? Sherman. Also, messuage in Great Wallingfield, occupied by James Sparkes. 3+ sides watermarked paper + cover sheet. Copy made 1794 - signed by Jno Adolphus, Cecil Street, Strand & Edmd Adolphus clerk to John Adolphus.
Chilton BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 39106
GBP 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 70.75 US$ 79.88 | JP¥ 11596]
Catalogue: Documents: : 18th Century
Keywords: Sudbury Waldingfield Wallingfield Jno Adolphus Cecil Street Thomas Greive Solomon Henry, Samuel Haskell; Samuel Smith; Christopher Bourney; John Berry; Thomas Godwin; and William Sherman James Sparks Documents: : 18th Century
Sudbury - Attested copy of Lease for one year.
21st July, 1768 . 0. 1768 - Attested copy of Lease for one year. By Thomas Greive, Swithins Lane, London, Gentleman and Solomon Henry, Swithins Lane, London, Merchant. The properties located in Cornard End Street, Sudbury, Suffolk. Tenants: Samuel Haskell; Samuel Smith; Christopher Bourney; John Berry; Thomas Godwin; and William Sherman. Also, messuage in Great Wallingfield, occupied by James Sparks. 2+ sides watermarked paper + cover sheet. Copy made 1794 - signed by Jno Adolphus, Cecil Street, Strand & Edmd Adolphus clerk to John Adolphus.
Chilton BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 39115
GBP 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 70.75 US$ 79.88 | JP¥ 11596]
Catalogue: Suffolk: : Documents
Keywords: Sudbury Waldingfield Wallingfield Jno Adolphus Cecil Street Thomas Greive Solomon Henry, Samuel Haskell; Samuel Smith; Christopher Bourney; John Berry; Thomas Godwin; and William Sherman James Sparks Suffolk: : Documents
Sky Aces: April, Apr. 1940
NY, Magazine Publishers. 1940. SingleIssueMagazine. Vol. 3, no. 1. Pulp magazine. Cover art is uncredited. Includes "A Squadron Shall Perish!" by Cliff Howe; "Flares of Treachery" by Robert S. Fenton; "Vultures' Nest" by John F. Gault; "Ace for a Day" by Ralph Powers; "Death Drops the Joystick" (novelet) by Arch Whitehouse; "The Vanishing Staffel" by David C. Cooks; "Orders to Hell" by James Brown; "Flight by Night" by William Fuller; "He Wanted to Fight" by Stewart Powell; "On Desperate Wings" by Maj. G. F. Eliot. Illustratied by A. McWilliams and others. Spine covering is bug-nibbled, but holding; stress; mild tanning. Covers are nice. Very Good-.
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USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 31 | £UK 26.5 | JP¥ 5081]
Catalogue: Adventure Pulps
Keywords: Air War Pulps, Pulp Action Adventure Air Pulps War Pulps
Singular Europe economy and polity of the European Community after 1992.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Dustjacket. Paperback. x,388 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Singular Europe is an exceptionally authoritative survey of current developments in the European Community which also looks ahead to Europe after 1992. It covers key sectors of the European economy as well as social and political prospects. The authors have been well chosen, so that the book combines the insight of experts from Europe with the advantages of a perspective from leading U.S. specialists. It provides a valuable framework for analysis of many of the issues confronting Europe after 1992. ISBN 9780472095049.
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Catalogue: European law
Keywords: RECHT, European law
Adventure: June 1940
NY, Popular Publications. 1940. SingleIssueMagazine. Vol. 103, No. 2. Pulp magazine. Cover art by Stockton Mulford for "Blood and Steel" (novelette) by Gordon MacCreagh. Includes "Spy of the North" (pt. 1 of 4) by Luke Short; "J. Smith, His Mark" by H. Bedford-Jones; "Stick 'Em Up!" (fact story) by William MacLeod Raine; "The Roman Way" by Robert Addison Nichols; "Rickshaw Passenger" by Donald W. James; "Old Man Kangaroo" by Louis Kaye; "Guns of Glory" (fact story) by Charles E. Chapel. Features: "The Camp-Fire"; "Ask Adventure"; "Trail Ahead"; "Lost Trails." Illustrated by Hamilton Greene, I. B. Hazelton, Peter Kuhlhoff, and others. Rear cover glued on at hinge; tanning; edge chipped with standard short tears; minor losses here and there; dealer's marks, mostly erased. Very Good-.
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Catalogue: Pulps
Keywords: Adventure Pulps War Historical Fiction Pulp Adventure Pulps
Adventure: December, Dec. 1, 1932 ("the Broad Arrow")
NY, Butterick Publishing. 1932. SingleIssueMagazine. Vol. LXXXIV, No. 6. Pulp magazine. Edited by A. A. Proctor. Cover by Hubert Rogers. Includes "By Command Of" by Ared White; "Farmlocked" (poem) by Bert Cooksley; "So-so Krooboy Palaver" by Robert Simpson; "The Broad Arrow" (pt. VII) by William MacLeod Raine; "There Were Giants in Those Days" (dinosaurs) by Paul Annixter; "My First Russian Bear" (article) by Boris N. Kamyshansky; "Banana Herder" by L. G. Blochman; "Loot" (article) by James W. Bennett; "The Mister" by Walt Coburn; "Scalawag" (pt. 1) by Gordon Young. Features: "The Camp-Fire"; "Ask Adventure"; "Trial Ahead." Illustrated by V. E. Pyles. Small mark on contents page; edgewear; tanning. A very nice copy. Near Fine.
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Catalogue: Pulps
Keywords: Adventure Pulps War Historical Fiction Pulp Adventure Pulps
Adventure: November, Nov. 1, 1932 ("the Broad Arrow")
NY, Butterick Publishing. 1932. SingleIssueMagazine. Vol. LXXXIV, No. 4. Pulp magazine. Edited by A. A. Proctor. Cover by Gerard C. Delano. Includes "The Softening Influence" by Donald Barr Chidsey; "Salt" (poem) by Seymour G. Link; "The Cablegram" by T. S. Stribling; "White River Bridge" by William Edward Hayes; "Loyalties" (article) by James W. Bennett; "The Broad Arrow" (pt. V) by William McLeod Raine; "The Up and Up" by Thomson Burtis; "Notes from a Niger Trading Station" by T. Samson Miller; "Bagged on the Barrens" by Stephen Allen Reynolds; "The Ghost Rider" (pt. III) by W. C. Tuttle. Features: "The Camp-Fire"; "Ask Adventure"; "Trial Ahead." Illustrated by Harry Townsend. Tanned; creasing; minor wet damage at upper front edge (see scan); mark on cover in pencil; rubbing; stress cracks; short tear at heel; checkmarks in pencil on contents page. Good to Very Good-.
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Catalogue: Pulps
Keywords: Adventure Pulps War Historical Fiction Pulp Adventure Pulps
Adventure: August, Aug. 1947
NY, Popular Publications. 1947. SingleIssueMagazine. Vol. 117, No. 4. Pulp magazine. Edited by Kenneth S. White. Cover art by Peter Stevens. Includes "Stand By Your Guns" (novelette) by R. W. Daly; "Flight from Nome" (novelette) by Frank Richardson Pierce; "A Pig in the Paddock" by Giles A. Lutz; "Old Bunyoyo's Bones" by Alexander Wallace; "A Dingo for Delilah" by Jules Archer; "Hungar McPholly's Ghost" by William Warner Graham; "Charley Hoe Handle vs. Man's Best Friend" by Jim Kjelgaard; "He Who Rides the Tiger" (pt. 3 of 5) by James Norman. Fact Stories: "Death and a Pair of Shoes" by Ray Mackland; "Keels for the Klondike" by Carl Horn. Departments: "The Camp-Fire"; "Ask Adventure"; "Ask Adventure Experts"; "Lost Trails"; "The Trail Ahead." Illustrated by V. E. Pyles, John Meola, Hamilton Greene, Frank Kramer, Harry Burne, Joseph A. Farren, Peter Kuhlhoff, and L. Sterne Stevens. Standard wear and tear at edges; tanned; hinges cracking early with first page half loose; stape at spine head. Good to Very Good-.
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Catalogue: Pulps
Keywords: Adventure Pulps War Historical Fiction Pulp Adventure Pulps
Adventure: June 1948
NY, Popular Publications. 1948. Single Issue Magazine. Vol. 119, No. 2. Pulp magazine. Edited by Kenneth S. White. Cover art by Peter Stevens. Includes "Jackal Song" (novelette) by James Atlee Phillips; "Ooyoo and the Chuckchis" (novelette) by R. D. Hamilton; "Day of Reckoning" by William Arthur Breyfogle; "Obadiah Interprets the Word" by William Warner Graham; "A Motto for the Skipper" by Steve Hail; "The Saint in the Saddle" (pt. 1 of 2) by Dee Linford; "Ghost-Gold Mine" (conclusion) by Steve Frazee; "Eagle's Dust" (Fact Story) by Georges Surdez. Departments: "The Camp-Fire"; "Ask Adventure"; "Ask Adventure Experts"; "Lost Trails"; "The Trail Ahead". Illustrated by Nick Eggenhofer, Monroe Eisenberg, Roger L. Thomas, Joseph A. Farren, Frank Kramer, Gerald McCann, L. Stern Stevens, and V. E. Pyles. Creasing; edge scuffs, nicks and wear with minor adhesions to front hinge; minor stains. Good to Very Good-.
Books from the cryptProfessional sellerBook number: PS540
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Catalogue: Pulps
Keywords: Adventure Pulps War Historical Fiction Pulp Adventure Pulps
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