BONWICK, JAMES (1817-1906) .

Climate And Health In Australasia : To which is added a chapter on the land laws of the Colony. Edited by James Bonwick : Queensland; Western Australia; Southern Australia; New Zealand; Victoria; Tasmania; New South Wales

London: Street & Co, 30, Cornhill and Street Brothers, 5, Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn, 1886 . 0. A complete guide to Australasia! 7 sections bound together. Each with a preface and folded coloured map. 8vo. 7.0" x 5.0" x 1.25". Later quarter calf binding. Olld buckram boards with later brown leather spine and black leather title label. Later endpapers. Library stamp to front free endpaper and first title-page: "British Medical Association Library". Clean text and maps throughout. VG. - pp.viii/pp.71/pp.vii/pp.46/pp.viii/pp.59/pp.viii/pp.78/pp.viii/pp.81/pp.vii/pp.40/pp.viii/pp.84 . Each section with a folding coloured map - 7 maps! ** "James Bonwick (8 July 1817 – 6 February 1906) was an English-born Australian historical and educational writer.. Bonwick's initial works drew on his experience as a teacher and later of the Victorian gold diggings. He extended his repertoire, focusing on the history of Colonial Australia and religious subjects. Some of Bonwick's more important volumes were John Batman (1867); The Last of the Tasmanians, Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians, and Curious Facts of Old Colonial Days, all of which were published in 1870; Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought (1878), First Twenty Years of Australia (1882), Port Phillip Settlement (1883), Romance of the Wool Trade (1887) and Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions (1894).." - See Wikipedia .

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Boeknummer: 47446

Catalogus: Travel: : 19th Century

Trefwoorden: 48925 Street & Co, 30, Cornhill and Street Brothers Queensland; Western Australia; Southern Australia; New Zealand; Victoria; Tasmania; New South Wales Street & Co. Street Brothers Bonwick, James Travel: : 19th Century

HISSEY, JAMES JOHN .

A Drive Through England Or A Thousand Miles of Road Travel By James John Hissey, With Twenty Full-page Illustrations By The Author .

London: Richard Bentley & Son, New Burlington Street, 1885 . 0. A very good original illustrated cloth binding. 8vo. pp.xiv.[2pp.]/pp.391. Brown cloth boards. Front board with an illustration of a cart and horses at a crossroads. Gilt titles to spine, Corners and edges bumped. Dark green endpapers. Light spotting to free-endpapers and backs of illustrations, otherwise clean text and illustrations throughout. VG.

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Boeknummer: 50651

Catalogus: Travel: : 19th Century

Trefwoorden: 52127 Richard Bentley & Son Hissey, James John on the Box Seat from London to Land's End / Through Ten English Counties / a Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern Counties Travel: : 19th Century

HISSEY, JAMES JOHN .

On The Box Seat From London to Land's End / Through Ten English Counties / A Tour In A Phaeton Through the Eastern Counties.

London: Richard Bentley & Son, New Burlington Street, 1886, 1894, 1889 . 0. A very good three volume set in matching half leather bindings. 8vo. Polished tan calf spine and corners over brown buckram boards. Edges lightly rubbed. Each spine with 5 raised bands, bright gilt decorated compartments and contrasting title and volume numbers. Marbled endpapers. Clean text and illustrations throughout. VG. Vol. 1 : On The Box Seat From London to Land's End. pp.xviii/pp.404 + 18 illustrations; Vol. 2 : Through Ten English Counties. pp.xiv/[2pp.]/pp. + 16 illustrations + folding map; Vol. 3 : A Tour In A Phaeton Through the Eastern Counties. pp.xiv/[2pp.]/pp.403 + 19 illustrations + folding map (foxed) .

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Boeknummer: 50461

Catalogus: Travel: : 19th Century

Trefwoorden: Richard Bentley & Son Hissey, James John on the Box Seat from London to Land's End / Through Ten English Counties / a Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern Counties Travel: : 19th Century

MANSFIELD, ROBERT BLACHFORD (1824-1908) .

The Log Of The Water Lily (Thames Gig), During Two Cruises, In The Summers Of 1851-52, On The Rhine, Neckar, Main, Moselle, Danube, And other Streams of Germany. By Robert Blachford Mansfield And Illustrated By Alfred Thompson.

London: Nathaniel Cooke, Milford House, Strand, 1854 . 0. "Second Edition Revised and Enlarged." Well bound in half leather. 8vo. 7.5" x 5.0" x 0.25". pp.124. Dark green calf covered spine and corners over marbled boards. Edges rubbed and bumped. Smooth spine with black leather title label (chipped) and gilt number to base:'5366'. Large armorial bookplate to the verso of the front board: "Royal Artillery Regimental Library". Clean text throughout well illustrated with 14 woodcuts. Very Victorian! - "..Great was the astonishment of the worthy Mannheimers, at seeing five Englishmen clad in grey flannel trousers, white ditto shirts, and white felt hats with capacious brims, preparing to insert themselves into an elongated walnut-shell.." ** "MANSFIELD, ROBERT BLACHFORD (1824–1908), author and oarsman, born at Rowner, Hampshire, on 1 Feb. 1824, was second son of John Mansfield, rector of Rowner, and younger brother of Charles Blachford Mansfield. His mother was Winifred, eldest daughter of Robert Pope Blachford, of Osborne House, Isle of Wight. After attending preparatory schools at Romsey and Guildford, he was admitted to the foundation of Winchester College in 1835, the first year of Dr. Moberly's headmastership. There he spent five years, of which he wrote later a lively accoimt, but he never rose above the status of a fag. Two private tutors, one of whom was William Henry Havergal, prepared him for Oxford, where he matriculated as a commoner at University College in 1842, graduating B.A. in 1846. Admitted student of Lincoln's Inn in 1845, he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1849, and joined the western circuit, but never practised seriously. Mansfield long lived a roving life, in Scotland and on the Continent. An excellent shot, he visited the moors of Scotland almost every year from 1843 to 1859, and was one of the first Englishmen to take up golf, which he first learned at Pau in 1857, and afterwards introduced at Southampton, Malvern, Winchester, and Brighton. But his fame rests on his prowess with the oar. Coached by a more famous oarsman, F. N. Menzies, in his freshman's year (1842-3), he helped to raise his college boat to the head of the river. He also rowed in 1843, as a temporary substitute, in the Oxford crew that afterwards with seven oars beat Cambridge at Henley. In the following year (1844) he broke down when in training for the university race. The pioneer of English rowing on the rivers of Germany, he recorded his achievements in two books, which, first published anonymously, passed through many editions : 'The Log of the Water-Lily (four-oared Thames gig), during a Rowing Excursion on the Rhine and other Streams of Germany. By an Oxford Man and a Wykehamist' (1851 ; 2nd ed. 1854) ; and 'The Water-Lily on the Danube, being a Brief Account of the Perils of a Pair Oar, during a voyage from Lambeth to Pesth. Illustrated by one of the Crew' (1852). A third trip down the Saone and Rhone in France was less successful. He described his companions on these expeditions in 'New and Old Chips from an Old Block' (1896), a little volume of good autobiographical gossip. The record of another portion of his life is contained in 'School Life at Winchester College, or the Reminiscences of a Winchester Junior, with a Glossary of Words, &c, peculiar to the College' (1866), of which a third edition appeared on the occasion of the quingentenary celebration (1893). He also edited a posthumous work by his brother Charles on 'Aerial Navigation' (1877), and 'Letters from the Camp before Sebastopol' by Col. C. F. Campbell (1894), a dearly loved cousin, whom he visited in the Crimea at the close of the war. Late in life he finally settled down in London, becoming a member of the vestry and guardian for St. George's, Hanover Square. Mansfield died at Linden House, Headington, on 29 April 1908. He married on 29 July 1858, at the British embassy, Brussels, Sophie, daughter of Lieut.-colonel L'Estrange of Moystown, King's Co, Ireland, by whom he had two daughters." - See The Times, 19 May 1908.

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Boeknummer: 43654

Catalogus: Travel: : 19th Century

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OSBORN, SHERARD (1822-1875) .

Quedah, A Cruise in Japanese Waters & The Fight on the Peiho. By Captain Sherard Osborn, C.B. Royal Navy .

Edinburgh And London : William Blackwood And Sons, MDCCCLXV [ 1865 ] . 0. New Edition. A very good tight binding. 8vo. 7.25" x 5.0" x 1.75" . pp.xvi./pp.283/[3pp.]/pp.287-535 . Maroon cloth over bevelled boards. Spine with gilt titles. Hinges carefully strengthened. Original dark green endpapers. Small lable to recto of rear board: "Bound By Burn 37 & 38 Kirby St.". 'Contents" and Half-title inserted after title-page. Clean text and illustrations. Second half title inserted after p.283 - "A Cruise In Japanese Waters". Third half title inserted after p.485 - "The Fight On The Peiho In 1859". With one folding map: "Map Of The Straits Of Malacca..". carefully repaired without loss. VG. N.B.: Also issued as Vol.III of the author's Narratives of voyage and adventure, with the same imprint (see extra title leaf at end). N.B.B.: The first and second works were originally published in 1857 and 1859 respectively; the third first appeared in 'Blackwood's Magazine' (1860?).

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Boeknummer: 50686

Catalogus: Travel: : 19th Century

Trefwoorden: 52152 Burn & Co. , Kirby St William Blackwood and Sons Captain Sir John Franklin by Captain Sherard Osborn Travel: : 19th Century