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Publication Date: 2022
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1800 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 512 Language: German Pages: 512.
Published by J. & J. Harper, New York, 1833
Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. J. & J. Harper, New-York, 1833. 296, 333 and 379 pages, publisher advertisements. Folding map, engravings. 6.5 x 4", printed publisher's cloth (Stereotype Edition, 1835). Fraying along 1 spine edge, covers rubbed, foxed, G.
Published by A. Appleton and Company, New York, NY, 1892
Seller: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited edition, 1892, this copy #20/1000. Tightly bound in three-quarters blue leather with marbled paper-covered boards and gold tooled titles and imagery. Rubbing to all edges and to surface of boards, remains Very Good. The contents are clean and unmarked with slight age-toning to margins only. A nice copy.
Published by Liberty Magazine (Canada) Limited, Toronto, 1946
Book First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Good. Schmidt, O.F.; Van Swearingen; Holbrooke, Pat; Dodd, Howell; Heitland, W. Emerton; Don Lou; Allen, James; Kinley, Fred (illustrator). First Edition. 50 pages. Features: Back of Russia's Poker Face; Opera on the Upbeat; Actor on the Diplomatic Stage - Douglas Fairbanks; Profile of Arthur MacNamara. Fiction: Retreaded Wolf; The Old Stand; The Professor Plans a Haul; Watt Holly and teh City Lady. Part 2 of condensed book "The Birthday Murder". Two-page Thropp Family comic by Lawrence Lariar. Ads: Colour ad for Carling's Breweries features pheasant conservation; Vintage one-page ad for the MGM movie "Adventure" with illustration of Clark Gable and Greer Garson; Hinds for Hands; Elizabeth Arden; YWCA (inside back cover); Colour Coke ad on back cover features illustration of four young well-dressed people preparing snacks and music in someone's home. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy.
Published by T. Chapman (London,1799) (first edition), 1799
10.5" x 8", pp [12 prelims} 1 - 6, 1 - 396 (last blank) plus 7p. list of subscribers' names, with 7 maps (some folding) and 6 plates, very good condition, rebound in later tan buckram, gilt title to spine, new eps. 1799 first edition, very good + condition.
Published by London: Printed by S. Gosnell, for T. Chapman, No.151, Fleet Street,, 1799
Seller: Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom
First edition, also called the fine paper, large-paper edition, or Gosnell edition. Quarto. (31.5 x 25.5cm). pp. [12],c,420,[12]. With 7 maps, 6 of which folding (a couple with small tears on folds, but no loss) & 7 plates. The maps with some light foxing, the plates likewise & some damp-staining, but the text clean & fresh. A tall untrimmed copy smartly bound in modern 1/4 morocco with raised bands & label. VG. [Kroepelien 528; Ferguson 301; Cox II, 307; Petherick 2677; NMM I, 632; Howgego W42; De Moraes 943; Hill 1894; Taylor 170; O'Reilly & Reitman 674; Sabin 49480].
Published by Printed by S. Gosnell for T. Chapman, No. 151, Fleet Street,, London:, 1799
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Thick 4to. 9.5 x 11.2 in. [12], c, 420 pp., plus 12 pp. subscriber's list. With large folding frontisp. map of the South Pacific (expert repairs to closed tear at gutter margin, old repairs to folds, minor soiling), 6 maps (4 folding), 6 engraved plates (2 misbound). Recent brown half-calf over marbled boards, renewed endpapers, raised bands on spine, gilt ruling, black morocco & gilt spine label (minor soot soiling to fore-edges of textblock, occasional dustsoiling to margins of leaves, including title, occasional spotting), still a VG bright copy. First edition of this informative work detailing the first British missionary voyage to the South Pacific upon the HMS Duff, compiled by William Wilson from his own journals, those of Captain Wilson, and of other missionaries on the voyage. The ship under the command of Capt. John Wilson, carried 37 artisans and pastors of the London Missionary Society, and their families who were resettled in the South Pacific on the islands of Tahiti, Tonga, and the Marquesas from 1796-98. During his voyages aboard the Duff, Capt. Wilson discovered the archipelago of Mangareva, which he named Gambier in honor of the British admiral sponsoring the expedition. The mission would prove successful primarily through the efforts of Peter Hagerstein, a Swede who was a deserter from the HMS Daedalus in Captain Vancouver's exploring expedition and by 1797 had become a significant warrior and absorbed into Tahitian society. He was able to explain the political intrigue in Tahiti, interpreted for the missionaries, and also warned them when the Tahitians plotted to attack them. The HMS Duff was captured later in Feb., 1799 by a French privateer making this the last voyage that the ship flew the missionary flag of three doves carrying an olive branch. See: Hill, 1894-95; Cox, II, 307; Ian Campbell, "Gone Native" in Polynesia: Captivity Narratives and Experiences fron the South Pacific, pp. 33-34, 162.
Published by T. Chapman. London, 1799
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition. Quarto. c, 395pp. + [8]pp. list of subscribers. Large folding frontis. map, 5 folding maps and 6 plates. Bound in full contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, retaining original e/ps. Bds. rubbed, sl. marks of worming - long deceased, to front paste-down o/w a very clean and sound copy of this important work which gives an in depth report on Tahiti and Fiji. VG+.
Published by T. Chapman,, 1799
Seller: Tintagel, Springfield Center, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Quarto [ 8 ½ X 10 ¾ inches ], full patterned leather, gilt title and decorations on spine, marbled end papers; c, 375 pages plus 7 pages of subscribers, 7 folding maps, 6 full page plates. In addition to Tahiti, Tonga, and the Marquesas, the work contains accounts of the Fiji Islands, Tongatapu, the Gambier Islands, and the discovery of a new group of islands, named the 'Duff Group', among the Santa Cruz Islands.
Published by T. Chapman, publisher; T. Gillet, printer, Salisbury-Square, c. 1799, 1799
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Edition : Second Edition., Expertly rebacked contemporary full calf preserving mottled calf boards gilt dentelled borders flanked by single and double filleted ruling; spine with five raised bands, compartments with central gilt marine motifs and gilt lettered title on red morocco label on two; all edges uncut. , Captain James Wilson (1760?1814), commanded the British ship Duff, which the London Missionary Society contracted in 1797 to convey a team of missionariesto their posts in Tahiti, Tonga, and the Marquesas Islands. Wilson surveyed locations of numerous islands in the Pacific, including Vanua Balavu, Fulaga and Ogea Levu in Fiji, Mangareva in the Gambier Islands, Pukarua in the Tuamotus, and Satawal, Elato, and Lamotrek, in the Caroline Islands. Three years after the establishment of the British mission in Tahiti, the directors of the Society appointed a committee to consider a suitable memorial for presentation to Wilson for his services in helping to establish the first mission in the South Seas. He published an account of his voyage: A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean in 1799.?This voyage was undertaken by the London Missionary Society for the purpose of establishing a mission in Tahiti. A settlement of twenty-five persons was formed. The king of the Islands befriended them, but they met with continual difficulties from the civil wars, and finally had to flee to Australia, returning, however, in 1815 to Tahiti? [Includes] many valuable details regarding Tahiti, the Fiji Islands, the Marquesas, etc. A new group of islands was found among the Santa Cruslands and named the Duff Group? The account is of extraordinary interest for its fresh and sometimes naïve viewpoint, and for its descriptions of customs passed over by the nautical and geographical explorer.? (Cox II:307). ?Almost certainly two printers were employed by Chapman in order to speed up the job of publishing this quarto. This edition printed by Gillet is sometimes called the second edition; however, the terms ?coarse-paper,? ?small-paper,? or ?laid paper edition? would be more correct. One may refer to them as the Gosnell edition and the Gillet edition. The text in both printings is the same, but the list of subscribers in each is completely different, the Gosnell edition having twelve pages, and the Gillet edition having only seven, which are not alphabetized. A careful study of these lists gives the distinct impression that the Gosnell edition is the earlier and the more expensive volume. As in the Gosnell edition, the Advertisement to this edition also states: ?The body of the journal is the composition of Mr. William Wilson, from the captain?s papers, his own, and the missionaries? reports.?? (Hill 1895) ?The anonymous editor of this book was Dr. Thomas Haweis, one of the founders of the London Missionary Society. The long ?preliminary discourse? was anonymously written by Samuel Greatheed, using the then-unpublished narrative of James Morrison, one of the pardoned ?Bounty? mutineers. Morrison?s manuscript was also the source for the extensive appendix on Tahiti. Indeed, William Wilson and James Morrison may be called co-authors of this book.? (Hill 1894), Size : Large quarto (285x220)., Complete with 13 plates, maps and chart, all detailing the geography and scenery of South Pacific islands. All plates and maps are present but in an order differing from the book?s table of plates. , References : National Maritime Museum I:632; Hill 1894-95; Cox II:307., P: title, bl., dedication (2), Advert., bl., list of prints, bl., contents (4), 1-312, Append. 313-395, bl., subscribers? names (7), bl., preliminary discourse i-lxxxvii, bl., letter of instructions lxxxix-c. A fine and handsome example with plates and text clean and crisp.
Published by S. Gosnell, printer, London, 1799
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the Ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries; and illustrated with maps, charts, and views, drawn by Mr. William Wilson, and engraved by the most eminent artists. With a preliminary discourse on the geography and history of the South Sea islands; and an appendix, including details never before published, of the natural and civil state of Otaheite; by a committee appointed for the purpose by the Directors of the Missionary Society. Published for the benefit of the Society. Pp. [xii]+c+420+[xii](list of subscribers), 6 engraved plates, 7 maps or charts (5 folding, two of which have small closed tears to folds), appendix; med. 4to; rebound in later brown morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt between raised bands, boards with double rule border; later endpapers, upper hinge tender, a little early inked marginalia, some offsetting of plates and charts, a couple of small edge chips or tears, a little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; printed by S. Gosnell, for T. Chapman, London, 1799. First edition. F. 301; Hill, 1894. *Wilson's voyage was financed by the newly formed London Missionary Society and was the first missionary voyage to the South Pacific region. The Duff sailed from London on August 10, 1796, via Rio de Janeiro, arriving in Tahiti after 208 days. Seventeen missionaries disembarked there, with a further twelve at Tonga, and one on the Marquesas. The ship proceeded from Tonga through the Fiji and Caroline islands to Canton, discovering en route a new group of islands, named the Duff Group. Following trouble amongst the natives, three of the missionaries on Tonga were killed, and others had to flee to Sydney (although they returned to Tonga in 1815). Several eventually settled in Australia. According to Hill (second edition, p. 671), 'The anonymous editor of the work was Dr. Thomas Haweis, one of the founders of the London Missionary Society. The long "preliminary discourse" was anonymously written by Samuel Greatheed, using the then-unpublished narrative of James Morrison, one of the pardoned Bounty mutineers. Morrison's manuscript was also the source for the extensive appendix on Tahiti. Indeed, William Wilson and James Morrison may be called co-authors of this book.'.
Published by Printed by S. Gosnell for T. Chapman, London, 1799
Seller: Hordern House Rare Books, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia
Quarto, with six plates and seven maps (most folding); a fine, large and uncut with the list of subscribers; in impressive full black crushed morocco with raised bands and gilt lettering by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. An unusually large copy of the first official account, in a majestic binding by master English craftsmen Sangorski and Sutcliffe. This is the full official account of the first missionary voyage to the South Pacific. The Duff set out for Tahiti in 1796, but visited many island groups, including particularly Tonga and the Marquesas. A new group of islands, the "Duff Group", was discovered among the Santa Cruz Islands. The maps here include a large chart of the Fiji Islands as well as charts of Tongataboo, the Gambier Islands, the Marquesas, Tahiti and the Duff Group; the plates include an engraved view of Rio de Janeiro. Wilson is identified as the author of the main body of the work in the Advertisement, which explains that he put it together from the captain's papers as well as his own, and from the missionaries' reports. The Hill catalogue notes that 'the long "preliminary discourse" was anonymously written by Samuel Greatheed, using the then-unpublished narrative of James Morrison, one of the pardoned Bounty mutineers. Morrison's manuscript was also the source for the extensive appendix on Tahiti. Indeed, William Wilson and James Morrison may be called co-authors of this book.'. According to the map expert Dorothy F. Prescott, 'the Wilson book contained a map that actually used the words "Greater Australia" - taking in Captain Cook's map of the south and east coasts of Van Diemens Land. this map would have influenced Matthew Flinders.'. Flinders is traditionally said to have been the first to use the term "Australia" in a voyage context: the Duff account appeared about fifteen years earlier. There is much of Australian interest in the account of the voyage including a mention of escaped Botany Bay convicts, and the flight of several missionaries from Tonga, where three were killed, to Sydney. Some of the missionaries made their homes in Sydney and founded families later to become important in Australian history. . Some offsetting affects a few maps, one leaf of the text with small marginal stain.