Belcher Captain (17 results)

Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Limited edition of 450 copies. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 70 pps.

Hardcover. First edition limited to 450 copies. Original cloth and boards, octavo, xiii, 70 pp. Illustrated. Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press, Pasadena, California. Prospectus laid in. A fine copy, entirely clean and unworn.

Hard Cover. Condition: G. First Edition. 144pp with b/w illustrations, English text, part of the Materials For the Study of Alaska History series, No. 12. Tanning and soiling to edges. Black boards have edge/rub wear, light soiling and a bow. Smokey odour. Actual book for sale pictured. 15.6 x 23.7 x 1.8cm, wt550g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. reprint. 6 x 9 in. Red cloth boards. Facsimile of the 1843 edition. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean, a bit rubbed, mild wear to corners and spine ends. Bindings tight, text unmarked. Fold-out plates at rear of vol. 1 very good. Upper text edges foxed. Naut. Stax.

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. 2 volumes, xxxviii, 387 pages, vi, 474 pages; 2 frontispieces, 2 maps (lacking one), 18 engraved plates, 20 vignettes. Contemporary half leather binding, raised bands, gilt spine title labels on green leather at top of spine, black lables with name of author and volume at bottom of spine (partially chipped off), leather split on one side of vol. 2 but binding still very firm, a few plates mildly foxed. Overall a solid and nice set of this account. Much on California, Alaska, Hawaiian islands, Marquesas, Tahiti, Dutch East Indies, etc.

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Henry Colburn,1843. Half-Leather. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Marbled boards and endpapers, Corners rubbed through, scuffing along edges. Vol I: Covers detached, spine is absent. Approx 2-inch area of paper lifted from bottom corner of back cover. Vol II: small tear at top of spine. 2-3 inch split at top of spine. Piece missing fron bottom of spine. One plate is detached and laid in. Pages are clean and unmarked, slightly toned. Binding is tight. Hinges are cracked. Good reading/research copy. Excellent candidate for re-binding.

Half-Leather. Condition: Good+. "Published under the Authority of the Lords Commanders of the Admiralty". Vol. II only (of 2 published). Chapter I deals with the visits to Tahiti and Raratonga. Other visits are to the Feejee Islands, Port Carteret, Port Gower & Turtle Bay, Port Victoria, Guinea Coast, Arimoa, Floating Islands, Jobie, Pigeon Island, Amboina, bouro, Maccasar, Solombo and Singapore, where they recieve instructions to proceed to China. Then follows the Naval actions in Canton River and attacks on the Forts of Chuenpee and Tycocktow, possesion of Hing Kong, storming the Forts of the Bocca Tigris and much more until the Sulphur returns to Singapore. The remaining voyage takes in Ceylon and the seychelles and includes Natural History observations. St Helena, Ascension Islands and Cape Blanco are the last visits before returning to England. Interesting Appendices include Nicaragua, Marquesas, Kuikahi and, most importantly, a large Appendix on "The Regions of Vegetation; being an analysis of the Distribution of Vegetable Forms over the surface of the Globe, in connexion with Climate and Physical Agents, by Richard Brinsley Hines, Surgeon R.N., which includes Australia and New Zealand. This last Appendix occupies Pages 325 to 460. Followed by the Index. Well illustrated with 11 Full-Page Engraved Plates and 9 Vignette illustrations. Frontis Plates illustrates the attack on the Chinese War Junks at Chuenpee Creek. Contemporary Green Half-Leather Binding with 5 Raised Bands to spine. Gilt Title on Red Ground in 2nd compartment and Gilt Decoration filling the others. Green cloth covered boards with Leather corners. 474 Pages, 900g, 8 1/2" Tall. Some edge wear, corners worn through. Previous owner's name on ffep and blank preliminary page. No other inscriptions. Some light foxing to plates. Only an occasional spot on text pages. Hinges sound and text block firm. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First. First edition. Two volumes. Octavo (8 ¾" x 5 9/16", 222mm x 142mm). [Full collation available.] Bound in half brown calf over red marbled boards by J. Carss & Co., Glasgow (tickets in the upper fore-corner of the front paste-down of each volume). Triple blind fillets at the edges of the calf. On the spine, five raised bands with gilt rolls. Double blind fillets top-and-bottom in the panels. Title gilt to red morocco in the second panel, number gilt to brown morocco in the fourth panel. Edges of the text-block speckled red. Some rubbing to the extremities and boards. A couple of nicks to the spines. A few tears to the folds of the maps in vol. I. Otherwise a lovely sturdy and clean set. On the front paste-down of each volume, the circular armorial bookplate of Campbell of Stonefield. The Samarang, which served for 61 years (1822-1883) - first for the East India Company - is perhaps best known for its voyages surveying from the Sea of Japan to the South China Sea. Belcher, its captain and later made an Admiral, is perhaps better known for his command of a fleet of five ships on an expedition to save the arctic explorer Sir John Franklin (see Skelton, Explorers' Maps 315); the timbers one of those ships, the Resolute, were used to build the Resolute Desk, a gift from Queen Victoria to the Rutherford B. Hayes, which is used by most presidents as the Oval Office desk. Belcher's anthropological explorations are marked by a greater-than-usual degree of scientific inquiry; this is underscored by the quite useful vocabulary at the end of vol. II, which encompasses English, Spanish, Malay, Bisayan, Sooloo (Tausug), Iloco, Batan, Cagayan, Tagala (Tagalog), Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Adams's natural-historical account, a bit over half of volume II, was the underpinning for his 1850 monograph on the zoology of the voyage; it is particularly esteemed for its work on mollusks. The plates are various in subject - including some lovely proper portraits (rather than caricatures) of those Belcher met in his travels - and demonstrate the success of good tinted rather than colored lithographs. The bookplate is likely that of John Campbell of Stonefield (17901857), grandson of the more famous Lord Stonefield. John built Stonefield Castle in Argyll & Bute in Western Scotland; his uncle, Colonel John, was distinguished for his service at Mangalore on the west coast of India - perhaps this is the origin of the family interest in the exploration of southeast Asia. Abbey, Travel 528; Hill, Pacific Voyages 105.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. First Edition. Two volume set, complete with three folding maps and 19 plates, in original cloth bindings, protected in a custom slipcase. Vol. I: xxiv, 387 pages of text, followed by 16 pages of publisher's advertisement; maps housed in intact pocket with original pull-ribbon in the inside front cover. Vol. II: viii, 474 pages of text including an index. Original cloth bindings are worn, chipped and rubbed at the extremities, and heavily sunned/browned on the spines. All inner hinges have been archivally tissue reinforced. The frontispieces and a good number of the plates and maps have minor to moderate foxing, and there is minor foxing to the text. The maps are somewhat browned at some of the folds. Previous owner's engraved bookplate on the inside front cover of both volumes: Sir George Nugent (1757-1849). A custom-made slipcase was made to protect the books. Sabin 4390. Howes B318. First edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). Book.

Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. A scarce set of the iconic journey around the world by Admiral Sir Edward Belcher. Half leather binding over marbled paper. Three intact maps, illustrated with engravings throughout. The bindings are tight with rubbing and chipping to extremities. Panels are rubbed, edges are tanned, foxing to engravings specifically. Maps are in excellent condition with only a few small closed tears along folds. Some soiling and wear to endpapers with previous owner's name written on front pastedowns; 5cm FFEP tear to volume one.

First Edition. First edition. Two octavo volumes (9 1/4 x 5 13/16 inches; 235 x 150 mm). xxii [i.e. xxxviii], [2], 387, [1, blank], [16, ads]; vi, [2], 324, [2], 325-474 pp. Complete with all nineteen engraved plates, hand-colored with gum arabic. Each color plate with a protective tissue guard. Also with numerous black and white vignette and three folding maps in the rear pocket of volume I. Publisher's blue-green blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Uncut. Spines a bit sunned. Some glue residue along edges of pastedowns. Maps each with an old perforated library stamp, mostly in the margins, and a couple of fold line tears, but generally very good. No other library markings in books. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Inner hinges a bit cracked. An excellent copy of this classic of naval exploration. The purpose of this expedition was to explore and survey the Pacific Coast of North and South America, from Valapraiso, Chile to Alaska. Among the harbors and ports visited and surveyed were Port Etches, in King William's Sound, Point Riou and Port Mulgrave, Kodiak Island, Sitka, San Francisco, Monterey, the Columbia River, Bodega (the Russian possession near San Francisco), Santa Barbara, San Pedro, San Juan and San Diego. At Sitka , the officers were greeted by the Russian governor, Captain Koupreanoff. At San Francisco, they took a month long journey in open boats up the Sacramento River. Their ship, the Sulphur, also stopped at the Hawaiian Islands, the Marquessas, Society and Tonga Islands, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Sumatra and Malacca. When they reached Singapore in 1840, Belcher was sent to China, where war had broken out, and was there actively involved in military campaigns on the Canton River. Cordier, Sinica, 2370. Cowan, p.15. Ferguson, Australia, 3564. Hill p. 20. Howes B318. Lada-Mocarski 117. Sabin 4390. HBS 64912. $2,250.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. 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 1832 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 and contains approximately 28 pages. 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. Language: English.

1st edition extracted from The Review. Large 8vo. 40 to 67pp ( 28 pages ). Begins top of page & finishes bottom of page. Binders marks along inside edge where extracted from bound volume ( could be trimmed ). Clean & tight. VG.

1st edition extracted from The Review. Large 8vo. 63 to 94pp ( 32 pages ). Begins middle of page & finishes middle of page. Binders marks along inside edge where extracted from bound volume ( could be trimmed ). Clean & tight. VG.

Unbacked sea chart on heavy paper, long horizontal tear along center fold. Short tears in top margin. Shows the area around the harbor of Panama City on the Pacific Coast. Shows south to include Taboga Island. One coastal view showing Panama City. First published in 1837, this issue was updated to 1861. Engraved by J. & C. Walker.

First British Survey of Hong Kong Engraved chart The British Hydrographic Office was founded in 1795 by George III, who appointed Alexander Dalrymple as the first Hydrographer to the Admiralty. The first charts were produced in 1800. Unlike the U. S. Coast Survey, the Hydrographic Office was given permission to sell charts to the public and they produced a great number of sea charts covering every corner of the globe. Most of the Admiralty charts produced by the Hydrographic Office delineated coastline as well as high and low water marks and record depth of water as established by soundings. In addition, these charts included information on shoals, reefs, and other navigational hazards that plagued mariners across the world. Thanks to the innovations of Sir Francis Beaufort, who developed the Beaufort Scale of wind strength, the British Hydrographic Office became one of the leading producers of sea charts. Sir Edward Belcher (1799-1877) was a surveyor for the Hydrographic office, and published his Narrative of a Voyage round the World performed in HMS Sulphur during the years 1836-1842 after his involvement in the First China War and the capture of Hong Kong. He rose steadily through the officer class and became admiral in 1872.

First Edition. Including details of the Naval Operations in China, from Dec. 1840, to Nov.1841. Published under the authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Two volumes. 8vo. folding maps, engraved plates with tissue guards, vignettes. Contemporary Calf, discerning matching later reback. marbled endpapers and foredges. neat small library stamp verso title and last page, occasional light foxing. Excellent Set.