Byron Commodore (7 results)

Condition: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: First ] Discarded from library Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Pub Date: 1/1/1981 Binding: Paperback Pages: 260 First edition.

Condition: Fair. 1839. No Edition Stated. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Brown leather with gilt decoration and lettering. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Prize plate to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are notably crushed. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Boards are notably bowed. Book has a prominent forward lean. Moderate water marks to boards and spine.

Nouvelle Editions. Being volumes 1-12 of the first year of the series. Bound two volumes in one. Small 8vo (5 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches), Contemporary full tan marbled calf, decorative gilt border to sides. Spine gilt with crimson lettering piece and green numbering piece, inner gilt dentelles, gilt decoration to edges of boards, all edges gilt. All the half-titles retained by the binder. Some polished surface loss to some of the boards. Overall very good, attractive & very clean internally. This charming series published "Pour l'instruction et l'amusement de la Jeunesse". The 12 volumes comprise the following works:Volumes 1-2: Voyage au Spitzberg.With two engraved plates; Voyage de Vasco de Gama aux Indes Oriental. Folding hand-coloured map; Voyage aux Indes Orientales par Guillaume Bontekou. Pages 226:230.Volumes 3-4: Relation d'un Voyage Autour du Monde Execute par le Commodore Byron. Folding map & Voyage Philippe Carteret. Engraved frontispiece. Pages 255:209:2.Volumes 5-6: Voyage de Jonathan Carver dans L'Amerique Septentrionale. Folding map (dusty on foremargin) & frontispiece.Volumes 7-8: Voyage de Paul Brydone en Sicile et Malte. Folding map & frontispiece. Pages xii:213:203.Volumes 9-10: W. Mackay. Relation d'un Naufrage sur la Cote d'Aracan dans les Indes Orientales. Frontispiece. Boehl. Voyage Alger Histoire du Naufrage de la Captivite de la Jeune Comtesse de Burke. & Voyage d'un Allemande au Lac Oneida; dans L'Amerique Septentrionale. Pages: 194:203.Volumes 11 & 12: Ambassade de M. Samuel Turner aupres du Teschou Lama, au Thibet et au Boutan, Folding engraved map of Asie by Herisson. Frontispiece.

Full Calf. William Bryne and George Stubbs (after) (illustrator). 3rd edition. 3rd ed. (first octavo edition), two volumes (of four). Vol.III: pp.(viii), 416, five fold engraved plates, closed tear along upper fold and tape remains to rear of 'Endeavour' plate, some darkening to folds, light off-setting opp. plates, lacking r.f.e.p. Vol.IV: pp.(vi), 429, (ii, publisher's adverts), two engraved folding plates, lacking r.f.e.p. and creased f.f.e.p., water-staining to edges of prelims, t.p. and contents, not affecting text. Prev owner's ink signature and date to f.f.e.p. of both volumes, "George Mundy, Sept. 19th, 1790" (1792 in other volume) with his contemporary book-plates (G.M.) to front paste-down in each volume. Both volumes full calf, cnrs and edges rubbed, spine worn, green and red titled leather labels to each volume. Engraved folding plates in volume four, "A View of Endeavour River on the Coast of New Holland" and "The Kanguroo, an animal found on the Coast of New Holland". Very good and generally clean condition The two volumes complete with all plates. First English octavo edition, volumes 3 and 4 only, with the two folding plates, "A View of Endeavour River"on the Coast of New Holland" and "The Kanguroo". Beddie 665.

Hardcover. charts and engravings (illustrator). 1st edition. 4to. Leatherbound. This is the first printing, first state, of the famous account of what is now described as 'Cook's First Voyage', although primary credit for the creation of this account is given to John Hawkesworth (who had been commissioned by the Admiralty to edit Capt. Cook's papers). Volume I of our offering ends at page 676, and shows page 139 as numbered 139-360 (as called for in Beddie 648). It contains 18 of the 21 charts and plates called for in this volume, lacking two charts and one plate. Volume II has a tide mark across the top of the first thirdof the text block. Page 189 is misnumbered 191. Old worm hole to margins of pages 119-161. Contains 16 of 22 charts and plates (five folding charts, seven folding plates, and four single page plates). The text is complete in 410 numbered pages. Volume III text commences at page 411 and concludes at page 795. All nine plates and charts are present, including the very large folding chart of New Zealand (Cook was the first to confirm that New Zealand was, in fact, an island). Lack of nine plates/ charts. The text shows foxing, severe on a few pages but, on the whole, the text is perfectly readable and, if professionally restored, the plates and charts would be magnificent. The leather has deteriorated and the boards are loose.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Publisher's original blue paper covers. 6 books. Vol. 1, 3, 4, 5,6, 7, 8.missing Vol. 2. No illustrations. No name or writing.

Tomes 3 et 4, complets en eux-même, de la première série de la première année de ce recueil de voyages destiné à la jeunesse, traduit de la compilation donnée par l'allemand Joachim Heinrich Campe par Jean-Baptiste Joseph Breton de la Martinière.Ces tomes contiennent : - Relation d'un voyage autour du monde, exécuté par le Commodore Byron, dans les années 1764, 1765 et 1766.(pp. 1-159 du tome 3).- Relation d'un voyage autour du monde, exécuté par Phlippe Carteret, Capitaine de Vaisseau Anglais, commencé en 1766, et achevé en 1769. (pp. 160-235 du tome 3 et 1-38 du tome 4).- Relation d'un voyage autour du monde, exécuté par Samuel Wallis, Capitaine de Vaisseau Anglais, commencé en 1766, et achevé en 1768. (pp. 39-206 du tome 4).2 vignettes en frontispices.