Denham Captain (51 results)

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) From 1940-45 the author was the British Naval Attache in Sweden and was involved in tracking the breakout of the battleship Bismarck. His experiences reveal the British effort to stem war supplies being sent to Germany. He recounts dealing with both Swedish and German intelligence, running vital war material to Britain and meeting Marshal Mannerheim. (Published: 1984) (Publisher: Holmes & Meier) (ISBN: 0841910243 ) (Pagination: xviii + 174pp, 25 photos, 24 maps and diagrams) (Condition: Very good in dustjacket) UL-XXXXXX.…

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Condition: Very Good Condition. 15 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 21 cms. Category: London Magazine; Special Interest E. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

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Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Condition: New. KlappentextbTitle:/b Journals kept by Mr. G. and Capt. Denham, during a captivity in China in . 1842. Edited by a Barrister.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library.

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Volume II (only), 3rd Edition, wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners bumped and worn, boards showing and layers separating, entire spine missing, surface of covers faded and worn, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but slightly yellowing, some fingerprints on edges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. . . . . Third edition. 8vo, hardcover, no dj. Volume 2. Bound in later black cloth, paper spine label reading simply "Africa". Good condition. Prev. owner's name at corner of title pg. Front & rear hinges cracked w/ front board loosening, first 4 signatures (bound groups of pgs) up to pg. 62 detached, laid in; however interior binding firm. Contents lightly & uniformly toned with just the slightest, very occasional spot of foxing, otherwise clean, unmarked; exterior quite clean, corners & spine ends not bumped. 467 pp., illus., frontispiece, 2 fold-out maps.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Amer. ed. 3 maps (2 folding), folding plate (bound as two plates in this copy), lxiv, 255, 104, 112p. Contemporary leather. 23 cm. Backstrip and cover edges heavily scuffed. First folding map wrinkled but complete. Lower corner of three text leaves torn off (substantial loss of text on one leaf). Archival tape repairs on another text leaf. Bookplates (one from an old Philadelphia institution).…

hardcover. Condition: very good(-). First. Illustrations including 1 folding plate & 1 folding map (2 maps missing). 8vo, rebound in brown cloth with black leather spine label; library stamp on the title and last page; foxing throughout. Boston: Cummings, Hilliard and Carey & Lea, 1826. First American Edition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Third Edition. 467 pages (complete). Volume II only. A handsome copy of this thrilling journey of exploration from the fractious three explorers. At some stage in the past the book was handsomely rebound in full leather. Blind stamped decoration, gilt borders. The spine has gilt painted decoration and titling. The spine has four ridges. The boards are steady, healthy. Newer marbled end-papers. The contents are pleasing. The folded maps are a little mottled with foxing and age-related marks. They are otherwise neat, sure. The pages are tight, hale, sound, very clean, very clear, confident, most agreeable considering the age of the book! fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. HARDBACK BOUND IN A 19TH CENTURY FULL LEATHER BINDING, COMPLETE COPY WITH 3 MAPS INCLUDING FRONTIS MAP OF WHICH TWO ARE FOLDING, TWO FULL PAGE PLATES WITH ONE FOLDING. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES WITH 64 + 255 + 104 PAGES + 122 PAGE APPENDIX. MINOR AGE REALATED RUBBING & BUMPS TO COVER, SMALL SPRINGFIELD LIBRARY COMPANY PLATE TO INNER FRONT BOARD, FRONTIS MAP IS WORN & HEAVILY CREASED WITH SOME CLOSED TEARS & OLD REPAIRS [SEE IMAGE] CHIPS TO MARGIN OF TITLE PAGE, OCCASIONAL BROWNING, MARKS OR FOXING TO PAGES, OCCASIONAL CREASE TO PAGES. EXTERNALLY THE BOOK IS VERY GOOD WITH BOARDS WELL ATTACHED, INTERNALLY SOME FAULTS & IN GOOD - VERY GOOD CONDITION. EXTRA POSTAGE MAY APPLY FOR OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS ARE POSTED IN A STURDY BOOK BOX.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. John Murray 1828 3rd edition 2 volume set. Leather over marbled boards. Covers show scuffing, rubbing and light bumping to extremities. No names. Volume 1: xii, contents, list of plates, pp471 NOTE MISSING MAP TO REAR. Volume 2: iv, pp407. A complete set except for one of the three maps that should be bound at end of Vol 1. All other maps/plates present. Volume one cracked at p16-17- first gathering sitting slightly proud of page-block. Both volumes have spotting/marking to end papers then just the odd mark/spot throughout. Plates show more spotting, text bright. Some offsetting from plates. Frontis slightly loose at bottom of vol 2. Good. 1.9kg packed-additional postage and tracking to be agreed for order outside UK thanks. Please note this will be considerably more than 500gm default quote.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second edition. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-lxxxviii, [1], 2-321, [5]; [3], iv, [1], 2-413 pp. Half mid-nineteenth century sheep over marbled paper boards with the spines in six compartments; all edges sprinkled red. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece, volume one with several plates (one of which is in color), volume two with three additional plates. Some of the plates are folding maps. Howgego C33. Ibrahim-Hilmy 136. Contains essays on the languages, flora and fauna, and the histories of the regions Denham and Clappteron visited on this expedition. The volumes also contain a survey of Lake Chad. Lacks the labels on the spine, spines worn, the front joint of volume one starting but the board remains attached. The title pages' bottom edges trimmed just below the date, a bookplate on each front pastedown.…

Leather. Condition: Good. The second edition of this important narrative regarding the Bornu Mission, an expedition which aimed to find the source of the Niger. The second edition, and first octavo edition of the work. First published in quarto earlier the same year. With a frontispiece, seven monochrome plates, one colour plate and a large folding map to volume one, and a frontispiece, one monochrome plate and two folding maps to volume two. Collated complete.Former lending library copy, with associated stamps. This important narrative written by Major Dixon Denham's, documents the first European expedition across the Sahara Desert, which was undertaken between 1822 and 1825 by Denham, Oudney and Clapperton. The expedition was organised in order to access the financially important trans-Saharan trade between Tripoli and Bornu, whilst also attempting to identify the source of the river Niger. The expedition was successful but there was notable disagreement between the three members.An early edition of this influential work. In contemporary half calf. Externally a trifle worn. Front joint of volume two is weak, and may detach with further handling. The remaining joints are slightly strained. Internally firmly bound. Lending library stamp to plates. Closed tears to folding plates. Scattered spotting. Good. E. Finden (illustrator). book.…

Leather. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. 4to 11.5"; 2 volumes in one, 4to (268 x 211 mm). Engraved frontispiece, 32 engraved plates (one hand-colored) , 11 in-text woodcut illustrations (2 plans) , 6 engraved maps (5 full-page, one folding). (Some occasional spotting or offsetting. ) Modern half calf over green cloth gilt, smooth spine gilt, 3 black morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges faintly marbled, marbled endsheets (chipping to lettering-piece, some small scuffs). Provenance: W. Conway (signature). FIRST EDITION of important explorations in Africa. The first volume is an official expedition to discover the course of the Niger from the starting point of Tripoli, rather than West Africa. Clapperton and Oudney were the original members of the party, to which Denham was added, but whose "arrogance, malice, and contempt for his colleagues from the start soured relations between them" (DNB). This famous "Bornu Mission" provided the earliest European report on the Central Sudan and Northern Nigeria. From the Mediterranean they reached Murzuk and Bornu on the west of Lake Chad, and eventually Sokota. Failing to ascertain the source and termination of the Niger, Denham explored Lake Chad, and Oudney and Clapperton journeyed westward to the Niger. Clapperton continued alone after Oudney's death at Murmur, reaching Sokota and rejoining Denham at Kuka. On the second expedition Clapperton had been promoted to Commander and was sent back to Sokota to open up trade with the west coast. He died in 1827, having crossed Yoruba Country and the Niger. He was survived by his "servant" Richard Lander who carried on alone. Lander brought Clapperton's journals back to England and wrote the "Life of Clapperton" which appears in this second work. Hilmy, p. 172 (Narrative). Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr. , Bloomington, Indiana. Modern calf spine backing.…

Extending across the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empire. xlviii, 335 + 269 [2] pp. One color plate; folding map; 36 engraved plates. 4to, modern full calf; gilt-lettered spine labels. First edition. There is a light tidemark affecting all of the plates and some of the text. Tight and sound.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American edition. 255;104;112pp., 3 maps (two folding), one folded plate. Original quarter cloth and papercovered boards with printed paper spine label. Rebacked, slight wear to the label, old library label contemporary with the book on the front pastedown, owner's signature dated 1842, small tears on the title page, stain and old paper repair on a couple of pages, still a pleasing near very good copy. …

Condition: Good. First edition. 4to. xlviii, 1-335, [5], 1-269, [2] pp + plates. Illustrated with 37 engraved plates: 2 b/w maps, 1 large b/w four-fold map, 33 b/w, 1 colour. Additionally, this copy has a tipped-in engraved b/w portrait of Major Denham laid on the first flyleaf(v), with a singed and sealed (broken) letter from Denham addressed to Robert Porter written on watermarked paper bound opposite. Rebacked. Gilt decorations and rulings on spine and boards. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. 8 raised ribs; five compartments. Previous owner's signature (Harrley) on the top right of title page. Slightly foxed throughout, mostly to prelims and plates. Pages have the occasional stain/water mark, but are mostly clean and bright. Binding strong with a slight flare upwards on the upper board. Boards and spine worn, bumped and frayed in the corners, rubbed, and have some water stain marks (most notable on the lower board). Overall a strong volume that is easy to read and handle. Particularly rare to have mailed correspondence with the author bound into the book. Hardcover: full leather over boards. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Narrative of Travels and Discoveries In Northern and Central Africa in the Years 1822, 1823 and 1824 by Major Denham, Captain Clapperton and The Late Doctor Oudney. Published by John Murray 1826. Leather bound. Rubbing to the boards on the front and back and toning to the spine edge and light bumped corners. Inside toning and foxing to first several pages. Some plate have water staining and some foxing. Please see the images and please ask for more photos or details where needed.…

Inscribed presentation copy of the most important African travel narrative at the time of its publication, with superb provenance. Presentation copies of this important work are rare with only around twenty thought to exist. Inscribed on the title-page: 'John G. Children Esq FRS / British Museum / with the author's best / wishes / D. Denham', and with the bookplate of Halstead Place, Children's home. John George Children (1777-1852) was a British natural historian who was Keeper of the Zoology Department of the British Museum from 1837 to 1840. In 1833 he was founding president of what became the Royal Entomological Society of London. He was however much more comfortable with mineralogy than zoology: he constructed a large galvanic cell with Sir Humphry Davy in 1813, conducting several experiments, and invented a method to extract silver from ore without the need for mercury in 1824. The official expedition to discover the course of the Niger from the starting point of Tripoli, rather than West Africa. Denham and Clapperton were part of the expedition led by the Scottish doctor Walter Oudney to open relations with the Fulani kingdom, whose legendary trading centre was Kano, in order to discover the source of the Niger, which was widely believed to flow into Lake Chad. Having crossed the Sahara and found no rivers entering Lake Chad, the party divided with Denham exploring the Shari River and Oudney and Clapperton (who shared a mutual loathing of Denham) proceeding to Kano. Oudney died enroute but Clapperton was received by the ruler of Kano, Mohammed Bello who, having first supplied an accurate map of the course of the Niger, later backtracked and supplied a different, more misleading, map when he realised the dangers of opening up his kingdom to foreigners. Clapperton rejoined Denham at Lake Chad and back across the Sahara. First edition; 4to (28 x 23.5 cm); presentation inscription to title, engraved frontispiece, 36 engraved plates, 1 of which hand-coloured, 6 engraved vignettes, all by Finden after the authors, large engraved folding map at rear, bookplate to paste-down, a little offsetting from plates; contemporary full green calf with joints professionally repaired, gilt rules to board borders, edges, and turn-ins, spine in six gilt compartments with gilt morocco lettering piece, all edges gilt, a touch of toning to boards, a very good copy; xlviii, 335, [iv], 269, [ii]pp. Provenance: John George Children (presentation inscription); Halstead Place (bookplate to pastedown, with shelf numbers). Gay 337; Hilmy I, 172; Lowndes I, 629; cf. Playfair, Tripoli, 154 (3rd ed.). …