Hall Basil, Signed (11 results)

4to. pp 302. Blue and white illustrated dust jacket. Original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering at spine. Signed by Geoffrey Nuttall at half-title page. ISBN: 0716202883 Very good indeed in heavily sunned at spine, very good dust jacket.

rigide. Condition: Bon. Fourth Edition Revised & Enlarged, 8vo vol., editor's hardcover, John Murray, Albermarle Street, Kelly & Walsh, Limited, London, Yokohama Shanghai, Hong-Kong, Singapore 1902, VI pp., 1 f., 545 pp. et une carte dépliante Scarce copy signed by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850-1935). British academic and Japanologist, Chamberlain his famous forthis informal and popular one-volume encyclopaedia "Things Japanese". Professor of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University since 1886, he was a friend of Lafcadio Hearn. Good condition (title page a bit rubbed, no jacket, otherwise a good copy). Langue: Anglais. signé par l'auteur.

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. R320079916: 1882. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 243 pages - Dos à 4 nerfs - Auteur, titre dorés sur le dos - Signé conservé - Contres plats jaspés -. . . . Classification Dewey : 386-Marine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. 348pp. Bound in contemporary half-calf with black morocco spine label gilt, and marbled paper covered boards. Small chip in the corner of the front fly, nicking at the edge of the label, a bit of rubbing on the boards, very good or better. Inscribed by Hall on the half-title to his sister: "Mrs. B. Pollen from her affectionate Brother, The Author." Account of a visit to a German castle derived from the author's journal entries.

Hardcover. Second edition. 259 pages. 18 x 11 cm. Signed presentation copy in ink on half title. Colored etched frontispiece and etched drawings by William Havel and a chart of the voyage of the "Alceste" at rear. The author, an officer in the Royal Navy was also a fellow of the Royal Society, and The Royal Geographical. Bookplate. Text tight and generally clean. Orig. brown boards, paper spine label. Very good.

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). A beautifully bound copy of this fascinating Japanese travel work, signed by the author and with an excellent folding map to the rear of the work. With binder's stamp of Henry Sotheran to recto of front free endpaper and binder's stamp of Bayntun Bath to the recto of rear endpaper. With publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work. With a dedication from the author to the title page reading: "To Mrs C. B. Stedman with the author's kind regards November 1927" Collated complete with a frontispiece of the author and a large folding map of Japan in provinces to the rear of the work. Basil Hall Chamberlain was a professor of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University and one of the most prominent nineteenth century Japanologists. Things Japanese, which was first published in 1890 is Chamberlain's most acclaimed work and went through several editions in his lifetime. The work is an informal and one volume encyclopedia which acts as a useful guide to Japanese travel and culture, meant for a Western audience with a colloquial style. A unique copy of an important travel work, with a dedication from the author and bound in a handsome calf binding. In a half calf binding with gilt detail to the spine. Externally in excellent condition with just some very slight rubbing to the extremities. A few marks to the boards and spine. Internally firmly bound. Page bright and clean with just the odd handling marks. Small area of loss to folding map in the centre of the map. Near Fine. signed by author. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st ed. 9 aquatint plates (8 hand-colored, including frontis), 5 maps (2 folding), 1 other uncolored plate (of Wollaston's Dip Sector), xv, [1], 222, cxxx, [72]p. Recent quarterbinding. 27cm. Foxing on illustrations. Bookplate of famed actor John Barrymore (along with a recent penciled note stating that this book was sold for $24.80 as lot B-73 at an auction in 1941 (after the actor's death). Letter (tipped in) and inscription by the author's sister Magdalene (who died in childbirth in 1823 while married to Henry Harvey). The letter and inscription appear to be to the same person, addressed in the inscription as M. Le Chevalier. We believe that the recipient was Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier Delambre.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st ed. 9 aquatint plates (8 hand-colored, including frontis), 5 maps (2 folding), 1 other uncolored plate (of Wollaston's Dip Sector), xv, [1], 222, cxxx, [72]p. Contemporary black leather which has been rebacked in later black leather. 27cm. Cover scuffed. Corner heavily rubbed with loss of leather. Half-title and tissue guards present. Moderate foxing on tissue guards and some scattered elsewhere. Minor offsetting and age-toning. Color plates clean and attractive as are the maps and charts. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. INSCRIBED (as "the "Author") on half-title to the author's mother ("Lady Helen Hall from her affectionate Son, The Author").

On one side of a piece of paper approximately 18.5 x 6.5 cm, neatly cut from a letter. Laid down on a piece of 22.5 x 28 cm paper, and with a border drawn around it. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Reads: 'We have been most kindly & hospitably received by every body & I find such a variety of character & even of incident (of a political kind) that I rejoice exceedingly at having come here in the first instance. We still propose leaving this on the 1st. of Feby., Charleston on the 1st. of March, & New Orleans on the 1st. of April - we shall then go up the mighty River, & wander about as circumstances entice us. | I remain Ever Most Truly Yrs | [signed] Basil Hall'. The dating, in another hand, is in the bottom left-hand corner.

No binding. Condition: Near fine. First. LOCKS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT'S HAIR, SENT TO A LADY BY CAPT. BASIL HALL. Slough, 23 March 1832. Single sheet (half a sheet of cut writing-paper: 7 3/16" x 4 1/2", 183mm x 114mm) mounted to heavier stock. With a small (ca. 8mm) patch of red wax affixing a dozen or so short strands of "Sir Walter Scott's/ Hair. 1831" at lower-left. Sometime folded in three. Cockling at the gluing-spots; else fine. Captain Basil Hall (1788-1844) traversed the world with the Royal Navy, first aboard HMS Endymion in the Napoleonic Wars (Napoleon was a friend of his father's, and he used the connection to land an interview with the First Consul) and eventually to South Africa and on to China, Japan and Korea. He wrote wildly popular accounts of his travels, including one of the first Western accounts of Korea. In the late 1820's he traveled through the United States with his wife. From 1831 he published nine volumes of Fragments of Voyages and Travels, which cemented his place in the public imagination. The present letter from his hand, therefore, sees him at the peak of his popularity. The context is a party, presumably at the home of Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871) and his wife Lady Herschel (Margaret, née Brodie Stewart; 1810-1884), the previous evening, Thursday the 22nd of March, 1832. Herschel was a dynamic intellectual force, active in chemistry, astronomy and photography (including the invention of the blueprint) inter alia. Herschel and Hall both lived in Slough, and were frequent correspondents. Hall writes to a lady -- the envelope is sadly gone -- whom he met that evening and who confessed to her hostess that she wanted Hall's autograph -- but did not ask him directly. Lady Herschel told him of this lady's desire, and mentioned as well that she was "so nearly connected with Sir Joshua Reynolds." Herschel reveals in the letter that "there is no person respecting whose private life I feel more anxious to gain some information." The identity of the addressee cannot be ascertained, but might it have been the painter Theophila Gwatkin (1757-1848), the niece of Sir Joshua Reynolds? That would explain Hall's hope -- note that he strikes out "possible" in favor of "probable that [she] possess some of Sir Joshua's hair" -- of offering some hair of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) by anticipated exchange. The Gwatkins and the Herschels were friends, even including a brief engagement. Hall and Scott, both Scotsmen, were also old friends. When Scott's health was failing, it was Hall who arranged the writer's passage abroad, and sailed with him -- doubtless the point at which the hairs were taken. [Full transcription available.].

Non-Book. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. On offer is a quite unusual letter written by both Basil and Margaret Hall with handwriting of both on one document. HALL, Captain Basil [1788-1844]. 9-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches. Autograph letter signed. Two pages, Dated (on the Rhine 20th May 1833. Two pages, 4to. With postscript on verso by his wife Margaret, also a writer. To his wife's mother, Lady Hunter. Basil Hall's letter reads: "My dear Lady Hunter, I write merely to report of myself and to mention that here we are safe and sound and all happy and merry with our journey. We came here on Sat. Eve. And passed yesterday chiefly with Mrs. Hoover and her family. Mr H. Is in England. In the evening Mr. Schlegel and other intelligent oxalises of both sexes came to Mrs. Homers. This day we go to Coblentz by the Steam Boat and then we propose going on just as before. The weather is delightful still. We have a famous thunderstorm on Sat. Eve. After we got here which has cooled the air and laid the dust. My journal for the young folks goes merrily - I hope it may amuse hem. Perhaps Mgt [Margaret] might add a line to you. Mr. Dollard of St. Paul's Churchyard is to send a Box to meet me at Geneva and by it you may send any odds and ends. Mgt begs get from Joel Lane a book which Eliza left, called The Ladder of Leaving - and send it to Mr. Dollard. Yours Affectionately, B. Hall"Margaret Hall adds: 'That is to say you may desire Jane to send the book to Mr. Dollard. We at present plan going on either tomorrow or the following day from Coblentz to Mayence also by Steam Boat, and thence to Frankfurt by land, a distance of only about 20 miles- there we shall stay two or three days and I shall send a large sheet which will by that time be filled. There are two routes from Frankfurt to Munich, one to Heidelberg and Carlsruhe and thence by Stuttgard to Munich, but I think we shall prefer the other by Wuryburg, Nuremburg, Donanwerth and Augsburg - either way we shall get there by the end of the week even in our very leisurely mode of travelling. Eliza's message is a kiss, and that she wishes you would come and see us - Fanny Emily has given me a flower to send to you which you must imagine she has sent. Ever affectionately yours, Margaret Hall. 9 o'clock Monday. You can either forward this to Rose if you have a frank or let her know you have heard from us." From [James John] Audubon and His Journals/The European Journals. 1826-1829: "At precisely six I found myself at No. 16 Hope St. I was shown upstairs, and presented to Lady Mary Clark, who knew both General Wolfe and General Montgomery, a most amiable English lady eighty-two years of age. Many other interesting people were present, and I had the pleasure of taking Mrs. Basil Hall to dinner, and was seated next her mother, Lady Hunter, and almost opposite Lady Mary Clark. I did not feel so uncomfortable as usual; all were so kind, affable, and truly well-bred. At nine the ladies left us, and Captain Basil Hall again attacked me about America, and hundreds of questions were put to me by all, which I answered as plainly and briefly as I could." Basil Hall was a British naval officer from Scotland, a traveller, and an author. Following Basil Hall's retirement from the navy in 1823, Hall was married on 1 March 1825 to Margaret Congalton (d. 1876) , the youngest daughter of Sir John Hunter, Consul-General in Spain by his spouse Elizabeth Barbara, sister to Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet. Margaret Hall is the subject of a 1931 book "Aristocratic Journey. Being the outspoken letters of Mrs. Basil Hall, written during a fourteen months' sojourn in America, 1827-1828"Basil Hall commanded many vessels involved in exploration and scientific and diplomatic missions. From the beginning of his naval career he had been encouraged by his father to keep a journal, which later became the source for a series of books and publications describing his travels. Hall toured the major cities of the eastern and southern states, and his narrative includes comments on education, politics and government, the judicial system, slavery, and manufactures. In 1829 Hall published Travels in North America which caused some offense due to his criticisms of American society. His best known work was The Fragments of Voyages and Travels (9 volumes, 18311840) , originally released as three yearly series of eight volumes each. ; Manuscripts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 2 pages; Signed by Author.