James Grieve Translator (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Never read, pages are clean and unmarked. Our copy is hardback, with a dust jacket, showing light shelfwear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition 1st printing - ink mark on bottom closed page edge - slight ding at front cover at spine - otherwise dust jacket and cover fine binding strong contents clean - enjoy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First edition thus. First printing thus, very good + hardcover shows moisture spotting at top page edges, remainder mark at bottom page edges and some other light trace wear, in near fine dust jacket (price at flap) that shows just a touch of shelf wear. 558 pages translated with intro and notes by James Grieve. Still a pleasing copy of this second installment in Proust's In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 384 pages. 7.98x5.00x0.96 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 384 pages. 7.98x5.00x0.96 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 280pp + Index. Reddish cloth hardcover, blind-stamped on front and gilt-lettered on spine. B/W illustrations; fold-out maps. Former college library volume with customary stamps and labels. Contents textually unmarked, clean, tight. Facsimile reprint of Second, revised English Edition published in 1764, Glocester. First Edition had been published in 1754 in St. Petersburg in Russian.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

xi, 380 pages, illustrations, maps : 24 cm. Contents: Part I. The Romans and trade: 1. Landowners and traders 2. Traders' fortunes 3. The matter of the market 4. The role of the state 5. Meeting needs Part II. Scripta varia 6. Dreams of wealth, loans, and seaborne trade 7. The sale of wine 8. The plebiscitum claudianum 9. The crisis of AD 33 10. Staple provisions for Rome : Problems of quantification 11. Food supplies for Rome : Coping with geographical constraints The Roman countryside and long-distance supplies The Tiber The seaports 12. Claudius' Edict and ships of 10,000 modii 13. Dromedary of the Peticii and trade with the East 14. Winds and coins : Trade between the Roman Empire and India 15. D. Caecilius Hospitalis and M. Iulius Hermesianus (CIL VI. 1625b and 20742 16. Delivery of oil from Baetica to the limes in Germania 17. Warehousing and complementary Cargoes on the Alexandria Grain Run 18. Wine exporting and the exception of Gaul 19. The economic crisis in Imperial Italy and competition from the province.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Literature] FIRST U.S. EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 558. Publisher's quarter black cloth, silver titles to spine. With grey paper over boards. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at $27.95 to front flap. Light edgewear to jacket, including bumping to rear panel corner. Otherwise near fine.

4to, pp. [8], vii, [1 (blank)], [9]-280, [8 (index)]; with 2 folding maps and 5 engraved plates (2 folding); maps creased with some tears and small areas of loss (repaired), closed tear to pp. 183-184 (with repair slightly obscuring text to p. 183), occasional light stains; in twentieth-century half calf, marbled boards, gilt fillets to spine, two gilt-lettered red morocco labels; upper joint split but firm, small tear to upper cover; twentieth-century ownership inscription to front free endpaper.First edition of this English abridgement of Stepan Krasheninnikov's account of the Kamchatka Peninsula and Kuril Islands, 'the first scientific account of those regions' (Hill), illustrated with two maps by Thomas Jefferys and five engraved plates.Having studied medicine at Edinburgh, James Grieve (17031763) practiced as a physician in St Petersburg and then Moscow. He 'is best remembered for translatingThe History of Kamtschatka, and the Kurilski Islands, published posthumously in 1764 byThomas Jefferys, the royal geographer, from the 1755 work bySergey Krasheninnikov. The latter participated in the Russian Academy of Sciences' secondKamchatkaexpedition (173343), underBering, which attempted to prove the feasibility of a north-east passage between Asia and America. Krasheninnikov'sbook is a classic scientific study of all aspects of Kamchatka's vulcanology, geography, natural history, and ethnography' (ODNB). The inclusion of Georg Wilhelm Steller's 'observations on America, made during his travels with Bering's second voyage, are an important part of this work, and constitute one of the earliest accounts of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands' (Hill).The plates illustrate the harbours of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Okhotsk, Kizimen volcano, indigenous winter and summer huts, and a local 'method of producing fire'.ESTC T93828; Hill 948; Sabin 38301.