Linforth James (42 results)

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Route From Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley Illustrated . From Sketches . by Frederick Piercy, and Containing a map of the Overland Portion of. Book.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Route From Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley Illustrated . From Sketches . by Frederick Piercy, and Containing a map of the Overland Portion of. Book.

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cloth. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Route To Liverpool To Great Salt Lake Valley, Cambridge, 1962, 1st of this Ed, 128pp, frontis, illus, map, index, cloth, nice. rpt Howes L-359. James Linforth's notes on Percy's narrative were used by many as a guidebook for western travel. Beautiful plates.

Facsimile reprint. Fine with light wear to edges and corners. Black cloth boards titled in gilt.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Title: Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley illustrated . from sketches . by Frederick Piercy, and containing a map of the overland portion of the journey. Edited by J. Linforth. [With plates, including portraits.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Linforth, James; Piercy, Frederick Hawkins; 1855. 120 p.; 4°. 1304.m.2.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Handsome facsimile of one of the most celebrated illustrated works on the Mormon migration, first issued in parts in 1854-55. Piercy, a young English artist, was sent by the LDS Church to document the emigrant route from Liverpool to Utah for prospective British converts; his engravings remain among the most reproduced visual records of the overland Mormon trail, including views of the ruined Nauvoo Temple and Carthage Jail. Limited facsimile edition, number not filled in, from an edition of 1,000 copies. 13" x 10", 120 pp. Lacking the issue slipcase. Top corners gently bumped, minor rubbing to the leather spine and corners, else Fine. Text and plates clean and bright. All said, a handsome copy. PIERCY, Frederick (illustrator) (illustrator).…

Leather Bound. Condition: Good. and Portraits and Memoirs of Joseph and Hyrum Smith; their Mother, Lucy Smith; Joseph and David Smith, Sons of the Prophet Joseph; President Brigham Young; Heber C. Kimball; Willard Richards; Jedediah M. Grant; John Taylor; the late Chief Patriarch, Father John Smith; and present Chief Patriarch together with a Geographic and Historical Description of Utah, and a map of the Overland Routes to that Territory from the Missouri River also an Authentic History of the Latter-Day Saints' Emigration from Europe from the Commencement up tot he close of 1855, with important statistics. An Exact Facsimile Republication of the 1855 Liverpool Edition. Good leather bound copy with dustjacket and mylar overlay, 126 no. pp. No date or year. …

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Limited Edition. Applewood Books, 1997. Slipcased hardcover facsimile of the original work by Frederick Piercy (ill.) and James Linforth (ed.) published in 1855. This is #545 of 1000 of this limited edition: 13"X10", 120 pgs., bound in mauve boards w/leather spine & corners, accented by gilt spine titles, highlights, gilt edged top- and fore-page ends, with an introduction by Steve Young. Several full page reproductions of the lithographs. A very handsome edition. Piercy, Frederick (illustrator). …

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Limited Edition. 120pp. Quarto [31.5 cm] 3/4 burgundy leather over red boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. A.E.G. Matching slipcase. Prospectus laid in. This edition was limited to 1000 numbered copies, this is copy 591. Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley contains Piercy's detailed narrative of the journey as well as illustrations of an unusually high quality made from his own drawings sketched on the trail. In addition to these illustrations of prominent landmarks between Council Bluff and Salt Lake City, Piercy also made sketches of sites along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Nauvoo including the Nauvoo Temple in ruin and Carthage jail. He also did five portrait sketches. This is a landmark work in American travel narratives and Mormon history. "Route from Liverpool ranks as the most beautiful book published by Latter-day Saints." - Peter Crawley.…

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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 1851 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 8 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.…

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4to. (12 x 9 1/2 inches). viii, 120 pp. Folding map, thirty engraved plates, and woodcuts in text illustrations after Frederick H. Piercy. Contemporary half calf and tan cloth covered boards, rebacked. Housed in a red morocco backed box. A landmark depiction of the West with superb plates, and one of the most important publications devoted to the Mormon emigration: with provenance to Brigham Young's daughter. "This elaborately prepared and illustrated book was published as a monument to the Mormon emigration to Utah, and as a means of attracting further emigrants. Piercy made a special trip to America [in 1853] to make sketches for the plates, which are some of the best western views of the period" (Streeter). The outstanding views show New Orleans, Natchez, Vicksburg, Nauvoo, Council Bluffs, Laramie, Fort Bridger, and Scott's Bluff. ".One of the most elaborately and beautifully illustrated of western books" (Howes). ".One of the basic sources of illustrated Western Americana of the period" (Taft). "One of the most illuminating maps of the West to appear during 1855.it shows Utah in all its glory. This is not only an important map in the history of Mormons, but is in every sense an important map in the history of the West, giving as it does a carefully drawn picture of that entire area" (Wheat). This copy inscribed by Brigham Young's daughter Maria Young Dougall (1849-1935) to her niece Leah Dunford Widstoe and her husband, John A. Widstoe (1872-1952), a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. It is additionally signed by prominent LDS Elder (and Maria Dougall's husband) William Bernard Dougall (1843-1909). Howes L359, "b;" Wagner-Camp 259; Graff 2501; Flake 6381; Sabin 41325; Streeter Sale 2296; Taft, Artists & Illustrators of the Old West, p.285; Wheat Transmississippi IV, pp.40-41; Crawley & Flake, A Mormon Fifty 46.…