Thomas William Captain (34 results)
More imagesPublished by NY. 1970. Random House. 1970
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Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, U.S.A.Chris Fessler, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star sellerblue embossed oblong hardcover ~ 2º (folio ~ 10"x12"). large ("coffee table" book), international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg+ cond. minor chipping along the to…p edge, top of spine, couple of tiny (1cm) tears, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first american edition so stated . first printing (NAP). illustrated endpapers. 256p. 44 glossy full color plates. 265 b&w figures. almost every page illustrated. glossary. dictionary of sea terms. types of sailing ship. bibliography. world history. nautical history. maritime history. exploration. cartography. geography. ~ The sailing ship era is part of a continuing adventure, which lives on in the dawning spaceship age; an adventure of the human spirit, discernible not only in great voyages and moments of danger, but also in the discovery of techniques in advances in shipbuilding and navigation. The inspiration of the sailing ship for the artist, manifest in the great marine paintings of four hundred years, is part of the adventure too. So are the excitement and love inspired by the sailing ship in ordinary people, which created the demand for innumerable simple prints of ships throughout the age of sail. Captain Donald Macintyre has written a historical record of four centuries, from the first circumnavigation of the world to the virtual disappearance of the square~rigged ship. This is followed by a selection of contemporary writings of many nations, from 1520 to 1914 ( Francisco Antonio Pigafetta, William Bourne, Sir Francis Drake the Younger, Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza, Gerrit de Veer, Willem Cornelison Schouten, Thomas Heywood, A. Richer, George Lord Anson, Louis de Bougainville, Captain James Cook, Horatio Viscount Nelson, Captain Isaac Hull USN, Richard Dana, Captain H. A. Chippendale USN, Basil Lubbock, Basil Greenhill CBE, Joseph Conrad, etc.), each piece showing an important aspect of the age of sail, the whole combining with over three hundred beautiful illustrations to give a comprehensive picture of the sailing ship experience. Captain Macintyre traces the development of sails, rigging and hull design, from the caravel, carrack and galleon to the clipper epoch, when the sailing ship became a thing of visual and functional perfection; and beyond to the autumn of the age of sail, to the great steel~hulled four and five~masted barques and barquentines, which had a strange beauty of their own.' He tells the story of maritime exploration and the establishment of commerce : a story of friendly or hostile competition among nations sharing the common experience of the struggle against the sea. Adventure, in the ordinary sense of dramatic and exciting episodes, fills the history of sail and has received an extraordinary amount of eyewitness documentation. The selection of contemporary documents in this volume unfolds a stirring tale of storms, shipwrecks and fights, of famous ships and the men who sailed in them. It shows, as nothing else can, what life in sailing ships was really like. It relives great moments of discovery or despair, such as the first rounding of Cape Horn, or the last voyage of Willem Barents in his brave and futile search for the Northeast Passage, ennobled by the courage and dignity of a crew lost among ice and polar bears in the dark, dreaded Arctic winter. It evokes the brutality of life at sea, but also its warmer, more humorous side. After the horrors of Anson's voyage it is a relief to read of Bougainville's reception at Tahiti and the meeting of Cook's sailors with the nymphs of Nootka Sound. The odyssey of the human spirit is ever present in The Adventure of Sail, from the perceptive introduction by the famous modern sailing man and boat designer, Uffa Fox, to the highly.
Past & Present, And Men Of The Times [ Inscribed By The Author]
Barry, W. Jackson [Captain William Jackson Barry]; Introduction by Thomas Bracken
Published by McKee & Gamble, Wellington, New Zealand 1897
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Book is slightly cocked. Covers have a few water spots and are somewhat darkened. Rear cover has a tiny nick to the spine edge and a long lightened streak. Binding partially cracked preceding the first page of text. Pages have scattered very slight foxing. One pair of facing pages brow…ned where a flower had been placed. ; Inscribed below the frontis portrait: "The Authors Compliments To F. W. Graham Esq. W Jackson Barry Age 80 years {Auckland July 25 - 99".
A Narrative of the Expedition sent by Her Majestys Government to the River Niger in 1841, under the command of Capt. H. D. Trotter. [With plates.]
Allen R N, William Captain; Thomson, Thomas Richard Heywood; Trotter, Henry Dundas
Language: English
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More imagesThe Joy of Words: Selections of Literature Expressing Beauty, Humor, History, Wisdom or Inspiration Which Are a Joy to Read and Read Again [VINTAGE 1975]
Jefferson, Thomas; Whitney, Frank B.; Goldsmith, Oliver; Confucius; Tennyson, Alfred Lord; Holmes, Oliver Wendell; Whitman, Walt; Carlyle, Thomas; Stevenson, Robert Louis; Goethe; Shelley; Ruskin, John; Dickenson, Emily; Chesterton, Gilbert K.; Da Vinci, Leonardo; Dulles, John Foster; Cicero; La Rochfoucauld; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Aurelius, Marcus; Byron, Lord; Goldsmith, Oliver; Shakespeare, William; Rogers, Will; Twain, Mark; Anonymous; Winthrop, John; Sandburg, Carl; Lincoln, Abraham; Roosevelt, Theodore; Dryden, John; Scott, Sir Walter; Cook, James; King, Captain James; Smith, Sidney; Kipling, Rudyard; Plato; Bombeck, Erma; Thoreau, Henry; Hoey, Willa, Lanier, Sidney; Barnard, William C.; et al
Language: English
Published by J. G. Ferguson Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois 1975
- Hardcover
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Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine condition faux red leather boards with elaborately illustrated gold front cover perimeter and spine decorations, gold front cover lettering, and gold spine lettering over a black block border. Includes Editor's Comment and Acknowledgments. Major chapter headings are as follows: Wisdom; Benjamin F…ranklin; History; Beauty and Business. "Sometimes it seems almost futile to try to write anything new because it has all been said before - and so well said. Of course, any such defeatism must lead to a dead end of accomplishment in terms of literary effort. Fortunately for the living and those to come, there are many bright new stars on the panel of contemporary writers. They are skillfully telling the story of these eventful days and their words will be read with relish by future generations. In fact, the printed word today is so prolific, and the competition with the book, the magazine and the newspaper is so great, future generations will require anthologies in great number to know what our bright literary stars have said. In this anthology there has bee no effort to be erudite, consistent, unusual or educational. The prime purpose is to amuse by exposing the reader to many things he has read before and may wish to read again. Perhaps that poem he [or she] HAD to learn, to pass freshman English, is here. He may even enjoy rereading it under different auspices. It is not possible to include only those things that appeal to him. If he dislikes poetry in any form, we hope he will please forgive us. Some of us like the "well-turned couplet." On the other hand, there are those who love Shakespeare, but just cannot understand how his hallowed words should appear with some of the more commonplace choices that have arrived in this selection. It takes all kinds you know - and we have tried to select all kinds of literature." - excerpt from Editor's Comment.
BLUE BOOK Magazine: July 1937 ("One Against a Wilderness", Kioga series)
Blue Book (Leland Jamieson; Kenneth Perkins; H. Bedford-Jones; Thomas W. Duncan; Thomas Topham; H. Beford-Jones & Captain L. B. Williams; Warren Hastiings Miller; William L. Chester; Robert R. Mill; Gordon Kayne; Jack O'Brien; Bob Dorman; more))
Published by McCall Co., NY 1937
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Add to basketSingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good+. Vol. 65, No. 3. Edited by Donald Kennicott. Cover art by Herbert Morton Stoops. Includes "With These Guns" (novelette) by Leland Jamieson; "Piping the Devil" by Kenneth Perkins; "Warriors in Exile" by H. Bedford-Jones; "Scarlet Fingers" by Thomas W. Duncan; "Pete Was a Real Hero" by Th…omas Topham; "Ships and Men" by H. Beford-Jones & Captain L. B. Williams; "Men Once Stood on Their Own Feet" by Warren Hastiings Miller; "One Against a Wilderness" by William L. Chester; "Just Like Old Times" by Robert R. Mill; "Gunpowder Gold" (novel) by Gordon Kayne. Price Stories of Real Experience: "When Wolves Attack" by Jack O'Brien; "The Butcher Poses" by Bob Dorman; "Toll of the Deep" by Captain W. D. Livingston; "Tiger's Night" by N. Baikov. Illustrated by Grattan Condon, Austin E. Briggs, Jeremy Cannon, Henry Thiede, Yngve Soderberg & Alfred Simpkin, George Avison, Monte Crews, & Peter Kuhlhoff. Tanning; dusty. Book.
Published by George P. Humphrey, Rochester, New York, U.S.A. 1897
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dustjacket. Reprint Edition. Seven late 19th century Colonial Reprints by Humphrey plus 2 original 1888 and 1901 publications, including full book on Jefferson by Adams; Scarce historical volume Contains: 1) Colonial Tract No 13, May 1898-- Captain John Smith-- A description of New England or…, the Observations and discoveries of Captain John Smith; 2) Colonial Tract No. 14, June 1898--Captain John Smith-- New Englands Trials; 3) Colonial Tract No. 17 Sepember 1898-- No author stated-- Extract from a Manuscript Collection of Annals Relative to Virginia; 4) Colonial Tract No 6 October 1897-- No author stated- Nova Britannia offering most excellent fruits by planting in Virginia;fine hardcover; 5) Colonial Tract no. 7 November 1897-- No author stated-- The New Life of Virginia; 6) Colonial Tract No 8 December 1897-- Thomas Jefferson- The Beginning, Progress, and Conclusion of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, in the Years 1675 and 1676; 7) Colonial Tract No 9 January 1898-- Mrs. An. Cotton-- An Account of Our late Troubles in Virginia; 8) Colonial Tracts No 10, February 1898--Captain Nathaniel Burwell-- A Narrative of the Indian and Civil Wars in Virginia, in the Years 1675 and 1676; 9) Circular of Information No 2 1888== Herbert B. Adams - Thomas Jefferson and The University of Virginia; Virginia Historical Society; 10) 1901-- Year Book of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, for 1900-1901; Plus Sir William Berkeley-- A List of Those that have been Executed for the Late Rebellion in Virginia ca 1898: a solid copy in green cloth; binding solid; decorated endpages; Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia is a smaller page size so edge looks uneven but binding is very solid, that is the way book was bound ; SATISFACTION GUARANTEED; ALL ORDERS SHIPPED WITH DELIVERY CONFIRMATION; Size: 6 x 9". Previous Owner Signature.
OUR STANDARD-BEARER, OR, THE LIFE OF GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT
Captain Bernard Galligasken; Oliver Optic \(William T. Adams\); Thomas Nast, illus.
Published by Boston: Lee & Shepard
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A Narrative of the Expedition sent by Her Majestys Government to the River Niger in 1841, under the command of Capt. H. D. Trotter. [With plates.]Vol. II.
Allen, William Captain R. N.|Thomson, Thomas Richard Heywood|Trotter, Henry Dundas
Language: English
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Condition: New. KlappentextbTitle:/b A Narrative of the Expedition sent by Her Majestys Government to the River Niger in 1841, under the command of Capt. H. D. Trotter. [With plates.]br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/Th.
Official History of the 120th Infantry, "3rd North Carolina" 30th Division, From August 5, 1917, to April 17, 1919. Canal Sector-Ypres-Lys Offensive Somme Offensive
Walker, Major John O.; graham, Major William A. and Fauntleroy, Captain Thomas
Language: English
Published by J.P. Bell 1919
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Tight binding, solid red boards with black lettering, 3 nice fold-out maps, clean, unmarked pages throughout.
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Our Standard-Bearer; or, the Life of General Ulysses S. Grant: His Youth, His Manhood, His Campaigns, and His Eminent Services in the Reconstruction the Nation His Sword Has Redeemed.
Seen and Related By Captain Bernard Galligasken; Written By Oliver Optic [William T. Adams]. Illustrated By Thomas Nast
Published by Lee and Shepard, Boston 1868
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Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1868. First edition, 1868. Externally very good, some internal issues but good overall - please read complete description. Attractive copy in emerald green cloth with spine lettered and decorated in gilt, engraved frontis by Nast, additional Nast engravings, 348… pages plus publisher's ads. Light rubbing to the extremities, good hinges, firm text block, two pages creased, transparent stain to lower corners throughout extending 1.5 inches in both directions from the corners, a little more toward the end of the book (no musty odor), pages otherwise clean, no names or other markings. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Autograph Letter Signed ('L: D: Campbell') from Captain Lawrence Dundas Campbell [to either of his publishers Thomas Cadell or William Davies], concerning the placing of advertisements for two of his books.
L. D. Campbell [Captain Lawrence Dundas Campbell], editor of the Asiatic Annual Register [Thomas Cadell, jnr (1773-1836); William Davies (d.1819)]
Published by St. Alban's Hotel St. Alban's Street London. 'Wednesday' circa 1808
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Add to basket1p., 4to. Spike hole. In good condition, on aged dusty paper. The letter reads: 'Dear Sir, I must request, as a particular favour, that you will advertise both the "Reply" and the "Letter on the Charges &c" in all the Morning and Evening papers both on Friday, and on Monday next. | I am | Dear Sir, | Very faithfully yours | L: D…: Campbell'. From the Cadell and Davies papers, the two books referred to having been published by the firm for Campbell: 'A reply to the strictures of the Edinburgh Review, on the foreign policy of Marquis Wellesley's administration in India' (1807) and 'A letter addressed to a member of the present Parliament on the "Articles of Charge" against Marquis Wellesley' (1808).
Published by Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, London 1859
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. New Edition. Hardback copy in full brown leather boards, raised bands to spine, gold gilt lettering, decorations and borders, no dustjacket as issued. 681pp. B/w frontispiece, b/w plates. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Bookplate to front pastedown, previous owners gold gilt stamp to… front boards, stain to bottom edge of frontispiece, title page, and front endpapers. (22/4).
[New Zealand print] Unattributed engraving entitled 'A FAMILY in DUSK BAY, NEW ZEALAND.'
George William Anderson [NEW ZEALAND; CAPTAIN THOMAS COOK; ALEXANDER HOGG]
Published by Without date or place but taken from George William Anderson's 'A new authentic and complete collection of voyages round the world. containing a new. account of Captain Cook's. voyages' London: Alexander Hogg 1785
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Add to basketRoughly nine and a half inches by fifteen wide. Mounted on a piece of card, with some fraying to extremities. Somewhat aged, but a good impression of a strong, striking idealised illustration, showing a bearded warrior with a club, emerging from the undergrowth beside a tree and fast-flowing water, beside which four women (one o…f them baring a breast) recline with their children. Images online.
A Narrative of the Expedition sent by Her Majestys Government to the River Niger in 1841, under the command of Capt H D Trotter With plates
Allen R N, William Captain; Thomson, Thomas Richard Heywood; Trotter, Henry Dundas
Language: English
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A Narrative of the Expedition sent by Her Majestys Government to the River Niger in 1841, under the command of Capt H D Trotter With plates
Allen R N, William Captain; Thomson, Thomas Richard Heywood; Trotter, Henry Dundas
Language: English
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The Wide World - The True Adventure Magazine for Men, June 1957 - The Men of Site "X" / Carpet of Buffalo Bones
King, A.G.; Hardinge, Major C.R.Q.; Dickie, Francis; Todd, Arthur; Sheppard, J. Mortimer; Laroyan, Scott; Weir, Tom; Marshall, William; Evans, Allen Roy; Welborn, Thomas; Course, Captain A.G.
Published by The Wide World, London 1957
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- First Edition
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. xxiv, 65-126 pages. Features: Return from the Dead - three fishermen face hell adrift for months in the Atlantic - with map and photo; Awakening to Nightmare (on Elephant Island); The Train Jumpers - Francis Dickie recalls a nightmare journey jumping a train from Portland to… San Francisco - with photos of the author; The White Rhino Hated Cars - article with photos; 50 Tons of Gold - the ongoing search for "Valverde's" Inca gold - article with photos and map; Terrorists On My Tail - A reporter under attack in Morocco - article with photos; Ringing Gannets off the coast of Scotland; Men of Site "X" - the ice and blizzard-ridden existence of men on the DEW line across northern Canada and Alaska; The Terrible Carpet of Bones - the terrible slaughter of the buffalo herds; The Curse of Pulo Jehat - the evil of a witch doctor survives his death; The End of the Hoodoo 'Bambo'; Pirates Aboard! - China Sea pirates board the s.s. Hong Bee - article with map and photo of the ship; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Nicolson, W.C. (cover) (illustrator).
More imagesA complete collection of state-trials, and proceedings upon high-treason, and other Crimes and Misdemeanours; from the reign of King Richard II. To The End of the Reign of King George I. The Fifth Volume only. Pirate trials of Capt.s Kidd, Kirkby & Green
(Kidd, Capt. William; Captain Richard Kirkby; Captain Thomas Green)
Published by London 1742
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Third edition, with additions. Trials of noted sea captains, including of pirate Captain Kidd, Captain Richard Kirkby and pirate Captain Thomas Green. Captain William Kidd (c.1654 1701) was a Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy, although some modern historians note tha…t relegating him to the role of pirate and putting him on trial was a maneuver used by politicians of the day to deflect attention from their own questionable roles in privateering. Here Kidd testifies that he has French passes, which would have provided proof that he worked as a privateer and not a pirate: "I beg your Lordship's Patience till I can procure my Papers. I had a Couple of French Passes, which I must make use of in order to my Justification" (p287). Kidd was not allowed to retrieve his papers; he was found guilty on all charges (murder and piracy) and sentenced to death. (pp 287-338) Captain Richard Kirkby (1658 16 April 1703) was an officer of the Royal Navy who was tried at a court martial for his conduct during the Action of August 1702, a naval battle in the War of the Spanish Succession, in which a British squadron fought the French off the coast of present day Colombia, South America. Kirkby, who wrote to the Admiralty and claimed that the defeat was in fact caused by Vice Admiral Benbow's errors in judgment, was convicted of cowardice and disobedience and sentenced to be shot. (pp 445-448). Captain Thomas Green (1679?-1705) was an English sailor and alleged pirate, who was accused of having boarded a ship off the coast of India, seized its goods, killed the crew and sold the ship. The evidence against Capt. Green was insufficient, however he was found guilty and hanged in Scotland along with 2 crew members. (pp 592-608) Volume 5 of a 6 volume set. Folio, 852pp. Deaccessed by the NY Association of the Bar Library, with their stamp on the title page. Pale green library cloth binding with leather gilt spine labels, and paper label. Spine sunned, cloth marked at spine; upper corner front board bumped. OCLC: 221743636 for the 6 volume set, (1 copy) Monash University.
The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Men: February, 1914 - Volume 32, Number 190 - Gun-Running with Zapata
Barr, William; Dunn, H.H.; Nicholls, G. Heaton; Grenfell, Wilfred T.; Fagan, D.W.O.; Pratt, A.E.; Burton, Colonel R.G.; Talbot, P. Amaury; Blake, Harry M.; Guinand, W.B.; Villepion, Guy De; Barracliffe, Captain James
Published by George Newnes Limited, London 1914
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- Periodical
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages 303-396 plus 28 pages of ads, many wonderfully illustrated. Numerous black and white illustrations and photos in text. Features: Saved by Two Inches - How a big-horn sheep brought a veteran hunter to the verge of destruction in Montana; Gun-Running with Mexican Outlaw…Emiliano Zapata - article with great photos; A Terrible Trip - Gold Searching in German New Guinea; Twenty Years in Newfoundland (Part II) - article with nice photos; Fishermen's Luck - a story from New Zealand involving T. Colthart, H. Hewlett and D.G. FitzGibbon; Across the Andes and Down the Amazon - the story of an adventurous journey (part II); The Well of Skulls - a story from Hyderabad; The Lake of Life - the Idiong secret society in Africa; The King Who Met His Match - a story from Sierra Leone; Trapped in a Tank (cover illustration); Captured by the Monkey-Men - an explorer's tale from the Orinoco River; The Smugglers of Gibraltar; Pete the Pup - an adventurous dog in New Mexico. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Minor chipping to back strip. Three inch opening between front cover and base of spine. Overall a pleasing copy of this wonderful vintage issue.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Barr, William; Dunn, H.H.; Nicholls, G. HeatonGrenfell, Wilfred T.; Fagan, D.W.O.; Pratt, A.E.; Burton, Colonel R.G.; Talbot, P. Amaury; Blake, Harry M.; Guinand, W.B.; Villepion, Guy De; Barracliffe, Captain James The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine f. Illustrated by Evison, G. Henry; Robinson, Wyndham P.; Wigfull, W.E.;Somerfield, Thomas; Peddie, Tom; Holmes, Fred; Burton, H.M. (illustrator).
More imagesAn Historical and Descriptive Account of China; Its Ancient and Modern History, Language, Literature, Religion, Government, Industry, Manners, and Social State ; Intercourse with Europe from the Earliest Ages ; Missions and Embassies to the Imperial Court ; British and Foreign Commerce ; Directions to Navigators ; State of Mathematics and Astronomy ; Survey of its Geography, Geology, Botany, and Zoology [3 vols]
Murray, Hugh; Lynn, Captain Thomas; Wallace, William; Burnet, Gilbert
Published by Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh 1843
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. 8vo (small). 3 vols in custom red cloth slipcase. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Small 8vo, (4.25" x 6.75") Full red cloth, gilt titles and devices. Recently professionally rebacked with original spines laid down. 368; 498; 462 pp. B&W engraved illustrations in text,… incl. engraved half-titles, B&W folding map to vol. I. Christmas gift inscription to front pastedown of vol. I dated 1846. Light general soiling to cloth commensurate with age. Light chafing to extremities, some bumping to corners, a few small spots of wear. Sporadic foxing to interior, mostly to front and end matter. Light edge toning.
More imagesThe Tryals of Thomas Walcot, William Hone, William Lord Russell, John Rous & William Blagg, for high-treason, for conspiring the death of the King and raising a rebellion in this Kingdom. + letter written to my Lord Russel in Newgate by Tillotson + The last speech & behaviour of William Late Lord Russel, Captain Thomas Walcot, John Rouse and William Hone +The Speeches of Captain Walcot, Jo Rouse and Will Hone, on Friday the Twentieth of July 1683. (4 original Rye House Plot items)
J. Tillotson, William Lord Russel, Captain Thomas Walcot, John Rouse and William Hone,
Published by Printed for Richard Royston, Benjamin Took and Charles Mearn, R. Balwin, Thomas Fox, London 1683. 18.5 x 28.5cm £450 BA126/5 1683
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Title + appoint page + 81 pages. + 2 page letter + title page + 4 page Last speech and behaviour of William Late Lord Russel, etc. + 14 page The last speech of Captain Walcot, Jo Rouse and Will Hone, Full titles of the 2 main items below. All in good condition for age. 4 items all dated…1683 relating to the Rye House Plot, 1st item; Title page + appoint page + 81 pages. The Tryals of Thomas Walcot, William Hone, William Lord Russell, John Rous & William Blagg, for high-treason, for conspiring the death of the King and raising a rebellion in this Kingdom : at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily London, on a Commission of Oyer and Terminer held there for the city of London and county of Middlesex, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, July 12, 13 and 14, 1683. ( The principal contemporary account of the trial) to rear of title page Will Prichard, the Mayor of the City of London appoints Richard Royston, Benjamin Took and Charles Mearn and no one else to publish. In good condition for age, some dirt/ ageing and fold to title page, repaired tear to top. Rest in good condition, some ageing and tiny edge nicks to a couple of pages. 2nd item; is a 1683 printed copy of a 2 page "Letter written to my Lord Russel in Newgate the Twentieth of July 1683" by John Tillotson, published by R. Balwin In good condition, a few minor ink dots/marks. 3rd item; Title page + 4 pages, The last speech & behaviour of William Late Lord Russel upon the scaffold in Lincolns-Inne-Fields, a little before his execution, on Saturday, July 21. 1683, being condemned for high-treason in conspiring the death of the King and the subversion of the government, &c., together with the paper delivered by him to the sheriffs, and signed with his own hand. Also The last speeches, behaviour, and prayers of Capt. Thomas Walcot, John Rouse Gent. & William Hone joyner : a little before their execution at Tyburn, on Friday the 20th of July 1683, being condemned for high-treason in conspiring, &c. In good condition for age, some minor ageing. 4th item: 14 pages, is "The Speeches of Captain walcot, Jo Rouse and Will Hone, on Friday the Twentieth of July 1683" In good condition for age, some ageing. The whole is unbound though all attached together and was once bound, but now all attached together with a latter end page. From a quick net check this is the only copy of the four items for sale together. The principal contemporary account of the trial of the plot's conspirators, leading to the execution of Lord Russell (and Algernon Sydney) and contributing mightily if indirectly to the Revolution and the reform of the English law of treason. With 3 other rare 1683 contemporary items relating to it. Overall in good condition for 1683, some ageing, very light foxing, a few minor listed faults, but no major faults. A rare /possibly unique last chance to ever purchase all 4 original Rye House Plot items together. Size: 18.5 x 28.5cm. Approx.
More imagesTravels to the source of the Missouri River and across the American continent to the Pacific Ocean : performed by order of the Government of the United States, in the years 1804, 1805, and 1806. By Capitains Lewis and Clarke. Published from the official report, and illustrated by a map of the route, and other maps. First edition.
Lewis, Captain Meriwether (1774-1809); William Clark, author and cartographer (1770-1830); Samuel Lewis cartographer ; Samuel John Neele (1763-1824), engraver; Thomas Jefferson, 1806 preface; Thomas Rees, 1814 preface;Nicholas Biddle; J. G. Barnard, Skinner Street, London, printer
Published by London: Printed For Longman, Hurst , Rees, Orme and Brown., Paternoster-Row, 1814 1814
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Add to basketCondition: Good. 4to. 22.5 x 29cm. xxiv, 663 , [1] pages; 4 map plates hors texte (one large folding). Page [664} is the publisher's catalogue .Contemporary boards with later linen spine and label; endpapers renewed, some offsetting present on map and plates, 2 leaves with closed tear.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:4910831; Wri…ght Howes, 317; Field 929; Howes L-317; Literature of Lewis & Clark 5A.2; Streeter 3128.The controversial Louisiana Purchase in 1803 - whereby the United States purchased the territory of Louisiana (comprising a stretch of land from today's Montana to Louisiana with Colorado to the West and Missouri to the East) from the French - nearly doubled the size of the country. The cost of the transaction was $15,000,000, around $18 per square mile. Control of the entire area was taken over by the United States, including large areas of the country which was inhabited - and managed - by Native Americans, who had never themselves ceded the land. Following the Purchase, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned an expedition to explore the territory and report back in as much detail as possible. A primary aim was to find a new travel route across the country, ensuring an American presence in the area before other colonial powers took advantage of the area and tried to establish their own footholds. The Lewis and Clark Expedition - alternatively known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition - set out from Camp Dubois on the 14th May 1804, crossing the Continental Divide, eventually reaching St. Louis, Missouri, in 1806. They were famously assisted in interpretation and interactions with local tribes by Sacagawea, a Lemni Shoshone woman who accompanied the expedition.The Lewis and Clark Expedition introduced the United States government to various Native American tribes and how trade with them could be promoted, alongside advising on the viability of the path they followed. Various botanical and zoological specimens were returned to the East Coast, including corn, or maize, grown by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. It took nearly 10 years for Lewis and Clark to publish their journals, first in Philadelphia in octavo format in 1814 as History of the Expedition under the Command of Captain Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Colombia to the Pacific Ocean. Here we find the first British edition, including Neele's highly important folding map, showing the expedition route.
More imagesPublished by A. Millar, W. Law & R. Cater, London 1790
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Add to basketHalf Leather. Condition: Good. [Lacking all the folding maps and charts]. Six volumes, octavo, pp 2242, (4), generally age-toned throughout, lacking most of page 1445/6, a cracked hinge with weakness in volume two, a few pages lacking small marginal pieces, but otherwise surprisingly sound throughout, with 126 (of 129 ?) engrave…d plates, three plates repaired (one with slight loss), bound in a very simple and unsophiticated half calf and marbled boards, rather dull, the spines un-lettered apart from numerals, chipped and with slight loss. The binding is a little tight, and whereas the text is easily read, the titles of some plates are hidden, though there is a binding list with titles at the rear of the last volume. Despite some condition faults this a curiously satisfying and unassuming set.
More imagesPublished by Richard Bentley, London 1835
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Contact seller5-star sellerHalf Leather. Condition: Good binding. Travel narrative by Thomas Boteler, of the survey expedition of HMS Barracouta and Leven as they survey the East African coast, and the River Gambia. Upon their return, they had surveyed 30,000 nautical mailes of coast, prepared 83 charts, and lost half their crew to tropical diseases. With… four plates and few text illustrations. Wear to the joints, rubbing to the boards, surface loss to the edges of the boards, and spots of surface loss and creasing to the spine, especially one spot affecting the titling of Vol. II. Hinges feel fragile, though appear to be holding and are not cracked at the time of description. Half leather over marbled paper boards, with gilt lettering and designs along the spine. Good binding.
More imagesPublished by Lawrence Blaiklock,, London, 1643
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Add to basketFirst and only edition of an account of the taking of the Mayflower, a royalist privateer vessel belonging to Captain Polhill, Admiral of Falmouth, by the parliamentarian Captain William Thomas of the 8th Whelp. This happened during the English Civil War, a conflict over the manner of England's government, in which the supporter…s of King Charles I stood against the supporters of Oliver Cromwell and the Long Parliament.Thomas was ordered to escort some trading vessels to Morlaix in Brittany. When he learned that the prize ship Mayflower, recently taken from Yarmouth, was lying at that harbour, he disguised his vessel as a merchant ship to lure Polhill out. Polhill was fooled, and made haste to capture the reported merchantman "laden with wool and iron". Thomas chased the Mayflower and forced it to run aground. Eventually the captain escaped and remaining crew surrendered and came over to Thomas's side.Robert Riviere (1808-1882) established his famous bindery in Bath and moved it to London in 1840, gaining a reputation as one of England's best binders for the quality of his materials and workmanship. He signed his bindings "Bound by Riviere" from 1860 to 1880.With the pencilled initials "W.H. C-M." and the date "12 Oct. 1882", that is Wakefield Christie-Miller (1835-1898), who later inherited the Britwell Library. Some minor spots and smudges along the extremities, but otherwise in very good condition. Binding fine.l ESTC R16776; M.J. Lea-O'Mahoney, The navy in the English Civil War (2011), pp. 85-87; Thomason, p. 264; not in Adams & Waters; Gosse; Huntress; JCB maritime history. Dark blue half morocco (ca. 1870), gold-tooled spine, gilt edges, marbled boards with gold fillets, bound by Riviere, with the binder's stamp on flyleaf. With the letterpress title page in a border built up out of cast fleurons, a woodcut headpiece and a decorated woodcut initial. Pages: [2], "7" [=5], [1 blank] pp.
More imagesThe Trial of the British Soldiers, of the 29th Regiment of Foot [W. Wemms and others], for the murder of Crispus Attucks [and others] March 5, 1770, etc.c.
William WEMMS; Crispus ATTUCKS; Samuel GRAY, of Boston Mass.; Samuel MAVERICK, of Boston.; Thomas PRESTON, Captain 29th Regiment of Foot.
Published by Boston: Beecher & Armstrong 1807
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fair. [Boston Massacre, Early American Printing] Contemporary boards, conserved and rebacked on modern spine. Ink and perforated stamps on title page. 120 p. First published in 1770, under the title: The trial of William Wemms, James Hartegan [etc.] Taken in short hand by John Hodgson. Future President John… Adams successfully represented the accused British soldiers in the tumultuous trial. "The trial of the British soldiers, of the 29th Regiment of Foot : for the murder of Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, and Patrick Carr, on Monday evening, March 5, 1770, before the Honorable Benjamin Lynde, John Cushing, Peter Oliver, and Edmund Trowbridge, esquires, justices of the Superior court of judicature, Court of assize, and general gaol delivery, held at Boston, by adjournment, November 27, 1770." From the library of Richard Manning Hodges (1827-1896), noted American surgeon (Harvard College 1847, Harvard Medical School 1850).
More imagesTo The Right Hon. Frederic Lord North, His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Southern Department;
METCALFE, Thomas T.; GREENE, Will.; WOOD, M.; FRITH, R.; MURRAY, John; MURRAY, Peter; SCOTT, William.; [WILLIAMS, D., Captain]
Published by Printed for John Stockdale 1784; [1790] 1784
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Add to basketLeather Bound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 31 p.; 70 p. 21 cm. Quarter leather with marbled boards. Spine label reads "Tracts." Rebound with new endpapers. Spine worn and boards rubbed. . Reverse of p. 31 in first tract is noticeably dark, and the leaves of this section bear more thumbing and staining than the rest of the… text, which is only darkened on the first and last pages. The first tract is also shorter than the rest of the text block and bound slightly askew, but cut with the rest of the pages, and there is a tear in the centre of the block at the spine from the thread of its original binding. A few typos are corrected by hand in the first document. Williams' narrative, the second document, has lost its half-title and title-page. Title continues: "Captain William's Narrative; in which is contained particulars relative to the execution of Mustapha Cawn; and observations on the speeches of General Burgoyne, Colonel Fullarton, Mr. Fox, Mr. Burke, and, Mr. Francis; addressed to The Officers of the British Army." This volume contains two related books. The first letter pertains to Pitt's India Act of 1784. The second is by Captain Williams, who put Mustapha Cawn to death without a trial, exactly the type of behaviour Pitt was trying to overcome with legislation in the British Parliament. The resulting Narrative is Williams' defense of his actions.
A Narrative of the Expedition sent by Her Majestys Government to the River Niger in 1841 under the command of Capt. H. D. Trotter. [With plates.]
Allen R N, William Captain; Thomson, Thomas Richard Heywood; Trotter, Henry Dundas
Language: English
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A Narrative of the Expedition sent by Her Majestys Government to the River Niger in 1841 under the command of Capt. H. D. Trotter. [With plates.]
Allen R N, William Captain; Thomson, Thomas Richard Heywood; Trotter, Henry Dundas
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A Narrative of the Expedition sent by Her Majestys Government to the River Niger in 1841 under the command of Capt. H. D. Trotter. [With plates.]
Allen R N, William Captain; Thomson, Thomas Richard Heywood; Trotter, Henry Dundas
Language: English
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