Two Early Documents, Used (13 results)

Complete two-volume set, as photographed, private ownership - clean, crisp and unmarked throughout; Hakluyt Second Series nos. CXXXVI, CXXXVII, 1969. Hakluyt blue cloth with bright gilt decoration and spine printing; dust-jackets a little dustmarked; edited and annotated by Philip Barbour. In 1606, 120 emigrants left London to land 6 months later in Virginia where they founded the first English settlement in America. They called it Jamestown. Barbour "has collected all the known documents relating to the Jamestown voyages .and has translated those written in languages other than English. In his introduction he reviews the early sources.a graphic and fascinating contemporary picture of the first few years of the colony out of which the United States was destined to grow". Vol I: xxviii+247; Vol II: viii+249-524 incl. appendices, bibliography and indexes. 2pls+4 in-text maps+2 folding maps. A clean, sound, pleasing set. Further photographs on request. The packed set weighs 2.7kg and if shipping outside the UK, extra postage will be requested.

Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 424 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,2000grams, ISBN:0905203224.

24cm, xciv,368 & lxxxvii,381pp. with 38 plates (inc. 2 in colour), folding map, bibliography, original red cloth, a very good set in jackets. (on). A source for primary material and an interesting account of the early years of Toronto.

Hard. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. 3rd, Revised. 2 vols. Clean and tight, some dampstaining to boards and bumping to spine. Front gutter weak in vol.1. Some light foxing. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Rebound red cloth hard cover with gilt titles and gilt catalogue number on spine, and no cover wear. Includes an inscription from the author with very best regards, 303 pages, folded map at front, and 2 full page illustrations with tissue guards, and appendix and table at rear. Inside the front cover is a small hand written library number, but none of the usual lending library stamps. Although undated it is a 3rd edition and 1st edition was circa 1835-1842. This signed rebound rare (unable to find any others) book is in fine condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Two books both sky blue coloured, hardbacks, with nice gilt ship design on front board, and gilt title impressions on the spine. Both books come their respective dust jackets, noticeable signs of wear and tear to jackets. Volume I jacket is price clipped, however Volume II jacket is not price clipped. Both books are in good condition, normal wear, marks and tear apply, consistent with use and age. Both books have on the first blank page, the previous owners name, signature in pen/biro. Volume I has 247 pages plus a fabulous pull out map titled "The so-called "Zuniga Map", 1608." Volume II has pages from 248-524 plus gorgeous pull out map of Virginia titled "John Smith's map of 1612." All pages intact in both books, all pages, text, maps and illustrations are in really good, clean, readable order. The odd speckle of foxing on edge of papers. Published by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, 1969, therefore a First Edition on both volumes. Printed in Great Britain by Robert Maclehose & Company Limited at the University Press, Glasgow. Dedicated to the memory of Sir Walter Raleigh 1861-1922. Preface by the Editor, Philip L. Barbour, dated September 1966. In December 1606, one hundred and twenty emigrants left London in three small vessels. They landed nearly five months later in Virginia and founded a settlement which they called Jamestown. Thus the first permanent English colony was established in America. In these two volumes Mr Barbour (the author/editor) has collected all the known documents relating to the Jamestown voyages during the life of the original charter. This collection gives a graphic and fascinating contemporary picture of the first few years of the colony out of which the United States was destined to grow. A truly fascinating account, well documented book and an interesting, informative view of the early history of these settlers.

First edition. 4to. [xvii], 463 pp. No. 68 of 265 copies. Cloth binding, gilt lettering spine, light surface wear, overall very good condition. (81134).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Two volume set. 23.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. viii 576pp, iv 572pp. Bound into 1/2 red leather, black cloth. Fold-out plate opposite page 288 in volume 1 is complete, but is in two pieces, being cleanly torn at a fold. Fold-out map opposite page 528 in nice condition. Bindings are worn especially at hinges. Bookplate on front fixed endpapers. Some gouges to the boards. Originally published in monthly numbers, this being the collected edition. Howes and Sabin state that it is often lacking the last issue, but volume 2 number 12 is present here. Howes C-486. Sabin 17365.

paperback. Condition: Good. Ship out in 2 business day, And Fast shipping, Free Tracking number will be provided after the shipment.Paperback. Pub Date :1948-06 Pages: 96 Publisher: North China Xinhua Bookstore printed cover small corner of theFour Satisfaction guaranteed,or money back.

4to. (1+2 =) 3 pp., in Arabic throughout. Includes one original addressed airmail envelope (printed Government of Ras-Al-Khaimah stationery). Two early, unique paper items from the Gulf Sheikhdoms: an official document from Sharjah witnessed by the ruler and a piece of private correspondence relating to the founding of a Ras Al-Khaimah government institution six years before independence. - 1) A power of attorney witnessed by the ruler of Sharjah, Sheikh Sultan bin Saqr Al Qasimi (ruled 1924-51). The document certifies that Salim ibn Ibrahim al-Yusuf and Abd al-Rahman ibn Khalifa al-Yusuf appoint Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahim and Haji ibn Abd al-Rahim to collect the rent for their properties in Bahrain, replacing their previous agent Muhammad ibn Rashid al-Qassab. The document, signed by Salim al-Yusuf in the month Dhu al-Qa'dah 1362 AH, bears in its upper right corner the seal of the ruler of Sharjah with a handwritten note: "They testified in my presence / Sultan bin Saqr al-Qasimi, Ruler of Sharjah and its Dependencies". With an eight-anna revenue stamp issued by the British Indian government and a stamp of attestation, certifying that the Sheikh's seal is authentic, dated 9 Feb. 1944 and signed by the Political Officer of the Trucial Coast, Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy (1912-86). Some browning and stains, edge tears and paper flaws (some with early repairs on verso). - 2) A two-page letter in blue ink, dated 7 March 1966, from Sami Abd al-Rahman Saqr, based at the Municipality in Ras al Khaimah, addressed to his friend Maher in Cairo. Sami Abd al-Rahman Saqr explains that when he returned to Ras al-Khaimah from his recent visit to Maher, the Sheikh [of Ras al-Khaimah, Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi] asked him to help establish the State Audit Institution. He writes that he has therefore now relinquished his position at the Municipality, adding that the institution will start small until the building is ready and discussing the plans for its further development. Sami Abd al-Rahman Saqr further mentions that he will travel to London in April on the first BOAC flight from Dubai to London, marking the launch of this new route. While the airline invited the Sheikh to travel on this inauguration flight, having provided him with a return ticket and expenses for a week's stay in London, the Sheikh is too busy to avail himself of this gift and is therefore sending Sami Abd al-Rahman Saqr on his behalf. He may extend his stay as long as two weeks to discuss business opportunities with British companies and offers to bring Maher anything from London that he may wish. Written on blue airmail stationery with printed letterhead; includes the airmail envelope.

Folio, 10 leaves; 4 leaves of facsimile manuscript (1 leaf blank); without a title page, as issued. Blue library cloth, gilt title direct on spine, near fine. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate, with their release stamp on flyleaf and labels on rear pastedown. A manuscript note: "George H. Moore Esq, these copies (seven sheets) [i.e. 14 leaves] of official papers in Spanish and in Apalachian and Timuquan - early languages of Florida - from his friend / Buckingham Smith / January 1860." Pilling records a similar note on his copy, which contains a further mention that this is one of 50 copies. Letter to King Charles II of Spain from the governor of Florida, Diego de Quiroga y Losada dated April 1, 1688 -- Letter to Governor Diego de Quiroga y Losada dated February 19, 1688 from Father Marcelo de S. Joseph (who translated a letter from the Apalachee caciques into Spanish) -- Facsimile of a letter in the Apalachee language, followed by a Spanish translation signed by Alonsso Solana -- Letter to Governor Diego de Quiroga y Losada, dated February 17, 1688 from Francisco de Roxas (who translated a letter from the Timucua caciques into Spanish) -- Facsimile of a letter in the Timucua language, followed by a Spanish translation signed by Alonsso Solano. Pilling, Proof-sheets 3633; Pilling, Muskhogean p. 85.

None. Condition: None. Historically significant extensive archive of a famous German Egyptologist Heinrich Brugsch, a pioneer decipherer of the Demotic ancient Egyptian script and author of several fundamental works on ancient Egyptian history and hieroglyphs: "Grammaire demotique" (Berlin, 1855), "Histoire d'Égypte des les premiers temps de son existence jusqu'a nos jours" (Leipzig, 1859), "Hieroglypisch-demotisches Wörterbuch" (Leipzig, 1867-82, 7 vols.), "Geschichte Ägyptens unter den Pharaonen" (Leipzig, 1877), "Dictionnaire géographique de l'ancienne Égypte" (+ Supplement, Leipzig, 1879-1880), "Thesaurus inscriptionum aegyptiacarum" (Leipzig, 1883-91, 6 vols.), and others. The archive includes seven original manuscripts, apparently compiled in the course of Brugsch's work on several of his important publications. The Folio manuscript, titled "Les Nomes de la Haute-Egypte" (together with loosely inserted "Documents relatifs au nom des Hébreux") was most likely prepared during his work on the "Dictionnaire géographique de l'ancienne Egypte." The manuscript lists and explains the hieroglyphs defining 22 noms (administrative divisions) of Upper Egypt (Nubia, Apollinopolis, Eileithyiapolis, Diospolis, Coptus, Tentyra, Diospolites, &c.), same as in Brugsch's "Dictionnaire géographique?" (p. 15; see more ). Two manuscripts - "Beauten Ersten Ranges. Fonctionnaires de la Cour" and an untitled collection of 24 leaves with mounted printed Egyptian hieroglyphs and dense manuscript notes on the margins - were possibly compiled during Brugsch's work on his multi-volume "Thesaurus inscriptionum aegyptiacarum." The manuscripts contain extensive notes and commentaries on hieroglyphs, with the material in the "Beauten Ersten Ranges" seemingly organized in a vocabulary-like manner. Two notebooks with manuscript notes on the history of ancient Egypt in German and French, respectively, could have been prepared in the course of Brugsch's work on the "Histoire d'Égypte des les premiers temps de son existence jusqu'a nos jours" or its later German-language version "Geschichte Aegyptens unter den Pharaonen." One of the manuscripts (a fragment of a larger work with pages numbered from 41 to 98) contains complete chapters "IV. Chronologie de l'ère des Pharaons," "V. Le premier pharaon Mena et l'ancien empire," and " VI. Les successeurs de Mena." The archive also includes an early Brugsch's manuscript, titled "Handbuch fur allgemeinen Beredungen" (dated Cairo, 27 September 1864) with passages on hieroglyhs, and parallel notes in Greek, Hebrew and German; Brugsch's article "Über den Ursprung unserer Schriftzeichen" (About the origin of our writing system), from "Zeitschrift für Stenographie und Orthographie in wissenschaftlicher, pädagogischer and prakticher Beziehung" (Leipzig, 1864. Vo. XII, No. 3, pp. 70-79 [= 10 pp.); and a manuscript on the Babylonian-Assyrian cuineform script with Brugsch's extensive commentaries. The collection also contains a folder with over a dozen leaves of miscellaneous manuscript materials, including an autograph letter to "Herrn. Kais. Legationrath Prof. Dr. H. Brugsch-Pacha" from an Alexandria lawyer "Fr. von Dumreicher" (dated 2 March 1894), regarding the state of affairs of Brugsch's deceased son Alex (with the original envelope); a telegram from Brugsch's brother Emile (sent from Cairo in February 1894, likely on the same occasion); leaves with accounting of Brugsch's expenses (one dated "24.10.94"); a pencil-drawn plan of the Temple in Heliopolis; a pencil drawing of the famous Dendera Zodiac bas-relief, &c. There is also an eight-page offprint from "Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Verwandte Gebiete" with P. Jensen's article, titled "Napahu = "aufleuchten," "wiedererscheinen" " (Leipzig, 1886, vol. 1. pp. 450-457). Overall, an important, extensive archive of original manuscripts by a famous 19th-century German Egyptologist, shedding light on the methods and scope of his research into Egyptian history and hieroglyphs. A list of larger manuscripts and Brugsch's magazine article: [BRUGSCH, H. Manuscript, Titled]: Les Nomes de la Haute-Égypte; WITH: [Loosely Inserted Manuscript, titled: Documents relatifs au nom des Hébreux]. Ca. 1870s. Folio (ca. 36x23 cm or 14x9 in). 26 leaves put together in an accordion-like manner; plus 2 leaves of the second manuscript. In all 30 pp. of text. Blue and red ink on thick album leaves; text in French; some names in Greek; occasional period pencil notes in text. Brown and black ink on creamy lined paper. Paper slightly age-toned, several leaves detached from the sequence and loosely inserted, occasional tears and chipping on extremities, but overall very good manuscripts. [BRUGSCH, H. Folder, titled]: Beauten Ersten Ranges. Fonctionnaires de la Cour. Ca. 1880s. Folio (ca. 34x16,5 cm or 13 ½ x 6 ½ in). Paper folder with 25 loose leaves with numerous mounted pieces of paper with ink-drawn Egyptian hieroglyphs and dense manuscript comments in German (in ink or pencil). Paper slightly age-toned, minor creases or tears on extremities, but overall very good. [BRUGSCH, H. Manuscript with Mounted Printed Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Dense Manuscript Notes on the Margins]. Ca. 1880s. Folio (ca. 33x22,5 cm or 13 x 8 ¾ in). 24 paper leaves; all with mounted clippings with printed hieroglyphs and period manuscript ink or pencil notes in German and more hieroglyphs on the margins (filled in on versos). Leaves originally sewn together, but the thread is broken; one of the clippings partly detached from the mount; paper slightly age-toned, minor tears or chipping on the extremities, not affecting the text; overall very good. [BRUGSCH, H. Notebook with Manuscript Notes on the History of Ancient Egypt]. Ca. 1870s-1880s. Quarto (ca. 21x17 cm or 8 ¼ x 6 ¾ in). 12 paper leaves filled in on recto and verso in German cursive (24 pp. of text). Black and brown ink on squared paper. With nine loosely inserted leaves of various sizes with period ink notes in German on ancient Egypt and hieroglyph.