A First Report (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 36 pages. Illustrated. Judith Prendergast "Pembrokeshire Graveyard Survey - A First Report" / Paul Cockerham "The Maddern Slate Memorial Appeal" / Peter Lord "A Lincolnshire Gravestone" / Claude Blair and Elizabeth Darby "Spetchley (Hereford & Worcester), All Saints" / Bridget Cherry "London Excursion 23rd November 1985" / Michael Hodges "Reading Day Trip 22nd March 1986" (SL#3).

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Annual Register; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition U.S.A. Very good clean firm interior for the age, no marks or inscriptions, just a tiny age-spot to side page block with light tone here also, very good clean firm cloth boards; d/j has standard shelfwear as shown, chipping/loss to spine tips and to extremities, light tone overall but with bright frontage and no large loss/tears, covered with a new removable sleeve-protector, not price-clipped.

Paperback. Condition: Very good. First edition of The Iraq Study Group Report, signed by Co-Chairman, James A. Baker III. (illustrator). First Edition. Twelvemo, xviii, 142pp. Illustrated paperback. Stated "first edition" with full number line on copyright page. Faint fold through bottom corner of front cover. This work was only released in paperback form. Book has never been read. Signed by former Secretary of State James Baker. The Iraq Study Group was formed in March of 2006 by the United States Congress to evaluate the situation in Iraq and make policy recommendations on the way forward. The group was led by former Secretary of State James Baker and Democratic congressman, Lee H. Hamilton. It was also known as the Baker-Hamilton Commission. Signed.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. The signed first edition of War In Korea: The Report Of A Woman Combat Correspondent by Marguerite Higgins. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 223, [1]. Gray cloth, title printed in red on the spine. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Illustrated endpapers. Complete with 29 photographic plates. Rubbing to tips of the spine, white ink blemish at head of the spine. In the publisher's dust jacket, price clipped, closed tears at head and heel of the spine, shelf wear, wrinkled edge along front cover, a scarce jacket. Signed on the title page: "With regards / "Maggie" Higgins." Marguerite Higgins (1920-1966) became a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune in 1942. Higgins covered World War II in Europe, reported from the Dachau concentration camp in 1945, and later covered the Korean War, where she was one of the first reporters to enter Seoul after its liberation in 1950. She won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1951 for her Korean War coverage. Higgins also reported from Vietnam and the Soviet Union. She joined Newsday in 1963 and died in 1966 from leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease often transmitted by sand flies, which Higgins contracted while on assignment in Vietnam. Signed.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. The first edition of The Cincinnati Cemetery of Spring Grove, a Report for 1857, with lithographed plates. (illustrator). First Edition. Octavo, [2], 147pp, [3]. Publisher's pebbled brown cloth, ruled in blind, title stamped in gilt on the cover. Yellow endpapers. Touch of wear to cloth at the head of the spine. Some faint transference from plates to adjacent leaf. Solid text block. Free of ownership marks or notations. This work includes a lithograph with a fold-out "View of Lake," and 46 additional plates. The "Index to Plates" calls for 48 plates and a fold-out "View of Lake," but the two lacking (O.C. Betts and Peter Neff) are lacking in all catalogued examples. (Sabin 89822) An outstanding example of this scarce work on early Cincinnati. A revised and enlarged edition of this report was issued in 1862, printed by Bradley & Webb of Cincinnati. (Sabin 89825) Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, founded in 1845, was designed by landscape architect Howard Daniels and later refined by Adolph Strauch. It is the resting place for many of Cincinnati's prominent industrial, political, and cultural figures, including Salmon P. Chase (Chief Justice of the United States), Civil War General Joseph Hooker, Procter & Gamble cofounders James Gamble and William Procter, the Nicholas Longworth family, and members of the Taft family.

Leather bound. Condition: Near fine. First edition of A Report Of The Trial Of Commodore David Porter as recorded by Robert Beale in 1825. (illustrator). First Edition. Octavo, viii, 244pp, 68pp. Half brown morocco, title in gilt on spine. Red cloth boards, marbled edges. Solid text block, light wear to cloth, occasional foxing to leaves, lightly toned throughout. Ex-library with usual stamps to title page. (Sabin 64222) With the bookplate of Charles Fleischmann III affixed to the front free endpaper. A well-presenting example of an incredibly scarce title, with no similar copies to be found on the public market. Commodore David Porter (1790-1843) was an officer in the United States Navy, serving during the First Barbary Wars and the War of 1812, as commander of the USS Essex. Under his leadership, the Essex captured numerous British whaling ships in the Pacific, significantly disrupting British maritime activities. Porter's innovative tactics and bold strategies marked him as a pioneering figure in naval warfare. After the War of 1812, he faced court-martial for overstepping his authority during an unauthorized mission in the West Indies and was convicted. Porter never accepted the verdict and resigned in 1826. Soon after he enlisted with the Mexican Navy as its commander-in-chief from 1826-1829. This copy belonged to Charles Fleischmann III, the great-grandson of the founder of the Fleischmann Yeast Company which opened in 1868 in Cincinnati, Ohio. After promoting the business at the 1876 Centennial Exposition the Fleischmann Yeast Company became the largest producer of yeast in the world.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated Edition. Voyage historique de l'Amerique meridionale fait par ordre du Roi d'Espagne. Ou¬vrage. qui contient une histoire des Yncas du Perou et les ob¬servations astronomiques & physiques, faites pour determiner la figure & la gran-deur de la terre. Amsterdam & Leipzig, Arkstée & Merkus, 1752. 3 parts in 2 volumes. 4to. [14]f + 554p; [4]f + 332 (numbered 1-200, 193*-200*, 201-208, 201*-208*, 209-316)p + [3] + [4]f + 307(numbered 3-309)p + [3]p. Titles in red & black with elaborate vignettes of Spanish royal arms; 38 engraved folding charts (including double-page folding map of Ecuador), 17 engraved plates (1 repeated) inclusive of 2 frontispieces; 1 allegorical en¬graving incorporating arms of dedicatee + 2 large orna¬mental vignettes. Contemporary calf, gilt; worn; morocco labels; joints cracked but firm; worn. First French translation of the most comprehensive 18th century ac¬count of South America, the result if ten years' travel and observation by a group of leading European scientists. The French academicians La Condamine, Bouguer, and Codin, conceived the idea of a voyage of ex¬ploration to the equinoctial countries of South America in order to de¬termine the shape of the earth by measuring degrees of a meridian near the Equator. A Spanish expedition under the command of the mathema¬tician Jorge Juan and the navigator Antonio de Ulloa set out to collect a great deal of varied information during its course, as a result of which the present work containing its findings became a primary source for the natural history of Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Colombia. The fine series of folding charts represent maps and plans of vast stretch¬es of Latin America, including a large folding map of the eastern Pacific ranging from the coast of Mexico down to southern Chile, views of ma¬jor cities such as Cartagena de las Indias, Portobelo, Quito, Lima, Callao, Valparaíso, Concepción, and of Louisburg in Nova Scotia, pre-Colum¬bian antiquities, illustrations of scientific instruments and a moon-map. The decorative plates of native life and scenes taken from Inca history are engraved by Jacob Folkema, F. Morellon la Care, Duflos, and J. Punt after G. F. L. de Brie and B. Picart. The text includes descriptions of cod-fishing in Louisbourg (pp139-151) and in Newfoundland (pp157-172). The last section constitutes a full report on the astronomical observa¬tions and of land-surveying carried out during the expedition. 4 of the surveying charts are lightly browned, otherwise a very good, fresh set. Palau 125473; Sabin 36812.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Frezier [Amédée-François].A voyage to the South-Sea, and along the coasts of Chili and Peru, in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. Particularly describing the genius and constitution of the inhabitants, as well Indians as Spaniards: their customs and manners, their natural history, mines, commodities, traffick with Europe with a postscript by Dr. Edmund Halley and an account of the settlement, commerce, and riches of the Jesuites in Paraguay. London, Jonah Bowyer, 1717. 4to. [14] + 335 + [9]p. Title in red and black. 22 maps and plans (16 folding), and 15 plates engraved by N. Guerard le fils. Typographical ornaments and initials. Some musical notation in the text. Antiqued mottled sheep. First edition in English, valued for the additional 3-page postscript by Halley correcting some geographical errors made by Frézier; it also contains an English translation of a critical report on the Jesuit missions in Paraguay (on pp323-335), first published anonymously in French in 1712 (see Leclerc 1912). The plates are the same as those used for the Paris original edition, mostly retaining the French captions. Two neat repairs in blank margins of first 2 leaves, some light traces of marginal foxing, but generally a fresh, attractive copy. Borba de Moraes I, 329; Hill, p115; Palau 94965; Sabin 25926.