Published by The Friday Project Limited, 2013
ISBN 10: 0007532350 ISBN 13: 9780007532353
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Edward Arnold, 1925
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket + dedication - Rare and Collectable - will send out 1st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order.
Published by Royal Historical Society, 1938-1939, 1939
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom
2 vols. 8vo. Original gilt decorated purple cloth (spines faded - otherwise VG). Pp. xxi + 291 [&] 293-669 (endpapers lightly spotted; no inscriptions).
Published by Edward Arnold, London, 1925
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hard. Condition: Good Minus. No Jacket. First. Fading to front cover, head and foot bumped commensurate with age and shelf wear, foxing to rep/fep/CE of book, uncut closed edges to head and foot of printed pages, ink inscriptive to fly leaf. Size: 12mo 0.0.
Published by Valentine & Sons, 1929
Seller: Karl Eynon Books Ltd, Tywyn, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. paperback. 1929 First Edition. 36pp, paperback, VG Thick brown card. No previous ownership markings.
Published by J.B. Lippincott & Company, Philadelphia, 1937
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Every sport: hunting, fishing, baseball, cricket, dog shows, horse shows, racing, mountaineering, the 1936 Olympics, polo, rowing, yachting, curling, golf, shooting. you name it. Attractively bound in gilt-titled tan cloth. Fine.
Seller: Antiquariat Michael Eschmann, Groß-Gerau, Germany
Art / Print / Poster
0. Sprache: Deutschu.
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4. Earl of Aberdeen KG, KT, PC (* 28. Januar 1784 in Edinburgh; ? 14. Dezember 1860 in London), bis 1801 Lord Haddo, war ein britischer Staatsmann und Premierminister (1852-1855). Er führte sein Land in den Krimkrieg.
Published by 14 November No place, 1851
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
An interesting letter, indicating the piety underlining Shaftesbury's philanthropy. See his long entry in the Oxford DNB, which sums up his achievements as 'very substantial' and 'a source of enduring inspiration to others', together with those of Russell and Skinner, the last of which contains, regarding the part of the 'Drummondite controversy' relating to the Rev. Sir William Dunbar (d.1881): 'In [1843] a serious controversy had sprung out of the refusal of Sir William Dunbar, minister of St Paul's Chapel, Aberdeen, to receive or to administer the sacrament in accordance with the Scottish ritual. Acting with the concurrence of his synod, Skinner excommunicated Dunbar on 13 August 1843.' The present item is 4pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, with negligible remnants of windowpane mount adhering at edges. Good bold signature 'Shaftesbury', and headed 'Private'. Addressed to 'The Lord Russell | M. P.', with salutation to 'My dear Russell'. Shaftesbury's elongated handwriting is not entirely legible, but the letter appears to read: 'You have now an opportunity of showing both mercy & justice to a very deserving man, the Revd Sir William Dunbar, who was so grossly treated by that saint of the "old Scotch Prelacy", Bishop Skinner. / His inheritance was left in anger (but [thro mistake?]) to pay off the national debt!! My belief is that the first national debt due, is, as the Publick friend says, "to do justice & to love mercy" -'. The postcript reads: 'The Archbishop of Canterbury strongly approves the [publication?] of the Memorial'.
Published by W. Collins, London 1925, 1925
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Condition: Very Good. Second impression. Hardback. Original cloth with black letter spine label. Light wear to covers, slightly foxing to fore-edge, otherwise very good. No dust jacket.
Published by 21 February ; Athens, 1857
12mo bifolium: 4 pp. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper. Begins: 'I am sorry to say that I have to place our affairs in your hands such as I never did before and I hope never to have to do again.' As the recipient may know, 'a vessel was built for me last year by the Messrs Hall in Aberdeen and was built under the inspection of Lloyds surveyor according to a certain specification & contract.' Selkirk 'had so much confidence in the character of the Messrs Hall' that he thought himself 'quite safe with the supervision of the Lloyds surveyor but finding the vessel leaky I had her inspected by the Dockyard people at Malta and they discovered on removing certain planks that the construction of the vessel was essentially defective and not according to the specification & contract'. Selkirk alleges that he has been 'abominably defrauded & sent to sea in a vessel postively unsafe' as a result of 'gross carelessness or [.] collusion between Messrs Hall & the surveyor'. He spent £300 on repairs in Malta, but he cannot keep the vessel '[i]n any shape' and feels that 'Messrs. Hall ought to take her off my hands & give me back my money with such reasonable deduction as might be considered fair for the deterioration by wear & tear for a year - I being allowed also for the Malta dockyard bill as a set off against that'. He does not know how the case stands in 'strict law', but 'considering the awful exposure that an action for fraud would bring about' feels that the shipwrights 'would be anxious to compound at any rate'. Asks the recipient to try and 'privately find out in what mind they are about', and communicate the information to Eden Colville, Fenchurch Buildings, London. 'If they defy us and are in the mind to defend the action we will have to consider how to proceed.' Hall & Co were active between 1790 and 1957. According to one authority 'Alexander Hall died in 1849 leaving his two sons, James and William, to run the business. The brothers were responsible for many famous clippers.'.
Seller: Antiquariat Michael Eschmann, Groß-Gerau, Germany
Art / Print / Poster
0. Selten. - Seitenränder beschnitten, unterer Blattrand leicht angegraut. Sprache: Deutschu.
Published by valentine & sons, 1929
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
era. near fine softcover very good rare jacket edge chipping and creases.
Published by W. Collins Sons & Co., 1925
Seller: Oakholm Books, Aberfeldy, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Second impression, October 1925. Publisher's grey cloth binding with leather spine labels. Very light wear to binding; light foxing sporadically. No markings or inscriptions; a very good set.
Published by Columbia University Press, 1951
ISBN 10: 0231018622 ISBN 13: 9780231018623
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.
Published by London. W. Collins Sons & Co. 1923, 1923
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
thick8vo. 22cm, first edition, third impression, in 2 volumes, x,358 & vii,353pp., with 57 plate illustrations (inc 2 frontis portraits), volume indexes, original grey cloth, gilt spine titles on leather labels, vol. 1 label peeled with text loss, otherwise a fine set, very scarce. (Cdn). Volume One consists of both Lord and Lady Aberdeen's autobiographies of their early years; Lord Aberdeen was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1886 and served as Governor-General of Canada from September 1893 to November 1898. A substantial part of Volume Two deals with his position. His task was complicated by political difficulties - the sudden death of the Prime Minister, Sir John Thompson in 1894; the break-up of the Bowell Government in the spring of 1896; and the defeat of the Tupper Government later that year. During his stay in Ottawa, Lord and Lady took an active role in social activism. Lady Aberdeen was instrumental in founding the National Council of Women (she was the first president) and the Victorian Order of Nurses. Lord Aberdeen was again appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland from 1905 to 1915. Very interesting, readable reminiscences by both authors.
Published by Collins, 1925
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, 1925. 2 volume set. 358 + 353 pages. Illustrated. Original green cloth. Leather spine titles starting to loosen else Very Good. SCARCE.
Published by London. W. Collins Sons & Co. 1923, 1923
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
thick8vo. 22cm, first edition, second impression, in 2 volumes, x,358 & vii,353pp., with 57 plate illustrations (inc 2 frontis portraits), volume indexes, original grey cloth, gilt spine titles on leather labels, vol. 1 label peeled with text loss, otherwise a fine set, very scarce. (Cdn). Volume One consists of both Lord and Lady Aberdeen's autobiographies of their early years; Lord Aberdeen was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1886 and served as Governor-General of Canada from September 1893 to November 1898. A substantial part of Volume Two deals with his position. His task was complicated by political difficulties : the sudden death of the Prime Minister, Sir John Thompson in 1894; the break-up of the Bowell Government in the spring of 1896; and the defeat of the Tupper Government later that year. During his stay in Ottawa, Lord and Lady took an active role in social activism. Lady Aberdeen was instrumental in founding the National Council of Women (she was the first president) and the Victorian Order of Nurses. Lord Aberdeen was again appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland from 1905 to 1915. Very interesting, readable reminiscences by both authors.
Published by 'Chatillon sur Seine / le 7. Mai', 1814
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Something of an historic document. In February and March of 1814 Vincence had led the French delegation at the Congress of Châtillon peace conference, at which his counterpart was Lord Aberdeen, with the British Home Secretary Lord Castlereagh arriving partway through. On behalf of Napoleon, Vincence had led, with little success the subsequent negotiations with Russia, Prussia and Austria which resulted in Napoleon's abdication and exile to Elba, by the signing of the Treaty of Fontainbleau, a month before the present letter, on 11 April 1814, which was ratified by Vincence. The British had opposed the treaty on two grounds: that it legitimized Bonaparte, and that Elba was too close to mainland Europe for safety. The present item 1p, 4to, on the recto of the first leaf of a bifolium of laid paper. In fair condition, on aged and creased paper. With several folds. It reads: 'Le Duc de Vincence a l'honneur d'adresser à Mylord Aberdeen deux lettres qu'Il a reçues pour Lord Castlereagh et qu'il le prie de lui faire passer. Il se chargera également de transmettre les reponses dont Lord Castlereagh voudrait le charger. / Le Duc de Vincence saisit cette occasion pour renouveller à Mylord Aberdeen l'assurance de sa haute Considération.' See Image.
Published by [London], [1829]., 1829
Seller: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Ireland
Art / Print / Poster Signed
5 octavo - pages on 2 sheets, folded. Excellent condition. Signed by Hay and dated probably "Monday, 19 Oct. [1829]". References: I. See "The Quarterly Review - Volume XLI (July & November 1829), page 465 and following pages, in which a report is discussed of a deposition by the British Vice-Consul 'Wood', that in the month of June 1829 the arrival of the lost papers of the murdered Major Alexander Gordon Laing were imminent at Tripoli. It was then reported that the French consul général, Baron Jean-Baptiste de Rousseau was given these valuable papers of Major Alexander Gordon Laing and these then were demanded to be returned to the British in a personal visit to the French consulate at Tripoli by British consul, Hanmer Warrington, who was also the father-in-law of murdered explorer Aexander Laing. According to the report in te Quarterly Review, Baron de Rousseau was appaled to be ccused to have thes epapers or to hold them back and demanded evidence. The consequence of this was a full blown French-British diplomatic conflict and on page 471 of "The Quarterly Review" it is mentioned, that "We understand that our ambassador in Paris was instructed to demand from the French Government an investigation of the conduct imputed to Baron Rousseau; and that a commission was appointed to inquire, accordingly, into the transaction". The here offered letter by Robert William Hay to Baron de Rothesay, is the letter which reflects this report and the action of the British Crown to protest at Paris. Source II: Essay for "The National Archives", on April 5th, 2018, by Dr. Juliette Desplat: "From Tripoli to Timbuktu": In this essay, Dr.Desplat explains: "One hundred and ninety years ago, in April 1828, French explorer René Caillé became the first European to reach Timbuktu, in present-day Mali, and return alive. He was awarded 10,000 francs by the Société de Géographie, the French geographical society, and the book he published was funded by the French government. Caillé, however, had been preceded in Timbuktu Englishman [sic][correct: Scotsman], Major Alexander Gordon Laing. In January 1825, Laing was instructed by Lord Bathurst, the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, to 'proceed from Tripoli to Timbuctoo' to gather information on the Niger basin and determine the exact location of this city. Timbuktu's legend was based on the accounts of Arab travellers who had visited the city before the 16th century. Its name alone conjured up wondrous images of wealth and mystery. The roofs, they said, were made of gold These stories prompted a race to Timbuktu between two old rivals: Britain and France. In the words of the British consul at Tripoli, Hanmer Warrington, 'the French were making efforts to pluck from England's brow those laurels to which the latter was so justly entitled' so time was of the essence. Laing left Britain in February 1825, and reached Tripoli on 9 May. Warrington was quite taken with him, although he feared that 'the delicate state of his health' would prevent him from completing the mission. Laing seemed to get better in Tripoli, however, and started planning. It was agreed that the expedition would go through Ghadames, in what is now North-western Libya. The road from Tripoli to Ghadames was virtually unexplored and travelling along it would provide Laing with an opportunity to fill in a blank space on the map. On 14 July 1825, rather unexpectedly and after a whirlwind romance, Laing married Emma, Warrington's second daughter. The consul wasn't pleased. Sure enough, he found Laing 'clever and gentlemanly', and thought 'his talents were conspicuous' but, given the circumstances, he tried to block the wedding.[.] A few days after his wedding, Laing set out for Timbuktu under the guidance of Sheikh Babany, a merchant who had lived in Timbuktu and promised he could take Laing there in two and a half months. Having travelled across the Sahara, he reached Ghadames on 13 September, after what he described as 'a very ted.