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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 349pp. 20cm. Frontispiece and 4 black and white plates. Hard cover in decorated cloth. Spine 'cocked'. Fraying to top edge of 14 pages. Small mark in margin and text of pp. 327-336. Slight wear to corners. A good clean copy. (Considered to be a genuine account).…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 38 pages. 6.00x0.25x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Fair. 31 pp., an incomplete copy but with the entire section for Bonaparte ; age spotting, disbound in self wrappers and good only. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

Disbound. First edition. 21 pp. 8vo. A Democratic campaign document addressed primarily to voters of Pennsylvania and in support of James Buchanan (from the 1856 election). Sabin 19509. Disbound, lacking the wrappers, tanned extremities, 2 small punctures in the lower margin not affecting text, otherwise leaves clean; a good or better copy. …

Pamphlet. Condition: Near Fine. 16 p.; 19 cm. Sewn pamphlet. "No. 17." No date of publication. The address in the imprint is 84 Mulberry St. The Tract Association of Friends was located at that address from 1843 to 1857. This tract is sometimes attributed to James Mott (1788-1868), Quaker teacher and anti-slavery activist, as well as husband of Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880). In Near Fine Condition: very small stain at lower page edges; otherwise, clean and bright. Scarce.…

Or.wrapps. xvii,133pp. (sl foxing) Very good copy. The Anonymous Journal has been attributed to an Italian-American midshipmen, James Mario Matra, a crew member of the HMS Endeavour. This journal was published in London in 1771 to much criticism.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Original brown pebbled cloth with decorative heraldic gilt to front, stamped rules; gilt and bands to spine. 8vo: 8 3/4 x 6 inches; 22 x 16 cms. Engraved frontis with tissue-guard. Cloth shows edge wear to corners, scuffed with stain to front; spine and partial front sunned. Damp stain to bottom edge. Previous owner's name to free endpaper. Inside clean and square. A very good copy.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Author: Ossian (attributed). Translated from the Original Galic by James Macpherson. Title: Fingal, A Poem in Six Books, by Ossian: Translated from the Original Galic by Mr. Macpherson; and Rendered into Verse from that Translation. Publisher: Oxford: Printed for J. and J. Fletcher; T. Payne, at the Mews-Gate; and J. and F. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1772. Language: Text in English. Size: 8" x 5". Pages: viii + 180 pages. Binding: Very good contemporary full mottled calf over boards. Gilt fillet borders and gilt corner fleurons to boards. Spine with five raised bands, gilt fillets, and gilt floral ornaments to compartments (Outer hinges partly cracked (ca. 2 cm to upper joint) but still tight and secure - as shown, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.   Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown, light age-toning in places - as shown, early ownership inscription in a late 18th-century hand ("Basil Heron April 1782") to the front free endpaper - as shown).   ****  The book: This 1772 Oxford edition of Fingal represents one of the most controversial literary works of the 18th century. Marketed as a lost Gaelic epic by the third-century bard Ossian, it was "translated" by James Macpherson, who claimed to have discovered fragments of ancient poetry in the Scottish Highlands. Fingal quickly caused an uproar in coffee houses and academic circles across Britain, admired for its sublime landscapes and heroic tone, but hotly contested as a possible forgery. Whether authentic or not, the poems inspired an entire generation of Romantic writers and artists across Europe, from Goethe to Napoleon. This copy, handsomely preserved in its original late 18th-century mottled calf binding, offers both literary importance and historical resonance. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First Published Account of Cook's First Voyage to the Pacific, complete with Dedication Leaf. A cornerstone of any Cook collection. Two works in one, bound in modern, to style, half calf over marbled boards, some blind edge tooling, spine with raised bands, gilt tooling, gilt titles to red calf labels. Internally, Journal of a Voyage, 1771, First Edition, First Issue with the Dedication and printers instructions, plus the two 'Otahitee Vocabulary' leaves bound in at end. BOUND AFTER: Description of East-Florida, 1769, Third Edition much enlarged (2 parts in one), 3 folding engraved maps, title with small library ink-stamp & repair to fore margin, small ink correction to C3v, professional repairs to maps, some loss to the first, occasional small stain, some soiling and light browning, scattered spotting. (281*214 mm). Folding map frontis, [2] title & dedication, [1], (ii-viii); Stork - Description of East Florida, [1], 2-40, 1 folding map; Bartrams Journal, [1], (xii), 35 pp, [1] errata & binders list,1 folding map; Magra's Voyage, [1] title, [2] dedication, [1], 2-130 pp, [3] Vocabulary of the Language of the Otahitee. The 3 folding maps, engraved by T. Jefferys, are: 1.East Florida. 2.St. Augustine the Capital of East Florida. 3.The Bay of Espiritu Santo, in East Florida. (Signatures: East-Florida - 2ff, b-b4, B-G1. *G-*G2, 2ff, H-M4. Voyage round the World - 2ff, B-S1, 2ff Vocab). Public appetite for a detailed narrative encouraged a publishing race, of which this work, published less than three months after the expedition's return to England and almost two years prior to Hawkesworth's authorised version, was the winner. This first issue containing the dedication leaf was swiftly withdrawn following the publicly advertised consternation of the dedicatees, the Admiralty, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander. Published anonymously, the work is generally attributed to James Magra, an American mid-shipman aboard. (Hill II:1066(without dedication leaf); Hocken p9; Holmes 3; O'Rielly-Reitman 362; Sabin 4246 & 16242; DuRietz-catalogue of the Kroepelien Collection p215; Frost Life of James Mario Matra: Voyager with Cook 1995; Beddie 693/4; STC T29207). The work is a short, but interesting narrative of Cook's first voyage, which relates his visits to Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, New Guinea, Batavia, and Rio de Janeiro. The author is noteworthy because he is one of the few to criticize Cook in any meaningful way. Despite problems with the accuracy of the text, this work will always hold the place of being the first account of that voyage and the first account in print of the Australian coast. (in translation, it also gave the French their first account of that voyage). JEFFERYS Thomas (illustrator).…

First edition hardback; [2] + 26 pages; ESTC N10066 complete. The book is soundly bound in later marbled boards with a cloth spine. The endpapers have the bookplates of The General Theological Seminary Library, New York. There is some light foxing i n a few places, the text is otherwise clean.

Condition: Near Fine. 8vo. A curious volume dedicated to the art of flatulation and its importance throughout history, profusely illustrated with beautiful woodcuts. 109pp. red cloth. Square tight binding. Clean interior. A lovely edition.

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Condition: Near Fine. 8vo., pp.x,310, grey cloth, silver lettering; slight dusting to upper edge of text block, otherwise near-fine, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly creased.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1775, 1978. IX + 36 PAGES +12 FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS AND 1 DOUBLE PAGE ILLUSTRATION. PRISTINE CONDITION. NO FLAWS, NO EXCUSES.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

hardback, 8vo, the two works bound as one, 42;16pp, title vignette, frontis and 7 plates of Holyroodhouse, plus 8 plates of Rosslyn, no title page for the Rosslyn section, owner's inscription on flyleaf, moderate foxing on all the plates, otherwise clean and tight, gilt-decorated full leather binding, rubbed, Good condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. DESCRIPTION: First edition, 9x6 inches, pp 271. Cloth-boards with gilt lettering on the spine, gilt emblem impressed on frontcover, repeated in blind on back cover. Corner embellishments on both covers. Frontispiece engraving by A.W. Graham depicting Prince Albert, from painting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter in 1859. --- The emblem depicts the heraldic badge known as the Prince of Wales's three ostrich feathers with a ribbon below displaying the German motto Ich dien, which means 'I serve" . ------ CONDITION: Very good, strong joints and hinges, clear unmarked pages except for a pervious owner's name and date on the first front free endpaper and name on the second front free endpaper. Covers a spine lightly rubbed. --- Top corner of pages 205-206 had been turned in. Top edge dust dulled. Light cracking to gutter at Acknowledgement page and pp 128-129 and 142-143. ------ ABOUT THE TITLE: This book documents the historic North American royal tour undertaken by the Prince of Wales, who would later become King Edward VII. ------ ABOUT THE AUTHOR: The author is listed as a British Canadian, but the book is attributed to Henry James Morgan (November 14, 1842 December 27, 1913) according to the Royal Collection Trust website. He was Canadian civil servant, lawyer, author and editor, probably best known for publishing collections of biographical sketches of notable Canadians.…

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Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This Jonathan Cape first edition (1929) is of interest to collectors of Australian colonial literature, convict narratives, Jonathan Cape first editions, and early twentieth century historical publishing. About: A good first edition in the original Jonathan Cape red and black marbled cloth. Spine gilt lettering present but dulled; cloth worn and fraying at head of spine with minor loss; boards heavily soiled and marked, with some bubbling to rear board cloth. Interior sound: paper toned throughout; facsimile of the original manuscript title page ('Ralph Rashleigh or The Life of an Exile', by 'Giacomo de Rosenberg') clean and legible; text block tight and complete. No dust jacket. A reading and research copy of a genuinely scarce title.…

1st Edition. 55, [1 (advert)] pp. 2 preliminary blank leaves not included in pagination statement. Addison quote on defamation under printed title ["nothing so detestable"]. 8vo. 7-7/8" x 5" "Wrongly ascribed to James Grahame, advocate." - Halkett & Laing. Binding remnants along spine. Age-toning to paper. Stain to t.p. bottom margin. Overall, Very Good. Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First English Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 209 pages; Bound in 1/2 cloth and boards. Light rubbing and wear. The scarce 1st English edition.

393, [12] pages. Hardcover. Lacks the front board and the spine cover. Rear board is present and still attached. Interesting provenance as it is SIGNED twice by J.M. Morgan and he references having purchased it from a "James Matthews" The ffep lists a date of January 17th, 1865 and the town of Lawtonville, Beaufort District, South Carolina. On the rear ffep, it is signed again signed by Mr. Morgan and gives a location of Gainesboro, Jackson County, Tennessee. Mr. Morgan was a law student in 1861 and took notes at the Tennessee Secession Meeting. At that time he actually supported the Union, but the firing on Fort Sumter apparently changed his mind and he later enlisted in the Confederate Army. A fascinating connection for this SCARCE and early Confederate novel! Condition is presently poor on the outside, but this one is worthy of proper restoration. First edition of this novel revolving around the family of Colonel Shelton, the loss of his plantation and the faithful slave Toney and his family. A familiar theme in Southern fiction both before and after the Civil War. Crandall, Confederate Imprints, 3083; Wright, Vol.II, 743. P&W 6297. Not in the Blockson Collection or the Schomburg. Not Ex-Lib.…

Condition: A fine copy. Quarto; a fine copy in a Sangorski-style binding of half green morocco, spine panelled in gilt between raised bands. First edition of the earliest published account of Cook's first voyage to the Pacific: the rare first issue, with the leaf of dedication to "The Right Honourable Lords of the Admiralty, and to Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander" inserted by the publishers to add authenticity. This copy also has the first state of p. 90 (recently identified and to be distinguished from an amended state where text begins "quantities."). This was the first of a series of so-called "surreptitious accounts" of Cook's various voyages to appear in print: the Admiralty found it practically impossible to enforce their ruling that no unofficial publications should pre-empt the official and lengthier accounts of the voyages, naturally much slower in the press. In this case, however, legal action was taken against the publisher for using an unauthorised dedication, forcing removal of the leaf during publication. "It is accordingly of the greatest rarity, and copies of the book containing the dedication are far more valuable than those without it." (Davidson). In this large copy, the offending leaf has generous margins and retains its printed instruction to the binder "Place this next the title" (which also, interestingly, indicates that the leaf was printed quite separately from the rest of the work). The British public's eagerness for news of the voyage needed more than newspaper accounts, while the officially sanctioned narrative would be a long time coming. Published anonymously some two months after the return of the Endeavour and nearly two years before Hawkesworth's official account, the Cook scholar Beaglehole demonstrated that the sailor James Magra was the author. His illicit sale of his journal to the publishers might well have confirmed Cook's opinion of him: 'one of those gentlemen, frequently found on board Kings Ships, that can very well be spared, or to speake more planer good for nothing.'. He was a New Yorker and a loyalist. Whatever his skipper and the authorities may have thought of him, it was Magra who got the first description of the voyage into print - the earliest printed account of the east coast of Australia, published even before acceptance of the name Botany Bay, here called Sting-ray Bay as Cook originally christened it. Magra later changed his name to Matra to claim a family inheritance. As Alan Frost has shown ("The Precarious Life of James Mario Matra: Voyager with Cook; American Loyalist; Servant of Empire", 1995) Matra used his experiences on the east coast of Australia to draft his 1783 proposal for a penal colony at Botany Bay. Never shy in self-promotion, he announced his hope of being made Governor. His plan, like Sir Joseph Banks's before and George Young's after him, had its effect on the planners of the First Fleet and he was called as an expert witness to the committee in charge of solving the question of transportation (see Frost, pp.113-122). His life has prompted a considerable literature, with multiple studies of his career and importance including those by G.B. Barton, George Anthony Wood, James Watson (who christened him the "Father of Australia", an accolade more often awarded to Joseph Banks), and more recently Antonio Giordano (who has him as "Australia's Spiritual Father") and Andrew Tink. .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London, Becket & De Hondt, 1771 [first issue, with the dedication leaf to Banks and Solander (quickly suppressed), and N1 in the uncancelled state]. Quarto, [ii] (title page, verso blank), ii (dedication leaf), 130, [3] ('Vocabulary of the Language of Otahitee') pages. Later half brown morocco, marbled sides and endpapers, edges dyed yellow; leather lightly rubbed; slight surface loss to the sides; title page slightly marked and a little dusty, with the inkstamp of the 'Northern Protector of Aboriginals' in the top corner; early notes in ink on a contemporary binder's blank; later marginal notes in pencil on about a dozen pages (but see below); an excellent copy. The first published account of Cook's first voyage to the Pacific, which appeared some two years before the official account. Provenance: This copy carries the stamp of the Northern Protector of Aboriginals, and appears to have been in the collection of the notable ethnographer Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933), who occupied that office between 1898 and 1906. The pertinent pencil annotations are most likely in his hand. The later bookplates of John Glasgow (designed by Paul Nash, 1908), and Donald H. Graham Jr. are mounted on the front endpaper. Wantrup 5.01; Beddie 693.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1796 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. 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. Pages: 60 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. 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. Pages: 60 Language: English.…