Bowring Richard J (4 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcover in very good condition. Article topics include : Utakata no ki by Mori Ogai; the problem of Utaka no Ki; Hojo Soun's twenty-one articles; Bakumatsu foreign employees; survey review: Yanagita Kunio; and more. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Journal.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages 90-176, plus 24 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: Wild Boars and Cattle Thieves; Rescuing Little Ruth; A Castle Built for a Shilling; Through the East by Air - part 5; The Man Who Turned Thief - part 5; Trapping Wild Animals Alive; The Ordeal of William McDavid; Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa - part 3; On Oath (short story); The Ranger's Story (short story); The Amateur Explorers; The Train-Wreck That Failed; My First Lynx; Is This America's Biggest Bear? Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Holmes, Fred; Wood, Stanley L.; Soper, George; Holloway, W.H.; Robinson, T.H.; Bowring, W.A. (illustrator).…

Six separate books collectively bound within single volume NEW VOYAGES AND TRAVELS VOLUME III by Richard Phillips and Co. all issued in 1820. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14cm. Modern (mid-20th century) inelegant blue buckram cloth rebinding; gilt stamped spine lettering heavily flaked. New endpapers. Personal sextant-themed bookplate of E. Lee Dorsett (St. Louis physician, naval historian, and author Edward Lee Dorsett, 1883-1967) on front pastedown. Following ffep is a collective title page in modern typescript but which cites only five of the six books within. Some foxing, toning, and scattered soiling to leaves. Binding is firm. ***** {BOOK #1} TRAVELS IN AFRICA, TO THE SOURCES OF THE SENEGAL AND GAMBIA, IN 1818. by Gaspard Theodore Mollien (1796-1872). Lacks title leaf (i.e. pages i-ii) but is likely the 1820 edition by London's Sir Richard Phillips and Co. as the book's other imprints date to the same year (but there was also a Phillips 1825 edition). An abridged translation of: "Voyage dans l'interieur de l'Afrique, aux sources du Senegal et de la Gambie." Collates as iii-ix, [1], 1-8, [plate], 9-44, [plate], 45-94, [plate], 95-98, [plate], 99-128. Foldout map (presumably as frontis) as cited by OCLC is not present; four unpaged b/w plates are present as called for by OCLC. ***** {BOOK #2} TRAVELS IN BRAZIL, IN 1815, 1816, AND 1817. By Prince Maximilian, Nuewied [Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied], 1782-1867. London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips, and Co., Bride Court, Bridge Street (Printed by Benjamin Bensley, Nelson Square), 1820. Collates as [foldout plate], i-iv, 1-40, [plate], 41-60, [foldout plate], 61-72, [plate], 73-80, [plate], 81-84, [plate], 85-96, [plate], 97-100, [plate], 101-112. "List of Plates" on page 112 cites nine plates - plate #2 "A Puris Indian Family in their Hut " is not present; furthermore plates are bound out of their specified order; plus rebinder's trimming to leaves has affected plate margins but images are intact. ***** {BOOK #3} TRAVELS THROUGH PORTUGAL AND SPAIN, DURING THE PENINSULAR WAR. By William Graham, Esq. London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips, and Co., Bride Court, Bridge Street (G. Sydney, Printer, Northumberland Street, Strand), 1820. Collates as [frontis foldout map], i-iv, 1-12, [plate], 13-16, [plate], 17-24, [plate], 25-28, [plate], 29-60, [foldout plate], 61-76, [foldout plate], 77-82, [plate], 83-88. ***** {BOOK #4} OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATE OF RELIGION AND LITERATURE IN SPAIN, MADE DURING A JOURNEY THROUGH THE PENINSULA IN 1819. By J. Bowring, Esq. [John Bowring], 1792-1872. No imprint specified but OCLC has several catalog entries attributing imprint as "London: Richard Phillips and Co., 1820." 16 pages. ***** {BOOK #5} LETTERS ON ITALY; ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS. by A.L. Castellan [Antoine Laurent Castellan], 1772-1838. London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride Court, Bridge Street (Printed by Benjamin Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street), 1820. Collates as i-iv, 1-24, [plate], 25-32, [plate], 33-36, [plate], 37-100, [plate], 101-108. Only four b/w plates present whereas OCLC indicates that six should be present. Extracted and translated from the author's "Lettres sur l'Italie" first published in 1819. ***** {BOOK #6} VOYAGE TO BUENOS AYRES, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1817 AND 1818, BY ORDER OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. By H.M. Brackenridge, Esq. [Henry Marie Brackenridge], 1786-1871. London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride-Court, Bridge-Street, 1820. Collates as i-iv, 1-130, [2]. Pages 117-130 being an Index for all six books plus two others - Joseph Sansom's "Sketches of Lower Canada, Historical and Descriptive" and Elias Cornelius "Tour in Virginia, Tennessee, &c." that were not bound-in; final unpaged leaf is Phillips and Co. title list advertisement. …