Captain William Henry Smyth (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Includes detailed nautical & geographical information. Authors presentation copy.1st ed, 1840, 2 pls. In contemporary blue/green embossed cloth, corners & edges a little bumped & worn. Re-spined, title in ink to paper labels. Internally, yellow endpapers, bookplate of Harlech College to fpd, chart of the Port of Cardiff as frontispiece (some offsetting), dedication from author to title page, light browning at edges, (viii), [1], 2-100 pp, 2 pls (maps), [3], 4-12, includes the appendix on the Rules and Regulations of the Bute Docks at Cardiff, many pages uncut, printed by William Bird, Duke St, Cardiff, hinges strengthened, small mark near joint to both covers, small crayon mark to fep. Rare in any condition! (Anderson 349). Presentation Copy.…

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Hand Written Letter and Signed in French by Dore Sanchez Ceoquecs to Captain William Henry Smyth. Dated 1834. A letter in French discussing astronomer and the moon. Admiral William Henry Smyth 1788 -1865 was a Royal Navy officer, hydrographer, astronomer and numismatist. He is noted for his involvement in the early history of a number of learned societies, for his hydrographic charts, for his astronomical work, and for a wide range of publications and translations. Size is 112m x 95mm. Condition is good. Folding crease. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17349. Signed by Author(s). …

Dedicated, by permission, to the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty, and intended to accompany the atlas of Sicily, published at their office. Captain Smyth fellow of the Astronomical and Antiquarian Societies of London. Quarto. pp xvi, 291, lxxiii, [1[, [15]. Folding map of Sicily at the front and fourteen aquatint plates. Half-title present. Bound in later half calf over marbled boards, heavily gilt spine with panels and dark red label. Pages edges marbled to match sides and endpapers. Some spots of mild foxing in places in the text, mainly marginal. A bright, tight and attractive copy. Dedicated, by permission, to the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty, and intended to accompany the atlas of Sicily, published at their office. Captain Smyth fellow of the Astronomical and Antiquarian Societies of London. Quarto. pp xvi, 291, lxxiii, [1[, [15]. Folding map of Sicily at the front and fourteen aquatint plates. Half-title present. Bound in later half calf over marbled boards, heavily gilt spine with panels and dark red label. Pages edges marbled to match sides and endpapers. Book.…

Condition: fine. 1st Edition. viiii,[4],516,4pp. ads; xx,560pp. Octavo. Illustrated with numerous engravings and drawings in text. Rebound in green quarter leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering on spine. New endpapers. Small rubber stamp on title page of each volume. A very attractive set. fine The true first edition ofWilliam Henry Smyth's classic handbook intented for amateur astronomers. Very Scarce. …

First Edition. Dedicated, by permission, to the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty, and intended to accompany the atlas of Sicily, published at their office. Captain Smyth fellow of the Astronomical and Antiquarian Societies of London. Quarto, xvi, [without half title] 291, appendix lxxiii, 1, 15p index. folding map of Sicily and fourteen aquatint plates. contemporary calf over marbled boards, [front board shows wear but firm]. Good copy of this Scarce title, occasional light spotting / soiling. London 1824.…

Condition: Good. First edition, privately printed, with long sections on Hartwell's Egyptian antiquities and its observatory. Inscribed 'A Monsieur de La Martine, Membre de l'Académie Française, Historien, Philosophe, Voyageur en Oriente, Hommage de Captaine Smyth … et de Dr Lee … Hartwell Avril le 28. 1853.' The astronomer John Lee (1783-1866) had inherited the house just outside Aylesbury in 1827 and in the 1830s built an obser-vatory there. Smyth (1788-1865), one of Lee's regular scientist guests at the house, had helped set up the telescope. He moved to Stone, the village next to Hartwell, in 1842, where he lived the rest of his life. In 1864, Lee named the lunar sea Mare Smythii after him. The recipient here is Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869), the French poet, writer, and statesman, author of Impressions, souvenirs, pensées et paysages pendant un voyage en Orient (1835). Bibliotheca Buckinghamiensis, p. 32; Martin, p. 546. 4to (298 × 225 mm), pp. vii, [1], 414, [2]; with 13 plates (some a little offset), engraved or lithographed, one in colour; illustrations in the text; some light marginal browning; original cloth, rebacked preserving original spine; bookplate of Josceline Grove, who bought the book in May 1984 from John H. Stubbs Rare Books, New York.…