Cochrane Capt Charles Stuart (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Two volume set. Contemporary half calf gilt with marbled boards. Color frontis each volume, folding map. Corners bumped/exposed, mild rubbing and edgewear. Bookplate to each fpd of The Earl of Portsmouth; PO name of Lady Lymington, Hurstbourne Park. Slight scattered foxing, few minor spots, few creased corners. Firm and square. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 524; viii,515 pages. …

Condition: Good. London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1825. 1st edition. Volume 2. Sm 4to Leather bound. 517pp. Color plates. Good book. 1/2 leather marbled boards with red and green leather spine labels, raised spine bands, and gilt lettering. Moderate edgewear. Large staining and chipping to the upper front board. Untrimmed pages. Pages age toned. Slight dampstaining to the fore-edge of the last several pages. With typical period foxing throughout. In polypropylene bag. (travel writing, south america, travel) Inquire if you need further information.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. A fair 2 volume set in contemporary half calf binding with 2 hand coloured frontispieces and a large folding map. The bindings have gilt lines and title labels to spines and marbled boards. There is general rubbing to surfaces and edges with fraying and small loss of leather at spine ends and corners and some paper loss at the edges. The spine joints have wear and there is some splitting at the front spine joint of Vol I at the bottom although the bindings are currently sound. Corners with some turning with a bump to the top back corner of Vol II. The title label of Vol II has small loss at the top. Contents: Vol I: pencil inscription to fep; sixpenny stamp from reign of Edward VII (1901-1910) at the top of initial blank; frontispiece; title; dedication 2pp; preface 2pp; contents pp iv-xv; folding map; text pp 1-524; final blank. Vol II: pencil inscription to front endpaper; initial blank; frontispiece; title; contents pp iii-viii; text pp 1-498; appendices pp 499-515; errata 1 p; final blank. Both volumes have general marking and spotting particularly in the margins. This is more pronounced in Vol I. The map has an old repair at the attachment. Vol II has some rough page opening with slight loss at the side margins of pp 91/2, 235/6, 329/330, 331/2. There is some staining to the rear endpapers of Vol II and a small tear at the bottom edge of the rear free endpaper. R Cooper (illustrator).…

FIRST EDITION, 2vol., pp.xvi,524; viii,517; with half-title in vol.1 & errata leaf in vol.2; large folding engraved map of Colombia and two fine hand-coloured frontispieces; some slight spotting but a good unsophisticated set in original boards, edges & backstrips worn but printed paper labels largely intact, hinges broken but sides held on cords, uncut; preserved in folding buckram box. Sabin 14072; Abbey Travel 718. Colombia Colour South America Travel.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. 2 volumes. Octavo. xv, [1], 524 + viii, 517pp. 2 hand-colored engraved frontispieces, large folding map. Full nineteenth-century polished calf, gilt-decorated spines, gilt-lettered leather labels. Top inch of rear hinge cracked on volume II. Lacking half-title in volume I. Light offsetting to titles from frontispieces and light offsetting to folding map, else a fine and clean set throughout with virtually no foxing. Captain Cochrane of the Royal Navy arrived in Colombia in 1823 in an attempt to help the natives reduce the number of casualties among divers in the pearl fishery industry. His journal provides an extensive and thorough study of the cities, citizens, customs, natural history, resources, etc. of the country. The work is highlighted by the two handsome plates which include a hand-colored engraving of "The Author in the Travelling Costume of the Country" and a hand-colored aquatint of a "Precipitous Descent of a Cordillera of the Andes in the Province of Choco." The large folding map of Colombia is extremely detailed and was engraved by Sidney Hall specifically for this work. Hall, Sidney (illustrator). Book.…

First edition. Two volumes octavo (22 x 14cm), published at £1 10s. The Brooke-Hitching copy. Vol. I, pp. xv,[1],524; Vol. II, pp. viii,517,[1]. With two hand coloured frontispieces & a large folding engraved map. Some light offsetting to the titles. A choice copy in contemporary red straight-grained morocco, flat raised bands, gilt, aeg. blue endpapers. Some very light rubbing. VG. [Abbey Travel 718; Cundall 1197; Markham 138; Brooke-Hitching 270; Smith Bibliotheca Americana 625; Sabin 14072].…