The Land of the Blue Poppy - Travels of a Naturalist in Eastern Tibet by Ward, F. Kingdon - 1913

1938. Good. DUNTHORNE, GORDON. Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries. Their History, Makers and Uses, With a Catalogue Raisonne Of The Works In Which They Are Found. Washington, DC: published by the author, 1938, First edition, limited to 2500 copies. Folio, pp.xiv, 275, illus. w. 37 color plates and 35 halftone plates. Index. Orig. coated linen cloth with leather spine label and gilt dec. leather inset on front cover. Slipcase. Signed by the author. Some remnants of scotch tape adhesive on front free end paper, otherwise a very nice copy. This is one of the 750 copies to have a fold-out color plate listing the subscribers.

198 pages with 23 plates. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6") rebound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards and black label with gilt lettering to spine. 79 plates with one (Buffalo Dance) folding and some with a single tint, in this first issue there are errors in the list of illustrations corrected in later issues viz. Landscapes, etc., 23 plates, numbered as 1-13, 15-23 plus one unnumbered at end; Mammals, 6 plates; Birds, 5 plates, numbered 1, 3-6 (plate 2, Struthus Canicops, Woodhouse, male is called for but not present and most likely not to be found in this issue); Reptiles 21 plates, with 10a miss-numbered as 10, 12 as 13, and 13 as 16; Fishes, 3 plates; Plants, 21 plates, plate 21 Aploppus Nuttalii present but not called for. Includes Reconnaissance of the Zuni, Little Colorado, and Colorado Rivers Made in 1851 map as called for, but includes Lithographed map Boundary of the Creek Country (24" x 36") laid in not called for. (Senate Executive Document 59) (Howes: 528) First edition.Survey of the watershed… Read More

First edition. John Murray. London. 1853. 8vo. vi, (1), errata slip, 488pp. Chromolitho frontispiece, 3 further chromolitho plates, all with tissue guards, 3 uncoloured plates, folding map, text illus. Later half calf, marbled boards Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering, rules and motifs, leather label to spine. All edges marbled. New endpapers. Occasional marginal light foxing to plates. Short closed tear to attachment of map. A handsome volume.
John Elphinstone Erskine (1806 - 1887) British Naval Officer and Liberal MP. "In February 1848 Erskine was appointed to the Havannah as senior officer on the Australian station. Soon after his arrival Erskine made a tour of Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, the New Hebrides, the Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia between 25 June and 7 October 1849. With experience of naval anti-slavery operations in the West Indies and the effects of European penetration in the Pacific, he joined the Aborigines Protection Society and became a parliamentary leader… Read More

L'Univers - Histoire et description de tous les peuples. iv+644 pp.+ 31 gravures h.t. (4 cartes et 27 gravures). 21,9x13,6 cm. Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, Paris, 1881.
--- Text in french. Cloth-bound. Some wear to the edges of the spine. Some pages are being repaired with tape. Written name on first blank page. No missing pages, text is clean. Folding map of Greece and engravings in very good condition, without foxing.
--- "J'ai réuni dans ce volume, sous le nom d'Iles de la Grèce, toutes les îles de la Méditerrannée orientale, depuis Chypre jusqu'à Corfou, de l'est à l'ouest, et depuis les îles des Princes jusqu'à celle de Candie, dans la direction du nord au sud (...)"

1860 Travel in Egypt Arabia Israel Holy Land Athens Pyramids Illustrated MAP 2v

'Travels'
is an account of voyages, travels, discoveries, and explorations in the Middle East, Egypt, and Israel. These accounts were written in journalistic form from the diary of Stephen Olin giving in detail his experiences on his voyage. Olin goes into detail about his time among the Pyramids in Egypt among the embalmed dead, in Athens Greece and Rome, his time in Jerusalem visiting 'Holy sites,' and many other places and sights along his voyage.
This 1860 edition includes 12 steel engraved plates with a large fold out map frontispiece of Jerusalem.

Item number: #10279
Price: $499
OLIN, Stephen
Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land.
New York, Harper & Bros., 1860.

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Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes
o Vol 1: [6], xi, 458, [6]
o Xii, folding map, 478, [3]
o 12 plates, folding maps
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Language: English
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London: Printed by H. Woodfall, 1756. Quarter-bound Leather. Near Fine+. First Edition, "printed for presentation only and not sold." (DNB). The more common second edition, published in octavo, appeared the following year. 4to: [6],201,[5],203-361,[1]pp, with engraved frontispiece and engraved plate opposite the divisional title to the Essay on Tea, both by Thomas Major after Samuel Wale. Modern quarter-calf over plain paper-covered boards, flat spine in six compartments between decorative gilt bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt; all edges stained red, end papers renewed. Title page and preliminaries lightly foxed, but contents otherwise clean and bright, the binding tight and firm. A splendid, wide-margined copy. ESTC Citation No. T127188. Gibson's Library, p. 144. Goldsmiths'-Kress 9083. Cox I, p. 19. Hanway was both a widely traveled merchant, with connections to the Russia Company, and a philanthropist whose causes included foundlings, prostitutes, and the climbing apprentices of chimney… Read More

London: printed for T. Durham, at Charing-Cross; and G. Kearsly, at No. 46, in Fleet-Street, 1777. First Edition. Quarter-bound Leather. Near Fine. First Edition, in English, of this novelized first-person account of a young English lord's debauched sojourn—prostitutes, gambling, horse-racing, drink—in the French capitol. Crown 8vo (206 x 121mm): [2],x,222pp. Contemporary leather spine in six compartments between raised bands, recent red morocco lettering piece gilt, marbled sides and end papers. Joints skillfully reinforced, marbled sides heavily rubbed, top of title page (including word 'The') supplied in excellent facsimile. Internally, a Fine, bright copy, pages fresh and free of foxing, browning and stains. ESTC Citation No. N31079 (distinct from ESTC T131522, which Durham and Kearsly brought out the same year in duodecimo and which does not have the following note below the date on the title page present in our copy: "This work may be had of the above booksellers in French, printed from… Read More

1873 1ed David Livingstone Lost & Found AFRICA Missionary Voyages Tyler Stanley

"If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all."
― David Livingstone

David Livingstone was a Scottish medical missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late-19th-century in the Victorian era. Author Josiah Tyler published an important account of Livingstone and Henry Stanley in Africa entitled "Livingstone Lost and Found". In this book, Tyler provides a complete account of Africa, the local tribes and people, local customs, missionary voyages, diamond and gold mining, and much more.
Item number: #16105
Price: $499
TYLER, Josiah
Livingstone lost and found; or, Africa and its explorers ... With a comprehensive biographical sketch of Dr. David Livingstone ... and a most interesting account of his discovery by the American expedition, in command of… Read More

Very good copy of the second edition (first published in 1817) of this popular educational book by woman writer Mary Anne Venning
Complete with 60 charming handcoloured wood engravings of costumes of the world
There are fine gentlemen and ladies of London and Paris, Bohemian peasants, Catalonians dancing the Fandango (possibly flamenco?), Hungarian hussars, itinerant Savoyards, Laplanders (Saami) riding reindeer-driven sleds, Greeks, Russians, Armenians and Turks.
There are many fascinating plates of African peoples from Mamluks and Copts in Egypt, native peoples of Tunisia, Senegal, Cazegut (Bissagos Islands), Cacongo (Angola), Issinia (Guinea), Congo, Jagga (Chaga) people of Tanzania, Khoikhoi from South Africa, Zulus from Natal, etc.
There are also several Native American peoples including Iroquois of Canada, natives of Virginia and California, Carib of Martinique, Aztecs of Mexico, Inca of Peru, natives of Guianna (Guyana) and Yaghan people of the Land of Fire (Tierra del Fugo).
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The edition offered here is the only one issued with color lithograph plates, and is rare. 12 chromolithograph plates. David Livingstone (1813-73) undertook three great journeys through Africa, exploring vast regions unknown to Europeans. Appalled at the terrible effects of the slave trade on African life, he became a fierce abolitionist. His "Missionary Travels" was first published in London, 1857, and in Philadelphia the following year.