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The Prince of Wales, sailing the oceans View picture(s) 1 ALBERT VICTOR, Prince, PRINCE GEORGE OF WALES. The cruise of Her Majesty's ship Bacchante 1879-1882. Compiled from the private journals, letters, and note-books. With additions by John N. Dalton. London, Macmillian & Co., 1886. 2 volumes. 8vo. Original gilt decorated cloth. With 62 maps and plans (including 1 folding chromo-lithographed plate and 18 full-page lithographed plates), and 66 wood-engraved illustrations in text. XXVIII, 675; XII, 803 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Australia & New Zealand  England  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A classic work on Japan View picture(s) 2 ALCOCK, Sir Rutherford. The capital of the tycoon: a narrative of a three years' residence in Japan. With maps and numerous illustrations in chromolithography and on wood. London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary green cloth with richly gilt decorated spine with blind stamped covers and on binding of volume I gilt centre piece of a Japanese samoerai and on binding of volume II a Gheisa. Two frontispieces, 2 folding maps, 14 coloured full-page plates and 2 black & white and numerous illustrations in text. XXXII, 469, (2); X, 539 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: England  English  Japan  Politics  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the second Burmese war View picture(s) 3 BAKER, Thomas Turner. The recent operations of the British forces at Rangoon and Martaban. London, Harrison for Thomas Hatchard, 1852. 8vo. Original blindstamped cloth with gilt title on spine: "Rangoon", made by J. DEAN, at the Strand. Lithographed frontispiece in a beautiful colouring showing the Burmese deputation presenting the King of Ava's letter, one lithographed plate of a vessel which the Burmese gave th name "Yathunah-gee-mhou", meaning "Precious, Sleek, Excellent sailing ship" and two folding lithographed plates, one being a coastal view of the town of Rangoon and the other showing the attack of the Dunnoo Stockade, all platesd lithographed by Martin & Hood. VII, 78 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Burma  Colonial History  Colour Platebooks  England  India  Militaria  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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To the Pacific coast of South America View picture(s) 4 BELCHER, Edward. Narrative of a voyage round the world, performed in Her Majesty's ship Sulphur, during the years 1836-1842, including details of the naval operations in China, from Dec. 1840 to Nov. 1841. London, Henry Colburn, 1843. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine with title lettered in gold. Folding map of the Canton river, folding map with the tracks of the H.M.S. Sulphur,  large world chart also showing the course of the Sulphur, 19 steelengravings with views on Panama (2), on Honolulu, Mount Elias, Sitka at New Archangel, the volcano of Consequina, Fort George at Astoria, Port Anna Maria, attack on the war junks, Thoka-nauta or Phillips, natives of Port Victoria, native of New Guinea, bow of a state canoe, Prahu of Geby, native of Celebes, native women of Celebes, attacks on first bar battery, Chinese soldiers with gingals, Chinese soldiers at great guns and several illustrations in text. XXII, 387; VI, 474 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  China  Circumnavigation  England  Indonesia  Maritime History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important 18th-century book on gardening View picture(s) 5 BRADLEY, Richard. Nouvelles observations physiques et pratiques sur le jardinage et l'art de planter, avec le calendrier des jardiniers. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois de Bradley, enrichi de figures en taille-douce. Paris, Pierre-Aug. Paulus du Mesnil, Jean-Luc Nyon, & Siméon-Prosper Hardy, 1756. 3 vols. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments with red title labels lettered in gold, red painted edges. Engraved frontispiece depicting the gardens of a country estate, and 12 numbered folding engraved plates by Pierre-François Legrand, showing all kinds of flowers, garden lay-outs, insects etc., including 3 very interesting plates of a greenhouse (plan, in- and outside views) in vol. 3 XXXVI, 358, (2): Privilege; (5), X-XVI, 510; (2), 12, 1-430, 433-442 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: England  France  Gardens  Horticulture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch translation of a pamphlet by Lord Clifford of Chudleigh View picture(s) 6 CLIFFORD, Thomas. Engelse en Schotse gravamina, rakende den oorlog met Hollandt; beneffens des parlaments procedueren tegen de Lords Arlington, Buckingam en Lauderdale, &c. Soo die tegenwoordig  aen sijn majesteyt van Groot Brittanje zijn voorgestelt. Daar op des konings antwoord en versoeninge met de leden des parlaments, vergadert in beyde uytstekende huysen tegen de cabale, om die uyt te roeyen, en vrede te bekomen. 1674. 4to. Wrappers. (8), 56 (=54) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  England  History  Netherlands  Pamphlets  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With manuscript dedication by the author View picture(s) 7 CORNFORD, Frances. Death and the princess. A morality. Cambridge, 1912. Orig. wrappers. Frontispiece illustration. (6), 112 pp.- With manuscript dedication by the author, dated March 1913.- Good copy. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  England  English  Painting & Drawing  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Dutch sick and tired of England View picture(s) 8 DOWNING, George., C. BURGH and Jacob ROCK & P. DE GRAEF. Den Toestant der Swevende Verschillen, tusschen de Oost, ende West-Indische Compagnien, van Engelant, ende van de Vereenighde Nederlanden. (Amsterdam), "naer de copye," 1664. 4to. Untrimmed, in later plain wrappers. 22, (2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colonial History  England  Low Countries  Pamphlets  Trade  VOC  WIC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Still important for the history of the Normans and their conquests; many first editions of relevant medieval texts View picture(s) 9 DU CHESNE, Andreas. Historiae Normannorum scriptore antiqui, res ab illis per Galliam, Angliam, Apuliam, Capuae principatum, Siciliam, & orientem gestas explicantes, ab anno Christi DCCCXXXVIII, ad annum MCCXX. Insertae sunt monasteriorum fundationes variae, series episcoporum ac abbatum: genealogiae regum, ducum, comitum, & nobilium ... Paris, for Robert Foüet, Nicolaus Buon & Sebastien Cramoisy, 1619. Large folio. 19th century red morocco, richly gilt in the style of the 17th century, spine gilt in compartments, gilt borders on both sides with gilt crowned monogram (a 'V' between 'E' and 'B' ?) in centre, marbled endpapers, gilt binding edges, inner dentelles, g.e. With engraved printer's device on title: a beehive surrounded by four emblematic medallions and the marks of the three publishers; many woodcut head- and tail pieces. (12), 1104, (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: England  France  History  Italy  Middle Ages  Sicily  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting original French translation of a work on algae on the Britsh and Irish coasts View picture(s) 10 ELLIS, John. Essai sur l'histoire naturelle des corallines et dáutres productions marines du même genre, quón trouve communement sur les cotes de la Grande-Bretagne et dÍrlande; auquel on a joint une description dún grand polype de mer, pris auprès du Pole Arctique, par des pêcheurs de baleine, pendant l'été de 1753. The Hague, Pierre de Hondt, 1756. Large 4to. Full contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with red label lettered in gold. Title printed in red and black, with engraved frontispiece and 39 plates, 5 of which are folded, depicting plants and algae etc. and a nautical microscope (Plate 39), engraved by James Kirk, J. Mynde and H. Roberts after the drawings by Ehret. xvi, 125, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  England  French  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare specimen of a very richly decorated silk bookbinding View picture(s) 11 EMBROIDERED BOOKBINDING. Ivory satin bookbinding, richly decorated with coloured threads, gold thread, metal rings and clusters of seed pearls. England (London?), second quarter of the 17th century. Open: 17 x 25cm. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Embroidery  England  English  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From India overland to London, by the son of the Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV View picture(s) 12 FITZCLARENCE, George Augustus Frederick. Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818. London, Thomas Davison for John Murray, 1819. 4to. Contemporary calf with blind-tooled border and gilt fillet along the edges, edges marbled, marbled endpapers. With a large folding partly coloured map of the seat of war in India, a full-page map of Egypt with the route through the desert and down the Nile taken by Fitzclarence to reach Alexandria, 12 full-page aquatints (9 coloured, 2 uncoloured) and 5 full-page plans (4 partly coloured plans of battlefields in India; 1 of a temple). XXIV, 502 [including p. 168-169*] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Discovery & Exploration  Egypt  England  India  Militaria  Piracy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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French edition of a voyage to North-Eastern Europe in the company of Alex. von Humboldt, by a companion of James Cook View picture(s) 13 FORSTER, Johan Georg Adam. Voyage philosophique et pittoresque, sur les rives du Rhin, a Liège, dans la Flandre, le Brabant, la Hollande, l'Angleterre, la France, etc. fait en 1790. Traduit de l'Allemand, avec des notes critiques sur la physique, les moeurs, l'histoire naturelle et les arts, par Charles Pougens Paris, F. Buisson & Charles Pougens, 1800 (l'an VIII). 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with two red morocco title labels lettered in gold, yellow painted edges. With a folding map of Great Britain and 9 folding views of famous English buildings. (4), XVI, 408; (4), 446; 8, 407 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Belgicana  Cartography  England  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare print series depicting the execution of Mary Stuart in 1587 View picture(s) 14 GARDINER, William Nelson. Execution de Marie Stuart, Reine d'Ecosse, en sept estampes gravées. London, (Tebaldo Monzani, 1791). Oblong folio. Contemporary light-brown polished calf with decorated gilt spine, covers with decorated gilt border along the edgess, front cover with gilt green morocco inlay with title lettered in gold, decorated gilt binding edges, pastedowns and first and last flyleaf of paper decorated in eighteenth-century style with a pattern of red dots and trefoils. With seven full-page stipple-engraved plates (ca. 200 x 250 mm) printed in brown by W.N. Gardiner after the designs of J.F. Rigaud. (4) pp. with title and explanatory text. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  England  Engravings  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two Easy Sisters in interesting Dutch wrappers View picture(s) 15 H.S. The history of the Davenport Family: in which is displayed a Striking Contrast between Haughty Indolence and Healthful Activity, in the Characters of the Young Davenports, and their Cousins Sophia and Amelia Easy. Interspersed with Moral Reflections. By H.S. London, Printed for E. Newbery, (1791). 12mo. Contemp. Dutch colour-printed flowered wrappers. With 6 full-page engraved plates, including the frontispiece, unsigned. 120 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Chapbooks  Children's Books  England  English  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Everything you could possibly want to know about the Grenadier guards View picture(s) 16 HAMILTON, Frederick William. The origin and history of the first or Grenadier guards. From documents in the state paper office, war office, horse guards, contemporary history, regimental records, etc. London, John Murray, 1874. 3 vols. Original cloth, with gilt title on blue title-label on spine, gilt medaillon on front cover, pattern of filets on covers, marbled endpapers. With 3 frontispiece photo-engravings, 14 portraits, 60 maps of which 3 folding, 7 chromolithographed plates and 1 view in total. XXXIV, (6), 458; XXXIV, 548; XVIII, 496 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Cavalry  England  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An impassioned defense of Jay's Treaty translated into Portuguese View picture(s) 17 HARPER, Robert Goodloe. Reflexoens sobre a questaõ entre os Estados Unidos e a França. Traduzidas em Portuguez. Philadelphia, London, 1798. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt spine divided in 5 compartments, red morocco title label. 322 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  England  France  History  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The works of one of the greatest utopians of the seventeenth century in the original French translation View picture(s) 18 HARRINGTON, James. Oeuvres politiques. Contenant la République d'Océana, les aphorismes, & les autres traités du même  auteur; précédées de l'histoire de sa vie, écrite par Jean-Toland. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois. Paris, Ant. Aug. Lottin for Libraire Leclere & Libraire Quatremère, An III (=1795). 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt spines with red morocco title-labels lettered in gold, decorated blue endpapers, red painted edges. (4), XVI, 268, III; (2), 275, III; (4), 299, III pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: England  Imaginary Voyages & Utopias  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare early 18th century bibliography of rare Italian books View picture(s) 19 HAYM, [Nicola Francesco]. Notizia de'libri rari nella lingua Italiani divisa in quattro parti principali; cioè, istoria, poesia, prose, arti e scienze. Anessovi tutto il libro della eloquenza Italiana di Mons. Giusto Fontanini, con il suo ragionamento intorno la detta materia. Con Tavole copiosissime, e necessarie. London, Jacob Tonson & John Watts, 1726. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, ribbed spine, title in ink on spine. (36), 302, (47) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Book History  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  England  Italy  Libraries & Collections  Literary History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting picture of warfare in the Netherlands during the Eighty-Years-War View picture(s) 20 HEXHAM, Henry. The principles of the art militarie, practised in the warres of the United Netherlands: represented by figure, the word of command, and demonstration (Part 1-3 and the Appendix to part 1). London, Delft & The Hague, Robert Young, Jan Petersen Waelpote & Francis vander Spruyt, 1637-1640. 4 parts in one vol. Folio. Contemporary calf (rebacked). With 19 double-page, 44 full-page and 25 half-page engraved plates of instructions for the use of the musket and other weapons, military formations on the battle field, fortifications, etc. ca. 210 pp. (see collation below). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  England  English  Militaria  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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