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The Last Domains. Charles Blackman, Nadine Amadio

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The Last Domains.

[Sydney]: AH & AW Reed Pty. Ltd, 1980. #11 of 150 copies signed and numbered by the artist. with a lithograph with same number, signed by the artist, laid in. WITH LITHOGRAPH. Charles Blackman was born in Sydney in 1928, though spent much of his childhood in Queensland. He's best..... Read More about The Last Domains

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The American Coast Pilot, containing the Coyurses and Distances between the Principal Harbours,...

The American Coast Pilot, containing the Coyurses and Distances between the Principal Harbours, Capes and Headlands.

New York: Published by Edmund M. Blunt for William Hooker, 1822. Tenth edition, first issue with ads dated march, 1822 and with new plate added to this edition "Isles of Shoals." With an advertisement at front by William Hooker 202 Water, corner of Fulton and Water-street, New York (Old Esatblished..... Read More about The American Coast Pilot, containing the Coyurses and Distances between the Principal Harbours,...

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A Japanese Omelette. A British Writer's Impressions on the Japanese Empire. Major R. V. C. Bodley

A Japanese Omelette. A British Writer's Impressions on the Japanese Empire.

Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1933. First. Ronald Victor Courtenay Bodley, MC (1892-1970), a British army officer, lived in Japan in the early 1930s, and was considered by Westerners at that time to be a preeminent source of knowledge on the area, proving to be erroneous on whether the Japanese were..... Read More about A Japanese Omelette. A British Writer's Impressions on the Japanese Empire

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20 Letters reporting events at Ladysmith, the Transvaal, Bloemfontein and elsewhere. Boer War,...

FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH

20 Letters reporting events at Ladysmith, the Transvaal, Bloemfontein and elsewhere.

VP including Ladysmith, Geluk Farm, Vluchfontein et al: 28 October 1899 - 5 April 1901. FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH. A fine group of letters by an English intelligence officer steadily rising through the ranks. In 1899 he is "sleep[ing] in the open air, only one blanket &..... Read More about 20 Letters reporting events at Ladysmith, the Transvaal, Bloemfontein and elsewhere

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A Voyage to the Demerary … and Other Contiguous Rivers of Guyana [Bound with:] SPILSBURY,...

A Voyage to the Demerary … and Other Contiguous Rivers of Guyana [Bound with:] SPILSBURY, F[rancis]. B.: Account of a....

London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1809; 1807; n.d [1820]. Second edition of first title, rest first editions. A sammelband of three travel narratives from Richard Phillips' 'Modern and Contemporary Voyages and Travels' series. Read More about A Voyage to the Demerary … and Other Contiguous Rivers of Guyana [Bound with:] SPILSBURY,...

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A Voyage round the World…In the years 1776, 1767, 1768, and 1769…Translated from the French...

The First French Circumnavigation

A Voyage round the World…In the years 1776, 1767, 1768, and 1769…Translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster….

London: Printed for J. Nourse…and T. Davies…, 1772. First English Edition. The First French Circumnavigation. First English edition of the first French circumnavigation (first published in Paris, 1771). Bougainville’s command was to first turn over the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands to the Spanish, allies of the French. He tells the story..... Read More about A Voyage round the World…In the years 1776, 1767, 1768, and 1769…Translated from the French...

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Sir Robert Montgomery's Camel Carriage in Government House, Lahore [pencil caption]. Samuel...

Sir Robert Montgomery's Camel Carriage in Government House, Lahore [pencil caption].

[Lahore: ca. 1865]. Bourne cat. # 2126. British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan region from 1863-1870. "[R]ecognized as an important landscape photographer, Bourne entered a partnership with Charles Shepherd" and "became a leading supplier of Indian views" (Pare, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE, p...... Read More about Sir Robert Montgomery's Camel Carriage in Government House, Lahore [pencil caption

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“Group of Booteas” [pencil caption]. Samuel Bourne

“Group of Booteas” [pencil caption].

[Darjeeling: 1869]. Bourne cat. # 1904. Four upper-class Booteas, Tibetan-speaking inhabitants of Nepal. British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan region from 1863-1870. "[R]ecognized as an important landscape photographer, Bourne entered a partnership with Charles Shepherd" and "became a leading supplier of Indian views"..... Read More about “Group of Booteas” [pencil caption

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Mundapum, with facade of carved horses. Samuel Bourne

Mundapum, with facade of carved horses.

[India: ca. 1865]. Bourne cat. #2065. British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan region from 1863-1870. "[R]ecognized as an important landscape photographer, Bourne entered a partnership with Charles Shepherd" and "became a leading supplier of Indian views" (Pare, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE, p. 251)..... Read More about Mundapum, with facade of carved horses

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Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch. By His Son. Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch

MEMOIR OF NATHANIEL BOWDITCH

Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch. By His Son.

Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1840. Second Edition. MEMOIR OF NATHANIEL BOWDITCH. Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer and mathematician, and author of "The New American Practical Navigator" was the most important author to American sea captains Inscription on ffep: "James R Stanwood from Miss E.S. Quincy. Quincy, Massachusetts: 18th October, 1880."..... Read More about Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch. By His Son

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Indiscreet Letters from Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-witness, which Set Forth in Some Detail,...

Indiscreet Letters from Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-witness, which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day...

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1908. Later edition. Original published March, 1907. An account of the siege of Peking by Bertram Lenox Simpson (1877-1930), under the pen name B.L. Putnam Weale. Simpson was born in China, later worked at the Imperial Maritime Customs, from which he was sacked in 1901. Robert..... Read More about Indiscreet Letters from Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-witness, which Set Forth in Some Detail,...

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My Farm in Lion Country. Joyce Boyd

My Farm in Lion Country.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First Edition. "The author Joyce Boyd-Moss and her husband George farmed in Tanganyika, and she recounts adventures, hartebeest and zebra [sic]. Elephants were also collected, as were additional leopards and lions that preyed on the couple's dairy herd. There is also a good..... Read More about My Farm in Lion Country

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