the traveller (31 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: New. pp. 504.

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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Acceptable. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED8VO, 240 tanned pgs, ex-library, with evidence of dust jacket removal. Trade Paperback (W/Dust Jacket).

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

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Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the origina.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Seventh Thousand. Dark red-brown textured hardcover, with paper title-label to spine. 110 x 170 x 22mm. 259pp plus section of illustrations. 24 pages of line illustrations. Light soiling to cover, with lettering on spine almost faded/worn away; internal text clean and unmarked throughout. NB: An extra shipping charge may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.

Hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine. 4to. 12½'' x 9¼''. Contains 216 pages with 36 colour illustrations on 12 plates (11 double-sided) and 131 text illustrations. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with two small tears to the top of the spine. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0517084279 AMERICA [Indian History].

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Later edition. 12mo. [6], 7-135, [1] pp. Green blindstamped cloth with gold lettering on the front board. A Near Fine book with a bit of age darkening to the spine.

See his entry and that of Buckingham in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. Twenty-six lines of text. Signed 'John Kitto' and addressed to 'J. S. Buckingham Esq'. 'It would be a great satisfaction to me to be able to avail myself of the advantage your suggestion offers to me; but I regret to state that I am not in possession of more than one copy of any of my works - and of several of them not even one; and as none of them are in my own possession as copyright, I can only obtain copies by purchase.' He discusses a couple of his works, one of which 'is a reprint from the old stereotype plates - an operation of which I had no cognizance and over which I have no contract'.

Full leather. Zustand: Near fine. The Traveller, The Deserted Village, and Other Poems by Oliver Goldsmith, printed for John Sharpe by C. Whittingham in 1817. (illustrator). Early Edition. Twelvemo, 154pp. Full brown morocco ornately trimmed in gilt. Four raised bands, title in gilt on spine. Marbled endpapers, decorative gilt turn-ins. Solid text block, front cover slightly bowed, light shelf wear, touch of foxing to fore edge. A near fine example.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, sm. 8vo. (152x93mm),(each gathering is of 9 leaves), pp: xviii, [1-3],4-510, pp:xiii-xvii is the list of 'Subscribers' with 'Additional Subscribers' pp:[1-2] with the text beginning on pp: [3], lacking pages 375-378 (2 leaves), the 2 engraved plates are frontispiece of Lieut. Gen. Ld. Hill & plate of Benjamin Franklin, both with tissue guards lightly foxed, woodcut tail pieces, ink contemporary owner's signature to front free endpaper scrubbed out, endpapers & edges browned, final leaf carelessly glued, however contents clean with tail pieces throughout text & good margins, bound in brown cloth, edges rough cut, worn, marked & head of spine split, however sound & tight with cloth glued to spine. Copac records only the British Library copy which appears to lack the subscribers List xiii-xviii. No copy at Shrewsbury Archives & obviously very scarce with the BL & this copy both lacking leaves.

Full leather. Zustand: Near fine. The Traveller, The Deserted Village, and Other Poems by Oliver Goldsmith, printed for John Sharpe by C. Whittingham in 1817. (illustrator). Early Edition. Twelvemo, 154pp. Patterned red morocco, ornately trimmed in gilt. Title stamped in gilt on tan morocco label affixed to spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers, decorative gilt turn-ins. Bound by Ingalton in Eton. Solid text block, faint soiling to covers, occasional foxing throughout. Illustrated with engravings after drawings by Richard Westall. A near fine example. Housed in a custom slipcase covered in marbled paper.

Letter One (November 1848; folio, 1 p; on discoloured, creased and worn paper): Availing himself of Philippart's 'kind permission to contribute to the U. S. Magazine', Stocqueler is sending 'the commencement of a Historical Sketch' he has 'long meditated writing'. 'A note in this month's Dublin University Mag. has afforded the text - & the pretext'. It 'will be calculated to please the India Office', and will contain 'a good deal of personal sketch'. Addressed on reverse to Philippart at the Magazine's office at 19 Catherine Street, Strand, and docketed by Philippart. Letter Two ('Thursday', 12mo, 2 pp, good). Warning Philippart against 'being led' by Sir John Henniker 'into any publication regarding his affair with Captains Bray & Wilson. He adopted so infamous a course in regard to them some months ago, thro' the U. S. Gazette, that I was obliged to tell him to his face he was a poltroon - He swallowed the insult & sneaked away. There is no dependence to be placed on one word he says.' Bray is rich and will 'bring an action against him or those who publish any of his statements, on the slightest pretext'. Letter Three (10 August 1870; 12mo, 3 pp; good, on lightly creased and discoloured paper): He is returning the volume on the Victoria Cross. He has 'duly recd.' Philippart's note 'enclosing an extract from 's letter to you & have no doubt I shall be able to make some use of it if occasion shd. arise'. Discusses a newspaper of which '' has 'evidently been trying to dispose a part'. 'Who would be the business associate of one so wanting in temper or decision? Not I. Two months ago he gave me a month's warning. At the end of that time asked me to go on.'.

One page, 12mo, embossed stamp slightly damaged, some staining but text clear and complete. "I perceive by your card that you were present & I much regret I did not know you. However I find you had some communication with Dr. Hodgkin & I am delighted to hear that we shall have you as a Member. I now return the charts & beg to return my sincere thanks for their use." This letter is from a colelction of letters addressed to James Wyld, cartographer. The Ethnological Society evolved from the Aborigines Protection Society and later evolved into the Royal Antropological Insitute. King "obtained the post of surgeon and naturalist in the expedition led by Captain George Back, to the mouth of the Great Fish River (now known as the Back River) between 1833 and 1835, in search of Captain John Ross." He issued the prospectus for the Society in 1842. Thomas Hodgkin was an eminent physician.

3 engraved plates ('Isld. of Hormuz or Ormus', 'A Persian Caravansera' and 'Persians'). Folio. Later half leather, the spine lettered in gilt. The final page damaged and with repair, affecting text. Bookplate to upper pastedown. Pp. 247-319. [London], n.p., n.d. Not located in Wilson, A Bibliography of Persia.

Irish traveller, politician and author (1804-69; DNB). 1 page, 4to, on blue paper, with printed address for 'further communication' in top left-hand corner. Docketed with date of reply on verso of second leaf of bifoliate, with has remains of mounts in four corners. Creased with slight spotting, but in good condition overall. Ewart & Sons were linen manufacturers and the letter, in response to one of 18 June 1864, concerns the status of 'British Vessels and their Cargoes' in the 'Ports of the United States'. Signed 'J Emerson Tennent'.

1p., 12mo. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. The letter reads: 'My dear Sir, | Only one Word to let you know how deeply I feel your untimely loss and to ask you to be by Mrs. Lewis, her daughter and all your people the interpreter of all my sincerest sentiments of regret. | Yrs. truly | Duke de Penthièvre'.

2pp., 12mo. 29 lines of neatly-written text. In very good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Addressing his letter to 'J: S: Buckingham Esqre.', Pollock writes that Buckingham's letter, 'enclosing the Rules &c. of the British and Foreign Institute', has been forwarded to him in Monmouth, where he is 'engaged on a long Circuit professionally, which comprehends all South Wales, and the West and South of England'. He is 'on the move continually', without 'time or opportunity to give sufficient consideration to the subject'. He will 'return to Town' in December, when he will 'take an early opportunity of making my appearance as a member of the Committee', and will 'confer' with Buckingham: 'I see you have had to answer an attack, as some one has taken the trouble to send me a Copy of the "Times" of the 25th. inst. which accompanied a Letter from you [.] You need not complain, as you have evidently a triumph upon all the points started.' According to Buckingham's entry in the Oxford DNB, in 1844 he was 'instrumental in the foundation of the British and Foreign Institute in Hanover Square. This literary and social club, of which he was appointed resident director, drew the ridicule of Punch, which persisted in calling it the 'Literary and Foreign Destitute'. The institute was closed in 1846.' Pollock was appointed Chief Justice of Bombay in 1846, and knighted in the same year.

1p., landscape 16mo (8.5 x 13 cm). Good, on aged paper, with blank second leaf of bifolium bearing evidence of previous mounting. The poem is neatly written out, in a sensitive hand, and is eight lines long: 'Fairyland! Fairyland! | That must be a pleasant spot: | Silver rippled over the strand, | Murmurs in each cave & grot, | Jewelled fruits upon the trees, | Music floating on the air, | Perfumes breathing on the breeze -, | How I wish that I was there! | [signed] Julia S. H. Pardoe'. The poem was presumably written in response to a request for an autograph, and there is no indication that it was ever published.

English writer (died 1887), traveller in the Middle East, and philanthropist. Four pages, 16mo. Good, but with traces of grey-paper mount adhering to verso of second leaf of bifoliate, to which adheres a cutting relating to the circumstances of Lady Strangford's marriage. She has been in bed for ten days, and although 'still in a state of great weakness - and non-writingness', writes to apologise for Lord Strangford's mistake: 'as he was expecting to be accosted by a lady much of your size he answered accordingly with an enquiry for her husband. It came to him the next moment that the "voice was not Jacob's voice" - but it was too late to find you again and he came home in a state of shame & confusion. I dont think any one bears him malice for his many mistakes of vision - & you will not be the first to . The marvel is how he gets on at all with such eyes anywhere.' She hopes she will 'charitably come & see me' as she expects 'to be a prisoner for a long time'. Signed 'E. A. Strangford'.

See the entry for the recipient Dawson Turner in the Oxford DNB. Farr's entry in 'Alumni Cantabrigienses' reads as follows: 'FARR, THOMAS. Adm. pens. (age 18) at TRINITY, Apr. 8, 1814. S. [and h.] of Thomas. B. at Beccles, Suffolk. School, Bury St Edmunds (Mr Malkin). Matric. Michs. 1814; B.A. 1818. Ord. deacon (Norwich) June 17, 1821; priest, Mar. 3, 1822 ('T. Farr, the younger'). Travelled in Spain during the Carlist War, 1S35-7. In 1S38 published A Traveller's Rambling Reminiscences of the Spanish War, in which he defends De Lacy and the British Legion. Died Feb. 8, 1855. Buried at Cheltenham. (Bury St Edmunds Gr. Sch. List; C. R. Hudleston.)' Farr also published three economic pamphlets: 'A Remedy for the Distresses of the Nation' (1840), which elicited a response from Sir Francis Place, and 'A Short Statement of Facts connected with the proposed Changes in our Commercial Tarif [sic]' and 'The Principal Difficulties of the Sliding Scale removed' (both 1841). The present item is 2pp, 4to, on the first leaf of a bifolium, on the reverse of the second leaf of which is written 'To / Dawson Turner Esq / Yarmouth.' In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Folded for postage. Addressed to 'My Dear Sir' and signed 'Thomas Farr', with a strange flourish at the end of the signature. Twenty-six lines of text, in a crabbed and not entirely legible hand. He begins by stating that he is sending him 'a letter of General A [Alanas?] written in answer to one giving him the details of the capture of Irun by Genl Evans - La Gentille Reverende alludes to Mrs Phips the wife of Mr P who was & is now resiging at Tours - she is a pretty woman & fond of dress - as General A writes a most extraordinary hand, I have sent you a copy with the original'. He is also sending 'a note of Evans's should you think it worth preserving - when I was in Madeira a Catalogue had not been printed of the Dutch and Flemish Schools, so you will find no account of the fine Teniers Vandykes & Rubens that are beautifully arranged in the finest gallery in the world'. He is sending a 'copy of the Lithographic work', the 'only one taken in this country' being 'in the name of the President of the Royal Academy', which he asks Turner to keep 'until I have the pleasure of seeing you again'. 'I have to beg your acceptance of my "Reminiscences of the Spanish War", asking him to send a second copy to his 'aunt Farr'. He is on his way to Baden-Baden, and wonders if he can procure for Turner 'some autographs of the Bonaparte family from Hen. R. H. the Dowager Grand Dutchess, who is a niece of Josephines' there. A four-line postscript refers to a lettter without a postmark, and the British Consul at Bayonne.

Hooper's various titles, published between 1903 and 1941, are remarkably well represented on JISC, with holdings from the Warburg Institute to the University of Strathclyde. A precious artefact from a spiritual leader. 1p, 4to. On brittle and lightly-creased paper, aged and discoloured, with closed tears and slight loss at one corner and repair with archival tape. The handwriting is hurried and hard to decipher. Begins: 'Dear Fellow Pilgrim / Before sending you the lessons, after reading your letter, & explaining your difficulties, I think it will be wise for you to go through the [briefest?] principles of Living in [true?] relation to your soul and [the?] body, so I am sending you a text book of a guinea course on that free.' He continues with an explanation of the intended preparation and its costs, after which the recipient 'will be more ready to understand the course and the main teaching which is a bit more advanced, & I am afraid until you have got a better understanding of certain principles that it would not do you the benefit you expect.' Signed, lengthwise up one margin and over the letterhead, 'W S Hooper'.

London, Partridge and Oakey, 1851. 8vo. In contemporary full cloth with paper title-label to spine. Ex-libris pasted on to verso of front board. Binding with light wear, hinges a bit weak. XLIV, 45-259, (1) pp. + 29 plates.

At the time of writing Gordon-Cumming's trophies were being exhibited at this Piccadilly address, having previously formed part of the Great Exhibition. The recipient Henry Charles Angelo (1806-1866) was a member of the celebrated family of fencing masters, and was at this time teaching the art at the Cavalry College, Richmond. 2pp, 12mo. On the rectos of the two leaves of a bifolium, with the recipient's name written lengthwise on the verso of the first leaf: 'H. C. Angelo Esqr'. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded twice. The sort of bold and forceful hand and ebullient signature one might expect from a big game hunter. Reads: 'Dear Sir / I have forwarded your letter to Sir Alexander. his address is Altyre. Forres. if you send a pampered menial [last two words underlined] to my house-keeper (Mrs Lee) at the museum and shew this note she will give him the portrait you require. / Yours faithfully. / Gordon Cumming'.

One page, 12mo, fold marks, grubby but text clear and complete. "It appears to me that the fibula [broach or clasp] in question is of the XIthe century, and represents a still ruder imitation of the rude Munus Divinus of Louis-Le-Debonaire. It was for several centuries the custom in France, that all sort of coins or imitations of coins in all the different metals, bearing portraitrs with names, or religious legends & were given as mariage presents. And of course such gifts served also for other sacred and religious ceremonies. And afterwards formed into fibulae [an addition in smaller hand]. | I may also yet observe, suppose a Person's name was Ludovicus, I do not see why he should not have presented /: [?] in those days -:/ [?] such a fibula according to circumstances either in gold, silver, or copper to his betrothed.".

Two pages, 8vo, blue paper, fold marks, slight damage at fold not affecting text, mainly good condition. Despite a neat appearance, a difficult hand occasionally. Text: "Of our disaster [underlined] you will have heard from others. I know you will not be displeased to hear of our safety from us [underlined]. We have lost nearly everything - Maria everything [see Note B. below] & have been clothed by Christian charity. I think better of human nature & more highly of human virtue after what I have seen. It was a beautiful display of every mortal excellence. I have been proud [underlined] of Maria. Her mother - how would she have [?] to the details of our dolorous story! The dead are spared the sufferings of the living. In a letter from Edith [received?] at Malta & [dated?] from Vicar's Cross she speaks of your [?] & hospitable kindness. I dare say I shall put in a claim - will you allow it? to the shelter of your roof & I will tell you of the [???] of our dangers,- our doings & our rescue. W. telegraphed an account of our disaster to Egypt & found a messenger from the Pacha & his State carriage in here waiting for us,- so we crossed the desert in sovereign splendor - but embarked at Alexandria without delay - & t0-morrow hope to be in Marseille & in London by Wednesday the 6th July. Kind regards to all around you | Yours very affectionately | John Bowring".Note: A. Bowring's work in Hong Kong ended in May 1859; B. His wife, Maria, died apparently in 1858 (Wikipedia) leaving here a puzzle.