Richard and john lander (23 Ergebnisse)

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

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

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 321 pages (complete). Volume two only. Pocket sized. A comfortable copy. Of the popular John Murray Family Library (published between 1829-1834). The linen covered boards are grubby and worn. They have stains, wear, handling marks all about. They are steady and sure. The contents are pleasingly venerable and benign. The pages are tight, mellow, clean and clear, just a little aged, contented, agreeable. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Vol. 2. (West Africa, Niger River, description and travel) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This 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 is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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.

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.

HARDCOVER. Zustand: cover wear otherwise good-. 2nd edition. 319pp + 398pp 12mo brown cloth.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This 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 is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 1832. First edition - three volumes. lxiv, 272pp., a frontispiece portrait and 2 maps (1 folding) in volume 1; vii, 321pp., a frontispiece portrait, 3 other engraved plates and a 1 page catalogue in volume 2; vii, 354pp. frontispiece illustrations and 1 other engraved plate in volume 3. Richard Lemon Lander (1804-1834) was a Cornish explorer of western Africa. He and his brother John were the first Europeans to follow the course of the River Niger, and discover that it led to the Atlantic. Lander's explorations began as a servant to the Scottish explorer Hugh Clapperton with whom he went in 1823 to the Cape Colony, and then on to an expedition to Western Africa in 1825. Commissioned by the British Government, Lander returned to West Africa in 1830, accompanied by his brother John. They landed at Badagri on 22 March 1830 and followed the lower River Niger from Bussa to the sea. After exploring about 160 kilometres of the River Niger upstream, they returned to explore by canoe the River Benue and Niger Delta. In the delta they were kidnapped by the locals at Igbo-Ora, and a large ransom demanded by the local king Obi Ossai of Aboh kingdom, which was paid. Despite this setback, they were successful in determining the great river's course and termination. They travelled back to Britain from Fernando Po via Rio de Janeiro in 1831.In 1832, Lander returned to Africa for a third and final time, as leader of an expedition organised by Macgregor Laird and other Liverpudlian merchants, with the intention of founding a trading settlement at the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers. The three volume for sale contain Richard and John Lander's account of their expedition to the termination of the Niger, commencing with their departure from Portsmouth on 9th January, 1830, for Cape Coast Castle. The three volumes form volumes 28, 29 and 30 of the publisher's 'Family Library' series. The books are uniformly bound in the original light brown cloth covered boards with black titling on the spines and front boards and a list of other volumes in the series on the rear boards. The cases of the books are in very good condition with some expected signs of their age. There is shelf wear with some soiling on the boards and a water stain near the top edge of both boards on the first volume and a smaller water stain on the top edge of the front board of the second volume. There is light bumping to the corners and heavier bumping to the spine ends with a split of about 1/4" in the cloth on the top of the spine of volume 3. There is a thin split of about 1/2" on the top of the spine edges of volume 1 and top of the rear spine edge of volume 3. The contents are tight and clean apart from a few small marks. Volume 1 has a water stain on the top edge of the front and rear endpapers; a larger water stain on the half-title, frontispiece, title-page, and the first (small) map. The pages adjacent to the map also have a lighter water stain and some of the pages have a smaller light water stain on the fore edge. Volume 2 has a small water stain on the top edge of the frontispiece and first plate and adjacent pages. Volume 3 has some damage to pages 25/26 that has been repaired with some type of tape on page 26. There is a creas running across pages 21/22 and 25 to 28. A name has been written on the front free endpaper in all three volumes. PLEASE NOTE: Extra postage will be required to cover insurance.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good with no dust jacket. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION TO EXPLORE THE COURSE AND TERMINATION OF THE NIGER; With a Narrative of a Voyage down that River to its Termination. Vol II (of 3). Quarter brown leather and purple cloth, gilt-decorated spine with black labels, "Family Library 1832" at spine base. Upper portion of front joint split. Vii, [i], 321, [1] pp, lacking series title. Plates lightly foxed, text good.…

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hardback, 12mo, lxiv,272;viii,321pp, portrait frontispiece in each, 3 maps (2 folding) in vol.1, 3 further plates in vol.2, , some foxing and browning, mainly on plates and title pages, text clean and bindings sound, no inscriptions, marbled boards and half-leather binding, gilt titles, corners and spine ends rubbed, Good condition. volumes 1 and 2 only (of 3).…

Copertina rigida. Zustand: Buono. Prima edizione francese. Opera completa in tre volumi. Cm.21,5x13. Pg.354; 348; 396. Legature in mz.tela con titoli in oro ai dorsi. Fioriture. Alcune figure nel testo, due carte raffiguranti "Cours des rivières de Quorra, Senegal et Gambie" e "Cours du Quorra (Joliba ou Niger de Mungo Park) d'après le Journal du Voyage des Frères Richard et John Lander, avec la Route de Badagry vers le Nord en 1830" (in formato cm.34x30), e cinque tavole fuori testo incise da Fouchery. Prima versione francese della cronaca del viaggio compiuto in Africa occidentale dai fratelli Lander, John (Cornwall, 1804-1834) e Richard, i primi esploratori europei a seguire il corso del Niger fino all'Atlantico. > Gay, "Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs a l'Afrique et a l'Arabie", 2777. 1200 gr.…

Leather-bound. Zustand: Good Plus. Second edition. 3 volumes. 12mo. 6 1/4 in. x 4 1/4 in. Three-quarter bound over blue stone marbled boards. Mild wear to extremities. Recent leather touchup repair to top left of each volume's front board, and extremities. Rebacked with original spine Attractive red Morocco spine labels, ruled in gilt with gilt lettering "Family Library" and "Journal of the Niger." Double ruled gilt compartments with gilt scrollwork and floral motif on spine. Matching blue stone marbled pastedowns and free endpapers. Gilt-top edge. Bindings tight but sound. Vol 1: [4], lxiv, [2] 272. Includes half-title, frontispiece portrait of Richard Lander, 2 maps ("The Quorra, Sengal, and Gambia Rivers" and foldout map "The Course of the Quorra, The Joliba or Niger". In text illustrations pp. 227 and 228. Mispagination 173 as 17; Vol 2: [1] vii, [1], 321, [1]. No half-title. Includes frontispiece portrait of John Lander, 3 plates ("The Fetish at Patashie," "Mouffie Canoe," and "Mount Kesey") and in text illustrations pp. 87, 91, 93. Vol 3: [1], vii, [1], 354. Includes half-title, 2 plates ("Eboe Canoe" and "Banks of the Quorral," and in text illustrations pp. 3, 4, 106. 2 maps and 5 plates total. Internal pages very clean. Richard Lander (1804-1834) accompanied Clapperton on an expedition to Western Africa in 1825. Clapperton died in 1827 in present-day Nigeria, leaving Lander as the only surviving European member of the expedition. He proceeded southeast and then returned to Britain in 1828. Lander set out on another expedition to West Africa in 1830, accompanied by his brother John. After exploring the River Niger, they explored the River Benue and the Niger Delta. In 1832, Lander returned to Africa as leader of an expedition to found a trading settlement at the junction of the Niger and Benue rivers. Many died from fever and Lander was fatally wounded by a musket ball in his thigh. The Lander brothers were hailed by contemporaries for discovering that the Niger flowed into the Atlantic, "since it opened up the whole of central Africa to commerce and ultimately settlement." (ODNB).…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. A complete first edition account of Richard and John Lander's pioneering exploration of the Niger River. The first edition of this work. Complete in three volumes.Published for John Murray's 'Family Library', being No. XXVIII.In the publisher's cloth-backed boards.Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume, two maps to Vol. I (one folding), three plates and one page of advertisements to Vol. II, and one further plate to Vol. III. Collated, complete.The British government sent Richard Lander and his brother, John, to explore more of the lower Niger River in 1830 (following Richard's prior travels in West Africa), and they were able to prove that the Niger flows through many mouths into the Bight of Benin. They found the source, route and mouths of the Niger River, that up to then had been unmapped. Within the same expedition, the brothers were kidnapped by the locals at Aboh, with a large ransom demanded by the local king Obi Ossai of Aboh kingdom before they could be granted safe passage back to a British ship. This setback and other impressions of the local people are vividly depicted in this fascinating three-volume account. In the original cloth-backed boards. Externally, smart, with sunning to the spines. Rubbing and bumping to the extremities and a few damp spots to the cloth, most noticeably to Vol I. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with scattered spots to the first and last few pages and the odd spot or handling mark to the plates and facing pages. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

First edition. 3 volumes, small 8vo., engraved portrait frontispiece, 6 engraved plates, 2 maps (1 folding), light spotting to plates, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, a fine set. one of the great African narratives completing the navigaton of the river niger. Richard Lander accompanied Hugh Clapperton as his manservant on his second expedition to explore the Niger in 1825. The expedition disembarked on the Nigerian coast determined to strike inland to Sokoto, then descend the Niger to the Atlantic. Most of the party died of malaria en route and it was only Clapperton and Lander who made it to Sokoto. The local ruler, Mohammed Bello, who had tried to trick Clapperton with a false map on his first expedition with Denham, agreed to allow them to return to the sea by way of the Niger. With success all but guaranteed, Clapperton fell victim to malaria and dysentery and Lander was left to make his way bak alone through territory controlled by hostile tribes. Lander returned to Nigeria in 1830 on a government-backed expedition accompanied by his brother John and successfully descended the last section of the Niger from Bussa to the Atlantic.…

Zustand: Good. Folio. 4pp. 37 x 28cm. Calligraphy on cover. Signatures on pp. 2 and 3.Losses of some signatures at to pand bottom.Schedule for the first fourteen weeks of the 1950 Shakespeare Festival; the Festival was under the direction of Anthony Quayle, and five plays were in the repertoire: MEASURE FOR MEASURE, KING HENRY VIII, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, JULIUS CAESAR, and KING LEAR; the company consisted of:John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Leon Quartermaine, Anthony Quayle, Harry Andrews, Andrew Cruickshank, Rosalind Atkinson, Barbara Jefford, Alan Badel, Michael Gwynn, George Rose, Maxine Audley, Cecil Winter, Paul Hardwick, Nigel Green, Mairhi Russell, Evelyne Volney, Jean Short, Romany Evens, Michael Bates, Geoffrey Bayldon, Eric Lander, Robert Hardy, Richard Dare, David Lytton, John Money, Ronald Hines, Harold Siddons, Michael Atkinson, Peter Jackson, James Lund, Harold Kasket, Peter Norris, Robert Shaw, Timothy Bateson, John Dunbar, John Gay, Cyril Conway, Peter Halliday, Michael Ney, Ward Williams, David Woodman, Charles Lepper; the directors were Peter Brook, Tyrone Guthrie, Anthony Quayle, Michael Langham and John Gielgud; the designers were Peter Brook, Tanya Moiseiwitsch, Warwick Armstrong, Mariano Andreu, and Leslie Hu.Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (1891-1992) played the following roles in 1950: Regan, King Lear, Royal Shakespeare Company 18th July 1950 (press night), Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing, Royal Shakespeare Company 6th June 1950 (press night), Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.Portia, Julius Caesar, Royal Shakespeare Company 2nd May 1950 (press night), Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.Queen Katherine, Henry VIII, Royal Shakespeare Company 28th March 1950 (press night), Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. .Appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1991,?at the age of 100. …