Capt j e alexander (5 Ergebnisse)

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good. None. Brown leather, gilt decoration, raised bands on spine (title label missing, some rubbing and wear; bookplate inside). Not as pictured on Amazon. ; 378 pages; 378 pages, with 6 pages of ads at end of book. fmc2%262D.

Zustand: Fair. Philadelphia: Key and Biddle, 1833. 8vo Hardcover. 378pp. Ex-Library Copy. Heavy edgewear. Front board nearly detached. Lacking front free endpaper. Owner's name on title page. (west indies, slavery, history) Inquire if you need further information.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Pages 442-528 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: The Luck of the 'Moro' - a vessel which possessed an uncanny knack of getting in and out of trouble; Photo of Harry Houdini in a strait jacket hanging from the twenty-story Oakland Tribune building; Old Man Crag - a New Zealand tale of a stolen map to a gold mine; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - the author penetrates deep into Amazonia - with photos, including photo of a floating island (part 1); Eskimo Wireless - a strange story from the Far North of Canada; The Ivory Raiders - paints a vivid picture of the dangers and difficulties of suppressing the ivory-raiders and their fierce satellites in Turkanaland, a wild district of Central Africa bordering on the western shores of Lake Rudolf - includes photos; A Woman Travels Across Arizona's Painted Desert - article with great photos; Zaman's Paradise - a story from India; The Resurrection of Klaas - the story of a Kaffir's miraculous escape from what seemed a certain and horrible death; New Zealand Sea Fishing - with photos of huge fish; From the Great Craters of the Congo Game-Lands - with gorilla photos (part 1); The Puzzle of Martenelle - it took 24 years to prove a death was not a suicide; A Missionary on the 'Mosquito Coast' - Rev. L. Taylor recalls tales from nine years spent as a Moravian missionary in Nicaragua - with photos; An Amazing Escape - Creswick escapes in South Africa; Full-page ad for a most unique General Electric electric truck for hauling utility poles. Above-average wear. Back cover loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. York, W.G.; Carruthers, G.P.; Prater, E.; Nicolson, W.C.; De Walton, John; Woodville, R. Caton; Holloway, W.H.; Goss, G.W.; Leigh, Conrad; Holmes, Fred; Waye, E.S. (illustrator).…

2 Volumes. 12mo. pp. xvi, 345; viii, 326. 6 engraved plates, 2 engraved maps, & 1 text illus. (plan). wood-engraved title vignettes. original blind-stamped cloth, rebacked, retaining endpapers (remains of label on lower spine of Vol. I, scattered light foxing). First Edition. An officer in the British army, Alexander was stationed in the Canadas and Halifax and New Brunswick from 1841 to 1847 and from 1848 to 1855. During his stay in New Brunswick, he was engaged in a survey of communications between that province and Quebec City. Alexander took a keen interest in his surroundings and travelled widely, making the acquaintance of some of the country's leading personalities, including Thomas Talbot, William Dunlop, Archibald McNab, and the notorious smuggler and pirate, Bill Johnstone. He also relates his meeting in Kingston with British novelist Charles Dickens. The plates include views of Kingston, London, a forest camp, Grand Falls, the Miramichi, and Chambly. Dionne II 1260. Lande 3. Morgan p. 7. Sabin 733 (incorrect pagination & no plate count). TPL 2950.…

comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies. With Notes on Negro Slavery and Canadian Emigration. By. 42nd Royal Highlanders. Two volumes. Etched frontispiece to each and eight other similar plates, map to Volume I. Light browning particularly to the plates, Volume II pp.80-1 quite badly contact browned by something once laid in, but overall a very good copy indeed recased in a contemporary full dark blue calf prize binding for Trinity College Dublin, gilt crests to all boards, spines gilt in compartments, University presentation bookplates to the front pastedowns. xxiv, 384pp., xvi, 320pp. Richard Bentley, Sabin 735. Alexander had a remarkable forty-seven year career in the army of the EIC and the British Army both. He first saw service in the Burma War of 1824, then later, having in the interim transferred to the 13th Light Dragoons, with the Persian Army during the war with Russia in 1826. Subsequently he was in Portugal for the Miguelite War of 1832-4, A-D-C to D'Urban in the Kaffir War of 1835, and led an exploring party into Namaqualand and Damaraland, for which service he was knighted. After a period in Canada, and having risen to Lieutenant-Colonel, Alexander led his present regiment, the 14th Foot, in the Crimea, remaining there until 1856. His final active service was in New Zealand where he commanded the troops at Auckland in the Maori War. He is probably best remebered today for his rôle in saving and transporting Cleopatra's Needle. The DNB is somewhat cruel in remarking that "His singularly varied service furnished him with materials for a large number of volumes of a rather desultory kind." He published twelve works in his lifetime including accounts of all of the campaigns in which he was involved and his explorations in Africa and North America, but also a life of Wellington and a description of the salvation of Cleopatra's Needle. If the contents of the present work are anything to go by his output was far from "desultory". Alexander is lively and informative on all aspects of life in the locations visited on this trip undertaken whilst unattached. He planned well for his trip and having decided to visit the New World, "I communicated my intention to the Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, and to other literary and scientific individuals, and volunteered to execute commissions for them in America or the West Indies. I thus obtained a series of interrogatories to answer, and in collecting the information for myself, had my attention directed to other matters of great interest, which I might otherwise have omitted to notice." As a result they ensure far from desultory accounts of Guiana, Barbados, Trinidad, Tobago, Jamaica and Cuba [with fascinating digressions of the slave trade] and an extensive tour of North America - up the Mississippi from New Orleans to Memphis, thence by wagon to Nashville, and by stage to Louisville and Cincinnati on his way East before heading from Canada. An exemplary travelogue. The bookplates record the presentation of the volumes to Edward Hemphill, his later ownership inscriptions as Ensign and Lieutenant 69th Regiment to the front free endpaper of Volume II.…