major dun (3 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. E. & R. Schindler Cairo 1934 Second Edition illus (bw and col prints, inc fold-out map in col and 2 tipped in plates) VG- (illus card covers sl worn, cloth spine bumped at both ends, spine detaching at lower end, extrems sl scuffed, edges sl foxed, owners name on fep and front pastedown, one of tipped in plates damaged).

Couverture rigide. Zustand: Bon. 2 vol. in-8° ; portrait frontispice-XLVI-1 carte h.-t. repliée-420 pp./(2)-419 pp.-1 tableau h.-t. replié [Tarif], pleine basane marbrée, dos long très joliment orné, filets or, fleurons or, p. de titre et de tomaison en maroquin vert, palette or en pied, tranches jaunes, rel. de l époque, bel exemplaire. Chadenat, 5467. Hage Chahine, 4732. Monglond, t. VI, 227. The Hon. East-India Compagny, Catalogue, t. I, p. 41 (pour l édition originale anglaise : London, 1799). Troisième édition de la traduction française augmentée d un portrait frontispice. Départ de l île de Zante, relâche à Chypre, arrivée à Alexandrette. Séjour à Antioche, description de la ville, arrivée à Alep. Départ d Alep pour le désert, arrivée à Bassora. Séjour à Bassora, description de la ville. L auteur s embarque sur un navire anglais, relâche à Bushehr pour avarie, arrivée à Bombay. Détails sur la presqu île. Affaires relatives à Tipou-Sultan. Déclaration de guerre entre ce prince et la Compagnie anglaise des Indes Orientales. Réflexions sur la guerre de 1768, entre la France et l Angleterre. Précis des événements qui ont précédé et suivi la prise de Pondichéry. [Tome second] Voyage dans l Inde (nombreux détails pratiques pour accomplir ce voyage). Ces voyages dispendieux, longs, fatigants et dangereux avaient pour motivation principale, outre le retour dans la Mère patrie des colons anglais, de faire découvrir une nouvelle route plus rapide entre l Angleterre et ses possessions aux Indes orientales. VERY GOOD COPY.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Bernard Rice; Selah Chiaty; Rameses Younan; Professor R. St. A. Heathcote; C. C. Keddie; et al. (illustrator). A signed presentation copy of the second edition of Major Dun's account of his travels across the Libyan desert, illustrated throughout with beautiful prints and photographs. The second edition of this work, published in the same year as the first edition.Inscribed to a bookplate supplied by the publisher to the front pastedown, reading 'To General and Mrs Noswallis [sic] from the author, T. I. Dun, July 1939'.This bookplate features hieroglyphs, with text to the front pastedown detailing how they should be read.Major Dun's account of his travels through the Libyan Desert from Cairo to Siwa, in armoured cars, illustrated by many beautiful woodcut and linocut prints.There is also a chapter on the history, customs and superstitions of the Libyan Desert and the people who live there.Illustrated with two tipped in plates, vignette woodcuts surrounding the text throughout, sixteen pages of monochrome photographs, a folding map of the Libyan Desert, a folding photographic plate, and a colour plan of Cairo to the rear.Collated, complete.Among the many artists who have contributed to this work are: N. Strekalowsky, M. Fisher, Bernard Rice, Elsa Masters, P. S. Searight, Selah Chiaty, Rameses Younan, and Namhia Saad. In the publisher's original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards. Light rubbing to back strip tail, and a touch of rubbing to back strip head and joints. Small area of loss of paper towards head of front board, with further losses of paper to centre of rear board. Hinges a touch strained to tails, but firmly held. Signed to bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. signed by author. book.