thomas skinner d d (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Fair condition book light brown boards no DJ. 1/2" damage at top edge of spine. Title of book shown on spine etc in gilt lettering fading with a gilt decoration. The front board has a faded gilt decoration in the centre. 232 pages good and clean with an edging of gilt. Back end paper split in the centre making the back board to come away from the pages. No damage to the front end paper. Previous owner written on front end paper: M D White Helston July 1866. The previous owner to the one already mentioned has written on the fly sheet: May 1849 (I am unable to make out the text.

Zustand: New. In.

4to. (2), 362 pp. (but: 360 pp.; p. 176f. omitted); 100 pp. (complete). With engraved frontispiece (margins trimmed) and 16 engraved plates. Contemporary full vellum with ms. spine title. Leaves Bb2-4 and Cc1-2 supplied from another copy. The first German edition of Vairasse's "Histoire des Sevarambes" ("History of the Sevarambians"), translated from the French 1677-79 edition. This is an account of an imaginary journey to Australia, a utopian history in the style of Thomas Moore. Presented in the manner of the then-current geographical and anthropological works, the book provides a direct criticism of revealed and imposed religions, in particular of 17th century Catholicism. Remarkably, this edition also includes the first German publication of Thomas Skinner's slavery narrative entitled "The adventures of an English merchant, taken prisoner by the Turks of Algiers, and carried into the inland countries of Africa" ("Die Selsamen Begebenheiten Herrn T. S. Eines Englischen Kauff-Herrens, Welcher von den Algierischen See-Räubern zum Sclaven gemacht, und in das inwendige Land von Africa geführet worden"). - Lower margin of title torn with some loss, final two leaves torn and frayed without loss of text. Minor foxing to the plates; binding worn, edges somewhat defective. From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013). - VD 17, 39:131551R. Holzmann/Bohatta II, 12150.