1298 - 1462 FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS
- Vol. 1 lacks p.305-316.
= Rare Dutch translation of Elphinstone's account of his Mission to the Court of Shah Shuja-ul-Mulk, King of Kabul, the first full description of Afghanistan and its people.
- Bookblock sl. shaken. Joints and spine-ends trifle worn.
= Supplement 33rd to the Bulletin of Applied Botany, of Genetics and Plant-Breeding. Exhaustive report on the expeditions of N. Vavilov (1924) and D. Bukinich (1926-1927) to Afghanistan, with special attention to the region Kafiristan (Nuristan).
- Joints and spine-ends rubbed. Otherwise fine.
= The deluxe edition with an extra map and w. gilt brass rims on edges of binding.
- Binding sl. rubbed along extremities.
- Lack free endpapers; two maps foxed; hinges weak and bookblock split in the middle; spine-ends and corners sl. worn.
= Henze V, p.214; Howgego S58; Gay 3056 (French ed. 1873). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXII.
- Large repaired tear in map; plates sl. browned; first few pages sl. waterstained in lower margin. Spine professionaly restored; covers sl. chafed.
= Gay 3059; Kainbacher I, p.139; Howgego T23.
- Both parts libr. stamps on part of the preliminiary leaves; margins fingersoiled almost throughout and occas. stained (also incl. the margins of prints); price in modern ballpoint on first blank and on halftitle of 2nd part.
- Text and some plates sl. foxed; most plates remarkably clean and the large map fine (only a few sm. creases and tiny tears on intersection of folds); owner's stamp on upper pastedown and fore-edge. Binding worn along extremities; spine-ends repaired.
= Edition Senate Executive, No. 7, w. the author's rank given as Brevet Major. Sabin 22536; Howes E145. Rare, especially with the folding map.
- First part w. vague waterst. near upper edge; tipped-in annots. in later hand and 3 owner's entries/ annots. on pastedowns and blanks. Binding sl. rubbed along extremities; sm. label on spine; paper over covers sl. worn/ w. one dam. spot.
= Sabin 4202.
- Sl. foxed; partly waterstained in margins, mainly at the beginning. Top of spine sl. chipped; corners dam.
= The second French edition (the first was publ. at Ghent the same year), partly based on the first English ed. of 1847 (from which it has also borrowed the plates) and partly on the Ghent edition. Howes D286; Sabin 82266.
- Title and dedication leaf strengthened along edges and repaired; first vol. lacks the 2 steelengr. frontisp. portraits.
- Sl. yellowed; first and last few lvs. sm. waterst. in upper corner. Binding sl. worn at extremities.
= Howgego S46; Sabin 91298. With this interesting and very successful travel account, Stephens laid the foundation for archaeological exploration of the Maya civilization. Also important for its accurate plates of old indian bas-reliefs, stone idols etc.
- Some occas. sl. foxing; 1 map w. repaired tear on fold. Recased w. use of orig. (plain) backstrip; frontcover sl. stained.
= Salesman's dummy for the work A Complete History of the Great American Rebellion, Embracing its Causes, Events, and Consequences by Elliot Stork publ. 1865(?), the dummy "containing exact specimens of the maps, portraits and scenes; the contents of the work. Full chapters of the causes, and history of the rebellion, and also of its biography and incidents, perfect samples of the size of the page, kind of type, quality of paper, style of binding, etc." (title-p.). Bound in the back are 20 ruled lvs. intended for, and partly filled out with, the names of subscribers, together with their residence (all Tiffin, Ohio), post office and occupation (all entries in pen and ink). Nice and rare biblio-historical document and a valuable addition to any collection concerning the Civil War.
- Text and plates (sl.) foxed (plates only in blank margins). Spine-ends sl. dam.; spine faded.
Lennep, J. van. De geschiedenis des vaderlands in schetsen en afbeeldingen. Amst., Geb.s Binger, 1861, lithogr. title-p. and 93 (fold.) maps/ plates each w. accomp. textleaf, contemp. gilt hmor., obl. 8vo.
- First few lvs. loose(ning); sl. foxed/ browned. Extremities sl. rubbed.
Perk, M.A. In de Belgische Ardennen. Schetsen, toegewijd aan de nagedachtenis van Jacques Perk. Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1905, 4th rev. enl. ed., XII,441,(1),X,(8 advert.)p., 2 fold. photolithogr. sketch maps, orig. gilt cl. (spine-ends sl. worn). - AND 11 other miscell. works, i.a. J.G. OTTEMA (ed.), Thet Oera Linda Bok. Naar een handschrift uit de dertiende eeuw (Leeuw., 1876, 2nd ed., 3 (fold.) (col.) plates, contemp. giltlettered hcl. Rare).
- Occas. foxed. Lacks dustwr. as almost always.
= Volume I: Being the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott. Volume II: Being the Reports of the Journeys & the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition. Taurus Collection 77; Headland 1440; Conrad p.188. "This is the famous, official expedition account. Scott's journals were among the material retrieved when the tent was discovered in November 1912. Atkinson spent several hours looking through the journals trying to discover what happened and read portions to the party. (...) This is the place to begin for this exhibition. Read this first, then supplement, compare and decide." (Conrad). "This is undoubtedly the most widely known of all Antarctic expeditions and publications. Readers, having absorbed Scott's account of the expedition in the first volume, would have discovered in the second volume a host of first-hand accounts deserving of more weight today: Cherry-Garrard's account of the Winter Journey, Victor Campbell's narrative of the Northern Party, Griffith Taylor on the Western Journeys, Raymond Priestley on the ascent of the Erebus, preliminary scientific reports from Edward Wilson's staff and throughout the unrivalled photography of Herbert Ponting." (Taurus Collection).
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; hinges weak. Sl. worn along extremities.
= Henze III, p.692; Gay 3696.
- Lacks title-p. and final free endpaper; sl. fingersoiled; most plates w. tears (on folds); 2x repaired w. tape; 1x cut sl. short in left margin; 1x margins strengthened w. loss of right margin of image; 1x sl. waterst. Foot of spine dam.; corners showing.
= Rare second ed., issued the same year as the first Parisian ed. De Backer/ Sommervogel VII, 1802, 1; Cordier, Bibl. Indosinica p.947; Cat. NHSM p.229; Howgego T71; cf. Cox I, p.328.
- One map w. tear of 11 cm. in inner margin; two maps w. tear/ dam. in inner corner (repaired); waterst. in upper outer corner throughout; sl. foxed. Binding sl. rubbed.
= Koeman VI, Arn 3.
- Letterpieces on some vols. sl. worn/ dam. = Facs. reprint of the ed. Amst., 1663.
- A few maps partly split on fold; occas. sl. frayed (1x sl. dam.). = Attractively coloured maps.