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London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Issued. Half calf and marbled boards, modern leather spine label. Marbles textblock and endpages. Bindings tight and square. Moderate handling wear. Text clean, no ownership markings, light even toning. 8vo; (iii)-viii, 472 pages. 8.5 by 5.25 inches. First Edition. Woodcut illustrations.. Reports about life under the Ottoman Turks and descriptions of regional monuments, Pyramids, etc. This is a curious mixture of information from St. John's own travels in 1832-3 with details from many other writers on Egypt, e.g. Alpinus, Light, Wilde, Burckhardt, Belzoni. A shortened and "more literary" description of the author's Egypt and Mohammed Ali REF: OCLC: 25950873. Bold: 013781126; Hilmy: 204ff [vii]
Genoa The Superb. The City of Columbus by Johnson, Virginia W. (1849-1916) - 1892
by Johnson, Virginia W. (1849-1916)
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Blue cloth with intricate spine gilting with darker blue titles. Front with similar decoration with seal of the city. Top edge gilt. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. Thick card-stock dust jacket shows shelf and hand handling. Illustrated with 20 tissue-guarded captioned plates. First Edition, First Printing. Printed at the Riverside Press. 8vo; 8.25 inches tall; 298 pages.. Like several other series authors, Virginia Wales Johnson came from distinguished ancestry, in this case the Sewall family; she was also distantly related to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Although her parents are described as Bostonians in several biographical sketches, Virginia Johnson was born in Brooklyn, on 28 December 1849. In 1875, she and her mother and sister went abroad, and Johnson settled in Europe, spending most of her time in Florence.
She continued to write adult novels and stories, which were published in America. The Dictionary of American Biography notes that "[a]fter 1875, her work shows intense love for Italy, both mediaeval and modern," and incorporates a "knowledge of Italian history and literature" as well as of contemporary Italy. Many of her later works, such as Genoa the Superb, the City of Columbus (1892) and Summer Days at Vallombrosa (1911) dealt with "popular history" or travel.
Ref: Dictionary of American Biography; The Literary World (Boston), 3 June 1882: 184.
Blue cloth with intricate spine gilting with darker blue titles. Front with similar decoration with seal of the city. Top edge gilt. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. Thick card-stock dust jacket shows shelf and hand handling. Illustrated with 20 tissue-guarded captioned plates. First Edition, First Printing. Printed at the Riverside Press. 8vo; 8.25 inches tall; 298 pages.. Like several other series authors, Virginia Wales Johnson came from distinguished ancestry, in this case the Sewall family; she was also distantly related to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Although her parents are described as Bostonians in several biographical sketches, Virginia Johnson was born in Brooklyn, on 28 December 1849. In 1875, she and her mother and sister went abroad, and Johnson settled in Europe, spending most of her time in Florence.
She continued to write adult novels and stories, which were published in America. The Dictionary of American Biography notes that "[a]fter 1875, her work shows intense love for Italy, both mediaeval and modern," and incorporates a "knowledge of Italian history and literature" as well as of contemporary Italy. Many of her later works, such as Genoa the Superb, the City of Columbus (1892) and Summer Days at Vallombrosa (1911) dealt with "popular history" or travel.
Ref: Dictionary of American Biography; The Literary World (Boston), 3 June 1882: 184.
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Genoa The Superb The City Of Columbus
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1823. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [viii]ix-xii [1]2-544. FIRST EDITION. Bound in brown half-leather over marbled boards, title in gilt within a red title piece. The first edition of the author's first book. William Wilson (1772-1849) inherited a substantial sum from an uncle, and decided to indulge his passion for travel. He travelled throughout Europe and The Middle East and wrote a series of books. This was his first, and it was the most popular, going through several editions. This is a good copy as all plates, including the frontispiece, have been excised. The boards show moderate wear, heavier at the spine ends. The front hinge is cracked. The text block is mainly clean with a few marks of unknown origin.
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Berenstain, Stan and Jan: The Berenstain Bears Go To Camp ( A First Time Book) Random House 1982 First Edition. Number line starts with 1. Ex-lib hardcover library-bound edition Brown cloth boards. Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice find for Berenstain Bears fans.
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Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings (1589-1605)
by William Edward David "W E D" Allen (1901-1973) editor
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2 Volumes: xxxii+368 pages with frontispiece, five folding maps and ten plates; ix+[369]-640 pages with frontispiece, two folding maps, six plates, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship to front cover. Translated by Anthony Mango. Second Series, volumes 138 and 139. First edition.By the early sixteenth century the loosely knit kingdom of Georgia had disintegrated from the strong monarch of the middle ages to a number of small states and principalities. This internal disunity made the Georgians easy victims of the power politics of the neighboring Ottoman and Safavid empires, and by the end of the century the southward drive of the Russians intensified the struggle for military and diplomatic control over the whole of the Caucasian isthmus. As a result of this struggle seventeen embassies were exchanged between the Russian tsars and the Georgian kins ruling in Kakheti during the years 1564-1605. W E D Allen and Anthony…
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Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage, 1741-1747: Volumes I & II: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton, 1741-1742; The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith, 1746-1747.
by Barr, William (1950- ) and Glyndwr Williams (editors)
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2 Volumes: Volume 1 subtitled: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton 1741-1742 xii+333 with 8 maps, 3 illustrations including frontispiece, bibliography and index; Volume 2 subtitled: The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith 1746 1747 xv+393 pages with frontispiece, 13 maps, 6 illustrations, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship to front cover. Translated by Anthony Mango. Second Series, volumes 177 and 181. First edition.The eighteenth century saw a resurgence of hope that a Northwest Passage - that elusive target of European seamen over the centuries - might yet be found. Prompted by the Irish MP Arthur Dobbs, the Admiralty sent the Furnace and Discovery to Hudson Bay in 1741 in search of navigable passage to the Pacific. The expedition was commanded by Christopher Middleton, until his resignation in March 1741 a sea-captain in the service of the Hudson Bay Company. With his actions closely scrutinized by his former…
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