Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes being records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries the Trombetas Rio Negro Uaupes Casiquiari Pacimoni Huallaga and Pastasa as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco along the eastern side of the Andes by Spruce, Richard (edited by Alfred Russel Wallace) - 1908

London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1789. First English language edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Tight binding. Marblized boards with leather-covered spine. Gilt lettering on spine. Not sure if this is the original binding or if book has been re-bound. Light edgewear to boards. Previous owner's name on title page. Some light foxing and discolouration of pages. The copper plates referred to on the title page are missing. Appendix, Index and Errata at rear of book. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 503 pp.

First edition. John Murray. London. 1853. 8vo. vi, (1), errata slip, 488pp. Chromolitho frontispiece, 3 further chromolitho plates, all with tissue guards, 3 uncoloured plates, folding map, text illus. Later half calf, marbled boards Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering, rules and motifs, leather label to spine. All edges marbled. New endpapers. Occasional marginal light foxing to plates. Short closed tear to attachment of map. A handsome volume.
John Elphinstone Erskine (1806 - 1887) British Naval Officer and Liberal MP. "In February 1848 Erskine was appointed to the Havannah as senior officer on the Australian station. Soon after his arrival Erskine made a tour of Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, the New Hebrides, the Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia between 25 June and 7 October 1849. With experience of naval anti-slavery operations in the West Indies and the effects of European penetration in the Pacific, he joined the Aborigines Protection Society and became a parliamentary leader… Read More

Complete set of this portable edition of Abbe Pluche's popular work on natural history for children, first published in 1732 and reprinted many times. First edition in 12mo, published in An 11 of the French Revolution (1803).With 61 fine copperplates by Jacques de Seve, including 2 frontispieces, 4 folding celestial maps (illustrator). Plates engraved by Duhamel, Letellier, Racine and Bigani. Vol. 1: 359pp, frontispiece, 5 plates of insects and shells; Vol. 2: 300pp, 5 plates of birds, animals, fish and plants; Vol. 3: 353pp, 7 plates of botany; Vol. 4: 336pp, 10 plates of botany and equipment; Vol 5, 347pp, 21 plates of fish, ships and shells; Vol. 6, 344pp, 3 plates of gems and astrology; Vol.7, 364pp, 8 plates (4 folding) of astrology; Vol. 8, 231pp, frontispiece.With half titles, tables of contents and list of illustrations in each volume. Elaborate gilt decorated spines with red title labels and volume numbers. Some scuffing to boards, but interior fresh and all plates present and free of… Read More

L'Univers - Histoire et description de tous les peuples. iv+644 pp.+ 31 gravures h.t. (4 cartes et 27 gravures). 21,9x13,6 cm. Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, Paris, 1881.
--- Text in french. Cloth-bound. Some wear to the edges of the spine. Some pages are being repaired with tape. Written name on first blank page. No missing pages, text is clean. Folding map of Greece and engravings in very good condition, without foxing.
--- "J'ai réuni dans ce volume, sous le nom d'Iles de la Grèce, toutes les îles de la Méditerrannée orientale, depuis Chypre jusqu'à Corfou, de l'est à l'ouest, et depuis les îles des Princes jusqu'à celle de Candie, dans la direction du nord au sud (...)"

1775 History of ROUEN France Normandy Antoine Servin French Politics Travel 2v

Antoine Servin's "History of the Town of Rouen" is an 18th-century travel guide for Northern France. It is perhaps one of the best books of its era to discuss the history of Normandy from the earliest of times to 1774.

Item number: #13132
Price: $499
SERVIN, Antoine Nicolas
Histoire de la ville de Rouen capitale de pays et duché de Normandie, depuis sa fondation jusqu'en l'année 1774
Rouen, Le Boucher, le jeune, 1775.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages: 2 volumes
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Vol. I – xxiv, 363, [1]
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Vol. II – 370
· Language: French
· Binding: Leather; tight & secure
· Size: ~6.5in X 4in (16.5cm x 10cm)
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. Signed on the title page by the author. First edition / First printing. Red cloth. Very fine in very fine, price-clipped dust jacket. A remarkably bright and fresh copy.

PARIS: LIBRAIRIE DE FIRMIN DIDOT FRERES, 1845. In 16. Dim. 18,5x12 cm. Pp. (4)+V+(1)+396+10 pl., (4)+524+(10). Prima edizione del 1845 di questo trattato sulla storia degli insetti scritto dal celebre entomologo e zoologo francese Emile Blanchard (1819-1900). Blanchard lavorò nel Museo Nazionale di storia naturale per un lungo periodo e nel 1862 diventà Presidente della sezione di storia naturale dei crostacei, invertebrati e insetti. L'opera è composta da due volumi ed è completa.Il primo tomo è dedicato agli Imenotteri e Coleotteri, il secondo ad altri tipi di insetti. Alla fine di ogni volume 10 planches molto dettagliate per un totale di 20 planches. Note manoscritte con matita colorata. In buone condizioni Copertina in mezza pelle coeva con titolo in oro al dorso in buone condizioni con lievi usure ai margini e dorso. Legatura in buone condizioni. Pagine in buone condizioni con fioriture e rare bruniture. Leggerissime gore d'umidità… Read More

1778 Gil Blas History & Adventures Le Sage Literature CLASSIC 4v English

"I am happy and content because I think I am."
― Alain-René Le Sage
Originally published in 1735, Alain-Rene Lesage's "Adventures of Gil Blas" is a picaresque novel dealing with the life of Gil Blas, a true 'rags to riches' story. It is considered one of literature's first realistic novels.

This rare 1778 edition was translated into English from the French of M. de La Sage, to which is prefixed an account of the author's life illustrated with copper plates.
Item number: #7473
Price: $550
SAGE, Alain Rene le
The history and adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane.

London: sold by J. Massey, R. Sprout, W. Salton, R. Tonlinson, J. Dursley [and 5 others in London], mdcclxxvii [1778].

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Collation: Complete with all pages; 4 volumes
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Vol. I – viii, iii, [1], 279, [1]
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Vol. II – vi, 244
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Vol. III – x, 266
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Vol. IV – viii, 273, [1]
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Provenance: Handwritten
o E.G. Warren, June 12, 1873… Read More

Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1858. Hardcover. Good. Good. Engelmann, G. Cactaceae of the Boundary. Washington, 1858 (Smithsonian Institution), 78p., 76 steelengraved plates by i.a. PICART, Rare book on cacti along the USA-Mexico border. actually almost very good considering its age., Engelmann, G. Cactaceae of the Boundary. Washington, (Smithsonian Institution), n.d. (1858), 78p., 76 steelengr. plates by i.a. PICART, contemporay. half leather w. gilt spine, 4to. - Restorations to spine. binding tight, slight browning to page edges. All pages and plates very clean. Plate 14 of a total 76 plates is missing (photocopy of page laid in) Rare book on cacti along the USA-Mexico border. Ships from Hawaii with Priority mail within US, not slow media mail.

205pp. Decorative endpapers. Very Good condition with light foxing to the closed page edges, and corner 'crumple' to lower margin/corners of pages 137-144.In near Very Good original price-clipped dustwrapper with some edge tears and toning.Rare memoir by Barbara Greene of the 350-mile, 4-week walk through the unmapped interior of Liberia undertaken in 1935 with her cousin, Graham Greene (republished in 1981 as 'Too Late to Turn Back'). Graham Greene's own account of the journey "Journey Without Maps" had been published in 1936.