Search Results: South America from Charles Agvent

London: J. Johnson, 1813. Second Edition. Hardcover. Occasional light, small stain but very clean overall. Near Fine with minor wear. Two quarto (8-1/2" x 10-1/2") volumes bound in early calf-backed marbled boards with calf corners, contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, rebacked. A graphic account of the slave rebellion in Dutch Guiana, 1772- 1777, illustrated with 81 engravings (including 3 folding maps) after drawings by the author by William Blake (13 with an additional 3 attributed to him), Bartolozzi, Benedetti, Barlow, and others. Sabin (91075) called this "one of the richest contemporary accounts of a plantation society in the Americas." According to the DNB, Stedman's narrative is "one of the most vivid indictments of slavery that have been penned." Stedman also depicts the social and natural history of the area in detail, and many of the engravings illuminate his writings on these subjects. Blake's work, among the finest that he did for hire, are… Read More

Denver: Old West Publishing Company, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, without the plain white dustwrapper. Folio (9-1/2" x 13"), 84 pages. Illustrated with black-&-white gravures and color plates reproduced from the journal of William H. Myers, 1841-1842, in the Bancroft Library and a portrait of Philo White. Herman Melville's account of this voyage is in WHITE JACKET. Limited to 1000 copies.

Amsterdam: R & G Wetstein, 1718. First Dutch Edition. Hardcover. Pale marginal dampstain affecting some pages but generally very clean and bright, the binding Fine housed in a Very Good marbled paper slipcase. Small quarto (6" x 7-5/8") bound in modern half green morocco leather and paper patterned boards with matching morocco corners and a heavily gilt-decorated spine with four raised bands and a gilt-lettered blue morocco label, top edge gilt; (16), 406, (9) pages. First published in French in 1716, this edition includes information about the Jesuit activities in Paraguay not published previously. Illustrated with 37 maps, city plans, plates of natives, and natural history specimens, many folding, including Plate 9 which depicts the Chilean game of La Sueca and which is widely regarded as one of the earliest printed depictions of a form of golf. Borba de Moraes p. 329; Hill, page 115 (1716 edition); Sabin 25927; Tiele 361.

London & New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner Christmas inscription dated 1880 on the front endpaper; front hinge crudely glued. Good. Decorated blue cloth titled in black on cover and on the spine over gold, ruled in blind on the rear. With 71 illustrations by Riou. The first of three parts, the other two being on Australia and New Zealand.

New York: I. Riley and Co, 1806. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good set. Three octavo volumes in contemporary calf leather with black leather spine labels. "Translated by an American Gentleman," who happens to be Washington Irving, and this happens to be his first book. His translation was in collaboration with his brother, Peter, and George Caines. BAL 10096: Setting A of the text for Volume I; State B of Volume II. Illustrated with a large (26-1/2" x 17-3/4") folded map in the first volume which has two small tape repairs but is otherwise clean and sound. BAL calls for the books to be 8-3/8" scant x 5"; the first two volumes are slightly larger: 8-1/2" x 5-1/8." The third volume, oddly, is 4-7/8" x 8-1/4" and lacks the table of contents usually bound at the end as well as the advertisements (pages 289-296). Bindings strong with only mild dings and wear; contents fairly clean throughout. Old indecipherable ink signature on title pages of first two volumes with the 19th century printed bookplate on… Read More