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London: A. K. Newman, Leadenhall Street, 1833. 14 x 9 cm. Very good. 1 vol., 160pp. Binding: contemporary marbled, spine with gold lettering: "HOFLAND'S ELIZABETH" Engraved frontispieceReal life, instructive tale for young people, carefully abridged by the author to attract a wider public , i.e. cheaper. 2s 6d. Very light foxing to endpapers.
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Elizabeth, and Her Three Beggar Boys.
by Hofland, Barbara ( née Wreaks or Wreakes)
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Les Petits Enfants en Voyage
by Armand-Delille, Etiennette Louise Mayor & Jean Marie Martin
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An attractive, didactic children's book very probably written in 1844 by the Swiss (Geneva) wife of the "co-author", a Protestant Pasteur -Pasteur de l'église réformée evangelique- telling the story of a boat trip up the Rhône river, from Avignon to Geneva. viii + 203 pp. The unusual cover page is composed of a series of vignettes.Free postal delivery worldwide.
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MASTERMAN READY: THE WRECK OF THE PACIFIC
by Captain Marryat
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In three 8vo. volumes.Vol. 1: Three unnumbered title pages + vi-viii, pp.287 + 32 pp. Publisher's catalogues No.1 & 2, dated October, 1842;Vol. 2: 269pp. plus identical 32 pp. catalogues;Vol. 3: 225pp. and an additional note by author.
With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, and publisher's advertisement catalogues to Vols. I and II. Spines lightly sunned. Original publisher's bindings by Westleys & Clark, London. Light yellow FEPs with original owner's neat signatures (Marie Tronchin) on all three volumes. Internally very clean. The first edition of Frederick Marryat's (1792-1848) three volume naval adventure for children, following the Seagrave family and their experiences surviving on an island after shipwreck.
Marryat began writing books for children in 1839 when his own children asked him to write a continuation of their own favourite The Swiss Family Robinson. But when Marryat came to examine Wyss's tale, he considered it so implausible, so… Read More
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The Settlers in Canada: Written for Young People
by Captain Marryat
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The Settlers in Canada is a children's novel written by Frederick Marryat, and published in 1844. The novel is set in the wilderness of Upper Canada in the 1790s. It describes the adventures of an immigrant family who settle near Lake Ontario, despite the threats from the native people and wild animals (see Wikipedia).London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. Two volumes. small 8vo.Vol 1: pp. 356 + 32-page Publisher's Catalogue dated October 1845.Vol 2: pp. 374. First Edition, printed in London by J. & H. Cox, brothers, bound by Wesleys & Clark and sold by S. Clarke, Booksellers at No. 13, Pall Mall East. First owners name -Adele de la Rive- on both FEPs.Marryat, a British naval captain, visited Canada and the United States in 1837-38, publishing an account of the trip in three volumes in 1839.In the present work of juvenile fiction, "he showed that a family that had emigrated and settled near Kingston, Upper Canada, was delighted when the opportunity came to return to England to claim an… Read More
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