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British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011-02-15. Paperback. Good.

British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011-02-15. Paperback. Good.

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British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011-03-14. Paperback. Good.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Miscellanies. [With plates.].

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Miscellanies. [With plates.].

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Paperback / softback. New.

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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Miscellanies. [With plates.].

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London: Printed by J. Nichols, 1781. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. Large 4to., [iv] + [ii]-viii + [1]-468 + [469-470] + 471-472 + 471*-477* + blank + 473-557 + [558] (binder's directions and errata) pages. Lacking the portrait of Mozart (at age seven) and map of the Ohthere's Voyage. The Map of the Northwest coast of America and portrait of Sir John Wynne Baronet are both present. Modern library buckram gilt; binding lightly scuffed; library stamp to top edge; personal bookplate (Archie W Shiels) and ex library institutional stamps to front pastedown; new endpapers; inserted modern frontispiece on coated photo paper; title page with handwritten annotations; "Contents" page marked with colored pencil; scattered foxing throughout; some pages brittle due to paper quality; library pockets and electronic tags at rear pastedown; an imperfect, ex library copy. Properly de-accessioned. Cloth. This copy owned by Vincent Novello, and presented by him to the Musical Antiquarian Society July 8,… Read More

London, : J Nichols, 1781. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. VG, 1st ed, 1781, 8 pls (of 9)(includes the 2 maps). In contemporary marked boards. Respined to style, raised bands, gilt tooling, gilt titles to red morocco label. Internally, [2], (iii-iv), [2], (iii-viii), [1], 2-342, [1] tp ff, [1], 344-470, 471-477 *preface, [1], 471-540, 547-557 pp, [1] errata, text is complete, 1 portrait, 5 tables (1 folding), 2 maps (1 folding), lacks the pl of the young Mozart, new endpapers, bookplate to fpd (Thomas Swanwick MD), 1 map cropped in corner to border edge, board tips repaired, ink no to ffep, woodcut to tp. (Folio, 207*267 mm). (ESTC T39448 Sabin 3628. Allibone 9). Barrington, judge, antiquary, and naturalist, who between 1774 and 1776 published several pamphlets on the possibility of reaching the north pole by sea. These, together with Barrington's translation of the journal of the Spaniard Francisco Antonio Maurelle's 1775 voyage in search… Read More

London, Red Lion Passage : J Nichols, 1781. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. BALY. COOK.. VG+, Complete, First Edition, 1781, Quarto. [2], (iii-iv), [2], (iii-viii), [1], 2-342, (3), 344-470, 471*477*, 471-540, 547-557 pp, [1], some miss numbering but complete, one folding and one full page map, two portrait plates, 5 genealogical table of the Kings and Princes of Wales to 1584 (1 folding). Half morocco, over marbled boards (bySangorski & Sytcliffe), gilt tooling. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles. Top edge gilt, others uncut, bookseller & owner label to fpd (Gaston Renard & William Smith Mason), later endpapers. A Very Good+ example, a clean & sound copy. Uncommon (282*222 mm). (Hill 56; Sabin 3628) Covering a wide range of subjects but including 'Tracts on the Possibility of reaching the North Pole', 'Whether the Turkey was known before the Discovery of America', 'Account of Mozart, a very remarkable young… Read More

London, 1781. iv,viii,557,[1]pp. plus pp.*471-*477, plus two maps (one folding), five folding tables, and two plates. Quarto. Contemporary mottled calf, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Good. A strange ensemble, but the two articles in the collection of the greatest interest are "The Possibility of approaching the North Pole discussed" and "Journal of a Voyage in 1775. To explore the coast of America, Northward of California." This section, consisting of some ninety pages, was written by Don Francisco de la Bodega and is illustrated by a map of the Pacific Coast of America from Baja to Alaska, with capes named by Bodega marked. Wagner comments at length on the origins of this often inaccurate map. Much of the first article was drawn from information provided by whaling captains. There are several pieces on natural historical subjects, as well as "Ohthere's 'Voyage, and the Geography of the Ninth Century illustrated.'" In addition there is an account, illustrated with an engraved… Read More

London: J. Nichols, 1781. First Edition. Hardcover. Occasional foxing, heavy to a handful of pages; a few pencil notes to text. Near Fine. Quarto (8-1/4" x 10-3/4") in contemporary polished calf (rebacked, preserving original spine and labels). A curious and compelling collection illustrated with 2 maps, 2 portraits, and 5 tables. Includes "Journal of a Voyage in 1775 to Explore the Coast of America, Northward of California," with map, which, according to LADA-MOCARSKI 34, is the first and only contemporary account in English of the first Spanish voyage into Alaskan waters: "The Spaniards (and not they alone) were particularly secretive about any discoveries made by them in North America, and did not, of course, publish the journal herein described. Daines Barrington, however, secured a copy of the original manuscript of this journal and translated it into English, with certain omissions.... [This Journal] is the only contemporary account in English of this Spanish sea voyage." Also included are the… Read More