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JACK B. YEATS, AN APPRECIATION AND AN INTERPRETATION (SIGNED, AND WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY...
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JACK B. YEATS, AN APPRECIATION AND AN INTERPRETATION (SIGNED, AND WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY JACK B. YEATS)

by MacGreevy, Thomas

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Dublin, Ireland: Victor Waddington Publications Limited, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good Plus. 12mo, 5 x 7.6 in., p. 39 + 58 (Twenty-nine black and white plates of Jack B. Yeats' paintings). Planned, printed and bound in Ireland by Colin O Lochlainn at the Sign of the Three Candles, Dublin. Beige paper boards with maroon title and decorative monogam ("JBW") to cover. Designer gray endpapers. Publisher's red topstain. Very light rubbing to extremities; very light spotting to fore-edge and tail. Light fading to price-clipped dustjacket with gentle rubbing and age-toning to top edge. Dustjacket is price clipped. Protected in mylar. Original hand-drawn picture in blue ink of sailboat, horse, and ducks signed by Jack. B. Yeats to title page. Yeats was one of the foremost Irish painters of the 20th Century, and brother of poet W.B. Yeats. Presentation copy signed by author with inscription: "Richard Hayward's book" to publisher's page. Richard Hayward (1892-1964) was an Irish… Read More
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JACK THE GIANT KILLER (HUGH THOMSON'S ILLUSTRATED FAIRY BOOKS)
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JACK THE GIANT KILLER (HUGH THOMSON'S ILLUSTRATED FAIRY BOOKS)

by Thomson, Hugh

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York, England: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1898. First Edition. Softcover in custom case. Good. Softbound 8 1/4" x 6 3/4. A suppressed work by the hugely prolific illustrator Hugh Thomson. With bright color images to front and rear panels, sixteen full-page color chromolithograph illustrations within, and all the other pages with several black and white illustrations along right and left margins, and along the bottom of each page, which drive the story forward. Thomson pulled no punches in this gorey, pull-no-punches retelling of the famous folk ("Jack") tale. 31 pp. An old cello-tape repair along front cover, and a small taped patch to front panel. Housed in custom slipcase, quarter-bound black calf over marbled boards, double-ruled in gilt, with apparently later spine label laid over original, this one with bold silver lettering and linked-diamond decorations. Quite uncommon. OCLC lists only one library -- The National Library of Scotland -- as holding an actual, physical copy of this censored… Read More
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JAIL JOURNAL; With an Introductory Narrative of Transactions in Ireland
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JAIL JOURNAL; With an Introductory Narrative of Transactions in Ireland

by Mitchel, John

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Dublin, Ireland: M.H. Gill & Son, Ltd, 1918. Third Impression. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, 6 x 8.5 in., pp. xlvii + [1] + 1 (illustration) + [1] + 463. The "Original Edition with a continuation of the Journal in New York and Paris, a preface, appendices and illustrations". Preface by Arthur Griffith. Green cloth boards with embossed bars in blind to front cover and embossed title in blid to spine. Publisher's emblem embossed in blind on back cover. Frontispiece of John Mitchel. Thirty six additional illustrations. Rubbing to extremities. Fading, especially to spine and back cover. Corners are bumped. Light marginal foxing on a few dozen pages. Text is bright; the story is fresh! Mitchel tells his tale of being an Irish patriot imprisoned and taken to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) during the Irish famine in the late 1840's, and then escaping to freedom in America.
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JAMES CASTLE : A RETROSPECTIVE; (Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art,...
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JAMES CASTLE : A RETROSPECTIVE; (Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Oct. 14, 2008 - January 4, 2009

by Castle, James; Ann Percy (ed.)

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Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2009. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good Plus. Large Quarto, 12 in. x 9.25 in., pp. 251. Illustrated with 420 color and 17 black and white illustrations. Olive boards with gilt title to spine. Original sales/UPC sticker to rear of dustjacket. DVD Film entitled "James Castle: Portrait of an Artist" in DVD sleeve affixed to rear pastedown. Protected in mylar. Published to celebrate the James Castle Exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: October 14 2008 - January 4 2009. James Castle (1899-1977) was an American artist who found inspiration in the detritus of everyday life, primarily in the materials he collected from his family's home such as envelopes, packaging, advertisements and matchbooks. Working mostly with soot, spit and homemade tools, he was able to create a rich, complex style that was wholly his own. Castle was born deaf and had limited means of communication. However, with the support of his family, he had dedicated… Read More
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JAPAN DAY BY DAY : 1877, 1878-79, 1882-83 (TWO VOLUME SET); With 777 Illustrations from Sketches...
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JAPAN DAY BY DAY : 1877, 1878-79, 1882-83 (TWO VOLUME SET); With 777 Illustrations from Sketches in the Author's Journal

by Morse, Edward S.

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Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Two volume set: Octavo, 9 in. x 6.8 in. Volume I: pp. xiv, [2], 441. Volume II: pp. 453 Illustrated with tissue-guarded color frontispieces and 777 line drawings. Khaki cloth boards with title and Japanese village scene stamped in dark green and beige to fronts. Dark green title and small white flowers stamped to spine. Top edges gilt. Rubbing to extremities. Light soiling and several stains to boards; darkening to spines. Booksellers sticker to front free endpaper of Volume II. Front hinge tender and tissue-guard spotted on Volume II. Edward Sylvester Morse was born in Portland, Maine, U.S.A. in 1838. Although he worked mainly as a draftsman and did not go to university, Morse's research... caught the attention of Louis Agassiz, a renowned naturalist, thus launching his career as a zoologist. A singularly gifted lecturer on popular science, Morse used the money from his winter lectures to pursue vigorous research at his… Read More
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JAPAN IN A NUTSHELL : RELIGION, CULTURE, POPULAR PRACTICES (SIGNED, TWO VOLUMES)

by Sakai, Atsuharu

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Yokohama, Japan: Yamagata Printing Co, 1952. First Edition. Sewn. Very Good Plus / Good (wrap-around dustjackets). Octavo, 8.25 in. X 6 in. Original sewn cloth pictorial covers, with vertical paper label pasted to front with title. Blue cloth to headcap and tailcap of spine. Light age-toning to pages. Full wrap-around decorated paper dustjackets with title to spine and with tuck-in flap. Rubbing, several closed tears, and a touch of sunning to dustjackets. Volume I (1949): pp. ix, 258. Inscribed and signed in English and Japanese by the author on the title page. Volume II (1952): pp viii, 255. Signed in English and Japanese by the author on the title page. 1 in. x 1 in. chip to top of dustjacket spine.
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JAPAN'S MESSAGE TO AMERICA: A SYMPOSIUM BY REPRESENTATIVE JAPANESE ON JAPAN AND AMERICAN-JAPANESE...
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JAPAN'S MESSAGE TO AMERICA: A SYMPOSIUM BY REPRESENTATIVE JAPANESE ON JAPAN AND AMERICAN-JAPANESE RELATIONS

by Masaoka, Naoichi (Editor)

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Tokyo, Japan: Self-Published, 1914. Softcover. Good Only. Black, flexible card covers, with gilt and blue lettering and design to front panel. measuring 7 1/4" x 5". Paper cover worn at edges and a 1 1/2" piece missing from top of spine. Solid binding, nonetheless.Endpapers appear hand watercoloured. Printed on bifolio sheets.Thirty-five (35) articles on the Japanese point of view and it's attitude to Americans. Photographs of each contributor. A few of the articles are: "What Japan Has to Teach"; Japan HARBORS no Ill Feeling Toward America; America and Japan always friends; The Real Character of The Japanese Race; Japan and the Preservation of China's Integrity; Christianity in Japan; The Ethical Problems of New Japan; HIstorical Development of Western Learning; Western Wrks of Literature, Religion, and Philosophy Translated and Introduced in Japan; Centripetal Mikadoism; Socialism in Japan; and an article by the editor Naoichi Masaoka, entitled "Japan and Americanism"
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THE JEW'S FIDDLE, A PLAY IN ONE ACT
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THE JEW'S FIDDLE, A PLAY IN ONE ACT

by Hayward, H. Richard and Abram Rish

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Dublin, Ireland: The Talbot Press, 1921. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. Saddle sewn pamphlet, 4.75 x 7 in., pp. 27. Dark green-blue paper cover with subtle, patterned shimmer; title, small Irish emblem, and publisher's information in black to front. Light rubbing to covers. Toning to leaves. Light thumbing to lower front corner. Bookseller's ink stamp from "Sole South African Distributor" with '"Talbot Press Limited, Dublin, Scott Hayward Irish Bookseller, Portland House, Commissioner St., Johannesburg" to title page and at end of text, on p. 27. Protected in mylar. Rare copy; WorldCat notes only 4 copies in libraries worldwide. Hayward, (Harold) Richard (1892-1964), poet, novelist, playwright, historian, film actor, specialist in Ulster dialect, and ballad singer, producing over 100 records. He was born 25 October 1892, one among five sons and a daughter of Walter Scott Hayward and Louise Ivy Hayward. The family was English, but settled in Larne, Co. Antrim, and Richard attended Larne… Read More
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JILL AND I AND THE SALMON; With illustrations by Ralph L. Boyer
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JILL AND I AND THE SALMON; With illustrations by Ralph L. Boyer

by Russell, Jack

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Lake Oswego, OR: Great Outdoors Book Exchange, 1950. Very Good Plus / Near Fine. Octavo, 8.8 in. x 6.2 in., pp. xi, [1], 204. Illustrated with black and white ink drawings. Blue-green full cowhide boards with gilt title to spine. Untrimmed fore-edge; several uncut edges. Matching blue-green slipcase with no markings. Previous owner's inscription to half title page, and another signature to unpaginated page following copyright page. Book designed by William S. Hotine, printed by Maverick Publications (Bend, OR), and bound by Oregon Bookbinding Co. (Silverton OR). Slipcase made by The Booksmith (Nehalem, OR).
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JINGLEBOB; With pictures by N.C. Wyeth
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JINGLEBOB; With pictures by N.C. Wyeth

by Rollins, Philip Ashton

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Hardcover. Very Good. N.C. Wyeth. Octavo, 9 in. x 6.8 in., pp. xi, [5], 263. Illustrated with front cover, endpapers, and four additional plates from pictures by N.C. Wyeth. Black cloth boards with frame stamped in blind and with cowboy pictorial pasted to front. Gilt title to spine. Light rubbing to board and spine edges; small dent to top of front board.Illustrated endpapers. Glossy title page and free endpapers. Clean interior. Spine and hinges tight. The true story that tells what the life of a cowbey was like, written before Hollywood re-rendered the image.
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JOE FULWOOD, OR HONESTY AND PERSEVERANCE TRUMPHANT
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JOE FULWOOD, OR HONESTY AND PERSEVERANCE TRUMPHANT

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Philadelphia, PA: Perkinpine & Higgins, 1871. Hardcover. Good Only. 16mo. Brick-red stamped clltoh, ruled in blind, with publisher's initials to center of front board. One of the Sabbath-School Books, quite popular in the latter 19th century. Wear and rubbing to extremities. Inscription to front free endpaper: "Master Charlie Jones. From his teacher Walter Johnson. Feb. 1871" A second name below, in red manuscript. B. Ball?? Four illustrations, including frontis. Bright pages of good paper, some spotting throughout32 pp. of ads at rear, entitled: "An Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of Sabbath School Books" at rear, published by same publisher (Perkenpine & Higgins).
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JOHN MARTIN'S BOOK: THE CHILD'S MAGAZINE, VOL. XXVI, NO. 1, JULY, 1922
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JOHN MARTIN'S BOOK: THE CHILD'S MAGAZINE, VOL. XXVI, NO. 1, JULY, 1922

by Martin, John

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New York: John Martin's Book House, 1922. Magazine. Good. A century-old children's magazine, filled with patriotic poems, songs, stories, puzzles, fairy tales, brief biographies of historical figures, cartoons, etc. Fabulous advertisement for an "American Flyer Backyard Railroad" and others (like Colgate Dental Ribbon!) Pages fragile. A century-old children's magazine, filled with patriotic poems, songs, stories, puzzles, fairy tales, brief biographies of historical figures, cartoons, etc. Fabulous advertisement for an "American Flyer Backyard Railroad"
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JOHN STEUART CURRY'S PAGEANT OF AMERICA
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JOHN STEUART CURRY'S PAGEANT OF AMERICA

by SCHMECKEBIER, LAURENCE E.

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New York: AMERICAN ARTISTS GROUP, 1943. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Very Good Plus in a Very Good Dustjacket.. Octavo.Light brown buckram-covered boards, with gilt and red lettering/design to spine. Loaded with black and white photographs and eight color images. Light shelfwear to dustjacket and some light shipping to top and bottom of spine (of dustjacket). "...an interpretive account based on the volumnious notes and sketches that Curry has kept since. his youth, of his early home life on a Kansas farm, the exhuberant enthusiasm of the high school and college athlete, his professional art training at the Kansas City and Chicago Art Instiututes, the hard and successful struggle with reality in the commercial art field, the study and experience in the European academy and art museums, and the years of fruitful activity since 1929 directed toward new forms and a distinctly American art... This book is "another volume. in the series devoted to outstanding American artists...on the premise that… Read More
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JOHNNY TREMAIN : A STORY OF BOSTON IN REVOLT; With Illustrations by Lynd Ward
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JOHNNY TREMAIN : A STORY OF BOSTON IN REVOLT; With Illustrations by Lynd Ward

by Forbes, Esther

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Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good / Good. Lynd Ward. Octavo, 8.3 in. x 5.5 in., pp. 256. Burnt-orange cloth boards with black title and horse rider scene stamped in black to front. Black title to spine. Rubbing to edges, and sunning to top edge. Colorful map endpapers. Light age-toning to pages. Several closed tears and chips to dustjacket edges and corners. Sunning to spine. Protected in mylar. Winner of the Newbery Award for Best Children's book in 1944. "To read 'Johnny Tremain' is to live through two dramatic years of our country's history, and to see these great events from a new angle through the shrewd eyes of an observant boy."
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JOSE ANTONIO, HEROE DE LA UNIVERSIDAD Y DEL PUEBLO
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JOSE ANTONIO, HEROE DE LA UNIVERSIDAD Y DEL PUEBLO

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Havana, Cuba: Viva Cuba Libre! (?), 1957. Staplebound Pamphlet. Good. IN SPANISH: 16 pp. stapled pamphlet summarizing the life, philosophy and revolutionary actions of Jose Antonio Echeverria, killed on March 13, 1957, in a shootout with the police in Havana, Cuba after participating in the occupying of the Radio Reloj radio station. Jose Antonio had been part of the attack on the Presidential palace, and had been actively protesting the coup by Fulgencia Battista, since 1952.
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JOURNAL OF A SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE...
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JOURNAL OF A SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC; PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1821-22-23 IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS FURY AND HECLA, UNDER THE ORDERS OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM EDWARD PARRY, R.N., F.R.S., AND COMMANDER OF THE EXPEDITION

by Parry, William Edward

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London, England: John Murray (Publisher to The Admiralty, and Board of Longitude), 1824. First Edition. Leather-bound. Very Good. 4to. Contemporary Rebinding. Quarter-bound grey and gold marbled cloth, over suede. 35 plates, of which 4 folding. 4 folding maps at end, as well as fold-out Views. All called-for plates and maps present. Cancellation stamp from Admiralty Library, the impression of which slightly bled over to frontis engraving. Includes vocabulary of Esquimaux words. The Admiralty copy, possibly the original presentation. "Parry's (second) voyage, which had taken him through the Parry Channel three quarters of the way across the Canadian Arctic Archipelago was probably the single most productive voyage in the quest for the Northwest Passage..." That voyage, described in this narrative, commenced in April 1821. On this second voyage Parry "again left for the Arctic commanding HMS Fury accompanied by HMS Hecla under George Francis Lyon. ...the goal this time was to find a passage near the… Read More
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JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC...
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JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1819-20, IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS HECLA AND GRIPER, UNDER THE ORDERS OF WILLIAM EDWARD PARRY, R.N., F.R.S., AND COMMANDER OF THE EXPEDITION; WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE SCIENTIFIC AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS

by Parry, Capt. William E.

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London, England: John Murray, 1821. First Edition. Leather-bound. Good. Quarto. Full speckled calf with gilt floral chain border to both boards, Rebacked in sympathetic calf. Four raised bands (five compartments) contrasting red spine label, and gilt floral designs within compartments. Penciled note reads "First Edition", but to be safe, assuming second edition, since count of plates EXCEEDS those listed in Hill. All 20 illustrations present: six charts, four of them folding, nine engravings (some with original tissues, some detached but present) by W. Westfall from sketches by Lieuts. Frederick William Beechey, Henry Parkyns Hoppner, and several other pages of strip surveys of coastlines encountered while sailing past. A number of in-text illustrations present, as well. Indigo blue and grey stone marbled endpapers. Bookplate residue to front pastedown. Some toning, light foxing and offset throughout, but overall, tight, clean and bright. Nice copy. Important early arctic expedition. Published… Read More
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JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN IRELAND, A.D. 1806
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JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN IRELAND, A.D. 1806

by Hoare, Richard Colt

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London, England: W. Miller, J. Archer, and M. Mahon, 1807. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, 9.2 in. x 5.7 in., pp. cix, [2], 336, [8] (advertising). Handsomely rebound in black half-calf over marbled boards. Gilt title and five raised bands to spine; gilt shamrocks to three spine panels. Untrimmed edges. Missing frontispiece. Age-toning to pages. from The Wiltshire Museum: Richard Colt Hoare was born 9 December 1758 and died 19 May 1838. He was a descendant of the famous banking family which was founded in the 17th century and is still in existence. He was an antiquarian, archaeologist, artist and, in his youth, a keen traveller. He married Hester Lyttelton of Hagley, Worcestershire who died after the birth of their second child in 1785. Almost immediately Colt Hoare went abroad and for nearly six years travelled extensively only once returning briefly to England. In Italy and Sicily during he was accompanied by his tutor John ‘Warwick' Smith and the painter Francis Nicholson… Read More
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THE JOURNAL OF A MISSION TO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA IN THE YEAR 1805. TOGETHER WITH OTHER...
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THE JOURNAL OF A MISSION TO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA IN THE YEAR 1805. TOGETHER WITH OTHER DOCUMENTS, OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE, RELATING TO THE SAME MISSION. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF MR. PARK

by Park, Mungo

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Philadelphia: Edward Earle, 1815. Leather-bound. Fair Only. Old half leather with marbled paper sides (well worn). Hinges cracked. 8vo. 9 in. Considerable foxing throughout, but quite readable. Lacks Map. With Isaaco and Amadi Fatouma's journals as appendices. The journal of Park's second expedition during which his party was attacked and murdered, which may or may not have had something to do with Park's purported propensity to shoot first. NO map. Park was a Scottish explorer of West Africa, who made several important journeys of discovery, in fact was the European "UR" explorer for this region: "His dispassionate — if not scientific or objective — descriptions set a standard for future travel writers to follow and gave Europeans a glimpse of Africa's humanity and complexity. Park introduced them to a vast continent unexplored by Europeans. ...Mungo Park was its first successful explorer, he set a standard for all who followed. After his death, European public and political interest in… Read More
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JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN IRELAND &c. &c. PERFORMED IN AUGUST 1804 WITH REMARKS ON THE CHARACTER,...
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JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN IRELAND &c. &c. PERFORMED IN AUGUST 1804 WITH REMARKS ON THE CHARACTER, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS, OF THE INHABITANTS

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London, England: Richard Phillips, 1806. First Edition. Hardcover. Very fine plus. Octavo, 5.2 x 8.4 in., pp. 32 + 2(Index), Printed by Barnard and Seltzer, Water Lane, Fleet Street. Illustrated wth engraving of Grant's Causeway and map of The Lakes of Killarney. Rebound in smooth black three-quarter calf with marble boards. Gilt title to spine. New endpapers. Text is unmarked. Very light, occasional foxing. Author is unnamed. The tone of the tome is of a sophisticated, worldly British gentleman visiting the Irish countryside and its poor, ignorant Irish population. The author offers a rather scathing vision of Ireland in the early 19th century. From p.5: "It would be difficult to convey an idea of the vice, filth, and wretchedness, in which the lower orders dwell, and seem to delight, everywhere in the village." From p. 9: "While we sat at dinner, a miserable object came to the window begging. She was a prostitute who had once been handsome, for there was still much beauty in her pale and… Read More
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