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The Mariner’s Chronicle Containing Narratives of The Most Remarkable Disasters At Sea, Such As Shipwrecks, Storms, Fires, and Famines
$300.00
New Haven: George W. Gorton, 1834. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good. Full brown sheepskin bound with gilt title and decoration to spine. Fading to gilt. Bumping to corners and general rubbing to exterior. Repair to leather at bottom left corner of front board. Writing in pen to top edge of front paste down and front free end paper. Minor scribbling in pencil to top edge of front paste down. Minor foxing and browning throughout. Contents remain bright. Includes woodcut frontispiece plate and 12 more plates with two illustrations per plate. Sure and peck listed on the copyright page. 504 pages. MAR/011326
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18TH-CENTURY GEOGRAPHY & ATLAS COMPENDIUM
Guthrie, William (1708–1770) ; Geographer A New Geographical, Historical, And Commercial Grammar; And Present State Of The Several Kingdoms Of The World [Twelfth Edition] [21 Folding Maps by Thomas Kitchin] [MDCCXCᴀ]
$775.0018TH-CENTURY GEOGRAPHY & ATLAS COMPENDIUM A substantial Enlightenment-era geographical compendium, complete with the full suite of 21 folding engraved maps by Thomas Kitchin. This twelfth edition of Guthrie’s ‘Grammar’ represents one of the 18th century’s most ambitious attempts to synthesize global knowledge, blending descriptive cartography with political and economic observations. As geographer to the King, Kitchin provides a sophisticated cartographic program that anchors the text, making this volume both a functional atlas and a primary document of British global awareness at the turn of the 19th century. KEY FEATURES+++ Visuals: Illustrated with 21 folding engraved maps by Thomas Kitchin plus one full-page map and one engraved plate (‘The Artificial Sphere’); complete as called for.+++ Binding: Full contemporary calf; spine in six compartments with a red morocco title label; approx. 8.25 inches tall.+++ Content: A comprehensive global survey including Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, supplemented by statistical tables, commercial data, and astronomical sections.+++ Imprint: London: Charles Dilly and G. G. J. & J. Robinson, 1791 (MDCCXCᴀ).+++ Specs: Thick octavo; [4], 6–928 pages; signatures in 8s.+++ Design: Notable production detail with a Table of Contents leaf left untrimmed at the fore-edge and folded inward as issued by the binder.+++ PROVENANCE NOTE: Name at head of title page appears to read: “Wm. Seward’s” (period hand; legibility strong but not fully confirmed) No bookplates present. CONDITION: Overall Grade: Good.+++ THE BOOK: The contemporary full calf binding shows expected period wear, with rubbing to the corners and spine ends and small losses at the tips. The front joint is worn and tender but remains holding. Internally, the text block is sound, though some gatherings are slightly over-opened at the joins. The interior is generally clean with light toning and foxing typical of late 18th-century paper stock.+++ THE MAPS: The 21 folding maps are well-preserved with expected offsetting, no tears and minor handling wear consistent with a reference work of this age. SCHOLARLY FEATURES+++ Enlightenment Synthesis: Represents the transition from speculative geography to the systematized, data-driven classification of the world.+++ Cartographic Pedigree: Features the work of Thomas Kitchin, the preeminent English cartographer of the golden age, providing a ‘snapshot’ of 1791 borders and colonial claims.+++ Bibliographic Variant: Dated 1791 (MDCCXCᴀ), an issue not distinctly separated in ESTC, which records adjacent 1790 and 1792 printings. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —First issued in the mid-18th century, Guthrie’s ‘Grammar’ became the standard geographical text of the English-speaking world. Its success lay in its ‘Commercial’ focus, providing merchants and educators with the statistical and political data necessary to navigate an expanding British Empire. Thomas Kitchin’s involvement is a primary market hook. As ‘Hydrographer to the King,’ Kitchin’s maps were considered the most authoritative of their time. This twelfth edition reflects the peak of the work’s refinement before the geopolitical upheavals of the Napoleonic era redrew the maps of Europe. The survival of the ‘untrimmed’ leaf in the contents serves as a physical record of 18th-century binding practices, where the ‘partially unopened’ state confirms the volume has escaped the aggressive trimming of 19th-century rebinding. SUBJECTS: Geography, Cartography, 18th-Century Books, Folding Maps, Thomas Kitchin, Enlightenment, Commercial History, British Printing, Atlas, Reference Work, Illustrated Literature. BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: ESTC N20135 (Variant).
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First-edition costume history, 30 colored plates
Hinton, Henry L. Select Historical Costumes Compiled From the Most Reliable Sources
$250.00Under The Covers Antique And Vintage Books
New York: Wynkoop & Sherwood, 1868. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good. FIRST EDITION. Original ornate green cloth with elaborate armorial design in gilt on cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Gilt still very bright. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners with small 1 1/2″ split at bottom of upper joint and a small chip to cloth at head of spine. Book slightly splayed. Brown colored endpapers with recent bookplate to front pastedown. Archival fabric tape epair to hinge of a few pages where they appear to have been reattached. Contents very good with only a few smudges and spots of foxing. 30 full page hand colored plates each with 2 to 3 pages of text. Plates extremely bright and good, very good copy in attractive binding. Auction invoice from 1949 and illustrated article about historic costumes laid in. FASH/010826
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Lovely 3 volume set on the history of Cuba
D. Jose Martin Felix de Arrate, D. Antonio Jose Valdes and D. Ignacio Urrutia y Montoya. Edited by Rafael Cowley and Andres Pego Los Tres Primeros Historiadores de la Isla de Cuba
$500.00Under The Covers Antique And Vintage Books
Habana (Havana): Andres Pego, 1876, 1877. FIRST EDITION. THREE VOLUMES. Hardcover. Small 4to. Very good. All bound in full leather with gilt and maroon title labels to spine. From the library of Otto Schoenrich with his initials in gilt at the foot of each spine. Minor rubbing and scuffing to leather. Minor bumping to corners. Browning to spines. Light red staining to front board of volume I. Ownership inscription to half title page of each volume. Minor browning and foxing to first and last few pages of each volume. Minor chipping and one small closed tear to half title page of volume II. Minor soiling to edge of text block of volume I which does not affect the interior. Text is clean and bright. Foldout to rear of volume I. Volume I: Llave del Nuevo Mundo Antemural de las Indias Occidentales. La Habana Descripta: Notices de Su Fundacion, Aumentos y Estado. Compuesta por D. Jose Martin Felix Arrate. Volume II: Teatro Historico, Juridico y Politico Militar de la Isla Fernandina de Cuba y Principalmente de su Capital La Habana. Por el Dr. D. Ignacio Jose de Urrutia y Montoya. Volume III: Historia de la Isla de Cuba y Especial de la Habana. For D. Antonio Jose Valdes. THIS IS A HEAVY SET AND MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING. IN SPANISH.
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Complete four-volume Robertson in original wraps
Robertson, William Storia di America del dottore Guglielmo Robertson tradotta dall’ originale inglese dall’ ab. Antonio Pillori Fiorentino [The History of America]
$1,249.00In Venezia [Venice]: Nella stamperia Gatti a spese di Leonardo e Giammaria Fratelli Bassaglia, MDCCLXXXIII [1783]. Original Wraps. Second Venice Edition of Antonio Pillori’s translation of Robertson’s standard work, on the discovery of America and the conquest of Mexico and Peru. Demy 8vo (202 x 136mm): xxiv,240pp, with frontispiece portrait of Columbus and large folding map of Gulf of Mexico showing Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, and farther Caribbean islands; [2],5-328pp, with frontispiece portrait of Bartolomé de las Casas and folding map of South America; [2],3-359 [p. 181 misnumbered “281”; p. 304, “204”],[1]pp, with frontispiece portrait of Cortés and folding map of Mexico; [4],295,[1]pp, with frontispiece portrait of Pizarro and large folding map of Middle America. Original paper-case bindings with yapped edges, manuscript titles and volume numbers to spines, text block sewn on tawed tongs (vol. iv with modern replacements). Worming to upper cover, portrait, title page, and map margins of vol. iv now expertly restored by a paper conservationist. A remarkably fresh, wide-margined set, in original paper-case bindings, complete in four volumes (eight books) as issued, with all four folding maps colored in outline by a contemporary hand (as the John Carter Brown Library copy). Borba de Moraes, p. 740-41 (first edition). Sabin 71997, noting the Venice editions of 1778 and 1802 only). Fine. Originally published, in two volumes, in 1777 by Strahan and Cadell in London and Balfour in Edinburgh “to a very positive reception” (ODNB); first Venice edition published in 1778. “Its success,” according to the ODNB, “was even more marked on the continent, where it was considered Robertson’s masterpiece . . . With its dramatic sweep of narrative, combined with a provocative confrontation of two very different stages of civilization [Spanish and Native American] and a prose that was more flexible and evocative than that of his earlier books, the History of America is often regarded as Robertson’s most interesting, original, and even Romantic work. However, it also shows the Eurocentric limits of his stadial thinking, because it presents an unsympathetic account of Native Americans and glosses over Spanish atrocities.” Borba de Moraes credits Roberston with writing the “first history of the discovery and Spanish conquest of America based on ample bibliographical information and documents in the Simancas archives. . . . The bibliography at the end of the second volume is remarkable for the time.” Franklin D. Roosevelt owned the first Venice edition. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
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