capt henry wilson (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. Engravings on Steel and Wood (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 1: X;Vi; 240; Vol 2: Vi, 240; Vol 3 Vi, 240; Vol 4 Vi, 236. Half Morocco [Spine And Tips) Over Purple Pebbled Cloth; Spines With 5 Bands, Six Compartments, Gilt Title And Volume Number, Ornate Gilt Decorations In Other Four Compartments; Original Yellow Endpapers; All Edges Of Page Block Gilt. The Books Are 13" Tall, 10 1/2" Deep, And The Four Volumes Are 6 3/4" Wide On The Shelf. Undated But Circa 1880. Front Hinge To Vol Ii Cracked, Binding Solid. Original Leather Recently Professionally Conditioned And Refreshed, Professional Repairs To A Few Splits At Top/Bottom Of Spine Edges; Gilt Bright; No Names, No Marks, No Bookplates. Also With An Additional 41 Loose Plates Of Same Size As Those In The Books(Possibly From Another Copy Of This Set, Or Perhaps Never Bound). Shipping Weight About 30 Pounds, Insurance Required, Shipping Requires Additional Charges Depending On Destination. Palestine Refers To The Area Immediately North Of Egypt Along The Mediterranean Coast, Inhabited By Countless Peoples , And Conquered More Or Less Mercilessly Countless Times By Various Empires From England To Central Asia. The Volumes May Or May Not Include References To This Unrivaled Mix Of Ethnicities, Most Of Whom Were Then Living At Pece With Each Other.

half-leather. Zustand: Good in poor boards. 1802 Pocket-sized American edition of George Keate's account of the wreck of the packet ship Antelope, in the employ the British East India Company, under Capt. Henry Wilson (Keate not credited on the title page); a provincial New York State imprint of the Wilmington edition of 1794; Shaw & Shoemaker 2478; half-calf with marble boards; prominent fountain-pen inscriptions to endpapers and prelims, general toning and foxing throughout, string-binding occasionally showing at gutters, 2 x 1cm loss to front endpaper, o.w. Good; boards heavily rubbed and cracked, with significant loss of marbling; some wear to spine. no dustwrapper. 131pp (iv). 13 x 10cm. Good in poor boards.

Zustand: Fair. 18mo. viii, 178 pp. With a woodcut frontispiece of Prince Lee Boo (loosening and separating, as is the front binder's leaf). Contemporary "Dutch" floral boards (shaken), spine perished and covered with (masking?) tape which is separating, board edges worn, text with usual stains and signs of heavy use. A complete copy in "fair" condition, priced accordingly. RARE IRISH EDITION OF THIS CURIOUS LITTLE CHILDREN'S BOOK OF WHICH APPARENTLY THERE ARE NO COPIES IN IRELAND. The present copy of the "History of Prince Lee Boo" belongs to the third edition overall, following Newbery's common 1789 and [1790] editions. In ours the frontispiece portrait of Prince Lee Boo is a crude copy of Newbery's engraving, and indeed, the entire book seems to be a line-for-line reprint of Newbery's 178-page text. To reduce costs, these Dublin hack publishers eliminated Newbery's engraved title-page and 5 engraved plates. BACKGROUND OF PRINCE LEE BOO: Capt. Henry Wilson was a marine in the service of the English East India Company. "In August 1783, his ship, the Antelope, ran aground and was wrecked on the Pelew Islands [i.e. Palau Islands, Philippines], which until that time had seen no European presence. Wilson and his crew escaped to the shore and were treated well by the natives. The crew then constructed a boat from the wreckage of their ship and in it succeeded in reaching Macao in China. They took with them Prince Lee Boo (or Liby), one of the king's sons, whom Wilson subsequently brought to London." The prince was lionized by London society, who were charmed by his poise and intelligence; he attended church ceremonies, dinner parties and European schools, "but eventually he succumbed to smallpox and died [at the age of 20]. The East India Company then sent out two vessels, the Panther and the Endeavour under Captain John McCluer, to inform the king, Abba Thule, of the bad news and present him with gifts of seeds and plants." (SOURCE: Howgego, Encyclopedia of Exploration no. W41). ESTC (T138614) locates just five copies worldwide: British Library, McMaster University, UCLA, Stanford, and Monash University (Melbourne). Stupidly, Jisc Library Hub conflates electronic surrogates with the printed edition, and in doing so lists 30 libraries with access to digital copies; of these, only the BL copy is "real." We have been unable to locate a copy in Ireland; certainly it is not in Trinity College Dublin or the National Library of Ireland. Three copies located in auction records (including this one) according to Rare Book Hub, which currently has more than 13 million records in the Rare Book Transactions database: 1. Dominic Winter 7 April 2004, lot 423.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original Chieftain goatskins, dyed the exact shade of RAF wool-barathea wartime uniform fabric. The front cover is gold-blocked with the title and incorporates specially woven RAF wings of 1940 type by Gieves and Hawkes, No. 1 Savile Row, London, with the King's crown, the marker ribbon of blue silk bearing the emblems of the Battle of Britain Fighter Association, 22-carat gold edging. 4to. 13¼'' x 10''. The print run is strictly limited to 401 copies, No. 1 being presented to HM The Queen. This copy being number 173. Each copy bears the handwritten signatures of the twenty-five selected Battle of Britain pilots: Wg Cdr P. P. C. Barthropp; Wg Cdr R. P. Beaumont; Sqn Ldr G. H. Bennions; Air Vice-Marshal H. A. C. Bird-Wilson; Air Cdre P. M. Brothers; Air Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-Milling; Gp Capt W. D. David; Air Cdre A. C. Deere; Sqn Ldr B. H. Drobinski; Flt Lt J. H. Duart; Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris; Gp Capt T. P. Gleave; Wg Cdr N. P. W. Hancock; Sqn Ldr C. Haw; Cdr R. C. Hay; Gp Capt C. B. F. Kingcome; Colonel Henry Gaston Lafont; Air Cdre A. R. D. MacDonell; Sqn Ldr M. J. Mansfeld; W Cdr A. G. Page; Wg Cdr P. L. Parrott; Gp Capt D. F. B. Sheen; Wg Cdr F. M. Smith; Wg Cdr J. E. Storrar; Wg Cdr G. C. Unwin. Housed in matching buckram clamshell box with blue silk lining and gilt titling. Unopened book in new condition in Fine condition box. Pocket inside the box holds original sales receipt, The Times colour supplement advertisement, typed letter from the original purchaser to Air Vice Marshall Freddie Hurrell confirming his order and enclosed cheque, he also mentions that he would wish to collect the book himself from Hartnolls in Bodmin when the book was ready. SIGNED letter from Air Vice Marshall Freddie Hurrell to the recipient on Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund letter-headed paper with details of the book. Hartnoll Delivery Note. Advertisement prospectus giving in-depth details concerning the various elements of production with a photograph of the six protagonists: Michael Pierce, John Golley, Roy Asser, Bill Gunston, Brian Masterton, and Freddie Hurrell to the front cover viewing the finished product. Remains wrapped in Hartnoll's original brown paper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATTLE OF BRITAIN.