However after less than two years he became disenchanted with the job which he confided in a letter not to be opened until after his death involved dealing with relics which had "no definite history" and having to "perpetuate error and fraud" on the visitors and general public. Presentation copies of this landmark Yeats title are of the utmost scarcity, the present example being the only one with a literary association to appear on the market in 35 years. Hayward ; Wade 2.
The Complete Jules Verne Bibliography: I. Voyages Extraordinaires
Tempsky - OHLDr. Biblioteca di Babele ]. An unsual arial view of London, taken from above the Houses of Parliament, but looking away from the City, issued as a supplement to the Graphic newspaper on 21st September Altea Antique Maps ]. Manuscript journal of Th. Text is in German. Black cloth over brown paper boards, manuscript title label to front. A detailed naval account. It is exceedingly scarce to find period manuscript works of any kind pertaining to German colonial presence in the South Pacific. Designed for service in the German colonial empire, she was equipped with a combination of steam and sail power for extended range, and a battery guns for defense.
Alexandrine was first commissioned in for a voyage to Samoa in the Central Pacific, where competing claims to the islands of Samoa created tension between several colonial powers, this taking place during the First Samoan Civil War. The ship patrolled Deutsch-Neuguinea, Germany's colonial holdings in the Central Pacific, until For two and a half years, the writer plied Pacific waters for German colonial gain, all the while Great Britain and the United States of America having their sights on some of the same islands, and in Samoa a civil war was disrupting commerce and the safety of foreigners.
The First Samoan Civil War, enduring roughly between and , was a conflict between rival Samoan factions in the Samoan Islands. The German military intervened on several occasions. There was also a naval standoff between U. After the Apia cyclone destroyed six of the German and American ships stationed at Samoa, the three countries decided that Laupepa would be the King. The present volume offers primary source observations and descriptions of islands seldom described or even mentioned in contemporary accounts, including remarks on the indigenous settlements, as the writer and his fellow officers patrolled South Pacific islands, in particular the innumerable islands which formed Deutsch-Neuguinea, to protect and to further aggrandize Germany's colonial and commercial empire.
Providing further imagery of life at sea during such a commission, the volume begins with an uncommon introduction of peripheral detail, comprising a history of the vessel and its then current equipment, followed by succinct biographical sketch of each individual crew member, including names. Cannibals, heavily tattooed barely-clothed islanders, simple thatched huts of slightly varied construction dotting the jungles, quite likely never before seen by the writer, these and other customs piqued his interest and make for interesting nineteenth century accounts.
The marine officer describes bartering with alleged cannibals and at least one skirmish with the natives. He also notes the stunning flora and fauna, including the colourful parrots and cockatoos. An entry dated 14 March highlights "Opal" possibly referring to the small Samoan island of Upolu where in the Vailima Estate was purchased as the official residence for German governors. Upolu was also the site of several German plantations, which in were the target of much looting by protesting natives led by Samoan chief Mata'afa Iosefo.
Shortly after this, we find entries pertaining to "Tamana Island," the smallest of the Gilbert Islands in Kiribati, which lay about halfway between Papua New Guinea and Hawaii. In the Germans had established a trading outpost. Reputed by German traders for his leadership and bravery, Iroijlaplap Kabua, or Kabua: King of Jaluit, as he was also known, was often eulogized by the German officials for his support of German trade and as an adherent of the German ways.
He died in From to Matupi was part of the protected area of the New Guinea Company, serving as the hub for sea traffic in the Bismarck archipelago.
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Colonization of this island region began here. From to it was part of German New Guinea. During heightened conflicts over colonial interests in the island of Samao, in November , the flags of Great Britain, Germany, and America, all stood planted on the beach of Saluafata to lay claim on the coveted island. Several German marines were killed by the storm. At the same time, conflicting claims over the islands were being made by other leading empires, which gave impetus to the German government's efforts to defend its interests there.
She would be joined by her sister ship Sophie and the gunboat named Wolf. Kaiser Wilhelm II was onboard for the start of the voyage, disembarking at Wangerooge near Heligoland. Upon their arrival, they found Samoa to be in the throes of its First Civil War. By this time, the situation in Samoa had calmed, so Alexandrine was sent on a tour of German protectorates in Melanesia, beginning on 24 July An entry on this date collaborates the new task as the officers make preparations.
The voyage culminated with Kapsu island off Neu-Mecklenburg, where Alexandrine sent a landing party ashore to punish local residents who had murdered a pair of German citizens. From there, Alexandrine sailed to Sydney, where she remained for the month of November for repairs and to rest the crew. In March , a steamer arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, with a new crew to relieve the men aboard Alexandrine, although the keeper of the present journal remained onboard. The ship then went to Apia, where she remained until early May, when she was sent on a tour of the Marshall Islands with the local Reichskommissar Imperial Commissioner on board.
While en route, the crew stopped in the Gilbert Islands to settle disputes between Germans and locals. And in June , the ship's crew participated in the ceremony installing Malietoa Laupepa as the ruler of Samoa. Entries for August describe the arrival at Sydney, and the crew receiving news that the ship had been assigned to the Cruiser Squadron under Konteradmiral Rear Admiral Victor Valois. On 6 January , the crew would make a final and extensive tour to several islands in the Samoa group. From the South Pacific to East Asia, ship and crew, together with the squadron, embarked on a voyage for a brief time to China and Japan.
The squadron arrived off the coast of Chile on 9 July and Valois secured an agreement with the authorities in Valparaiso for landing parties from the vessels to secure the European quarter of the city. Map preceding title page. Wittenborn Art Books ]. Central and South Pacific, - Central and South Pacific: Some wear to boards, otherwise in very good condition, a detailed naval account.
Hardcover, oblong folio A Fine copy, that also includes the bottom section of the original presentation box. Bright, clean contents; tight binding. A brilliant, well preserved copy. Includes photos of the famous steel mills of the time Carnegie, Phipps, Homestead, McKeesport, Canonsburg , plus the Westinghouse factory, machines, trains and trains stations.
Published on the occasion of the meeting of the Congreso Internacional Americano in Pittsburgh, November , First edition, presentation copy from Wilford Woodruff. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Lorenzo Snow. The text block is cracked at the beginning and end. Frontispiece offset on the title page and the tipped-in Wilford Woodruff presentation slip. Else, the illustrated plates are only very subtly offset on the opposing pages. There are several short pen notations on the front flyleaf and title page.
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Second part has half title: Pages of second paginated part are incorrectly numbered With 26 engraved plates, all present. Tullidge's scarcest and most ambitious volume in his series of histories and biographies. Intended as a companion volume to his History of Salt Lake City, this volume covers the rest of the state and Southern Idaho. Bound by Cedric Chivers ca.
Lower cover paneled in gilt and with a central elliptical floral decoration in gilt. Smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt. Decorative gilt board-edges, and turn-ins, pale blue marbled paper paste-downs and end-leaves, top edge gilt, others uncut. Light offsetting from turn-ins to end-papers. A near fine, very attractive and somewhat unusual Cedric Chivers binding. Dunn, Muriel Taylor, and Agatha Gales. Most Vellucent bindings were designed by H.
Granville Fell, but the woman most frequently employed for this kind of work was probably Dorothy Carleton Smyth" Marianne Tidcombe, Women Bookbinders , p. David Brass Rare Books, Inc. Perrin et Cie, Paris - In, pp. Stuttgart, Verlag von Ferdinand Enke, Prima tiratura senza indicazione di migliaio: One of the earliest photographic documents of Mecca and the Hajj, preceded only by the photographs of Muhammed Sadiq Bey published in Sotheby's, 4 June Much rarer than the author's similarly titled "Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka", a portfolio of lithographs to accompany the "Mekka" books which Snouck had published after his return from the Arabian Peninsula.
The letter contained new photographs of the hajj which were of such great interest that he decided in to publish his 'Bilder aus Mekka' [. Gavin first identified the earliest Arabian photographer by deciphering his elaborately calligraphed signatures, which without exception had been erased from the plates reproduced by Snouck Hurgronje: This princely eye surgeon had been host to the young Snouck in Mecca immediately after the Dutchman's conversion to Islam. Snouck claimed to have taught his host how to use a camera and attributes to him without ever mentioning his name the pictures reproduced in 'Bilder aus Mekka'".
Prints and their mounts in excellent condition, crisp with very slight toning. Cloth portfolio a little faded; spine repaired, with De Belder bookplate on pastedown. Saudi Arabia Caught in Time. Princeton University Press Wood engraving portrait of Chadwick and diagrams of a ball field. A tight, cleam example, with just very minor chipping at the tips and spine ends, one of the nicest copies were have encountered in over 40 years involvement with baseball books.
Baseball history, rules and playing instructions by the "Father of Baseball", Hall of Famer and first American sportswriter, Henry Chadwick. Among many accomplishments, Chadwick is credited with inventing the boxscore, scoring rules and was the major journalistic proponent of the game from it's pre-professional infancy through the early 20th century. Interestingly, the final ten pages of the book deal with lotteries, specifically advertising the Louisiana Lottery. Printed by Richard Thimm. A seemingly unrecorded book is a first-hand account on the opening of the Suez Canal, published at the occassion of the 20th anniversary of the Suez Canal, to raise funds for the Austrian Customs Office.
The text gives details from the trip and the opening, as well as statistical data on the Suez Canal. The author published the book at the 20th anniverary of the Suez Canal in Vienna, to raise money for the Austrian Customs Office, who also published the book. The Suez Canal was completed in November , after over a decade of labour, under the direction of the French businessman Ferdinand de Lesseps. The canal, which connected the Mediterranean the Atlantic with the Red Sea Indian Ocean had a revolutionary effect on global trade and travel, as it shaved thousands of kilometres off of the sailing time between Europe and South and East Asia.
As shown here, coloured in a brilliant hue of burnt orange, the canal as originally built was km miles in length and 8 metres 26 feet deep. We could not find any other examples of the book in institutions nor on the market. Antiquariat Dasa Pahor ]. Notes, Addresses, Letters, Telegrams. One of apparently 12 copies signed on this day. Harned and Judge Charles G. Traubel's entry about Whitman for December 16, is both typical and telling: He brought me down a dozen copies of your book. It seems that Judge Garrison is to take them, and wants my signature.
I shall sign them - sign them for Tom and for the Judge, both, for their sakes. London, printed and published by W. Boards have scattered pale foxing and are slightly dusty, corners slightly worn with board just showing at tips, title page has pale age-browning, last blank page age-browned, tip of one lower corner missing and slightly ragged, looks like a paper fault, nowhere near text, 1 margin has a slight pale mark, not affecting text, otherwise a very good clean copy of a scarce publication on the wines and spirits imported by a major British firm in the late s.
Each section is preceded by descriptive and informative text on the particular wines or spirits.
Famille-sans-nom - 1889
Einige stockflecklein - trotzdem: Vertreter des Schweizerischen Expressionismus. Gilt rules to boards and gilt compartments to spine with gilt on leather titles. Adverts and original cover bound in at rear. Some natural toning to spine. Discounts considered on direct sales.
Family Without a Name - 1889
Further details sent upon request. Amos Drake Rare Books ]. First edition, first issue, i. And with no damage to the type on page With frontispiece and numerous intertextual drawings and full-page drawings within the pagination. Original publisher's olive green cloth.
Front board pictorially stamped in blue, gilt, and black. Spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Very minimal tip and spine extremity rubbing. Pierre Aronnax located in an early chapter of this text. Riou succeeds in adapting himself artistically to the realistic reproduction of the many fantastic locales of the Vernian fictional geography: Henri de Montaut ? Montaut was a successful magazine cartoonist who also specialized in portraits—as in his rendering of the three Vernian astronauts Barbicane, Nicholls, and Michel Ardan 27 —the latter of whom, incidentally, was drawn from the likeness of the famous Parisian photographer and daredevil Nadar, whose witty personality and name via anagram were immortalized by Verne in this work.
Montaut was also known to have contributed many works to the popular weekly French magazine La Vie Parisienne. Alphonse de Neuville was another much-admired painter in France during this period. He collaborated with Riou on Vingt mille lieues sous les mers —all of the illustrations from chapter 12 onwards are his Neuville was also responsible for a small number of illustrations in the best-selling novel Le Tour du monde en The latter piece, showing the American flag securely fixed above the module, proved to be amazingly prophetic when Frank Borman of the Apollo 9 moon expedition landed in the Pacific, one hundred years later, only two or three miles from the point mentioned in the book.
Edmondo Marcucci 18 has said of his work: Another critic has said of Ferat: I would love to have seen what he would have done with 20, Leagues or Journey to the Center of the Earth! Benett runs a very close second, though his later work is not very good. Servadac , and Georges Tiret-Bognet ? Benett traveled widely in the Orient and the South Seas , and Charles Lemire, 20 his fellow-traveler, described Benett and his work as follows: Benett knew how to capture the real essence of all these exotic tropical locales. His notes and journal drawings were like an inexhaustible museum of our travels And the exactitude of his illustrations were a perfect complement to the descriptions.
Finally, Benett knows better than most how to frame an outdoor scene so that it is both real and picturesque 45 , vibrating with richness.
He is not expressive. The faces of his characters are neutral; his locales are devoid of poetry His compositions are impersonal in the blandest and narrowest sense of the word This latter illustrator contributed, for example, the excellent portrait of Phileas Fogg and a rather fine one of Passepartout. This is the work which made Jules Verne world-famous. Finally, George Roux ? In designing the city, Roux seems to have been directly inspired by the latest advances in architecture Verne was well served by his designers to the very end.
In his final comments on Georges Roux, Sichel makes the following observation: From onwards, the rapid development of two-toned lithography, photography, and photolithography slowly began to replace the older woodcut-engraving process in most publishing houses in France—primarily because these techniques were cheaper, faster, and much less labor-intensive. Two illustrations, the first a halftone and the second a woodcut , are located within the first couple of chapters of this work And, effectively blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality, even a real photograph is included from time to time—e.
As such, this remarkable collection of early sf illustrations 29 stands as a living testament to the passing of an age—literary, ideological, and technological. Centre Culturel de la Somme, Jules Verne, Inventor of Science Fiction. Narratives of Modernity Liverpool: Liverpool UP, forthcoming in Dictionnaire des illustrateurs,