Anson lord george (32 resultados)

Hardbound. Condición: Very Good. Introduction by John Masefield. (Everyman) London (Dent) (1911)Backstrip faded else a fine copy.

blue embossed oblong hardcover ~ 2º (folio ~ 10"x12"). large ("coffee table" book), international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg+ cond. minor chipping along the top edge, top of spine, couple of tiny (1cm) tears, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first american edition so stated . first printing (NAP). illustrated endpapers. 256p. 44 glossy full color plates. 265 b&w figures. almost every page illustrated. glossary. dictionary of sea terms. types of sailing ship. bibliography. world history. nautical history. maritime history. exploration. cartography. geography. ~ The sailing ship era is part of a continuing adventure, which lives on in the dawning spaceship age; an adventure of the human spirit, discernible not only in great voyages and moments of danger, but also in the discovery of techniques in advances in shipbuilding and navigation. The inspiration of the sailing ship for the artist, manifest in the great marine paintings of four hundred years, is part of the adventure too. So are the excitement and love inspired by the sailing ship in ordinary people, which created the demand for innumerable simple prints of ships throughout the age of sail. Captain Donald Macintyre has written a historical record of four centuries, from the first circumnavigation of the world to the virtual disappearance of the square~rigged ship. This is followed by a selection of contemporary writings of many nations, from 1520 to 1914 ( Francisco Antonio Pigafetta, William Bourne, Sir Francis Drake the Younger, Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza, Gerrit de Veer, Willem Cornelison Schouten, Thomas Heywood, A. Richer, George Lord Anson, Louis de Bougainville, Captain James Cook, Horatio Viscount Nelson, Captain Isaac Hull USN, Richard Dana, Captain H. A. Chippendale USN, Basil Lubbock, Basil Greenhill CBE, Joseph Conrad, etc.), each piece showing an important aspect of the age of sail, the whole combining with over three hundred beautiful illustrations to give a comprehensive picture of the sailing ship experience. Captain Macintyre traces the development of sails, rigging and hull design, from the caravel, carrack and galleon to the clipper epoch, when the sailing ship became a thing of visual and functional perfection; and beyond to the autumn of the age of sail, to the great steel~hulled four and five~masted barques and barquentines, which had a strange beauty of their own.' He tells the story of maritime exploration and the establishment of commerce : a story of friendly or hostile competition among nations sharing the common experience of the struggle against the sea. Adventure, in the ordinary sense of dramatic and exciting episodes, fills the history of sail and has received an extraordinary amount of eyewitness documentation. The selection of contemporary documents in this volume unfolds a stirring tale of storms, shipwrecks and fights, of famous ships and the men who sailed in them. It shows, as nothing else can, what life in sailing ships was really like. It relives great moments of discovery or despair, such as the first rounding of Cape Horn, or the last voyage of Willem Barents in his brave and futile search for the Northeast Passage, ennobled by the courage and dignity of a crew lost among ice and polar bears in the dark, dreaded Arctic winter. It evokes the brutality of life at sea, but also its warmer, more humorous side. After the horrors of Anson's voyage it is a relief to read of Bougainville's reception at Tahiti and the meeting of Cook's sailors with the nymphs of Nootka Sound. The odyssey of the human spirit is ever present in The Adventure of Sail, from the perceptive introduction by the famous modern sailing man and boat designer, Uffa Fox, to the highly.…

Frank on 7 x 13 cm panel cut from front of envelope. In good condition, lightly aged, laid down on part of leaf from album, with the reverse carrying part of the frank to a letter from another unidentified individual, with free postmark from 1826. Byron's frank has the customary red-ink postmark at top right ('FREE | 8 DE 8 | 1826'), and is laid out by him in the customary fashion: 'Portsmouth December Seven | 1826 | The Honble. Mrs. Collingwood | Hawkhurst | Kent'. Byron's signature 'Byron.', at bottom left, is only underlined, and not enclosed within the two parallel lines as required. There is a naval connection between Byron and the addressee. Collingwood House was bought by the celebrated Admiral (of Trafalgar fame) in 1816 for his daughter and her husband George Newnham. It was later the residence of astronomer Sir John Herschel.…

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. A splendid engraved antique portrait, circa 1800. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait, circa 1748. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Fully collated, with folding frontispiece, folding chart, and thirteen full page plates. Bound in later half leather, with some bumping and softening to corners. Rather heavily foxed throughout, particularly along margins. Abbey Travel 597; Forbes 630; Hill 231; Huntress 228C; Sabin 100816.…

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. A fine original engraved portrait. Very attractive and decorative. Mounted and ready to frame. A excellent opportunity to purchase a splendid original antique portrait.

8° , Ledereinband. (24)pp, 548pp. (4)pp. publisher`s ads. (complete although pagination after p. 296 is misnumbered 304-548 with all catchwords matching) 3 large folding maps are damaged or missing. Bound in full calf, binding start to cracking. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

1p., landscape 12mo. In good condition, lightly-aged, with minor traces of glue from mount on reverse. With a large firm signature, the text reads: 'Admit the Bearer to the Gallery of the House of Lords | Byron. | Monday | March 7th 1846'.

Couverture rigide. Condición: Satisfaisant. 2ème Édition. Amsterdam, Arstee & Merkus,1751. XIV-330 pp., relié plein cuir moderne bleu, auteur et titre au dos, sans les cartes et gravures, page de titre renforcée et sans la vignette, page 101/102 manquante (ici en copie). Seconde édition française de cet important voyage britannique vers le Brésil et la Patagonie, contenant aussi de précieux développements sur l'Argentine, le Pérou, le Mexique et la Chine. La traduction française est d'Élie de Joncourt. Financée par le roi d'Angleterre, l'escadre commandée par l'amiral George Anson (1697-1762) était chargée d'attaquer les possessions espagnoles en Amérique du Sud. La relation a été établie par Richard Walter sur les papiers de l'amiral et publiée originellement à Londres en 1748.…

Leather Binding. Condición: Very Good. 15th edition (1776), complete with all 42 maps, plans and charts (of which 41 are folding), all in superb, crisp condition. Bound in 1`9th-century full brown morocco, covers bordered with 5 rules of varying widths with rosettes at corners, gilt-tooled inner dentelles, speckled edges, rebacked many years ago in brown calf, spine with raised bands, red morocco label, 5 gilt sailing ship designs, and floral tooling in blind (some rubbing to binding; wear to front joint). A tall, well-margined copy (binding 11.5 inches tall, text just a tad under 11), with plates and text clean and crisp.…

Second Dutch edition. Map. 5 charts, 9 plans, 20 plates (many folding, numbered 1-34). Vignette titlepage. 4to. half title, [xxx],384,[i] Leiden and Amsterdam, Johannes le Mair, Stephanus Jacobus Baalde, Cornelis van Hoogeveen Jr, 1765. [FOLLOWED BY:] Reize Naer de Zuidzee, met het schip de Wagner, onder het opzicht van den Heere George Anson. 8 numbered plates, vignette titlepage and dedication, Contemporary quarter calf over speckled paper covered boards, rose calf label with gilt title to spine, five raised bands with gilt ruled and tooled compartments. Hinge starting but sound, boards a little rubbed. Internally clean. Very good. [xxx], 212, [16index]pp. Leyden and Amsterdam, Johannes le Mair, Stephanus Jacobus Baalde, Cornelis van Hoogeveen Jr. …

Half leather. 1st Edition. 1st ed., quarto, original half-leather with marbled boards, later spine with raised bands and gilt. Complete with all 15 aquatint plates including folding frontispiece view of the great Volcano at Peli, folding chart of the voyage, map, views. Previous owner's bookplate fep.Some scattered foxing and toning mainly to edges of first two plates and edges of other plates (apart from the foxing to the large folding frontispiece, the remaining images themselves are clean), foxing also to final pages of Appendix. Corners lightly bumped and rubbed, leather title label scuffed top edge. From the library of book collector,George John Dupuis, with his Heraldic bookplate (Suffield, 1839) to inside front cover. Very good condition. Describes the voyage to the Hawaiian Islands to return the bodies of King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamamalu, who had died of measles on a visit to England. The Blonde was captained by George Anson Byron, 7th Lord Byron and the cousin of the poet. The crew included the botanist James Macrae, the naturalist Andrew Bloxam and the artist Robert Dampier. The ship's party visited a volcano and the place of death of Captain Cook, and the royal tomb. from which they took "almost all that remained of the ancient deities of the Islands". The book was compiled by Maria Graham, another cousin of Captain Byron, from the records of the ship's chaplain Richard Bloxam. The folding 'World Map' by J&C Walker and the plates described below image, "From a drawing taken on the spot by Robert Dampier". Robert Dampier (Illus.) (ilustrador).…

A voyage round the world // Lederband der Zeit, mit rundum Rotschnitt, 8°, XLIV, 570 Seiten und [18 Seiten] Worterklärungen sowie [16 Seiten] Register bzw. Index; mit 18 von 22 Tafeln, Die Tafeln wie folgt eingeheftet: nach Seite 96 Tafel 1, nach Seite 166 Tafel 5, nach Seite 170 Tafel 6, nach Seite 278 Tafel 8, nach Seite 338 Tafel 12, nach Seite 358 Tafel 15, nach Seite 368 Tafel 16, nach Seite 416 Tafel 17, nach Seite 434 Tafel 19, nach Seite 468 Tafel 20, nach Seite 566 Tafel 22, sowie nach dem Register folgende Tafeln 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14; demnach fehlen die Tafeln 2, 11, 18 und 21, Zustand: gut erhaltender Lederband der Zeit, Titelblatt mit minimalem Wegschnitt unten ca. 1cm vermutlich so getilgter Besitzvermerk, Tafel 15 mit Randeinriss, insg. altersgemäß guter Zustand de 681 Buch.…

0. Sprache: Deutschu.

Condición: Good. Engraving on watermarked laid paper. 26.5 x 43 cm (sheet). Very Good, usual center book fold, light specks of foxing.

0. Sprache: Deutschu.

Condición: Near fine. 27 x 44 cm page taped to 41 x 53 cm board. Illustration itself is 18 x 34 cm. Vertical crease. "Plate XVII" engraved at top right. Minor spot at bottom edge. An important engraving from Lord George Anson's "A Voyage Round the World in the Years 1740-1744." This is the fifth edition of the work. Published by John and Paul Knapton in London in 1749, the work was compiled by Richard Walter from Anson's papers and materials. The account of Anson's circumnavigation of the world is considered a "masterpiece of descriptive travel" and was the "most popular book of maritime adventure of the eighteenth century" (Hill). Anson's voyage inspired many British explorations in the Pacific, including that of Captain Cook. Anson's trip was strictly a military enterprise, though, its intent to disrupt Spanish commerce. At the beginning of a war with Spain, Anson's eight ships started out with the intention of harassing the Spanish on the west coast of South America. Seven ships were lost around Cape Horn, leading to the deaths of 600 out of 900 men. While the expedition was mostly a disaster, they did capture the Manila Galleon near China so that Anson and the surviving members of his crew reached England much richer.…

0. Sprache: Deutschu.

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. copper engr. map with recent hand colouring; overall 22 x 39 cm; image 19,5 x 38 cm. folds as issued; cropped to border to left margin as issued; some printer's creases; 1 small repaired tear in left margin; o/w vg cond.- An attractive plan of the Bay of Manilla together with a plan of the harbour of Acapulco from Anson's French edition of 'Voyage around the World'.…

First edition, attractively bound and including Cook's notes on the "Preservation of the Health of the Navy" amongst the appendices. Octavo (218 x 113 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece after the Reynolds portrait, with tissue guard. Mid-19th-century polished calf by Wickwar, spine ornately gilt in compartments with double morocco labels, thick gilt fillet ruling covers, edges gilt. A few marks to leather, including damp stain to foot, corners slightly bumped, superficial split to front inner hinge but firm. A very good copy.…

John and Paul Knapton, London 1753. 8vo. (24)+548+(4) pages. Erratic pagination after page 296 (297 is misnumbered 304, continuing to 548). 3 large folding maps. 20th century full calf binding in 18th century style, with gilt ornamentation. Old name on verso on first plate. Some soiling to titlepage.…

Condición: Good. 1st Edition "For the Author".

Condición: Very good. Fifth Edition. 4to, 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 in. (286 x 222 mm); pp. title (blank v.) + xx + 417. Illustrated with folding frontispiece map (A Chart, | shewing | The Track of the Centurion | Round the WORLD), and an additional forty-two copper-plate engravings (almost all folding), and a final leaf of directions to the bookbinder. Slightly later boards, gold tooled calf binding, scuffed; 5 raised bands and gilt decorations and titling in 6 compartments; edges speckled red. Printed on heavy laid paper with large margins (maps on heavier paper); interior has typical light uniform tanning. Pages and plates are clean with occasional offsetting to plates but generally dark strong impressions; map at p. 96 torn, map at 236 torn and repaired on verso, map at p. 385 has a small tear. Title page: A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, In the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. BY GEORGE ANSON, Esq; Now LORD ANSON, Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas. Compiled from his PAPERS and MATERIALS, By RICHARD WALTER, M. A. Chaplain of his Majesty's Ship the Centurion, in that Expedition. Illustrated with Forty-Two COPPER-PLATES. The Fifth Edition. LONDON: Printed for the AUTHOR; By John and Paul Knapton, in Ludgate-Street. MDCCXLIX. [Sabin 1626; Cox 1748 vol1, p.49; ESTC T74545; Borba de Moraes, p.38, Hill I, pp. 317-318]. "Perhaps the most popular maritime exploration of the 18th century" [Sabin 1626]. Our copy has NO MISSING PLATES or MAPS which is not common. This is the official account of Anson's adventurous and troubled four-year circumnavigation of the globe. In 1740 England was at war with Spain and equipped six warships and two merchant vessels with 1900 men, many of whom were untrained and unprepared for such a voyage, under the command of Commodore George Anson to harass the Spaniards on the western coast of South America, thus cutting off Spanish supplies from the Pacific Area. From the outset the voyage was fraught with problems, sickness and deaths among the crew, attacks by Spanish ships that had received word of the expedition, storms, flawed navigation charts, mutinies, but also with the successful capture of a Spanish galleon off the coast of the Philippines which yielded an immense treasure of over 34 tons of silver. After a brief pause in Canton, Anson started his voyage back to England in December 1743, rounding the Cape of Good Hope in April and arriving in England in June 1744, where he was richly rewarded for the capture of such a lavish treasure. Although several private journals of the voyage had been published, the official version of events was published in London 1748, as "A Voyage Round the World.". It was a great popular and commercial success and a 5th edition was already in print by 1749. As well as detailing the adventures of the expedition, it contained a huge amount of useful information for future navigators and with 42 detailed charts and engravings, most based on drawings by Capt. Piercy Brett, it laid the basis for later scientific and survey expeditions by Captain Cook and others. The final words from the authorized account are: «Thus was this expedition finished, when it had lasted three years and nine months, after having, by its event, strongly evinced this important truth: That though prudence, intrepidity, and perseverance united are not exempted from the blows of adverse fortune, yet in a long series of transactions they usually rise superior to its power, and in the end rarely fail of proving successful.».…

Octavo. Folding map frontispiece, which depicts California as a island. (24)pp, 548pp, (4)pp ads. Complete, with the usual pagination misnumbering after p. 296 (numbered 304-548), all catchwords correct. Includes three large folding maps, one showing California as an Island and one showing a few early tape mends.…

London: John Murray 1826. 4to.Qtr.cf.with marbled boards. (XII 260pp.). With fold. mezzotint view of the "Great Volcano of Peli at Hawaii" 12 full-page engrv. plates of which 8 are views and 2 charts of which 1 is fold. A complete copy albeit water stained throughout. lst ed. NOTE: Captain Byron was the cousin of the celebrated poet and succeeded to his title. The Expedition his last appointment afloat was undertaken to convey back to the Hawaiian Islands the remains of the King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands who had died from measles during their visit to England. The Appendix in the book contains an account of the Birds Insects and Fish of the Islands by A.Bloxham Naturalist of the Expedition.…

Leather Bound. Condición: New. Language: English. {Size: 14.60 x 22.86 cms} Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2016, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1826. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 300, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 300.…

Softcover. Condición: New. Reprint. Language: English. Approximately 318 pages. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1826. Text in English. This work recounts the voyage of HMS Blonde to the Sandwich Islands (modern-day Hawaii) between 1824 and 1825. The narrative provides detailed accounts of the ship's journey, interactions with local populations, and observations of the islands' geography and culture. A valuable resource for maritime history and Pacific exploration. Book images are non-contractual. This item is printed on demand and ships from our printing partners' facility nearest the destination. These facilities are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.…