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Hardcover. Condición: Used - Very Good. Very Good hardcover, no dust jacket. Red boards, gilt lettering to spine only. Solid and unmarked.

First Edition. Poor copy, wear and tear as with age. Boards damaged. Some pages loose. Text remains in fine condition. Physical description; 1 v. ; 15 cm. Subjects; Voyages and travels ; Juvenile literature. Seafaring life ; Juvenile literature. India Description and travel 1762-1858 ; Juvenile literature. Sri Lanka Description and travel ; Juvenile literature. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Poor copy, wear and tear as with age. Boards damaged. Some pages loose. Text remains in fine condition. Physical description; 1 v. ; 15 cm. Subjects; Voyages and travels ; Juvenile literature. Seafaring life ; Juvenile literature. India Description and travel 1762-1858 ; Juvenile literature. Sri Lanka Description and travel ; Juvenile literature. 1 Kg.…

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1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, with minor traces of stub to inner margin. Reads: 'Captain Basil Hall R.N. presents his Compliments to Mr Dinwiddie, & if he can spare him a Ticket for the Caledonian Church on Sunday next the 4th. July, Captn. Hall will feel particularly obliged to Mr Dinwiddie. | 14 Conduit Street | Wednesday | Captn. Hall will be well contented with a Standing Ticket, should there be the slightest difficulty about another.'.…

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Hardcover. Condición: very good. Aus dem Seeleben, Hall Basil, Lpz., Lorck 1855. 8°, VIII, 152 S., gering stockfleckig. Aus der Conversations- und Reisebibliothek, Leipzig, Lorck, 1855. Für weitere Infos zum Verfasser bitte unteren Link anklicken.

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Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 6 1/2 inches x 10 3/4 in., map of route to and from China; title-page; author's February 24th, 1840 preface; contents; map of Island of Loo-Choo. [6]pp, pp. [1]-81; title-page to part one of the Chili title; advertisement to the Sixth Edition, March, 1840; contents. vi, pp. [1]-77; title-page to part two; contents. iv, pp. [1]-80, including appendixes. Top-edges of the Java title: pp. 7-24 show rough edges from careless opening, some tea stains to pp. 49-67. Most pages of the Chili title are unopened. Dark brown, ribbed cloth with elaborate, blindstamped floral design on both covers, light yellow coated endpapers. The cloth spine and sides have been replaced with later, brown cloth, with later cloth inner hinges added, the cover corners show wear, stains, abrasions to page fore-edges. Scarce title that republishes these two earlier works by Captain Basil Hall, in one volume. With the bookplate of Cleveland, Ohio based book collector, William G. Mather (1857-1951), on the front paste-down endpaper. From the author's 1840 Preface: "The hourly increasing interest of the great Chinese question, and the probability of our being obliged, in self-defence, to occupy some insular position in those seas, have induced the author to republish, in so cheap a form as to be accessible to every class of readers, a work which may help to throw some light on those remote, but very important national topics. [-] The details of an interview which the author was fortunate enough to obtain with Napoleon Buonaparte, at St. Helena, are also given, as the conversation of the ex-Emperor related chiefly to the incidents of the Voyage.". …

Hardcover. 12mo. pp. 4 p.l., 384 + 4 pp. of publisher's ads. with half-title. untrimmed in original cloth (rear joint partly cracked & frayed, spine chipped, some light foxing). bookplate of Elphinstone, Carberry Tower. First Edition.

Second Edition 2 Volumes, complete. 8vo. hardbacks, rebacked in tan calf using original tan calf boards. Black title labels, gilt to spines. All edges speckled brown. New endpapers. Volume I: xviii, 372pp. with folding map as frontispiece. Volume II: xi, 288pp. Text plus 65pp. Appendix. Small modern bookplates to front pastedowns and a few pencil notes to rear pastedown of Volume I. Occasional light foxing, mainly to prelims and map. Original boards somewhat edge-darkened and scuffed (please see photos). A VERY GOOD SET. (Shelf 9) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.…

1st Single Volume Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth, on blind-tooled boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Prize inscription to the half-title. Text in double columns and contained within borders.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Description: 3 series bound in 1, with separate pagination: [165, 160, 169p.] ; 25cm. Subjects: Voyages and travels -- Juvenile literature. Seafaring life -- Juvenile literature. India -- Description and travel -- 1762-1858 -- Juvenile literature. Sri Lanka -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature.Travel literature -- 19th century. Note: "This little work has been drawn up chiefly for the use of Young Persons ." --preface. Includes 3 pages of publisher's ads before half-title. Includes dedicatory letter to "His Royal Highness, Prince George of Cumberland" --after 3rd series title page. 1 Kg.…

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1st Single Volume Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth, on blind-tooled boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Prize inscription to the half-title. Text in double columns and contained within borders.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Description: 3 series bound in 1, with separate pagination: [165, 160, 169p.] ; 25cm. Subjects: Voyages and travels -- Juvenile literature. Seafaring life -- Juvenile literature. India -- Description and travel -- 1762-1858 -- Juvenile literature. Sri Lanka -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature.Travel literature -- 19th century. Note: "This little work has been drawn up chiefly for the use of Young Persons ." --preface. Includes 3 pages of publisher's ads before half-title. Includes dedicatory letter to "His Royal Highness, Prince George of Cumberland" --after 3rd series title page. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 2 vols., 8vo, [xviii, 372pp] + [xii, 288pp + 65pp appendix], folding map chart, occasional light scattered spotting mainly to endpapers, contemp. half calf, marbled boards, with blind and gilt decorated spines in compartments, lightly rubbed on some extremities. A VG+ clean attractive set in a handsome contemporary binding. The author served aboard the Frigate Conway on the South American station, 1820-1823, of which this is an account. Ex-Libris Francis, Earl of Killmorey, from his library at Mourne Park House, with his engraved armorial bookplates to upper pastedowns. Captain Basil Hall's account of his 1820-22 travels provides information on the history, politics, social life, and culture of Chile, Peru and Mexico, with remarks on bullfights, earthquakes, revolutions, mining, trade, the colonial system of Spain &c. Included are descriptions of his visits to Valparaiso, Santiago, Callao, Lima, Payta, Guayaquil, Acapluo, Tepic and San Blas.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st ed. 9 aquatint plates (8 hand-colored, including frontis), 5 maps (2 folding), 1 other uncolored plate (of Wollaston's Dip Sector), xv, [1], 222, cxxx, [72]p. Recent quarterbinding. 27cm. Foxing on illustrations. Bookplate of famed actor John Barrymore (along with a recent penciled note stating that this book was sold for $24.80 as lot B-73 at an auction in 1941 (after the actor's death). Letter (tipped in) and inscription by the author's sister Magdalene (who died in childbirth in 1823 while married to Henry Harvey). The letter and inscription appear to be to the same person, addressed in the inscription as M. Le Chevalier. We believe that the recipient was Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier Delambre. Signed.…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 3 volumes. 8vo., (8 x 4 ¾ inches). Fine engraved frontispiece "Map of the United States and Canada" with original hand color (detached, some toning), folding demographic chart. Later quarter maroon morocco, marbled boards, the spine in six compartments separated by five raised bands, gilt lettered in three and the rest gilt tooled, all edges marbled (front cover of volume I detaching). First edition. Hall was a Captain in the British Navy, who published many accounts of his travels, most notably his "Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Correa, and the Great Loo-Choo Island," 1818. Having resigned from the Navy in 1823, Hall spent fourteen months of 1827-1828 touring the United States and, for nine weeks, Canada. "Aided by his literary reputation and more than 100 letters of recommendation, he dined with famous people such as President John Quincy Adams, the governors of several states, and artists and academics, toured all the chief eastern rivers, including the Alabama between Montgomery and Mobile, as well as the Great Lakes, the chief canals, and the Gulf of Mexico between Mobile and New Orleans. Hall's most significant land journey was by carriage across Georgia, an adventure far different from any in the more advanced eastern states, and one that included his being feted by the Creek Indians. Altogether he claimed to have traveled 8,800 miles in the United States and Canada. "Hall's three-volume 'Travels in North America in the Years 1827 and 1828,' published in 1829 in Edinburgh and London, was one of the most widely read of over 200 such books written by British travelers to North America before the Civil War. Like all of these books, however, it was in general condemned by American readers inordinately sensitive to and defensive about any European's judgments concerning the new nation's political experiments, its classless society, and its system of slavery which, especially to Britons at the time, was becoming more and more abhorrent. Nevertheless, perhaps in part because of Hall's intent to help his countrymen 'think the Americans more worthy of regard and confidence,' perhaps in part because he was determined to learn about America only from Americans, Hall's 'Travels' was more nearly acceptable in the United States than contemporaneous accounts by Frances Trollope, Dickens, and, especially, the outspoken Marryat, another retired naval captain who visited the United States in 1837-1838. Readers today, especially Americans, will in fact find Hall's keen, detailed, and well-written observations to be both just and significant. One highly original side feature of this American journey was the collection of forty drawings Hall made with the help of the camera lucida, and which he published simultaneously with the 'Travels' in a small volume that underwent several editions. The 'Travels' itself had two more editions in its first year" (Percy Addams for ANB). Sabin 29725. Howes H-47. Clark III 48. Dionne II 1045. Lande 404.…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2 volumes. 8vo., (7 2/8 x 4 2/8 inches). (Browned throughout, some staining). 19th-century library binding of half brown morocco, brown cloth, gilt (extremities a bit rubbed). Provenance: American Whig society Library, Princeton, with their manuscript ownership inscriptions dated January 1832 on the recto of the first blank, and their ink library stamp on the title-page; ink library stamps of Princeton University Library at the foot of the Preface, indicating that this copy was sold as a duplicate in 1921. First American edition. Hall was s Captain in the British Navy, who published many accounts of his travels, most notably his "Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Correa, and the Great Loo-Choo Island", 1818. Having resigned from the Navy in 1823, Hall spent fourteen months of 1827-1828 touring the United States and, for nine weeks, Canada. "Aided by his literary reputation and more than 100 letters of recommendation, he dined with famous people such as President John Quincy Adams, the governors of several states, and artists and academics, toured all the chief eastern rivers, including the Alabama between Montgomery and Mobile, as well as the Great Lakes, the chief canals, and the Gulf of Mexico between Mobile and New Orleans. Hall's most significant land journey was by carriage across Georgia, an adventure far different from any in the more advanced eastern states, and one that included his being feted by the Creek Indians. Altogether he claimed to have traveled 8,800 miles in the United States and Canada. "Hall's three-volume 'Travels in North America in the Years 1827 and 1828', published in 1829 in Edinburgh and London, was one of the most widely read of over 200 such books written by British travelers to North America before the Civil War. Like all of these books, however, it was in general condemned by American readers inordinately sensitive to and defensive about any European's judgments concerning the new nation's political experiments, its classless society, and its system of slavery which, especially to Britons at the time, was becoming more and more abhorrent. Nevertheless, perhaps in part because of Hall's intent to help his countrymen "think the Americans more worthy of regard and confidence," perhaps in part because he was determined to learn about America only from Americans, Hall's 'Travels' was more nearly acceptable in the United States than contemporaneous accounts by Frances Trollope, Dickens, and, especially, the outspoken Marryat, another retired naval captain who visited the United States in 1837-1838. Readers today, especially Americans, will in fact find Hall's keen, detailed, and well-written observations to be both just and significant. One highly original side feature of this American journey was the collection of forty drawings Hall made with the help of the camera lucida, and which he published simultaneously with the 'Travels' in a small volume that underwent several editions. The 'Travels' itself had two more editions in its first year" (Percy Addams for ANB). Sabin 29725.…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 3 volumes. 8vo., (7 3/8 x 4 4/8 inches). Half-titles (preliminaries a bit spotted). FINE large folding engraved map of the United States and Canada with original hand-colour (small early repair near gutter). Contemporary half black calf, gilt (a bit rubbed). Provenance: With the ownership inscription of John Weyland of Woodrising Hall, Norfolk (1774-1854), writer on the poor laws, at the head of each title-page (slightly shaved in volumes one and II). First edition, and an attractive set. in which Hall "describes this commission, his explorations in the little known eastern seas, and his visit to Canton (Guangzhou). His interview with Napoleon, who had known his father as a schoolboy at Brienne, is also recounted in the book, the later editions of which contain more personal narrative" (DNB). Captain Basil Hall led quite an exciting and adventurous life in the service of the Royal Navy, traveling as far afield as the East Indies, China, to the "West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Islands" (1818), South America, Valparaíso and the West coast of America, as far north as San Blas, Mexico, and south to the coasts of Chili, and Peru. "After retiring from the navy, Hall spent his time in private travel or in literary and scientific pursuits at home. Of his travels in North America in 1827-8, he published a three-volume account in 1829, which was translated into French. His frank criticism of American customs provoked indignation in the United States, of which an interesting account appears in Frances Trollope's "Domestic Manners of the Americans" (1831)" (DNB). From the distinguished library of John Weyland ", now remembered as a critic of Malthusian population theory. He was concerned to uphold the existing social order in the countryside, and was an outspoken defender of the existing system of poor relief, for example in his "A Short Enquiry into the Policy, Humanity and Effect of the Poor Laws" (1807). His major work, "The principles of population and production, as they are affected by the progress of society; with a view to moral and political consequences" (1816; repr., 1994), attacked Malthus's argument on empirical grounds, disputing the belief that the population in England was outstripping the resources for subsistence, and reaffirming the benignity of the providential design. Weyland's principal object was to show that the poor laws were both beneficent and necessary, and were not a cause of pauperism, which he attributed to a lack of moral and religious instruction among the poor. Although his assertion that the population had reached a state of 'non-reproduction' was demonstrably absurd (despite the lack of issue from his own marriage), his advocacy of poor relief for large families where the wage-earner could not provide for all his children interested promoters of family allowances a century later. Malthus responded to Weyland in the fifth edition (1817) of his Essay on Population" (DNB). Catalogued by Kate Hunter.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. pp. 2 p.l., [vii]-xv, [1]plate list, 222, cxxx, [72]. lacking half-title. 9 aquatint plates (incl. frontis., 8 hand-coloured), 1 engraved plate, & 5 engraved maps (2 folding). modern half calf over 19th century marbled bds., endpapers retained (dedication leaf rehinged, short tear at upper edge of frontis. repaired - no loss). First Edition. Captains Hall and Maxwell began this expedition shortly after they brought the Amherst mission to China in 1816. Sailing on the 'Alceste' and 'Lyra', the expedition visited Korea and 'Loo-Choo Island' (Okinawa) and explored the Yellow and East China Seas. "Korea had been sketchily explored by Europeans, but it was not until the 'Alceste' and 'Lyra' expedition in 1816-17.that detailed information was obtained about the Ryukyus." (Hill) This account includes nine handsome aquatint views and costume plates drawn by William Havell after sketches made by Capt. Hall and midshipman, C.W.Browne. The appendix contains maps, hydrographical and scientific notes, and a vocabulary of the Loo-Choo language, by H.J.Clifford. Abbey, Travel, 558. Brunet III 21. Cordier IV 3009. Hill p. 134. National Maritime Museum I 523. Prideaux pp. pp. 251 & 338. Tooley 241.…

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