Consul smith (8 resultados)

Condición: Very Good. 9 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: Quarto. Category: Apollo Arts Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 4 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: Quarto. Category: Apollo Arts Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 27 pages, 6 figures. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Category: Book Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Meisterwerke italienischer Zeichnung aus der Royal Library, Windsor Castle - Von Raffael bis Canaletto. AK. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt am Main / Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth / Virginia Museum of Arts, Richmond / Virginia / National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Sommer 1989 - Sommer 1990. Übers. aus dem Engl.: Ebba D. Drolshagen. München: Hirmer Verlag, 1989. Hellblaue, farb. illustr. OBrosch. 200 Seiten mit unzähligen, teils ganzs. und farbigen Abb. versch. Künstler "von Raffael bis Canaletto". - 27 x 23. * Druckfrisch und (fast) unbenutzt. - Versand gewichtsbedingt nur mit Zusatzporto möglich . …

Die in Leinen gebundene Buchhandelsausgabe. - Gutes Exemplar.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Stitch-bound self wraps 15x23cm, 80pp. Extracted from a larger volume, otherwise very good.

soft cover. Condición: fine. Grand In-8° broché, paginé 101-125 : 25 pages, plus a title page and two colour maps in one big sheet. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. Fascinating narrative of the Lieut. Smith's journey to Mpuemu and the Rovuma as well as his exploration in the Shimba country, accompanied by the itinerary of his travels and two colour route maps, showing his journey from Kilwa to Lindi, and his travel route from Tanga to Kilindini, near Mombasa. The purpose of Smith's travel was to provide information on the slave-trade, to encourage the development of commerce, and to assist the native authorities. After receiving the status of Vice-Consul from John Kirk, Smith was stationed at Kilwa Kivinji on May 1884, from where he made his first journey towards Mpuemu and the Rovuma, in which he interacts with the people of the Muta district who according to him sell their children for food, sighted a caravan of 10 to 15 slaves about 30 miles from Kilwa, and met two slave women who had escaped and traveled with him briefly. In his second journey, Smith explores the Shimba country and provides vivid and very detailed description of the natives. …

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xii, [1], 14-216; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine; spine dull old sticker remains at base of spine, bookplate of the Concord Free Public Library (released), and evidence of removal on front pastedown; binding is sound and the text is clean. An historical perspective on mid-19th century China and its complex relationship with Western powers, particularly the U.S.…