- (Sl.) foxed, mostly in first part; partly waterstained in margins; children's drawing in pencil on endpapers. Leather spine sl. dried out; corners showing.
= Rare travel itinerary to Paris and surroundings.
- Sl. foxed and yellowed. Binding worn.
= Cat. des Russica II, p.296.
Gourgaud, G. Napoléon et la Grande-armée en Russie, ou examen critique de l'ouvrage de M. le Comte Ph. de Ségur. Brussels, P.J. de Mat, 1825, 1st ed., (2),X,346p., lithogr. frontisp. portrait, bound unif. w. above.
= Cat. des Russica G980. Gaspard Gourgaud, staunch defendant of Napoléon, wrote this work in response to P. de Ségur's Histoire de la Grande-armée.
- Foxed (occas. rather heavily). Covers chafed; corners bumped.
= German artist and architect Antoine Ignaz Melling (best known for his Voyage Pittoresque de Constantinople) traveled extensively throughout the Pyrenees in 1821. The drawings he made on the spot form the basis of the present work. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
- Trifle rubbed along extremities.
- Fine set.
= I.a. Quellen zur Geschichte des deutschen Bauernstandes im Mittelalter and Quellen zur Karolingischen Reichsgeschichte (3 vols.).
- Trifle foxed. = Attractively bound set.
= Year 19, no.4 and 7-12; year 20, no.1-12; year 21, no.1/2-4; year 24, no.11 and 12; year 25, no.1-12; year 26, no.3 and 4. Initially liberal, but after World War I more rightwing conservative-oriented periodical, critical of the Weimar Republic but also opposing the upcoming national socialist movement. Its main post-war editor in chief, Paul Nikolaus Cossmann was imprisoned in KZ Theresienstadt where he died in 1942.
AND 7 others, mostly small publications and periodicals.
- Occas. trifle foxed and yellowed. Covers sl. scratched and soiled; spine-ends chipped. = Cf. Schmitt 48.
- Two sm. tears in (blank) margin; trifle foxed. Good copy.
= Cf. Holzhäuer, Der Rhein in Panorama (...) 27.
ADDED: Souvenir de l'Exposition Universelle 1878, Paris (Brussels, 1878, leporello album w. 17 full-p. (1x double-p.) lithogr. plates, orig. giltlettered blindst. cl., obl. 12mo. Lower hinge broken).
- Sl. browned throughout; a few scattered sm. stains. Spine-ends and outer corners dam.; covers worn.
= Ussher's early history of the church in England and Ireland. Ussher, who was an Anglican archbishop of Armagh, began the work at the request of King James I.
= Publ. in the series Library of the written world 2. The Handpress World 2. Ed. A. Pettegree.
Howgego, R.J. Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800. A Comprehensive Reference Guide to the History and Literature of Exploration, Travel, and Colonization from the earliest times to the year 1800. Potts Point, Hordern House, 2003, XV,(1),1168; XI,(1),690p., orig. unif. cl. w. dustwr., large 4to.
= The first volume of a series of five. Standard and extensive work on explorers, explorations and expeditions including useful indexes on ships and persons. Four more vols. were published later on to include travels unto 1940 and imaginary voyages and invented worlds in the final vol.
AND 4 others in 7 vols., i.a. P.A. TIELE, Nederlandsche Bibliographie van Land- en Volkenkunde (Mansfield Centre, n.d. (±2000), orig. giltlettered cl. Reprint of the orig. ed. Amst., 1884); THE JOURNAL OF J.-F. DE GALAUP DE LA PÉROUSE 1785-1788. Transl. and ed. by J. Dunmore (London, 1994, 2 vols., plates/ ills., orig. unif. cl. w. dustwr. Hakluyt Society, second series, no.179) and C.R. BOXER, Further Selections from the tragic history of the sea 1559-1565 (...) (Cambridge, 1968, (fold.) maps/ plates/ ills., orig. cl. w. (sl. foxed) dustwr. Hakluyt Society, second series, no.132).
- Occas. sl. foxed. Binding worn along extremities; covers sl. scratched.
- Hinges weak. Corners and spine-ends worn.
- Good/ fine copy.
- Lacks the 2 maps; texleaves and margins of prints foxed. Covers rubbed; binding sl. worn along extremities; leather backstrip dried and gilt partly rubbed off.
= Vicaire VI, p.143; Cremonini 120.
- Stamps on title-p. and plates; bookplate on upper pastedown. Binding trifle rubbed.
= Marie Adrien Perk was the father of Jacques Perk. Rare.
ADDED: Idem. Luxemburgiana. Bussum, J.C. Loman Jr., 1892, VIII,245,(3)p., orig. gilt dec. cl.
= With mounted typescript introd. leaflet and a separate spiralbound inventory, describing all reproduced photographs in detail. "J.M.V. Carst was firmant van het Nederlandse handelshuis Coningh, Carst & Lels, gevestigd in Yokohama. (...) In 1996 werd het album integraal gereproduceerd (...) ten behoeve van de cd-rom uitgave 'Memories of Japan 1859-1875' (...)" (introd.).
- Lacks 4 vols. on China; a few lvs. w. tear. Spines sl. sunned. Nevertheless a good set.
= Cf. Cordier, Bibl. Japonica p.636. The first 8 vols. on Japan.