- Trifle foxed. Spine sunned.
AND 10 others, i.a. LORD REDESDALE, The Garter Mission to Japan (London, 1906, orig. gilt cl.); IDEM, Tales of old Japan (ibid., 1908, woodengr. plates, orig. gilt cl.); L. HEARN, "Out of the East". Reveries and Studies in New Japan (Boston/ New York, 1895, orig. gilt cl., t.e.g.) and K. VAN WOLFEREN, The Enigma of Japanese Power (New York, 1989, orig. hcl. w. dustwr.).
- Very fine copy.
- Title-p. of 2nd and 3rd vol. (sl.) foxed. Contents and bindings otherwise fine.
= I. Kyoto, Nan, Osaka, Kobe and Nagasaki; II. Yokohama, Kamakura, Fuji and Nagoya; III. Tokio and Nikko.
- Foxed almost throughout; the 2 frontisp. yellowed/ sl. browned. Binding foxed and sl. worn along extremities.
= Sabin 38286; Kroepelien 674; Cowan 335; Borba de Moraes p.440; Howes K259n; Henze III, p.69. First, much enlarged German edition of the second voyage around the world by the Russian explorer Otto von Kotzebue, originally published in Russia in 1828. Kotzebue combined scientific exploration and discovery with trading/ conveying goods obtained from poachers to Kamchatka and to the Russian American Fur Company. Also describes a stay at the Russian California settlement at Fort Ross.
- Annotated in pencil. Covers trifle rubbed; sm. inkstain on backcover. A good copy.
= Camus 121.
- Owner's stamp on htitle. Spine-ends and corners trifle rubbed. Otherwise fine.
= Kainbacher I, p.84; Henze III, p.217.
Mecklenburg, A.F. Herzog zu. Ins innerste Afrika. Bericht über den Verlauf der deutschen wissenschaftlichen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1907-1908. Leipsic, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1909, XI,(1),476p., frontisp. portrait, 2 fold. col. lithogr. maps (1x loosely inserted), num. (col.) plates/ ills., orig. pict. cl., 4to.
- Lower end of upper joint split over 5 cm. Otherwise fine.
AND 2 others: E.I. KÄRRSTRÖM, 18 Jahre in Südafrika. Erlebnisse und Abenteuer eines Schweden im Goldlande (Leipsic, 1899, 1st ed., plates/ ills., orig. pict. cl. Covers sl. finger-/ dustsoiled) and H.P. JUNOD, Bantu Heritage (Johannesburg, (1938), frontisp., 40 photogr. plates, orig. gilt cl. With (rarely found) autogr. signed dedication on first free endpaper).
- Without vol. 13 and 14; vol. 3 upper hinge broken; occas. sl. waterst.; a few maps sl. dam./ torn. Bindings worn.
= Mémoires du Levant (vol. 1-3); Mémoires d'Amérique (vol. 4 and 5); Mémoires des Indes (vol. 6-8); Mémoires de la Chine (vol. 9-12).
- Contents occas. trifle foxed.
= Blackmer Coll. 748; Navari 942; Atabey 659; Europa und die Orient p.336.
- Old owner's entry blotted out with ink on first free endpaper vol. 5. Bindings sl. chafed; corners bumped.
AND 7 others, i.a. O.E. EHLERS, Samoa. Die Perle der Südsee (Berlin, 1896, orig. gilt dec. cl.); J.P. LOTSY, Van den Atlantischen Oceaan naar de Stille Zuidzee (The Hague, 1930, plates, ills., orig. gilt cl.) and B. MALINOWSKI, Argonauts of the Western Pacific. An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea (New York etc., 1960, plates, orig. cl. w. dustwr.).
- Corners bumped; spine-ends sl. worn.
= One of 40 copies for sale bound in orig. green half morocco, with an extra set of the 42 plates (numbered I-XL, loose in separate green cloth portfolio), all kept in orig. cloth clamshell portfolio.
- Second work without the first part (incl. the portrait and 1 fold. plate); both vols. sl. waterst. in inner blank margin. Spines faded; extremities sl. worn.
= Tiele 556 and 554.
- Both vols. w. bookplate on htitle; sl. foxed.
= Nicely illustrated edition of the 17th-century journal by merchant seaman Edward Barlow.
AND 2 others: C.R. BOXER, Dutch Merchants and Mariners in Asia, 1602-1795 (Aldershot, 1988, ills., orig. cl. Facs. reprint; library stamps on endpapers and bookblock) and IDEM (ed.), 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).
- All but the first work w. bookplate or owner's entry; endpapers sl. foxed. Spine-ends sl. rubbed; spine of 1 vol. w. 2 sm. dam. spots. Good/ fine set.
- Bookblocks partly loosening/ shaken; occas. trifle/ sl. foxed; edges frayed. Vol. 8 lacks backwr.; wrs. frayed; most vols. backwr. loose.
= Reprint of the edition London, 1935.
- Some foxing. Spine sl. rubbed.
= Esteemed work on code signalling at sea, translated into various European languages.
- Sl. creased in left blank margin.
= Rare publication of the hymn that (according to some survivors) was played by the Titanic orchestra at the moment the ship catastrophically sank after a collision with an iceberg. Lbl KB Wouters 07038.
ADDED: 1 other plano w. a song by P.-J. DE BÉRANGER.
- Without vol. 9; some usual foxing. Spines sunned.