935 - 1064 FOREIGN HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS
- Lacks map no. IV; occas. sl. foxed/ soiled. Covers sl. rubbed along extremities.
= Espenhorst p.112; cf. Petermann I, p.336.
- Some foxing; waterst. in upper corner throughout. Frontcover loose.; binding rubbed.
- Title-p. and contents leaf waterstained in lower half; occas. trifle foxed; a few unobtrusive sm. stains, partly in image. Backstrip dam.; covers worn.
- Lacks 3 plates; final series lacks title-p. and text leaf; first title-p. creased/ dam.; index loose. Binding worn/ dam.
= Nice views and (costume) plates of i.a. Japan, Russia, Turkey, India, Italy, Switzerland, Austria-Hungary, Canada and China.
- Small tear at top of spine. Endpapers sl. foxed/ browned. Otherwise fine.
AND 3 others, i.a. THE WAR CORRESPONDENCE OF THE "DAILY NEWS" 1877-8 (London, 1878, orig. gilt cl. Binding rubbed).
= Probably later continued as ANTWERPSCH NIEUWSBLAD.
- Trifle foxed; occas. sl. waterstained (incl. portrait). Spine sunned; spine-ends sl. rubbed.
- Owner's entry on upper pastedown; portion of first free endpaper and title-p. cut off; occas. (sl.) foxed/ browned. Letterpiece worn away; upper joint splitting; spine-ends sl. dam.
= Plates of i.a. the castle and church of Breda and the townhall and church of Antwerp.
- Occas. trifle foxed. A fine set.
- Portrait yellowed; occas. sl. foxed; old bookplate on upper pastedown. Calf partly scorched/ eroded and dam. at upper joint; frontcover loose(ning) (holding on cords).
= Second and best edition of the appraised work by the surgeon of the Alceste. Cordier Japonica 468; Borba de Moraes p.507; Lipperheide Le 28; Hiler p.559. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVII.
- The atlas only, without the 2 text vols.; partly waterst. in lower blank margin (incl. some of the plates); first and final blanks affected by silverfish; trifle foxed. Wr. sl. frayed.
= Cordier p.2473; Lust 551. Egor Fyodorovitch Timkovski was a Russian diplomat who accompanied the Russian Orthodox mission to Beijing. Contains i.a. the earliest plan of the Forbidden City ever published in the West.
- First free endpaper browned. Lacks dustwrapper. = PMM 423.
- First free endpapers browned; sm. ticket on upper pastedown; trifle foxed. Lacks dustwrapper; spine-ends rubbed.
= PMM 423.
Idem. Essays in Biography. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st American ed., X,318,(1)p., orig. giltlettered cl.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown.
- Ex-library copy: stamp and annots. in pen on title-p.; scattered pencil annots. throughout. Spine and backcover w. traces of tape.
Idem. The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Ibid., idem, 1920, 2nd ed., (8),279p., orig. gilt cl. Idem. Essays in Persuasion. Ibid., idem, 1931, 1st ed., XIII,(1),376p., orig. gilt cl.
- Owner's entries on upper pastedown. Binding sl. spotted and dented.
AND 5 others, i.a. J.K. GALBRAITH, The Great Crash 1929 (Boston, 1955, 1st ed., orig. cl. w. dustwr.); IDEM, Economics and the Public Purpose (ibid., 1973, 1st ed., orig. cl. w. dustwr.) and IDEM, The Affluent Society (ibid., 1958, 1st ed., orig. cl.).
- Two stamps on title; occas. sl. foxed. Sl. rubbed/ worn
= "Say's best-known work, his Traité d'économique politique (...) was intended as a shorter and more systematic presentation of economics than Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. The success of this book made Say the best-known expositor of Smith in Europe and America, and he became in 1815 France's first professor of political economy. (...) The Traité d'économie politique also went beyond Smith in developing what Say called 'one of the most important truths of political economy' - that supply creates its own demand, the doctrine ultimately named Say's Law (...)". (Palgrave IV, p.249).
- Stamp on htitle and p.1; maps torn on folds (repaired w. sellotape on verso, shining through); sl. foxed; wrs. sl. soiled.
= PMM 339; Norman, 1336. "In 1832, while quarantined on his voyage to Alexandria to take up the post of vice-consul, de Lesseps passed the time by reading a copy of Lepère's report to Napoleon on the practicability of a canal connecting the Mediterranean with the Red Sea. Having befriended Mohammed Said, the viceroy's son and later himself viceroy, during his time in Egypt, on his resignation from the consular service in 1854 de Lesseps obtained the concession for the construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Suez. Undeterred by the practical and political objections he set about seeking capital to finance the project; "In this treatise of nearly three hundred pages, with maps... he set out the whole case for the canal and his proposed method of building it. He secured the support of Napoleon III and raised a capital of two hundred million francs. Construction was begun in 1859 and completed ten years later" (PMM).
- The plates only, without the 3 text vols.; some foxing; a few plates sl. waterstained in lower margin. Covers sl. worn; backstrip and corners strengthened w. cloth.
= Gay 2250; Blackmer collection 1572: "First edition of this important work."