900 - 1104 FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS
- Library stamps scattered throughout (incl. on title). Binding sl. wormholed; lacks dustwr.
- One plate heavily foxed; map w. tear of 4 cm. in inner margin. Joints split(ting); backcover loosening.
- Binding trifle fingersoiled.
= Interesting instruction booklet published on the eve of World War I, in which Sir Robert Baden-Powell, based on his own military experience in Africa, lays down the guidelines for military succes according to the "Four C's of Soldiering": Courage, Common-sense, Cunning and Cheerfulness.
- Lower corners of both covers bumped. Otherwise fine. = Facsimile reprint of the edition Madrid, 1888.
AND 1 other: Uniformes Militares en la España de Principios del Siglo XIX (ibid., idem, 1987, num. col. plates, printed in 500 numb. copies, orig. blindst. and giltlettered artif. leather, 4to. Fine).
- Partly waterstained in lower margin, also affecting some of the maps/ plans; occas. trifle waterstained in upper blank margin; a few maps/ plans sl. browned on fold(s) (1x w. some fraying); libr. stamp on title-p.
= Cohen/ De Ricci 128.
- Lacks 7 plates and text lvs.; partly loose(ning); extensive (old) annots. at the beginning and end. Binding worn/ dam. Sold w.a.f.
= Pohler IV, p.516. The plates showing i.a. the 1683 siege of Vienna by the Turks. Charles Duc de Lorraine commanded the Imperial Habsburg army.
- A few scattered library stamps/ tickets. Binding worn and rubbed; upper joint splitting.
= Lazare Carnot, French mathematician and physicist who participated in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Pohler IV, p.189.
- Bookblock split(ting); frontisp. loose(ning). Binding sl. stained/ soiled; backstrip darkened.
= Nice plates, "printed in oil colors".
AND 1 other: J.G. KOHL, Geschiedenis der Europeesche Volken (The Hague, 1874, chromolithogr. costume plates, orig. gilt cl.).
- Waterst. in lower (blank) margin; owner's entry on first blank.
= Huiskamp M298; cat. De Koning 100. Not in Lipperheide, Colas and Hiler. A second edition was published in 1838, cf. The Children's World of Learning 2839.
- Dustwr. partly frayed and/ or dam.
= Fundamental study of many aspects of the culture of the Macondes. The four vols. have the following subtitles: I. Aspectos Históricos e Económicos; II. Cultura material; III. Vida social e ritual; IV. Sabedoria. Lingua, Literatura e Jogos.
AND 1 other: P. RADIN a.o. (ed.), African Folktales & Sculpture (London, 1964, num. plates, orig. cl. w. dustwr., sm. folio. Large (closed) tear in backwr.).
- Spine dam.; wr. foxed and sl. frayed. = Very rare.
Maori Sketches. N.pl., n.publ., n.d. (±1910), (16)p., each w. full-p. photogr. ill., orig. wr. w. mounted photogr. plate, 4to.
- Some sl. foxing/ thumbing. Wrappers badly foxed. = Rare.
- All (near) fine.
- Plates generally yellowed; one plate censored w. pen and ink.
= Cf. O'Reilly/ Reitman 3773; Hill 485: "Domény de Rienzi gathered a particularly important collection of material on Malaysia, Micronesia, Polynesia and Melanesia. The work contains a thorough discussion of the area's peoples, natural history, geography, and commerce, as well as the history of its exploration. This edition also contains handsome illustrations and maps."
- Endpapers foxed. Binding trifle warped.
= First edition of the first complete English translation of Tasman's journal, produced in only 200 copies. Hocken 1; Ferguson 16722; Cox II, p.311f; Davidson p.30 ("Indispensable to the study of early Australian discovery"). A sumptuous publication. SEE ILLUSTATION PLATE XXI.
- Vol.1 lacks first free endpaper. Backstrips and corners trifle rubbed.
AND 1 other: LA PALESTINE, LA SYRIE, LA BASSE ÉGYPTE, NAPELS, ATHÈNES (...) (Paris, 1922, 3rd ed., num. (fold.) maps/ plans/ views/ ills., orig. gilt green calf. Binding sl. worn).
- Sl. foxed. Binding trifle scratched.
- Owner's entry (of Herbert Bagge) on first free endpaper. Fine copy.
= Abbey, Travel 602; Hill 568: "Captain Erskine sailed from Russell, New Zealand, in 1849, and reached Niue or Savage Island. He visited Manua, Tutuila, and Upolu of the Samoan Islands. Next, Lifuka, and Tongatabu were visited, the Fiji, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and Port Jackson." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXII.
- Map w. brown stains and traces of sellotape; upper hinge strengthened w. scotch tape; lower hinge weak; sl. yellowed. Binding worn; top of spine dam.
= Cat. (...) des Russica 521.