921 - 1098 FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS
- Owner's entry on portfolio.
= Cf. Gerrare 1504 (ed. Paris, 1877). From the library of Henk Visser, with his bookplate on verso frontcover portfolio. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXVII.
- Library stamps on title-p.; sl. foxed.
- Both plates w. tear at stub, closed w. sellotape. Frontcover stained.
= From the collection of Henk Visser, with his bookplate on upper pastedown. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXVII.
- Text vol. only, without the atlas; sl. foxed; a few scattered library stamps. Lower joint dam.
= Not in Gerrare.
= Mostly showing 18th-19th cent. military uniforms. Several album lvs. with stamp "Collection Boisselier" on verso. Henri Boisselier (1881-1959) was a prolific French draughtsman specialized in uniformology. Included are at least two drawings by him, monogrammed "H.B.". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXVII.
- Occas. trifle foxed; title and a few plates sl. waterst. in blank corner; publication year on title partly erased.
= 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.
- Without the second vol. that was published in 1883 (Palestine occidentale et méridionale). Upper hinge splitting; occas. sl. foxed in blank margins. Extremities sl. chafed, spine and frontcover sl. (dust)stained; sm. worn section at bottom of frontcover.
= Röhricht p.460 (no. 29, dating the two-vol. work 1881-1883).
Sacy, Lemaiste de. L'Histoire de Tobie. Paris, Librarie Hachette et compagnie, 1880, (4),48p., 14 tinted steelengr. plates by A. BLIDA and num. engr. ills., contemp. gilt cl., large folio.
- Lacks a few textlvs; dampstained in top margin; occas. sl. foxed. Corners and spine-ends sl. worn; binding duststained.
- Library stamps on first free endpaper and title. Otherwise fine.
= On the Quechuan language, the main family language of the Inca empire, spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Peruvian Andes.
= Contains a photogr. portrait of the author with an AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on verso.
- Bookplate on first free enpaper. = Gouda Quint p.459.
AND 2 others, i.a. U. GEISSELBRECHT-CAPECKI (ed.). Der Niederrhein (Kleve, 1993, profusely illustrated, orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to.
- Occas. trifle foxed; lacks one clasp. Binding w. some rubbed spots.
= Simeon Denisov's account of the Old Believers uprising on the Solovetsky islands (1668-1676). Reissue after the ed. Klintsy, 1794.
- Loose(ning); paper brittle. = Periodical associated with the KPD, published from 1924 to 1933.
AND ±20 other newspapers and periodicals, i.a. Die rote Fahne, Bulletin der Petrograder Büros der Kommunistischen Internationale and De Roode Duivel.
- Lacks the plans of Basle and Venice; a few leaves loose.
- Vol.5 portrait loose; all vols. endpapers sl. browned.
= 1. Jabez Bunting, a great Methodist Leader; 2. Thomas Walsh, Wesley's Typical Helper; 3. James Smetham, Painter, Poet, Essayist; 4. David Hill, an Apostle to the Chinese; 5. John Hunt, Pioneer Missionary and Saint; 6. Chu and Lo, Two Chinese Pastors.
- Lacks 4 plates; remaining plates cut short and laid down; several lvs. w. (crudely) restored margins; partly fingersoiled and sl. mouldy. Portion of backstrip loose(ning). Sold w.a.f.
= Cordier, Bibl. Indosinica p.953; Cat. NHSM p.229.
- Wrappers worn and stained; backstrip crudely restored.
- Giltlettering partly dulled. Otherwise a very fine copy.
= Second edition with the general map dated "VI.43". Cf. Hinrichsen D258a (first ed. with the map map dated "IV.43"). "In 1943 the firm (...) was directed to publish, for the benefit of the German army, a guide titled Das Generalgouvernement, the name used by the Nazis for the puppet state they set up in what was left of Poland. The book makes depressing reading, even if its justifications for the German conquest and its exclamations over the New Order are limited to an introductory chapter by a functionary from the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit. Late in 1943 Baedekers headquarters in Leipzig were totally destroyed in a fire set off by a Royal Air Force bomb." (E. Mendelson, "Baedekers Universe", in: Yale Review, 74 (Spring 1985), pp. 386-403)).
Idem. The United States with an Excursion to Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, and Alaska. Leipsic, K. Baedeker, 1909, 4th rev. ed., CII,724p., 74 (fold.) (col.) lithogr. maps/ plans, orig. giltlettered cl., sm. 8vo.
- Two leaves and plan of Philadelphia loose. = Hinrichsen E262.
Idem. Egypte. Leipsic, K. Baedeker, 1898, 1st French ed., CXCII,399,(1)p., 27 (col./ fold.) maps, 48 (col./ fold.) plans, 65 plates/ ills., orig. giltlettered cl., sm. 8vo.
- Lacks the plan of Cairo. Otherwise very fine. = Hinrichsen F221.
- Plan Cairo loose; map Mediterranean w. sm. tear in inner margin. = Hinrichsen E179.
Chamberlain, B.H. and Mason, W.B. A Handbook for Travellers in Japan (including Formosa). London etc., J. Murray/ Kelly & Walsh, 1913, 9th rev. ed., XI,(1),555,38(advert.)p., 29 (of 30) fold. col. lithogr. maps/ plans, woodengr. ills., orig. gilt cl., sm. 8vo.
- Lacks general map of Japan; 7 maps w. (sm.) tears.
AND 2 others similar, i.a. A.J. DU PAYS, Itinéraire descriptif, historique et artistique de la Hollande (Paris, 1862, 1st ed., 1 large fold. engr. map in rear pocket, 1 double-p. map and 6 plans, orig. gilt cl., large 12mo). - ADDED: one other.
- Not collated, but apparently (mostly) complete and in good/ fine condition.
= I.a. Schweden und Norwegen nebst den wichtigsten Reiserouten durch Dänemark (1894, 6th ed.); Das Mittelmeer. Hafenplätze und Seewege nebst Madeira, den Kanarischen Inseln, der Küste Marokkos, Algerien und Tunesien (1909, 1st ed.); The United States with Excursions to Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, and Alaska (1909, 4th rev. ed.); Berlin und Umgebung (1910, 16th ed.); Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, with Excursions to Iceland and Spitzbergen (1912, 10th ed.); Spain and Portugal (1913, 4th ed.); Die Riviera. Das Südöstliche Frankreich. Korsika (1913, 5th ed.); Österreich-Ungarn nebst Cetinje, Belgrad, Bukarest (1913, 29th ed.) and Nordost-Deutschland nebst Dänemark (1914, 31st ed.).
AND 3 others.
- All maps w. (large) tear; 1 map stained. Wr. soiled/ stained/ dam.
= Rare guide covering the areas of Tonkin, Annam, Cochinchina, Cambodia and Laos.