921 - 1098 FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS
- Paper brittle, browned and dam. at intersection of folds.
= Open letter in which Zola once more refutes the allegations against Alfred Dreyfus, 40 days after his famous J'accuse..! published in the same newspaper: (...) "Dreyfus est innocent, je le jure. J'y engage ma vie, j'y engage mon honneur. A cette heure solenelle, devant ce tribunal qui représente la justice humaine, devant vous, messieurs les jurés, qui êtes l'émanation même de la nation, devant toute la France, devant le monde entier, je jure que Dreyfus est innocent (...)".
- Sl. foxed; one plate w. (closed) tear. = Famous lithographs. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXIV.
- Partly dam./ restored and mostly rather brittle.
= I.a. issues of La Commune, Le Cri du Peuple, Le Combat, Le Mot d'Ordre, Le Tribun du Peuple and L'Avant-Garde.
- Trifle foxed. Fine copy.
Levallois, J. Autour de Paris. Promenades historiques. Ibid., idem, 1883, (4),216p., 16 (full-p.) woodengr. plates, 5 ills., unif. bound w. the preceding.
- Spine sunned. Contents fine.
Durand, H. Les bords du Rhin. De Mayence à Cologne. Ibid., idem, 1884, 216p., 12 woodengr. plates, unif. bound w. the preceding.
- Trifle foxed. Spine sunned.
- Both vols. waterstained: text vol. waterstaining increasing towards the end; plate-vol. waterstained and partly mouldy. Both vols. binding stained/ worn; plate vol. lacks backstrip. Sold w.a.f.
= Vol. 1, part 1: "Etwas von Stammtafelen und vollständige Sammlung aller im Gülisch-ritterbürtigen Collegio vorh. aufgeschwornen ritterbürtigen Familien-Wapen"; vol. 1, part 2: "Vollständige Sammlung der im Kurkölnisch-ritterbürtigen Collegio zu Bonn und im Westphälisch-ritterbürtigen Collegio zu Arensberg aufgeschwornen vorhandenen Familien-Wapen"; plate vol.: 170 engr. plates.
= Genealogy of the Plantin Moretus family.
- A few lvs. w. vague narrow waterst. in upper blank margin; sharp fold in first free endpaper; upper and lower hinge weak at spine-ends. Binding sl. soiled; boardedges rubbed, backstrip repaired at top.
- Most plates (sl.) foxed. Contents of text vol. fine. Bindings sl. rubbed and leather sl. dried.
= Vol. I of Jones' Great Britain Illustrated.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Bindings sl. worn; joints split(ting); rebacked; vol. 2 frontcover loose. = Lowndes p.1424.
= "It is difficult to overestimate the importance of Anacharsis in the development of French neo-classicism and in the creation of philhellenic sentiment" (Blackmer 83). This first Dutch edition is quite rare.
- First few preliminary leaves of vol.1 loose(ning). Frontcover vol. 1 sl. stained; top of spine frayed and foot of spine worn; both vols. corners worn/ rubbed and backcover (sl.) scratched; both vols. edges of bookblock sl. spotted/ stained.
= Rare work on Zakynthos. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXIII.
- First work, first vol. lacks 11 plates and maps foxed in upper blank right corner; second vol. hinges strengthened and occas. sl. dam. and/ or sl. fingersoiled in blank margins; second work (Geschichte von Parga) several closed tears in margin of the heraldic frontisp.
= Rare work on the colourful and checkered history of the Greek town of Parga which is situated southeast of Corfu. Holzmann-Bohatta VI, 8076.
- Sl. waterst. and -wrinkled copy w. many lvs. restored w. japanese in outer margin. = Cat. NHSM p.296.
Goddio, F. and Guyot de Saint Michel, E.J. Griffin. On the Route of an Indiaman. London, Periplus, 1999, 351p., num. (col.) (photogr.) ills., orig. giltlettered artif. leather w. dustwr., in matching artif. leather slipcase, folio. - AND 5 others, incl. M.J.P. and J.M.J. VAN OIJEN (ed. and transl.), Von Siebold's reis naar het hof van de Shogun in het jaar 1826. Een ontdekkingstocht door Japan (Amst., 2005, num. (col.) ills, orig. boards, 4to).
- All but the first work (near) fine.
- Lacks htitle and fold. map (photocopy of map present); a few leaves trifle foxed.
= Rare, even in this incomplete condition.
- Lacks vol.3. Maps and plans mostly yellowed/ browned. Vol.1 covers loose and vol.2 without covers.
= Contains i.a. a fine panorama of Calcutta (of which Cox (quoting Maggs) writes: "The large engraved view of Calcutta should alone be worth the value of the entire work". Cox I, p.300 (on the ed. 1763-1778).
- Sl. foxed. Leather on central panel almost completely worn off; joints splitting at top of spine; 1 corner breaking.
= Contains nice views of Venice, Rimini, Milan, Lake Como, Lake Maggiore, Sorrento, Florence, Lake Lugano, Rome, Pozzuoli, Naples and Domodossola.
- A few plates sl. foxed; final 5 plates increasingly waterstained; partly sl. dogeared. Wrappers waterstained.