80 1534 America Cobbett W

80 1534 America Cobbett W

- Sl. foxed (mostly at the beginning).

= Sabin 13891. Contemporary biography of the 7th President of the United States, controversial for his racial policies and treatment of the Native Americans. The curious frontispiece showing a portrait of Jackson with two scenes in the background: the battle of New Orleans above and below two men hanging from a gallow. From the explanation: "On one side, an Indian Chief, hanging to a gibbet, his tomahawk, scalping-knife and horn, on the ground. On the other side, a Jew, suspended in like matter, and a bank-note of five dollars lying in the same manner as the murderous, but less destructive instrument of the savage". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLI.

80/1535 America A sketch of the further proceedings of the committees appointed by the Yearly Meetings of Friends of Pennsylvania &c and Maryland for promoting the Improvement and gradual Civili

- Htitle dustsoiled and partly waterst. Spine sl. sunned. = Sabin 60613. Rare.

80 1537 Ant arctica Mawson D

80 1537 Ant arctica Mawson D

80 1537 Ant arctica Mawson D

- Vol. 1 contents sl. ''sagging"; corners sl. rubbed. A good/ fine copy.

= With AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION SIGNED and DATED on first blank of vol.1: "Mr. Delprat With Kind Regards from Douglas Mawson 1916." Provenance: gifted by Mawson to C.C. Delprat (1853-1934), whose bookplate is pasted onto the upper pastedown of vol. 1. He was the great grandfather of the present owners. His younger brother G.D. Delprat (1856-1937) was the father of Mawson's wife Francisca Adriana ("Paquita") Delprat. They married in 1914, shortly after his return from the Antarctic Expedition that he describes in The Home of the Blizzard and that nearly cost him his life. " (...) On 6-9.12.12 the team was trapped for three days by a 115 km/h blizzard, but by 12.12.12 they had covered 480 kilometres from Main Base. One of the sledges became so badly damaged that on 13.12.12. it was discarded. As well as having to contend with storms, the party had to continually stare into the distance for hidden crevasses, causing painful snow-blindness. Concealed crevasses were a particular danger, and on 14.12.12 tragedy struck when Ninnis [one of the members of Mawson's team], his dogs and sledge disappeared into a crevasse so deep that he had no chance of survival. One of his dogs could be seen whining on an outcrop 50 metres below, but nothing could be heard from Ninnis. The situation for the survivors, Mawson and Mertz, now became critical - Ninnis' sledge had taken with it their food, tent and spare clothing. They were now 506 kilometres from Main Base with food for only ten days and with nothing left to feed the dogs. They had a spare tent cover and a cooker, but had laid no depots or caches of food on the way out, having intended to take a more direct route home. Mawson and Mertz immediately turned around and started on the track back to Main Base, travelling directly eastward across the plateau. On 15.12.12 the first of the dogs was killed and fed to the other dogs and the men, and this routine was followed for the next ten days. (...) By 25.12.12 they were still 260 kilometres from Main Base, having averaged only 10 kilometres a day. On 30.12.12, about 200 kilometres from their destination, Mertz became ill with stomach pains, and within three days his strength had gone. They rested on 5.1.13, and on the following day Mawson attempted to haul his companion on a sledge. However, on 17.1.13 Mertz became delirious and within hours was dead. Mawson was left alone on the ice, more than 150 kilometres from safety. His solitary trek back to Main Base became one of the classic stories of Antarctic endurance. The soles of his shoes fell off, his hair began to fall out, and his fingers were festering. On 17.-1.13 he fell dangling into a crevasse at the end of his 4-metre harness. On 27.1.13 a blizzard brought him to a standstill, but two days later he spotted a cairn built by McLean, Hodgeman and Hurley, who had gone out to search for the party. A food parcel, mainly of dogmeat, and a note giving directions had been left only hours before. However the meagre rations gave Mawson sufficient strength to proceed to Aladdin's Cave, thirty-four kilometres away. He eventually arrived at the cave in the evening of 1.2.13, but the weather closed in and trapped him for another five days. Then, regardless of the weather, he set out on the final twelve kilometres to Main Base, where on 8.2.13 Bickerton, Bage, McLean, Madigan and Hodgeman rushed up the hill to greet him. (...) Radio contact from Main Base with the outside world was not established with any degree of consistency until the longer hours of darkness in March 1913. However, a message did reach Captain Davis announcing Mawson's safe return, and on 22.2.13 the party heard that Scott had died during his assault on the South Pole. In April 1913, after weeks of recuperation, Mawson managed to send a message to his future wife Paquita [Delprat]. (...) A reply from Paquita was received in Antarctica shortly after. (...) On 30.3.14 Mawson and Paquita were married in Melbourne, and on the following day sailed for Europe (...)." (Howgego M28). See also Conrad p.197-202 and the two works by Mawson's wife and by his great granddaughter: Paquita Mawson, Mawson of the Antarctic (London, 1964) and Emma McEwin, An Antarctic Affair, a story of love and survival by the great-granddaughter of Douglas and Paquita Mawson (Bowdon, 2008). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLI.

80 1538 Arabia Blunt A

80 1538 Arabia Blunt A

- Fine copy.

= "Anna Isabella Blunt, geb. Noel, geb. 22 September 1837 in London, gest. 15 December 1917 in Kairo; eine Enkelin Lord Byrons. Bereiste mit ihrem Gatten, dem Diplomaten und Dichter Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Vorder-Asien. Nachdem sie 1877-78 die Syrische Wüste und Mesopotamien durchzogen und in das gortige Beduinenleben Einblick genommen hatten, traten sie Mitte Dezember 1878 von Damaskus eine "Pilgerreise" nach Nedjej an. (...) Ihre Reise hatte neues Licht auf N.-Arabien geworfen." (Henze I, p.276-277). Also interesting for the chapter on Arab horse-breeding.

80 1540 Asia Mannerheim C G

= Reprint of the ed. Helsinki, 1940. Société Finno-Ougrienne, Traveaux Éthnographiques VIII.

80 1541 Asia Yule H ed

- Two leaves (p.137-(140)) in vol.1 misbound; both vols. bookplate on upper pastedown; hinges weakening. Nevertheless a good copy.

80 1542 Atlases Guthrie W

- Lacks one map; loose(ning); final map w. large tear. Boards heavily worn; needs rebinding. = Phillips 698.

80 1543 Atlases Malte Brun C

80 1543 Atlases Malte Brun C

- Lacks binding and maps no. 76 and 77; occas. sl. foxed/ frayed.

80 1544 Atlases Vivien L

80 1544 Atlases Vivien L

- Sl. foxed (mostly in blank margins). Binding worn and sl. dam. = Cf. Philips 767a (ed. 1834).

80 1546 Balkans Quin M J

- Contents very fine; manuscript prize on first free endpaper for Richard Assheton Cross (Home Secretary from 1874-1880 and 1885-1886), "From the Masters of Rugby School". Both vols. covers chafed.

= Nice views of i.a. "Buda and Pest", "Neusatz", "Semlin", "Belgrade" and the "Iron Gate".

80 1547 Belgium Antwerp Torfs L

- Ex library copy w. 2 stamps on htitle and title-p. and w. crossed out annots. on title-p.; lvs. sl. yellowed.

= On the history of the city walls, gates and fortifications of Antwerp.

80 1548 Belgium Spa Pöllnitz K L von

80 1548 Belgium Spa Pöllnitz K L von

80 1548 Belgium Spa Pöllnitz K L von

- Hinges strengthened. Covers sl. scratched and rubbed; spine renewed.

80 1549 Brazil Barlaeus C

- Some foxing. Binding a few sm. specks.

= Facs. reprint of the edition Amst., Blaeu, 1647. Cf. Sabin 3408; Bosch 127 and Borba de Moraes p 78-79.

80 1551 China Wright A and Cartwright H A ed

80 1551 China Wright A and Cartwright H A ed

- One leaf (railway map of china) w. small portion of upper outer blank corner cut off (prob. w. owner's entry). Binding a few rubbed spots. A fine copy.

= Rare.

80 1553 Czechia Dworsky A

- Waterst. at the beginning; sl. foxed.

= Published on occasion of the coronation of King Ferdinand V of Bohemia (Prague, 1836).