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Edité par GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006, 2007
ISBN 10 : 1905748256ISBN 13 : 9781905748259
Vendeur : Naval and Military Press Ltd, Uckfield, Royaume-Uni
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2006 reprint by Rediscovery Books SB colour platesPublished Price £32 A Narrative by Captain Basil Hall of his voyage with Captain Murray Maxwell to the West Coast of Corea (Korea) and the Great Loo-Choo Island in 1816. This appealing work attracted great popular interest when it was published for it's portrayal of the people of the Island - 'We saw nothing like poverty or distress of any kind: every person that we met seemed contented and happy'.The detailed colour drawings of the islanders and Hall's powers of description combine to create a wonderful picture of a land that must have seemed exotically different to the visiting Europeans from their own homeland.
Edité par Robert Cadell, Edinburgh, 1832
Vendeur : The Sanctuary Bookshop., Lyme Regis, Royaume-Uni
Livre Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Two odd volumes in matching 3/4 brown leather bindings (image 1), marbled boards. 312 pages & 325 pages (images 2 & 3). 10 x 15 x 5 cm. Sold as a pair. Each with an early initials bookplate (image 4) that we are unable to decipher. The 1832 volume (Vol 2 of 3 volumes) with a fold out sheet "War Compliment" (image 5). The 1833 volume is also a Vol 2 of 3 volumes. [Basil Hall FRS was a British naval officer from Scotland, a traveler, and an author. He was the second son of Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, an eminent man of science. Wiki.].
Edité par Archibald Constable & Co., 1826
Vendeur : Oakholm Books, Aberfeldy, Royaume-Uni
Livre
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Attractive set, approx. 14.5 x 9cm, bound in half leather over marbled boards. Gilt decorated spine with red leather labels. A little wear to the leather and paper, commensurate with age. Hinges sound. Previous owner's name crossed out inside; blind stamp of another in each vol. Vol. 1 has title pages for both works but contains Voyage to Loo-Choo etc. (which includes an account of Captain Maxwell's attack on the Batteries at Canton and notes of an interview with Buonaparte at St Helena). Vols 2 and 3 contain the South American voyages (though the spines are misnumbered. A very nice set. Note - there are no plates in this set.
Edité par William Tegg & Co, London, 1851
Vendeur : Libreria de Antano (ILAB & ABA Members), Miami, FL, Etats-Unis
3/4 Leather. Etat : Good copy. 8vo. VIII + 80 pp.
Edité par Robert Cadell, Edinburgh, 1831
Vendeur : Reeve & Clarke Books (ABAC / ILAB), South River, ON, Canada
Livre Edition originale
Half-Leather. Etat : Very Good Plus. First Edition. 3 volumes; smooth black calf half leather binding with marbled boards; lettering in gilt on two leather labels on each volume; gilt is bright; hinges are tight; spines are square; no browning of pages; no foxing; pages are white; 338; 371 and 319 pp respectively; smudge mark on two letters on spine of Vol.2; handsome bindings with elaborate tooling in gilt on spines; gilt is bright; Hall published three series of his voyages, each with three volumes; this is the first series; Voyages include travel accounts of Bermuda, Nova Scotia, the Gulf Stream, Spain, Ireland, Madeira, Destruction of Corcubion, Battle of Corunna.
Edité par Cadell & Co., Edinburgh, 1830
Vendeur : Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Etat : Good. Fourth Edition. ii, unpaginated. 34 cm. Folding colour frontispiece map of US and Canada. 40 b&w etchings on 20 plates, with descriptive text opposite. Rebound in grey paper with original front and rear covers overlaid. New endpapers. Title page has tape repair, some spots. A few spots to reverse of frontispiece. Stain at top of Memorandum page. Tear in upper fold of frontispiece. Basil Hall (1788-1844) was a noted traveller, author and naval officer who visited North America in the 1820s. He visited New England, went south to Charleston, Savannah, and New Orleans, up the Mississippi to St. Louis and northeast to New York. His Canadian itinerary took him from Quebec to Niagara Falls, with a number of short side trips. Nine of the etchings in this book depict Canadian scenes: the village of Peterborough, the St. Lawrence River below Quebec, Mississauga Indians, Canadian voyageurs, the Niagara River flowing into Lake Ontario, and four views of Niagara Falls. American views include Buffalo, Rochester, slave drivers, a swamp plantation, chiefs of the Creek Nation, the Mississippi at New Orleans, steamboats on the Mississippi, and a stage coach. Like many British officers, Hall learned the rudiments of art so he could sketch various scenes for military purposes. While not the best artist, Hall could use a "camera lucida" with a prism to reflect a scene onto a drawing surface and trace it. This exempted him "from the triple misery of Perspective, Proportion, and Form, - all responsibilty respecting these being thus taken off his hands." (p. ii).Howes H-46. Lande 1820. cfClark III 47. cfSabin 29721. cfTPL 1488.