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233.ALFANO, G. B., & I.
Friedlaender.
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La Storia del Vesuvio. Illustrati dai
Documenti Coevi.
Ulm, Edizione Sovvenzionata dall’Instituto Vulcanologico I. Friedlaender,
1929 [39965] £250
Landscape 4to. Original ochre cloth. 105 captioned plates, 30
of them tipped-in, coloured or tinted, 2 large folding maps in
an end-pocket. Front hinge a little cracked, the cloth rubbed
and slightly stained, but a very good copy.
FIRST EDITION. Iconographical study of Vesuvius and
its eruptions from contemporary sources, edited by
the German vulcanologist Immanuel Friedlaender,
founder of the Neapolitan Instituto Vulcanologico and
editor of the Zeitschrift fur Vulkanologie, 1914–36.
Seemingly rather uncommon: COPAC has UCL only, there
are no copies on OCLC and just a scattering on KVK.
This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper, “Kenneth
from Norman, Capri, Oct. 1948.” Norman Douglas to
Kenneth Macpherson, the experimental film-maker with
whom he shared a house in his declining years.
234.[ALLOM, Thomas, &
Robert Walsh]
Fisher’s Illustrations of
Constantinople and its Environs.
A series of drawings mainly by
Thomas Allom. With descriptions of
the plates by The Rev. Robert Walsh.
London, Peter Jackson, [ca.1845] [23591] £1250
2 volumes in 1, 4to. In a late 19th century half burgundy
morocco binding by J. Wright, titles and elaborate decoration to
spine gilt, raised bands, marbled paper boards and endpapers,
all edges gilt. With 2 engraved vignette title pages, 2 maps (1
folding) and 94 steel engraved plates. Some shelf wear and
very light foxing, otherwise a very good copy.
An early reprint of Fisher’s monumental publication. A
leading 19th century work on the great city, its architecture
and its people.
235.[AMSTERDAM]
Le Guide Ou nouvelle description
d’Amsterdam, Enseignant aux
Voyageurs, et aux Negoçians Sa
Splendeur, son Commerce, & la
Description de ses Edifices, Ruës,
Ports, Canaux, Ponts, Ecluses, &c.
&c. La connoissance des Poids,
des Mésures, des Aunages & du
Change des principales Villes
de l’Europe, le Reglement de la
Banque & du Lombart: Le Tarif
des Droits d’Entrée & de Sortie des
Marchandises de France, d’Espagne,
de Hollande, de Liège, &c. Le
départ des Postes, des Chariots
& des Barques. Nouvelle Edition
augmentée considerablement.
Amsterdam, chez Paul de la Feuille, 1720 [30406] £800
8vo (166 × 105 mm), in 2 parts as issued. Rebound in
antique-style panelled calf, red morocco label, date in gilt at
foot, edges uncut. 20 double-page folding engraved plates,
and 8 folding engraved plates printed on both sides of Dutch
and European flags. Contents lightly browned in places, a very
good copy.
Third, enlarged and best edition, with running text for the
first time instead of dialogues and with 20 instead of 17
plates, of this mercantile guide to Amsterdam. The plates
show the most important buildings of the town, such as the
town hall (now the palace on the Dam), the stock exchange,
the main churches, the four city gates, the buildings of the
Dutch East India Company, the Portuguese Synagogue,
etc. The flag plates are from Fokkens’s L’Art de Blason. The
second part, with divisional title dated 1718 and separate
pagination (“Tarif general des Provinces Unies…”), lists
import and export tariffs imposed by the United Provinces,
as well as tariff rates imposed at the Sont, the entrance to
the Baltic, and the last ordinances on the subject, dated
1652 and 1655. The Guide was first published in 1701, most
copies being bound with an edition of the Tarif of 1707; a
second edition is printed in 1709.
Goldsmiths’ 10831 (1772 ed.)
Peter Harrington
antiquarian bookseller
Catalogue 57: Travel
Section 1:
World Voyages & Compilations
Items 1-22; pages 2-17
Section 2:
Africa and the Middle East to Persia
Items 23-95; pages 18-53
Section 3:
The Americas, Greenland and the
Arctic
Items 96-141; pages 54-77
Section 4:
Asia including Russia
Items 142-211; pages 78-105
Section 5:
Australia and Antarctica
Items 212-232; pages 106-117
Section 6:
Europe, including
Constantinople
Items 233-276; pages 118-139
Section 7:
Mapping, Navigation and Naval
History
Items 277-331; pages 140-169
Index; pages 170-171
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