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Price: US$14.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Odd volume Volume 3 of 4 only . 413 Pages generally crisp and clean book plate of the Earl of Ellenborough. Bound in clean calf leather boards with gilt lettering. Titles labels missing.
Seller: Karl Eynon Books Ltd, tywyn, United Kingdom
Price: US$24.72 + shipping
Description: Vol.2 only of 4. Folding map present. Page edges roughly cut; lacks front board; back board present but detached, with wear at top edge; paper of spine cracked, with some loss; title label present, but browned & cracked. Used - Acceptable. Poor hardback
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$28.83 + shipping
Description: 1st. Edn. pp. vi, 490. Folding engraved chart showing the voyages. Open size 50 x 30 cms. In half morocco over marbled boards. Gilt lettered spine with gilt rules on raised bands. Spine rubbed at hinges. Bad chip on second compatrment. Strip missing from top corner of back board. Light foxing to prelims and rear endpapers. Light foxing of folding chart. The text is clean and very good. The chart is complete and with no tears. A near very good copy.
Seller: Richard Roberts Bookseller., KILMARNOCK, United Kingdom
Irving, Washington. A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. Murray, London, 1828.
Price: US$45.44 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pp. Vol. 1 xii, 473. Spine not attached front hinge on vl. 1. ; Pp. Vol. 2, 490. Bottom and top part of spine lacking. ; Pp. Vol 3. 413. ; Pp. Vol. 4., 489. Folding charts in first two volumes. All covers scuffed & worn. Extremeties worn & scruffed. Internally good. Full calf with ornate cover gilt design. With book plates of John Ennis on pastedown of each vol.
Seller: Dublin Bookbrowsers, Dublin, NONE, Ireland
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Text is tight and clean. A very few foxing marks on a few pages. The pages are rippled, possibly from being under pressure. Page edges rough cut and darkened. Label inside front cover for St. John's College Library. Small stamp for the library on page facing and inside back cover and on one page inside the book. Inside front cover facing page has various notes, names, including in small print, lawrence durrell. Library reference on this page and the spine. The binding is beige linen over boards rather warped and darkened from handling. The spine is rough but intact except for two small pieces Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: JCMBooks, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Wear at corners / spine ends / 5 raised bands on spine / Text clean / tight / volumes 2, 3, and 4 of a 4 volume set. VG / 3/4 red leather / black cloth boards rubbed /
Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Four volumes bound in half calf with blue cloth boards. Marbled endpapers and edges, gilt decorations and red morocco spine labels. Large foldout maps in volumes one and two. Leather is generally worn but very solid. Volume 2 has been rebacked with original spine laid on and rear cloth replaced. Spine label missing from volume one. All volumes tight with contents in excellent condition. BAL 10123.
Seller: Neil Williams, Bookseller, Victoria, BC, Canada
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 22.5 by 14.5 cm. xiii, 473, [4], 490, viii, 413, vii, 489 pp. Two fold-out maps, one in vol. 1, other, vol. 2. Attractive bookplate of Amy Bend Bishop, with illustration of balloon, air plane, etc. Condition: several joints repaired, and in two instances, fabric used to reattach boards is visible. One board with small lifted piece of calf pasted back down. Several other minor blemishes. Calf otherwise generally healthy. Mostly clean within.
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Four volumes. xii,473,[3];[8],490,[2];[8],413,[3];[8],489,[3] pp. Old three quarter calf and marbled boards. Two large folding maps. Bindings somewhat rubbed and edgeworn, but perfectly sound; short, clean tear at one map tab, internally very good, clean and crisp, with the half- titles. First edition, preceding the U.S. printing. The first edition was divided between two printers, each using two settings of type, resulting in a blizzard of permutations and combinations, none of which is determinative of priority. BAL 10123.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sheepskin on boards, expertly re-cased in leather spine with original covers & original marbled endpapers. All page edges marbled. Gilt rule frames diamond pattern blind stamped onto covers. Gilt stamped red labels on spine, blind stamped date of 1828 at foot of spine & 3 blind stamped floral patterns. Edgewear to covers; interior is tight & clean. Foldout map V1 (25" x 19.75) & V2 (20" x 13.5") shows light foxing. Pagination: 473, 490, 413, 489.
Seller: CTM Books & Antiques, Canastota, NY, U.S.A.
IRVING, Washington. A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. John Murray, 1828.
Price: US$581.02 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: London, John Murray, 1828, 4 volumes, 8vo.,xii-473,(4)-490,viii-413,vii-489, with 2 folding maps , half calf and corners, nice copy, well bound. FIRST BRITISH EDITION, preceding the first American edition of the same year. One of the first modern biographies of Christopher Columbus, considered to be one of the first examples of American historical fiction. Irving was invited to Madrid to translate Spanish-language source material on Columbus into English, and decided to write his biography instead. He worked closely with Alexander von Humboldt, who had recently returned from his South American voyage and could provide deep knowledge of the geography of the Americas. This was also the first of Irving's works to be published under his own name. Washington Irving was an american essayst and historian with full acess of the massive library of spanish history. P2-6C
Seller: Librairie Voyage et Exploration, Cerny, France
Price: US$657.75 + shipping
Description: 4 voll. In-8° (mm 218x140), Pagine: (4), XII, 473, (5); (8), 460,(2); VIII, 413, (3); VII, (1), 489, (3). Con 2 carte geogr. ripiegate incise in rame dei viaggi di Colombo ai primi due volumi. Legatura in mezza pelle coeva marrone con punte, piatti in cartone marmorizzato, dorsi a 5 nervi con titoli oro. Lievi traccie di foxing ma buon esemplare.
Seller: Libreria Antiquaria Gonnelli, Firenze, FI, Italy
Price: US$712.57 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, complete in four volumes, complete with the two maps in volumes 1 and 2. Later 19th century half calf signed Phibster. Bindings lightly rubbed at the corners but overall a near fine set, armorial bookplates on the end papers. the contents are clean and unmarked, some light wear to the maps.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (22cm). Contemporary full green calf, tooled in gilt on board edges, spines, and turn-ins, titled in gilt on red leather spine labels, all edges sprinkled brown; brown marbled endpapers; I: [ii],xii,473,[3]pp; II: [viii],460,[2]pp; III: [viii],413,[1]pp; IV: [viii],489,[1]pp; both folding maps bound into vol. I ("Chart of the North Atlantic" ahead of text; the large folding map of the West Indies at rear). Gently rubbed with a few small scratches; touch of chafing to crown of v.1, without significant loss; small tear to fold of one map, but generally sound and bright: an appealing, Very Good set. Irving's first venture into history, based on primary material consulted in Madrid, and "authoritative enough that it remained useful to scholars throughout the nineteenth century" (ANB). Preceding the US edition, the London edition was printed by multiple printers from multiple settings of type, thus producing copies of the first edition "in an almost infinite variety" (BAL). Blanck argues that no evidence exists to determine priority for any particular setting, and suggests "that all copies issued by Murray under date 1828 be considered of equal primacy until evidence is produced to the contrary." BAL 10123. LANGFELD & BLACKBURN pp28-29.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 4 volumes, tall 8vo, 3/4 black calf, red leather spine labels, gilt titles, ornately gilt spines, marbled boards. Fold out maps in volumes 1 & 2, slightly damaged, occasional foxing. London: John Murray, 1828. A lovely set.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$962.50 + shipping
Description: 4 volumes. The First Edition, preceding the American edition (and exceeding it in bulk by one volume) With the required folding maps in Volumes I and II. 8vo, bound in three-quarter tan calf over marbled paper covered boards, the spines with gilt bands separating the compartments which are decorated in blind at the borders, contrasting green and red morocco lettering labels gilt. viii, 473; 490; viii, 413; vii, 489 pp. A handsome, attractive and well-preserved set. A little expected rubbing to the edges and extremities, internally very fresh and clean, all very solid. THE IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION OF THIS GREAT TESTAMENT TO IRVING'S OFT' NEGLECTED ABILITIES AS A HISTORIAN. This was a scholarly but popular biography based primarily on the work of the Spanish writer Navarrete. Navarrete had published his work on Columbus, which contained a number of previously unknown and significant documents. However, Irving felt that "the whole presented rather a mass of rich materials for history, than a history itself.[and] the sight of disconnected papers and official documents is apt to be repulsive to the general reader, who seeks for clear and continued narrative." In fact, he felt that nearly every account had been incomplete while many important documents and manuscripts had been ignored. Thus, he hoped to offer a more rigorous and yet accessible account. Written while Irving was a diplomatic attaché in Spain (1826-29), "it was the most painstaking effort of Irving's life, and it won him election to the 'Real Academia de la Historia', the friendship of Navarrete, and a literary reputation in Spain where the work is still quoted respectfully" (DAB). The American edition, published the same year in three volumes, had only one map. BAL 10123.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1146.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A handsomely bound four volume set of this fictionalised account of the life of Christopher Columbus. The first edition of the work. Complete in four volumes, with a folding map to volumes one and two. Half titles present to all volumes. With a bookplate to front pastedown of all volumes stating 'Purchased out of the legacy of Edward Phillips MA of Magdalene Hall to That Society MDCCCLV'. With withdrawn stamp and private library location to label also. A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus is a fictional account of the life of Christopher Columbus, and is considered one of the first examples of American historical fiction. The work was one of many attempts at nationalistic myth making by poets and authors of the time, and is an early example to perpetuate the flat earth story. In full calf bindings. Externally very smart with slight rubbing to the extremities. Marks and the odd spot to the boards. Bookplates and withdrawn stamp to front pastedown of all volumes. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the odd spot, heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom