Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea, and the great Loo-Choo Island ; with an appendix, containing charts, and various hydrographical and scientific notices
Janet Clarkson, an Australian food historian and writer, is the author of Menus from History: Historic Meals and Recipes for Every Day of the Year (2009), Pies: A Global History (2009), and Soup: A Global History (2010). Her food history website/blog is at ...
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Janet Clarkson, an Australian food historian and writer, is the author of Menus from History: Historic Meals and Recipes for Every Day of the Year (2009), Pies: A Global History (2009), and Soup: A Global History (2010). Her food history website/blog is at ...
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Add this copy of Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of to cart. $53.67, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Tredition Classics.
Add this copy of Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of to cart. $66.14, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by British Library, Historical Pr.
Add this copy of Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of to cart. $1,650.00, very good condition, Sold by Thomas Dorn, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Canton, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1818 by London: John Murray, 1818..
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Very Good. And A Vocablulary of the Loo-Choo Language. First printing. 4to. Frontispiece hand-colored aquatint. Half-title, xv, [1], 222, cxxx, [72] pp. Loo-Choo Language. Illustrated with 9 aquatint plates (8 hand-colored, including frontis), 5 maps (2 folding), 1 other uncolored plate. Full calf binding with marbled endpapers. The spinal calf is very worn and darkened, wear at the extremities, contents tight with scattered foxing; dust soil title page. Bookplate of John Sober front pastedown. Very good.
Add this copy of Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of to cart. $2,800.00, very good condition, Sold by McBlain Books rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hamden, CT, UNITED STATES, published 1818 by John Murray.
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Very Good. 9 aquatint plates (8 hand-colored, including frontis), 5 maps (2 folding), 1 other uncolored plate (of Wollaston's Dip Sector), xv, [1], 222, cxxx, [72]p. Recent quarterbinding. 27cm. Foxing on illustrations. Bookplate of famed actor John Barrymore (along with a recent penciled note stating that this book was sold for $24.80 as lot B-73 at an auction in 1941 (after the actor's death). Letter (tipped in) and inscription by the author's sister Magdalene (who died in childbirth in 1823 while married to Henry Harvey). The letter and inscription appear to be to the same person, addressed in the inscription as M. Le Chevalier. We believe that the recipient was Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier Delambre.
Add this copy of Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of to cart. $3,500.00, very good condition, Sold by McBlain Books rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hamden, CT, UNITED STATES, published 1818 by John Murray.
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Very Good. 9 aquatint plates (8 hand-colored, including frontis), 5 maps (2 folding), 1 other uncolored plate (of Wollaston's Dip Sector), xv, [1], 222, cxxx, [72]p. Contemporary black leather which has been rebacked in later black leather. 27cm. Cover scuffed. Corner heavily rubbed with loss of leather. Half-title and tissue guards present. Moderate foxing on tissue guards and some scattered elsewhere. Minor offsetting and age-toning. Color plates clean and attractive as are the maps and charts. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. INSCRIBED (as "the "Author") on half-title to the author's mother ("Lady Helen Hall from her affectionate Son, The Author").
