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Catalogue
78
Voyages
& Travels
History
& Natural History
Science & Technology
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16.
CHIANG, MAY-LING SOONG (1897-2003). Jiang fu ren you Mei
ji nian ce = Madame Chiang Kai-shek's Trip through the United States
and Canada. San Francisco, Calif, Mei Zhou guo min ri bao, Minguo
32 [1943]. $100
Folio; pp. 151; numerous photographic illustrations; text in Chinese
and English. Publisher's yellow cloth, dusty; front lower hinge
slightly damaged; paper on spine chipped in places; corners bumped;
inscription on front paste-down. Scarce.
LAC; Princeton; Harvard; Stanford. This volume contains speeches
made by Madame Chiang Kai-shek during her visit to Canada and America
in 1943. May-ling Soong, wife of the former president of the Republic
of China, Chiang Kai-shek, was born in Shanghai of the powerful
Soong family, and educated in the U.S. She married Chiang Kai-shek
in 1927 and became very active in Chinese politics, acting as her
husband's translator and close advisor. During World War II, her
visit to the U.S. and Canada drew crowds as she lobbied for money
and support. After Chiang Kai-shek's government was defeated in
the Chinese Civil War of 1949, Madame Chiang followed him to Taiwan.
She emigrated to the U.S. in 1975, and her last years were spent
in New York City, where she died at age 105.
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With Twenty-three Lovely Coloured Plates
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17. COCKBURN, [GEORGE] (1781-1847). A Voyage to Cadiz and
Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean to Sicily and Malta, in 1810, &
11. Including a description of Sicily and the Lipari Islands, and
an Excursion in Portugal. London, Printed for J. Harding ... and
M. N. Mahon, Dublin, 1815. Two volumes. First edition. $1,500
8vo; engraved title, pp. xiv, [8] (Contents and Directions), 1-2
1*-2*, 3-447; engraved title, pp. [3]-7 (Contents), [1] (Blank),
363, f (Corrections and Alterations); six maps and plans (three
folding), and 23 coloured aquatints. Contemporary full calf, gilt-
and blind-stamped; some foxing on engraved titles, on frontispiece
map in vol. II, and on quire Q in vol. II. A very good set, with
fine coloured plates.
Abbey, Travel, 197; Lowndes II, p. 485; not in Tooley, English Books.
The author was a British Army officer and writer. Born in Dublin,
he spent most of his adult life in the army and, in 1810, was appointed
to the command of a division in the army of occupation in Sicily,
but resigned that same year. He travelled to Sicily, Spain, Gibraltar
and Malta, and this work is the result of his travels; it includes
commentary of parts of Portugal and the Lipari Islands. Upon his
return he settled in County Wicklow and was very involved in the
political scene, first as a supporter of Cobbett and then of Peel.
Cockburn was an observant man and this work is an interesting description
of his travels.
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18.
COCKBURN, [JAMES PATTISON]. Swiss Scenery from Drawings by
Major Cockburn. London, Rodwell and Martin, 1820. First edition.
$1,300
4to; pp. vii, 200; engraved title, one engraved vignette (endpiece)
and 60 engraved plates. Contemporary half-morocco; marbled boards
and endpapers; binding worn but tight; little foxing or toning on
some plates, mostly light; printed on Whatman wove paper, watermarked
1819. A very nice copy.
The author, a military man, was also a student of Paul Sandby, artist
and landscape painter. He was responsible for landscape drawings
both on the Continent and in North America, the latter during his
military stay in Quebec, and his works are meticulous and accurate,
as much the work of a draughtsman as of an artist. There is much
to suggest that "Cockburn used the camera lucida to insure
exactness of landscape detail." -(DNB).
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19.
COLQUHOUN, ARCHIBALD R. Across Chrysê, being the narrative
of A Journey of Exploration through the South China Border Lands
from Canton to Mandalay. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and
Rivington, 1883. Two volumes. First edition. $1,350
Thick 8vo; pp. xxx, 420; pp. xvi, 408, [2]; two frontispiece portraits,
two large folding maps (one in colour); 25 plates (five folding),
and a map, numerous sketches, photographic reproductions, etc. in
the text; contemporary half calf and marbled paper over boards;
marbled endpapers and fore-edges; spines gilt in compartments; small
bookplates on front paste-downs; neat repairs to folds of large
map in vol. II; sporadic foxing within the text. Rather scarce first
edition.
Cordier Indosinica, I:192 (has reversed the collation of the two
vols.). The author was an engineer, railway expert and member of
the Royal Geographical Society, who wrote several works on southern
China, Burma, and the area then generally known as Indo-China. "The
main object of my journey was to ascertain the commercial and physical
aspect of south-west China and of the Shan country..." -(Preface).
The large folding, coloured map at the rear of volume two indicates
the proposed extension of British Burma Railway System.
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20.
COLUMELLA, L., VARRO, M.T., CATO, M.P., PALLADIUS, R. Opera
agricolationum: Columellae, Varronis, Catonique, nec non Palladii:
cum Annotationibus. D. Philippi Beroaldi, et commentariis que in
aliis impressionibus non extant. Impensis Benedicti Hectoris Bononiensi
[Bologna], M.D.IIII. (1504). $3,250
Small folio; ff 6, [7-36], 37-302 (f. 300 bound between ff 297-298);
some staining on prelims, and old waterstains on final few leaves;
neat, contemporary marginalia in some margins; wanting front free
endpaper; contemporary full vellum, hand-lettered on spine; tiny
old stamp (CSL?) on title.
Adams C2407; Kress 25 (wanting colophon); located also at BL and
Oxford; Wellcome cites the 1495 edition, and later 16th-century
editions, but not this one. Generally catalogued as Scriptores rei
rustica, this collection of Latin texts from the beginning of the
Christian era was the chosen reference work in the field of agricultural
and rural economy well into the sixteenth century, with five editions
printed in the 1400s alone. The essays deal with the problems, concerns
and necessities of the "gentleman farmer" (one is reminded
of Cicero's "you ask me how I spend my day on my country estate;
well, I shall tell you."). Requisite animals and plants are
discussed, as well as their care and cultivation, and there are
recipes and suggestions for dealing with olive oil, conserves, vinegar,
wine, cheese, etc.
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