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Catalogue
78
Voyages
& Travels
History
& Natural History
Science & Technology
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36.
[GREAT BRITAIN]. TREATY OF VERSAILLES. Treaty Respecting
Assistance to France in the Event of Unprovoked Aggression by Germany.
Signed at Versailles, June 28, 1919. Presented to Parliament by
Command of His Majesty. London, Published by His Majesty's Stationery
Office, 1919. Treaty Series. No. 6 (1919). [CMD.221].
[bound with]:
Agreement between the United States of America, Belgium, the British
Empire and France and Germany with Regard to the Military Occupation
of the Territories of the Rhine. Signed at Versailles, June 28th,
1919. London, Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1919.
Treaty Series. No. 7 (1919). [CMD.222].
[bound with]:
Treaty between the United States of America, the British Empire,
France, Italy and Japan and Poland. Signed at Versailles, June 28th,
1919. London, Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1919.
Treaty Series. No. 8 (1919).
[bound with]:
Reply of the Allied and Associated Powers to the Observations of
the German Delegation on the Conditions of Peace. Presented to Parliament
by Command of His Majesty. London, Published by His Majesty's Stationery
Office, 1919. Miscellaneous No. 4 (1919) [Cmd. 258].
[bound with]:
Protocol Supplementary to the Treaty of Peace. Signed at Versailles,
June 28th, 1919. London, Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office,
1919. Treaty Series. No. 5 (1919). [Cmd. 220].
bound with]:
Declaration by the Governments of the United States of America,
Great Britain and France in Regard to the Occupation of the Rhine
Provinces. Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty. London,
Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1919. [Cmd. 240].
$100
Folio; pp. vi, 3-213; [3], 6; [2], 13; [2], 66; 7. Recent brown
and grey paper over boards; gilt paper label on spine; lacking one
leaf of index and first leaf of the Preamble to Series No. 6, and
wanting maps.
COPAC. The Treaty of Versailles was the peace agreement between
the Allied Countries and Germany to mark the end of World War I.
The armistice was signed on November 11th, 1918, though negotiations
lasted for many months afterwards. Under the terms of the Treaty,
Germany was required to pay for damage done to allied countries,
a cost in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Violations of the
Treaty began shortly after it was signed, and by 1935 Hitler began
rebuilding the German navy and airforce. The Germans' invasion of
Poland in 1939 initiated World War II.
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37.
[GREAT BRITAIN]. The Report of the General Officers, Appointed
by His Majesty's Warrant of the First of November 1757, to inquire
into the causes of the Failure of the late Expedition to the Coasts
of France. London, A. Millar, 1758. $250
8vo; pp. 116. Removed; small tear in one leaf due to removal of
wax seal. A clean copy.
When there was a threat of England being invaded by France in 1756
during the Seven Years' War, Sir John Mordaunt was entrusted with
the command of an expedition against Rochefort; the naval portion
was under the command of Admiral Sir Edward Hawke. Among others
under Mordaunt was young James Wolfe, as quartermaster-general.
Because of delays, bad weather and indecisiveness, it was decided
not to run the risk of an attack, and the expedition, which had
cost over a million pounds sterling, returned home. A court of inquiry
was ordered, of which this is the report, and a subsequent court-martial
found Mordaunt not guilty.
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38. GUERICKE. OTTO von. Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica
de Vacuo Spatio ... 1672. Amsterdam, Apud Joannem Janssonium à
Waesberge, Anno 1672. First edition. $40,000
Small folio; extra engraved title, engraved frontispiece portrait;
pp, [6] (Title, Privilege and Dedication); pp. [3], (Preface); pp.
[3] (Contents), pp. 244, [5] (Index & Errata), [1] (Blank);
21 engraved copper-plates, (two folding); contemporary quarter-sheep
and marbled paper over boards; binding little worn; contemporary
signature on first blank; old waterstain at lower inner corner of
several leaves and two plates; small black wax seal at margin of
title; small hole (repaired) on final leaf, not affecting text.
A very scarce work.
Horblitt 44; Dibner 55. Von Guericke studied at Leipzig, Helmstedt,
Jena and Leiden, and spent much of his life in politics and diplomacy
in Magdeburg. His leisure time was devoted to scientific experimentation.
"As a result of experiments to prove the existence of a vacuum,
he invented the air pump - discovering the pumping capacity and
the elasticity of air. His work stimulated Huygens and Boyle to
repeat and extend his experiments and work on an improved air pump.
To support his notion that the heavenly bodies interacted with each
other across empty space through magnetic force, he cast a sphere
composed of a variety of minerals with a large proportion of sulphur.
By rubbing the sphere he produced static electricity; but since
he did not recognize these electrical events as special phenomena,
but as demonstrations of the "virtues" of a celestial
body, he cannot properly be credited with the invention of the first
electrical machine." (DSB, p. 301). This work is from the library
of a well-known German scientist
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39.
HAWKS, FRANCIS L. Narrative of the Expedition of an American
Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the Years 1852,
1853, and 1854, under the command of Commodore M. C. Perry, U.S.
Navy, ... New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1856. $1,175
Thick 4to (bound in two volumes); pp. vii, [1], 624; 78 engraved
or lithographed plates, including frontispiece portrait; 11 folding
maps; hundreds of illustrations in the text. Both volumes are bound
in later half morocco-like leather, with marbled paper over boards
and marbled endpapers; few stains on prelims, and general light
browning and some foxing throughout.
Vide Hill, pp. 230-231 (1st ed.): "In March, 1852, Commodore
Perry was appointed commander of a naval expedition to be sent to
Japan to induce their government to establish diplomatic relations
with the United States. Perry felt that the only way to force Japan
to cease her isolationist foreign policy would be through exhibiting
superior naval forces ... The most important result ... was that
the visit contributed to the collapse of the feudal regime and to
the modernization of Japan." The work was first published by
the Government Printing Office in 1856 for the House and Senate,
and included two hefty volumes of scientific material, not present
in this edition. This is the first of two abridged editions, the
second published in 1857; the text of this edition is more complete
than that of the later one.
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40.
[HUC, REGIS-EVARISTE & JOSEPH GABET]. Travels in Tartary,
Thibet and China 1844-1846. London, Geo. Routledge, [1938]. Two
volumes. $125
8vo; pp. xliv, 387, one double-page map; pp. viii, 406, (7) (Publ.
Cat.). Original cloth; spine little faded; engraved bookplate and
neat name on front endpapers. A very good set from the Broadway
Travellers series.
Vide Yakushi H250b. The authors, missionaries and explorers, were
in China on a mission when they began an overland trip from Peking
to Tibet in 1844. After enduring great hardships in the mountains,
they reached Lhasa in 1846 but were promptly expelled for fear that
they would proselytize.
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