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Catalogue
78
Voyages
& Travels
History
& Natural History
Science & Technology
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91.
[SLOVENIA] The Slovene Carinthia. [n.p., 1946?]. $125
Folio; pp. [78], maps, photographs, plates, some folded and coloured.
Publisher's paper covers, little dusty, with green smudge on front
and back; title loose, top corner clipped.Text in English, Russian,
French and Slovenian.
Oxford. A historical album, with maps, photos and facsimiles from
newspapers and periodicals about the Slovenes and their struggles
in Carinthia (Austria) against German assimilation, particularly
during the first half of the 20th century.
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92.
SOLIS Y RIBADENEYRA, ANTONIO DE. Historia de la Conquista
de Méjico, Poblacion y Progresos de la América Septentrional,
Conocida por el Nombre de Nueva España . Escribíala
Don Antonio de Solís, Secretario de S.M., y su cronista mayor
de las Indias. Nueva Edicion. Madrid, Imprenta de los Hijos de Doña
Catalina Piñuela, calle de Amor de Dios, núm. 14,
1829. $300
16mo; pp. xvii, verso blank, [4], 696. Quarter calf over mottled
paper boards; marbled endpapers; bookseller's stamp on lower corner
of front paste-down; first leaf and title repaired at lower margins;
front joint cracked; corners worn; spine with gilt title; staining
on five leaves, not affected text; small tear in margin of one leaf;
one leaf has paper flaw. Tome I of the nine-volume series Conquista
de América.
Sabin 86471; Rebiun; BNE. The work has been hailed the most popular
history of America of its time. The author, Antonio de Solis started
out as a dramatist, and later used his literary talents in the political
spectrum, first as Secretary of State and then as Private Secretary
to the King of Spain, Charles II. By 1667, he obtained the post
of official chronicler of the Indies for the Court of Spain. This
text is based on a collection of notes and reports from outside
sources, and are somewhat embellished by the author. It covers the
three years between the appointment of Cortés as commander
of the invading force into Mexico, and the conquest of the city
of Mexico. Interspersed in the text are valuable observations relating
to the manners and customs of the Aztecs, which are highlighted
with splendid engravings. This work "deservedly ranks as a
Spanish prose classic" (Hill p.278).
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93.
SQUIER, E[PHRAIM} GEORGE (1821-1888). Peru Incidents of Travel
and Exploration in the Land of the Incas. New York, Harper &
Brothers, 1877. First edition. $500
Tall, thick 8vo; pp. xx, 599, [1](blank); two maps (one double-page),
16 plates, including frontispiece, plans, views, and more than 200
illustrations within the text; title vignette; original ornately
gilt- and black-stamped green cloth; t.e.g., others untrimmed; minute
rubbing to binding edges; few leaves unopened; bookseller's ticket
on front paste-down; a fine, clean, bright copy, with contemporary
name (W.P. Morse) on half-title.
Palau 321819; Sabin 89987; Harvard; NYPL; BL; Wellcome. Ephraim
George Squier was an American journalist, diplomat and archaeologist.
He was born in Bethlehem, N.Y., worked as a farm-hand, and was self-educated.
He contributed to Albany newspapers before launching the short-lived
Poet's Magazine. His career in journalism continued with various
papers in New York, Connecticut and Ohio. He became interested in
Native American history, and published two monographs through the
Smithsonian Institution. In 1849, he was appointed as charge d'affaires
to Central America, where he attempted to interfere in transportation
issues, without success. This memoir was written after Squier returned
from his posting as United States Commissioner to Peru (DAB). A
fine copy of a profusely-illustrated work.
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With an Interesting Provenance
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94. STEIN, [MARC] AUREL. On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks.
Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western
China. London, Macmillan and Co., 1933. First edition. $3,250
4to; pp. xxiv, 342, (2) (Adverts); 18 colour plates, including frontispiece;
numerous photographic plates; five folding panoramas; one coloured,
folding map. Original cloth with gilt medallion on front cover and
gilt lettering on spine; t.e.g., others uncut; ticket of "French
Bookstore, Peiping China" on rear pastedown; tiny bit of faint
foxing at head of few pages. A fine copy, with the signature on
the front pastedown of "William J. Morden, American Museum
of Natural History NY City".
Yakushi S338: "Comprehensive summary of the results of the
author's first three Central Asian expeditions and of his researches
carried out during the years 1900-1916." These travels took
the author into the innermost parts of Asia, the western provinces
of China, the Hindu Kush and the Pamirs. This inveterate traveller
and archaeologist explored more of the Central Asian and Indus areas
than any other European of his day. The provenance is interesting,
given that William Morden, field associate of the AMNH and later
director of the Explorer's Club, participated in a major expedition
through Tibet, Turkestan and Mongolia in 1926, which resulted in
his own book, Across Asia's Snows and Deserts, of 1927.
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95.
STOKER, LAURENTIUS. Thermographia Budensis, seu Scrutinium
Physico-Medicum Aquarum Mineralium Budae Scaturientium, De Earum
Origine, Situ, Antiquitate, Numero Mineralibus, Virtutibus &
usu Medico, tam interno, quam externo, per frequentia Mechanico-Spagyrica
experimenta & multiplices easque proprias per novemdecim nunc
annorum decursum observationes Medico-Theoretico-Practicas elaboratium
& bono publico in lucem datum per Laurentium Stoker, Philosophiae
& Medicinae Doctorem Sacrae Caef. Regiaeque Catholicae Majestatis
Praesidij ac Regiae Liberaeque Civitatis Physicum ordinarium. Augustae-
Vindelicorum & Graecii, Sumptibus Philippi, Martini & Joannis
Veith, Fratrum, 1721. First edition. $400
4to; [18], 154, [16]. Signatures: x-xxx4, A-X4, [1]. Later brown
paper wrappers, dusty and chipped; last leaf and back wrapper little
loose. An unopened copy, with decorative head and tail pieces; foliated
initials.
Wellcome, NLM, Yale. The thermal springs of Hungary have long been
recognized for their curative powers. This work discusses in detail
the medicinal properties of the mineral baths in Buda, and their
use in the treatment of various illnesses, from early Roman times
through the occupation by the Turks.
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