New Acquisitions
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# 24431
CROSS, Rev. E. B.
[KAREN LANGUAGE] The novice.
Rangoon : American Baptist Mission Press, 1883. Duodecimo, self-wrappers with woodcut of an owl, pp. [7], stitchbound. Text in English and S’gaw Karen. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Number 12 in the Toungoo Series of the American Baptist Mission. Rev. Cross is noted for his language publications including a translation of the New Testament …
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# 22368
ONWHYN, Thomas (1814-1886)
[GREAT EXHIBITION] Mr. Goggleye’s Visit to the Exhibition of National Industry to be Held in London on the 1st of April 1851.
London, Timy. Takemin, Hyde Park, [1851]. Folding engraved panorama (113 x 210 mm, folding to 113 x 96 mm); a defective example, lacking the original boards and consequently with only 22 (of 23) engraved scenes; occasional browning and foxing, first panel chipped at left edge. Thomas Onwhyn (1814-1886) was an English satirical artist, illustrator, engraver, …
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# 21703
CARPENTER, C.H.
A revision of Dr. Wade’s rules for the transliteration of foreign terms into Karen. (Presentation copy)
Rangoon : American Mission Press, C. Bennett, 1875. Octavo, original printed green wrappers (lightly foxed), stitch bound, a presentation copy inscribed by the author in pencil on the upper wrapper ‘M.S. Rice Esq., from C.H. Carpenter’; pp 24; text in English and S’gaw Karen script; internally very clean; a near fine inscribed copy. A rare late nineteenth …
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# 15422
BAIN & BURTT; [GIBBS, Alexander]
[WHALING] Letter written from Auckland, New Zealand to New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1853
Entire letter, single sheet folding to form [4] sides, quarto, closely written manuscript in ink on 3 sides, headed ‘Auckland, New Zealand, 8th February 1853’, addressed to ‘Alexander Gibbs Esqr., New Bedford’; signed at the foot ‘Your faithful obedt. servants, Bain & Burtt’; outer side with address panel, endorsed ‘via New York’, with ‘LONDON / …
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# 20688
BISHOP, J.
Henry and Emma’s Visit to the Zoological Gardens, in the Regent’s Park.
Interspersed with a familiar description of the manners and habits of the animals contained therein. Intended as a pleasing companion to juvenile visitors of this delightful place of recreation and fashionable resort. A new edition, with additions to the present season, by J. Bishop. With twelve illustrative coloured engravings. London : Dean and Munday, n.d. …
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# 16321
Anon.
[CHILDREN’S FOLDING PANORAMA] Costumes of different nations.
[England] : s.n., [circa 1849]. Small octavo, publisher’s pictorial card covers (heavily rubbed, edges worn), inscribed to Lucy Ann Pease from her Kind Aunt, H. Ford, Chapel Allerton [West Yorkshire] 10th mo. 18, 1849 on the pastedown, containing a folding panorama (single accordion sheet) with 12 hand-coloured plates featuring various peoples in traditional dress, the paper …
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# 16014
REEP, Richard Thompson; [CAMERON, Roderick William, 1823-1900]; [ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY]
[MARITIME] Letter from the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company to shipping line owner R.W. Cameron regarding the conveyance of mails on the new Panama Route to Australia
London, 12 August 1859. Entire letter, 2 pp small quarto, on the engraved letterhead of the ‘Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, No 55, Moorgate Street, London’, from Richard Thompson Reep, Secretary of the RMSCPC, to R.W. Cameron, owner of the R.M. Cameron & Co. Shipping Line, New York; Reep’s message is a reply to Cameron’s enquiries about …
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# 15332
The fifty-first annual report of the Santal Mission of the Northern Churches (the Indian home mission to the Santals) for the year 1917 – 1918.
Dukma [India] : Santal Mission of the Northern Churches, 1919. Octavo, printed wrappers, pp. iv; 72, pale foxing, a very good copy. Scarce printing from Eastern India recording a year’s activities of a Norwegian missionary society.
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# 14051
EGAN, Pierce, 1772-1849; [JOHN THURTELL; JOSEPH HUNT]
Recollections of John Thurtell, who was executed at Hertford … for murdering Mr. W. Weare …
London : Knight & Lacey, 1824. Octavo, recent half black morocco over marbled boards, gilt, spine with raised bands lettered in gilt, modern marbled endpapers, frontispiece engraving, A correct view of the execution, taken on the spot by an eminent artist (as called for by Ferguson), with a second frontispiece engraving (apparently not present in any …
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# 13219
A LA GERBE D'OR
[TRADE CATALOGUE] Les écrins s’ouvrent
Paris : Draeger frères, [1912]. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers (some very pale foxing), staple bound, pp 19, [1], chiefly black and white photographic illustrations of silverware (accessories, jewellery, tableware etc.), with [4] page insert advertising clocks and a bronze decorated calendar; a very good example of this attractive catalogue produced by the Parisian firm of A …
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# 11819
GUY, A.W.
[MISSIONS] Twelve disciples in brown
Melbourne, Vic. : S. John Bacon, [1952]. Small octavo, pictorial stiff wrappers, 55 pp, illustrated, a very good copy. Biographical sketches of Christian converts in Papua New Guinea, written by an Australasian Wesleyan Methodist missionary.
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# 11887
[POLYNESIA] Kon-Tiki : once in the Pacific : now and forever in Oslo
Oslo : Trekk, printer, [c.1965]. Oblong octavo, pictorial wrappers (some pale foxing to upper wrapper), staple bound, [14] pp, photographic illustrations, map, a good copy. Tourist brochure publicising the Kon-Tiki House museum in Oslo. It contains the story of the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition.
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# 10393
[New Zealand. Dept. of Tourism and Publicity]
New Zealand in a nutshell
[Wellington : Dept. of Tourism and Publicity, 1914]. Duodecimo, original pictorial wrappers, lower wrapper with advertisement for the New Zealand Pavilion at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco (1915), staple bound, 34 pp, illustrated with black and white photographic plates, a fine copy. A scarce later edition of this publication, which appears to have been printed …
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# 8561
Japan Tourist Bureau.
How to see Miyanoshita and Hakone
Tokyo : Japan Tourist Bureau, June 1935. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 9 pp, illustrated, map, a fine copy.