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Le King
Treize étrange 2006 In-8 relié 23,8 cm sur 17. 253 pages. Très bon état d’occasion.
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Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Arctic Ocean, in 1833, 1834, and 1835 under the Command of Capt Back, R N. 2 vols. - [KING’S IMPORTANT NARRATIVE OF BACK’S 1833-1835 ARCTIC EXPEDITION]
London, Richard Bentley, 1836. 8vo. In one later full green cloth binding with black leather title-label with gilt lettering to spine. Stamps to front end-papers and small stamp to title-page, otherwise a fine copy. XV, (1), 312, (1)" viii, 321, (1)pp.+ 4 plates [2 frontispieces, a map and a plate depicting two ""Arctomys Okanaganii""]. Without half-title in vol. I (not called for in vol. II).
Rare first edition of Dr. King's narrative of his travels under Captain Back in the Arctic Ocean in the mid 1830ies, a work praised for its more sanguine view of the expedition compared to that of his commander.Shortly after qualifying as a medical man, King obtained the post of surgeon and naturalist in the expedition led by Captain George Back to the mouth of the Great Fish River (now known as the Back River) between 1833 and 1835, in search of Captain John Ross. He took a prominent part in the expedition, and is frequently mentioned in Back's Narrative (1836).King generally described the Back expedition as a series of missed opportunities - an implicit argument for recognition of his own contribution: ""King 'had a much more arduous share of the work than Back and was largely responsible for the success of the expedition', and felt that yet more could have been achieved, had it been better led. King makes these criticisms in his account, which was published in late 1836, and, as one would expect, contains material published in Back's narrative"" however, 'King's is in many respects the better book, since he showed a far deeper understanding of the indigenous peoples of the Arctic and did not indulge in dramatic exaggeration"" (ODNB).""King, surgeon and naturalist of the Back expedition that descended the Back River to the arctic coast of Canada, includes much material similar to that contained in Sir George Back's Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition, 1836, with additional detail on birds, mammals, and fishes, especially as observed near Fort Reliance"" (Arctic Bibliography). ""Dr. King's narrative is full of the details of Indian life, as it was presented to the members of Captain Back's expedition. He looked at the same transactions with the natives, and the same phases of their character which Captain Back portrays, from a different point, and their coloring to his eye bears another tinge. His journal, filled with descriptions of interviews with the Chippewyans, Crees, Dog-Ribs, and Esquimaux, is therefore exceedingly interesting even after the perusal of Captain Back's narrative. Although every chapter is largely devoted to incidents associated with the natives, and anecdotes illustrative of their character, Dr. King yields the whole of Chapter xii. to an examination and relation of the present condition of the tribes inhabiting the Hudson's Bay territories. The Doctor does not attempt to conceal the chagrin he felt, at the cool absorption of his own careful researches in the narrative of Captain Back. In the splendid work of that really eminent explorer, there appears a little, and but a little of that want of generosity which the relation of Dr. King insinuates. Both give the most minute narrations of the peculiar traits of the Northern Indians, their destructive wars, their wasting from disease, and famine, and debauchery, all of which are directly traceable to their communication with the whites. Dr. King, however, finds in them traces of some of the nobler, as well as the more tender emotions, the possession of which Captain Back somewhat superciliously derides. Dr. King very justly reminds him that the gallant Captain owed his life, and that of his entire party, to the devotion and self-denial, through two long starving winters, of the Chippewyan chief Akaitcho. This remarkable Indian deserves an honorable fame. While his tribe in common with himself were starving, he shared with Captain Franklin in his two expeditions, and with Captain Back in a third, the scanty food, which his superior hunter-craft enabled him to obtain, when the duller white reason failed. Captain Franklin would never have sailed upon his fateful voyage, but for the humanity of Akaitcho, as he would have perished of starvation on his first exploration"" (Field). Arctic Bibliography 8708 Field 831Sabin 37831 (erroneously calling for 7 plates) Staton and Tremaine 1899Wagner-Camp 62.
Album photo du couronnement de George V et de la Reine Mary, 22 juin 1911 - King George V and Queen Mary coronation photo Album, 22nd June 1911 (Coronation Day, St Paul's Procession, Cannon Street, Oxford Street) Coronation Day : Territorials. Naval School - Life Guard drumms - Life Guards Engineers - Life Guards Band - Indians - Lord Mayor, King's Staff - Duke of Fife - Horse Guards - The King and Queen's state Carriage - The cream coloured poneys - Lord Roberts - Prince of Wales's carriage - Kronprinz and Kronprinzess of Germany's carriage - Prince's carriage - Speakers' carriage - Beef eaters - St Paul's Procession : Hussars - Infantry Band - Lancers Band - Canadians - Scot Greys Band - Indian Princesses - Indians Officers - Colonel Stratford, Colonel Staig, Sir Hedworth Lambton - Blue Jacketts - The King and Queen - Duc of Theh, Prince Louis of Battenberg, Sir Evelyn Wood, Prince Arthur - Duke of Connaught - Duke of Fife - Foreign Representation - Cannon Street : Sir Edward Henty Head of the Police - Canadian - Premier of Canada - Sir Alfred Coringto General Commander of London - King and Queen with Prince of Wale and Princess Mary - Oxford Street : The King's Outriders - The King and Queen carriage - Captain Arthur Wood of the Cameronans - Cold Stream Guards Major Marker
Album photographique pleine toile format 27 x 28 cm, armes royales peinte en plat, 52 photos format carré 21,5 x 21,5 cm : Coronation Day : Territorials. Naval School - Life Guard drumms - Life Guards Engineers - Life Guards Band - Indians - Lord Mayor, King's Staff - Duke of Fife - Horse Guards - The King and Queen's state Carriage - The cream coloured poneys - Lord Roberts - Prince of Wales's carriage - Kronprinz and Kronprinzess of Germany's carriage - Prince's carriage - Speakers' carriage - Beef eaters - St Paul's Procession : Hussars - Infantry Band - Lancers Band - Canadians - Scot Greys Band - Indian Princesses - Indians Officers - Colonel Stratford, Colonel Staig, Sir Hedworth Lambton - Blue Jacketts - The King and Queen - Duc of Theh, Prince Louis of Battenberg, Sir Evelyn Wood, Prince Arthur - Duke of Connaught - Duke of Fife - Foreign Representation - Cannon Street : Sir Edward Henty Head of the Police - Canadian - Premier of Canada - Sir Alfred Coringto General Commander of London - King and Queen with Prince of Wale and Princess Mary - Oxford Street : The King's Outriders - The King and Queen carriage - Captain Arthur Wood of the Cameronans - Cold Stream Guards Major Marker
Bel album photographique, provenant de la bibliothèque d'Ernesta Stern (1854-1926) alias "Maria Star", écrivain fameuse pour son salon du Faubourg Saint-Honoré où elle accueillit notamment Marinetti ou Marcel Proust. Née Maria Ernesta Hierschel de Minerbi, elle épousa le banquier Louis Stern. Les photos sont prises pour la plupart depuis des tribunes officielles, près de Westminster Abbey pour le Coronation Day, puis St Paul's Procession, Cannon Street, Oxford Street. Beautiful photographic album, from the library of Ernesta Stern (1854-1926), writer famous for her salon in Faubourg Saint-Honoré where she notably welcomed Marinetti or Marcel Proust. Born Maria Ernesta Hierschel de Minerbi, she married the banker Louis Stern. Photos are mostly taken from official stands, near Westminster Abbey for Coronation Day, then St Paul's Procession, Cannon Street, Oxford Street.
25 pièces de théâtre (texte anglais) - 6e édition - King Heny VI (part I II) + Timon of Athens + Antony and Cleopatra + King John + King Henry VIII + The Merry wices of windsor + King Henry VI (part I II III) + King Lear + King Richard III + Othello +
J.M. Dent and co 1900 in16. 1900. Broché. petits format in 16 - 25 pièces du théâtre de Shakespeare (texte anglais) - 6e édition - King Heny VI (part I II) + Timon of Athens + Antony and Cleopatra + King John + King Henry VIII + The Merry wices of windsor + King Henry VI (part I II III) + King Lear + King Richard III + Othello + The Sonnets + Much ado about nothing + The tempest + Measure for measure + Hamlet + Pericles + The Merchant of Venice + All's well that ends well + The comedy of errors + Romeo and Juliet + Coriolanus + The rape of Lucrecce + Titus Andronicus + Troilus and Cressida + Two gentlemen of Verona
Bon Etat général couvertures frottées coiffes dégarnies intérieur propre rousseurs dans les plats intérieurs dorure sur tranche supérieure - circa 1900
Album Souvenir des Funérailles du Roi Edouard VII. Recueil de Journaux et Documents - Souvenir Album of the Funeral of King Edward VII. Collection of Newspapers and Documents : The Daily Mirror. N°2048 20 May 1910 : The Kaiser arrives - Evening Standard and St James Gazette n°26794 May 19, 1910 : Kaiser's arrival ; Official Programme of the Funeral Procession of his late Majesty King Edward VII, Friday May 20th 1910 ; ; The Sketch Double number May 11 1910. The Death of King Edward VII ; The Graphic Specla Number 2110A May 11, 1910, The Life of King Edward VII ; The Graphic. An illustrated weekly newspaper. Saturday May 14, 1910. King George V driving to St James's Palace to hold his first council ; The Sphere, n° 538, May 14, 1910 : Edward VII 1841-1910 ; The Illustrated London News double number. May 14, 1910, n° 3708 ; The Graphic. An illustrated weekly newspaper. n° 2112 Saturday May 21, 1910 : King Adward last sleep at Buckingham Palace ; Black & Whit May 21st 1910. A Nation in Mourning. In Memoriam ; The Graphic 2112A May 24 1910. Funeral of Edward VII ; The Sphere. n° 540 May 28, 1910 : Funeral Number. Edward the Peacemaker
1 vol. in folio reliure pleine toile grise, format 42 x 33 cm, blason collé au premier plat avec devise "Dieu et mon droit", Album Souvenir des Funérailles du Roi Edouard VII. Recueil de Journaux et Documents - Souvenir Album of the Funeral of King Edward VII. Collection of Newspapers and Documents : The Daily Mirror. N°2048 20 May 1910, 16 pp. : The Kaiser arrives - Evening Standard and St James Gazette n°26794 May 19, 1910 : Kaiser's arrival, 20 pp. ; Official Programme of the Funeral Procession of his late Majesty King Edward VII, Friday May 20th 1910, 4 ff. ; ; The Sketch Double number May 11 1910. The Death of King Edward VII ; The Graphic Specla Number 2110A May 11, 1910, The Life of King Edward VII ; The Graphic. An illustrated weekly newspaper. Saturday May 14, 1910. King George V driving to St James's Palce to hold his first council ; The Sphere, n° 538, May 14, 1910 : Edward VII 1841-1910 ; The Illustrated London News double number. May 14, 1910, n° 3708 ; The Graphic. An illustrated weekly newspaper. n° 2112 Saturday May 21, 1910 : King Adward last sleep at Buckingham Palace ; Black & Whit May 21st 1910. A Nation in Mourning. In Memoriam ; The Graphic 2112A May 24 1910. Funeral of Edward VII ; The Sphere. n° 540 May 28, 1910 : Funeral Number. Edward the Peacemaker
Bel album souvenir, recueillant de nombreux journaux et magazines de l'époque, et provenant de la bibliothèque d'Ernesta Stern (1854-1926) alias "Maria Star", écrivain fameuse pour son salon du Faubourg Saint-Honoré où elle accueillit notamment Marinetti ou Marcel Proust. Née Maria Ernesta Hierschel de Minerbi, elle épousa le banquier Louis Stern. Beautiful souvenir album, collecting many newspapers and magazines of the time, and coming from the library of Ernesta Stern (1854-1926) alias "Maria Star", famous writer for her salon in Faubourg Saint-Honoré where she notably welcomed Marinetti or Marcel Proust. Born Maria Ernesta Hierschel de Minerbi, she married the banker Louis Stern.
The Franklin Expedition from First to Last. By Dr. King, M.D. - [DR. RICHARD KING'S EXCEEDINGLY RARE CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE ADMIRALTY REGARDING THE SEARCH FOR THE LOST FRANKLIN EXPEDITIO]
London, John Churchill, 1855. 8vo. In publisher's original full embossed cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Spine faded and top of spine chipped. Extremities slightly rubbed. Gilt stamp to front board and stamp to upper part of pasted down front end-paper. Small mark to p. 172, otherwise internally fine and clean. xxxviii, 3-224pp. + 2 charts (""Dr. Kings Conjectual chart 1848"" + ""The Admiralty Chart 1848"") and 3 plates (one of them in text).
The exceedingly rare first edition, only to have appeared in auction twice the past 40 years, of Dr. Richard King's correspondence with the Admiralty regarding the search for the lost Franklin Expedition. King persistently held the view - which later was proved correct - that the Franklin Expedition, or traces of it, would be found at or near the mouth of the Great Fish River. He volunteered to lead a search expedition, but was ignored. In his letters to periodicals, government ministers and the Admiralty, published in this present work, we are given a most interesting insight into the politics and practicalities regarding the search for the Franklin Expedition - one of the most notorious chapters in the history of polar exploration.When the John Franklin expedition, in seach for the Northwest Passage, departed England in 1845 on the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror and had not returned by 1848, the Admiralty launched a search for the missing expedition. Partly prompted by Franklin's fame and the Admiralty's offer of a finder's reward, many subsequent expeditions joined the hunt, which at one point in 1850 involved no less than 13 ships. ""King took great interest in Franklin's expedition and was one of the first to raise the alarm when he failed to return. He insisted, at first on very slender evidence, that Franklin's party would be found near the mouth of the Great Fish River. His opinion was discounted and in 1847 and 1856 his offer to lead a search party was refused. His loud and continued insistence on the need to search his favoured site increased the animosity of the Admiralty, the Hudson's Bay Company, and the Royal Geographical Society, who were also irritated by popular journals which took up King's point of view. Matters were not helped by King's Franklin Search from First to Last (1855) [i.e. this work] which set out his own convictions and dwelt on the obduracy of those who would not listen to him. Franklin's party was finally found by M'Clintock in 1859 in the spot King had suggested eleven years earlier. The delay, however, probably made no material difference since, even if his advice been taken immediately, it would probably have come too late to save any of Franklin's men"" (ODNB).""Correspondence between the author and the British Admiralty and Colonial Office, regarding Dr. King's offers to aid, and his views on the search for the lost Franklin party"" with other letters and newspaper articles, and with excerpts from King's earlier account (1836) of his trip down the Fish (Back) River. Includes considerable comment on the geography, importance of the Back River route to find Franklin, conditions of travel in the region, and on the activities of those (in northern Canada and in London) involved in the Franklin search."" (A.B. 8706)Sabin 37797 Staton & Tremaine 3571A.B. 8706
