I am Elena Curtoni, the first time i saw the light was 1991, 3rd February, it was a cold and snowing day, that means a lot of things!The Wayfarers Bookshop. Autumn 2. 01. 6 - New Acquisitions and Stock Highlights. You can download the PDF file (text only) for this catalogue here: Autumn 2. New Acquisitions and Stock Highlights. Right click and select Save Target As to save to your computer. If you wish to purchase any item please email us at: wayfarers@shaw. FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING Images are not to scale. Email us to request more photos of an item. Brown ink on beige laid paper. Addressed, sealed and postmarked on the last page. Fold marks, minor hole on the last page after opening, slightly affecting the text, a couple of repaired tears at folds, some soiling on last page, otherwise a very good legible letter. A historically important letter which Jones starts by saying that the . He goes on to describe the landscape, . I should have now sent you some birds but when shot their plumage is generally spoiled as the natives do not bring them in for sale until the rainy season & after which period I hope to send you some that may be thought worthy a place in your museum if I can be sufficiently successful in my attempt to preserve them., I think the bush may contain a great many that are not known. 12 ottobre 2016 A Castiglion Fiorentino lora del teatro con i corsi al Mario Spina. Educazione al teatro per bambini, giovani e adulti a cura di Libera Accademia del. INTERVENTI E RECENSIONI. In questa sezione invitiamo studiosi ed esperti ad esprimere la loro opinione sull'argomento o su libri di recente pubblicazione che trattino. This animal put the whole town in consternation. Bowdich that I was qualified to take counter observations on the route was the reason of his so doing but as the expense of each individual will be very great on account of the great distance will be very great & as the instructions from the Committee are on a very economical plan no more will go than are absolutely necessary, namely . Doctor Zhivago has 63,113 ratings and 1,878 reviews. Nataliya said: There was no way I could ever escape reading Doctor Zhivago. After all, I'm a proud d. About Spiritual Nutrition. The most important spiritual nutrition we need for our Life’s journey is to know our reason for being. When we know who we really are. Compositore e direttore d’orchestra, nasce a Rovigno d’Istria il 28 luglio 1920. Incomincia la sua carriera musicale nella banda dei Salesiani in cui suonava l. Tedlie as surgeon & botanist & a resident probably the first has resided many years in this country & has great knowledge of the manners, language & customs. Compiled from the Authentic Records of the Colony. Washington: Way & Gideon, 1. With a large folding map. Handsome period style gilt tooled full sheep with a gilt title label. With some minor browning, otherwise a very good copy. The first settlers were landed on Providence Island at the mouth of the Mesurado River, but after protracted negotiations with Bassa and Dei headmen they eventually procured the rights to the Du Kor Peninsula on which Monrovia now stands. Ashmun was joined for a while in 1. Robert Gurley, who gave the settlement the name Liberia. He served as the United States government's agent in the Liberia colony and as such its de facto governor for two different terms: one from August 1. April 1. 82. 3, and another from August 1. March 1. 82. 8., As United States representative to Liberia as well as agent of the ACS, Ashmun effectively became governor of the colony from 1. He took a leadership role in what he found to be a demoralized colony and helped build the defenses of Monrovia, as well as building up trade. During his tenure in Liberia, Ashmun increased agricultural production, annexed more tribal land from the natives, and exploited commercial opportunities in the interior. He helped create a constitution for Liberia that enabled blacks to hold positions in the government. This was unlike what happened in the neighboring British colony of Sierra Leone, which was dominated by whites although founded for the resettlement of free blacks from Britain and Upper Canada. Ashmun's letters home and his book, History of the American Colony in Liberia, 1. Liberia colony. Quarto, 3 parts in one volume. With a total of fifteen engraved plates and maps including two double page illustrated dedication leaves, six maps (two folding and four double page) and seven plates (one folding and five double page). With two period engraved exlibris. Handsome period brown gilt tooled mottled full calf. Rebacked using original spine, one map with expertly repaired tear, one leaf with minor repair of blank margin some mild age toning, but overall a very good copy in very original condition. Very rare and important first edition of the first monograph on Madagascar. The works contains a description of the provinces, rivers and natural history of Madagascar and adjacent islands and the religion, language, customs and government of its inhabitants. Many areas are described for the first time. Flacourt was named governor of Madagascar by the French East India Company from 1. In 1. 65. 5 he returned to France. Not long after he was appointed director general of the company; but having again returned to Madagascar, he drowned on his voyage home on the 1. June 1. 66. 0., Flacourt was one of the few, if not the only, Western persons to have recorded knowledge of the elephant birds of Madagascar when they were possibly still extant. Flacourtia, a genus of flowering plants in the willow family, Salicaceae, was named in honor of him. Quarto (2. 8,5x. 18,5 cm). Twenty- four pages in fine and regular handwriting in brown ink on recto and verso of beige laid paper. Original stitched beige laid paper wrappers, overall in near fine condition. An interesting manuscript written by an experienced navigator as a navigation guide for other seaman that gives very detailed descriptions of the African coast between Cape Spartel (near Tangiers) to Cape Bojador (Western Sahara) as well as Madeira and the Canary Island, etc. The report includes details about latitudes, longitudes, distances, routes, anchorages, hidden rocks, tides, currents and descriptions of visible ports and villages. Overall a very descriptive manuscript offering extensive observations of the geography of the west coast of Africa and near- by islands. The first part of the manuscript describes the Atlantic coast of Morocco and Western Sahara: Cape Spartel, Arzilla (Asilah), Larache, Mamora (Mehdya), Sal. The second part describes Madeira, and of the Canary Islands: Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Grande Canarie, Tenerife, La Palma, Hierro and Savage Islands (Selvagens), north of the Canaries. Interesting is a description of the ruins of Anaf. Anfa was rebuilt as a military fortress by the Portuguese in 1. Casa Branca, then abandoned in 1. Anfa is a long town in ruins, on the edge of the sea. It is easily recognizable due to its numerous towers. Some other interesting extracts from the manuscript include: P. We can moor everywhere in front of Sal. The best mooring is about 2 miles from the town. Mazagan is a fortified town that belongs to Portugal, it is the worst mooring of the entire coast of Barbarie. The waves are always very strong. Madeira Island is very high, except the extremity which lowers steeply. It is often covered in clouds which render it poorly visible 5 or 6 lengths away and it is often touched before it is discovered. From the West side of Canary to the point closest to Tenerife, the distance is not more than 1. In the centre of this island is found the famous Tenerife peak, referred to by the former and current inhabitants as the peak of Teyde. The best mooring on this route is between the middle of the city and a fort or castle around 1 mile away. Investigator, with a Detailed Description of a Battle with the Natives after the Ship had been Grounded on a Sand Bank in the Niger Delta for Eleven Days, Negotiations with the Local Chief, Liberation of the Hostage, Casualties on Board et al. Folio manuscript journal (ca. Brown ink on bluish wove paper on five bifoliums for a total of 2. Each bifolium numbered in the upper left corner of the first page. Fold marks, paper age toned, minor chips to margins, not affecting text, last page with a repaired tear not affecting text. Overall a very good manuscript written in a legible hand. Historically significant original manuscript report of the voyage of HMS “Investigator” under command of Lieutenant A. E. Kay up the Niger River from its delta (the mouth of the Nun River) to Lokoja (central Nigeria). This was one of the yearly voyages of HMS “Investigator” undertaken in 1. British missions and factories up the Niger. The purpose of this particular voyage was to bring up to Lokoja, Captain J. Lyons Mc. Leod - new British Council for the districts bordering on the Niger and Tchadda Rivers (appointed in 1. Correspondence with the British Commissioners at Sierra Leone, Havana, the Cape of Good Hope, Loanda and New York, and Reports from British Vice- Admirals and from British Naval Officers Relating to the Slave Trade, From January 1 to December 3. Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, London, 1. Mc. Leod was to go as far as Rabba to visit King Masaba of the Bida Emirate. The manuscript, although unsigned is most likely the original draft written by Lieutenant Kay and gives a detailed description of the events on board HMS “Investigator” from 2. July to 1. 4 August 1. This is a shorter version of Kay’s report published as the enclosure # 1 to the correspondence 2. Consul Mc. Leod to Lord Stanley, dated Lokoja, 1 September 1. Correspondence with British Ministers and Agents in Foreign Countries, and with Foreign Ministers in England, relating to the slave trade. From January 1 to December 3. Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons,' 1. The texts in this manuscript and the printed reports are very similar, the narration in the manuscript one is more concise and finishes with the ship’s arrival to Onitsha (southeastern Nigeria) whereas the printed report continues till 2. August. The manuscript is most likely the first draft of the report later edited and enlarged by Kay before being sent to the British Foreign Office. Kay reports about the “Investigator’s” arrival to the mouth of the Nun River from Lagos, purchase of coal from the West Africa Company’s factory at Akassa, and voyage up the river. There is a detailed and dramatic description of the crew's struggle after the ship had been grounded on the sand bank near Imblamah village on July 3. August 1. 0, “the eleven days she was aground in the delta of the Niger, and exposed to six different attacks by the Imblamah pirates, during each of which they endeavoured to obtain possession of HMS “Investigator” (Correspondence with British Ministers and Agents in Foreign Countries.
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