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    • 5 VOLS-MEMORIAL HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK AND THE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY: VOL I, III & IV - FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE YEAR 1892, EDITED BY JAMES GRANT WILSON, VOL V - FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE YEAR 1896, HAVE FOXING, SOME WEAR TO COVERS,
      Sep. 24, 2016

      5 VOLS-MEMORIAL HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK AND THE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY: VOL I, III & IV - FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE YEAR 1892, EDITED BY JAMES GRANT WILSON, VOL V - FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE YEAR 1896, HAVE FOXING, SOME WEAR TO COVERS,

      Est: $200 - $250

      5 VOLS- MEMORIAL HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK AND THE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY: VOL I - IV, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE YEAR 1892. EDITED BY JAMES GRANT WILSON. VOL V - FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE YEAR 1896. HAVE FOXING, SOME WEAR TO COVERS

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    • GRANT JAMES AUGUSTUS: (1827-1892) Scottish
      Jul. 13, 2013

      GRANT JAMES AUGUSTUS: (1827-1892) Scottish

      Est: €200 - €250

      GRANT JAMES AUGUSTUS: (1827-1892) Scottish Explorer of eastern equatorial Africa. A.L.S., J. A. Grant, two pages, 8vo, n.p., 10th September (?) n.y., to Mrs. Clarke. Grant explains that he has a dinner engagement on Friday, although does not yet know at what time, and adds 'if you will allow me I will join your party for an hour that afternoon.' The lower third of the final page is neatly removed, seemingly with no loss of text. G.£150-200

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    • [ BOOKS ]
      Nov. 29, 2012

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      Est: £1,000 - £1,200

      LT COL JAMES AUGUSTUS GRANT: BOTANY OF THE SPEKE AND GRANT EXPEDITION ......, L 1872, sigd and inscr by Grant (1827-1892) to John Kirk (1832-1922), "My Dear Kirk, I avail myself of the opportunity of Sir Bartle Frere to send you part I of the Botany of the Speke and Grant Expedition and hope that future travellers will find some advantage from it.. Yours sincerely, J Grant", dated 1872, 136 plts, old hf cf gt, 4to

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    • WILSON, JAMES GRANT, ed. The Memorial History of the City of New York. New York, 1892. 4 vols. First edition. Illustrated.
      Nov. 18, 2010

      WILSON, JAMES GRANT, ed. The Memorial History of the City of New York. New York, 1892. 4 vols. First edition. Illustrated.

      Est: $100 - $200

      WILSON, JAMES GRANT, ed. The Memorial History of the City of New York. From its First Settlement to the Year 1892. New York: New-York History Company, 1892. 4 vols. 4to, original red cloth, spine stamped in gilt. First edition. Profusely illustrated with plans, maps, and steel engraved in-text and plate portraits. Cloth worn with spine ends chipped on all vols.; hinges starting; otherwise fine.

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    • GRANT, James Augustus (1827-1892). Autograph letter signed to 'Sir Roderick' [Murchison], Simla
      Apr. 07, 2004

      GRANT, James Augustus (1827-1892). Autograph letter signed to 'Sir Roderick' [Murchison], Simla

      Est: £2,500 - £3,500

      GRANT, James Augustus (1827-1892). Autograph letter signed to 'Sir Roderick' [Murchison], Simla, 18 October 1866, on ivory paper, 5 1/2 pages, 8vo (later endorsement on last page, a few small spots, duststains in folds and at edges, tiny splits to edges, 3rd leaf fraying in margins and integral blank removed). A commentary on the injustice of the distribution of honours, in which he has received the Companionship of the Bath and Baker a knighthood, while it is 'a shame to Govern[men]t that the family of Spekes sh[oul]d be so wholly ignored. He it is whose name should first appear in the Gazette'. Grant contends that now that there are 'few or no sceptics about the source of the Nile' the Speke family should receive a baronetcy and, since both he and Baker owe every reward and honour they have received to Speke, 'to see his name forgotten and to read my name following Baker's is you must allow somewhat humiliating after our memorable expedition. It is neither a delicate nor natural position in which to have placed Speke & myself.' The second part of the letter gives an account of life at Simla including the probable appointment of a new governor of Bombay, the Grants' attendance at a 'great croquet party' given by the Viceroy, and arrangements for a 'grand Durbar' at Agra. Proposals that Speke should be honoured had been considered in his lifetime: he had himself written to the Royal Geographical Society in March 1864 requesting that his name should be put forward, but he was not sufficiently popular with the Council. His brother wrote to John Blackwood two weeks after his death to say that there had been an indication that a recommendation had been made that he should have a knighthood, presumably because the Council decided that he had been over-harshly treated. Grant had received the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1864 for his part in the expeditions led by Speke in 1861 and 1862-63 and continued to defend his reputation with complete loyalty. On his death, a suggestion that his name should be added to Speke's on the memorial in Kensington Gardens was discouraged by his widow, and Grant's role in the Nile expedition continued to be perceived as secondary (Alexander Maitland. Speke (1971), p.228).

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    • GRANT, James Augustus (1827-1892), Daniel OLIVER (1830-1916) [and John Gilbert BAKER
      Apr. 07, 2004

      GRANT, James Augustus (1827-1892), Daniel OLIVER (1830-1916) [and John Gilbert BAKER

      Est: £2,000 - £3,000

      GRANT, James Augustus (1827-1892), Daniel OLIVER (1830-1916) [and John Gilbert BAKER (1834-1920)]. Botany of the Speke and Grant expedition, an enumeration of the plants collected during the journey of the late Captain J.H. Speke and captain... J.A. Grant from Zanzibar to Egypt. The determinations and descriptions by Professor Oliver and others... with an introductory preface, alphabetical list of native names, and notes, by... J. Augustus Grant. Forming Vol.XXIX of the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Taylor and Francis, 1872[-1875]. 4° (290 x 222mm). Title, dedication to John Cruickshank (verso blank), pp.[1-]190 text. Folding three-colour lithographic map with route marked by hand in red, 136 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after Walter Hood Fitch, printed by John Nugent Fitch. (Light spotting to three final text leaves and plates 1, 38, 39 and 73, small tear to lower margin of plate 10.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with triple fillet border, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with repeat decoration in gilt centered in a large flower-spray tool, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, g.e. (joints and spine slightly scuffed). Provenance: Sophia Murdoch (née Speke, sister of Captain Speke, by descent:); T.C. Lethbridge (extensive inscription and family tree on front free endpaper). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE BOTANY OF THE SPEKE AND GRANT EXPEDITION, HERE WITH AN EVOCATIVE PROVENANCE. There were two (or three) issues of the text for this work and two issues of the plates. The plates were available either uncoloured, or hand-coloured as here. The text was issued with the title dated 1872 and a dedication leaf; the Linnean Society re-issued(?) the text with changes to p.1, a new title The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London Volume XXIX (dated 1875), a contents leaf (noting that the work was issued in three parts between May 1872 and September 1875) but with no dedication leaf. A possible third issue (in the Herbarium of Missouri Botanical Garden) is described by Stafleu & Cowan and includes various 'bis' pages not present in either of the other two issues. The fine plates, produced from 'actual specimens', are the work of Walter Hood Fitch, one of the greatest British botanical artists of the nineteenth century, and show 'either new species or such as had never been figured abroad or at home, the object being to present what was of the greatest interest to the botanist' (Introduction p.7). BM(NH) VII, p.953; Nissen BBI 1468; cf. Stafleu & Cowan III, 7057 (variant collation)

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    • GRANT, James A. (1827-1892). Autograph letter signed ("J.A. Grant"), to Carl Christian Giegler
      Feb. 26, 2004

      GRANT, James A. (1827-1892). Autograph letter signed ("J.A. Grant"), to Carl Christian Giegler

      Est: $1,000 - $2,000

      GRANT, James A. (1827-1892). Autograph letter signed ("J.A. Grant"), to Carl Christian Giegler, 18 May 1878. 8 pages, 8vo, with envelope. [With:] Carte-de-visite photograph signed in ink. "AFRICA REQUIRES A CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE TO DEVELOP ITS RESOURCES AND NOT TO BE KEPT IN DARKNESS..." Grant begins with the tragic news of the murder of two European missionaries, then turns to the grand prospect of a continent-wide telegraph. "The Cape people are very anxious to have an overland Tel. from Cairo to the Cape via the Lakes of Central Africa and held a meeting on the question at the Cape in April last." Grant hopes such technological progress will serve to unite Europe and Africa: If we have no war, I feel that many will join in the great undertaking of a union between Europe and the most-easterly parts of Africa--Mauritius & Madagascar...Therefore it is that Africa requires Christian influence to develop its resources, and not be kept in darkness to share the fate that Turkey has brought upon itself....I do not care much about the conversion of the natives...I do not certainly approve their being made Mohammedans and would rather see them take the leap to Christianity..." He goes on to discuss Col. Gordon's recent appointment as governor-general, mentions the British governor of the Cape Colony Sir Bartle-Frere, and bemoans the lack of news from "your side of the Equator." Such silence makes people in England "forget there is such a region as the Nile, unless they receive accounts such as Baker & Stanley always sent us of their well-being." (3)

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