Alger: Federation des Syndicats d'Initiative d'Algerie, [1931]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 93, [2]; 78 half-tone illustrations; original tan wrappers printed in green and black; very good copy. Includes sections on climate, mountaineering, national parks, winter sports, sulpher springs, hunting, fishing, etc. More
T'Amstelredam: Joost Hartgers, 1648. Small 4to, pp. [4], 56 (i.e. 76); collating [A1]-E8; engraved woodcut vignette of 2 ships on both primary and secondary title pages; historiated initial on A3; includes the Journal of Dirck Albertsz Raven on p. 59-76; old blue paper-covered boards; small oil stain in the top..... More
Paris: Hachette, 1892. First edition, large 8vo, pp. [4], 510, [1]; over 500 wood-engraved illustrations throughout, after photographs by Prince Henri d'Orleans; folding map printed in color; recent red maroon cloth, gilt-lettered direct on spine; clean and tight; fine copy in a new binding. More
Amsterdam & Rio de Janeiro: Colibris Editora, 1958. First edition, 2 vols, 8vo, pp. xxi, [3], 427; [4], 448, [2]; very good copy in the dust-jackets. Illustrated throughout. Standard work. More
London: George Newnes, 1901. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 333, [32] ads; gravure frontispiece portrait, 3 folding maps printed in color, and 296 illustrations throughout, a number full-page; front free endpaper neatly and imperceptibly reattached, else a fine, bright copy in original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt and..... More
Philadelphia: John F. Watson, 1810. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, [2], 412; contemporary marbled boards rebacked and retipped, new red morocco label on spine; title a bit browned, else a very good, sound copy. Another edition was published in Boston later the same year. "Though the Life is a...... More
London: printed for T. Cadell, and W. Davies, 1807. 8vo, pp. [2], xv, [1], 460; engraved frontispiece after Joshua Reynolds; recent half tan calf antique over marbled boards, red morocco label; occasional spotting, especially in the margins of the frontispiece, otherwise near fine. This is the first edition to include..... More
London: printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1785. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 524, [1]; E3, E4 and M4 are cancels, as usual; leaves I5, Q7 and U6 are in Pottle's second state; beneath the list of errata at the end is a notice for Boswell's Life of..... More
London: The Hakluyt Society, 2002. Large 8vo, pp. lxxvii, [1], 322; maps and illustrations, some in color, throughout; map endpapers; original cloth in blue printed dust jacket; fine. Hakluyt Society, Series III, Volume 9. More
Topeka: Crane & Co., 1896. First edition, 8vo, pp. 240; frontispiece portrait, another portrait of the author in his youth; spine ends slightly chipped, spine also slightly faded; all else very good in original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Accounts of his childhood in the..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1828. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvii, [3], 346, [2] ads; 4 uncolored aquatints; later quarter brown calf over marbled boards, green morocco label on gilt-paneled spine; extremities rubbed, else a very good copy. Hill, Pacific Voyages, 179: "Contains much information on both Chile and Argentina, in addition..... More
New York: Henry Holt, 1880. Early American edition (first Am. ed. appeared 1878), 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 479; frontispiece, illustrations in text throughout, and one folding map with oceans handcolored in blue; light to moderate foxing to prelim and terminal pages, some wear to extremities with spine ends just beginning..... More
London: The Hakluyt Society, 2004. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 331; illustrations; original cloth in blue printed dust jacket; fine. Hakluyt Society, Series III, Volume 14. More
![Item #30408 Master canoeist [cover title]. Proposed log for master canoeist [title-p.]. James...](/pictures/thumb/30408_1.jpg?v=1632495487)
Geehi River, Australia: 1962. Original manuscript log, 4to (23 x 18 cm.), 47 pages, with numerous insertions, as below; hand-lettered tan paper covers; the manuscript is dampstained throughout. Contains an outline as to canoe construction, notes of the journey, 6 original photographs, 6 drawings including detailed maps, an eagle, a...... More
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1951. 1962 reprint, large 4to, pp. 295; photographic frontispiece, illustrations; original drab printed wrappers, occasional shallow tears along edges not affecting text, corners bumped and a bit worn; interior fine. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Volume 41, Part 1. A detailed study of..... More
London: Methuen & Co., [1925]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 251, [9, ads]; 13 photographic plates, map; original red cloth stamped in blind, spine stamped in gilt; light general wear, some foxing, else very good. The area covered in this history is bordered by the Brenner Pass to the..... More
n.p. [Chicago]: [press of Hartzell, Lord Co.], 1907. Only edition, sq. 12mo, pp. [8], 159, [1]; frontispiece and 31 illustrations from photographs in the text; original white cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; some soiling of the cloth; very good. Inscribed "Compliments of Grace Owen Brown" on..... More
[Colorado Springs, Colo.]: The Press at Colorado College, 1991. Edition limited to 50 copies (this, no. 18), signed by the printer and designer, James Trissel, and also by the photographer, Stuart Klipper; oblong folio, pp. [50] and but for the title-page spread, printed on rectos only; with 28 mounted black..... More
London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., [1929]. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 209, [1]; original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine, vignette stamped in blind on upper cover; a very good and attractive copy; The author was sent by the New Zealand Government to meet with the Maoris when they..... More
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, [1901]. First edition, large 8vo, pp. [2], ix-xiii, [1], 477, [1]; color folding map separated but present, photogravure frontispiece, 47 plates, and many text illustrations; publisher's pictorial red cloth stamped in yellow and black, top edge gilt; boards rubbed and soiled, text clean, good and..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1867. 8vo, pp. [6], xii, 14-421, [1], 6 (ads); publishers' advertisements include notices for Livingstone's Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, and Speke's Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile; frontispiece, 4 full-page wood engravings, a number of other wood engravings..... More
London: W. Thacker & Co.; Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, & Co., 1898. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. xii, 335, [1], [4] ads; frontispiece portrait and 37 illustrations in the text, some full-page; a near fine, largely unopened copy in original pictorial brown cloth, gilt stamped on upper cover and spine..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xx, [2], 501, [1]; frontispiece and 30 plates; original full green cloth, gilt title on spine; textblock slightly skewed, edges rubbed, bookplate on free endpaper, all else very good and clean. "This history, in contrast to B. Willson's 'Great..... More
London: J. Robson, 1792. First edition, 4to, pp. xx, [134], 44, 47-66, 4, [2]; 13 plates including the folding plan of Blackfriars (with old tape repair barely touching the image), genealogical tables in the text; recent calf-backed marbled boards, red gilt morocco spine label; all plates with moderate tidemark mostly..... More
