[Avon, CT]: Printed for the Limited Editions Club at the Sign of the Stone Book, 1974. Edition limited to 2000, this no. 1723, 8vo, pp. xxviii, 327, [3]; 10 color folding plates; red quarter morroco over marbled boards with gilt title on spine, t.e.g., fine in original slipcase and chipped..... 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
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
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Privately printed for the friends of Luther Albertus and Elinore Taylor Brewer, 1927. Edition limited to 300 copies, small 8vo, pp. 62; 4 plates of photographs; white decorative cloth (a bit soiled), paper cover label, cloth toned especially along spine, else a near fine copy. A short..... 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
Boston, Tokyo: J.B. Millet Co., [1901-02]. Library Edition, limited to 1000 numbered sets, of which this is number 480, 8vo, 12 vols.; the first 8 on Japan, the remaining 4 on China; 12 color frontispieces from photographs, a great many plates (some in color); original green cloth lettered in gilt..... 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
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
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
Edinburgh: J. Ruthvan for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, London, 1790. First edition (published later in London the same year); 5 volumes, 4to, engraved vignette title page in each volume, 58 engraved charts, battle plans, and plates, 3 engraved folding maps, 7 typographic pages of Ethiopic characters between pp..... 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
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
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1954. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 277; black and white illustrations by Ronald Julius Christensen; publisher's cloth in white pictorial, price clipped dust jacket (a bit soiled), chips and tears along jacket edges not affecting text, spine toned, interior fine. Buchwald's selected articles originally..... More
New York: Gavin Houston, 1890. First edition, 2 vols., small 8vo, pp. vii, [5], 535; v, [3], 489; frontispiece in each volume, 28 plates; orig. gilt-decorated blue cloth; vol. II dampstained on covers and with mild dampstain on prelims and terminals; all else very good, sound, and bright. Presentation bookplate..... More
London & Paris: Fisher, Son, & Co., n.d., [1841]. 3 volumes, 8vo, pp.vi, [10], 504; [14], 563; [12], [8] subscriber list, 596, [20] index,14, [2] ads; engraved frontispiece portrait, engraved folding map, 72 wood engravings in the text; rear hinge and joint of volume I split, cloth cracked at the..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1875. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 407; frontispiece, plates, illustrations in the text; original green cloth, spine gilt-lettered; light general wear, slightly shaken; overall a very good copy. A collection of articles by naturalist Frank Buckland (1826-80), most of which were first published in his..... More
