New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1905. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 364; portrait frontispiece, folding map, and 100 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 44 plates; original green cloth stamped in blue, gilt, and green on upper cover and spine; very good. This copy inscribed "To Mr. K...... More
Chicago & New York: Rand McNally & Co., 1897. 8vo, pp. 527, [1]; 54 full-page illusrations, a very good, sound copy in original brown cloth decorated in silver and gilt. Glazier, president of the American Geographical Society, found one lake past Itasca which he humbly named Lake Glazier, and claimed..... More
London: The Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1969. Limited edition for subscribers only, of which this is no. 1079, large 8vo, pp. lxxii, 423, [1], xvi; two folding maps, prospectus for vol. XXVIII laid in; full black cloth gilt, printed gray paper wrappers; gutter split, textblock otherwise sound and clean, closed..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxv, [1], 428; xii, [2], 444; steel-engraved frontispiece, 42 plates (many from photographs), and 4 maps (3 folding, 1 in rear cover pocket); light dampstain pervades the top margin of most of volume II and the back cover..... More
London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1921. First edition, 8vo, pp. 479, [1]; 20 plates, 44 diagrams in the text (including a double-p. map), and 5 maps (4 folding) original pictorial black cloth stamped in green on upper cover and spine; covers spotted, especially along the fore-edge of the upper cover..... More
London: John Lane, the Bodley Head Ltd., [1929]. First edition of the first Scott biography, 8vo, pp. ix, [3], 240, [4] ads; black and white photographic portrait frontispiece, 8 plates (2 folding) of illustrations, maps, and facsimiles; publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in dark blue and lettered in gilt; spine..... More
Gera-Untermhaus: W. Koehler'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1905-07. Folio, 12 fascicles consisting of Series I-III (all published) in a pictorial cloth portfolio, pp. [89]; 48 unnumbered leaves of plates; occasional rubbing, several edges of the fascicles have been reinforced, a few minor short tears; in all a very good copy. A fine collection..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. 8vo, pp. xxiv, 293, [1]; frontispiece illustration tipped-in, plates, woodcuts throughout, illustrated endpapers; very good or better in original orange cloth over black cloth, pictorial paper spine label, dust-jacket with minor water staining and small chips. More
Washington, D.C. G.P.O., 1876. First edition, large 8vo, pp. [2], 696; frontispiece portrait of Hall, engraved frontispiece of the Polaris, 32 plates (1 hand-colored), 27 illustrations in text and 6 maps; errata slip lain in; original pictorial terracotta cloth stamped in gilt, rebacked in attractive matching niger morocco, gilt-paneled spine..... More
New York & London: Harper & Bros. 1921. First edition, 8vo, pp. [10],354, [1]; pictorial endpapers, frontis and 29 plates after illustrations by George Picken; waterstain to top corners of prelims and terminals, else a very good copy in orig. pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and..... More
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 275; map on front pastedown, 8 illus. on rectos and versos of 4 plates, plus illus. in text; very good copy in the dust-jacket. More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. Second and best edition with an added 50-page introduction; 3 volumes, 8vo, lxviii, 419, [1], 32 (ads); xii, 425, [1], [2] ads; xii, 432, 32 (ads); 3 lithograph frontispieces (2 tinted, 1 hand-colored), chromolithograph dedication leaf, 3 engraved vignette title pages, engraved folding..... More
[Newton St Margarets: Pequena, 2009]. First edition, square 4to, pp. 303, [1]; illustrated throughout; fine copy in the dust jacket. Signed by the author on the half-title and by James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian. "A celebration of the life of Edward Beveridge Binnie, who was..... More
London: Religious Tract Society, 1909. Second edition, 8vo, pp. xxv, [1], 587, [8], ads; photogravure frontispiece portrait, illustrations from photographs, maps; light rubbing to binding, especially at edges, but overall a very good copy. More
London: John Murray, 1839. First edition, 8vo, viii, 488 & 38pp., tipped in errata slip plus 8-p. Murray catalogue dated February, 1839; spine somewhat faded and spotted, else a good, sound copy or better in orig. green cloth, gilt lettering on spine and upper cover. Sabin 31133: ""It details the..... More
London: printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1795. First edition, 4to, pp. xliv, 458, [2] ads and directions to binder; large folding engraved map hand-colored in outline, 8 other engraved folding maps and plates; generally a very good, clean, and large copy (300 x 240 mm.) in early 19th-century..... More
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, 1917. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 806, [2]; portrait frontispiece, 5 maps (including 1 folding map printed in color at the back), numerous illustrations from photographs and drawings throughout, many full-page; spine slightly dull, rear hinge starting; all else very good in original red cloth stamped..... More
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, [1915]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 964, [4]; 11 maps, numerous illustrations from photographs and drawings throughout, many full-page, some double-page; very good in original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. "During the First World War Hedin travelled the West and East Fronts..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam & Co., 1856. Large folio (approx. 20½ x 15"), consisting of a title page, and introduction leaf, and 10 leaves of descriptive text to accompany each of the 10 plates, of which one is a lithograph portrait of Commodore Perry from a daguerreotype by P...... More
Wellington: R. E. Owen, Government Printer, 1964. First edition, 8vo, pp. [11], 12-435, [1]; map endpapers; over 70 illustrations on 40 plates; blue faux morocco with gilt spine lettering; dust jacket, cilpped; slightly scuffed; otherwise very good. Spence 582. More
Leyden: Pieter van der Aa, 1706. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 43, [5]; engraved vignette on title page, tail-pieces and initials; 2 folding engraved plates; very good and sound in 20th-century marbled wrappers. Exerpt and translation of the author's Historia General de los Hechos de los Castellanos, first printed Madrid..... More
London: Constable and Co., 1911. First edition, 8vo, pp. xx, 356; folding map printed in color, 8 color plates, and 74 half-tones on 38 plates; original orange cloth with pictorial onlay on the upper cover, front cover stamped in black, the spine in gilt; faint accession numbers at the base..... More
London: Longman, [et. al.], 1860. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo; 3 large folding maps hand-colored in outline, 5 other full-page maps and plans, each with hand-coloring, numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, plus 20 rather spectacular chromoxylographic plates from photographs taken by Humphrey Lloyd Hime, photographer to the expedition, or..... More
London: John Murray, 1854. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [7], viii-xxvii, [5], 408, 32 ads (dated January 1854); [5], vi-xii; 487, [1]; 2 chromolithographic frontispieces; 2 engraved maps hand-colored in outline, colored folding maps; 79 wood engravings; 10 tinted lithographic plates, plus a single full-page wood engraving printed in..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1890. Second edition (first trade edition), 4to, pp. 23; photographic frontispiece, 2 photographic illus. on 1 plate, and 6 maps (5 folding); very good in original pebble-grained green cloth lettered in gilt on front cover, light wear to extremities. A professor of chemistry at..... More
