Roteiro de Todos os Sinais na Costa do Brasil
Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1968. Oblong folio. Maps and full-page illustrations. Original printed boards. Boards worn and soiled. FIRST EDITION.
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A Trip to the Azores or Western Islands
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867. 8vo. 137pp. Original gilt-lettered plum cloth. Binding faded and worn at ends of spine. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED to John C. Rand by the author.
Early Travellers In Scotland
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1891. 8vo. xxvi + 300 pages. Plates and folding map. Near-contemporary citron half morocco, marbled boards, top edges gilt. FIRST EDITION.
A Yacht Voyage. Letters From High Latitudes
New York: R. Worthington, 1882. 8vo. 268 pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plates. Original gilt- and black-decorated brown cloth. Early reprint of Lord Dufferin's classic tale of travels in the north.
St. Helena and the Cape of Good Hope: or, Incidents in the Missionary Life of the Rev. James M'Gregor Bertram of St. Helena
New York: Edward H. Fletcher, 1862. 8vo. 4], xiv, [3], 18-220 pp, 11-page advertisements at end. Complete with engraved frontispiece portrait of Bertram, portrait of the author, and engraved title by J. Bannister. Original embossed brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Binding worn, pale browning and dampstaining. Provenance: James L. Ward.....
Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55
Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1857-56. 2 volumes. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Profusely illustrated (300 engravings including 22 plates); 2 folding maps. Original cloth (varying colors), gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Augustus Seward (signature on title), presumably the career Army officer (1826-1876), son of William H. Seward and Adeline Seward.....
The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, A Personal Narrative
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854. 8vo. 552 pages. Mezzotint frontispiece by John Sartain, map of "Baffin's Bay", 12 engraved and lithographed plates, numerous wood engraved vignettes. Lacks the folding map. Original cloth, stamp-embossed, gilt voyage motif within stamped lozenge. FIRST EDITION, second issue with 1854 title-page.
A Narrative of the Campaign in Russia, During the Year 1812
Hartford: Loomis & Richards for George Sheldon & Co, 1814. First American edition. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait of Prince Koutousoff, two large folding engraved maps (the first with irregular folding creases and 3-in. tear crossing image). (Some foxing.) Contemporary calf, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. First American edition, complete with frontispiece.....
Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative of His Shipwreck, and Consequent Discovery of Certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea with a Detail of Many Extraordinary and Highly Interesting Events in His Life, from the Year 1733 to 1749 as Written in His Own Diary; Edited by Jane Porter
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman. 1832. Three volumes, 8vo. 344 + 359 + 341pp. Contemporary green pebbled morocco gilt. Rebacked to match, owner's name on titles. Second edition.
Arctic Adventure By Sea and Land From the Earliest Date to the Last Expeditions in Search of Sir John Franklin
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1857. 8vo. 480 pages. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; folding map; several plates and text illustrations. Original blind stamped cloth. FIRST EDITION. Chronicles the search of Sir John Franklin in the arcitc, with the contextualization of several other Arctic expeditions during the same time period.....
Travels in upper and lower Egypt undertaken by order of the old government of France
London: J. Debrett, 1800. 4to (10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches). Errata and advertisement leaf at end. Large folding map, frontispiece portrait and 27 engraved plates. Contemporary diced russia. Binding worn, spine renewed; map with tears crossing image, some spotting and browning. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. The author "related [his.....
Sinai and Palestine in Connection with their History
London: John Murray, 1856. First edition. 8vo. 535pp. 7 color folding engraved maps, each mounted on linen, and four woodcuts in text. Contemporary calf calf, marbled boards, smooth spine with gilt diapered semé, black gilt-lettered morocco letteringpiece. Includes an introduction on Egypt and the relation to Israel, and chapters on.....
My Dark Companions and their Strange Stories
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. 8vo. xi, 319 pp., (xii) pp. of ads. Pictorial green cloth-covered boards decorated in black, green, white, and gilt, with very minor wear to extremities; frontispiece tissue guard present but separating where glue has dried, with offsetting to frontispiece and title-page from same; final.....
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