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.
Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1968. Oblong folio. Maps and full-page illustrations. Original printed boards. Boards worn and soiled. FIRST EDITION.
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.
London: John Murray, 1848. 3 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles. Contemporary half black pebbled morocco, pebbled cloth. A very good copy with light wear at extremities and spotting to endleaves. Fourth edition. The author was sent to Spain as an agent for the Bible Society for the purpose of printing and circulating.....
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1891. 8vo. xxvi + 300 pages. Plates and folding map. Near-contemporary citron half morocco, marbled boards, top edges gilt. FIRST EDITION.
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.
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.....
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's, 1929. First edition. 8vo. 63 illustrations, large folding map at end. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine. Spine gilt somewhat faded; small staion to lower sheet edges, map slighhtly creased from misfolding. Signed by Martin Johnson and his wife Osa.....
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.....
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.
London: John Murray, 1853. First edition. 8vo. 686pp. 15 plates and maps, some folding, lacking the map of Abyssinia at end. 19th-century crimson half-morocco, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt. Provenance: E. Summerfield (bookplate). Atabey 687; Abbey, Travel 384; Blackmer 969.`.
Philadelphia: Percival Supply Co., 1909. 8vo. 448 pages. Plates. Original decorated cloth. FIRST EDITION.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1898. 2 volumes. 8vo. 521 & 625 pages. Frontispiece portraits in both volumes. Nearly 800 illustrations throughout, primarily photographs (many full-page). Original blue cloth, vignette on cover. FIRST EDITION. Details three of Peary's eight expeditions to Greenland towards the North Pole. The expedition from.....
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.....
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.
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske & Company, 1883. Folio. 12 x 9-1/2 inches. Wood-engraved frontispiece and numerous illustrations in text, many full-page. Original pictorial gilt cloth, edges gilt. A diverse and wide-ranging illustrated work on America, with sections on the Yellowstone, Hudson River, Natural Bridge (Virginia), Trenton High Falls, Squam Lake, White.....
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies; W. Blackwood, 1820. Three volumes, 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.). Half-titles. Large folding frontispiece map in vol. 1 (32 x 14 1/2 in.). 476, [4];696, [8]; 564, [7] pages, indices at end of each volume. Contemporary vellum over pasteboard, gilt floriate border.....