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.
Travel and Exploration
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.
The Bible in Spain; or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
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 the scriptures.
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.
The Wild Northland Being the Story of a winter journey, with dogs, across Northern North America
New York: Allerton Book Co., 1922. 8vo. 360pp. Folding frontispiece route map. Original cloth.
The Loneliest Continent: The Story of Antarctic Discovery
Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1964. First. 8vo. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket.
Bruce Chatwin: Photographs and Notebooks
London: Jonathan Cape, 1993. Oblong 4to. 160 pages. Color frontispiece and full page photographs. Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket. Very light shelf wear to jacket, otherwise a fine copy. FIRST EDITION.
Take It from Me: Being an Account of the Emotions of One Dan Allerton of America During a Year's Sojourn in England.
London: Grant Righards, 1921. First. [266] pp. minor stain to front fore edge else a very good copy lacking the d.j. nicely inscribed by Collins.
Signed first day cover
New York: 1947. Signed "R.H. Cruzen, Rear Admiral, US Navy," honoring Operation Highjump of the Antarctic Expedition of 1946-47, postmarked New York, 1947.
London As It Is [spine title: Hand-Book of Modern London. cover title: Murray's Modern London]
London: John Murray, c1856. lii + 316 pp.
From the Nile to Norway and Homeward
Hust, 1891.
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.
A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomits
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1889. the second edition. originally published in 1873.
Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America
Readex Microprint, 1966.
John Pettie, R.A., H.R.S.A.
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1908. teg.
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...
Normandy in Colour The Scenery and Romance of Its Ancient Towns
J. M. Dent & Co, 1906. originally published in 1905.
Our Beautiful Homeland: Norwic,: Shakespeare Land, the Peak District, the Dukeries
London: The Gresham Pub Co, c1900. many plates in color.
Lion. African Adventure with the King of Beasts
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...
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.
Travels in Canada and Through the States of New York and Pennsylvania. [Two Volumes in One]
London: George Manwaring, 1861. 345 + 357 pp.
Notices and Voyages of the Famed Quebec Mission to the Pacific Northwest
Oregon Historical Society, 1956.
Discoveries in the Ruins of Neneveh and Bablyon; with Travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the Desert. Being the Result of a Second Expedition Undertaken for Trustees of the British Museum
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.`.
A Wanderer in London
New York: The Macmillan Co, 1906. First American. 307 pp. teg.