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
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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.
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.....
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.....
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.
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.`.
Finding the North Pole: Dr. Cook's Story of His Discovery, April 21, 1909 & The Story of Commander Peary's Discovery, April 6, 1909 Together with The Marvelous Record of Former Arctic Expeditions
Philadelphia: Percival Supply Co., 1909. 8vo. 448 pages. Plates. Original decorated cloth. FIRST EDITION.
Northward Over the "Great Ice": A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891-1897
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.....
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.....
America Illustrated
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.....
A Journal of Two Successive Tours upon the Continent, in the Years 1816, 1817, & 1818
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.....
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