Ismalia: A Narrative of the...
London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. First edition. Two octavo volumes in publisher's green cloth with gilt to spines and boards. Brown endpapers. Collating vii, 448, [56, publisher's catalog]; viii, 588..... (Item #3562)
Travel and Exploration
The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia...
London: Macmillan and Co., 1867. First edition. Original dark blue cloth over boards, front cover pictorially stamped in gilt. Spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, brown coated endpapers. Two..... (Item #3561)
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A Sketch of Modern France...
London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798. First edition. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with morocco label to spine. Some gentle bumping to corners and rubbing to boards..... (Item #4194)
Iracema, or Honey Lips; and...
London: Bickers & Son, 1886. First English language edition. Finely bound by Boundey, Root & Son in half morocco over marbled boards. Top edge brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Internally a...... (Item #3374)
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage...
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. First edition. Finely bound by Bayntun in half calf over cloth, with gilt to spines. Top edges brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of..... (Item #3087)
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The Shirley Letters from California...
San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1922. First edition. One of a limited run of 450 copies signed by the publisher, of which 200 were printed on California bond paper (the..... (Item #3381)
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Journal of Captain Cook's Last...
Hartford, CT. Printed and sold by Nathaniel Patten, 1783. First edition. Octavo in fours (6 5/8 x 4 3/8 inches; 169 x 111 mm). [1]-208 pp. Map absent as is..... (Item #1851)
Voyage to the Pacific Ocean...
London: printed for G. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Cadell, 1784. First edition. Three quarto volumes (11 7/16 x 9 inches; 290 x 230 mm.)..... (Item #2022)
Complete set of Cook's Voyages...
London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773, 1777, 1785. Second edition, First edition, Second edition. Second edition of the 1773 Hawkesworth edition, complete with the "directions for placing the cuts"..... (Item #3329)
Coryats Crudities. Hastily gobled up...
London: Printed by W[illiam] S[tansby], 1611. First edition. Quarto in eights (8 1/8 x 6 inches; 206 x 153 mm). [-]2; a8-b8 ([-]1 inserted after a3); b4; c8-g8; h4-l4; B8-D8..... (Item #897)
On the Origin of Species...
London: John Murray, 1859. First edition. One of only 1,250 copies printed (of which Mudie bought 500). Octavo gathered and signed in 12s. Original green diagonal-wave-grain cloth, spine lettered and..... (Item #4065)
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Matthew Flinders Narrative of His...
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1946. First Thus. Limited to 750 numbered copies (this copy being 547). Folio (12 1/4 x 7 7/16 inches; 310 x 189 mm.). Publisher’s full..... (Item #3653)
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A Circuit Rider's Wife (Signed...
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1910. First edition. Original green publisher's cloth binding brightly stamped in gilt. A tight, square, pleasing copy with just a bit of rubbing to the lower corners..... (Item #3487)
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The American Atlas: or, A....
London: Printed and Sold by R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 1775. First edition. Folio (558 x 396 mm). Recent half calf period style, marbled sides. Some pale offsetting and occasional..... (Item #3500)
The Spirit of St. Louis...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. First trade edition. A Near Fine copy of the book in Very Good+ dust jacket. Inscribed by the author: "To Henry J. Friendly, with..... (Item #2632)
The Spirit of St. Louis...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. First edition. A just about Fine copy of the book with the top-stain a bit faded otherwise in excellent shape. In the original publisher's..... (Item #2219)
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Mountains and Molehills, or Recollections...
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and boards embossed in blind. Green coated endpapers. Cloth a bit faded and..... (Item #4095)
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Redburn: His First Voyage.
London: Richard Bentley, 1849. First edition. Bound in contemporary quarter red morocco over marbled boards, with marbled end papers and a marbled text block. Front hinge a little tender, but..... (Item #1855)
In the Grip of the...
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909. First edition. Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with a gilt camel and tribesman within a double circular frame, spine ruled and lettered in gilt..... (Item #3687)
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Two Years Before The Mast...
London and Glasglow: Clear-Type Press, 1904. First edition. Original red cloth, front cover pictorially stamped with a representation of a whaling ship, with the name SCUD plainly visible on the..... (Item #3756)
The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea...
London: F. G. Moon, 1842-1845 & 1846-1849. First edition. 6 volumes, folio (63 x 49 cm). Deluxe subscribers' copy, portrait frontispiece, 2 engraved map, 6 pictorial lithograph titles (originally The..... (Item #4294)
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Mamma's Lessons on the History...
London: John Snow, [1849]. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding stamped in gilt, black and blind. Brown coated endpapers. Spine sunned and extremities somewhat bumped and rubbed; binding tight and..... (Item #4210)
Voyages dans les Alpes, precedes...
Geneva: Chez Barde, Manget & Compagnie, 1786. First edition. Volumes I-II (of 4) only. Quarto (10 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches; 260 x 197 mm.). Contemporary full russia, covers with..... (Item #3772)
Fish by Schaldach: Collected Etchings...
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1937. First edition. Deluxe publisher's vellum with gilt to spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Signed limited edition, this 135 of 157, with an original signed etching..... (Item #2939)
A Week on the Concord...
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding stamped in blind with gilt to spine. Spine lightly sunned, with trivial rubbing to ends; else tight, square and..... (Item #3438)