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)
Travel and Exploration
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)
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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An Account of Corsica
Glasgow: : Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry, London, 1768. First edition. With all issue points called for by Rothschild. Contemporary sheep..... (Item #3571)
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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First Footsteps in East Africa...
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. First edition. Second issue (without suppressed appendix iv, as usual). Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 222 x 141 mm.). Original red-orange..... (Item #3580)
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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. Octavo. Original green diagonal-wave-grain cloth (binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnant to rear pastedown), spine lettered and decorated in gilt, covers ornamentally blocked in..... (Item #3310)
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1908 Travel Diary of an...
[Germany]: 1908. Black sheep over stitched card, with some rubbing to the spine and edges. Text block reinforced internally with paper tape. Measures 3 x 5 inches. Comprised of 72..... (Item #2204)
A History of India From...
London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1936. First edition. Finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full crushed red morocco, with five raised bands and gilt borders to spine and boards..... (Item #3104)
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20 hrs. 40 min.: Our...
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First edition. An about Fine copy of the book, sharp, square and unread and with the gilt bright. In a Very Good dust..... (Item #1822)
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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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Letters of a Peruvian Princess...
London: C. Cooke, [1799]. Second illustrated edition. Finely bound in contemporary full straight grain morocco with gilt to spine and boards. All edges and turn-ins brightly gilt. Burgundy silk moire..... (Item #3152)
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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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Moby Dick or the Whale...
New York: Random House, 1930. Rockwell Kent. First edition. First trade edition after the limited Lakeside Press edition. A Fine copy of the book in a Near Fine dust jacket..... (Item #3314)
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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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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The Holy Land
London: Day & Son, 1855. First Edition. 6 volumes in 3, measuring 294 x 209 mm. First quarto edition of this illustrated record of the Middle East by the first..... (Item #2384)