Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers; 306 Chestnut Street, 1866. Supernatural tale set in a remote house in Scotland. Given Peterson's history of piracy, it is possible this is an American imitation of Moreton; or, The doomed house, a thriller issued in London by E. Lloyd in 21 penny parts in..... Read More about Moreton Hall; or, The spirits of the haunted house. A true tale in real life

London: Edwin J. Brett, "Boys of England" Office, [September-November, 1877]. Issued originally as ten penny parts in nine (“No.2 and coloured picture gratis with no. 1” on front wrapper), Joe Sterling is a story of the London underworld by James Greenwood, “the Amateur Casual”, turning upon possession of a primitive..... Read More about Joe Sterling; or, A Ragged Fortune

London: Hogarth House, [1885]. With list of the Hogarth House Library titles inside front wrapper, issued in weekly penny parts and as bound volumes in illustrated covers. Read More about King of Diamonds: or, The Adventures of the Pack in France. A sequel to "Gentleman George"

Boston: Thomes and Talbot, 1876. Outstanding opies of the first four numbers of the Thomes and Talbot Novelette series, comprising: (1) [Ballou, Maturin M.] The Arkansas Ranger: or, Dingle the Backwoodsman. A Story of East and West. By Lieutenant Murray. (2) Cobb, Sylvanus, Jr. The Sea Lion: or, The Privateer..... Read More about The Novelette. Number 1 - Number 4

Ogdensburgh [N.Y.]: Published by J.C. Sprague, 1855. First edition, likely a presentation copy to the publisher inscribed on the front blank "To my good friend/Sprague/From the Author/Nov. 1855." INSCRIBED FROM AUTHOR TO PUBLISHER. An important overland narrative and a significant early account of Gold Rush life. "This account is acclaimed..... Read More about Scenery of the Plains, Mountains and Mines: or a Diary Kept upon the Overland Route to...

Cambridge: at the Univerrsity Press, 1947. First edition. With correspondence of 2 letters from each between David Lack and Ashley Montagu about their different interpetations about evolution without competition. With an ALS and a TLS from Charles Birch. Read More about Darwin's Finches

Boston: James Monroe & Co, 1838. First edition. "Includes travel into Maine, New York, Virginia, etc." Pages 1-62 are about the Vineyard. Read More about Sketches of Martha's Vineyard and Other Reminiscences of Travel at Home, etc. By an Inexperienced...

New York: [1918]. First English language edition, translated from the German edition issued in 1905, by Margaret and Erich Zimmerman.  Privately printed in an edition of only fifty copies. Graff's Copy -- One of 50 Copies Printed. "Scharmann started his overland odyssey on March 20, 1849, from New York as..... Read More about Scharmann's Overland Journey to California from the Pages of a Pioneer's Diary

Aboard the Hussar [Washington, Alaska, etc.]: May 8-June 3, 1934. "Just a shooting trip in Alaska": Signed by E.F. Hutton. Manuscript diary, in a secretarial hand (or perhaps by Hutton's wife Marjorie Merriwether Post) but signed by each of the member of the travelling party, of a 1934 cruise of..... Read More about Manuscript diary of a yachting and bear-hunting trip to Alaska, inscribed at the head of the...

London: Andrew Melrose, [May, 1956]. Reprint of 1955 First edition. Inscribed on the ffep To Gertrude Dale "An Introduction to Eleuthra-and the Caribbean with all good wishes from Everid and Kyild Helweg-Larsen Governor's Harbor eleuthra 10 30 '59." Read More about Caribbean Cocktail. Foreward by Rosita Forbes

London: Printed for the Author By J Hemmings, Sold By Mssrs Rivington and T J Carpenter, 1803. Read More about A Treatise on Agriculture

London: Cape, [1934]. First edition. Read More about Desert and Foresst. The Exploration of Abyssinian Danakil