Portsmouth, [NH]: 1805-1872. VICTIM OF A FRENCH PRIVATEER. This is a fascinating collection chronicling an episode of the... Read More about French Spoliation Claims and Policy of Assurance of the American merchant vessel “Mary&rdquo
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Lisboa: Imprensa National, 1859, 1865, 1869. Read More about Almanak Familiar para 1860, 1866, 1870 Segundo depois do Bissexto contendo Alem Callendario e...
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Minneapolis, Minn: University of Minnesota, [1944]. First edition. With review by Ashley Montagu. With 2 page holograph review by Ashley Montagu laid in. Read More about A People of Alor. A Social-Psychological Study of an East Indian Island ...with Analyses by Abram...
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London: Wyman & Sons, 74-76 Great Queen Street, 1888. First edition. Ads for the Mining Exhibition in Lima 1888 at the end. Read More about The Amazon Provinces of Peru As a Field for European Emigration. A Statistical and Geographical...
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London: Printed for Roger Rea, 1668. Third edition. This was first published in 1631. The section on America (the D gathering) is lacking the first and final leaves but the comments on Virginia are present “on the East it has Mare del Nort, on the North Norumbega, Florida on the..... Read More about A Prospect of the Most Famous parts of the World. Viz. Asia, Africa, Europe, America…
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First Edition. A most important study of Pre-Columbian art from Mexico written by a pioneer of aesthetic appreciation of ancient Native American art. Read More about Indian Art of Mexico & Central America
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Hildburghausen & New York: Bibliographischen Institut, 1854. with 48 finely engraved steel plates, most depicting American scenes: the White House; Philadelphia; Illinois; Westpoint; Fort Snelling, Minnesota; Niagra Falls; the Stone Walls, upper Missouri; New Orleans; Colorado River, etc. Read More about Meyer's Universum, oder Abbildun und Beschreibung des Sehenswertheften und Merkwürdigsten der...
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Hildburghausen & New York: Bibliographischen Institut, 1857. Twenty-three Great American Views. 23 American plates, including 2 of Cuba; 1 of Central America; 1 of Mexico; and Mt. Jefferson; Wall St.; St. Louis on the Mississippi; The Palisades; Harper's Ferry; St. Charles on the Mississippi; Independence Court House (Missouri); Urkwald-Landschaft am..... Read More about Meyer's Universum, oder Abbildun und Beschreibung des Sehenswertheften und Merkwürdigsten der...
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London: Bodley Head, [1982]. First edition. Extra-illustrated with original photos of William Holden. This copy extra-illustrated with 12 original photographs of the actor William Holden (1918-1981) and company; Holden had co-founded the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy in the 1960s with his friend Don Hunt, from whose library this copy comes..... Read More about Journey through Kenya. Introduction by William Holden
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London: John Murray, 1912. First English edition. After hearing of Cook's and Peary's claim of the North Pole in 1909, Amundsen changed his plan and instead decided to head for Antarctica in 1910. Setting off in the Fram, he and his men arrived at the eastern edge of Ross Ice..... Read More about The South Pole. An Account of the Norwegian Expedition in the "Fram", 1910-1912
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New York: Printed by G. & E. Waite, No. 64, Maiden-Lane, 1804. Anderson, Alexander. First American edition. The first American edition of a classic work, with the cuts re-engraved (usually in reverse) from the original Bewick edition. Dr. Alexander Anderson (1775-1870) was America’s first wood engraver. Pomeroy identifies the fourth..... Read More about A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures engraved on wood chiefly copied from the original of...
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1887. First Edition. Read More about Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon in the Gold Regions of Africa
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Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc, (1934). First edition. Inscribed to Colonel Donald Shumway Rockwell by the author. Read More about In Eastern Seas. With a Visit to Insulinde and the Golden Chersonese
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Capetown: Howard Timmins, 1963. First Edition. Inscribed "To Charlie (Engelhard) As a souvenir of the interview at which I was present. Van S 16.8. 1963 Johannesburg." With an article on Engelhard at p. 149-155. Read More about "...And so they Talked"
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1934. First edition. IN DJ. Written by the Curator of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm. Read More about Children of the Yellow Earth: Studies in Prehistoric China
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London: Smith, Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo PLace, 1904. First Edition. Read More about The Naturalist in the Guianas
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Lisbon: Martins, 1861. Description of the condition of the people of Angola, "deprived of teachers, priests and churches, with reflections concerning the necessity and simplicity of rectofying such great evils" Read More about Noticias do Estado em que se acha o Povo Angola, desituido de mestres, parochos e egrejas, e...
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c.1908. RARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF NORTH CHINA. An excellent group of images documenting a tour though the little known, and rarely photographed, mining districts of northern China. The photographer was likely attached to the Anglo-French Quicksilver and Mining Concession which had claims in the Guizhou province. Among the photographs is an..... Read More about Bound volume containing 48 original photographs of mining activities in northern China, and...
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Dublin: William Folds, 1818. Read More about The Voyage of Commodore Anson round the World
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London: John Murray, 1837. With an “Extract from The Road” for September 1st, 1892, laid in the back containing a notice on the spread of Glanders (some spotting). Read More about The Chace, The Turf, and the Road. By Nimrod
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London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, (1839). Originally published in 1831. Read More about A Popular Description of Arabia: Geographical, Historical anfd Topographical
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Copenhagen: Chez Nicolas Möller, 1773. First edition in French, with half-title. With the large fold-out map of Yemen hand-colored in outline. Account of the ill-starred Royal Danish expedition (1761-1767) to the Arabian Peninsula, the first scientific expedition, from which Niebuhr returned as the only survivor. Niebuhr only covered a small..... Read More about Description de l'Arabie, d'après les observations et recherches faites dans le pays même
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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1961]. First Edition. Read More about Beyond the Ural Mountains. The Adventures of a Siberian Hunter. Trnslated and Adapted by Michael...
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London: Richard Bentley, 1833. First edition. Upper India in the 1820s. Describes official visits to the King of Oudh, the Rajah of Bharatpur and the King of Delhi. Includes descriptions of troops and fortifications but also stories of local history, descriptions of Mughal architecture, and commentary on the local landscape..... Read More about Tours in Upper India, and in parts of the Himalaya Mountains …
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Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1889. First edition. Read More about Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1884
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