Calcutta: Printed by Thomson, Ferris, and Greenway, 1798. Lacking the last leaf of music (supplied in photocopy facsimile... Read More about The Oriental Linguist, an Easy and Familiar Introduction to the Popular Language of Hindoostan ;...
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Bombay: Conservator of Forests, 1945 (with renewals to 1948). A rare piece of ephemera; licenses such as this dictated the range that could be hunted, as well as the species (Bison, Sambhar and Cheetah) and the number of animals and their sex (bulls or stags only). Read More about Hunting License of Dr. H.B. Martin, District Medical Officer, MJSM Railway
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[1883-1884]. An extensive and outstanding manuscript account of travel and exploration in southern Africa during late 1883 and early 1884 by Abraham Anscher, a Polish Jewish immigrant to Chicago. The manuscript is composed in the form of a letter addressed to Edith Delia Rogalski, but really comprises a travelogue or..... Read More about Detailed Narrative of an 1883-1884 Expedition Through Southern Africa, Written by Exploring Party...
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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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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First American edition. Read More about A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions
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London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co. Bride-Court, Bridge-Street, 1820. Second English edition. Brackenridge was sent in 1817-1818 by the United States Commission to investigate the Spanish province of South America. In 1819, he published his Voyage to South America, 1820, in two volumes. This English edition consists of..... Read More about Voyage to Buenos Ayres. Performed in the Years 1817 and 1818, by Order of the American Government
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London: John Murray, 1851. New Edition. The first edition was in 1826. Read More about Rough Notes taken during some rapid Journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes
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London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1852. Second edition, enlarged with a new map and illustrations. Read More about Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de la Plata: From Their Discovery And Conquest By The...
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[Buenos Aires: 1948]. Inscribed by Péron to Dentist Stanley Tylman. Inscribed on the mount by Perón in Spanish, on December 23, 1948, to the internationally renowned dentist, Dr. Stanley D. Tylman, "in gratitude for his services to Argentina and the friendliness he has shown me with his exquisite delicacy ....... Read More about Portrait Photograph of Juan Péron in his first term of office as President
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Venice: In Insula S. Lazari, 1837. A fine polyglot version of the writings. Read More about Preces Sancti Nersetis…viginti quatour linguis edit [by H. Aukerian
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London: James E. Hawkins, 17, Paternoster Row, [1893]. The Yeke Kingdom (also called the Garanganze or Garenganze kingdom) of the Garanganze people in Katanga, DR Congo, was short-lived, existing from about 1856 to 1891 under one king, Msiri. Read More about GARENGANZE; or Seven Years' Pioneer Mission Work in Central Africa
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Bogota, [Columbia]: 1966. First edition. Read More about 20 Estampas pre-colombinas
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Istanbul: Milli Egitim Basimevi, [1952]. First edition. Read More about Les Arts Decoratifs Turcs
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London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1890. Authorized English Edition. Read More about An Official Tour of Bosnia and Herzegovina with an Account of the history, antiquities, agrarian...
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London: John Murray, 1878. Life on Ascension Island with her husband Scottish Astronomer David Gill to measure the solar parallax-the distance between the Earth and the Sun-by observing Mars, which was then the closest to Earth than it had been for a century. Read More about Six Months in Ascension. A Unscientific Account of a Scientific Expedition
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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. Ashley, Clifford. First edition. One of only 1035 made of which 1000 were for sale. Read More about Whaleships of New Bedford
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1812. Pinkerton's collection of voyages was published over the course of six years in a total of seventeen volumes. They are "of great value for its texts, which are sometimes given entire and sometimes abridged, with as much as possible of the traveler's own..... Read More about A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels … Asiatic Islands
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Washington, D.C: National Gallery of Art. Harry N. Abrams inc., Publishers, New York, [1986]. First edition. Read More about Süleymanname. The illustrated History of Süleyman the Magnificent
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London: Day & Son, n.d. Third edition. Read More about “Curry & Rice,” on Forty Plates; or, The Ingredients of Social Life at “Our Station”...
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