Item 318288Three Years of War in East Africa. [Foreward by Carnworth].
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London: John Murray, 1919. First edition. Read More Item Details for Three Years of War in East Africa. [Foreward by Carnworth] Add to Wish List
Item #318288
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London: John Murray, 1919. First edition. Read More Item Details for Three Years of War in East Africa. [Foreward by Carnworth] Add to Wish List
Item #318288
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np: nd. RARE SIGNATURE OF PERRY'S PRECURSOR. Commodore James Biddle (1783-1848) made the first attempt to establish formal relations between the United States and Japan in 1846. Biddle, a distinguished naval officer from Philadelphia, and graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, set out from New York with two warships, the..... Read More Item Details for Signature clipped from a document [with] an engraving of Biddle Add to Wish List
Item #301620
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Boston: Edward Oliver, 1811. Third edition. Read More Item Details for The History of Don Francisco de Miranda's Attempt to effect a Revolution in South America. By a Gentleman who was an officer under that General, to his Friend in the United States. To which are annexed, Sketches of the Life of Miranda .. Add to Wish List
Item #339200
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Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1842. Servant's Hall, Windsor Castle. Read More Item Details for Mesopotamia and Assyria from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Add to Wish List
Item #318026
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London: Ingraham, Cooke, & Co, 1853. Second edition. Read More Item Details for A Visit to Iceland and the Scandanavian North. Translated from the German of … with numerous Explanatory Notes Add to Wish List
Item #258466
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London: William Phillips, George Yard Lombard Street, 1815. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Notes on a Journey Through France, from Dieppe through Paris and Lyons, to the Pyrennees, and back through Toulouse, in July, August, and September, 1814, describing the habits of the people, and the agriculture of the country Add to Wish List
Item #317501
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New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1936. First edition. Read More Item Details for Oceanic Birds of South America Add to Wish List
Item #26881
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London: George Newnes, 1900. First edition thus. Miss Isabella Lucy Bird, later Mrs. J.F. Bishop (1831-1904), left England to seek a better climate for her health in 1878, she returned to Japan in 1894 and 1896. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society..... Read More Item Details for Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. An account of Travels in the Interior including visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrine of Nikko Add to Wish List
Item #316793
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Affectionate Letter from Shirley Temple Black to Alfred Eisenstaedt. By the time she was six she had made 20 films. FDR stated, "As long as our country has Shirley Temple we will be all right". At age seven, her films had saved 20th-Century Fox from bankruptcy, and she had become..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt, Woodside, CA, June 1965 Add to Wish List
Item #40534
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Glasgow: James Macelhose and Sons, 1908. Privtaely Printed. Inscribed. Inscribed opposite tthe title-page: "John James Napier/ March 18 1917/ from the author." An account of the author's travels in India, Burma, Singapore & Johore, Canton & Macao, Shanghai & Far East, Up and Down in Japan, San Francisco & Monterey..... Read More Item Details for Winter Days in India and Elsewhere Add to Wish List
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London: 1866. Read More Item Details for Travelling in Spain Add to Wish List
Item #317138
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New York: he Free Press Of Glencoe, Inc, [1961. Read More Item Details for Family Structure in Jamaica Add to Wish List
Item #366167
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London: William Heinemann, [1914]. "New and Revised Cheaper edition" (first published 1911). Arthur Hays Sulzberger's Copy. Read More Item Details for China under the Empress Dowager Being the History of the Life and Times of Tzu Hsi Add to Wish List
Item #234653
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London: William Heinemann, 1921. First Edition. Read More Item Details for China Japan and Korea Add to Wish List
Item #316727
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London: for George Nicol, 1790. First Edition. First edition of Bligh's account of the famous mutiny and the incredible voyage which followed. Although the mutiny is now the best known incident, the most remarkable part of the narrative is undoubtedly Bligh's account of the voyage in the Bounty's launch. His..... Read More Item Details for A Narrative of the Mutiny, on board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship’s Boat, from Tofoa, One of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies. Illustrated with Charts Add to Wish List
Item #367080
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London: George Nicol, 1792. First edition. The full official account of the Bounty expedition, the famous mutiny, and Bligh's miraculous navigation to safety. This work "includes a revised version of the text of Bligh's narrative of the mutiny, previously published in London in 1790 ... This account was based upon..... Read More Item Details for A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew Add to Wish List
Item #367079
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New York: Published by Edmund M. Blunt for William Hooker, 1822. Tenth edition, first issue with ads dated march, 1822 and with new plate added to this edition "Isles of Shoals." With an advertisement at front by William Hooker 202 Water, corner of Fulton and Water-street, New York (Old Esatblished..... Read More Item Details for The American Coast Pilot, containing the Coyurses and Distances between the Principal Harbours, Capes and Headlands Add to Wish List
Item #222638
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New York: Published by Edmund and George W. Blunt, 179 Water Street, May, 1847. 15th Edition. Read More Item Details for The American Coast Pilot; containing Directions for the Principal Harbors, Capes and Headlands on the Coast of North and South America…Fifteenth Edition, Improved by E. & G. W. Blunt Add to Wish List
Item #250247
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Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1933. First. Ronald Victor Courtenay Bodley, MC (1892-1970), a British army officer, lived in Japan in the early 1930s, and was considered by Westerners at that time to be a preeminent source of knowledge on the area, proving to be erroneous on whether the Japanese were..... Read More Item Details for A Japanese Omelette. A British Writer's Impressions on the Japanese Empire Add to Wish List
Item #318102
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VP including Ladysmith, Geluk Farm, Vluchfontein et al: 28 October 1899 - 5 April 1901. FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH. A fine group of letters by an English intelligence officer steadily rising through the ranks. In 1899 he is "sleep[ing] in the open air, only one blanket &..... Read More Item Details for 20 Letters reporting events at Ladysmith, the Transvaal, Bloemfontein and elsewhere Add to Wish List
Item #303348
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[London: Of A. H. Blackburn, Stationer, Also of H. Roberts (Harrison & Sons Typ.)], 1899. To be sold for the Boer War Fund at a cost of 1d. Read More Item Details for Hymn for Our Soldiers (By the Sister of an Officer) To the Tune of “Onward! Christian Soldiers” Add to Wish List
Item #18471
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London: Henry G. Bohn, 1862. Second edition, revised and continued to the present Time. Read More Item Details for A Pictorial Hand-book of Modern Geography on a Popular Plan compiled from the best authorities Add to Wish List
Item #33989
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London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1809; 1807; n.d [1820]. Second edition of first title, rest first editions. A sammelband of three travel narratives from Richard Phillips' 'Modern and Contemporary Voyages and Travels' series. Read More Item Details for A Voyage to the Demerary … and Other Contiguous Rivers of Guyana [Bound with:] SPILSBURY, F[rancis]. B.: Account of a Voyage to the Western Coast of Africa; Performed by His Majesty's Sloop Favorite, in the Year 1805. [And:] PRIOR, James: Narrative of a Voyage in the Indian Seas, in the Nisus Frigate Add to Wish List
Item #236904
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Los Angeles: The Limited Editions Club, 1968. Number 1255 of 1500 copies, signed by the Artist. Read More Item Details for The Book of Ecclesiastes In the Revised King James Version with an introduction by Kenneth Rexroth Add to Wish List
Item #352849
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[Buenos Aires: 1926]. Produced in a very small number of copies for those in attendance. And Everyone Was There: Banquet for Güiraldes, signed by Borges. Group portrait from the luncheon banquet for Ricardo Güiraldes (1886-1927), fellow collaborator with Jorge Luis Borges on the short lived but influential literary journals Martín..... Read More Item Details for [Photograph of the dinner in celebration of Ricardo Güiraldes and his novel Don Segundo Sombra, signed on verso by Jorge Luis Borges] Add to Wish List
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