Our history, travel and geography holdings include a wide range of material from Pacific, Near East, Arctic, African and Asian voyages to archaeology, topography and military strategy.
London: in Fletestrete, by Thomas Powell, n.d. [1562] (date taken from STC). First edition. Laws Passed under Henry... Read More about Anno XXXVII. Henrici Octavi. Statutes made in the parliament, holden at westminster in the...
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Madrid: Imprenta y Libreria de Gaspar y Roig, 1860. Early edition (Title pages dated 1859 have been seen but the text includes events of 1860). Author and playwright de Alarcon had enlisted in the Spanish army following a failed production in 1857; he wrote this important account of the Spanish..... Read More about Diario de un Testigo de la Guerra de Africa ... Con Vistas de Batallas, de Ciudades y Paisajes,...
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Flushing, Long Island: [Marion Press], 1924. Copy #X of 50 copies. Printed at the Marion Press. Inscribed on the colophon page to Thomas A. Larremore April 2/26 from the printer Frank E. Hopkins. Larremore was the bibliographer of the Marion Press. One of 50 Copies. “A very interesting journal with..... Read More about Frances Lake, Yukon. Dawson 1887 Hunter 1923
Price: $3,000
Washington, D.C: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1867. First edition. Sumner's important speech in support of the ratification oof the treaty with Russia which ceded what would become Alaska to the U.S. Sometimes found with a large folding map by Lindenkpohl, though it was not issued with the speech..... Read More about Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the Cession of Russian America to the United...
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Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1904. Read More about Alaskan Boundary Tribunal. United States Atlas. Maps and Charts accompanying the Case and Counter...
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Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1885. First edition. Read More about Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska, in Reponse to the...
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London: John Lane, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, [1927]. First edition. The interesting and amusing account of the Gordon's journey through Albania during the summer of 1926, The authors had written other volumes about their journeys in Spain, the Balkans, Languedoc, Sweden and Lapland. Read More about Two Vagabonds in Albania
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Osborne: 11August 1855. As Secretary for Prince Albert. Phipps, as private secretary to Prince Albert, responds to the invitation of Gourlie and Anderson to attend the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science as the Prince and the Queen will have just “arrived in the Highlands for..... Read More about ALS to William Gourlie and Thomas Anderson
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1843. Rare - the plate for this print remained private and was never used for a published edition. Read More about “A nun and a small peasant girl” entitled "From a Watercolour Sketch by E. Landseer"
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Lyon & Paris: Éditions Archat, [1937]. First edition. Read More about L'Afrique du Nord française dans l'histoire. Introduction geographique de R. Lespes....
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Poona: ca. 1900-1905. The first leaf caption titled in ink "Ruth's first brush, given by J.A. Lord Esq. M.F.H./Snapshots by Capt. Jennings" and a second contemporary hand has written in pencil "Bombay Hunt ... 1905." The seventeen card leaves of this early album have been ,The images generally fine, the..... Read More about album of a Bombay hunt made by a young girl
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Westminster: St Clement Dane, September 15, 1772. ALEHOUSE LICENSE 1772 IN WESTMINSTER. Alehouse license for The Crooked Bill in the parish of St. Clement Danes. The fee for the one-year license was £. 10 each to the proprietors Ambrose Pennington and John Waite. Read More about Alehouse license for Ambrose Pennington and John Waite of The Crooked Bill
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London: James Cochrane and Co, 1835. First edition. "War of the Two-Brothers," with a contemporary letter of Admiral Sartorius. First edition of this lively first-hand account of events in Portugal in 1834 during the so-called "War of the Two-Brothers." The author James Alexander is perhaps best known nowadays as having..... Read More about Sketches in Portugal, during the Civil War of 1834 ... with Observations on the Present and...
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1911. First edition. In Dust Jacket. Read More about The Log of the North Shore Club. Paddle and Portage on the Hundred Trout Rivers of Lake Superior
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London: Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-Street, by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, 1814. First edition. Well executed and precisely colored series of plates illustrating the costumes of the constituent nationalities of the Austro-Hungarian empire, including representatives of Upper Austria, Tyrolia, Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia, Sclavonia, Dalmatia, Transylvania, Bukowina, etc., etc., as..... Read More about Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Austrians. Illustrated in 50 Coloured...
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![Item #260462 Biskra [At head of title:] Au Pays des Palmes. Algeria, Felix Hautfort](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/260462.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690406233)
Paris: Paul Ollendorff, 1897. Read More about Biskra [At head of title:] Au Pays des Palmes
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Paris: Plon, nd. Inscribed. Inscribed "Pour M. Emile Rossignol/ cordialement/ Massu/7.4.73." Read More about Le Torrent et la Digue. Alger du 13 Mai aux Barricades
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London: Nathaniel Cooke, Milford House, Strand, 1854. First edition. Read More about Algeria: The Topography and History, Political, Social and Natural, of French Africa
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London: Hurst and Blackett, 1914. First Edition. Read More about The Real Algeria
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Paris: Publiée par le Depôt de la Guerre; Imprimerie chez Kppelin, 1856. French Colonization. French colonization. In 1830 the French had conquered Algeria and begun colonization primarily with the Governor-Generalship form of goverment backed by the Ministry of War. The printed paper label reads "Imprimerie, Librairie et Papeterie/ de Dubois..... Read More about Carte Topographique des Environs d'Alger d'Aprés les levés et les reconnaissances des Officiers...
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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1847. Seventh Edition. Read More about History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789, to the Restoration of...
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Hampshire: 27 May 1887. Alison writes explaining that while he is always "most willing to do what I can to assist you", the week he had chosen coincided with H.R.H. and Gerneal Nicholson coming down to inspect the Engineers. Having served at Lucknow (where he lost his left arm), Ashantee..... Read More about ALS to Goodenough
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London: Rudolph Ackermann & Paris: Galignani & Co. 18, rue Vivienne, [1853]. First edition. Gretna-Green is a village in Scotland famous for elopements, the first village in southern Scotland following the old coaching route from London to Edinburgh. Read More about The Gretna-Green Bolt-A, Or, Young Ladies' Man-Ual
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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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