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.
Basileae [i.e., Basle]: Per Joannem Hervagium, 1563. First collected edition. The Father of English History. This is the... Read More about Opera Bedae Venerabilis … Omnia in octo tomos distincta prout statim post praefationen suo...
Price: $6,000
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
Price: $250
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
Price: $2,500
![Item #315454 Comparative Field Sports, Shooting, in Middlesex and elsewhere [Cover title]. Henry...](/images/noimage.png)
London: J. Dickinson, 114, New Bond Street, March, 1826. First edition. Scarce Alken variant. Scarce Alken title, a variant collection of plates similar to those contained in Alken’s Characteristic Sketches, published by Dickinson in January 1826. The title and subtitle vary slightly in each of the copies described in Schwerdt..... Read More about Comparative Field Sports, Shooting, in Middlesex and elsewhere [Cover title
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London: Published by Thomas McLean, 1823 [but later, plates watermarked 1822-1824]. Alken, Henry. First edition. A fine copy of "Alken's most important work... It must always form the cornerstone of any Alken collection" (Tooley) The plates and text between them offer a thorough survey of the sports practiced in Great..... Read More about The National Sports of Great Britain, with Descriptions in English and French ... Chasse et...
Price: $30,000
Lisboa: Imprensa National, 1859, 1865, 1869. Read More about Almanak Familiar para 1860, 1866, 1870 Segundo depois do Bissexto contendo Alem Callendario e...
Price: $200
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...
Price: $300
New York: Harper & Row, (1964). First edition. This copy is inscribed by the Author, famous WASP columnist, to his sister Corinne , 'sis", Alsop Chubb, "For darling Corinney with much love and infinite admiration, Joe." Read More about From the Silent Earth. A Report on the Greek Bronze Age
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1978. First American edition. Signed by the author on the flyleaf. Read More about Lady Sackville: a Biography
Price: $150
Delhi: Atma Ram & Sons, 1966. First edition. Read More about Bird Shooting the Hard Way Foreword by Karni Singh, M.P
Price: $80
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...
Price: $450
London: Hogarth Press, 1937. First edition, remainder binding in typographic “Cheap edition” dust jacket with reviews. In Dust Jackets. Diaries and letters of the mid-Victorian Amberleys, John Russell, Viscount Amberley (1842-76), and his wife Kate (1842-1874), who both died young. Bertand Russell (1872-1970), 3rd Earl Russell was their youngest child..... Read More about The Amberley Papers. The Letter and Diaries of Lord and Lady Amberley. Edited by Bertrand and...
Price: $750
Detroit: December, 1942-September 1945. with "Special Edition First National Convention America First Party" in Volume 3 Number 6, 1944 and in another issue is included "Senate Resolution 666 is Slave Act " and. Read More about The Cross and the Flag. Volume 1, Number 8
Price: $150
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…
Price: $500
[Boston]: Office of the Daily Commercial Gazette, n.d. [August, 1830]. Rare American Announcement of the July Revolution. This Boston broadside, published by the [Boston] Daily Commercial Gazette, contains extracts from the London papers detailing the July 1830 Revolution in France that overthrew Charles X. It is presumably one of the..... Read More about Revolution in France! [drop title
Price: $800
White Plains [NY]: October 23d 1776. CONTINENTAL RECEIPT FROM THE SAW PITTS. An early receipt of the war, dated “White Plains Oct. 23d, 1776,” and written from the “Saw Pitts,” now Port Chester, NY, six days before the rout of the Continental Army at the Battle of White Plains, reading..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Receipt, Signed "Frederick Tracy" for eight barrels of flour from...
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Philadelphia: Key & Biddle, 1834. First Edition. Collects speeches by Chatham, Burke and Erskine concerning legal issues connected with the American Revolution and other topics, as well as Mackintosh's speech in the trial of Peltier, a French Royalist emigré, for libel of the First Consul of the French Republic (Buonaparte)..... Read More about Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine. To Which is Added the Argument of Mr....
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Hartford & Windham [CT]: 1785. A SOLDIER FOR JUST FIVE WEEKS. Too young for marriage and children, but old enough to join the fight for independence, these documents may be the last few remaining records of a largely forgotten soldier of 1776. Samuel Robinson III (1757-1776) was born in the..... Read More about A Group of Two Manuscripts and One Document, Attesting to the Service of Samuel Robinson in the...
Price: $650
Champlain, [New York]: Privately Printed at the Moorfield Press, 1931. First edition, limited to 58 numbered copies. Thomas Nye's 1837 account of his journey to marry Corrina Bowman of Duncklee's Grove, Illinois, describing his travels from Montreal to Chicago, through the Great Lakes, including mention of Cleveland, Detroit, Lake Michigan..... Read More about TWO LETTERS OF THOMAS NYE, Relating to A Journey from Montreal to Chicago in 1837. Edited by Hugh...
Price: $75
Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Man Suffrage Association, 1884. First edition, Boston imprint; variant issue (unrecorded by OCLC), with Massachusetts Man Suffrage imprint [also seen with no publisher's imprint and variant title]. Issued by Massachusetts Man Suffrage Association. OCLC lists no holdings of this issue, published by the Boston Man Suffrage Association;..... Read More about LETTER FROM MRS. CLARA T. LEONARD: Formerly Member of the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and...
Price: $500
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...
Price: $750
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...
Price: $600
Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1796. First edition, with half-title. Ames's speech was one of the most important regarding Jay's Treaty with England, effectively saving it. Read More about The Speech of Mr. Ames in the House of Representatives of the United States, when in Committee of...
Price: $275
New York: Putnam's, 1881. First Edition thus. Read More about Spain...Translated from the Italian by Wihelmina W. Cady
Price: $200
