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.
Oxford: Moses Pitt, 1681. First edition. “… written throughout in a strain of vehement animosity to all who took... Read More about A Short View of the Late Troubles in England … to which is added a Perfect Narrative of...
Price: $1,250
London: J. Almon, opposite Burlington House, in Piccadilly, 1775. First edition. A record of the British Parliamentary debates from November 1774 to May 1775, the critical period preceding the declaration of independence of the American colonies. Included in the second volume are the charters of the North American colonies, including..... Read More about The Parliamentary Register; or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons...
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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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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...
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New York: Putnam's, 1881. First Edition thus. Read More about Spain...Translated from the Italian by Wihelmina W. Cady
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Paris: Desnos, 1764. Read More about Generalites d'Amiens. [Atlas
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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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Ashby-De-La-Zouch; (Vols. XXII & XXIII) Ipswich: S.H. Cowell, 1855-1889. “The object of the Society is to delineate remains of Antiquity; e.g. ancient Ecclesiastical, Military, and Domestic Edifices, Sepulchral Monuments, Fonts, Brasses, Stained Glass, Tiles, Armour, Dress, Jewellry, Plate Embroidery, Furniture, Carvings, Illuminstions of ancient MSS, Copies of rare Prints, Portraits..... Read More about Anastatic Drawing Society, for the years 1855-57, and 1860. The Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society,...
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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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Allahabad: The Pioneer Press, 1921. “I simply write from twenty years’ experience of the ‘Galloping Game,’ and the hope that my few remarks may benefit the novice and make him realise that ‘unselfishness, self-effacement, and playing for the side’ counts as much in polo as they did i nthe Great..... Read More about Hints on Polo and the Care of Polo Ponies in India
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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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Dublin: printed for Messrs. P. Wogan, P. Byrne, and J. Moore, 1797. First Irish Editionwith half title. Read More about Essays Relating to Agriculture and Rural Affairs
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London: Rivingtons, Waterloo Place, 1856. Second Edition. Read More about The History of the Church of England in the Colonies and Foreign Dependencies of the British Empire
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n.p. [Edinburgh? 1725?]. First edition. Rare and Early British Bibliography. Rare, anonymously published bibliography of approximately 350 works on British history. Attributed by the British Library to James Anderson, writer to the Signet and noted Scottish genealogist and antiquarian. Divided into fifteen sections, it lists works printed between 1480 (Caxton's..... Read More about Libri de Rebus Britannicis, scilicet, Anglicis, Scoticis et Hibernicis
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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: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1967]. First edition. Sixth of Anderson's books. Read More about The Tiger Roars
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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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Trinidad: Printed at the Mirror Office, 1902. One of 500 copies published of the portfolio of photographic plates issued to accompany Andre's account of his explorations into the interior of Venezuela. A Trinidadian botanist and explorer, Andre journed inland up the Caura River into the jungles of Venezuela between November 1900..... Read More about Portfolio of photographic plates issued to accompany: The Caura, a Narrative of a Journey up the...
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New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1932. First edition. As New. Sharp copy of a lavishly produced volume which stands as one of the landmarks of twentieth-century exploration. Andrews (1884-1960) was a figure larger than life who served as the model for Indiana Jones. The standard biography is by..... Read More about The New Conquest of Central Asia. A Narrative of the Explorations of the Central Asiatic...
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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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Edinburgh: John Mosman and William Brown, 1728. Public General Acts. 1721. 7 Geo.I.c.7. LAW. The 1728 Edinburgh printing of a 1722 act to promote the manufacture of wool by prohibiting the wearing of printed or dyed cotton or its use in upholstery and window curtains. The penalty for noncompliance was..... Read More about Anno septimo Georgii Regis I. An Act to preserve and encourage the Woollen and Silk Manufactures...
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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...
Price: $6,000
