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: Firmin Didot, 1828. First edition. Pascal & the Origin of the Bus. Scarce treatise on the development... Read More about Les Carrosses à Cinq Sols ou les Omnibus du Dix-Huitème siècle
Price: $1,250
New York: Putnam's, 1881. First Edition thus. Read More about Spain...Translated from the Italian by Wihelmina W. Cady
Price: $200
Paris: Desnos, 1764. Read More about Generalites d'Amiens. [Atlas
Price: $600
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
Price: $750
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,...
Price: $1,500
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...
Price: $2,500
London: Chapman and Hall, 1887. First Edition. Read More about Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon in the Gold Regions of Africa
Price: $500
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
Price: $125
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
Price: $1,250
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: Smith, Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo PLace, 1904. First Edition. Read More about The Naturalist in the Guianas
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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...
Price: $250
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...
Price: $250
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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Paris: Jean-Th. Hérissant, 1770. Second edition. "Réimprimé plusieurs fois ... avec le nom de l'auteur. L'Abbé de Saint-Léger a fourni ê l'auteur une grande partie de la notice raisonnée des ouvrages, insérée en tête du premier volume, et il m'a dit plusieurs fois que cet estimable ouvrage avait été composé..... Read More about l'Esprit de la Ligue, ou histoire politique des troubles de la Ligue pendant les XVI et XVII...
Price: $350
[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...
Price: $8,750
Dublin: William Folds, 1818. Read More about The Voyage of Commodore Anson round the World
Price: $300
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1767. Fourth edition. Read More about The New Bath Guide: or, Memoirs of the B-n-r-d Family in a series of Poetical Epistles
Price: $200
[Southbury, CT: Gretchen E. Engel], 1971. First Edition. Very unusual in hardcover. Inscribed to Bill Wigton by the author. Read More about Though Memory Plays Me False. A Story of Anticosti. The St. Lawrence River Isle of Enchantment,...
Price: $300
Montreal: Consolidated Paper Corporation Limited, Anticosti Division, [n.d., ca. 1937]. Sixth edition. Anticosti, “the treasure island of the Saint Lawrence,” was maintained as a private hunting preserve by French chocolate manufacturer Henri Menier from 1896 until 1926. It was bought by a Canadian paper consortium and this brochure is evidence..... Read More about The Salmon Streams of Anticosti Island
Price: $750
The American Federation for Polish Jews, [1943. First Edition. Read More about The Black Book of Polish Jewry. An Account of the Martyrdom of Polish Jewry under the Nazi...
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Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1927. First Edition, one of 250 deluxe copies, #206. Read More about My Life and Times By Nimrod (Charles James Apperley) edited with additions by E.D. Cuming
Price: $150
