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: Printed by A. Strahan for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, T. Cadell and W. Davies, and... Read More about Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire in the years 1793 and 1794....
Price: $3,000
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
Price: $500
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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London: Walter Spiers, New Sporting Magazine Office, 309, Oxford Street, 1838. First edition. Read More about Nimrod's Northern Tour, Descriptive of the Principal Hunts in Scotland and Northern England
Price: $300
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
London: Rudolf Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent Street, 1851. Alken, Henry. Third edition, third issue, with both engraved and printed titles dated 1851. Desirable edition, as it is the first to include The "Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by the Author of 'Handley Cross'"[Surtees]. Read More about Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq....by Nimrod. With a Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by...
Price: $600
London: John Murray, 1837. With an “Extract from The Road” for September 1st, 1892, laid in the back containing a notice on the spread of Glanders (some spotting). Read More about The Chace, The Turf, and the Road. By Nimrod
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co, [c. 1903]. Alken, Henry. Reprint. Read More about Memors of John Mytton. [Note on Henry Alken's "Mytton Illustrations" by Joseph Grego
Price: $200
London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, (1839). Originally published in 1831. Read More about A Popular Description of Arabia: Geographical, Historical anfd Topographical
Price: $250
Copenhagen: Chez Nicolas Möller, 1773. First edition in French, with half-title. With the large fold-out map of Yemen hand-colored in outline. Account of the ill-starred Royal Danish expedition (1761-1767) to the Arabian Peninsula, the first scientific expedition, from which Niebuhr returned as the only survivor. Niebuhr only covered a small..... Read More about Description de l'Arabie, d'après les observations et recherches faites dans le pays même
Price: $4,000
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1961]. First Edition. Read More about Beyond the Ural Mountains. The Adventures of a Siberian Hunter. Trnslated and Adapted by Michael...
Price: $75
London, Westminster: Archibald Constable, 1897. First edition. Read More about An English Garner Ingathering from Our History and Literature
Price: $300
Brooklyn, New York: Printed for Private Distribution, 1904. First edition. Read More about Joseph Kerr of Ballygoney and his descendants
Price: $150
New Haven: Published for the Dept. of Archeology / Phillips Academy. Andover, Massachussetts / By the Yale University Press, 1930. Read More about The Indians of Pecos Pueblo. A Study of Their Skeletal Remains
Price: $225
London: Richard Bentley, 1833. First edition. Upper India in the 1820s. Describes official visits to the King of Oudh, the Rajah of Bharatpur and the King of Delhi. Includes descriptions of troops and fortifications but also stories of local history, descriptions of Mughal architecture, and commentary on the local landscape..... Read More about Tours in Upper India, and in parts of the Himalaya Mountains …
Price: $1,500
N.p. [Paris?]: 1748. Building Code, Paris 1748. Read More about Les Loix des Bâtiments, suivant la Coutume de Paris, Traitant de ce qui concerne les Servitudes...
Price: $750
Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1845. Second edition. Read More about The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, Anterior to the Anglo-Norman Invasion; Comprising an...
Price: $400
Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1889. First edition. Read More about Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1884
Price: $450
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First American edition. Read More about A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions
Price: $200