[Mexico: Imprenta Americana de D. José Maria Betancóurt, calle de S. José, 1821]. First edition. Read More about Primer Topeton de un Borrego Desperso de la Manada. Al Padre Rosillo

London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1948]. First English edition, one of 3000 copies, preceded a year earlier by the American edition. Read More about The Age of Anxiety. A Baroque Eclogue

[N.p., Vancouver? August 1961]. RARE ALASKAN FISHING TRIP. Privately printed account of a fishing trip by Donald Bates of Portland, B.C. lumber Baron H.R. MacMillan, Canadian Air Vice-Marshal Leigh Stevenson, and “one Indian” (the author, Fred Auger, publisher of the Vancouver Province newspaper) for steelhead, grayling, and salmon on the..... Read More about Alaskan Holiday in the Land of the Willa-Waw [Cover title

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1977. First edition. Inscribed by the Beale, who was ambassador to the US from Australia during the Kennedy administration, "for dear Jane [Engelhard] / with affectionate regards / from Howard Beale / Nov. 24 '77" Read More about This Inch of Time

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875. Fourth edition. Read More about An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales, from the Founding of the Colony in 1788...

London: Printed for W. Peacock and Sons, 1802. The Third edition, Correceted and Considerably enlarged. With a fine folding map of New Holland and New Zealand and a separate one of Polynesia including the Sandwich Islands. Read More about A Compendious Geographical Dictionary, containing a Concise Description of the Most Remarkable...

London: Richard Bentley, 1833. First edition. Founder of the “New Colonization System”. Following imprisonment, Wakefield began to study colonial affairs of Australia with an eye towards immigration. Recognizing that the depressed condition of Australian affairs was due to a lack of efficiency and sensible handling he gathered his theories for..... Read More about England and America. A Comparison of the Social and Political State of Both Nations

[Reichenberg, Bohemia: July 1875]. A large and elaborate testimonial from the notables of the Bohemian town of Reichenberg (today Liberec in the Czech Republic) extending formal condolences to Maria Anna of Savoy, consort of Ferdinand I (1793-1875), who was ruler of Austria Hungary from 1835 to 1848. Following his abdication..... Read More about Calligraphic Testimonial to the Dowager Empress of Austria, on the death of Ferdinand, from the...

Paris: Alexis Sinjon, 1929. First edition. Read More about L'Ameublement Parisien avant, pendant et après La Révolution

Paris: Plon-Nourrit et Cie, [1922]. First Edition. Read More about Recherches Zoologiques dans les Provinces Centrales de l'Inde et dans les regions occidentales de...

Amsterdam: 1708. Second edition. A charming copy of Chapelle's best known work. He recounts a voyage through Provence and Languedoc in both poetry and prose. The work also includes poems by the Kight of Cailly and accounts of campaigns against the Spanist at Rocroi. Read More about Voyages de Messieurs Bachaumont et La Chapelle: Auquel on a joint les Poesies Du Chevalier de...

London: Wm. H. Allen and Co. Leadenhall Street, 1837. First edition. "An officer in the Bengal Horse Artillery, Bacon recounts his assignment to India with vivid descriptions of life in the cantonments, travels along the Ganges River, and observations of the peoples he encountered. He also enjoyed hunting wild boar..... Read More about First Impressions and Studies from Nature in Hindostan; embracing an outline of the voyage to...

Basel: Johann Froben, 1541. Second edition (first printed 1537). De Re Navali. Lazare de Baïf (1496-1547) was a French humanist, classical scholar, translator of Sophocles' Electra, and ambassador to Venice, who flourished in the enlightened reign of François I, to whom his delightfully illustrated book on captivities and the naval..... Read More about Annotationes in legm II. De captivis & postliminio reversis, in quibus tractatur de re...