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.
Coloniae [i.e., Cologne]: Apud Constantinum Munich, 1650. The Emblems of Power. Fine copy of this little series of... Read More about Idea principis Christiano-Politici 100 symbolis expressa
Price: $1,500
London: The Bombay Natural History Society, 1908. First Edition, one of 1200 copies. Read More about The Indian Ducks and Their Allies
Price: $300
London: Witherby and Co, 1913. First Edition. Intended as a guide for the sportsman as well as the specialist, the volume forms a scarce companion to Baker’s Indian Ducks and Their Allies. Read More about Indian Pigeons and Doves
Price: $400
Malta: January 7, 1804. Ball had been more or less constantly involved in Maltese affairs since 1798. At the time of this document he was "the island's civil commissioner and de facto governor from 1803 until his death.... Ball's period of rule witnessed the establishment of a civil service and..... Read More about Treasury document signed remitting £250 to Messrs. George and Edward Noble
Price: $200
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1912. First edition. Read More about The Chinese at Home or The Man of Tong and His Land
Price: $80
London: Thos. de la Rue & Co., Bunhill Row, 1880. First edition. Irsish geologist, son of Robert Ball to whom this book is dedicated. He was part of the Geological Survey of India in 1864 -1881. Read More about Jungle Life in India; or the Journeys and Journals of an Indian Geologist
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Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1848. First published edition. “Ballantyne’s adventures began in 1841 from York Factory. While he recapitulates much history of the Hudson’s Bay Company, he also quotes extensively from the journal he kept during his travels.” (Graff p.27). First issued in a privately printed edition earlier the..... Read More about Hudson’s Bay; or Every-day Life in the Wilds of North America, During Six Years’ Residence in...
Price: $500
Paris: M. de Brunoff, [1922?]. Bakst, Léon. An outstanding visual record of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and Ida Rubinstein's Galas Russes in their most influential years, lavishly illustrated with the works of Bakst, Gontcharova, Larionov, Picasso, Matisse, Massine, Derain, and others. The collection is comprised of special issues of the theatrical..... Read More about Collection des plus Beaux Numéros Comoedia Illustré et des Programmes consacrés aux Ballets...
Price: $3,500
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1887. First edition. Read More about Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia
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London: Richard Bentley, 1839. First Edition. Read More about Memoirs of John Bannister, Comedian
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Paris: Dondey-Dupré père et fils, 1833. Early response to the French conquest of Algeria in 1830 and subsequent plans for its annexation to France. While the initial hopes of “men of various parties in England” had been that the 1830 expedition would see a favorable outcome from the French administration..... Read More about Appel en Faveur d'Alger, et de l'Afrique du Nord, par un Anglais
Price: $650
London: John Baskett, 1721-1739. First Collected Laws of Barbadoes. The first two compilations of the laws of Barbadoes. The two leaves following the first continues the laws with a note in the margin that the original was lost and not submitted to the plantation office until 1724. Presumably these leaves..... Read More about Acts of Assembly, passed in the Island of Barbadoes, From 1648, to 1718 ... [Bound with:] Acts of...
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London: Printed for Samuel Moore by Luke Hansard, 1801. Signed on the title by original subscriber Jonathan Blenman, the attorney-general of Barbados. Scarce. Read More about The public acts in force; passed by the legislature of Barbados, from May 11th 1762 to April 8th...
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[Bridgetown, Barbados]: Advocate Co., Ltd - Printers, 1946. The proposed formation of a low-income housing district in Bridgetown, Barbados. Read More about Report of the Committee Appointed by his Excellency the Governor to Advise on the Utilisation...
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London: H.S. Nichols 3 Soho Square and 62a Piccadilly W, 1896. Read More about Memoirs of Bertrand Barère, Chairman of the Committee of Public Safety during the Revolution....
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New York: Printed for the Author by C. Vinten, 63 Vesey Street, 1841. First Edition. Includes several pages of observations on slavery in Kentucky, along these lines: "one cannot imagine, unless one sees them, how merry they are" (page 126). Also discusses the challenges faced by the Republic of Texas..... Read More about A Voyage to Mexico and Havanna; including some general observations on the United States. By an...
Price: $500
London: J. M. Richardson ... and J. Ridgeway, 1808. Third edition. A plea for the repeal of a policy of systematic hostility toward American commerce from this financier and statesman who married the eldest daughter of Senator William Bingham of the United States - an alliance to which, according to..... Read More about An Inquiry into the Causes and Consequences of the Orders in Council; an an Examination of the...
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London: Williams and Norgate, [First printed 1914/15]. First edition. RARE DJ. Read More about An Outline of Russian Literature
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[Capetown]: Tafelberg, [1977]. First Edition. Inscribed on ffep "12 December 1977 For Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard with best wishes and ---- of love to a very dear friend. Chris. Barnard." Read More about South Africa: Sharp Dissection
Price: $450
London: Simpkin, Marshall, [n.d., 1888]. NO OTHER COPY RECORDED. Collection of stories of British and Anglo-Indian life and adventure, including The Indian Mocking Lark; Navigating the Air (about a balloon expedition in Newcastle); Monkeys; Snakes and other Philistines; and Publishers; and with a verse afterword, To a Sun-Dial; with ads..... Read More about Under Two Shillings
Price: $1,000
Paris: Chez le Libraires Associés, 1771. Read More about Le livre des Comptes-Faits ou le Tarif General des Monnoies
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Paris: Se Vend chez Nyon Pere et Didot, [ca. 1742]. Early edition. Interest tables and facts, a “ready reckoner”. Read More about Les Comptes Faits ou le Tarif General de touttes les Monnoyes
Price: $350
London: Richrad Bentley, 1868. First Edition. Read More about A Walking Tour in Normandy. by the Author of "All Round Ireland on Foot"
Price: $150
London: nd [c. 1880]. Later edition. Read More about Alone among the Zulu by a Plain Woman. The Narrative of a Journey through the Zulu Country
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Philadelphia: J.W. Bradley 48 North Fourth Street, 1859. Second American edition. Read More about Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa, from the Journal of an Expedition Undertaken...
Price: $150
