The Young Angler's pocket companion; or, a new...
London: for R. Bassam, etc, 1795. First edition. Read More about The Young Angler's pocket companion; or, a new and complete treatise on the art of angling, as...
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History, Travel & Geography
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.
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Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa.
London: Ward, Lock, 1890. Read More about Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa
Price: $150
Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa.
London: Ward, Lock and Co, 1890. Read More about Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa
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Erté (Romain de Tirtoff). With an extract from Erté’s memoirs, translation by William Weaver.
Parma: Franco Maria Ricci publisher, 1972. No. 1509 of 2000 copies. Read More about Erté (Romain de Tirtoff). With an extract from Erté’s memoirs, translation by William Weaver
Price: $300
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).testo di Roland Barthes seguito dai ricordi di Erté.
Parma: Franco Maria Ricci publisher, 1970. First edition. Title Number 10 in " i segni dell'uomo" Read More about Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).testo di Roland Barthes seguito dai ricordi di Erté
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Two autograph notes, first signed in margin of another letter as “R. A. Bartlett” and the second signed with initials...
West Brighton and n.p: [1931]. Halpern wrote to Bartlett regarding a previous invitation to visit the “Morrissey” saying that he is ready to go and when is Bartlett ready for him. Bartlett replied that he could come the following Saturday. Bartlett, the noted Newfoundland-born Arctic explorer, who was with the..... Read More about Two autograph notes, first signed in margin of another letter as “R. A. Bartlett” and the...
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Spalding's Official Canadian Base Ball Guide.
Montreal: Canadian Sporting Publishing Company 269 Sty. Catherine Street, West, [1925]. Read More about Spalding's Official Canadian Base Ball Guide
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Càndido Lòpez testo di Augusto Roa Bastos introduzione critica di Marta Dujovne, testi annessi di Antonio Candido e Raquel de...
Parma: Franco Maria Ricci publisher, 1976. First edition, #1942 of 3000 bcopies, signed by the publisher. Title Number 18 in series " i segni dell'uomo" Read More about Càndido Lòpez testo di Augusto Roa Bastos introduzione critica di Marta Dujovne, testi annessi...
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Italian Castles and Country Seats.
New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1911. First edition. Read More about Italian Castles and Country Seats
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Central America The West Indies ands South America.
London: Edward Stanford, 1885. Third Edition. Read More about Central America The West Indies ands South America
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The Atlantic Salmon Treasury.
Montreal, Canada: Privately Printed by The Atlantic Salmon Association, 1975. No. 11 of 1000 copies, signed by the author. Read More about The Atlantic Salmon Treasury
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India Paper Proof Copy
Welsh Scenery. From Drawings by Captain Batty.
London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1823. First edition. India Paper Proof Copy. Read More about Welsh Scenery. From Drawings by Captain Batty
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Fetichism and Fetich Worshipers ... Sold for the benefit of the Society of African Missions, (Lyons) France.
New York, Cincinnati and St. Louis: Benziger Brothers, 1885. First edition. Author was a Missionary on West Coast of Africa. Read More about Fetichism and Fetich Worshipers ... Sold for the benefit of the Society of African Missions,...
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In Beautiful Japan. A Story of Bamboo Lands.
New York: Hobart Co, 1904. Read More about In Beautiful Japan. A Story of Bamboo Lands
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A Narrative of the wreck of the Minerva whaler of Port Jackson, on Nicholson’s Shoal. 24°S. 179°W to which is...
Cambridge: Published by B. Bridges, Market-Hill, 1831. First Edion. "The Minerva was on a voyage to Tonga and the Solomons and was lost on the Nicholson Shoal, now known as Minerva Reef, to the south of Tonga, on September 9, 1829, owing to the use of an out-of-date chart. The..... Read More about A Narrative of the wreck of the Minerva whaler of Port Jackson, on Nicholson’s Shoal. 24°S....
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History of the Beard, with a Theory of Hair
Geschichte des Männlichen Barts unter allen Völkern der Erde bis auf die neueste Zeit ... mit einer Theorie der Haare...
Leipzig: In der Weygandschen Buchhandlung, 1797. First German edition. History of the Beard, with a Theory of Hair. Fangé's anonymously published work, Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire de la barbe de l'homme (Liège, 1774), here translated into German by Schelle. Read More about Geschichte des Männlichen Barts unter allen Völkern der Erde bis auf die neueste Zeit ... mit...
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Switzerland illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for this work by W. H. Bartlett.
London: George Virtue, 1836. First edition. Read More about Switzerland illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for this work by W. H. Bartlett
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Switzerland. Illustrated in a Series of Views Taken Expressly for this Work by W.H. Bartlett, Esq.
London: George Virtue, 1836. First edition. "The indefatigable Bartlett was the chief producer of volumes of steel-engraved views. For many years he ranged through two continents making or collecting drawings …. Collectors not seeking representations of familiar scenes will probably find the grandeur of his Swiss subjects most appealing" (Ray)..... Read More about Switzerland. Illustrated in a Series of Views Taken Expressly for this Work by W.H. Bartlett, Esq
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The Waldenses or Protestant Valleys of Piedmont, Dauphiny, and the Ban de la Roche.
London: George Virtue, 1838. The First Edition. Read More about The Waldenses or Protestant Valleys of Piedmont, Dauphiny, and the Ban de la Roche
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Archéologie de la Lorraine.
Paris: Librairie Le Normant, 1840. First Edition. Read More about Archéologie de la Lorraine
Price: $300
EDWARD WESTONS COPY
New Paths. Verse. Prose. Pictures. 1917-1918.
London: C.W. Beaumont, [1918]. Rice, Anne Estelle. First edition, ordinary issue. EDWARD WESTONS COPY. First edition, ordinary issue, of this excellent anthology, dedicated to a number of the fallen war poets and artists, printing poetry, prose and artworks by their contemporaries, much of the work influenced by recent events. EDWARD..... Read More about New Paths. Verse. Prose. Pictures. 1917-1918
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Australie. Voyage autour du Monde.
Paris: Henri Plon, 1869. First edition. In 1866, at the age of 19, Ludovic de Beauvoir undertook with his childhood friend, the Duke of Penthièvre, a trip around the world, which inspired three works: this one devoted to Australia, the second on Java, Siam and Canton and the third, published..... Read More about Australie. Voyage autour du Monde
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Beaverbrook to Eisie
Typed Letter, Signed (“Beaverbrook”), to Alfred Eisenstaedt, acknowledging a “beautiful book of photographs”.
Waldorf-Astoria, New York: 6 June 1951. Beaverbrook to Eisie. Canadian-born Beaverbrook (1879-1964) made his fortune from Canadian cement mills. He moved to England and became a Conservative MP the following year. During WWI he was Minister of Information and bought a controlling interest in the Daily Mail. He was raised..... Read More about Typed Letter, Signed (“Beaverbrook”), to Alfred Eisenstaedt, acknowledging a “beautiful...
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A Trip to Mexico, Being Notes of a Journey from Lake Erie to Lake Tezcuco and Back with an Appendix...
Toronto: Willing and Williamson, 1880. First edition. Read More about A Trip to Mexico, Being Notes of a Journey from Lake Erie to Lake Tezcuco and Back with an Appendix
Price: $750