Item 323846Among the Moors. Sketches of Oriental Life.
Price: $150
London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Company, 1894. Read More Item Details for Among the Moors. Sketches of Oriental Life Add to Wish List
Item #323846
James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a catalogue of items related to travel with many new acquisitions. Highlights include one of the earliest American lithographic view books, Views of the Great Falls of Niagara; an inscribed journal of a lady's summer travel in 19th century Europe, Five Months Abroad by Mrs. E.S. (Mary A.) Ormsby; and Our Big Visitor, The Great "Eastern" Steamship with a folding plate which comprises a large view of the ship as seen above.
Price: $150
London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Company, 1894. Read More Item Details for Among the Moors. Sketches of Oriental Life Add to Wish List
Item #323846
Price: $6,000
London: Andrew Melrose, 1913. Special deluxe edition limited to 280 numbered copies only (this copy is no. 219). SIGNED BY AUTHORS AND SHACKLETON. Read More Item Details for Antarctic Days. Sketches of the homely side of Polar life by two of Shackleton's men … introduced by Sir Ernest Shackleton Add to Wish List
Item #317040
Price: $1,500
Ningpo. China: [American Presbyterian Mission Press], January 1st, 1846. The leaflet describes the history of missionary efforts in China, particularily after the five treaty ports were opened in 1842. Inscribed on page 3 "With the compliments of M.S. [Michael Simpson] Culbertson/ Dr. A Freeman." and addressed on page 4 to..... Read More Item Details for Ningpo, January 1st 1846 ... Among the visions of the beloved disciple in the isle that is called Patmos ... [Printed letter by the American Presbyterian Mission in China, signed by Michael Simpson Culbertson] Add to Wish List
Item #329709
Price: $500
Galesburg, Illinois: Bates & Nead. Read More Item Details for Our Private Car Party to Cobalt, Ontario The Richest Mining Camp in the World. Five Days' Round Trip from Galesburg Add to Wish List
Item #334960
Price: $10,000
Incredible Memento Of Peary's North Pole Expedition. This elaborately bound volume of guest autographs was commissioned for the yacht Sheelah, owned by millionaire industrialist Charles Ross (1848-1913). Originally from Scotland, Ross emigrated to North America in 1868 and built a fortune as a railway engineer, settling finally in Montreal. In..... Read More Item Details for Guest book of yacht Sheelah, signed by Robert E. Peary, 21 September 1909, upon his return from the North Pole Add to Wish List
Item #315967
Price: $650
[New Haven: July 1857. Separately-issued offprint from the American Journal of Science and Arts, 2nd series, Vol. xxiv, July 1857. "[Redfield's] last contribution to meteorological science was a memoir upon the cyclones or typhoons of the north Pacific Ocean, prepared at the request of Commodore Perry, to accompany his Narrative..... Read More Item Details for On the Cyclones or Typhoons of the North Pacific Ocean; with a Chart, Showing their Courses of Progression Add to Wish List
Item #324349
Price: $650
Port Praya, Cape Verde Islands: January 27, 1845. "... Lieut. Reid came into my cabin and informed me that Mr. Hurst had been brought on board badly wounded. On going into the Ward Room I found that a ball from one of the ship pistols had passed through both his..... Read More Item Details for Contemporary true copy of an autograph letter signed from H. Bruce to Matthew C. Perry, detailing a duel between two officers on the U.S.S. Truxtun serving on Perry's African Squadron Add to Wish List
Item #346683
Price: $5,000
London: Printed for John Stockdale … and George Goulding, [1789]. First edition. Portlock and Dixon, captains of the ships King George and Queen Charlotte, set out on behalf of the King George's Sound Company to establish a trade in furs on the northwest coast of America, especially otter furs. Their..... Read More Item Details for A Voyage Round the World; But More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon Add to Wish List
Item #57561
Price: $3,250
London: William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1613. First edition. Not to be confused with the author's "Pilgrimes" of 1625, this is primarily a religious geography which draws "mainly upon Ramusio and Hakluyt" according to Cox. Purchas devoted his entire life to collecting accounts of voyages around the world, as he..... Read More Item Details for Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouvered ... in Four Parts Add to Wish List
Item #236445
Price: $4,500
London: John Murray, 1830. First edition. First edition of this "glowing and detailed biography" (ODNB) by the second wife of Sir Thomas Raffles (1781-1826), British colonial governor and founder of Singapore. With only scant formal schooling, Raffles relied upon his prodigious natural intelligence and energy as he worked his way..... Read More Item Details for Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, F.R.S., etc. Particularly in the Government of Java Add to Wish List
Item #314831
Price: $1,100
London: Constable & Co, 1930. First edition. A fascinating account of the land, peoples and politics of Arabia, by Ameen Rihani (1876-1940) the first man to travel throughout the region and interview all its rulers. Read More Item Details for Around the Coasts of Arabia Add to Wish List
Item #317597
Price: $2,750
London: Chapman and Hall, 1896. First edition. Specialized record of tattoo patterns and a collection of dried heads. A classic ethnography on the Maoris and the long tradition of tattooing. Profusely illustrated, this valuable history showcases the creativity and craft of the native artists. In 1863, Major-General Robley (1840-1930) with..... Read More Item Details for Moko; or Maori Tattooing Add to Wish List
Item #304798
Price: $1,250
London: Archibald Constable, 1904. First edition. Baron Corvo, Ghost Writer: Presentation Copy. Expanded by Frederick Rolfe from a brief pamphlet by farmer-soldier Owen Thomas (1858-1923) to a book-length work. According to A.J.A. Symons in The Quest for Corvo it “bears in many places the stigmata of Rolfe’s eccentric style”. Agricultural..... Read More Item Details for Agricultural and Pastoral Prospects of South Africa by Owen Thomas Add to Wish List
Item #345339
Price: $1,250
London: A.W. Webster, 156, Regent Street, 1835. First Edition. “In 1829, frustrated by the lack of progress [in search of a northwest passage], a philanthropic gin distiller, Felix Booth, sponsored John Ross’s second expedition. With his nephew James Clark Ross as second-in-command, Ross sailed down Prince Regent Sound in search..... Read More Item Details for Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833....Including the Report of Commander, now Captain, James Clark Ross and the Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole Add to Wish List
Item #312855
Price: $600
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1877. First Edition. Read More Item Details for The Prince of Wales' Tour: A Diary in India, with some Account of the Visits of His Royal Highness to the Courts of Greece, Egypt, Spain, and Portugal Add to Wish List
Item #321925
Price: $40,000
London: William Miller, 1809 [but T. Mc'Lean, circa 1822]. First edition, later issue. One of the Largest and Most Beautiful Hand Colored Plate Books. A very fine set of views after drawings by Henry Salt. Salt left London in 1802 for an eastern tour with Lord Valentia, visiting Indian and..... Read More Item Details for ... Twenty four views taken in St Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia & Egypt .. Add to Wish List
Item #323375
Price: $3,000
London: F.C. and J. Rivington, 1814. First edition. A fine copy of this important work by Salt on his two years journey to Abyssinia. "On 2 March 1809 Salt sailed on a mission from the British government to Abyssinia, to carry presents to the king and report on the state..... Read More Item Details for A Voyage to Abyssinia, and Travels into the Interior of that Country, Executed in the Years 1809 and 1810 Add to Wish List
Item #314823
Price: $350
Cape Town: W.A. Richards & Sons, 1900. Second Boer War. Read More Item Details for Cape of Good Hope. Proclamations and Government Notices issued during the period October, 1899, to June, 1900, having reference to and consequent on the outbreak of hostilities in South Africa Add to Wish List
Item #329586
Price: $13,500
London: printed by W. Bulmer and Co., for G. Nicol, 1798. Second edition, corrected. The official account of Lord Macartney's voyage and embassy to the Qianlong emperor in 1792-94, “compiled by the Secretary (and Minister Plenipotentiary in the absence of the Ambassador) Sir George Leonard Staunton. Macartney’s chief object was..... Read More Item Details for Authentic Account of an Embassy to the Emperor of China.. Taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney Add to Wish List
Item #317036
Price: $450
New York: Schönberg & Co, 1860. The folding plate, measuring 22 x 28 inches, comprises a large view of the ship with a cross-section below, and portraits of its builder, engineers and commander at the corners. Brunel's Great Eastern was launched in 1858, the largest ship ever built at the..... Read More Item Details for Our Big Visitor, the "Great Eastern" Steamship ... A Description, View & Section of the Vessel, with Sketches of the Leading Men Connected with the Enterprise Add to Wish List
Item #339180
Price: $550
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. First edition, signed issue (printed for Explorer's Club); #69 of 200 numbered copies, printed for the Explorers Club, signed by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Rockwell Kent and Stephen Leacock [Arctic Bibliography 16873]. EXPLORERS CLUB ISSUE (200 NUMBERED & SIGNED COPIES) SIGNED BY ROCKWELL KENT/ VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON/..... Read More Item Details for UNSOLVED MYSTERIES OF THE ARCTIC by Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Introduction by Stephen Leacock telling how this book came to be written Add to Wish List
Item #346354
Price: $1,600
London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1912. First edition. The classic account of Stein's 1906-08 second expedition to Chinese Central Asia, incuding his discovery of the "Caves of the Thousand Buddhas" near Dunhuang. Read More Item Details for Ruins of Desert Cathay. Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China Add to Wish List
Item #346470
Price: $8,000
Sydney: [Privately printed], 1890. First edition, issued (according to Edmund Gosse) in an edition of 25 copies. The Rare Sydney Printing. Father Damien, Damien de Veuster (1840-1889) was a Belgian missionary from Belgium who worked at the leper settlement at Molokai from 1873; he eventually contracted leprosy and died of..... Read More Item Details for Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu Add to Wish List
Item #319960
Price: $1,000
Paris: aux Bureaux du Journal, 25 Juin - 25 Décembre 1856. Scarce Suez Canal Periodical. First 13 numbers of this scarce periodical devoted entirely to the Canal project and related subjects; it includes progress reports, bulletins from Egypt on local conditions as they relate to the project, international “faits divers”..... Read More Item Details for L'Isthme de Suez Journal de l'Union des Deux Mers Add to Wish List
Item #225055