Item 317647Papuan Pictures.
Price: $150
London: London MIssionary Society, 1913. With presentation slip tipped-in at front as reward for gathering money. Read More Item Details for Papuan Pictures Add to Wish List
Item #317647
Price: $150
London: London MIssionary Society, 1913. With presentation slip tipped-in at front as reward for gathering money. Read More Item Details for Papuan Pictures Add to Wish List
Item #317647
Price: $200
London: Seeley, Service & Co, 1913. Third & Cheaper edition. Read More Item Details for An Unknown People in an Unknown Land: The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco With Adventures and Experiences During Twenty Years' Pioneering and Exploration Amongst Them...Edited by H.T. Morrey Jones, M.A. (Oxon) Add to Wish List
Item #318530
Price: $300
Paris: Chez Moreau, Hochereau l'ainé, 1759. With uncancelled state of leaf L1. Read More Item Details for Description de la Généralité de Paris, contenant L'Etat Ecclésiastique & Civil de cette Généralité. Le pouillé des Dioceses de Paris, Sens, Meaux, Beauvais & Senlis. Le nom de ceux qui occupent les Charges Civiles & les Emplois dans les 22 villes, Chefs-lieux d'Elections qui composent la Généralité de Paris. La composition des six Bataillons de Milices, & les noms des officiers de ces Bataillons. Les noms des Seigneurs des Terres de la Généralité avec la position & tous les details qu'on a pû rassembler sur ses Terres Add to Wish List
Item #29000
Price: $400
Paris: Chez Moreau, Hochereau l'ainé, 1759. Cancelled state of leaf L1. Read More Item Details for Description de la Généralité de Paris, contenant L'Etat Ecclésiastique & Civil de cette Généralité. Le pouillé des Dioceses de Paris, Sens, Meaux, Beauvais & Senlis. Le nom de ceux qui occupent les Charges Civiles & les Emplois dans les 22 villes, Chefs-lieux d'Elections qui composent la Généralité de Paris. La composition des six Bataillons de Milices, & les noms des officiers de ces Bataillons. Les noms des Seigneurs des Terres de la Généralité avec la position & tous les details qu'on a pû rassembler sur ses Terres Add to Wish List
Item #28993
Price: $450
Paris: A. Quantin, 1878-83. One of 330 copies. Read More Item Details for Four volumes from the “Collection des Anciennes Descriptions de Paris” series including: Jean-Paul Marana’s “Lettre d'un Sicilien a un de Ses Amis”; Isaac de Bourges’ “Desccription des Monuments de Paris”; Munster, Du Pinet & Braun’s “Plant et Pourtrait de la Ville, Cité et Université de Paris”; and Davity, Ranchin and Rocoles’ “La Prévosté de Paris et l’Isle de France” Add to Wish List
Item #29001
Price: $350
1890 (dated from internal sources). Read More Item Details for Unknown Manuscript about Mungo Park, starting "the great river which by several mouths discharges itself into the Bight of Benin was the same aas that in the exploration of which Mungo Park lost his life, even now, in the year of grace 1890, our knowledge of the stream is by no means complete..." Add to Wish List
Item #251140
Price: $400
New York: Published by Evert Duyckinck, J Oram, Printer, 1813. Later American edition. Park, a surgeon, at the recommendation of Sir Joseph Banks and for the African Association, set out to find the source of the Niger. Park suffered through many hardships. Finally with the aid of the slave trader..... Read More Item Details for Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa ... With an Appendix containing Geographical illustrations of Africa by Major Rennell Add to Wish List
Item #226394
Price: $2,250
London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the Author; and sold by G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, 1799. Second edition. The classic of African exploration, a fresh copy of the second edition, published in the same year as the first. Read More Item Details for Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797...With an Appendix containing geographical illustrations of Africa by Major Rennell Add to Wish List
Item #314799
Price: $250
New York: G. P. Putnam & Co [John F. Trow, Printer], 1853. First edition. The author was the president of Racine College, Wisconsin at this time. A notice at the end states that the Second Part with be forthcoming and will deal with an outline tour through Switzerland, Germany, Holland..... Read More Item Details for A Hand-Book for American Travellers in Europe...Designed as an introduction to the European Guide-Books. Part First Comprising Preliminary Information and Outline of a Tour in France and Italy via London Add to Wish List
Item #34320
Price: $7,500
London: John Murray, 1824. First edition. Presentation Copy, Inscribed by Parry to one of his Officers. Inscribed by Parry to one of his officers, "Lieut. J. Bushnan RN with the author's best regards." John Bushnan was the assistant surveyor on board the Fury. Bushnan was to have joined the Franklin..... Read More Item Details for Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1821-22-23 Add to Wish List
Item #243456
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London: George Philip & Son, 1888. Emin Pasha (1840-92, i.e. Eduard Schnitzer) was a Medical Officer under Gen. Gordon in Sudan.r. In 1878 he succeeded Gordon as governor of Equatoria, the southernmost province of the Egyptian Sudan. In 1885 he was cut off from the outside world by the Mahdist..... Read More Item Details for Emin Pasha in Central Africa being a Collection of His Letters and Journals...Edited and annotated by Professor G. Schweinfurth, Professor F. Ratzel, Dr. R.W. Felkin, and Dr. G. Hartlaub...Translated by Mrs. R.W. Felkin Add to Wish List
Item #318480
Price: $250
Monaco: Imprimerie de Monaco, 1903. First edition. The stature of the indigenous Patagonians was observed by Magellan and became legendary in Europe. Verneau's monograph, drawing upon collections brought to Europe by the comte H. de La Vaulx in the 1890s, is divided into three sections: a brief discussion of anthropological..... Read More Item Details for Les Anciens Patagons. Contribution a l'Étude des Races Précolombiennes de l'Amérique du Sud Add to Wish List
Item #34686
Price: $700
[Tokyo: Hasegawa, 1896]. First. English take on a Japanese book in the late 19th century. An unusual English book, printed on crepe, mimicking traditional Japanese illustrated books. This book was written and printed at a time when the English-speaking world was particularly mesmerized by Japan. Many of Britain's citizens had..... Read More Item Details for Japanese Topsyturvydom Add to Wish List
Item #255558
Price: $225
London: Chatto and Windus, 1878. Hopkins, Arthur. First edition. "Payn's greatest literary success was the two-volume By Proxy (1878), set in China, in which the hero, Captain Conway, gives himself as the proxy victim for execution in place of his convicted, thieving friend Pennicuik. Needless to say in such a...... Read More Item Details for By Proxy Add to Wish List
Item #312878
Price: $350
Salem, [Mass.]: Peabody Museum, 1937. Number 31 of 100 copies on Berestoke Hand-made paper, printed at the Southworth-Anthoensen Press. Read More Item Details for South American Journals 1858-1859. Edited from the Original Manuscript by his friend John Charles Phillips Add to Wish List
Item #62004
Price: $150
Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong, 1818. First American edition. Read More Item Details for Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Rev. Claudius Buchanan, D.D. Late Vice-Provost of the College of Fort William in Bengal Add to Wish List
Item #263171
Price: $75
n.p: Printed for the Club, n.d. [1920]. First Edition. Robert E. Peary Memorial Meeting, 1920. With tributes by Stefansson (the Club president), and some of the men who accompanied Peary on his polar explorations. Read More Item Details for Memorial Meeting held as a tribute to the memory of Rear-Admiral Robert E. Peary, U.S.N. at The Explorers Club Add to Wish List
Item #23567
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: $500
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. First UK trade edition. Read More Item Details for The North Pole. With an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt Add to Wish List
Item #316747
Price: $200
Barranquilla. Estados Unidos de Colombia & Norwich, etc: 1864-1874. Founder of "Imprenta Americana" two letters on Imprenta Americana letterhead and 2 not. Read More Item Details for 4 Autograph Letters Signed to Charles W. Webster. "Dear Charley"with proof of portrait of Pellet. In one he asks Webster for help in being appointed the Consul of Barranquilla for salary has gone from $500 to $1000 (another retained copy); ALS on death of brother Nelson Add to Wish List
Item #44119
Price: $200
New York: The Century Co, 1912. Later Issue. Read More Item Details for East of Suez - Ceylon, India, China and Japan Add to Wish List
Item #316730
Price: $450
[New York]: Privately Printed, Christmas 1909. First edition, presentation copy to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbilt. Printed at the De Vinne Press. A luxuriantly illustrated account of motoring in Spain at the turn of the century, a tale of misadventures and elegance, and an encounter with Spanish royalty. Read More Item Details for The Motor that went to Court Add to Wish List
Item #53653
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London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co, [1887]. First edition. Read More Item Details for Ten Years in Melanesia Add to Wish List
Item #217632
Price: $150
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, n.d. First American edition. Read More Item Details for The Harem. An Account of the Institution as it Existed in the Palace of the Turkish Sultans with a History of the Grand Seraglio from its Foundation to the Present Time Add to Wish List
Item #228218
Price: $400
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1889. Read More Item Details for The Land of the Dragon. My Boating and Shooting Excursions to the Gorges of the Upper Yangtze. With a Map of the Author's Route Add to Wish List
Item #316607