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.
1778. State of the French Government: Louis XVI attempts Reform, 1776-8. In a law dated 18 March 1776... Read More
Price: $12,500
Quebec: Zech & Fils, nd. Read More
Price: $100
Manchester: Richard Johnson, Printer, Brook Strreet, 1894. Read More
Price: $200
Brunswick, Maine: Nov., 2, 1858. "Your favor of Nov. 6 I have just rec'd. I regret very much that I have no autograph of the Emperor and have never had any. While in Europe I received some notes from distinguished men but they have long since passed into the hands... Read More
Price: $125
Aberdeen, (Scotland): Printed for the Third Spalding Club, 1929. First edition. Read More
Price: $300
11 May, 1802. He was Minister of Justice from 1799 to 1802 under Napoleon. The =quaetion raised in this ketter is "Shall Napoleon be a lifetime Consul?" Read More
Price: $150
[Washington, D.C: Issued by the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, 1958]. With a portrait of King Saud, who acceded to the throne in 1953 upon the death of his father Abul Aziz Ibn Saud, a map, and numerous illustrations documenting development in the country since the second world war. Omar Abu... Read More
Price: $250
London: Rudolf Ackermann, 1814. First edition. Fine Early Copy of Ackermann's Oxford. An early copy. The list of plates in vol. I is the first state (it does not list the portraits of Founders; this copy does not include the Founders). Plate 1, vol.1, is mislabeled “History of Cambridge” and... Read More
Price: $6,000
London: Ackermann, 1816. First Edition, First Issue (paper watermarked 1816). This folio forms part of one of Ackermann’s larger, though not so successful projects, his History of the Colleges. Ford in his book on Ackermann notes that William Combe wrote the text for this, as well as five other schools... Read More
Price: $750
[London] in the Savoy: John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1670. Read More
Price: $75
London: W. Thacker & Co, 1899. First edition. A Beautiful Copy. “An excellent work of high mountain sport” (Czech). A superior copy in choice condition. Read More
Price: $1,750
N. P: [1963]. Contributor's Copy–Honoring Adenauer. From the library of Henry Cabot Lodge who was one on the contributors to this collection. The magazine “Der Spiegel” produced a special issue to honor Chancelor Adenauer on his retirement. This notebook contains facsimiles of the contributions. The contributors are Harold Macmillan, Dwight..... Read More
Price: $450
New York: Macmillan, 1928. First edition. Inscribed by the Author. Inscribed by the author, "Affectionately inscribed for Ethel Greacen whose friendship I value highly — Delia J. Akeley. Read More
Price: $150
London: Arrowsmith, [1925]. First edition. Read More
Price: $200
Paris: Hachette, 1881. French translation of the first English edition of 1865. Read More
Price: $200
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1814. Pinkerton's collection of voyages was published over the course of six years in a total of seventeen volumes. The six volumes devoted to Europe comprise the largest section of the collection. They are "of great value for its texts, which are sometimes given... Read More
Price: $1,250
London: Printed for Longman. Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1822. First edition. Read More
Price: $150
London: Printed for Longman. Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1819. Fourth Edition. Read More
Price: $150
Paris: Marcel Seheur, 1933. Number 684. INSCRIBED BY ARTIST. The artsist was Jewish, Ukrainian 1894-1962). The book is inscribed to the Weslers by the artist in 1950. Read More
Price: $150
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. Bombay: Thacker & Co., Limited. London: W. Thacker & Co, 1890. Third Edition. "A 'Natural History' of the Native Tribes who in India render us Service" Behind the scenes of colonial life in India, originally published in the TIMES OF INDIA-with advice for "Engaging a.... Read More
Price: $150
V.p: 1889-90. Record of a Hunting Trip to Alaska, 1889-1890. Album of drawings and photographs by an accomplished amateur artist, Thomas Gilbert Bowick, during a hunting trip in Oregon and Alaska with his brother John Robie Bowick in 1889 and 1890. The brothers, apparently of English extraction, were part owners... Read More
Price: $22,500
Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1904. Read More
Price: $750
[Alaska]: c. 1905. A collection of photos including images of the U.S. Revenue Cutter (USRC) Manning and her crew. Designed as a cruising cutter for the Revenue Cutter Service, the Manning was commissioned on 8 January, 1898. After service with the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War, the Manning returned... Read More
Price: $750
Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1885. First edition. Read More
Price: $250
![[An Act for advancing the Sale of Fee-Farm Rents, and other Rents … An Act to enable the Kings Majesty to make Leases, Grants, and Copies of Offices, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, Parcel of his Highness Dutchy of Cornwall, or annexed to the same] Anno Regni Caroli II Regis Angliæ, Scotiæ & Hiberniæ Vicesimo Secundo At the Parliament begun at Westminster the Eighth Day of May, Anno Dom. 1661](/pictures/thumb/300139.jpg?v=1534807084)
![A Summer in High Asia. Being a Record of Sport and Travel in Baltistan and Ladakh. [At head of title:] The Big Game of Baltistan and Ladakh. Capt. F. E. S. Adair.](/pictures/thumb/249684.jpg?v=1534806083)
![Random Sketches on a Hunting Trip through Mexico, the Western States, and Alaska T.G. B. May 4/89 to Apl 3/90 [Manuscript Title]. Alaska, Thomas Gilbert Bowick.](/pictures/thumb/310356.jpg?v=1546461657)
![[Photographs of Alaska]. Alaska.](/pictures/thumb/304775_1.jpg?v=1534807491)