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.
London: Printed by W. Stratford, Crown-Court, Temple-Bar; for J. Stratford, 112, Holborn-Hill, 1812. Complete in 53 numbers. Unrecorded... Read More
Price: $2,000
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
New York: J. Abeel Williamson, 1836. Second edition. A substantial report on conditions in China by this widely travelled missionary, with separate chapters and detailed observations on Java, Siam, Sumatra, Malacca, Singapore, Borneo, the Philippines, and Japan. Read More
Price: $300
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
N. P: Iraq Petroleum Company Ltd, 1934. First edition. The Iraq Petroleum Company which was a British, Anglo-Dutch, American, French and Gulbenkian concern was awarded the concession for oil development in northern and central Iraq in 1925. In 1961, after various revisions in the original grant the company was deprived... Read More
Price: $200
London: R. Ackermann, 101, Strand, 1820. First edition, early issue, with the plates unnumbered. Along the Rhine with Ackermann. One of Ackermann’s most breathtaking color plate books — these exquisite views of the Rhine are justly prized for their matchless beauty. Read More
Price: $4,500
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
![[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=1458666722)
[London] in the Savoy: John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1670. Read More
Price: $75
![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=1438725057)
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
London: for Tho. Bennet, 1700. A reply to Donne's Biathanatos. Read More
Price: $1,250
[London]: Printed for, and sold by the author at Market-Harborough, and J. Buckland, London, 1770. First edition. With 8 Maps by Thomas Kitchin. A student geography with 8 engraved maps by Thomas Kitchin, including a world map, North and South America, Asia, the Holy Land and Africa. Kitchin (1718–1784) was... Read More
Price: $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
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1888. First edition. Account of a hunting trip to the Adirondacks and British Columbia by the author of The Badminton Library volumes on Big Game Hunting. Read More
Price: $200
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: H. F. & g. Witherby, 1933. First edition. Read More
Price: $200
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