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Voyages de Messieurs Bachaumont et La Chapelle: Auquel on a joint les Poesies Du Chevalier de Cailly, la Relation des Campagnes de Rocroi & de Fribourg, & les Visionnaires. Bachaumont, François Le Coigneux de et, Claude-Emmanuel Lhuillier Chapelle.

Voyages de Messieurs Bachaumont et La Chapelle: Auquel on a joint les Poesies Du Chevalier de Cailly, la Relation des...

Amsterdam: 1708. Second edition. A charming copy of Chapelle's best known work. He recounts a voyage through Provence and Languedoc in both poetry and prose. The work also includes poems by the Kight of Cailly and accounts of campaigns against the Spanist at Rocroi. Read More

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Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835. Captain Back, George.

"One of the fundamental books on Arctic exploration" (Hill)

Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the shores of the...

London: John Murray, 1836. First edition. "One of the fundamental books on Arctic exploration" (Hill). Back volunteered to search for the lost Ross expedition. Here he describes his trip through north central Canada down the Slave to Great Slave Lake, then to the Great Fish River (which he discovered) and... Read More

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Autograph Letter, signed (“P.T. Barnum”), to “Messrs Beach Brothers”. Phineas Taylor Barnum.

Introducing Osbert Loomis and His Moving Panorama of Cuba

Autograph Letter, signed (“P.T. Barnum”), to “Messrs Beach Brothers”.

American Museum, New York: August 21, 1850. Introducing Osbert Loomis and His Moving Panorama of Cuba. Reading in part: “Permit me to introduce the bearer Mr. O.B. Loomis an American-Habanese who is about producing a most interesting panorama of all Cuba — including Canderas at the hour of Genl Lopez... Read More

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Switzerland. Illustrated in a Series of Views Taken Expressly for this Work by W.H. Bartlett, Esq. William Beattie.

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

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Beautiful Bermuda. The Bermuda Blue Book. [At head of title:] The Standard Guide to Bermuda. Euphemia Young Bell.

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Beautiful Bermuda. The Bermuda Blue Book. [At head of title:] The Standard Guide to Bermuda.

New York: Beautiful Bermuda Publishing Co, 1947. Tenth edition, revised and enlarged by S.E. Bell and William E. Bell. Inscribed by the editors. Portable illustrated encyclopedia of the history, people, and commerce of Bermuda. Inscribed by the editors to the eminent American justice: “To Judge Harold R. Medina, with greetings... Read More

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