James Cummins Bookseller is excited to share with our friends this list of treasures in this subject. We are offering the best edition of Lewis and Clark's Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. It is the first English edition of the "definitive account of the most important exploration of the North American continent" and the first quarto edition, superior in quality to the two-volume octavo edition published in Philadelphia the same year. We are also offering Captain James Cook's A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's Ship, The Endeavour, with the rare explanatory remarks by Fothergill. Among other highlights is Thomas and William Daniell's A Picturesque Voyage to India, a handsome first edition copy, with 50 hand-colored aquatint plates; and finally a sailor's commonplace book made while traveling through Cuba, Florida, Greece, and Italy in 1822-33, with entries comprising original watercolor drawings, stories and poems.
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Manchester: Richard Johnson, Printer, Brook Strreet, 1894. First edition. Read More Item Details for A, B, & C's Little Trip: Pleasant Recollections of a Holiday in Holland and Belgium. Narrated by "C." With "A's" Compliments Add to Wish List
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Paris: Paul Ollendorff, 1897. Read More Item Details for Biskra [At head of title:] Au Pays des Palmes Add to Wish List
Item #260462
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London: Nathaniel Cooke, Milford House, Strand, 1854. First edition. Read More Item Details for Algeria: The Topography and History, Political, Social and Natural, of French Africa Add to Wish List
Item #317115
Price: $450
London: Wyman & Sons, 74-76 Great Queen Street, 1888. First edition. Ads for the Mining Exhibition in Lima 1888 at the end. Read More Item Details for The Amazon Provinces of Peru As a Field for European Emigration. A Statistical and Geographical Review of The Country and its Resources, including the Gold and Silver Mines together with A mass of Useful and Valuable Information, with Maps and Illustrations Add to Wish List
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Price: $500
London: Printed for Roger Rea, 1668. Third edition. This was first published in 1631. The section on America (the D gathering) is lacking the first and final leaves but the comments on Virginia are present “on the East it has Mare del Nort, on the North Norumbega, Florida on the..... Read More Item Details for A Prospect of the Most Famous parts of the World. Viz. Asia, Africa, Europe, America… Add to Wish List
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Price: $75
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. Read More Item Details for The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in North America (1610-1791) Add to Wish List
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Price: $600
Hildburghausen & New York: Bibliographischen Institut, 1857. Twenty-three Great American Views. 23 American plates, including 2 of Cuba; 1 of Central America; 1 of Mexico; and Mt. Jefferson; Wall St.; St. Louis on the Mississippi; The Palisades; Harper's Ferry; St. Charles on the Mississippi; Independence Court House (Missouri); Urkwald-Landschaft am..... Read More Item Details for Meyer's Universum, oder Abbildun und Beschreibung des Sehenswertheften und Merkwürdigsten der Natur und Kunst auf der ganzen Erde. Volume 19 only Add to Wish List
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1887. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon in the Gold Regions of Africa Add to Wish List
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Price: $6,000
c.1908. RARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF NORTH CHINA. An excellent group of images documenting a tour though the little known, and rarely photographed, mining districts of northern China. The photographer was likely attached to the Anglo-French Quicksilver and Mining Concession which had claims in the Guizhou province. Among the photographs is an..... Read More Item Details for Bound volume containing 48 original photographs of mining activities in northern China, and transport there on the Trans-Siberian Railroad and through Manchuria Add to Wish List
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Copenhagen: Chez Nicolas Möller, 1773. First edition in French, with half-title. With the large fold-out map of Yemen hand-colored in outline. Account of the ill-starred Royal Danish expedition (1761-1767) to the Arabian Peninsula, the first scientific expedition, from which Niebuhr returned as the only survivor. Niebuhr only covered a small..... Read More Item Details for Description de l'Arabie, d'après les observations et recherches faites dans le pays même Add to Wish List
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Price: $150
London: Richrad Bentley, 1868. First Edition. Read More Item Details for A Walking Tour in Normandy. by the Author of "All Round Ireland on Foot" Add to Wish List
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London: William Heinemann, 1921. First Edition. Read More Item Details for China Japan and Korea Add to Wish List
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Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1933. First. Ronald Victor Courtenay Bodley, MC (1892-1970), a British army officer, lived in Japan in the early 1930s, and was considered by Westerners at that time to be a preeminent source of knowledge on the area, proving to be erroneous on whether the Japanese were..... Read More Item Details for A Japanese Omelette. A British Writer's Impressions on the Japanese Empire Add to Wish List
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Price: $6,000
London: Printed for J. Nourse…and T. Davies…, 1772. First English Edition. The First French Circumnavigation. First English edition of the first French circumnavigation (first published in Paris, 1771). Bougainville’s command was to first turn over the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands to the Spanish, allies of the French. He tells the story..... Read More Item Details for A Voyage round the World…In the years 1776, 1767, 1768, and 1769…Translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster… Add to Wish List
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Price: $8,500
London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1855-56. First edition. "In 1852 Burton proposed to the Royal Geographical Society that he make the hajj, or pilgrimage, to the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina. Forbidden to non-Muslims, less than half a dozen Europeans were known to have visited them and..... Read More Item Details for Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah Add to Wish List
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Price: $17,500
London: Printed for Stanfield Parkinson, 1773. First edition with the very rare "Explanatory Remarks" by Fothergill and postscript. With The Rare Explanatory Remarks by Fothergill. First edition of this important account of Cook's first voyage, based on the journal of Parkinson, who had been engaged by Sir Joseph Banks to..... Read More Item Details for A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's Ship, The Endeavour. Faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Parkinson, Draughtsman to Joseph Banks, Esq. on his late expedition with Dr. Solander, round the World. Embellished with views and designs, delineated by the Author, and engraved by capital artists Add to Wish List
Item #310853
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London: Longman, Hurst [&c.], 1810. First edition. Thomas Daniell, accompanied by his nephew William, left England on the China-bound Indiaman in 1785, returning to England by way of India in 1794. The journey, financed in part by the sale of oil paintings of their travels, was documented in William’s journal..... Read More Item Details for A Picturesque Voyage to India, by the Way of China Add to Wish List
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Price: $7,500
[London: printed for the author at the Chiswick Press, April 1922]. First separate edition, 25 copies signed by the author, this copy numbered "Fourteen" One of 25 copies, signed. Doughty's private edition of his review of D.G. Hogarth's Arabia (Clarendon Press, 1922), reprinted from The Observer 19 March 1922. David..... Read More Item Details for Hogarth's "Arabia" Add to Wish List
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[London]: c.1872. A rare survival. This image appears in William Bradford's fabled book of photographs Arctic Regions. It was taken by either Dunmore or Critcherson, the two professional photographers from Boston who accompanied Bradford on his 1869 expedition to the Arctic on the steamship Panther. It was probably taken at..... Read More Item Details for Esquimaux Winter Hut and Its Occupants. The Entrance is seen on the Left Add to Wish List
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London: Printed for T. Cadell in the Strand, and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. First edition, with half-title. Read More Item Details for The Character of the Russians and a Detailed History of Moscow. With a dissertation on the Russian language, and an appendix, containing tables, political, statistical, and historical; an account of the Imperial Agricultural Society of Moscow Add to Wish List
Item #307353
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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
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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
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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
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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: $9,500
Agra: Printed by T.W. Brown, at the Agra Ukhbar Press, 1844. First Edition. Early account of the Nainee Tal hill station (now Nainital) in the Kumaon region of Uttarkhand in north India, and extensive travels to Kedarnath and other sites in the Himalayan foothills and passes. These “Notes” were “originally..... Read More Item Details for Notes of Wanderings in the Himmala. Containing descriptions of some of the grandest scenery of the snowy range; among others of Nainee Tal by a Pilgrim with an appendix and map Add to Wish List
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