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A DIARY IN AMERICA. With Remarks on Its Institutions. Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, by Sydney Jackman.
Edition: First of this edition
New York: Knopf, 1962. Terra cotta and grey cloth, blue topstain. pp [2], (xxviii), 487, [1, blank], ix [index], [1, colophon) + frontispiece portrait. Fine in very nearly fine price-clipped jacket, no owner names. "The famous novelist's lively and enlightening account of life in our pioneer Republic in the years 1837-38." - jacket. His Canadian travels are recounted in parts of chapters XV and XVI. Based on the London, 1839, six volume original.; Octavo
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Book ID: 17337More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
A JOURNEY TO FLORENCE IN 1837. Edited with notes by G.R. de Beer, F.R.S.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1951. Second printing. 12mo, brick cloth. pp 175, including frontispiece portrait and one facsimile. Slight wear to head of spine, else a VG clean and unworn jacketless copy. Well written journal of a trip from London to Florence written by a girl no older than 14 years.Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 44964More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
A NARRATIVE OF MISSIONARY ENTERPRISES IN THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS. With Remarks Upon the Natural History of the Islands, Origin, Languages, Traditions and Usages of the Inhabitants. Fourth Thousand. Illustrated with Engravings on Wood by G. Baxter
Book ID: 27836More details Price: USD $395.00 USD $355.50
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A TOURIST IN AFRICA
Edition: First printing
London: Chapman & Hall, 1960. Blue boards. Front cover seasonally bowed, small corner bruise to rear cover, else fine. Dust jacket lightly yellowed on spine and less so to rear panel, else fine, flap price intact. Port Said, Aden, Kenya, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika, Rhodesia, Mozambique, Bechuanaland and South Africa in 1959. ; Octavo
Book ID: 51179More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
A TRAVELER AT FORTY
Edition: First Edition
New York: Century, 1913. Dark red cloth gilt, top edge gilt. [x], 526 pp + 16 plates. Moderate wear to spine tips and outer corners; nice bookplate to front pastedown; page edges yellowed; else a VG copy. London, Paris, Monte Carlo, Nice, Pisa, Rome, Florence, Venice, Lu cerne, Germany, Berlin, the Netherlands, Amsterdam, and more. 1.5 kg parcel
Book ID: 13880More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
A TRAVELLER IN TURKEY
Edition: First printing
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. Maroon boards. Endpaper maps. pp (xiv), 221 + plates. Index. ; Octavo
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Book ID: 54745More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
A TRIP TO MANITOBA; or, Roughing It on the Line
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Rose-Belford, 1880. Original dark olive pictorial cloth stamped in black, gilt, and blind. pp xvi, (14)-267. Book a little leaned, mild wear to spine tips and corners, cloth snag at center of rear cover repaired, slight cloth bubbling to covers, yellowing to endpapers; else a VG clean and tight copy, no owner names. "Railroad Edition" rubber stamped in red on rear free endpaper by publisher. "Light-hearted anecdotes on a railroad trip out west, by the woman who co-authored two books with Catherine Parr Traill." - Waterston, The Travellers, p. 152.; Small octavo
Book ID: 26797More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
A VOYAGE TO ABYSSINIA...Containing the history, natural, civil, and ecclesiastical, of that remote and unrequited country, continued down to the beginning of the eighteenth century...
Book ID: 46094More details Price: USD $450.00 USD $405.00 -
A voyage to the South Sea undertaken by command of His Majesty for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's ship the Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh....
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1969. Title page continues "including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship's boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies." Brown cloth, green cloth spine label. pp (12), 264 + frontispiece portrait + 2 folding plates + 3 folding maps + 1 full-page map. Fine copy. Facsimile of the London, 1792, original. Australiana Facsimiles No. 121. 2 kg parcel.; Large quarto
Book ID: 47688More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00 -
ACROSS THE PLAINS IN FORTY-NINE. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife
Edition: First of this edition
Chicago: Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley, 1948. 16mo, maroon cloth. pp lii, 170, [2] + frontispiece portrait and three other plates, all with tissue guards; map in text; indexed, reproduction of the title page of the original Farmland, Indiana, 1896, edition. Top edges gilt. Fine copy. Lakesides Classics no. 46. California Gold Rush narrative.
Book ID: 41974More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
ADVENTURES ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER. Illustrated by Cleveland Rockwell and Others
Edition: First of this edition
Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort, no date (1957). Octavo, green cloth, endpapers illustrated in green. pp (vi), 105 + plates on text paper. Fine copy, no owner names. Pale green price-clipped dust jacket has some sunning, light soiling, light damp stains along spine; good. Extracts form the two volume, London, 1831, first edition. An important fur trade journal. Cox, a young Irishman, was up and down the Columbia River in 1812-17, working for Astor and then the North West Company.; Octavo
Condition: Fine in Good dust jacket
Book ID: 36193More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
AFTER OPHIR; or, A Search for the South African Gold Fields.
Book ID: 24769More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
AMERICA AND HER COMMENTATORS. With a Critical Sketch of Travel in the United States.
New York: Antiquarian Press, 1961. Facsimile reprint of the edition of 1864, limited to 750 copies. Maroon cloth. Name and address rubbed stamped twice to front free endpaper, else fine, without jacket, as issued.; Octavo
Condition: Very Good
Book ID: 11329More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
AMERIGO: the man who gave his name to America
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Key Porter, 2007. Black boards. pp (xxiv), (232) + plates. Map, index. Fine in fine jacket. ; Octavo 1552638928
Book ID: 51630More details Price: USD $10.95 USD $9.86 -
AN ACCOUNT OF THE NATIVES OF THE TONGA ISLANDS, in the South Pacific Ocean, compiled and arranged from the extensive communication of Mr. William Mariner, several years resident in those islands, by John Martin
Edition: First US Edition
Book ID: 36927More details Price: USD $450.00 USD $405.00 -
ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. Illustrated by Upwards of Three Hundred Engravings, from Sketches by the Author…
Book ID: 24830More details Price: USD $200.00 USD $180.00
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Arthur Phillip: His Voyaging, 1738-1814
Edition: First Edition
Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press, 1987. Quarto, green boards, endpaper maps. pp (xii), 320 + colour plates; maps, charts, and illustrations in text. Fine in jacket, no owner names. Phillip was the founding governnor of the convict colony in New South Wales and was one of the most travelled men of his time. 1.5 kg parcel 0195547012
Book ID: 35224More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
AWAY TO IT ALL
Edition: First printing
London: Hogarth Press, 1964. Black boards. pp (224) + plates. Light yellowing to page edges, else fine. Dust jacket has light rippling at foot of spine, very nearly fine otherwise, flap price intact. A travelogue - Lisbon and the Tagus, Barcelona, Andalusia, The Scilly Isles, Gotland, Connemara, Finland, and more.
Book ID: 42938More details Price: USD $18.50 USD $16.65 -
BARBOT ON GUINEA: The Writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa 1678=1712. Edited by P.E. H. Hair, Adam Jones and Robin Law
Edition: First Edition
London: Hakluyt Society, 1992. Two volumes, blue cloth. pp (cxxviii), 327; (xiv), 331-916, maps & illustrations in text, indexed. Fine in very nearly fine jackets. Note: Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required. ; Octavo 0904180336
Book ID: 29462More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
Barrow's Boys
London: Granta Books, 1998. Fourth printing. Violet boards. pp (xviii), 489 + plates; maps, chronology, bibliography, index. Fine in fine jacket, no owner marks. Story of John Barrow (Second Secretary to the Admiralty) and the many expeditions of exploration he sent out. 1.5 kg parcel; Octavo. 186207173x
Book ID: 51638More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96