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187625426London : Chatto and Windus 1876 . First Edition . Fair . 8VO . Nicely illustrated with black and white wood engravings two of which are missing. Neither map is present. Bound in decorated maroon cloth. An ex-library copy with usual markings. Covers show considerable wear. Chatto and Windus hardcover
18363145New York: Wiley & Long 1836. First Edition . Cloth. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Green boards. 3vi-xviii268p12 fold out platesillus Some browning on plates. Backstrip needs to be reglued. 3" split on baxkstrip. Early owners name ink on fep 1854. Gilt title on spine From the estate of Levi Lincoln- Lieut George Lincoln MSA Oct 4 1834 <br/> <br/> Wiley & Long hardcover
1896151586Boston: Little Brown and Company. 1896. Leatherbound. Good. The front plate is detached but is still present; Leatherbound with marble plates; 381 pages . Little, Brown, and Company hardcover
183619113Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1836. Volume II only. Purple cloth heavily sunned along spine and outer margins. Paper label intact on spine though somewhat scuffed. Corners bumped and rubbed. No ownership or any other markings. Scattered foxing throughout. Sound binding. 239pp. The author's 1828 travelogue of Switzerland. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Carey, Lea & Blanchard Hardcover
1852ZB409601Washington: Hamilton printer 1852. 7 pp issued as 32d Congress 1st Session HED 19; extraction roughness at spine now in self wrappers; the surviving American members of the failed Lopez expedition against Cuba have been pardoned and released; their actions were unauthorized but Secretary of State Daniel Webster thinks something should be done to relieve their forlorn and deplorable condition. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Washington: Hamilton, printer, unknown
189912678London: Chatto & Windus 1899. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. New Edition. Very good with wear to extremities foxing to prelims and prize award bookplt. Large colour folding map and 33 illustrations. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
1858452841858. Original printing. 2pp. Disbound sheet of paper printed on both sides. Near fine. Clean and bright. Estimate of funds required for expenses such as aggregate force servants and employees. unknown
1821138738London: Sir Richard Phillips 1821. Fair. iv 124 p. 23 cm. 3 engraved plates. Disbound. Plates title and Preface detached. Foxing. Map missing. <br/><br/> Sir Richard Phillips unknown
185032940Auburn : James M Alden 1850 . . Good . 8VO . Together with Explorations and Discoveries Made by Admiral D'Urville Captain Ross and Other Navigators and Travellers' and an Account of the Expedition to the Dead Sea under Lieutenant Lynch. Full page black and white illustrations. Amateur rebacking with brown library tape with typed title information taped on. Boards worn some foxing. James M Alden hardcover
1899066162New York: Longmans Green and Co. 1899. Full cloth binding. Front hinge tender. Some dampstaining to lower page fore edges. Internally unmarked. Frontis. with tissue overlay. 378pp. Illustrations. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Longmans, Green and Co. Hardcover
1856059903New York: Harper & Brothers 1856. Original blind-stamped cloth binding just rubbed through at corners and spine ends. Darkly toned endpapers. Light scattered foxing inside. ix 445pp. with four pages of publisher adverts. 12 illustrations. March Charles W. Charles Wainwright 1815-1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6" - 8" Tall. Harper & Brothers Hardcover
1898220429Verlag von J.F. Schreiber Braun & Schneider München 1898. Softcover Zustand: keine Beschädigungen Exemplar einer Privatbibliothek mit Kennungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten gut. Verlag von J.F. Schreiber, Braun & Schneider, München, paperback
185923335Melbourne: John Ferres Government Printer. Very Good. 1859. First Edition. Paperback. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 1 of 1859. Stab sewn uncut in very good condition. This book is light and postage will be reduced for shipment within Australia. ; 345 x 220mm; 21 pages . John Ferres, Government Printer paperback
1872R3304Québec: The « Gazette » 1872 "By a volunteer upon that Expedition". Transcribed and edited from the "volunteer's" manuscript notes but never before published. Light foxing on last pages. Soft cover. Fine. The « Gazette » paperback
1836185920Leipzig: Hirschfeld 1836. Hardcover. G Cover has fading cracking edge/corner damage. Bookblock has age toning. Interior pages have age toning foxing some water staining. Title page has some text work away. Brown leather decorative boards with 2 metal clasps. Decorative carved and colored bookblock. VIII 920 257 pages. Hirschfeld hardcover
188422023London: Royal Geographical Society 1884. First edition. Paperback. Very good condition. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society the complete monthly issue for November 1884. 8vo 2 pp 615-686 3 large folding maps 2 of Africa one of the Greely Arctic Expedition by Lieut J. B. Lockwood. Original blue printed wrappers slt. spine chip at tips otherwise fine. Royal Geographical Society paperback
1865073425New York: Harper & Brothers 1865. Cloth binding. rubbed. No title label on spine. Front hinge tender but holding nicely; front flyleaf pulled half loose. NO Map in rear. 493pp. illus. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Harper & Brothers Hardcover
1840ZB592269Washington 1840. 34 pp self wrappers very good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Washington unknown
1828073384London: Longman Rees Orme Brown and Green 1828. "Being Extracts from The Journal of a Detenu Who Continued a Prisoner on Parole in the French Capital From the Year 1803 to 1814. Also Anecdotes of Buonaparte's Journey to Elba." Written by artist Thomas Richard Underwood 1772-1836 and published confidentially at his behest by editor friend John Britton. Full green cloth binding. Title page is loose but present. Patterned endpapers. Small prior bookstore label on front pastedown; prior owner's address stamp on verso of front flyleaf. A small bit of foxing inside some age toning. xix 208pp. plus 4 pages adverts. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green Hardcover
1885014624Toronto: C. Blackett Robinson 1885. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Beveled boards in original green cloth pictorially stamped in gilt still bright on spine and front cover. Spine rounded. Foot of spine shows light fraying; corner tips pushed and have a little exposure. Inner hinges cracked but holding firm. Half-title leaf is worn and lightly chipped along fore-edge. Two fold-out maps each showing some tears tape and tissue repairs on backside. More than sixty in-text illustrations. pp. xvi 17- 589. Explorations and description of Canada extending to the Arctic Circle primarily told through the experiences of the Canadian Government Expedition to Hudson's Bay and Strait; Otto Klotz's overland Expedition to Hudson's Bay; Dr. Robert Bell's Hudson's Bay Explorations; the Travels and Explorations in the North-West of Dr. Alfred R. C. Selwyn Marcus Smith and many others; and of the Travels and Explorations of the author Charles R. Tuttle particularly the 1884 Expedition of Lieutenant Andrew Robinson Gordon. Includes descriptions of the native peoples encountered wildlife climate and geography. C. Blackett Robinson hardcover
188632946London : John Murray 1886 . First Edition . Fair . 8VO . Illustrated with attractive wood engravings many full page. Each volume has a striking ornithological hand-coloured engraved frontis. There are a number of maps mostly two colour some folding in each volume. Bound in half calf marble boards. All covers are detached as well as the spine on volume 2 ; the spine on volume 1 is half detached. The text blocks are in very good condition although the colour frontispieces are foxed. All plates and maps are present. John Murray hardcover
186915392Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Original maroon cloth covered boards with light wear to extremities bottom fore corners a little bumped spine a little faded head and tail of spine a little frayed.; Tight solid book maroon end papers hinges intact frontispiece with intact tissue guard & two other engravings in section on Mormon church. Titles in gilt on spine.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 456 pages; ``Alexander Kelly McClure January 9 1828 – June 6 1909 was a journalist editor writer politician and historian active in Pennsylvania Republican Party politics especially in the 1860s and a prominent supporter correspondent and biographer of President Abraham Lincoln.`` This book is written as two series of letters to the public one series published in the New York `Tribune` and the other in the `Franklin Repository`. Colonel J.X. Beidler Judge L.P. Williston Colonel Geo. L. Shoup Colonel Neil Howie and Colonel Wilbur L. Sanders whose faces appear on the frontispiece are encountered by McClure on his travels. Extensive section on Utah and the Mormon church. . J.B. Lippincott & Co hardcover
18979761Kristiania H. Aschehoug & co 1897. Frst Norwegian Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Royal 8vo. 526 553 3/4 cloth & marbled boards 2 v. fronts. illus. plates part col. ports. 3 color folding maps folding diagram > Rids af Fram. "Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen 10 October 1861 - 13 May 1930 was a Norwegian explorer scientist diplomat humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In his youth he was a champion skier and ice skater. He led the team that made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888 traversing the island on cross-country skis. He won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86°14 during his Fram expedition of 1893-1896. Although he retired from exploration after his return to Norway his techniques of polar travel and his innovations in equipment and clothing influenced a generation of subsequent Arctic and Antarctic expeditions."wikipedia. Kristiania, H. Aschehoug & co hardcover
182146092London W.Bulmer and W. Nicol 1821. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1821 - Part I. Pp. 164-190 a. 5 folded tables. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of the paper in which Sabine relates his discoveries with the pendulum on his 2 voyages the first on John Ross' expedition in 1818 - relating observations from Island of Brassa Shetland Hare Island London - and from the second voyage with William Parry on the arctic expedition - relating observations from Melville Island. From these observations he estimated the figure of the earth."An artillery officer Sabine was a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Woolwich. While retaining his commission - Sabine eventually reached the rank of general - the started scientific work at the close of the Napoleonic Wars. On the recommendation of the Royal Society he accompanied John Ross on an expedition to seek the Northwest Passage in 1818 and was with William Edward Parry on his 1819-1820 Arctic expedition. From the latter voyage. he said came the idea of a great ship-borne expedition of “physical discovery†to the southern hemisphere."DSB. </em> unknown
1888308<p>London: Hodder and Stoughton 1888. Hard Cover. -- 1st Edition seventh thousand. </p><p>Bound in the publisher's red cloth with coated black endpapers bright gilt lettering to the spine and an insect gilt-stamped on the front board. Illustrated with six folding maps all in color and in excellent condition as well as with several engravings. The cloth is minimally soiled the corners are slightly bumped; hinges are still strong; text is clean throughout. </p> Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
