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0428245846.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
B9781013363887Hardback. New. hardcover
1876895260551<p>Excellent condition but missing the original map that was originally included. 11 fine chromolithographic and 11 lithographic plates. Publication of this report was originally intended for 1861 but the Civil War intervened and prevented publication for another fifteen years. The expedition under Macomb went west from Santa Fe across northern New Mexico and Arizona to the Colorado. The whole drainage of the San Juan had been traced and the relationship of that river with the Colorado clearly established. More important they had also established that the Green River united with the Grand to form the Colorado. The entire maze of intricate canyon country had been threaded and its geography revealed for the first time. In addition Newberry was able to establish numerous stratigraphic columns and to trace the Triassic Jurassic and Carboniferous strata far out across the Colorado River. Newberry.introduced a new level of sophistication into the study of western geology.</p> Government printing office hardcover
19752090502113717262Not Available 1975. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
19262222001<p>First edition "October 1926". Octavo. Four page foreword by Bob Bartlett. Illustrated with 47 photographs and drawings by the Eskimo Kakutia; endpaper maps. Dust jacket unclipped; few nicks and creases. Very good. 167 pages.</p><p>Signed and inscribed on verso of frontispiece by the publisher and father of the author: "From one who is merely. David's Dad! G. P. Putnam."</p> G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
1894013931St. Louis: N.D. Thompson Publishing Co 1894. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Half morocco burgundy cloth over board. Marbled endpapers and edges. 2 pp. 80 ff. half-tone portraits. Recently professionally rebacked new leather spine and spine label. Light wear to original leather corners. Spots of scuffing and staining to cloth. Gold paint to ffep. Damp stain to lower corner of text block. Several short marginal tears mostly at tail edges. Else a nice copy of a fascinating collection of portraits from various ethnic backgrounds including American and Mexican cowboys Egyptian cowherds German military leaders several Javaneese people and French peasant women. N.D. Thompson Publishing Co hardcover
1949E003147 pages. Octavo 8" x 6 1/4" issued in wrappers. The rest of the title Noticias del Suelo Clima Producciones Costumbres Ritos Creencias Lenguas de las Tribus Indigenas que lo Ocupan y las Ruinas y Rastros de sus Antiguos Pobladores q' se Encuentran Diseminados en Aquellos Desiertos. Edited by Luis Vargas Rea. From the library of professor George M Foster. Biblioteca Aportaci Histica second series. First edition limited to 100 copies of which this is number 51.<br /><br />JosFernando Ramez May 5 1804 – March 4 1871 was a distinguished Mexican historian in the 19th century. Ramez was born in Parral Chihuahua but grew up in Durango where he became a prominent liberal politician. After graduating with a degree in law from San Luis Gonzaga he was elected several times to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. He chaired the Ministry of Foreign affairs under three different administrations and became a minister in the Supreme Court of Justice. Ramez specialized in Pre-Columbian and 16th century Mexican history and excelled as a biographer. He headed the Imperial Academy of Sciences and Literature during the Second Mexican Empire directed the National Museum 1852 and built an impressive collection of historical documents. Among his works are Fray Toribio de Motolin and several Amerindian codex translations such as The Quinantzin and The Aubin. The original of these Exploraciones are located the the Manuscript section of the Instituto Naciona de Arqueologia Antropologia e Historia Museum Library in volume 226 which are part of the collection of Jose F Ramirez.<br /><br />George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Foster's stamp to front wrapper. Corners bumped edges tears with chips 2" tear near front heal hinge pages age toned else about a very good copy. Biblioteca Aportación Histórica paperback
193119846London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. With 4 plates index chipping to top and bottom of dustjacket spine jacket now protected a very good copy in very good dustjacket. The Broadway Travellers series edited by Sir. E. Denison Ross and Eileen Power; The Broadway Travellers; 220 x 140mm; xiv 272 pages . George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. 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
1761E6754xxxiii270215148xix1 pages 14 of 18 engraved plates maps many folding and index. Quarto 10 1/4" x 8 1/4" in original leather binding. First edition.<br /><br />Richard Owen Cambridge was a British poet. He was educated at Eton and at St John's College Oxford. Leaving the university without taking a degree he took up residence at Lincolns Inn in 1737. Four years later he married and went to live at his country seat of Whitminster Gloucestershire. In 1751 he removed to Twickenham where he enjoyed the society of many notable persons. Horace Walpole in his letters makes many jesting allusions to Cambridge in the character of news-monger. His chief work is the <i>Scribleriad</i> 1751 a mock epic poem the hero of which is the Martinus Scriblerus of Alexander Pope John Arbuthnot and Jonathan Swift. The poem is preceded by a dissertation on the mock heroic in which he avows Cervantes as his master. The satire shows considerable learning and was eagerly read by literary people; but it never became popular and the allusions always obscure have little interest for the present-day reader. He made a valuable contribution to history in his <i>Account of the War in India on the Coast of Coromandel from the year 1750 to 1760</i> 1761. He had intended to write a history of the rise and progress of British power in India but this enterprise went no further than this one work as he found that Robert Orme who had promised him the use of his papers contemplated the execution of a similar plan. The Works of Richard Owen Cambridge includes several pieces never before published. It contains an <i>Account of his Life and Character</i>by his Son George Owen Cambridge 1803 the Scribleriad some narrative and satirical poems and about twenty papers originally published in Edward Moore's paper The <i>World</i>. His poems are included in Alexander Chalmers' English Poets 1816.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Previous owner's name in neatly written dated 1806 on front end paper with his book plate on front past down with his library stamp. Lacks rear free end paper. Front hinge separated back hinge cracked. Lacks the Mongol on horse back plate map of Maratta County view of the attack on Geriah and view of Surat. Front worn spine ends and corners reinforced and repaired new spine label else about very good. Printed for T Jefferys hardcover
19758125Ardmore Pennsylvania: Whitmore Publishing Company 1975. First Edition. Hardcover Paper Over Boards. Very Good Condition/Good. Whitmore Publishing Company Ardmore Pennsylvania 1975. First Edition. Very Good Condition/Good. Autobiography Light shelf-wear to the outer extremities of the book and the dust jacket. b-n. The book covers the first few months of the authors thirteen-year residence in Venezuela and her travels from one end of the country to the other. The author led an expedition into an unknown part of the "lost world" jungles in the Brazillian-Venezuelan highlands--after four groups of men had made expeditions into that area and had disappeared or retreated--to reach and measure the highest waterfalls in the world Angel Falls or Churun Meru. Size: Octavo standard book size. 345 pages. Item Type: Autobiography. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Exploration; Venezuela; 1970s; Women & Feminism. ISBN: 0874260396. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 008125. Whitmore Publishing Company hardcover
1783BB0692In Venezia Venice: Nella stamperia Gatti a spese di Leonardo e Giammaria Fratelli Bassaglia 1783. Original Wraps. Fine. Second Venice Edition of Antonio Pillori's translation of Robertson's standard work on the discovery of America and the conquest of Mexico and Peru. Demy 8vo 202 x 136mm: xxiv240pp with frontispiece portrait of Columbus and large folding map of Gulf of Mexico showing Florida Cuba Jamaica and farther Caribbean islands; 25-328pp with frontispiece portrait of Bartolomé de las Casas and folding map of South America; 23-359 p. 181 misnumbered "281"; p. 304 "204"1pp with frontispiece portrait of Cortés and folding map of Mexico; 42951pp with frontispiece portrait of Pizarro and large folding map of Middle America. Original paper-case bindings with yapped edges manuscript titles and volume numbers to spines text block sewn on tawed tongs vol. iv with modern replacements. Worming to upper cover portrait title page and map margins of vol. iv now expertly restored by a paper conservationist. A remarkably fresh wide-margined set in original paper-case bindings complete in four volumes eight books as issued with all four folding maps colored in outline by a contemporary hand as the John Carter Brown Library copy. Borba de Moraes p. 740-41 first edition. Sabin 71997 noting the Venice editions of 1778 and 1802 only. Originally published in two volumes in 1777 by Strahan and Cadell in London and Balfour in Edinburgh "to a very positive reception" ODNB; first Venice edition published in 1778. "Its success" according to the ODNB "was even more marked on the continent where it was considered Robertson's masterpiece . . . With its dramatic sweep of narrative combined with a provocative confrontation of two very different stages of civilization Spanish and Native American and a prose that was more flexible and evocative than that of his earlier books the History of America is often regarded as Robertson's most interesting original and even Romantic work. However it also shows the Eurocentric limits of his stadial thinking because it presents an unsympathetic account of Native Americans and glosses over Spanish atrocities." Borba de Moraes credits Roberston with writing the "first history of the discovery and Spanish conquest of America based on ample bibliographical information and documents in the Simancas archives. . . . The bibliography at the end of the second volume is remarkable for the time." Franklin D. Roosevelt owned the first Venice edition. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. Nella stamperia Gatti a spese di Leonardo e Giammaria Fratelli Bassaglia unknown
38391. First and only edition 8vo 4 43 1pp. with half-title upper corner from E2 torn away just touching page numeral disbound. Relating to the British raid on Rochefort in 1757. unknown
38392London: Printed for A. Millar 1758. First edition 8vo 61 64-116pp. pp. 62-63 omitted in paging; despite pagination text is continuous disbound. Relating to the British raid on Rochefort in 1757. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1758 unknown
185514056London: Smith Elder & Co. 1855. Book. Poor / Fair. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Volume 1has a broken and separating binding wear and bumping to extremities and a little foxing throughout. Complete with Folding map and lithographed frontis. Vol. 2 has worn extremities cracked front hinge still attached prev. owner name on back of frontis and some light scattered foxing throughout. Original embossed boards could easily be re-cased. Scarce. Smith, Elder & Co. Hardcover
1777BB0796London: printed for T. Durham at Charing-Cross; and G. Kearsly at No. 46 in Fleet-Street 1777. First Edition. Quarter-bound Leather. Near Fine. First Edition in English of this novelized first-person account of a young English lord's debauched sojourn—prostitutes gambling horse-racing drink—in the French capitol. Crown 8vo 206 x 121mm: 2x222pp. Contemporary leather spine in six compartments between raised bands recent red morocco lettering piece gilt marbled sides and end papers. Joints skillfully reinforced marbled sides heavily rubbed top of title page including word 'The' supplied in excellent facsimile. Internally a Fine bright copy pages fresh and free of foxing browning and stains. ESTC Citation No. N31079 distinct from ESTC T131522 which Durham and Kearsly brought out the same year in duodecimo and which does not have the following note below the date on the title page present in our copy: "This work may be had of the above booksellers in French printed from the Paris edition which was suppressed in that country.". Translated by the author from his La quinzaine angloise à Paris first published the previous year. Rutledge was the grandson of an Irish Jacobite who settled in France and son of Walter Rutledge a banker and ship owner at Dunkirk who assisted the Pretender in his expedition of 1715 and in consequence was named a baronet. "This sketch which depicts the rapidity with which a ‘plunger’ may be reduced to destitution by the harpies of Paris and purports to be a posthumous work by Sterne to whose works it bears no sort of resemblance . . . The writer states that attempts had been made to suppress the work in Paris. A species of sequel entitled ‘Le Second Voyage de milord ——’ appeared in 1779." DNB N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. printed for T. Durham, at Charing-Cross; and G. Kearsly, at No. 46, in Fleet-Street unknown
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
1779BOOKS000337<p>4282 pages lacking the map. Small quarto 10" x 7½" rebound in ¾ morocco & marbled boards spine lettered in gilt top edges gilt. Sabin 22572 First edition.<br /><br />Rare account of travels into the arctic most notably Nova Zemblya to the north of Europe. Twelve years earlier Engel wrote his notable work on explorations on the other side of the Arctic Circle Memoires et observations geographiques et critiques sur la situation des pays septentrionaux de l'Asie et de l'Amerique. Lausanne 1765. <br /><br /><strong>Condition: </strong>Rubbing to joints and extremities; some minor staining and soiling within hinge professionally repaired else a very good copy. Only five copies found on worldcat.</p> F Sanuel Fetscherin hardcover
1972018463<p>Richmond UK: The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd. 1972. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 390pp; Turquoise cloth boards with gilt titling to spine boards square clean & bright text unmarked binding is tight foldout frontispiece map as new Fine condition. Facsimile reprint of 1802 publication. The original was titled: An Account of a Geographical and Astronomical Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia for Ascertaining the Degrees of Latitude and Longitude of the Mouth of the River Kovima; of the Whole Coast of the Tshutski to East Cape; and of the Islands in the Eastern Ocean Stretching to the American Coast. Performed by Commodore Joseph Billings in the Years 1785 &c. to 1794. With illustrations and foldout map.</p> The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd. hardcover
1825W1883New York: Collins and Hannay 1825. 459 pages fold-out map of the "western country" and 3 engraved plates missing is the sketch of the lead mine district. First printing. Octavo. 3/ leather over marbled paper-covered boards. According to Wikipedia Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1793-1864 was an American geographer geologist and ethnologist noted for his early studies of Native American cultures as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River. He is also noted for his major six-volume study of Native Americans published in the 1850s. The book offered here is his report on an 1821 expedition from Missouri through Illinois and Indiana into Michigan. There is heavy emphasis on lead mining in Missouri and on treatymaking with the Chippewa and Potawatomi tribes. Howes S196. Quite scarce. The book is in about very good condition: sympathetically rebacked in gilt-ruled tan leather with new brown leather title patch; clean and tight; foxing throughout; previous owners' names and date on front endpaper. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible-Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Collins and Hannay Hardcover
192715213London: John Murray. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1927. Cheap Edition. Hardcover. With biographical introduction by J. M. Barrie and a preface by Sir Clements R. Markham K. C. B. F. R. S. pagination - xxviii 522 last blank 2 pages of publishers adverts illustrated with photographs by Herbert Ponting endpaper maps original blue cloth with printed image of ski-ing party spine lightly faded with a facsimile dust jacket. A very good copy. ; 205 x 135mm . John Murray hardcover
19133113London: Smith Elder & Co. 1913. Third Edition . Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue/gilt. Vol I 5vi-xxvi12-636pplfold out maps.illuscolorteg.Being the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott.Vol II 5vi-xvi32-534pfold out maps plilluscolor.Being the Reports of the journeys & the Scienfific Work Arranged by leonard Huxley with a Preface by Sir Clements R Markham Both copies clean tight with fine interior. Head and tail crimped. 6 original Sketches 18 coloured plates 260 Full-Page and smaller Illustrations from Photographs. Panoramas and Maps. Stated Third Edition after Ht page <br/> <br/> Smith, Elder & Co. hardcover
200125817New York: Cooper Square Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. First thus. Hardcover. 0815410794 . With many illustrations a fine set in fine dustjackets. ; 235 x 160mm; xlviii 570 xliv 508 pages . Cooper Square Press hardcover
1333622295.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
B9781020603068Hardback. New. hardcover