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0483581941.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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191231945Copenhagen Reitzel 1912. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. Wrappers with soiling. XI426 pp. and 19 plates incl. geological maps textillustrations. <br/><br/><em>First edition of the main and first geological survey of Southern Greenland. At the end Ussing gives a general account of the expedition in Danish. - Meddelelser om Grønland Bd. 38. </em> unknown
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
196921979The Egypt Exploration Society 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: A4 300 x 210mm approx. Single volume only of set or series. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact bar chips to top and/or bottom section of spine. No foxing in this copy. Edges slightly foxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Archaeology; Egypt; Ancient BC; Exploration. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item not stock photos. Inventory No: 21979. . The Egypt Exploration Society paperback
196821977The Egypt Exploration Society 1968. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: A4 300 x 210mm approx. Single volume only of set or series. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact bar chips to top and/or bottom section of spine. No foxing in this copy. Edges slightly foxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Archaeology; Egypt; Ancient BC; Exploration. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item not stock photos. Inventory No: 21977. . The Egypt Exploration Society paperback
197121976The Egypt Exploration Society 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: A4 300 x 210mm approx. Single volume only of set or series. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact bar chips to top and/or bottom section of spine. Slight foxing front/rear pages but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Archaeology; Egypt; Ancient BC; Exploration. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item not stock photos. Inventory No: 21976. . The Egypt Exploration Society paperback
196721980The Egypt Exploration Society 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: A4 300 x 210mm approx. Single volume only of set or series. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact bar chips to top and/or bottom section of spine. Slight foxing front/rear pages but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges slightly foxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Archaeology; Egypt; Ancient BC; Exploration. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item not stock photos. Inventory No: 21980. . The Egypt Exploration Society paperback
196621978The Egypt Exploration Society 1966. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: A4 300 x 210mm approx. Single volume only of set or series. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact bar chips to top and/or bottom section of spine. No foxing in this copy. Edges slightly foxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Archaeology; Egypt; Ancient BC; Exploration. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item not stock photos. Inventory No: 21978. . The Egypt Exploration Society paperback
1844E0023xcii616 pages with bibliography. Octavo 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" bound in contemporary half calf with black spine label and gilt lettering. Publications de la Societe d'Etudes pour la colonisation de la Guyane francaise Number 4. The bibliographical catalogue occupies pages 579-616 and contains descriptions of 240 works on Guiana. Sabin 56097. First edition.<br /><br />French Guiana French: Guyane française officially Guyane is an overseas department French: département d'outre-mer or DOM of France located on the northern coast of South America. It has borders with two nations Brazil and Suriname. Like the other DOMs French Guiana is also an overseas region of France one of the 26 regions of France. Its currency is the euro. The prefecture is Cayenne. The addition of the adjective "French" comes from colonial times when three such colonies existed: British Guiana now Guyana Dutch Guiana now Suriname and French Guiana. The three are still often collectively referred to as the Guianas. French Guiana was originally inhabited by a number of indigenous American people. It was settled by the French during the 17th century. After the Treaty of Paris in 1763 Louis XV sent 12000 settlers to French Guiana to colonise the region. One and a half years later only a few hundred survived.2 Its infamous Île du Diable Devil's Island was the site of penal settlements from 1852 until 1951. More than 70000 French convicts were deported to French Guiana between 1852 and 1939.3 In 1809 a Portuguese-British naval squadron took French Guiana for the Portuguese Empire. With the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1814 the region was handed back to the French though a Portuguese presence remained until 1817. A border dispute with Brazil arose in the late nineteenth century over a vast area of jungle leading to the short-lived pro-French independent state of Counani in the disputed territory and some fighting between settlers before the dispute was resolved largely in favor of Brazil by the arbitration of the Swiss government.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Front inner hinge cracked rubbing to hinges and corners some internal foxing else a very good copy. Imprimerie de Bethune and Plon hardcover
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
196222763London: John Murray. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards show light shelf wear DJ shows slightly heavier wear with light chipping price-clipped. Previous owner's name on FFEP.; A bright solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. B&W photos throughout. 2 foldout maps in pristine condition at back of book. Wraparound artwork on DJ.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 367 pages; "John Hornby 1880–1927 was an English explorer best known for his expeditions in the Arctic region of northern Canada notably in the "Barren Lands" in the Northwest Territories of Canada." He would refuse to take provisions and live off the land became famous for his daring exploits. "In 1926 Hornby tried to spend a year in a spot by the Thelon River with his 18-year-old cousin Edgar Christian and another young man Harold Adlard. Unfortunately the trio missed the caribou migration southward and therefore lacked sufficient food to survive the winter. Hornby died of starvation along with his companions in 1927. The graves of the three men can be found by the Thelon River near Hornby Point.Hornby recommended in a report following his expedition with Critchell Bullock that the areas near the Thelon and Hanbury Rivers be created as a wildlife sanctuary. The Thelon Game Sanctuary was established in 1927 and renamed Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary in 1956." Wikipedia . John Murray hardcover
2049Harvey and Darton London 1839. 8vo 300pp black cloth -- Spine gone and replaced with black tape some spotting to front cover Internally very good -- Good only A candidate for the bookbinder #2639 Quantity Available: 1 Category: Exploration; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request Inventory No: 002049. Harvey, and Darton, London, 1839 hardcover
13134Adelaide. Near Fine. Printed Wrapper. No date stated reprinted from The Register by W. K. Thomas & Co. Adelaide. Contains four separate articles as the Title suggests 136 pp last 2 blank title page reproduced on front wrapper original grey wrappers staples starting to rust else a fine copy of this scarce little booklet.; 150 x 120mm . unknown
1993w160121301University of Arizona Press 1993. 477pp. Navy blue cloth hardback with small slight waterstain on lower back spine edge DJ VG with slight waterstain on backside near lower spine edge index appendices bibliography b&w photos A geologist's history of Lunar exploration relates the site selection process where on the Moon the fieldwork should be conducted and what samples should be collected . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. University of Arizona Press Hardcover
1852019721London: Ingram Cooke. Complete in two volumes. xi 318 pp.; xii 326 pp. Quarter leather and marbled boards. Raised bands attractive spine slips elegant gilt designs in the compartments. Half titles present. All plates and illustrations called for are present. A very small chip on the name plate of both Volume 1 and Volume 2 the first not affecting text the second deleting the small "II" representing Volume II. Covers rubbed edge wear Very Good. A nice set. Six ships with artists scientists and surveyors explored the coasts of North America South America Antarctica and the Pacific Islands. Provenance: Contains the bookplates of J. B. Torry Esq. of Shrub's Hill Sunningdale in Surrey England. . Very Good. Hard Bound. First Edition Thus. 1852. Ingram, Cooke unknown
H714an Bord der HMS Challenger 1872-1875. 4to. Band 1: 378 S. Band 2: 98 S. Mit zahlreichen Skizzen und Pl‰nen im Text. Halblederb‰nde der Zeit in neuer Lederbox. Sehr gut leserliche Handschrift meist in deutscher Sprache. Original-Tagebuch des deutschen Biologen von der Reise der HMS Challenger. Gestorben auf Tahiti. Die letzten Eintragungen des Biologen stammen vom 2.September 1875 auf Hilo Hawaii. Die Reise f¸hrte weiter Richtung Tahiti unterwegs am 13.September 1875 starb Willemoes-Suhm. Sein Tagebuch ist eine Fundgrube an Reisenotizen und wissenschaftlichen sowohl zoologischen als auch botanischen Eintragungen. Unterteilt ist sein Tagebuch nach den Stationen u.a. Azoren St. Paul Tristan-Inseln Pince Edwards Islands Crozet-Insel Kerguelen Antarktis Australien Neuseeland Tonga Fiji Ovalau Api Neue Hebriden Arafui Ari Ke¥Dulan Ternate Lamboanga Manilla Cebri Humboldt-Bai - Neu-Guinea Yeddo Yokohama Hiogo. Yokohama - Sandwich-Inseln Honolulu Hilo. 1872-1875. Important manuscript by one of the leading naturalists on the voyage. Original scientific travel journal titled "Challenger" Rudolph von Willemoes Suhm "Journal No." "I & II." Scientific Travel Journal of the German Explorer and Zoologists aboard HMS Challenger. Text in German but occasionally in English. 2 Vols. 21 Dec. 1872-6. Sept. 1875. 4to 378; 98 pp. illustrated with sketches and 1 photograph original half calf fitted half morocco case. Autograph journal kept by the German naturalist Rudolf v. Willemoes-Suhm during his 3-year journey with the Challenger. Suhm was mainly concerned with Crustaceans and several new species were named by him. His journal covers the entire voyage until his tragic death from erysipelas on 13th September1875 while the ship was at Tahiti in the Pacific. His travel report remains unpublished and is a leading yet apparently untapped source on the history of the Challenger Expedition as well as research and discovery of the sea. Suhm born on 11. September 1847 in Glu®ckstadt on the Elbe River studied in Bonn Munich and Go®ttingen already at the age of 24 years he was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Munich. in 1872 he was appointed by Sir Charles Wyville Thomson the Scientific Director of the Challenger Expedition as the only German on the staff of the research carried out on behalf of the Royal Society. The posthumous journal covers the entire period from Suhms trip to a few days before his death in which his illness forced him to stop writing. It contains a wealth of information particularly the geographical and zoological research of the "Challenger". Suhm illustrated his records with small designs including many maps and some small Zoological representations. Die britische Challenger-Expedition 1872-1876 war die erste rein wissenschaftliche Forschungsreise. Das Expeditionsschiff HMS Challenger legte bei Ihrer Reise ca. 130.000 km zur¸ck und durchzog damit beinahe das gesamte Weltmeer. Mit dieser Expedition wurde der Grundstein f¸r die Ozeanographie gelegt. Wichtige Forschungsstationen waren die Bahamas die Marion-Inseln im s¸dlichen Eismeer Neuseeland die Auckland-Inseln und Neu-Guinea. Die Ergebnisse wurden in 50 B‰nden verˆffentlicht. unknown
1799biblio160<p><strong>First French edition of Bartram's</strong><strong> Travels which chronicled his explorations of the southern British colonies in North America from 1773–1777</strong><br /><br />2 volumes. 457 pages with frontispiece engraved portrait by Bovinet Mico Chlucco Grana King of the Seminoles and one folding plate; 436 pages without title with large folding map by J.B. Poirson engraved by Alexandre Blondeau and folding plate. Octavo 8 1/4" x 5 1/4" bound in half leather with six spine compartments with red and black labels in gilt over original marbled boards. Translated by Pierre Vincent Benoist. Sabin 3871; Palau 251346; Howes B223; Field 94 First French edition.<br /><br />William Bartram was an American naturalist. The son of the naturalist John Bartram. As a boy he accompanied his father on many of his travels to the Catskill Mountains the New Jersey Pine Barrens New England and Florida. In 1773 he embarked upon a four-year journey through eight southern colonies. Bartram made many drawings and took notes on the native flora and fauna and the native American Indians. In 1774 he explored the St. Johns River where he had memorable encounters with aggressive alligators and also visited a principal Seminole village at Cuscowilla where his arrival was celebrated with a great feast. He met Ahaya the Cowkeeper chief of the Alachua band of the Seminole tribe. When Bartram explained to the Cowkeeper that he was interested in studying the local plants and animals the chief was amused and began calling him Puc Puggy the flower hunter. Bartram continued his explorations of the Alachua Savannah or what is today Paynes Prairie. William Bartram wrote of his experiences exploring the Southeast in his book Travels through North & South Carolina East & West Florida the Cherokee Country the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy and the Country of the Chactaws Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians published in 1791 and which is today simply known as Bartram's Travels. It was considered at the time one of the foremost books on American natural history. Many of Bartram's accounts of historical sites were the earliest records including the Georgia mound site of Ocmulgee. In addition to its contributions to scientific knowledge Travels is noted for its original descriptions of the American countryside. Bartram's writing influenced many of the Romantic writers of the day. William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge and François René de Chateaubriand are known to have read the book and its influence can be seen in many of their works. Ephraim George Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis in their book <em>Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley</em> name Bartram as "the first naturalist who penetrated the dense tropical forests of Florida."<br /><br /><strong>Condition:</strong><br /><br />Some rubbing to original boards page 143 of volume one has small burn mark affecting text half title bound upside down in back old water stain to plate of volume two. Fold-out map has repair to first fold internally pages are clean and free of toning and foxing else a very good copy.</p> Chez Carteret et Brosson and Dogour Duran hardcover
1970BOOKS000180<p>2 Volumes: xxxii368 pages with frontispiece five folding maps and ten plates; ix369-640 pages with frontispiece two folding maps six plates bibliography and index. Octavo 8 3/4" x 5 1/2" issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship to front cover. Translated by Anthony Mango. Second Series volumes 138 and 139. First edition.<br /><br />By the early sixteenth century the loosely knit kingdom of Georgia had disintegrated from the strong monarch of the middle ages to a number of small states and principalities. This internal disunity made the Georgians easy victims of the power politics of the neighboring Ottoman and Safavid empires and by the end of the century the southward drive of the Russians intensified the struggle for military and diplomatic control over the whole of the Caucasian isthmus. As a result of this struggle seventeen embassies were exchanged between the Russian tsars and the Georgian kins ruling in Kakheti during the years 1564-1605. W E D Allen and Anthony Mango who undertook the translation have selected the documents relating to the embassies of 1589-90 and 1604-5. Although the writers seem to be frequently pre-occupied with questions of protocol their observations give a clear picture both of current Russian administrative and diplomatic practice and of the life and customs of the people of the Caucasus and Georgia. The texts are further enlivened by dramas such as the murder of the Kakhian King Alexander II and the secret negotiations for the marriages of the son and daughter of the Tsar Boris Godunov. The documents are of considerable geographical interest as they provide the earliest extant accounts of the crossing of the main chain of the Caucasus from north to south. Allen provides both a detailed background introduction and full commentary and notes on the texts. The second volume also contains some valuable genealogical tables which clarify the complicated relationships between the Caucasian royal and princely families and their connection with the Russian Ottoman and Persian ruling houses.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Some light rubbing to spine ends else better than very good copies in liker jackets.</p> Hakluyt Society hardcover
198222210Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 906191096X . With maps and charts throughout a near fine copy in near fine dustjacket. ; 235 x 160mm; x 246 pages . A. A. Balkema hardcover
199522778Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear to DJ small red mark on FFEP.; Book as new. Appendix includes Inuit terms and place names notes bibliography and index.; McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies - Volume 10; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 184 pages; "Presenting a new theory about one of the Arctic's unsolved mysteries David Woodman re-evaluates the importance of Inuit oral traditions in his search to reconstruct the events surrounding Sir John Franklin's tragic 1845 expedition. He argues that Inuit stories of white men travelling across the Melville Peninsula may in fact refer to survivors of the Franklin expedition." jacket blurb . 0773513485 . McGill-Queen's University Press hardcover
196092662Jerusalem: Magnes Press Hebrew University 1960. Hardcover. Near fine with gently rubbed corners; in a very good jacket with a few small closed edge-tears to rear and now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Folio in pale orange-yellow illus jacket; xxiv 174 pages ccx plates 12 folded: illustrations maps plans; 35 cm; bibliographical references page xvii. Antiquities. Ausgrabung; Hazor Extinct city Israel -- Hazor Extinct city Hazor; Excavations Archaeology; Israel; Geschichte; 1956; Hazor Extinct city; Bible -- Antiquities. Biblical archaeology. A large heavy book. Extra shipping charges may apply for international & expedited orders.Weighs close to 6 lbs before packing. Please inquire. Magnes Press, Hebrew University hardcover
4882New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 1934-1936. First edition. Light edge wear to wrappers on the spine many pages un-opened; a tight and clean copy in near fine condition. Pp. iv 483; 8 full page folding plates 1 folding maps 200 text-figures line-drawings. Original printed green wrappers lg 4to 12 x 9.5 inches. Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences volume VIII-X. This work presents the entire results of the Yale North India Expedition as published by the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. The five volumes contain 24 articles on the geological history Paleolithic stone tools invertebrate and vertebrate fossils and the extant invertebrate and vertebrate faunas collected by the Yale North India Expedition of the 1930s. There are two articles in volume VIII: Hawkes et al. - Palaeolithic human industries in the Northwest Punjab and Kashmir and their geological significance; and De Terra - Geological Studies in the Northwest Himalaya between Kashmir and the Indus valley. Volume IX contains four articles: Wodehouse - The Pleistocene pollen of Kashmir; Branson - A Labrinthodont from the Lower Gondwana of Kashmir; Weller - Permain Trilobites from the Central Himalayas; and Vokes - Unionidae of the Siwaliks Series. Volume X contains 18 articles on the Diptera: Ephydridae; Triclad Turbellaria; Coleoptera: Staphylinidae; Carabidae; Phyllopod Crustacea; Gammarus; Hydracarina; terrestrial Hemiptera-Heteroptera; Rotatoria; Land Isopod; Hirudinea; Myriapods; Diplura; Thysanura; Collembola; Cladocera; and Fishes: Cobitidae Sisoridae and Cyprinidae. Single circular stamp of Staten Island Institute in the lower outer corner of the front wrapper of each volume; no other ownership marks and very few signs of use. New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1934-1936. First edition. unknown
