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First edition, 8vo, 67, [3]pp., disbound. Relating to the British raid on Rochefort in 1757.
Features: North Pole Expedition on Environmental Mission; Operation Raleigh - Character Training by Exploring; Bouvetoya - the world's most isolated island; Pitcairn Island after 200 years; Kaho'olawe - Hawaii's largest uninhabited island; River of Jade - the Rio Santo Domingo River. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Niche Hypothesis - a hidden symphony of Animal Sounds, the Origins of Musical Expression and the Health of Habitats; Expedition to Another World - Biosphere 2 Crew Completes Mission One; The JASON Project - student participation in Sea Exploration; Off the Beaten Track - a doctor visits Yap Island; Youth in Exploration - M. Lane Olvey, SM '92, Atlanta Chapter; Kamchatka - restless land of Volcanoes; Arctic Ice Rescue - 1993. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: On Wildlife - Talking to the animals; Mount Wilson Reborn - a new era dawns for "America's Observatory"; Nomads of the High Plateau; The Case of the Caverna da Pedra Pintada - Rewriting South America's Ancient History; Roof of the Americas Expedition - Challenging Britain's Best. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
380 pages. Index of species mentioned. Literature list. Includes 108 figures in text and two fold-out maps. Text in English. Heavy external wear. Back cover loose but present. Binding very weak. A worthy reading copy. [Arctic Bibliography 6307] Book
1st UK edition. Very good condition hardback in a very good condition dust jacket. 402 pages, illustrated. ISBN 0333779606. 41586. eng
331p., illus. The Carnegie, the world's only sea-going non-magnetic observatory, was destroyed in a 1929 explosion in Samoa. Hardcover Good condition
12mo [18 x 12 cm]; 418 pages, engraved plates including frontis and views which are new to this edition, where the illustrations list reflects the earlier edition. original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt spine title lettering and vignette, lightly rubbed, small erasure on endpaper, clean with the original tissue guards for the plates, very good copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. "Scientist, explorer and diplomat, Humboldt was the last truly Universal Man. He left his name on the maps of five continents, over a thousand places in the world are named after him and even a crater on the moon bears his name." (Douglas Botting). Humboldt explored little known South America, climbing Chimborazo, the highest known mountain, which made him world famous. He collected a mass of data, which laid the foundation of modern physical geography and established the concept of plant geography. On his return he visited the United States where he became friend and advisor to President Jefferson. Later in his life, in his sixties, he traveled to Siberia, the Ural mountains, Caspian Sea, etc. Macgillivray's book was first published in 1832 but this edition was brought up-to-date with Humboldt's later explorations to the period of his death, and extra material added.
258 p. Hardcover Fine condition
First edition, 8vo, 76pp., disbound. A reply to 'The expedition against Rochefort fully stated and considered' by Thomas Potter, 1758.
Articles: The Master's Measure - Remunerative Patterns for Hudson's Bay Company Captains, 1726-1736; Politics, Technology and Policy-Making, 1859-1865 - Palmerston, Gladstone and the Management of the Ironclad Naval Race; This Sad and Melancholy Catastrophe - Port Maitland, Ontario and the Wreck of the Troopship 'Commerce', 6 May 1850; A Dundee Ship in Canada's Arctic - SS Diana and William Wakeham's Expedition of 1897; The Historical Experience of Scaled-Down Nineteenth Century Drydock Technology; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
First edition, 8vo, 51, [1]pp., disbound. A reply to Thomas Potter's 'Reply of the country gentleman', 1758.
Pages 207-312 plus 6 pages of ads. Maps. Black and white photos. Contents include: An Expedition to the Coral Reefs of Torres Straits; The Cellular basis of Heredity and Development (II); The Decreasing Population of France; The Rise of a New Profession - The Age of Administration; The Place of Illustration in Book-making; Determining Educational Values; A League of Peace; Nice one-page illustrated ads for Thomas Dunham Company sidecars for motorcycles, and Reading Standard (RS) Motorcyles. Front cover missing. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Some pages unopened. A sound working copy. Magazine
First edition, 8vo, 116pp., disbound. Serving in the Rochefort expedition (which cost England roughly a million pounds and resulted ignominiously in nothing) were both Cornwallis and Wolfe; the latter acted as Quartermaster General and gives a lengthy testimony.
First edition, 63, [1]pp., disbound. A reply to Henry Seymour Conway's 'The Military Arguments, in the Letter to a Right Honourable Author', 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.
Features: Seeking the Golden Cliff - a prospecting expedition in the Central Australian desert; The Hyena - a veteran mining prospector and his story of African Ju-Ju; The Train was Late; A Fool Afoot in France - Part II of an Englishman's walk in France; Murder by Witchcraft - the Crown Prosecutor recounts an amazing case from British East Africa; Crackerjack - interesting stories of serving under a 'character' British sea-captain; The Sadhu's Gift - an interesting Indian tale; Chinese Makeshifts - how the Chinese adapt obsolete products into tools of use - photos; The Mad Trapper - a most extraordinary tale from the annals of the Canadian "Mounties"; How Holland Fights the Sea; The Conquered the Desert - a tribute to the camel - photos; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Backstrip missing chips. 3" x 2" chunk from bottom edge of back cover. Unmarked. Book
CONTENTS:- The Start • Up the Paraguay • A Jaguar-Hunt on the Taquary • The Headwaters of the Paraguay • Up the River of Tapirs • Through the Highland Wilderness of Western Brazil • With a Mule-Train Across Nhambiquara Land • The River of Doubt • Down an Unknown River into the Equatorial Forest • To the Amazon and Home; Zoological and Geographical Results of the Expedition • Appendices • The Work Of the Field Zoologist and Field Geographer in South America • The Outfit for Travelling in the South American Wilderness • My Letter of May 1 to General Lauro Müller • Index The Title 'Through the Brazilian Wilderness written/authored/edited by Theodore Roosevelt', published in the year 2017. The ISBN 9789351287780 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 500 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History / World / Expeditions & Discoveries. Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-
CONTENTS:- The Start • Up the Paraguay • A Jaguar-Hunt on the Taquary • The Headwaters of the Paraguay • Up the River of Tapirs • Through the Highland Wilderness of Western Brazil • With a Mule-Train Across Nhambiquara Land • The River of Doubt • Down an Unknown River into the Equatorial Forest • To the Amazon and Home; Zoological and Geographical Results of the Expedition • Appendices • The Work Of the Field Zoologist and Field Geographer in South America • The Outfit for Travelling in the South American Wilderness • My Letter of May 1 to General Lauro Müller • Index The Title 'Through the Brazilian Wilderness written/authored/edited by Theodore Roosevelt', published in the year 2017. The ISBN 9789351287773 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 500 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History / World / Expeditions & Discoveries. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-
pp. xxiv, (25)-538, (6) [Publisher's catalogue] + Frontis. Color folding map of Africa. 14 full page wood-engraved illustrations and many in the text. Mildly age stain. Raised and embossed bookseller's label of Antiquarian Book Store A.S. Hollowell Prop. 108 Erie St. Cleveland, O. Remnants of a Masonic library bookplate on front paste down. 8vo. 195 mm. Original publisher's cloth binding. Corners worn with loss. Spine detached. Hardbound. Good. Title continues: 'With Notes And Extracts From Mr. Richardson's Account Of The Expedition, And A Sketch Of Denham And Clapperton's Expedition, by the American Editor'. Born in Hamburg Germany, Henry Barth was one of the greatest of the European explorers of Africa. His scholarly preparation, ability to speak and write Arabic, learning African languages, and character meant that he carefully documented the details of the cultures he visited. He was among the first to comprehend the uses of oral history of peoples, and collected many. He established friendships with African rulers and scholars during his five years of travel (1850-1855). After the deaths of two European companions, he completed his travels with the aid of Africans. Afterwards, he wrote and published a five-volume account of his travels in both English and German. PAIMP 23
8vo [24 x 17 cm]; xx, [ii], [23]-504 pp, frontis, 143 illustrations, including 4 color plates, maps, index. original pictorial gilt cloth, light cloth rippling, light shelf wear, very good clean copy, internally fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Ferra V. This is marked volume I but there were never other volumes produced. Beebe became world famous for his record breaking descent into the depths of the sea in the bathysphere in the 1930's. He was an accomplished naturalist but was also an ornithologist, entomologist, ichthyologist, ecologist and taxonomist as this volume clearly illustrates. There is also a chapter on Indian Charms by James Rodway. Included wtih this book is Beebe's article, 'The High World of the Rain Forest; In the Trinidad Jungle, Naturalist and Artist Work Together to Portray a Teeming Animal Kingdom Men Seldom See'. in the National Geographic magazine, June 1958, an 18 page article with two photos of Beebe and many full-page paintings by Guy Neale of butterflies and other insects, and the author's 12 rules for observing wild birds and animals in the forest (very good condition).
Lakeside Classics Series # 104.. This edition, edited by Thomas Philbrick, follows the text of the second edition published in Philadelphia by George W.Jacobs in1896. The present version corrects apparent typographical errors [and].small changes in punctuation etc. It describes an exciting and remarkable voyage taken in part to help the fast growing USA to understand better the seas that connected it to the rest of the world 390p. Illus. maps, index. The Lakeside Press Classics series was started in 1903 by Thomas E. Donnelley, [who] believed that a simple book, dignified and well designed, would be an appropriate holiday gift. Beautifully printed on fine paper in a handsome green cloth covered boards, with gilt title and decorations. Small format nice gift volume. Book
192 pages. The autobiography of one of the rugged individuals who built the Vancouver Island sawmill industry with their blood, sweat and tears. Tells all - his sawmilling, his wives and kids, his hunting and fishing expeditions throughout the West. The hard-loving, hard brawling, hard-working story of one of the BC coast's true originals. Glossy and attractive illustrated boards. Book
Hardcover klein in-4°, XII-507 pages, portrait en frontispice, illustrations gravures N&B in- et h.t., reliure d"epoque demi percale rouge a coins, dos lisse, titre doré. Coiffes et coins frottés, légères rousseurs, sinon bon etat. [P-45]
131 pages. Reference notes. Recommended reading list. List of colour plates. Index. "Reveals much of Captain Vancouver's personality, life aboard his ships, the techniques of mapping, and his views of the native peoples he encountered. Historical engravings and maps, reproduced directly from the first edition of Vancouver's famous account of his voyage, richly illustrate the land and events. These are enhanced by over 30 stunning colour photographs, taken especially for this book." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Bookseller's label on half-title page. Average wear. Front free endpaper removed. Binding sound. Book
