THE HAVEN-FINDING ART, OR, THE WAY TO FIND ANY HAVEN OR PLACE AT SEA, BY THE LATITUDE AND VARIATION. LATELY PUBLISHED IN THE DUTCH, FRENCH, AND LATINE TONGUES, BY COMMANDEMENT OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE COUNT MAURITZ OF NASSAU, LORD HIGH ADMIRAL OF THE UNITED PROVINCES OF THE LOW COUNTRIES, ENIOYNING ALL SEAMEN THAT TAKE CHARGE OF SHIPS UNDER HIS IUIRSDICTION, TO MAKE DILIGENT OBSERVATION, IN ALL THEIR VOYAGES, ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTIONS PRESCRIBED HEREIN. AND NOW TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH FOR THE COMMON BENEFITS OF THE SEAMAN OF ENGLAND.
Stevin, Simon:
London: G. B[ishop], R. N[ewbery], and R. B[arker], 1599. [16],27pp. including three woodcut figures in the text (one full-page,.. more
Price: $72,500.00

HAKLUYTUS POSTUMUS OR PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES. CONTAYNING A HISTORY OF THE WORLD, IN SEA VOYAGES & LANDE-TRAUELLS, BY ENGLISHMEN & OTHERS...IN FIVE BOOKS....
Purchas, Samuel:
London: William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1625-1626. Five volumes. Folio. Crushed blue morocco, gilt, by W. Pratt,.. more
Price: $200,000.00

HARPER'S WEEKLY. A JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION [Volumes 1-10].
[Harper's Weekly]:
New York. 1857-1866. Ten volumes. Large, thick folio, uniformly bound in brown cloth,.. more
Price: $10,000.00

DE NOUO ORBE. OR, THE HISTORIE OF THE WEST INDIES, CONTAYNING THE ACTES AND ADUENTURES OF THE SPANYARDS, WHICH HAVE CONQUERED AND PEOPLED THOSE COUNTRIES...Written by Peter Martyr...WHEREOF THREE HAUE BEEN FORMERLY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH. BY R. EDEN, WHEREUNTO THE OTHER FIUE, ARE NEWLY ADDED BY THE INDUSTRIE, AND PAINEFULL TRAUAILE OF M. LOK, GENT.
Martyr, Peter:
London: Printed for Thomas Adams, 1612. 3 preliminary leaves, 318 numbered leaves (some leaves misnumbered). Small.. more
Price: $12,500.00

EN EL PUERTO DE MONTERREY DE LA ALTA CALIFORNIA, A LOS SIETE DIAS DEL MES DE NOVIEMBRE DE MIL OCHOCIENTOS TREINTA Y SEIS...LA ALTA CALIFORNIA SE DECLARA INDEPENDIENTE DE MEJICO MIENTRAS TANTO NO RESTABLESCA EL SISTEMA FEDERAL QUE SE ADOPTO EL ANO DE 1824 [caption title and later text].
[California]:
[Monterey: Santiago Aguilar, Nov. 7, 1836]. Broadside, 12 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Old fold lines... more
Price: $125,000.00

OBSERVATIONS UPON THE WINDWARD COAST OF AFRICA, THE RELIGION, CHARACTER, CUSTOMS, &c. OF THE NATIVES; WITH A SYSTEM UPON WHICH THEY MAY BE CIVILIZED, AND A KNOWLEDGE ATTAINED OF THE INTERIOR OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY QUARTER OF THE GLOBE; AND UPON THE NATURAL AND COMMERCIAL RESOURCES OF THE COUNTRY, MADE IN THE YEARS 1805 AND 1806.
Corry, Joseph:
London: Printed for G. and W. Nicol and James Asperne by W. Bulmer, 1807. xiv,[1],163pp. plus one map and eight handcolored engraved plates (seven.. more
Price: $10,000.00

NEW ENGLANDS PROSPECT. A TRUE, LIVELY, AND EXPERIMENTALL DESCRIPTION OF THAT PART OF AMERICA, COMMONLY CALLED NEW ENGLAND: DISCOVERING THE STATE OF THAT COUNTRIE, BOTH AS IT STANDS TO OUR NEW-COME ENGLISH PLANTERS; AND TO THE OLD NATIVE INHABITANTS....
Wood, William:
London: Printed by Tho. Cotes for Iohn Bellamie, 1635. [8],83,[5]pp. plus folding woodcut and letterpress map. Small quarto. 20th-century.. more
Price: $75,000.00

ALBUM OF VIRGINIA; OR, ILLUSTRATION OF THE OLD DOMINION.
Beyer, Edward:
Richmond [but actually Dresden & Berlin]: Edward Beyer [but printed by Rau & Son of Dresden and W. Loeillot of Berlin], 1858. Lithograph titlepage (with five vignettes) plus forty tinted lithograph plates... more
Price: $45,000.00

[COLLECTION OF SIX CLASSIC WORKS, IN FORTY- FIVE VOLUMES, UNIFORMLY BOUND, COMPRISING THE LIBRARY OF TOBIAS LEAR].
[Lear, Tobias]:
[Various places. 1789-1803]. Forty-five volumes. Uniformly bound in contemporary red morocco wallet-style bindings.. more
Price: $35,000.00

[ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT SKETCHBOOK OF THE H.M.S. CHALLENGER EXPEDITION, 1872 - 1874].
[Shephard, Benjamin]:
[H.M.S. Challenger. 1873]. Thirty-six leaves, including illustrated titlepage and thirty-five ink and watercolor.. more
Price: $150,000.00