Philadelphia: Key and Mielke, 1831. 159pp. plus handcolored added engraved aquatint titlepage and six (of seven) handcolored engraved aquatint plates. 12mo. Contemporary half dyed sheep over marbled boards, spine gilt. Boards and spine moderately worn. Inner hinges beginning to separate. Moderate dampstaining throughout, a few small clean tears at foredges.....
London. 1805. [iii]-xii,385pp. plus [6]pp. list of subscribers. Modern half calf and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Very minor toning and scattered foxing. Very good plus. An important work on British naval law, written by John Delafons, a Judge Advocate in the British Navy. Delafons.....
Boston: Printed by E.G. House, for the Author, 1817. 598,[1]pp. plus two engraved plates (including frontispiece portrait) and engraved folding map. Contemporary calf, rebacked in matching style in modern calf, spine gilt. Boards scuffed and worn, especially at extremities. Light foxing throughout, faint dampstain in lower gutter throughout the text.....
Boston: Printed by E.G. House, for the Author, 1817. 598,[1]pp. plus two engraved plates (including frontispiece portrait) and engraved folding map. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Moderately foxed throughout. Contemporary ownership signature of Edmund Fanning on rear fly leaf. A near fine copy, with an excellent provenance, in original.....
[Liverpool. 1807 - ca. 1813]. Two volumes. [380]; [231]pp. Folio. Original three-quarter reverse calf and marbled boards, gilt labels. Boards heavily scuffed, edges and corners worn, spine ends chipped. Light tanning and scattered foxing, but internally sound. Good. Two substantial manuscript volumes, a mercantile letter book containing approximately seven hundred.....
Leyden: Pieter van der Aa, [ 1707?]. [28]pp., printed in double columns (with the actual printed foliations, totaling 50, referring to the columns). Folding map and three in-text illustrations. Folio. Modern three-quarter cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt. Faint stain in upper outer corner of most text leaves. Closed tear.....
Amsterdam. 1710. [18],236,[7]pp. 12mo. Modern morocco-grained leather. A very good copy. Lacks the frontis. Amsterdam edition (after the Rouen edition of 1708), of Diereville's account of New France. The author went to New France with a boatload of trade goods for a French merchant firm, and spent a year at.....
Rouen. 1708. [14],236,[1],7pp. Half title. 12mo. 19th-century three-quarter green morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Spine discolored to brown (but not unattractively). Bookplate ("Mercatoris S. Henrici") on front pastedown of noted collector Henry Marquand on front free endpaper. Quite clean internally. Very good. Diereville went to New France with a boat.....
London: Printed for F. Haley, 1680. [4],16pp. Tables. Folio. Gathered signatures, stitched as issued. Untrimmed. Some dust soiling to outer leaves. Small tear to foredge of title (text not affected). Else crisp and very good. In a red cloth folder. This interesting group of military essays and papers was compiled.....
New York: Charles Scribner, 1865. 191,[1]pp., plus seven plates and folding map. 16mo. Pink publisher's cloth, gilt and blind stamped. Cloth faded, spine extremities and corners lightly worn. News clipping laid onto front pastedown. Light tanning, occasional foxing. About very good. This comprehensive guide book to the Great Lakes and.....
New York. 1858. 298,[26]pp., with fifteen plates, maps and full-page illustrations. Original embossed publisher's cloth, spine and front board gilt. front hinge cracked, light wear and soiling to cloth. Later ink stamp and manuscript ownership marks in front endpapers, 20th-century bookpte on front pastedown. Light tanning. Good plus. A revised.....
Washington. 1858. 15pp. printed in double columns. Dbd. Very good. In December 1857, as commander of the American Home Squadron in the Caribbean, Commodore Hiram Paulding captured the American adventurer, William Walker, who had set himself up as president of Nicaragua. Paulding acted without official instructions, and was reprimanded by.....
Cleveland. 1966. 82pp. Small quarto. Vellum with ties. Bookplate on front pastedown. Very fine. In original clamshell box. Handsomely executed facsimile of the first edition (1628) of Drake's exceedingly valuable work.
[London: Jodocus Hondius, ca. 1583, but printed later]. Engraved portrait, 15 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches. A fine, black impression, expertly laid down on a larger sheet. Slight wear to upper edge. Very good and handsomely presented. Matted. This handsome and striking print is generally considered the finest contemporary portrait.....
London: The Argonaut Press, 1926. lxv,[3],235pp. plus folding facsimile map. Illus. Quarto. Half vellum and cloth, spine gilt. Cloth lightly sunned. Bookplate of Livingston Stebbins on front pastedown, small bookplate on rear pastedown. Very good. From an edition limited to 975 copies, printed on Japon vellum. With an "Appreciation of.....
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[Cologne. 1598]. Engraved portrait, approximately 4 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. An excellent, sharp, crisp impression. Fine. In a blue half morocco slipcase. This rare portrait of Drake by Crispin van de Passe comes from an early volume of engraved portraits, EFFIGIES REGUM AC PRINCIPUM, EORUM SCILLICET (Cologne, 1598). Drake.....
Paris: Jean Gesselin, 1627. [6],230,[2]pp. Contemporary vellum. Bookplate on front pastedown. Later ownership notations to titlepage. Minor toning and soiling. Very good. First augmented French edition, adding considerable material to the first French edition of 1613. This is the first separate appearance of this account of Drake's famous voyage of.....
Paris: Antoine Robinot, 1641. [8],230pp. Engraved title vignette. Handsome 18th-century tree calf, gilt leather spine label. Small contemporary ink notation at bottom of titlepage, minor worming. Very good. The third French edition of the narrative of Drake's circumnavigation of the globe in 1577-80, originally published in the first edition of.....
Paris. [ca. 1583]. Engraved portrait, oval with surrounding legend and text beneath, on laid paper (6 7/8 x 4 1/4 inches). Cut to just within plate mark and inlaid into later wove paper sheet. Later ink inscription on verso reading: "from Holland / 1809." Minor wear and soiling. Matted. Very.....
Paris: Jean Gesselin, 1613. [8],90,[1]pp. Lacks the world map, as is almost always the case. Titlepage vignette. Small octavo. 20th- century morocco bound to contemporary style, tooled and ruled in gilt, spine richly gilt. Leaves A5 and A6 with a small, expert paper repair in lower margin, not affecting text.....
Paris: Le Mercier, 1735. Four volumes. Titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes by M. Baquoy after A. Humblot. Half titles. Sixty-five engraved maps and plates (sixty-two folding, one page of engraved sheet music, two single-page plates) by Delahaye, Desbrulins, and Fonbonne after d'Anvillee, Humblot, Lucas, Le Parmentier.....
Philadelphia. 1803. [2],198pp. Modern half morocco. Ex-lib. with ink stamp on verso of titlepage and on first text leaf. Tanned, second half of text more severely than the first. Still, a good, solid copy. This copy bears the ownership signature of Lawrence Washington, nephew of George Washington on the front.....
Paris. 1845. 72pp. Large folio. 19th-century cloth, spine stamped in black. Corners rubbed. Later notes on front endpapers and on one text leaf by Henry Harrisse. Very good. Duflot de Mofras, a French diplomat and early traveller to California, here offers a study of two Spanish explorers and sailors, Pedro.....
London: James Ridgway, 1859. Two volumes. xxii,293; xi,305pp. Original blue pebbled cloth. Spine ends darkened and lightly worn. Front hinge of first volume tender. Moderate age-toning, occasional foxing. Very good. Dundonald had an almost impossibly romantic life, one of the most effective English naval officers of the Napoleonic era, and.....
Wilmington: Ferris Bros., Printers and Binders, 1885. [6],444pp. Original three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Front hinge expertly repaired, else a near fine copy. "These extracts from DuPont's journal and letters, privately printed for his family by his wife after his death, are a valuable and almost unknown account.....
