Wilmington, De. 1883. [2],531pp. Original purple cloth, spine gilt. Cloth speckled, else near fine. Both this work and DuPont's EXTRACTS FROM PRIVATE JOURNAL-LETTERS... were issued in privately printed editions of only fifty copies for private distribution, and are exceedingly rare. Eberstadt states that the present volume is even rarer than.....
Madrid: Bernardino de Guzman, 1625. [4]pp. In Spanish. Decorative woodcut initial on first page. Small folio. Dbd. Light contemporary annotations in margins of each page. Early folds. Loss, repaired in silk, to gutter and outer margins and along one fold, affecting a few characters of text on p.[4]. Overall very.....
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Moscow. 1949. 150pp. Cloth and pictorial boards. Some shelf wear, printed on poor paper, but a decent copy. In Russian. Later edition. Describes early Russian discoveries.
Stockholm. 1872. 164pp. plus twelve lithographed plates, some tinted. Quarto. Later cloth, with onlay of original pictorial front wrapper. Most of text browned, a few stains, two leaves with marginal repair not affecting text. Good. This Swedish account of a voyage up the Pacific coast of America and especially to.....
Philadelphia. 1858. 416pp. plus plates and advertisements. Portrait. Engraved title. Original cloth. Extremities frayed, scattered foxing. Good. Later edition, first published in 1857. A distinguished naval officer and physician, Kane was stationed in the Orient, Africa, and Europe, served as medical officer with the Grinnell expedition in search of John.....
Dublin. 1749. xvi,152pp. Lacks the map. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Upper foredge corner of first five leaves carefully repaired, text unaffected. Some internal soiling. Overall still very good. Later Dublin edition, after the first and second London editions. "The first part contains a synopsis of twenty-three English voyages.....
Alexandria: Printed by S. Snowden & J.D. Simms, [ 1813]. 40pp. Modern cloth, leather label. Scattered foxing. Very good. A lengthy Federalist perspective on subjects relating to the War of 1812. Emott was opposed to the war with Great Britain: "...this war was improperly commenced, and is unnecessarily continued, and.....
London. 1853. vi,[2],488pp. plus seven lithographic plates (four in color) including frontispiece, and folding map. Numerous woodcuts. Tipped-in errata slip. Modern three quarter gilt morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Very good. "Captain Erskine, in 1849, sailed from Russell, New Zealand, and reached Niue or Savage Island. He.....
Madrid. 1793. xxiv,228,[4]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary calf. Extremities lightly worn. Rather clean internally. Very good. The third Spanish edition, after the rare first two editions of 1681 and 1682, of Esquemeling's famous book, the classic account of pirates in the Caribbean, on the Spanish Main, and in the South Seas.....
[Paris]. 1782. [2],158pp. Engraved frontispiece. Modern blue morocco and mottled paper boards, spine gilt. Gilt insignia of the French "Order of the Star" ("Monstrant Regibus Astra Viam") on front board and on bookplate on front pastedown. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Final text leaf lightly browned around edges. Near fine. Authorship.....
London. 1801. viii,278pp. Modern paper wrappers. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Very minor foxing and soiling. Very good. In a blue half morocco and cloth slipcase. Collection of treaties and other public documents relating to maritime diplomacy among European nations, published at the height of the conflict of the Napoleonic.....
Albany. 1838. 72pp. [bound with:] Eyre, John: THE EUROPEAN STRANGER IN AMERICA. New York. 1839. 84pp. [bound with:] THE FAMILY PHYSICAN AND THE FARMER'S COMPANION [caption title]. [Np. nd]. 24pp. Original cloth. Bit chipped at head and toe of spine, corners bumped, rubbed. Ink ownership signatures on endpapers, scattered foxing.....
New York. 1833. 499pp. plus five plates (two folding), including frontispiece. Modern half morocco and brown cloth, spine gilt. Bookplate on front pastedown. Ex-lib. with two ink stamps on titlepage and an occasional internal ink stamp. A bit of light foxing. Overall, a very good copy. Fanning, a native of.....
Portsmouth. 1909-1910. [192]pp. plus three bank deposit slips. Approximately 25,000 words. Calf over paper boards, contemporary manuscript title. Minor scuffing to leather. Good. Kept by Fill, the Chief Boatswain, this journal records the activities of two boats, the Southery and the Topeka, which were used as prison ships in Portsmouth.....
London. 1821. [iii]-xi,320pp. plus two maps (one folding), with in-text illustrations. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, gilt leather label. Minor rubbing to boards, light wear to edges and spine ends. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage, 20th-century bookplate on front pastedown. Light scattered foxing, slightly heavier to maps.....
London. [ 1819]. viii,104pp. plus folding map and three plates. 20th-century buckram, spine gilt. Mild foxing to folding map, minor offsetting to titlepage, occasional minor toning and foxing. Very good. First edition. A narrative of Parry's first expedition in search of a northwest passage, written by the assistant surgeon on.....
Philadelphia. 1800. viii,71pp. Half title. Gathered signatures, stitched as issued. Minor dampstaining in upper forecorner of first few leaves, half title tanned. Else very good, untrimmed. A scarce pamphlet issued by one of the commissioners concerning the settlement of pre-Revolutionary debts under the sixth article of Jay's Treaty. The treaty.....
[Washington. 1802]. 22pp. Dbd. Titlepage signed, "J.H. Nicholson, 1802." Contemporary manuscript pagination and early stain in upper outer corner throughout, not affecting text. Scattered foxing. Good. Prints correspondence between U.S. and foreign officials, mainly from Tunis, during 1801. This copy belonged to Joseph Nicholson and bears his signature. Joseph Hopper.....
Sharon, Ma. 1985. [15],157pp. Cloth. As new. A helpful guide to Pacific whaling material.
Boston. [ 1848]. 240pp. plus frontispiece and eight woodcut plates. Original publisher's cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Light wear to binding, modern bookplate on front pastedown; ink stamp of private collection on front flyleaf. Internally clean. Very good. An account of the Revolution by a Massachusetts native who joined.....
London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, [n.d., ca. 1810]. [5]-28pp. plus folding aquatint frontispiece. Early 20th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Spine slightly chipped and darkened. Line below imprint blacked out on titlepage. Some light soiling. Very good, with the bookplate of Frank Cutter Deering on front pastedown. One.....
[Paris. 1679]. Broadside, 48 x 35.5 cm. Folded, large dampstain affecting top and bottom, else very good. This broadside is signed in print: "Saint Germain en Lay, 24 Oct. 1679...Colbert." One of the chronic problems faced by France was a shortage of shipping, which put the country at a disadvantage.....
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London. [1881]. Eighteen stiff cards, four with two mounted watercolors, fourteen with one watercolor each, for a total of twenty-two illustrations. Average image size approximately 9 x 5 1/2 inches. Large folio portfolio. Three-quarter red morocco, green tie straps. Bookplate of the Easton Neston Library on front pastedown. Moderate edge.....
London: John Murray, 1829. Four volumes. Half titles. 24mo. Original red cloth, paper labels. Cloth faded, minor soiling, labels lightly chipped. Minor scattered foxing. Good plus. A petit edition of the narrative of two of Franklin's voyages through the Arctic. The Coppermine expedition proved disastrous, with many of his men.....
London. 1823/1828. Two volumes. [iii]-xvi,768pp. plus errata slip, thirty plates (eleven in color), and four folding maps; xxiv,[xxi]-xxiv,320,clvii,[2]pp. plus thirty-one plates and six folding maps. Both volumes lacking half titles. Quarto. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked in matching calf, spine gilt. Minor shelf wear. Modern bookplate on each front pastedown, small.....
