Indianapolis. [ 1864]. 132,x,[1]pp. plus large folding map. 12mo. Original printed boards. Spine ends frayed. Moderate dampstain through first twenty or so leaves. Some significant splitting and tearing on a few folds of map, with slight loss in eastern Virginia/southern Maryland along one fold. Overall good. The detailed map, "Perrine's.....
New York: Joseph Sabin, 1865. 138pp. Small quarto. Modern polished calf, spine gilt, leather label. Very good. Order book of Captain Leonard Bleeker, a member of the Sullivan Expedition against the Iroquois Indians allied with the British in the American Revolution. From an edition limited to 250 copies.
Boston: J. Millet Company, 1897. In fifteen parts, a total of 322pp. "bound in Japanese style," with numerous plates (chromolithographs, handcolored photographs, etc.). Folio. Each part in original cloth-backed printed wrappers. Front wrapper detached from first part only, edges chipped. Some moderate chipping to second part, at lower forecorner of.....
London. 1872. x,[2],388pp. plus six plates and a folding map. Contemporary three-quarter maroon morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Light shelf wear. One plate detached, but present. Very good. First edition. Pages 355-86 contain Butler's report of his journey from Fort Garry to Rocky Mountain House and back during the winter.....
London. 1835. iv,319pp. including errata slip pasted to verso of Preface leaf. Contemporary three-quarter calf and cloth, spine gilt. Leather label lacking. Spine and edges noticeably worn. Contemporary library bookplate on the front pastedown, a clean copy. Very good. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to His Royal Highness, Prince.....
New Bedford. 1893 [i.e. 1899]. 151pp. Illus. Original cloth. Good. Crapo's experiences working on board a whaling ship in the South Seas, as a man-o'-warsman and soldier in the navy and on cargo vessels, and finally the voyage of himself and his wife across the Atlantic from New Bedford to.....
London: John Murray, 1828. xxiv,[4 (paginated xxi-xxiv)],320,clvii pp., plus errata leaf, six folding maps (one loosely laid in and one partially handcolored), and thirty-one plates. Thick quarto. Modern half tan morocco over marbled boards. Modern endpapers. Old and almost invisible institutional blindstamp on titlepage and dedication leaf. Occasional light offsetting.....
London. 1830. Unpaginated. Folding colored map. Large quarto. Original paper boards, backed in paper. Front board detached, rubbed, corners bumped, light foxing. Good. The fourth edition. Basil Hall, captain in the Royal Navy, travelled extensively in the U.S. and Canada. Before leaving England he made the acquaintance of John James.....
Edinburgh. 1829. Three volumes. iv,ii,421; [4],ii,432; vii,[1],436pp. plus folding colored map and folding table. Half titles. 12mo. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked to style, spine gilt, corners rubbed. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedowns. Internally clean. Very good. Captain Hall travelled throughout much of the Northeast and the Midwest, including the Great.....
Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1827. Three volumes. Original muslin backed boards, printed spine labels, foredges rough trimmed, bottom edges untrimmed. Spine extremities chipped and frayed, labels eroded, scattered foxing, still a good, sound set. First Boston edition of the author's first and only novel, published in the same year as.....
Washington. 1889. 128pp. plus thirty-nine plates including frontispiece (two colored). Quarto. Contemporary three quarter calf and cloth. Spine and corners rubbed and worn. Bookplate on front pastedown. Internally clean. Just about very good. An important work in Arctic and Alaska exploration. The 1884 report encompasses the regions of the Bering.....
London: A. Murray and A. Donaldson, 1783. 36,[1],2,[1]pp. Half-title. Modern marbled paper wrappers. Front wrapper detached, spine chipped. Moderately dampstained. About good. In a purple half morocco and cloth folder. One of four editions published in 1783. "The CENTAUR was one of a large fleet sailing from the West Indies.....
Chicago & New York: F. Tennyson Neely, [1895]. 310,[6]pp. Decorated green cloth, lettered in gilt. Frontis portrait. Early ink name on free endsheet, with a portion of endsheet below clipped away (another name?), spine a bit dull and rubbed at tips, a few smudges to lower cover; good and sound.....
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1899. 257,[1],[10]pp. Small octavo. Blue cloth, decorated in gilt and black. Frontis. First edition. Spine every slightly cocked, minor rubbing at extremities, but very good and bright.
Boston. 1860. xxiv,375pp. plus fifteen plates (one folding) and three folding maps. Frontispiece portrait. Original blue cloth, gilt pictorial cover and spine. Slight wear to head and toe of spine, covers a bit soiled. Very good. First American edition. Dr. John Rae of the Hudson's Bay Company met an Eskimo.....
Washington. 1876. vii,[1],152pp. plus twenty-two plates (eleven in color), eight leaves of plate explanations, and large folding map. Quarto. Modern cloth, spine gilt. Two faint institutional ink stamps on titlepage. Text with light, even tanning, some offsetting from plates at rear of volume. Closed tear in map at bound-in edge.....
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[N.p., likely Providence, R.I. ca. 1900]. Centrally-mounted watercolored lithograph with calligraphed marginal text in red and blue ink. Unrelated painted sign for a tailor's shop on verso. Artist's board, 13 1/2 x 20 3/4 inches. Minor dust- soiling and toning, edges and corners somewhat worn, some surface wear, including portion.....
New York. 1865. 153pp. Original black blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Spine ends chipped, corners of boards worn. Faint tideline, else rather clean internally. Lacks the map. The narrative includes a day-by-day itinerary during a journey of forty-seven days from Walla Walla to Fort Benton, with a general description of the.....
Edinburgh & London. 1859. 210pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf and cloth, spine with raised bands, leather label. Bit rubbed, covers bit faded. Pencil corrections in the text, possibly by the author. Very good. The author was a captain in the Royal Navy. He describes travel from China to Japan, Japanese scenery.....
Edinburgh & London. 1859. 210pp. plus 16pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Some wear to spine ends, inner hinges cracked but holding. A few fox marks on titlepage and in margins; small, neat bookplate. A good plus copy. Second edition, published same years as the first.....
London: William Fisher, 1894. [4],509,[209],lxiiipp., including 103 ship illustrations, with copious descriptions. Portrait frontis. Thick quarto. Original blue cloth, gilt- stamped pictorial cover, gilt-stamped spine. Hinges reinforced with buckram. Slight browning. Overall, very good. Second edition, after the first of 1885. An exhaustive dictionary of maritime terms in English, French.....
[Np. ca. 1885]. 39pp. Modern cloth, leather label. Ex-lib. with faint rubberstamp, else quite good. Pencil presentation inscription from the author to "Hon. Geo W Martin. Junction City Kas." The author is best known for his history of the Fifth Cavalry.
San Antonio. 1914. 190pp. plus frontispiece. Original green publisher's cloth, stamped in black. Extremities rubbed. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Very good plus. Roberts was captain of Company D of the Texas Rangers, served with Perry, and saw field action with the Rangers until 1882. His first-hand account of events.....
Edinburgh. 1820. Two volumes. xx,551,[1],82; viii,574pp., plus four folding tables, twenty plates (five folding) including frontispieces, and four maps (three folding). Half title in each volume. Later 19th-century polished calf, spine gilt, leather labels. Mild darkening to spines, light soiling, front hinge on first volume cracking. 19th-century bookplate on each.....
Washington: Beverley Tucker, 1854. 198pp. plus seventy-eight plates (some tinted, one folding) and large folding map. Original blindstamped cloth. Slight wear at head of spine and corners. Six-inch closed tear in map (in a blank section) with no loss. Scattered foxing on plates. A very good copy. Second printing, with.....
