San Diego, Ca. 1928. [4],279,[2]pp. plus fifteen plates. Color frontis. Original cloth backed boards. Very good. From an edition limited to 300 numbered copies (the present copy is unnumbered), edited by Anna Lee Marston. Scarce chronicle of a journey by the Gunn family from Philadelphia to California. They left Philadelphia.....
Boston. 1820. 461pp. plus folding map. Frontis. 19th-century half calf and paper-covered boards. Title and author inscribed in ink (largely rubbed away) on spine. Calf scuffed and worn, boards scuffed, corners bumped. Scattered foxing and light soiling, some offsetting from map. A good copy, with original frontispiece tissue guard intact.....
London. 1825. xii,478pp. plus four color plates, folding map, errata page, and [2]pp. of advertisements. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light wear to edges and extremities. Front hinge starting. Some light foxing to map, else internally clean. An attractive, very good copy. The author sailed from Lisbon.....
Vancouver. 1894. 99pp. Illus. Original gilt cloth. Cloth bit soiled, hinges tender, last two leaves a bit rumpled. Internally clean. Good. [with:] A KEEPSAKE OF THE "BEAVER." THE FIRST STEAMER IN PACIFIC WATERS. Vancouver. 1901. [1]pp. with commemorative copper medal. [with:] Another example of the commemorative medal, loose. A brief.....
London. 1941. cxxviii,373,xi pp. plus folding map. Frontis. Cloth, t.e.g. Spine lightly sunned. Near fine, largely unopened. Issued as part of the Publications of the Hudson's Bay Record Society. These letters shed light on the Hudson's Bay Company's fascinating activities on the Pacific Coast during the 19th century. McLoughlin was.....
London. 1790. viii,[12],xcv,[1],372,[108]pp. plus ten maps and plans, and eighteen plates (some folding), including a frontispiece portrait of Meares. Large, thick quarto. Modern paneled calf, boards tooled and ruled in gilt, spine gilt, gilt leather label. Minor edge wear, boards a bit bowed. Modern bookplate on front pastedown, minor occasional.....
Fredonia, N.Y. 1846. xi,[1],378pp. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Faded library stamp on titlepage. Foxing throughout. About very good. Miller, an American citizen who participated in the Canadian rebellion of 1837-38, was transported to the penal colonies in Van Dieman's Land and New South Wales. He was one of.....
Boston. 1797. viii,[619]pp. printed in double columns, plus seven maps (six folding) and errata. Contemporary calf. Rubbed and scuffed, front board and front free endpaper detached, portion of spine perished. Moderate browning, one map with two-inch closed tear. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Fair. First edition of Morse's ambitious work.....
Utica: For the author, 1804. 158pp. plus errata. Modern three-quarter gilt morocco and marbled boards. Browned and foxed, a few leaves dampstained. Else very good. "Moulton had served the country under arms, before he shipped out on the American schooner Onico on the voyage 'to take fur seal in the.....
London: Printed for T. Jefferys, 1761. viii,xliii,76pp. plus four engraved maps, of which two folding and outlined in contemporary colors. Quarto. Modern half red morocco and cloth, spine gilt lettered. First folding map with neat, unobtrusive repairs along two folds, second folding map with some light offsetting and small separation.....
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[Dunedin, New Zealand: Frank Coxhead, ca. 1890]. Ten album cards, each with a vintage albumen photograph mounted on recto and verso, for a total of twenty photographs. Each image measuring 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches. Oblong quarto. Contemporary green cloth, rebacked with original backstrip laid down, gilt-stamped title on.....
Philadelphia. 1855. 45pp. Later plain wrappers. Very good. An interesting collection of correspondence regarding what appears to be the illegal and fraudulent sale of an American ship, the North Carolina, in Callao, Peru in 1854. The North Carolina had made its way from New York to San Francisco, then was.....
Boston. 1841. 265pp. 16mo. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, leather spine label. Bit tanned, else very good. Second edition, after the first of 1836. O'Connell first gained employment as a cabin boy at age eleven. During his residence in New Holland (Australia), he accompanied British surveyor Oxley on a......
San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1969. 64 leaves, including illustrations. With prospectus laid in. Folio. Original half morocco and cloth boards, spine gilt. Extremely minimal shelf wear. Near fine. From an edition of 400 copies. Fine press printing of the journal kept by San Francisco artist Otis Oldfield recording his impressions aboard.....
Madrid: Por Luis Sanchez... 1614. Title-leaf,[9],290,[4] leaves. Bound to style in full calf, raised bands, leather label. Spine ruled in gilt, boards blind-ruled. Woodcut coat of arms on titlepage and portrait of the author, with historiated initials and decorations throughout. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage, occasional contemporary manuscript annotations scattered.....
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.....
San Marino, Ca. 1966. xiii,233pp. Portrait. Cloth. Fine. In dust jacket with small tear and sunned spine. Osbun was an Ohio doctor who sailed to California during the gold rush via the Isthmus of Panama, and eventually sailed to the South Seas in a speculative venture. The appendices describe in.....
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[Japan]. 1807. Approximately 842pp., illustrated with a three-page map of the return journey and eighty-eight hand-colored drawings in pen and ink (five double-page). Fifteen volumes (of sixteen, lacking volume fourteen). Japanese language, on rice paper. Original blue wrappers, paper labels. Some wear and rubbing to covers. Very good. An early.....
[Various places. ca. 1872]. Twelve cards, each 17 x 13 inches, a.e.g., with manuscript captions in lower margins. Images are 9 x 6 1/2 inches, except the two oval images of San Francisco. Some minor soiling on cards, some images slightly faded. Very good. Archivally matted, protected with a mylar.....
[Np. circa 1950?]. 12 1/2 x 50 inches. Torn into two pieces, measuring 35 and 15 inches in length. Folded. Else very good. Long, decorated strip of tapa, a cloth made from tree bark by native people in the islands of the Pacific Ocean. Though previously used as cloth for.....
London: Printed for Stanfield Parkinson, 1773. xxiii,212,[2]pp. plus twenty-six plates, map, and engraved frontispiece portrait. Large quarto. Contemporary marbled boards, vellum corners, expertly rebacked in calf, retaining original leather label. Slight offsetting from some plates, otherwise quite clean. A near fine copy. A large paper copy of this important narrative.....
London: Printed for Stanfield Parkinson, 1773. xxiii,[1],22,[2],212,[2]pp. plus twenty-six plates, map, and engraved frontispiece portrait. Large quarto. Contemporary polished calf ruled in gilt, edges tooled in gilt, spine gilt extra, gilt morocco label. Minor wear to spine ends and corners, two-inch split in leather along lower front joint. Armorial bookplate.....
Potts Point, Australia: Hordern House, [2005/2006]. Two volumes. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated. Quarto. Gilt cloth. As new. In dust jackets. A handsome catalogue of an important collection of Pacific voyages, assembled by the collector David Parsons. Part one contains 138 items covering the period from the late 17th to the late.....
New York. 1831. 258pp. plus folding frontispiece map. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with leather label. Map backed on linen, glued to front pastedown. Small portion of lower corner of p.141 torn away, affecting four lines of text. Lightly foxed. Good plus. A very scarce and important.....
