Honolulu. 1860. [4],48,8,49-96pp. Quarto. Dbd. Mild foxing and toning. About very good. A year-long run of this important periodical, comprised of Volume 17, issues 1-12 (January- December, 1860). This copy with an eight- page supplement bound in after issue No. 6 (June). THE FRIEND is a gold mine of information.....
New Haven: Printed for J. Hunnewell, 1868. 48,[1]pp. Frontis. Original salmon-colored printed wrappers. Bright and clean internally. Fine. The first American edition, the pamphlet originally having been published in Honolulu in 1866. Appendix A reprints a letter from Hawaiian missionary James Kekela to President Lincoln. "According to the Hunnewell bibliography.....
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[Various places, including Antarctica, the Northwest Coast, and shipboard. 1841-1842]. 54pp. including four original color sketches. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black morocco, ornate gilt cover, stamped with the initials of James D. Dana and James C. Palmer, neatly rebacked with most of the original spine preserved. Corners slightly worn. Internally bright.....
St. Petersburg. 1865. viii,540,[1]; [3],viii,466pp. plus frontispiece. 12mo. Half titles. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt with raised bands. Light dampstaining at top edge of a few leaves, light tanning and foxing throughout. Very good. The very rare first edition in Russian of Darwin's classic scientific journal and.....
Ann Arbor: Chase's Steam Printing House, 1869. 331pp. plus advertisements. Original cloth. Bit frayed at extremities, rear board slightly bowed. Some light scattered foxing, minor marginal dampstain to a few early leaves. Good. An interesting travel account, particularly in view of the imprint. The author was the assistant librarian at.....
Boston. 1884/1883. Two volumes. xii,440; x,[441]-911pp., plus twenty-four plates and four folding maps. Illus. Frontispiece portrait in each volume. Large, thick octavo. Original publisher's sheep. Hinges of first volume cracked, folding map at rear of first volume detached. Faint dampstain at head of gutter in second volume. Overall very good.....
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.....
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.....
[Nuremberg. ca. 1581]. Etched illustrated broadside on two joined sheets, 29 x 57 cm. Minor wear at lower left and upper right corners. Small rust spot in the text. Near fine. Framed, glazed, and matted. A very rare portrait of Sir Francis Drake on a German broadside, celebrating his circumnavigation.....
[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.....
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: 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: Arthus Bertrand, 1844. Two octavo text volumes: xii,[4],524; [4],514pp., plus eight engraved plates. Handsome 19th-century full red morocco, spines gilt, boards ruled in gilt with gilt coat of arms composed of a five-pointed crown over crossed batons on front boards, a.e.g., gilt inner dentelles, silk endpapers. Minor shelf wear.....
Torino. 1841. Two volumes. xvi,296; 392pp., plus errata leaf and four plates. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt. Corners rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Light scattered foxing. Very good. The second edition and the first in Italian, following the French edition of 1834-35. A primary source on Mexican.....
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.....
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.....
Haarlem. 1651-1691. Forty-one parts in seven volumes. Numerous engraved maps and plates. Small, thick quarto. Vellum over boards, manuscript spine labelling, edges sprinkled. Some light wear to edges of boards. Binding slightly separating from text block on first volume. Minor scattered foxing and toning, but generally quite clean internally. Very.....
New York. [ 1941.]. 127pp. Printed wrappers, as issued. Very good. One of the most notable bookseller catalogues ever issued in Americana, this was catalogue 119 of the firm. It covered Pacific Northwest Coast voyages by Russians, English, French, Spanish, and American expeditions, with a special section on the Wilkes.....
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.....
Washington. 1884. 188pp. plus plates and maps. Large quarto. Modern half cloth and marbled boards, leather label. Very good. Report on the sealing industry on the Pribilof Islands, off the southwestern coast of Alaska, from 1872-74, as part of the tenth census.
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.....
