Stevenson, Ct. [J.S. Stewart, Printer and Bookbinder, [n.d. 1899]. 41pp. Frontispiece portrait. Textured brown boards, gilt. Spine rubbed, joints tender, with small losses. Internally fresh and clean. Very good. In a half burgundy morocco and cloth slipcase and cloth chemise, spine gilt. A rare work, privately printed, listed by Eberstadt.....
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[Various locations in Japan. ca. 1900]. Ten leaves containing eighty photographs, each 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. Oblong octavo. Contemporary black three-quarter morocco and cloth. Hinges and corners lightly worn. Bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing, primarily to mounts and not images. Prints sharp and clear. Very good. Eighty.....
[ San Francisco. 1938]. [2],76pp. Original blue cloth. Very good. From an edition limited to 200 numbered copies. A scarce, privately printed account of a sailing voyage between San Francisco and Hilo, Hawaii, with a description of Seattle as well. Johnson was born in Sweden, served as a regular seaman.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1861. 361pp. including numerous engraved plates, plus advertisements. Modern brown cloth, spine gilt. Some foxing and soiling, about good. An interesting account of the five year whaling voyage of two young men from Palmyra, New York, with detailed descriptions of their day to day activities.....
Philadelphia. 1856. Two volumes. 464pp. plus plates and folding map; 467pp. plus plates and folding map. Frontispiece portrait and engraved titlepage in each volume. Original brown cloth, stamped in blind, gilt- lettered spines. Head and toe of spines worn. Moderate foxing. Overall very good. Kane, a U.S. naval surgeon, was.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. 552pp., including numerous in-text illustrations, plus three maps (one folding) and fourteen plates (some tinted) including frontispiece. 8pp. of advertisements. Original publisher's cloth boards, stamped in blind and gilt, rebacked in matching cloth, spine gilt. Minor soiling and edge wear. Ownership signature on front.....
London. 1883. viii,288pp. plus advertisements. Half title. Original gilt pictorial cloth. Edgeworn, partial library label on front cover, hinges broken and contents shaken. Fair. Shark hunting and other deep water adventures in the South Seas and Indian Ocean.
London: Printed for G. Nicol, 1788. xxvii,[1],378,[1]pp. plus frontispiece, folding map, and fifteen plates (one folding). Quarto. Contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Corner tips repaired. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Some faint offsetting from plates, but text generally quite clean. Very good. The ship Antelope.....
Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Crukshank, 1789. xx,256pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine with gilt bands, burgundy morocco gilt label. Scuffs, wear and spotting to boards, corners bumped, foot of spine scuffed, two holes from insect activity. Lacks front and rear free endpapers. Contemporary inscription on titlepage of "Susanna Ridgway." Small closed.....
London. 1921. xxxi,[1],256pp. plus plates and two folding maps. Frontis. In-text illus. Gilt pictorial cloth. Spine sunned. Very good. Second edition, with a lengthy introduction by Sir Everard im Thurn, governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific, 1904-10. The author left her home in England for the.....
Weimar: Gebrudern Hoffman, 1821. Three volumes bound in one. [4],168;176,[2];240,[1],[6],xviii pp. Six maps (five large and folding), folding tables, four full-page hand- colored plates, four double-page sepia-toned aquatints, a plain plate, and eleven handcolored plates of butterflies. Thick quarto. Original drab paper-covered boards, paper spine label. Moderate wear to extremities.....
Weimar. 1830. Two volumes bound in one. [2],xxii,[2],191,[1]; [2],177,[1],34pp., plus three folding maps. Engraved frontispieces. Contemporary vellum, spine gilt, gilt leather labels. Vellum a bit soiled and edgeworn. New endpapers. Lightly tanned, but generally quite clean internally. Very good. The first German edition, enlarged from the first publication in Russian.....
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. Two volumes. [8],341pp. plus three maps (two folding); [4],362,[2]pp. Engraved frontispiece in each volume. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Moderate scuffing to edges, boards and corners worn. Modern bookplate on each front pastedown, minor marginal foxing, slight offsetting.....
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London. 1821. Three volumes. xv,[2].358pp. plus four color plates including frontispiece, and two folding maps; [2].433pp. plus three color plates including frontispiece, and three maps (two folding); [2],442pp. plus two plates (including color frontispiece) and two maps. Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, each volume expertly rebacked with original backstrip.....
Glocester: Printed by R. Raikes for T. Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty, London, 1764. [8],280,[8]pp. plus seven plates (two folding), including two folding maps. Quarto. Handsomely bound to style in three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt extra, leather label. Light foxing and toning; light scattered soiling. John Carter Brown.....
Paris: Gide fils, 1821. Two octavo text volumes, and folio atlas with thirty plates (including nine maps and portraits). Text volumes in original boards, expertly rebacked, folio atlas with matching modern paper boards, all with printed paper spine labels. Light wear to boards. Light tanning and dust soiling. Atlas plates.....
St. Petersburg: Par Ordre de Sa Majesté Impériale, 1824. Engraved titlepage; dedication leaf; and fifteen double- page engraved maps by S. Froloff, six double-page, nine single-page; some plates with more than one map, some with inserts, one with a folding extension, all dated 1824. Recent three-quarter red morocco and cloth.....
Boston: Printed for Joseph Bumstead, 1801. 333pp. Contemporary tree calf boards, rebacked in modern calf, ruled in gilt, gilt leather label. Corners and edges worn, boards moderately rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown (see below). Moderate tanning, scattered foxing. Good plus. This copy bears the bookplate on the front pastedown of.....
[ Paris. 1792]. Lithograph, image 39 x 25 cm., captioned. A couple of small tears and smudges at edges of border, image fine. Archival matting, and protected with Mylar sheet. Print of a plate taken from La Pérouse's atlas of his voyage around the world undertaken in 1785-88. The image.....
Paris. [1800]. Two text volumes plus atlas. Text volumes: xvi,440; 332,110,[2]pp. Atlas: Title-leaf, folding chart of the Pacific, and forty-three engraved plates. Contemporary half gilt calf and boards. Slight wear to spine of atlas and outer edge of front board, else a fine set. The first edition of this narrative.....
Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1841-1854. Six volumes. xxxix,343,[3]; [4],467,[3]; [2],548,[1]; [4],464,[3]; [4],iii,542,[2]; [4],400pp., plus two maps and thirty-one plates. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed. Some light foxing. Very good. "This is the official account of Laplace's second voyage of circumnavigation....This voyage of the Artémise is.....
New London: Lay and Hussey, 1828. 168pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine label lacking. Top and bottom of spine worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on rear free endpaper: "Dartmouth the 22 day 1832. Alma Bullou[?], her book." Browning and foxing, one signature starting, a few minor marginal tears including one in titlepage.....
Paris. 1851. 352pp. 8 plates including frontis. Contemporary three quarter gilt morocco and marbled boards, raised bands. Top corners bumped, else very good. A rare history of famous shipwrecks between the years 1558 and 1845, including some account of the ship, Jacques, and her loss upon return to France from.....
Paris: Lecointe et Pougin, Éditeurs, 1833. xvi,280pp. Titlepage vignette. 19th-century half brown calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Minor wear to boards, corners lightly worn, backstrip rubbed but sturdy. Newspaper review tipped in at front free endpaper. Moderate foxing throughout, light tidelines to upper portion of first ten leaves. About.....
Hartford: Printed and sold by Nathaniel Patten, 1783. 208pp. 12mo. Expertly bound to style in tree calf, red morocco label. Small areas of restoration to two leaves. Very good. Without the folding map, as usual. The first American book on Hawaii and the northwest coast of America, and the only.....
