Philadelphia: Printed for B. Johnson & J. Johnson, 1802. 143pp. plus seven plates, including engraved title and frontispiece portrait. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, rebacked. Rubbed at extremities. Old private library stamp on fly leaf. Contemporary ownership inscription on verso of engraved title. Some minor foxing. Very good. In a marbled.....
Paris: P. Pourrat Freres, 1839. Two volumes. [2],510,[1]; [2],547,[2]pp. plus forty-two plates (many in color, three folding). Frontispiece in first volume, title vignettes in both. Half title in both volumes. Original three quarter black morocco and calf, spines gilt, a.e.g. Minor shelf wear. Modern bookplate on front pastedown of both.....
New York. 1853. 224pp. plus twelve plates including frontis. Original gilt cloth. Cloth sunned, bit frayed at extremities, scattered foxing (quite heavy at times). A good, sound copy. Later issue, styled "fourth thousand" on the titlepage. Howes states: "Number of plates vary in copies of all issued but 48 is.....
New York: Published by Henry Bill, 1853. 224,[1]pp. plus forty-nine plates (one plate is included twice). Original gilt cloth. Cloth sunned, bit frayed at extremities, contemporary ownership inscription, some scattered foxing, minor but persistent marginal dampstain. A good, sound copy. The second edition of Letts' CALIFORNIA ILLUSTRATED..., a vivid narrative.....
London. 1743. Two volumes. vi,xxii,[2],487; 507pp., plus 2pp. advertisements, five folding maps, folding plate, and errata. With the canceled leaves as described by Streeter. Modern half calf and marbled boards, leather labels. Unobtrusive later ownership label on bottom of each titlepage. Some tanning and light foxing. Very good, with maps.....
Hamburg: Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann, 1791. xxiv,334,[2]pp. plus folding map. 20th-century cloth spine and marbled boards, spine gilt. Very minor foxing. Very good. First German edition. Long began working for the Hudson's Bay Company in 1768. As a fur trader he travelled extensively among the Canadian Indians for nineteen years. "His.....
Paris. [ 1794]. xxxvi,320pp. plus folding map. Half title. [bound with:] Coxe, William: NOUVELLE DÉCOUVERTES DES RUSSES ENTRE L'ASIE ET L'AMERIQUE, AVEC L'HISTOIRE DE LA CONQUÊTE DE LA SIBÉRIE & DU COMMERCE DES RUSSES & DES CHINOIS. Neuchatel. 1781. xxiv,320pp. Half title. Lacks the maps and plate. Contemporary calf, gilt.....
Exeter, N.H. Printed for I. Thomas, and E.T. Andrews, 1795. 263pp., inclusive of frontispiece. Contemporary calf; rebacked and recornered, preserving original spine label. Some light foxing and soiling; closed tear to leaf N1. About very good. First American edition, styled "a new edition" on the titlepage, originally published in 1727.....
London. 1780. xii,262pp. 19th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Leather dried and worn, front board nearly detached. Scattered foxing. Else good. Styled "twelfth edition" on the titlepage, originally published in 1727. A popular fictitious voyage relating a British hermit's life on a deserted Pacific island off the coast of Mexico.....
London: Thomas Creede, 1596. [12],405,[6]pp. Small quarto. 19th-century red morocco, boards and spine elaborately tooled in gilt, gilt leather label, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g. Bookplate on front pastedown and front free endpaper. Titlepage backed. Two small holes in leaf Nn3, not affecting text, small tear repaired in leaf Nn, not.....
London: Thomas Creede, 1596. [12],405,[6]pp. First ten leaves in expert facsimile. Small quarto. Antique-style calf, boards ruled in gilt with gilt decoration, spine gilt extra with raised bands, leather label. First ten leaves, including titlepage, in facsimile. Else very good. The second English edition of one of the most important.....
Mexico: Imprenta del Superior Gobierno, del Br. D. Joseph Antonio de Hogal en la Calle de Tiburcio, 1770. [20],xvi,400,[19]pp., plus thirty-three plates including frontispiece (one folding) and two folding maps. Frontispiece bound in after titlepage. Titlepage printed in red and black. Titlepage vignette. Small folio. Later polished green calf, stamped.....
Hartford. 1852. 192pp. including in-text illustrations. Original illustrated wrappers. Spine and corners renewed. Internally clean. Very good. In a cloth box, leather label. Lyman, member of the Connecticut Mining and Trading Company, sailed to Sacramento in August 1849 to participate in the California Gold Rush. As with many who went.....
London. 1865. xxi,[3],574pp. plus advertisements and two partially colored folding maps. Frontis. Illus. Original patterned cloth, spine gilt. Cloth frayed at extremities, some insect damage at front joint and foreedge. Internally very nice and clean. Includes an account of the author's voyage from England to Vancouver Island via the Isthmus.....
London: R. Noble for T. Cadell, jun. & W. Davies, Cobbett & Morgan, and W. Creech of Edinburgh, 1801. [4],viii,cxxxii,412pp. plus stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece of Mackenzie by P. Condé after Thomas Lawrence, three folding engraved maps, and Errata leaf. Half title. Quarto. 20th-century three- quarter calf and marbled boards, spine.....
London. 1801. [4],viii,cxxxii,412,[2]pp. plus three folding maps. Half title. Quarto. Late nineteenth-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, minor wear to boards, corners repaired. Contemporary bookplate and later ownership inscription on front pastedown. Scattered foxing and toning. Very good. This classic of North American exploration describes the extraordinary travels of the.....
Paris. 1798-1800. Four volumes. xii,cxliv,628,[3]pp. plus folding table; [iii]-xvi,676,[2]; xi,[1],431,[3]; [2],viii,158,[2]pp., plus sixteen maps (some folding) and plates. Quarto. 19th-century half morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt, edges sprinkled. Hinges and spine extremities slightly worn, corners reinforced wtih cloth, minor edge wear. Bookplates on front pastedowns. Occasional light foxing on.....
London. 1775. xiii,[1],328pp. plus folding map and five plates. Modern paneled calf, gilt leather label. Light dampstaining to a few leaves, some minor foxing. Offsetting from plates. Very good. The earliest published complete account of Cook's second voyage, issued at least eighteen months prior to the official version. The second.....
Buffalo: Faxon & Stevens, 1848. 207pp. including one full-page illustration. Original black cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Very faint tideline throughout, minor foxing. Very good. In a cloth case, leather label. An exceptionally rare firsthand account of the Canada Rebellion of 1837-38.....
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 a bit soiled, hinges tender. Last two leaves a bit rumpled, rear free endpaper removed. Internally clean. Good. [with:] A KEEPSAKE OF THE "BEAVER." THE FIRST STEAMER IN PACIFIC WATERS. Vancouver. 1901. [1]p. with commemorative copper medal. [with:] Another example of the.....
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.....
Paris: Chez Buisson, [ 1794]. Three text volumes plus quarto atlas. xxiv,391; [4],386; [4],371,[1]; [4]pp., plus twenty-eight engraved maps and plates (many folding). Half title in each volume. Text volumes: Contemporary tree calf, spines elaborately gilt, gilt morocco labels, edges of boards ruled in gilt, edges of textblock marbled. Atlas.....
