London: George Bishop, 1594. [16],717,[24]pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf; neatly rebacked to style. Corners rubbed. Bookplates on front pastedown. Some contemporary notations to first part of text. Internally clean. Very good. Fourth edition of the first major topography of Britain. Camden was urged and encouraged to undertake this massive survey by.....

[ San Francisco]: Published by John Howell, 1964. [6],67pp. plus plates and two maps. Color frontis. Tall quarto. Patterned cloth. Fine. Diary of Father Campa, kept while accompanying the important Spanish exploring expedition of 1775. Sailing from San Blas, they explored along the coast from Monterey to the Queen Charlotte.....

Montreal: Printed by John C. Becket, [1842]. Broadside, 22 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches. Printed in six columns. Small tears and creasing at all margins, affecting a few words of text; significant loss at upper corners, not affecting text. Good. A Canadian broadside advertising lands available in the Eastern Townships.....

London: Religious Tract Society, [1864]. viii,370pp., plus two maps (one folding) and six pages of advertisements. Green publisher's cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Front hinge cracked, boards slightly rubbed. Binder's ticket on rear pastedown. Light tanning and dustsoiling at text block edges. Very good plus. A scarce mid-19th century.....

Quebec. 1793-1817. Twenty-four volumes. Later brown cloth, red and black gilt morocco labels. Printed in alternating English and French. Slight wear to and moderate soiling on covers. Occasional foxing. First view leaves of first volume torn along lower blank margin. Occasional old institutional markings. Overall very good. A large and.....

[Quebec. 1830, 1798, 1799, 1800]. Two volumes bound in one, printed alternately in English and French. [7],288; [4],10-13,[9],34-195,[8]pp. Quarto. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards Very good. A reprint of the first collection of Canadian statutes as it appeared in 1795, to which has been added the first printings of.....

London. 1843-1877. 136 leaves. Illus. A few leaves foxed. Overall very good. Laid into a cloth clamshell case, leather label, with an original cloth cover of the periodical pasted on the front cover. An interesting collection of individual leaves extracted from THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, all pertaining to Canada, Alaska.....

[Firenze, 1789]. 16pp. Small quarto. Modern half morocco and cloth. Very good. The author is known for his ELOGIO D'AMERIGO VESPUCCI...(Florence 1788) in which he describes Vespucci as the true discoverer of America and dismisses Columbus as an imposter. Sabin lists a variant title. The NUC notes only the Lenox.....

Boston. 1854. xi,356pp. plus large folding color map. Original gilt cloth. Spine rubbed, chipped at head of spine, two light stains on front board. Contemporary ownership signatures on front pastedown and front free endpaper. Internally clean, with the map in lovely condition. Very good. Capron went to California in the.....

[Ponape, the Caroline Islands. 1858?]. Single printed sheet. Very good. A very unusual imprint. This sheet was printed by the first mission press in the Islands, evidently for the use of students on the Gilbert Islands, far to the east. Ponape is an island in the central Carolines, south of.....

Quebec. 1843. vi,130pp. plus two folding maps. 20th-century blue buckram, gilt leather label. Minor wear to extremities, small contemporary ink signature on titlepage, else a clean, very good copy. An omnibus volume chronicling various voyages of discovery in Canada in the 16th century, including Cartier, Jean Alphonse de Xantoigne, and.....

Paris. 1838. [4],392pp. Original pink wrappers, paper label. Minor chipping to front wrapper, minor spine wear, rear wrapper mostly lacking. Minor soiling, else near fine internally. Untrimmed and unopened. In a half red morocco and marbled boards box, spine gilt. A work of primary importance for the American Southwest, the.....

London. 1848. Two volumes. xvi,296; xii,336pp. Twenty-four plates. Modern gilt red calf by Bayntun of Bath, spines gilt extra, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., with original gilt pictorial cloth of each volume preserved and bound in at the rear. Front board of first volume detached, but present. Internally quite clean. Overall just.....