[San Francisco]: Printed by Wm. C. Brown, 1889. [6],54,[11]pp. including one chromolithographic advertisement, plus three colored folding maps and four photographic plates of ships. Original brown cloth, gilt title on front board within gilt border. Minor wear and soiling, corners lightly bumped and worn, front hinge a bit weak. Small.....
Edinburgh: Printed by A. Donaldson, 1766-1768. Three volumes. vi,2,viii,516; [4],692; [2],iv,745pp. Folding frontispiece map in each volume. Contemporary calf, ruled in gilt, sympathetically rebacked in matching calf, spines tooled in gilt, gilt leather labels. General chart of the southern hemisphere with a closed split along one fold. Scattered light foxing.....
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.....
London: The Hakluyt Society, 2000. xv,[1],232pp. plus illustrations. Frontis. Original blue cloth, gilt-stamped cover, gilt- lettered spine. As new. In dust jacket. Poynter's journal is believed to be the only first-hand account of the voyage to survive.
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: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1803. [3]pp. Two folio leaves. Split at fold, chipped around edges, dampstain on lower edge, tape-repair on center fold. Good only. This act of Parliament addresses the issue of crimes committed in the British-controlled Pacific Northwest, and specifically in the Indian Territories.....
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.....
Winnipeg. 1909. 301pp., plus numerous plates and two large folded maps. Olive publisher's cloth. Maps in portfolio tipped onto rear pastedown. Light shelf wear, text moderately tanned. Very good. "Prepared for the 79th annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1909, with notes on some of.....
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.....
Montreal: John Lovell & Son, 1881. [2],19pp. plus large folding color map. Original printed wrappers. Minor wear to wrappers, three- inch closed tear in map. Contemporary stamp of the U.S. Geological Survey Library on titlepage. Internally clean. Very good. Issued by the Nelsen Valley Railway Transportation Company, this pamphlet 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. 1834-1859. Ten volumes, with maps and plates (some folding). Uniformly bound in 20th-century faux leather. Minor foxing. Very good. A handsome collection of annual volumes of THE NAUTICAL MAGAZINE containing articles on important Canadian and Arctic expeditions between 1834 and 1859. The individual volumes are as follows: 1) THE.....
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. 1788. viii,80pp. Lacks frontispiece portrait. Contemporary blue paper wrappers. Spine perished, front wrapper detached. Discreet ink stamp on titlepage. Very minor scattered foxing, but generally quite clean internally. Very good. The author devoutly believes that Vespucci, who was a Tuscan by birth, was the discoverer of America, and that.....
[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.....
Antigua [but actually Philadelphia]: R.B. Eldridge & Co., [ca. 1860]. Lithographic sheet map, 20 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches. Backed with contemporary blue paper. Light foxing and toning. A few small tears in margins. Very good. An unusual lithographic edition of Norie's 1827 revision of this handsome chart, lithographed by.....
[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.....
Kusaie, Caroline Islands. 1900-5. Vol. I, No. 1 through Vol. 6, No. 2. Twenty numbers (all published?), 4pp. each. Three quarter cloth and marbled boards. Very good. This periodical, written in Kusaian, was published at the Bingham Institute, a missionary school. Not the first Caroline Islands imprint by a long.....
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.....
Newark: Printed and sold by Allin and Ridge, 1792. Three volumes. xvi,[2],[6, subscribers list],287[i.e. 295]; x,505; x,248,15pp., plus engraved portrait frontispiece of the author and two large folding maps (printed on three sheets). Large quarto. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Some rubbing to boards, extremities worn, joints.....
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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: Published by the Author... 1852. Two volumes. xvi,296; xii,336pp. plus plates (lacking plate 21). Half titles. Early 20th-century three-quarter red calf and marbled boards, leather labels, by Zaehnsdorf, spines gilt extra. A very good set. Third edition of CATLIN'S NOTES OF EIGHT YEARS' TRAVELS AND RESIDENCE IN EUROPE..., consisting.....
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.....
