[Various places in Vietnam. ca. 1968-1972]. 145 photographs (all but thirteen in color), most approximately 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. Majority of photographs mounted on black paper stock with non-archival adhesive tape, some photos retain remnants of tape at corners. Some images a bit faded, but generally in very.....
Dublin: Printed by Christopher Bentham, 1823. 174pp. plus illustrations. Frontis. Engraved titlepage vignette. 12mo. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt. Hinges tender, spine ends worn. Internally clean and fresh. A very good copy. The further fictitious travels of William Walsh, an Irishman, and Capt. Blisset, of the Royal Navy. Another volume.....
Dublin: Printed by J. Jones, 1823. 180pp. including engravings. Frontis. Engraved titlepage vignette. 12mo. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt. Front hinge cracked, held by one cord; chipped at spine ends, corners worn. Internally neat and clean, and very good. Recounts the fictitious travels of William Walsh, an Irishman, with Capt.....
[Paris]: Jacques Guerin, 1739 [i.e. 1740]. 35pp. Quarto. Contemporary paper-backed boards, rebacked. Boards with slight foxing. Small tear in outer margin of first leaf (no loss). Slight age toning at outer edges, otherwise internally fresh and clean. Brief contemporary manuscript corrections in text on pp.7, 12, 21, 28, and 30.....
[Madrid. N.d., ca. 1690]. 92,[2] leaves. Folio. Late 19th-century marbled wrappers. Wrappers chipped at fore-edge. Additional manuscript pagination, the text likely bound in a sammelband at some point. Occasional light tanning and foxing. Small worm track in upper gutter of several leaves. About very good. In a folding cloth case.....
St. Petersburg. 1823. [3],iv,126pp. plus folding table and map. Half title. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Small closed tear in map from lower gutter margin, neatly repaired. Light dust soiling and occasional faint foxing. A near fine copy. Untrimmed. The extremely rare and significant first.....
Venice: Nicolo Zoppino, 1528. [10],73 leaves, including four double-page maps and two single-page maps, and numerous woodcut maps and plans in the text. A few leaves misnumbered. Small folio. 18th-century vellum, spine gilt, leather label. Boards and spine moderately soiled, leather label abraded. Titlepage printed in red and black with.....
Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1615. 16pp. Later speckled paper boards. With the bookplate from the stock and reference library of H.P. Kraus on front pastedown. Minor separation of spine paper from rear joint. Very minor foxing. A very good copy. In a half morocco box. The present work is a rare.....
Boston: J. Millet Company, 1897. In fifteen parts, a total of 322pp. "bound in Japanese style," with numerous plates (chromolithographs, handcolored photographs, etc.). Folio. Each part in original cloth-backed printed wrappers. Front wrapper detached from first part only, edges chipped. Some moderate chipping to second part, at lower forecorner of.....
Paris. 1727. 8pp. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Very minor foxing. Light soiling along spine edge; minor dampstaining along bottom edge. Contemporary inscription. Very good. A French royal decree establishing two offices to control the inspection of goods from the Compagnie des Indes. "The Compagnie des Indes flourished from.....
Venice. 1543. 40 leaves. 12mo. Modern half morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt. Occasional very minor spots, some leaves expertly restored in lower margin, not affecting text. Leaf C3 bound before C2, leaf C7 bound before C6. A very good copy. The rare third edition of Contarini's account of his.....
Paris: Pierre Rocolet, 1644. [6],1414pp. plus engraved titlepage. Large folio. Contemporary calf, gilt. Hinges partially cracked, head and foot of spine chipped, corners bumped. Minor scattered foxing and soiling. About very good, handsome withal. Extensive geographical and historical compendium written by Pierre D'Avity (1573- 1635), first published in Paris in.....
London. 1797. [2],xi,[1],415,[6]pp. plus ten colored aquatint plates. Quarto. Contemporary diced russia, rebacked in matching style, spine gilt. Very minor soiling, some offsetting from plates. Very good. The author spent over a year in Constantinople as chaplain to the British embassy for the Ottoman Empire, from March 1794 to October.....
London. 1886. Two volumes. xxviii,675; xii,803pp., including several in-text maps, charts, and illustrations, plus fifteen plates (including frontispiece in second volume) and a folding colored map. Thick octavo. Original gilt pictorial cloth, spines gilt, skillfully rebacked with original backstrips laid down, new endpapers. A few scattered light fox marks. Very.....
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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.....
[N.p., but possibly London. N.d., but possibly ca. 1809]. Each pencil sketch on a sheet 10 x 8 inches. Matted to 15 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches. Minor toning and soiling. Very good. Two pencil drawings by landscape painter and engraver William Daniell, after drawings by George Dance, possibly executed.....
Nurnberg: Johann Hoffmanns, 1681. [6],300pp. plus twenty-eight plates (four of them double-page) and a double-page map. [bound with:] Dapper, Olfert: BESCHREIBUNG DES KONIGREICHS PERSIEN IN SICH HALTEND DIE LANDSCHAFFTEN FARS.... Nurnberg: Johann Hoffmans, 1681. [2],170,[5]pp. plus eleven plates (eight of them double-page) and three double-page maps. Text printed in double.....
[New York]. 1885. [5]pp. plus twenty-five heliotype plates and [14]pp. of advertisements. Folio. Modern green cloth spine over original tan cloth boards. Boards lightly soiled. Internaly clean. Very good. Clean copy of a fragile book. An interesting work, this is a combination architectural book / trade catalogue. Mr. de Forest's.....
Manila. 1739. [3],61,[1] leaves. Small quarto. Slightly later limp vellum, spine title in manuscript, edges sprinkled red, remnants of two ties at fore-edge. Boards with some ink and dampstaining, corners bumped. Small, unobtrusive stamp on titlepage verso. Contemporary manuscript inscriptions on front and rear endpapers. Light tanning, else internally clean.....
London. 1770. [2],706pp. plus frontispiece, fifty-two plates, and three maps (one folding). Also, two plates inserted with the images pasted to another sheet. Folio. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Light scattered foxing and soiling. Occasional offsetting. Closed tear repaired at edge of folding world map.....
Paris: Claude Jombert, 1718. [10],352,[4]pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, gilt medallion on boards, spine gilt extra, gilt leather label. Discreet institutional ownership stamp on titlepage. Some very minor age-toning, otherwise clean and fresh. A very good copy. First edition of this rare collection of travels. Dralsé de Grandpierre was a French.....
Paris: Le Mercier, 1735. Four volumes. Folio. Titlepages printed in red and black with engraved vignettes by M. Baquoy after A. Humblot. Sixty-five engraved maps and plates (sixty-two folding, one page of engraved sheet music, two single-page plates) by Delahaye, Desbrulins, and Fonbonne after d'Anvillee, Humblot, Lucas, Le Parmentier, and.....
Madrid: Bernardino de Guzman, 1625. [4]pp. In Spanish. Decorative woodcut initial on first page. Small folio. Dbd. Light contemporary annotations in margins of each page. Early folds. Loss, repaired in silk, to gutter and outer margins and along one fold, affecting a few characters of text on p.[4]. Overall very.....
London. [ 1890s]. [4],211,[1]pp. Original pictorial cloth. Head and toe of spine a trifle frayed, private library bookplate. Else very good. A scarce travel narrative, mostly concerning India and the Near East, but also the American West (pp.152-79). The author travelled from New York to Chicago and thence to Wisconsin.....
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.....
