London. 1823. iv,[2],xxvii,[5],285,[2],297,[3]pp. plus folding map and twenty-five lithographic plates. Quarto. Contemporary calf, ruled in gilt and blind, spine elaborately gilt, a.e.g. Expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Minor shelfwear, modern bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing on map and plates, with some offsetting to facing pages, but text.....

Vienna: Im Selbstverlage des Verfassers, 1869. [8],202,[2]pp. plus seven woodcut plates and folding color map. Contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, paper library label. Slightly rubbed. Old institutional stamps on titlepage. Internally quite clean. Very good. Departing San Francisco in 1866, Bechtinger travelled to Hawaii and remained there for one.....

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley... 1831. Two volumes bound in one. xxi,[3],392pp. plus fourteen plates and three maps (two folding); vii,[1],[393]-742pp. plus nine plates. No errata slip in second volume. Half titles. Quarto. 19th-century polished calf boards with gilt tooled border, handsomely rebacked, spine elaborately gilt, gilt morocco label.....

[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.....

London. 1852. x,388,[2]pp. plus advertisements. Frontispiece portrait. Large octavo. Modern half morocco. Library stamps on titlepage and frontis. Good. The author crossed by the Platte route in 1850, making much of the journey in the winter under harrowing circumstances. He later wrote another book with the rather rock 'n' roll.....

New York. 1853. 371,[2]pp. Seventeen plates (fourteen of them within the pagination). Frontis. Original publisher's cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Light soiling to boards, minor wear at extremities. Contemporary owner's inscription on fly leaf. Text lightly foxed. Very good. Second edition, after the first of the previous year. "Colvocoresses.....

London: Printed by W. and A. Strahan for G. Nichol and T. Cadell, 1784. Three quarto text volumes plus large folio atlas. Text: twenty-four engraved maps, coastal profiles, and charts (thirteen folding); folding letterpress table. Atlas: sixty-three engraved plates, charts, and maps (including one folding map and one double-page map).....

Philadelphia: W. Woodward, for B. Johnson, 1796. 252pp. 12mo. Modern pink paper boards, printed paper label. Light dampstaining and soiling to text, heavier in some places. Good plus. "Faithfully abridged from the quarto edition." An abridged children's version of Capt. James Cook's third and final voyage, on which he was.....

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847. Two volumes. xxiv,288pp. plus 32pp. of advertisements; xii,278pp. plus 2pp. of advertisements. Half title in both volumes. Original blindstamped blue cloth, spines gilt, binder's ticket on rear pastedown of first volume. Early ownership inscription on front free endpapers of both volumes. Moderate wear.....

San Francisco. 1909. 108pp., plus twenty-two plates in portfolio sleeve. Original three-quarter red morocco and cloth, spine gilt, front board leather label, white silk doublures, a.e.g. Fine. A catalogue of Hawaiian stamps and the type set numerals used thereon from the mid-19th century, and a history of a stamp production.....

Honolulu. 1860. [4],48,8,49-96pp. Quarto. Dbd. Mild foxing and toning. About very good. A year-long run of this important periodical, comprised of Volume 17, issues 1-12 (January- December, 1860). This copy with an eight- page supplement bound in after issue No. 6 (June). THE FRIEND is a gold mine of information.....

New York. 1840. 483pp. 12mo. 20th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, rebacked with contemporary calf, backstrip and label laid down. Quite clean internally. A very good copy. The second issue of the first edition, without the dot over the "i" on the copyright page, and with the broken type heading.....

Boston: Printed by E.G. House, for the Author, 1817. 598,[1]pp. plus two engraved plates (including frontispiece portrait) and engraved folding map. Contemporary calf, rebacked in matching style in modern calf, spine gilt. Boards scuffed and worn, especially at extremities. Light foxing throughout, faint dampstain in lower gutter throughout the text.....