[Philippines, New Caledonia, Guadalcanal, New Zealand, Hawaii. ca. 1942-1945]. 213 photographs from 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 to 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, corner-mounted; plus twenty-two pieces of ephemera mounted or laid in, including two mimeographed pamphlets. Oblong quarto album. Red silk boards, blue silk ties, with stylized Japanese.....

St. Petersburg. 1865. viii,540,[1]; [3],viii,466pp. plus frontispiece. 12mo. Half titles. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt with raised bands. Light dampstaining at top edge of a few leaves, light tanning and foxing throughout. Very good. The very rare first edition in Russian of Darwin's classic scientific journal and.....

Cleveland: The Williams Publishing Company, 1888. xviii,[9]-507pp., including illustrations. Frontispiece and two portraits. Original cloth, front board and spine gilt. Cloth worn at spine ends. Overall very good. The overland journey to the gold fields by the Ohio native Ferguson is recounted in the first ten chapters, followed by three.....

Upsala: Johan Edman, 1776. Two volumes bound in one. [28],308,[2]; [2],326,[6]pp. plus folding engraved map. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine stamped in blind and gilt. Edges, corners, and spine lightly worn, upper portion of spine repaired. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Minor small stains in corners of titlepage.....

Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1863. ix,[3],268pp. plus folding map and twenty illustrations, including nine tinted lithographs. Frontis. Half title. Contemporary brown pebbled cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Slight wear to extremities, half of rear cover faded and bubbled, front free endpaper lacking. Minor foxing, contemporary pencil annotations on list of illustrations, else.....

Paris: P. Pourrat Frères, 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 each volume. Original three-quarter black morocco and calf, spines gilt, a.e.g. Minor shelf wear. Modern bookplate on front pastedown of both volumes.....

Paris: Chez Arnauld de Vresse, [nd, ca. 1850]. 54,[2]pp. plus twenty-five tinted lithographic plates (including the titlepage). Small folio. Original pebbled cloth, spine gilt, a.e.g. Spine rubbed, hinges a bit worn. Internally neat and clean. A very good copy. A rare and attractive work, showing the peoples of the world.....

Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1866. Two volumes. [4],352,8; [4],376pp. Half title in each volume. Original printed yellow wrappers. Minor wear and dust-soiling to wrappers, minor creasing to spines, second volume binding cracked. Contemporary ownership signature on front wrapper and titlepage of both volumes. Minor marginal dampstain to.....

London. 1884. 264pp. Original cloth. Frayed at extremities, neat bookplate, inner hinges cracked but sound. Fair. The author went around the world via Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, and ended up in California.

Berne: Chez la Nouvelle Societe Typographique, 1783. xvi,200pp. including woodcut decorations. Modern half calf and paper boards, spine gilt, raised bands, gilt leather label. Light shelf wear. Dark stain in upper gutter of pp.120-150 and 178-200, closed tear in p.161, just grazing a letter. Very good. The second French-language edition.....