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.....

Paris. 1758. xii,171pp. including nine engraved views in the text, plus additional engraved titlepage and thirteen engraved maps and plans (eight folding). Quarto. Contemporary French calf, ruled in gilt, spine gilt, leather label. Calf scuffed and edgeworn, a few chips along spine. Leaf L3 with a small hole, affecting a......

Geneva: Eustatium Vignon, 1578. [32],480,[12]pp. Later limp vellum, later ink title on spine, marbled foredges. Covers slightly bowed. Unobtrusive contemporary ink signature on titlepage, very occasional contemporary manuscript annotations, trimmed closely at top margin, not affecting text, moderate tanning. A good copy. First Latin edition of Benzoni's important early account.....

Paris: François Clovzier, 1664. [24],432pp. Woodcut decorations. Small quarto. Contemporary mottled calf, ruled in blind, spine richly gilt with raised bands, a.e.g. Lightly rubbed, some loss to gilding on spine. Quite clean internally. A very good copy. One of the primary sources for the French ventures in Guiana. Biet was.....

Venice: Federico Toresano, 1547. [10],74 leaves. Titlepage printed in red and black, with ornamental woodcut border, woodcut initials throughout. Full-page diagram of a world map and windroses; four woodcut double-page or folding maps; four smaller double-page maps; 103 other woodcut maps and plans scattered through the text. Small folio. Contemporary.....

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.....

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882. viii,367,[1]pp., plus frontis, folding map, and three plates. Later three-quarter brown morocco and green morocco boards, spine gilt, edges marbled. Library binding, Light tanning and foxing, heavier on initial leaves. About very good. A history of the province of Manitoba and an.....

Madrid. 1906. Two volumes.xxx,388,[5]; xii,428,[4]pp. Original paper printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled. Volume one with repair tape on spine, small tear on front wrapper. Later ownership stamp on front flyleaves. Text block cracked in volume one. Small section loose but attached on volume two. Good. Later edition of the famous.....

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.....

Paris: Jean Richer, 1607. [8]pp., 506 leaves, plus additional engraved titlepage. Thick 12mo. Later speckled boards, spine gilt, gilt leather label. Extremities rubbed. Contents tanned, fore-edge trimmed affecting some sidenotes but no main text. Minor marginal worming to some leaves. Else very good. A rare and important volume, containing one.....

Antwerp: Martin Nucio, 1554. [8],204 leaves, with forty-one woodcuts in the text. Woodcut vignette on titlepage. 12mo. Contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties. Vellum attached to text block with ties through foredges of pastedowns only. Slight age toning, occasional dampstaining, minor soiling on leaf 55. A very good copy. In a......

[Np. 1893]. [8]pp. Folded signatures. Bit dust soiled, else very good, untrimmed. Facsimile of the first Latin edition of the letter in which Columbus announces his discovery of the New World.

New York. 1892. xiii,[3],10 leaves,61pp. Original gilt cloth. Slight edge wear, corners bumped, else fine. Good study of the topic.