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Expeditions Books & Ephemera
The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in Search of De Long and the Jeannette (In Dustjacket)
by John Muir
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. Pictorial cloth. Near Fine. A gorgeous copy of the November 1917 1st trade edition. Clean and Near Fine in a surprisingly bright, Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of very light chipping at the spine crown. (The front flap is neatly clipped on both ends --almost certainly by the publisher-- but the original $2.75 price remains intact). Thick octavo, top-edge gilt, edited by William Frederic Bade. 5 of the photographs taken by and credited to Edward Curtis....
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£822.20
Colombo, ammiraglio del tenebroso oceano
by Bisso, Luisa, text. Flavio Bozzoili, design
Torino: Societa Editrice Internazionale, 1991. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 106p., comix panels in color throughout the item (emphasis on character of Columbus, structure of caravels), presswork on semi-glazed alkaline paperstock hardbound in 11.5x9 inch laminated pictorial boards. Text in Italian. Endsheets provide maps of the transatlantic voyage, and of several Caribbean islands. Inscribed and signed on the titlepage by author as "Luisa Bisso Bozzolli 1992". Nicely-done book in as-new...
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£18.09
News of the Islands and the Mainland Newly Discovered in India by the Captain of His Imperial Majesty's Fleet. Translated and with Notes by Edward F. Tuttle
by Calvo, Andrea. Edward F. Tuttle, translation and notes
Culver City: Labyrinthos, 1985. Pamphlet. 27p., facsimile text (largepoint) faces translations &c in smallpoint, oversize softbound, a stapled 11x8.5 inch pamphlet in plain printed milkchocolate wraps, faintest signs of age & handling (minuscule abrasion and sunning to spinefold), entirely clean, sound and unmarked within, a very good copy. An early, very early, account of The New World, already with large-scale battles.
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£9.87
The Crossing of the Antarctic
by Sir Vivian Fuchs & Sir Edmund Hillary
Cassell & Co. Ltd.; 1958. Fuchs, Sir Vivian, and Sir Edmund Hillary. The Crossing of Antarctica. The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58.
Light blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering to spine. Small marks to top spine. Illustrated dust wrapper which is unclipped and retains price 30/-NET. Dust cover slightly sunned to spine and has small (repaired) tears to top. Some minor signs of age spotting to page edges. 338pp., xvii. End papers depict maps. There are coloured and b/w... Read more about this item
Light blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering to spine. Small marks to top spine. Illustrated dust wrapper which is unclipped and retains price 30/-NET. Dust cover slightly sunned to spine and has small (repaired) tears to top. Some minor signs of age spotting to page edges. 338pp., xvii. End papers depict maps. There are coloured and b/w... Read more about this item
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£75.00
The Remarkable Expedition: The Story of Stanley's Rescue of Emin Pasha from Equatorial Africa
by Manning, Olivia
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1985. Very Good condition. Illustrated with a black & white map. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xii, 275 pages. . Reprint. Trade Paperback.
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£7.41
Antartica From South America
by Stonehouse, Bernard
Illustrated softcover. Signed by the author in dedication format on first loose page. Text is clean and binding tight. Col.photos, b/w illustrations and a map.182 pp.
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£23.00
![A Call of Contemporary Society for Research in Asia Minor and Syria made through J.R. Sitlington Sterrett [cover title] // A Plea for Research in Asia Minor and Syria Authorized By Men Whose High Achievements And Representative Character Make The Project A Call of Humanity at Large for Light in regard to The Life of Man In The Cradle of Western Civilization by J.R. Sitlington Sterrett [title page version]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/307/339/1388339307.0.b.jpg)
A Call of Contemporary Society for Research in Asia Minor and Syria made through J.R. Sitlington Sterrett [cover title] // A Plea for Research in Asia Minor and Syria Authorized By Men Whose High Achievements And Representative Character Make The Project A Call of Humanity at Large for Light in regard to The Life of Man In The Cradle of Western Civilization by J.R. Sitlington Sterrett [title page version]
by Sterrett, J.R. Sitlington, spokesman
Ithaca NY: Cornell University, 1911. 205p., softbound in 9x6 inch plain printed grey wraps paste-fastened over a tightly stapled textblock, a utilitarian job not meant to last. No illustrations or imagery. Front cover has torn away from the titlepage (there are no blanks, no halftitle, no frontispiece, no preliminaries of any kind. Damage attendant includes a huge chip from the spine panel, a ragged lefthand edge to cover-leaf and ugly rips to lefthand of titlepage. The remainder of the item is in good...
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£18.09
Sir Walter Raleigh
by Waldman, Milton
London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd, 1928. Hardcover. xi, 255p., letterpress on laid-lined paperstock throughout, illustrations and maps as called for. Hardbound in 9x5.5 inch dark blue cloth boards titled gilt and decorated in blind, doublespread endsheet maps (two different ones). Untrimmed fore- and bottom-edges, a mildly edgeworn volume with three faintly-turned corner-tips, crimped top and tail rims, completely unmarked within. A good to very good copy. Golden Hind series, Milton Waldman, series...
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£12.33
The Australian Frontier in New Guinea
by Gordon, Donald Craigie
New York: Columbia University Press, 1951. Paperback. 301p., plus a page long vita, folded line-map as frontispiece, softbound dissertation in 9x6 inch plain printed grey wraps. Sound and square with mild edgewear and sunning of extremities, clean and unmarked within, a very good copy of Gordon's book in its fragile first issue state. [dissertation], Columbia University no. 562.
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£16.44
Remarkable Californians
by Roddy, W. Lee
Ceres: Self-published by the author, 1970. 32p., 6x9.25 inches, epilogue, author bio, illustrated with drawings by Darlene Davi, very good booklet in original stapled pictorial wraps. Short biographies of "remarkable Californians" published on the 201st anniversary of California's founding.
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£16.44
![De Colon a Humboldt. Latinoamerica Fin de Milenio [vol.] 11](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/257/395/1027395257.0.b.1.jpg)
De Colon a Humboldt. Latinoamerica Fin de Milenio [vol.] 11
by Zea, Leopoldo [and] Mario Magallon, compiladores
Mexico D.F.: Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia / Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1999. Paperback. 133p., scholarly journal in glossy 8x5 inch wraps decorated in color; faintest signs of any age or handling, entirely sound, clean and free of any markings. A fine copy. Text in Spanish. Coleccion Latinoamerica Fin de Milenio. Bicentenario del otro descubrimiento de Alejandro de Humboldt.
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£16.44
The road to California, the search for a Southern overland route 1540 - 1848
by Hague, Harlan
Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1978. Hardcover. 325p., first edition, illus., maps, very good condition.
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£16.44
![The Publications of the Champlain Society, The Works of Samuel de Champlain [reprinted 1971] // [complete set of seven bindings in fine shape]. The Works of Samuel de Champlain in Six Volumes; Reprinted, translated and annotated by six Canadian scholars under the general editorship of H.P. Biggar. Volume I, 1599-1607, translated and edited by H.H. Langton and W.F. Ganong, the French texts collated by J. Home Cameron. With a portfolio of plates and maps. Toronto The Society 1922 [exemplary description; ditto for vols II, III, IV, V, VI, and mapcase]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/846/747/1461747846.0.b.jpg)
The Publications of the Champlain Society, The Works of Samuel de Champlain [reprinted 1971] // [complete set of seven bindings in fine shape]. The Works of Samuel de Champlain in Six Volumes; Reprinted, translated and annotated by six Canadian scholars under the general editorship of H.P. Biggar. Volume I, 1599-1607, translated and edited by H.H. Langton and W.F. Ganong, the French texts collated by J. Home Cameron. With a portfolio of plates and maps. Toronto The Society 1922 [exemplary description; ditto for vols II, III, IV, V, VI, and mapcase]
by Champlain, Samuel de
Toronto: University of Toronto Press [the reprinting institution], 1971. Hardcover. Set complete in as-new condition. A labor of love showing very careful insertion of folded maps in amongst the texts of first two books. Red-orange buckram gilt, top edges also gilded. The mapcase was a lot of work, being a slipcase within a slipcase, the inner one provided with an onlaid title/contents label. Contents include two very large folded period maps, one modern map, and drawings in facsimile. The set handles...
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£308.32
Vanished kingdoms: a woman explorer in Tibet, China & Mongolia 1921-1925
by Cabot, Mabel H.; preface by Dr. Rubie Watson
New York: Aperture, 2003. Hardcover. 192p., coated paperstock with b&w and colorized images from photography, first edition oblong spine-titled boards in pictorial dj, very good condition. Janet and Frederick Wulsin's archive from a National Geographic sponsored expedition, stored in the basement of the Peabody, here getting a fine first airing.
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£12.33
My Kalulu, prince, king, and slave; a story of Central Africa, with illustrations
by Stanley, Henry M
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. xiv, 432p., preface, illustrations, staining in the gutters of the first and last few pages, otherwise very good reprint edition in brown cloth and gilt. No dj.
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£9.87
L'Ambassade en Perse de Luis Pereira de Lacerda, et des Peres Portugais de l'Ordre de Saint-Augustin, Belchior dos Anjos et Guilherme de Santo Agostinho 1604-1605
by Gulbenkian, Roberto
Coimbra / Lisbonne: Comite National Portugais pour la Celebration du 2,500 Anniversaire de la Fondation de la Monarchie en Iran, 1972. Hardcover. 194p., folded map & errata slip bound in at terminus, hardbound in 11x7 inch faux-leather boards. Presswork throughout is on coated stock; find numerous old prints in photo-facsimile, an as-new copy: sound, clean, unmarked.
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£53.44
![La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo; The Journal of Fray Martin de Munilla O.F.M. and other documents relating to The Voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros to the South Sea (1605-1606) and the Franciscan Missionary Plan (1617-1627) - Translated and Edited by Celsus Kelly O.F.M. With ethnological introduction, appendix, and other contributions by G.S. Parsonson. Volume I, Volume II [the pair complete]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/022/429/1512429022.0.b.jpg)
La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo; The Journal of Fray Martin de Munilla O.F.M. and other documents relating to The Voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros to the South Sea (1605-1606) and the Franciscan Missionary Plan (1617-1627) - Translated and Edited by Celsus Kelly O.F.M. With ethnological introduction, appendix, and other contributions by G.S. Parsonson. Volume I, Volume II [the pair complete]
by Munilla, Fray Martin de, O.F.M., &c &c
Cambridge: Published by the Hakluyt Society at the Cambridge University Press, 1966. Hardcover. xvii, 270, xv, 273-446p., matched pair in Hakluyt's signature format: blue cloth boards gilt & blind and enclosed in their dust jackets. Top edges of both volumes are dusty and foxed, and the second was printed on paperstock not fully alkaline, giving v.2 a pervasive mild browning. Jackets are a bit edgeworn with toned spine panels; these mild signs of age are matched, along with the general design. A good to...
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£24.67
Pietro's Pilgrimage. A Journey to India and back at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century
by Blunt, Wilfred [Scawen]
London: James Barrie, 1953. Hardcover. xii, 320p., scattered period illustrations in b&w, the hardbound first edition in not quite collectable condition, but a good reading copy: spine panel is dimmed from handling with the black cloth of covers flecked and worn,, lacks the dust jacket, text pages are entirely clean and unmarked, and textblock and casing together are square and sound. A useful book just as it is. In Europe, Pietro spent two years in unsanitary Roman Catholic prisons where he could hear...
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£12.33
German Americana; Catalogue Two Hundred Forty-Five
by Reese, William & Co
New Haven: William Reese Company, 2004. Paperback. Unpaginated, about 120 pages with 161 items, many facsimiles shown (clearly reproduced), softbound in 9x6 inch decorated white wraps. An as-new exemplar, soundly bound, perfectly clean and unmarked in any way. Both front and back covers, and the half-page facsimile at item 133 ("America Tertia Pars", 1592), feature images of cannibalism, whether imputed or actually observed. That on back is an imaginative rendering of the execution of a ritual victim.
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£16.44
Blue Nile. Ethiopia's River of Magic and Mystery
by Morell, Virginia
Washington, DC: Adventure Press. 2001. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Colour photographs/plates by Nevada Weir. 325 pages. Virginia Morell's account of National Geographic's expedition to the Blue Nile in 1999 through Ethiopia and the Sudan. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£10.59
The genesis of British Egyptology 1549 - 1906
by Wortham, John David
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971. xvi+171p., rubricated title page, first edition boards in dj; preface, notes, bibliography, index, b&w plates, maps. Chronological account of the origins and early development of British Egyptology laced with scholarly sarcasm. Attractive copy neatly price-clipped.
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£12.33
I Come from the Stone Age; translated from the German by Edward Fitzgerald
by Harrer, Heinrich
New York: E.P.Dutton & Co., Inc, 1965. Hardcover. First American edition: 256p., illustrated with numerous photo sections, mostly b&w with several dynamite color shots, Hardbound in red cloth boards lettered orange and green and enclosed in the dust jacket. Book itself bears scattered spots of foxing to fore-edge, and the jacket is a little edgeworn with short tears at the head-rim, an otherwise perfectly sound copy, clean and unmarked. Contains several of the finest colorphoto portraits of indigenous...
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£16.44
Darwin and Huxley in Australia
by Marshall, A.J
Sydney: Hodder and Stoughton, 1970. Hardcover. 142p., illustrated with period sketches reproduced sepia on glazed inserted stock, hardbound first edition in black cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. Faint mist of foxing to top edge, the only flaw we see to book itself, while the dust jacket margins are slightly worn, and just a touch of handling soil to panels. Near-fine: sound, otherwise cleanly, and unmarked.
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£16.44
Viaggio a Pompei a Pesto e di ritorno ad Ercolano en a Pozzuoli
by ROMANELLI, Domenico
Napoli, Angelo Trani, 1817En 8vo. 2 Vol. V.I: 288pp, 2 folding fmaps of Pompei and Fondona Pianta.; V. II: 276pp + engraving and one folding map. Original publishers paperback in an elegant full calf box. Hand made paper, uncut. Vol I with old worm marks in several pages (minor text damage).The edition was updated with all of the new disvoveries, a very precise map of Pompey and of the voyage to Pozzuol.Romanelli, Domenico (1756-1819) Abbé. – was an Italian historian and archaeologist. Curator of...
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£361.77
Exceptional Pass
by Beth Woolley
Catalogue of exhibition and collection of images ,poetry and written stories by the contributors. ( 40) .
B/W & coloured collections of art work,craft and a map and old graphic comic story inside.
Based around expeditions in history with a list of the dates found in catalogue .
Photos are actual catalogue.
B/W & coloured collections of art work,craft and a map and old graphic comic story inside.
Based around expeditions in history with a list of the dates found in catalogue .
Photos are actual catalogue.
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£22.77
