Across Unknown South America (2 Volume set) by Savage-Landor, A. Henry - 1913

Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1913. No Edition Remarks. 432 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with decorations. Ex-Libris plate stuck to front pastedown. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose pages 431 to final page detached but still present. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

Boston:: Little, Brown and Company,, 1913.. publisher's blue gilt cloth.. Spines sunned; both volumes tight and sound; contents fine.. 8vo,. With eight full-page plates in color, numerous illustrations from photographs, and maps..

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. Very Good+. 1913. Hardcover. Boards darkened and with light rubbing to extremities. Gilt spine lettering faded. Former owner's notes on front free endpaper. Hinges weakening; A classical travel book from the well known British Explorer, who was also a painter - travel details across the whole continent - including 8 color plates and numerous illustrations from photographs and maps; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 377, 439 pages .

Little, Brown, and Company, 1913. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. 1913. First American edition.Two volumes. xxiii+377 and xvi+439. Hardcover, no jacket. Top edges gilt.  Illustrated with eight full-page plates in color, numerous illutrations from photographs, and maps. In VG condition. Gilt decorated blue hardcover boards are lightly rubbed with gilt titling to spines a bit darkened. Gilt decoration to covers still bright. Dust spotting to foredges. Otherwise internally clean and unfoxed, square and securely bound.  Foldout map at back of Vol 1 is in fine condition.  Adventures of Savage-Landor exploring the interior of Brazil in 1911-12.  He was an English explorer, writer, and anthropologist, know for a "witty" writing style, and also known for his explorations in Nepal and China..  (cfm)

Hodder & Stoughton, London. 1913. First edition. Two Volume Set. Small 4to's, 432pp; 504pp, 2 maps, 8 colour plates, 260 illus from photographs by the author. A very good set bound in navy blue cloth & decorated with gilt stamped emblems. Vol. 2's cloth is surface scuffed with stain on rear. Slightly rubbed joints & wear to spine ends. Corners lightly bumped. Previous owner's name stamp & previous booksellers' label & stamp on front endpapers along with a small ex-library subject stamp. Edges & colour map are foxed. .

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1913.. First Editions; large 8vo; pp. xxiv, 432: xvi, 504: 2 maps, 8 coloured plates, and 260 illustrations from the authors photographs,.appendix, index, original blue decorative cloth, previous owners name stamp on front endpaper otherwise an excellent set cloth is bright and bindings tight. The appendix lists the principal plants, birds, mammals, fish, reptiles and snakes of brazil, and provides vocabularies of the Bororo, Apiacar, Mundurucu, Campas or Antis.

London: Hodder and Stoughton Pub., . First Edition. Hardcover. Very good, Clean. Sm Quarto, Two Volumes, Blue Cloth With Four Shield And One Star in A Circle Decoration, Gilt Color Lettering. 1913 260 B & W Photo Plates by the author and in Color, PhotoGravure Tissue Guarded Frontispiece Of the Author Sm Quarto, Two Volumes, Blue Cloth With Four Shield And One Star in A Circle Decoration, Gilt Color Lettering, , PP.xxiv,432 Plus Two Maps, one of which is folding and xvi,504, Provenance: From the library of Dr. Thomas Lovejoy 1941-2021 an American Ecologist, Yale University Graduate and President of the Amazon Biodiversity Center in Brazil. He also held appointments at the United Nations, George Mason University, and the World Bank and received recognition worldwide for his work including posthumously from the National Geographic Society with its highest honor the Hubbard Medal. Credited with E. O. Wilson of coining the term  biological diversity in 1980, he spent his life working in science… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 8". Not Stated. A comprehensive documentation of Savage-Landor's time travelling across South America, with his own illustrations, collated and complete. First edition, in the publisher's original blue cloth binding with a decorative gilt motif to the front board.Complete in two volumes. Illustrated with two maps, eight coloured plates and 260 illustrations from photographs by the author. Collated, complete. Arnold Henry Savage-Landor was an explorer and anthropologist, often travelling throughout his life, starting by moving to Paris when he was fifteen to study. During his life he travelled to America, Japan, Korea, China, and Abyssinia. He was invited by Queen Victoria to share his tales and drawings from his trips, and subsequently started to publish travel books accompanied with his illustrations. These include 'In the Forbidden Land', 'Tibet and Nepal', and 'The Gems of the East'. 'Across the Unknown South America'… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [7], viii-xxiii, [1], 1-377, [3]; [5], vi-xvi, 1-439, [1] pp. Blue publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and gilt devices on each front board, gilt lettering and a gilt star on each spine; top edges gilt. Title pages printed in orange and black. Each volume with a frontispiece and a folding map, both volumes have a total of eight plates in color, and numerous illustrations from photographs. Oxford DNB, T. C. Farmbrough, revised, "Landor, (Arnold) Henry Savage (1867-1924)". The grandson of Walter Savage Landor, Henry Savage Landor was a painter and travel-writer. His most famous work is "In the Forbidden Land", in which he recounts his capture and torture after entering Tibet. He spent time with the Ainu people of Japan, and traveled to other countries in Asia like Korea and India. Landor climbed Mount Lumpa in Nepal and joined the Boxer uprising in 1900 for a brief time. Between 1903 and 1911 he… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1913. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good Only. 9.5" by 6.5". Various. The superb first U.S. edition of Savage-Landor's work exploring his travels in South America, complete with colour plates and folding maps. The first U.S. edition.In the original very scarce unclipped dust wrappers.Complete in two volumes.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding map, two colour plates, and sixty-eight monochrome plates.Volume II illustrated with a colour frontispiece, one folding map, three colour plates, and one-hundred and four monochrome plates.Collated, complete.Arnold Henry Savage-Landor was an explorer and anthropologist, often travelling throughout his life, starting by moving to Paris when he was fifteen to study. During his life he travelled to America, Japan, Korea, China, and Abyssinia. He was invitied by Queen Victoria to share his tales and drawings from his trips, and subsequently started to publish travel books accompanied with his illustrations.… Read More

Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum, 1937. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 209pp. Marbled boards, black spine, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, slipcase. Corners lightly rubbed, spine lettering mildly sunned, contents are clean and some pages still unopened. Slipcase is lightly edge-chipped. One of 481 copies printed on Hazelbourn paper by The Southworth-Anthoensen Press.

Walter Scott, London, 1889 revised edition, Very Good Hardcover / no dustjacket, 79 pages, 5" x 7.5", waterstain on front board, otherwise clean and tight, inscribed by author on ffep.

lvi+342 pages with frontispiece, 6 maps including two folding maps, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria embossed on front cover with cover and blind stamped ruled edges with original jacket. Edited by Michael Roe. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, second series, volume 131. First edition.In 1794, Charles Bishop sailed from Bristol as master of the Ruby, a trading ship bound for north-west America. He had instructions to procure otter furs fro the Indians and then to proceed to Canton via japan and sell the cargo. During the years 1794-1802, he rounded South America to reach the Pacific coast, then visited the Pacific islands and the coasts of Asia and Australia. In the Moluccas, he sold the Ruby and purchased the Nautilus; correspondingly, the test is divided into two sections. This narrative is Bishop's journal of his voyages and relates a minor epic of adventure,… Read More

By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.

Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, January 2013. Trade Paperback. Fine. Slight reading wear to corners, otherwise pristine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Not damaged. Suitable for gifting. 163 pages. The 25 authors of this book were volunteers in the first Peace Corps rural community development project in Africa: Sierra Leone, 1965-67. They are also the first group to tell a collective story of Peace Corps volunteers, anywhere. The Peace Corps was in its infancy then, and memories of John Kennedy were strong among the young volunteers. Sierra Leone was also in its infancy in the first few years after independence, before military coups and tribal warfare became common. The authors forthrightly recount their feelings of loneliness and isolation, and their frightening experiences with secret societies and witchcraft, but their uniquely optimistic "can-do" American attitude brought most through a great life experience.

547 pages. Black cloth boards; gilt lettering on spine. Spine detatched on one side. JWSC LLC is listing this property on behalf of a private collector's estate. Documentation on file indicates this book was purchased by the estate in the 1970s from (a UK dealer). Additional photos available.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1823. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [viii]ix-xii [1]2-544. FIRST EDITION. Bound in brown half-leather over marbled boards, title in gilt within a red title piece. The first edition of the author's first book. William Wilson (1772-1849) inherited a substantial sum from an uncle, and decided to indulge his passion for travel. He travelled throughout Europe and The Middle East and wrote a series of books. This was his first, and it was the most popular, going through several editions. This is a good copy as all plates, including the frontispiece, have been excised. The boards show moderate wear, heavier at the spine ends. The front hinge is cracked. The text block is mainly clean with a few marks of unknown origin.

Berenstain, Stan and Jan: The Berenstain Bears Go To Camp ( A First Time Book) Random House 1982 First Edition. Number line starts with 1. Ex-lib hardcover library-bound edition Brown cloth boards. Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice find for Berenstain Bears fans.

2 Volumes: xxxii+368 pages with frontispiece, five folding maps and ten plates; ix+[369]-640 pages with frontispiece, two folding maps, six plates, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship to front cover. Translated by Anthony Mango. Second Series, volumes 138 and 139. First edition.By the early sixteenth century the loosely knit kingdom of Georgia had disintegrated from the strong monarch of the middle ages to a number of small states and principalities. This internal disunity made the Georgians easy victims of the power politics of the neighboring Ottoman and Safavid empires, and by the end of the century the southward drive of the Russians intensified the struggle for military and diplomatic control over the whole of the Caucasian isthmus. As a result of this struggle seventeen embassies were exchanged between the Russian tsars and the Georgian kins ruling in Kakheti during the years 1564-1605. W E D Allen and Anthony… Read More

2 Volumes: Volume 1 subtitled: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton 1741-1742 xii+333 with 8 maps, 3 illustrations including frontispiece, bibliography and index; Volume 2 subtitled: The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith 1746 1747 xv+393 pages with frontispiece, 13 maps, 6 illustrations, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship to front cover. Translated by Anthony Mango. Second Series, volumes 177 and 181. First edition.The eighteenth century saw a resurgence of hope that a Northwest Passage - that elusive target of European seamen over the centuries - might yet be found. Prompted by the Irish MP Arthur Dobbs, the Admiralty sent the Furnace and Discovery to Hudson Bay in 1741 in search of navigable passage to the Pacific. The expedition was commanded by Christopher Middleton, until his resignation in March 1741 a sea-captain in the service of the Hudson Bay Company. With his actions closely scrutinized by his former… Read More