Travel And Exploration from Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB

Norwalks, Conn. (1993 and 1998): Easton Press. Octavo. The three volumes were issued by Easton Press as Stephen Ambrose's Undaunted Courage created a vast interest in the Lewis and Clark expediiton. Stephen Ambrose who died at age 66 in 2002 here has signed Undaunted Courage. This set of three volumes constitutes the beginning place for all… Read more

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1905. Octavo. . Frontispiece, 718pp., illustrated with tissue guards present. This edition was designed for the British readers which takes us over a part of Southern Syria and over Palestine, but in a direction opposite to that pursued by most travelers. Most often, travelers enter from the South. The author takes us on his… Read more

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1881. Octavo. Frontispiece, 718pp., illustrated with tissue guards present. This edition was designed for the British readers which takes us over a part of Southern Syria and over Palestine, but in a direction opposite to that pursued by most travelers. Most often, travelers enter from the South. The author takes us on his tour… Read more

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First Edition. Octavo. 2nd printing. Frontispiece, 365pp. including index, folding map at rear. Lewis and Clark were the first to explore the valleys of the upper Missouri, Yellowstone, and the Columbia and its tributaries. These were uncharted territories for the white men. The first authoritative narrative of the expedition was not published until… Read more

Tucson: Arizona Pioneers Society, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. 468 pages, index, maps in pocket of book, foreword By John Francis Bannon, S.J. Signed by Paul Roca on the half-title page. Considered to be the most accurate and most interesting book ever written about old churches of Sonora. Included is a separate entry for the site of every… Read more

Bucyrus, Ohio: Forum Steam Printing House, 1882. First Edition. Octavo. Signed by the author. From the library of Barry Goldwater with his bookplate. 454 pages, [16]pp. advertising for travelers and illustrated with, 14 plates. . Like Mark Twain and U.S. Grant, Converse and his wife decided to travel around the world in the early 1880's. … Read more

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818. Quarto. Hand-colored frontispiece, 295pp., 10 other hand color plates. With the errata sheet on the verso of the directions to the binder which shows where the following items (all present) are to be placed: The Greek Reis to face the title page, Dresden, Koenigstein on the Elbe, Meissen… Read more

London: Martin Hopkinson, 1928. Limited Edition. Large Octavo. Limited to only 1500 copies. 402 pages, index. with folding map after the index. When Anson's book appeared in the 18th century, it became a bestseller. The disasters Anson faced were disclosed and led to major reforms in the British Navy. The voyage lasted three years and nine… Read more

London, Nd(ca.1860): The Religious Tract Society. 12mo. Two volumes in one. The Jordan and The Dead Sea, 192pp. second title, Idumaea with a survey of Arabia and The Arabians, 192pp. Each title with separate title page, illustrated with maps, Idumaea has a frontispiece map. Handsomely bound by H. Gale of Barnsbury in 3/4 green polished calf over marbled paper… Read more

London: Longman, Green and Co, 1839. First Edition. Small Octavo. One of the most fascinating early visits by a noted British traveler to the U.S., who after a noted career in the British navy retired and visited America to "examine ..what were the effects of a democratic form of government'. He traveled widely from Washington to Louisville and St.… Read more

London: Sampson Low, Marston,, Searle and Rivington, 1890. First Edition. Octavo. In two volumes. 529pp. and 472pp.(2)pp. ads. Large folding route map of Emin relief expedition in volume I. Volume II: contains a large folding map of the routes of the Emin Pasha relief expedition from the River Congo to the Victoria Nyanza, a map of Emin Pasha's Province… Read more

Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1927. 15 pages, 38 unnumbered leaves of plates. Very rare. OCLC shows the only recorded copy at the National Library of New Zealand. O.M. Green was the editor of the North China News, here he provides images with careful descriptions of the Shanghai in the late 1920's as well as important introduction. How the city rebounded… Read more

London: William Heinemann, 1911. First Edition in English. Quarto. In two volumes; 383(1)pp. and 415(1)pp., upper edge cut, all others uncut. Translated by Arthur G. Chater, illustrated. Each volume with tipped in color frontispieces with creasing to lower corners of both frontispieces. The author found that much that had previously been written about the Northern world was not… Read more

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861. Quarto. . 2 large folding maps and profile plan, 31 plates (including 7 in color of Indians) and several folding line drawings and textual woodcuts. While one of the most important and best illustrated army surveys of the American West, the report according to Goetzmann is the best of the individual army reports where… Read more

Chicago; (1918): Stanton and Van Vliet. Octavo. 310 pages. 100 illustrations. As this Chicago publisher succeeded the publishing house of Charles C. Thompson in 1917, they begin to publish books on Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson. They found there was a fascination about Henry M. Stanley's search and finding David Livingston. They separated as partners in… Read more

Minneapolis: Press of Hahn and Harmon Company, 1914. First Edition. Large Octavo. 184 pages, illustrated with tissue guards present, printed on beautiful handmade paper from Italy (with the watermarks visible). After receiving his degree from Genesee University (later Syracuse University), he became an expert on woods and was devoted to education but 1870 he began to become one… Read more

London: S. Clark, 1844. First Edition. Ioctavo. 2 preliminary leaves, [iii]-iv, [5]-100, 99, [1] pp. errata. Bound in ¼ brown-black morocco over brown cloth, spine gilt and with gilt library shelf numbers, corners only lightly bumped, finger soiling to boards, lacks the frontispiece map(although another copy was issued without map). A deaccessioned library copy,… Read more

Hartford, Connecticut: Columbian Book Company, 1872. First Edition. Octavo. 327 pages, (1)pp. ad. "a vivid narrative of a pedestrian pilgrimage of 3500 miles from Carolina to California". Cowan, II, p. 498 "The author, later famous as a distinguished ethnologist, journeyed from Raleigh to San Francisco, a distance of 3,556 miles. ... his descriptions are entertaining and frequently… Read more

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1855. First Edition. Octavo. xx, [17]-596 pages. Subtitle continues: .....original report on the copper mines of Lake Superior and observations of the geology of the Lake basins and the summit of the Mississippi together with all the official reports and scientific papers of both expeditions. Schoolcraft was not only an explorer but an… Read more

London: John Murray, 1853. First Edition. Octavo. Half-title, folding frontispiece and 12 other plans and tinted plates, 2 large folding maps at rear, with hundreds of textual wood block illustrations. The author became increasingly interested in locating and unearthing the great cities of biblical renown. He quite his law firm and traveled to where he believed Nineveh was but… Read more