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Across Unknown South America (2 Volume set)
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Across Unknown South America (2 Volume set)

by Savage-Landor, A. Henry

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Boston: Little Brown and Co, 1913. First Edition. Octavo. In two volumes.377pp. and 439pp. frontispieces (1 in color, 1 in black and white), with 8 full page plates in color and numerous other illustrations from photographs, and maps of South America and The Arinos and Arinos-Juruena Rivers, with an appendix and vocabularies. Bound in blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, spine lettering gilt but faded on volume 1. light wear to corners with light fraying to spine ends. Internally clean and bright without foxing, names or plates. A very good set.
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The Aerial Age: a Thousand Miles By Airship Over the Atlantic Ocean, Airship Voyages Over the...
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The Aerial Age: a Thousand Miles By Airship Over the Atlantic Ocean, Airship Voyages Over the Polar Sea; the Past, the Present and the Future of Aerial Naviation

by Wellman, Walter

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New York: A.R. Keller & Company, 1911. First Edition. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, 448 pages. Illustrated with photographic images. The Arctic explorers such as Walter Wellman, Roald Amundsen, and Lincoln Ellsworth, captured the attention of the world at the beginning of the 20th century. His attempt to get above the North Pole was marked by horrendous weather. His next trip to cross the Atlantic in an airship failed. The remains of the failed airship are in the Smithsonian. A very bright copy bound in dark blue pictorial gilt cloth lettered and decorated in light blue, white, dark blue and gilt, student's gift inscription for perfect attendance. Near fine with just a few spots of rubbing.
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BATFISH; THE CHAMPION "SUBMARINE-KILLER" SUBMARINE OF WORLD WAR II

by Lowder, Hughston

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Prentice Hall Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1980. 1st a very good copy in a good dust jacket (small tears at top dj).
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Before the Mast, Naval Ratings of the Nineteenth Century

by Baynham, Henry

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Hutchinson of London, 1971. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 224pp. index. B&W photographs. A very good copy in a fine dust jacket. The emerging rules of life for seaman of the British Empire which became a period of transition from the past which was life of "rum, sodomy and the lash" to able seamen who learned teamwork and working with the improved technology as iron hulls began to replaced wooden walls and the firepower of the turret created a formidable navy which now could explore the Pacific, enforce the laws against the slave trade and open up the world to British trade.
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By Guess and By God, the Story of the British Submarines in the War
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By Guess and By God, the Story of the British Submarines in the War

by Carr, William Guy

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London. Nd.[1930]: Hutchinson & Co., Ltd. Octavo. 9th impression 288 pp. illustrated in black and white. with a preface by Admiral Hall who commanded the British submarine service for the greater period of the war. The story of the submarine and those who manned them. Bound in red cloth, spine lettering gilt, small sticker removal fro rear pastedown. A very good copy.
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Commercial Geography in Luminous Projections
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Commercial Geography in Luminous Projections

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Paris; Nd(ca.1910): Institute Pestalozzi. Oblong Octavo. 33 high gloss pages with 200 photographs depicting all aspects of commercial activity throughout the world. All captions in English and with tissue guards. The technique was to reproduce images from glass slides. It begins with Human Carriers with 13 images of the ways people throughout the world carry items whether on their head, their back, with various water devices, etc. It follows with animal carriers, then, the variety of water transportation types of small boats, steamers, Harbors. Railroad transportation. Section 22 shows the possibilities of aerial transportation showing two early images of the Wright Brothers (noting only near Dayton, Ohio), an early dirigible, and a traditional balloon. It shows the variety of bridges, then shows how markets operate in city squares. Finally there are views ranging from gold miners in Colorado, donkey, camel and buffalo markets in Gizeh, Egypt, and the Great Iron and Steel Works in Austria. With… Read More
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A Compliamentary Epistle of James Bruce, Esq., the Abyssinian Traveller Bound with The Rights of...
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A Compliamentary Epistle of James Bruce, Esq., the Abyssinian Traveller Bound with The Rights of Kings; Odes to Mr. Paine and The Remonstrance

by Peter Pindar (Wolcott, John)

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London, 1790, 1791, 1791 and 1791: Printed for G. Kearsley and for J. Evans. Quarto. Four books bound as one. A Complimentary Epistle: ii, 39, [1] pp. publisher's ads, 3rd edition. The Rights of Kings, [1] pp. to the reader, verso is the errata, 90pp. A new edition. "Odes to Mr. Paine:" 10pp. and "The Remonstrance", 63pp. (1)pp. publisher's ads and divisional half-title, 1st editions. "A Complimentary Epistle of James Bruce". There is no doubt that James Bruce (1730-1794) was a remarkable explorer though his writings on Abyssinia had come into question by Dr. Samuel Johnson as well as John Wolcott (using his familiar pseudonym, Peter Pindar). The illustrious dedicatory page quotes both Dr. Johnson and James Boswell, who Peter Pindar only quotes about his drinking bout while he insists that James Bruce is a history of "thundering diarrhea". Using verse, Wolcott continues his assault on Mr. Paine with "Pindar's Odes to Mr. Paine" Wolcot(Pindar) presents the Revolutionary hero as a manipulator of speech… Read More
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Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon; with Travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the...
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Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon; with Travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the Desert: Being the Result of a Second Expedition Undertaken for the Trustees of the British Museum

by Layard, Austen H.

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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 found other important palaces and artifacts before locating Nineveh. Bound in full red polished calf ruled in gilt, raised bands with compartments fully decorated in gilt, red morocco spine label gilt marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, some wear to head, some spots of discoloration. Internally text is clean and without foxing, previous owner's name plate with name scratched out. A very good copy of this important work.
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Down the Colorado; Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon 1869
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Down the Colorado; Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon 1869

by Powell, John Wesley and Eliot Porter

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New York: E.P. Dutton and Co, 1969. First Edition. Folio. 168pp. including index, Foreword and notes by Don Fowler, photographs, and epilogue by Eliot Porter. This is Powell's dramatic journal of 1869, edited and introduced by Don Fowler. Portions of this work were presented by Scribner's Magazine over 150 years ago. Eliot Porter contributed a 48 page gallery of four-color photographs. Powell, with 10 men and four boats traveled down the raging Colorado River, through the Grand Canyon. After 13 weeks, Powell emerged from the Canyon with only two boats left and 6 survivors. The photographs are quite striking. A handsome copy bound in tan cloth, spine lettering gilt. A fine copy in nearly fine pictorial dust jacket.
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Egypt, the Nile, Sudan, Palestine, and Syria (season, 1930-31)u
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Egypt, the Nile, Sudan, Palestine, and Syria (season, 1930-31)u

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New York: Thos. Cook & Son, 1931. Octavo. 117pp. (4)pp. ads. It was Cook who brought to Victorian England the idea that travel to exotic places in the Near East (particularly those that ended up in Palestine) would be akin to a religious experience. They would understand exactly when they were travel by train in sleeping cars, boats with fine accommodations, by car or what gratuities might be made (not included in the rates they quoted). Agatha Christie would stay in their special suites. Bound in color pictorial wraps, endpapers are maps. some staining or rubbing to wrappers, spine rubbed with chip to foot.
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Everest 1933
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Everest 1933

by Ruttledge, Hugh

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London; (1947): Hodder & Stoughton. Small Octavo. 5th (black jacket edition). 254 pages, index. Hugh Ruttledge led an expedition once the Tibetan government finally granted permission. Besides the two page map, there are 10 photographs showing Camps I-IV and when they reached 22,800 feet. Though there had been several attempts in the 1920's, the 1933 was the first major attempt which showed how future attempts would have to be planned differently. By 1950, Nepal began to allow expeditions. A fascinating look at what was happening 20 years before Sir Edmund Percival Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to ascend to Everest's summit. Bound in gray cloth decorated in blind, spine lettering black, in unclipped pictorial dust jacket, which has off-set to the front cover, rubbed and with some wear to spine ends and corners.
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Exploratory Travels Through Territories of North America Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on...
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Exploratory Travels Through Territories of North America Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of That River and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North Eastern Provinces of New Spain

by Pike, Zebulon Montgomery

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1889: W.H. Lawrence & Co. First Edition. Small Quarto. Later reprint. portrait frontispiece, 394pp., with four maps, two single paged maps and two double paged maps. First published in 1810 and because of a few errors and inaccuracies of expression, the publisher's felt the British edition deemed the best choice for a reprint. Pike gives a day-by-day account of his travels. His travel through Colorado in the dead of winter was especially interesting. Bound in blue cloth lettered in gilt, rebacked in maroon cloth lettered in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, endpapers renewed, with nice repair to outer margin of frontispiece. A very nice copy without names or bookplates.
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From Cairo to Siwa, Across the Libyan Desert
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From Cairo to Siwa, Across the Libyan Desert

by Dun, Major T.I.

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Cairo, Egypt: Messrs. E.and R. Schindler, 1933. Limited Edition. Quarto. second edition limited to 750 copies of this standard edition. Several artist and students of the school of fine art in Cairo contributed art, photographic images and a map for this work. Also included is a the history and customs of Siwa Oasis. Bound in 1/4 brown cloth over pictorial paper covered boards lettered and decorated in red, black and grea paper spine label chipped, spine ends worn, rear hinge cracked. A good copy.
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Further India. Being the Story of Exploration from the Earliest Times in Burma, Malaya, Siam, and Indo-China

by Clifford, Hugh

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London: Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd, 1904. First Edition. Cloth. J. G. Bartholomew (maps). Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). xi, 378, (2)pp. Scholarly treatise on the Orient, with numerous maps, facsimiles of older maps, drawings and photographs. Bound in green cloth, illustrated with globe & compass. Gilt title faded on spine; paper fore-edge dotted with small spots. Mylar wrap. Very Good copy.
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The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili

The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili

by Molina, Don J. Ignatius

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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1809. Octavo. 2 vol. set. Vol. I. 321 pages, with folding map. (p. 321, closed tear). Vol. 2. 385p. Molina's work was based on his extensive knowledge of the history of South America; consequently, he drew on the best contemporary sources some of which are now lost. Richard Alsop (1761-1815) translated the volumes in 1808 and the 1809 edition has notes by Robert Southey. These added notes (see viii are distinguished by adding the letters E.E.). This includes material from Falkner's Description of Patagonia, discussions of the languages of the Auracanos, two appendices. Handsomely bound in a recent 1/4 brown morocco over brown paper covered boards, raised bands with lettering gilt, endpapers renewed. Some toning to the text with occasional spots of foxing. [Sabin 48894].
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Great Surveys of the American West

by Bartlet, Richard A.

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Norman; (1962): University of Oklahoma Press. Firt Edition. Octavo. The author recreates for the reader the hardships, both physical and financial, the discoveries and the high adventures of the bold, headstrong, and often brilliant men of the Great Surveys such as George M. Wheeler, Clarence King and others as they climbed the Rockies, explored the Yellowstone or battled the Colorado. 408pp., bound ion 1/4 black cloth over gray cloth, spine lettering gilt, in an unclipped pictorial dust jacket with a list of books in this series, only minor spots of rubbing and were to spine ends. A very nice copy.
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Harvest of Journeys
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Harvest of Journeys

by Innes, Hammond

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London: Collins, 1956. First Edition. Octavo. 319p. "V.S. Pritchett: his work stands in a class by itself" As P.D. Addy wrote in the British Medical Journal: "Simenon and Innes may be escapist literature but I take delight in them." In his worldwide experiences, he here writes of his journeys outside his usual novel form. Bound in red cloth, spine lettering gilt, a very good copy in good dust jacket with some chipping and closed tears to rear panel.
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The Holy Land; Syria, Idumea and Arabia [together with] Egypt and Nubia
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The Holy Land; Syria, Idumea and Arabia [together with] Egypt and Nubia

by Roberts, David

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The Folio Society, 2010. Limited Edition. Large Folio. A beautiful work. 6 volumes in two. Limited to 1000 copies for members only. The present set is #30. Another 20 lettered copies were published but not for sale. This set was reproduced using the first edition held in The John Rylands Library. It also reproduced every word and image from the original. A beautiful production represented very close to the original work. Artist, David Roberts drew the original plates on the spot during his expeditions through these lands. These images were finely reproduced matching the original coloring. A fine set bound in red pictorial cloth accented in black and gilt, gilt pictorial spines, housed withing publisher's fine slipcase lettered and decorated in gilt. A beautiful worthwhile set.
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In Darkest Africa or the Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria
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In Darkest Africa or the Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria

by Stanley, Henry M.

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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 and a profile sketch of Ruwenzori and the Valley of the Semlike. Both volumes illustrated throughout. This is Stanley's account as leader of the controversial Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. The mission was plagued by violence, disease, high casualties and scandals involving Europeans members of the expedition. First large folding map with closed tear near gutter, bound in reddish-brown pictorial gilt cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and black, pictorial spine gilt and black, endpapers are maps, rear board of volume two starting, and with two small stains to rear board very minor wear to corners and spine ends. A very handsome set virtually without… Read More
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In Quest of the Western Ocean
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In Quest of the Western Ocean

by Crouse, Nellis M.

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New York; (1928): William Morrow & Co. First Edition. Octavo. 480pp. illustrated with maps (folding). History of various countries and their early attempts at reaching the Northwest passage. Bound in blue cltoh stmaped in blind, spine lettring gilt but mostly worn off, binding rubbed, previous owner's bookplate.
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