Search Results: Exploration from Charles Agvent

Letter. Near Fine. Mostly undated though a few are dated from 1933 to 1950. Size ranges from about 4" x 5" to 6" x 11" with some printed on stiff, heavy stock. All of the cards feature personal covers from photographs to drawings with subject matter including fish and birds, Beebe's famous bathysphere, home views, etc., many with a humorous slant. Seventeen of the 24 cards are SIGNED as "Will" often with additional handwritten greetings. There are also 9 cards from Mrs. William Beebe, the author Elswyth Thane, SIGNED just by her and likely dating from after her husband's death in 1962. There are also 3 cards SIGNED by Jocelyn Crane, Beebe's research assistant. All of the cards were sent to Faith Dennis. William Beebe (1877-1962) was a naturalist, oceanographer, ornithologist, and an executive of the New York Zoological Society. With Otis Barton, he was the first to use the bathysphere, a deep-sea diving device, using it to set a dive record of 3,028 feet in 1934 that was not broken until 1949. Beebe… Read More

New York: The Macaulay Company , 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner presentation on half-title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with darkened spine. An attempt to see Columbus as a man rather than an "animated monument." Illustrated with ten plates.

New York: The Dial Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. With the collaboration of Olive Rathbun Wilcox. Illustrated with maps designed by Richard Edes Harrison. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Stefansson on the half-title page on 27 January 1947 "For Dr. D C Coleman/from his admirer and/old friend." Also SIGNED by Wilcox and Harrison by their printed names on the title page.

Sacramento: H. S. Crocker, 1885. Fifth Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Bound in stitched plain wraps of heavier, darker paper with the rear leaf blank and the front recto blank with the frontispiece of Donner Lake on the verso. Octavo, 261 pages. Illustrated with plates. Zamorano 53; Graff 2610; Howes M-102; New Howes M-103 "b": "Best account of the most harrowing of all overland disasters." Signature of Abbie Thatcher on the recto of the frontispiece.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Hardcover. Slight browning to gutters. About Fine in glassines and a Very Good slipcase with a sunned backstrip. Carl Bodmer. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in decorated parchment-toned buckram with a map design in sepia and leather spine labels hand-lettered and stamped in pure gold leaf. This is copy #333 of 1500 edited by Nicholas Biddle with a good historical introduction by John Bakeless. Illustrated with portraits and 16 fine color plates after paintings by Carl Bodmer and other contemporary artists as well as two large folding maps. Issued unsigned. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Hardcover. Fine in lightly worn glassines and a Near Fine slipcase with uneven sunning. Carl Bodmer. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in decorated parchment-toned buckram with a map design in sepia and leather spine labels hand-lettered and stamped in pure gold leaf. This is copy #887 of 1500 edited by Nicholas Biddle with a good historical introduction by John Bakeless. Illustrated with portraits and 16 fine color plates after paintings by Carl Bodmer and other contemporary artists as well as two large folding maps. Issued unsigned. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Hardcover. Fine in glassines and a lightly soiled, Near Fine slipcase with a sunned backstrip. Carl Bodmer. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in decorated parchment-toned buckram with a map design in sepia and leather spine labels hand-lettered and stamped in pure gold leaf. This is copy #457 of 1500 edited by Nicholas Biddle with a good historical introduction by John Bakeless. Illustrated with portraits and 16 fine color plates after paintings by Carl Bodmer and other contemporary artists as well as two large folding maps. Issued unsigned. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Hardcover. Mild sunning to the spines. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with some sunning. Carl Bodmer. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in decorated parchment-toned buckram with a map design in sepia and leather spine labels hand-lettered and stamped in pure gold leaf. Edited by Nicholas Biddle with a good historical introduction by John Bakeless. Illustrated with portraits and 16 fine color plates after paintings by Carl Bodmer and other contemporary artists as well as two large folding maps. Issued unsigned. Of a total edition of 1500 copies, this is one of only 15 Presentation Copies with the publisher's blindstamp attesting to such on the colophon page where instead of a number the initials "H.M." are handwritten. Acquired directly from the publisher's files, and most likely the publisher Helen Macy's very own copy.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Hardcover. Spines slightly darkened with minor edgewear. Very Good or better, lacking the slipcase. Carl Bodmer. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in decorated parchment-toned buckram with a map design in sepia and leather spine labels hand-lettered and stamped in pure gold leaf. Edited by Nicholas Biddle with a good historical introduction by John Bakeless. Illustrated with portraits and 16 fine color plates after paintings by Carl Bodmer and other contemporary artists as well as two large folding maps. Copy #841 of 1500 copies, issued unsigned.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Hardcover. Small chip to spine label of the first volume. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Carl Bodmer. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in decorated parchment-toned buckram with a map design in sepia and leather spine labels hand-lettered and stamped in pure gold leaf. This is copy #1175 of 1500 edited by Nicholas Biddle with a good historical introduction by John Bakeless. Illustrated with portraits and 16 fine color plates after paintings by Carl Bodmer and other contemporary artists as well as two large folding maps. Issued unsigned. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Hardcover. Spines slightly darkened. Near Fine in an intact, Good or better slipcase with rubbing and soiling. Carl Bodmer. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in decorated parchment-toned buckram with a map design in sepia and leather spine labels hand-lettered and stamped in pure gold leaf. Edited by Nicholas Biddle with a good historical introduction by John Bakeless. Illustrated with portraits and 16 fine color plates after paintings by Carl Bodmer and other contemporary artists as well as two large folding maps. Copy #323 of 1500 copies, issued unsigned.

Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1824. First Edition. Light, scattered foxing affecting a few plates; labels missing from spine. A Very Good set. Two octavo (5-1/4" x 8-3/4") volumes in contemporary calf with early rebacking; 16 (ads), xii, [2], [9]-439; vi, [5]-459 pages. Complete with half-title pages. Illustrated with a large folding map and 15 plates. The primary work on Stephen Long's second expedition, compiled by its geologist and historiographer. The excellent plates, engraved by Hill after the drawings of Samuel Seymour, illustrate scenes and Indians on the upper Mississippi. Includes vocabularies of several tribes. FIELD 949: "almost a cyclopedia of material, relating to the Indians of the explored territory. Nothing escaped the attention of the gentlemen who accompanied the expedition; and their statements regarding the customs, character, and numbers of the Sioux and Chippeway tribes, are among the most valuable we have of those people"; GRAFF 2280; HOWES K-20; SABIN 37137: "statements… Read More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. A few of the plates have a dampstain in the corner which on occasion enters the image. Very Good. Large quarto (8-3/4" x 11-3/4") in original gilt-decorated cloth, rebacked with the original spine and a new spine label; 131, 154, 30, 32 pages. Illustrated with 12 (of 14) views, 8 color plates, 8 folding panoramas, 3 paleontology plates, 2 large folding maps, 1 profile, and many wood engravings in this, the desirable Senate issue. Farquhar 21: "one of the most desirable books in the Colorado River field, for it is the first that deals specifically with the river itself"; Flake 4287; Goetzmann, pp.379-394; Larned 412; Howes I-92; New Howes I-94 "c"; Paher 952; Sabin 35308; Wagner-Camp 375; Wheat(947), (948); Wallace, The Great Reconnaissance, p.175: "This is the most reliable and entertaining narrative of all the official reports by topographical engineers on Western explorations." Ives, commissioned to determine the navigability… Read More

Rouen: Ch. Ferrand, 1725. First Collected Edition. Hardcover. Margins of the first leaves of Volume I reinforced, some browning and staining in the margins throughout with occasional margin reinforcement. Light wear to corners of bindings. Very Good. Five quarto (7-1/4" x 9-3/4") volumes bound in modern mottled calf leather, blind-ruled border on covers, gilt ornamented spines on 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered black morocco spine labels; [16] - 648 - [12], [2] - 565 - [1 bl.] - [12], [2] - 520 - [16], [2] - 522 - [12], [2] - 498 - [14] pages. First collected edition (original French edition of LEVANT was 1700, MOSCOVY was 1718) of the travels in the Levant, Moscow, Persia, and the East Indies by the Dutch artist and traveler C. De Bruyn (1652-1627). This edition is augmented by accounts not included in the earlier editions. Engraved illustrations including a frontispiece-portrait by J. B. Scotin, an allegorical frontispiece (page 10), 5 maps of which 4 are folding and 84 plates of which 12 are… Read More

London: Cadell & Davies, 1801. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacking the half title, as usual. Minor occasional foxing; some offsetting from portrait to title page and on maps which, except for one neat repair and two minor marginal closed tears are fine; slight bowing of boards. A very attractive, Near Fine example of this important text. Large quarto (8-1/4" x 11") bound in attractive modern full tan calf in antique style, with heavily gilt-decorated spine with contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers; [4] viii, cxxxii, 412 pages + errata leaf. FIELD 967: "No writer upon the subject of Indian customs and peculiarities has given us a more minute, careful and interesting relation"; GRAFF 2630; HILL, pp. 187-88: "This is the first and finest edition of one of the most important of Canadian books"; HOWES M-133; LANDE 1317; NEW HOWES M-133 "dd": "First crossing of the continent from ocean to ocean by a white man.... The account of the fur trade--first ever… Read More