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The African Adventure Four Hundred Years of Exploration in the Dangerous Continent
by Severin, Timothy
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Columbus Was Last from 200,000 B.C. To 1492, A Heretical History of Who Was First
by Huyghe, Patrick
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New York: Hyperion, 1992. Hardcover, green cloth in original non price-clipped dust-jacket. Stated first edition, first printing with number line intact on copyright page. 262pp., Bibliography, Index. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, tightly bound copy. Very fine in a very fine dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Conquest of Paradise Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy
by Sale, Patrick
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New York: Plume, 1991. Large trade paperback. 453pp., Source notes, Index. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, tightly bound copy. A comprehensive and polemical acoount of the discovery of the America's in the twilight of the 15th century. A near fine copy.. Second Printing Thus. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Crossing of Antarctica The Commonwealth Trans-Atlantic Expedition 1955-1958
by Fuchs, Sir Vivian [and] Hillary, Sir Edmund
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1958. First American edition. Blue cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with nimerous monochrome and color photographes. Cloth faded and dustjacket ta pe repaired on verso. A clean sound very good copy in good dustjacket.. First Edition. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Discovery of the Bismarck: Germany's Greatest Battleship Surrenders Her Secrets
by Ballard, Robert D.;Archbold, Rick
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New York: Warner Books Inc, 1990. Large quarto hardcover, dark blue cloth lettered in gold, in non price-clipped dust-jacket. Appendix, Index. With 400 illustrations, including then and now photographs, color paintings, full color maps, charts and diagrams, and two spectacular full-page foldouts showing the Bismarck in her glory and how she appears today. Introduction by Ludovic Kennedy. First edition. United States Naval Institute book-plate affixed to endpaper, with former owner's name inscribed. Else an as new copy in a fine dust-jacket. Near fine in fine dust-jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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The Exploration Of Africa
by Gueriviere, Jean De La
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Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press, 2003. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Large folio bound in black cloth and publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 216 pages. Bibliography. Illustrated with 215 color and 65 black and white photographs and illustrations. First American edition. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Dust-jacket clean and complete with no tears or chips. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. A very large and heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage. .
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The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific as Told By Selections of His Own Journals 1768-1779
by Price, A. Grenfell [ed.]
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New York: Heritage Press Large hardcover, faux leather spine over ptterned paper covered boards, lacking slipcase. 292pp., Illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. Map endpapers. A clean, solid, very good+ copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Farthest North: The Quest for the North Pole in Eye-witness Accounts
by Holland, Clive [editor]
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New York: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1994. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, blue cloth with spine lettered in gold, in non price-clipped publisher's dust-jacket. 305 pages. Sources. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .
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Farthest North: The Quest for the North Pole
by Holland, Clive [ed.]
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New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1994. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 305 pages. Bibliographic References, Maps. Illustrated with 8 pages of drawings and photographs on coated stock. First edition, first printing with intact number line. A history of North Polar exploration in eye-witness accounts. No previous ownership marks. No reminder mark. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists
by Cutright, Paul Russell
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Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. Large trade paperback. 506pp., Bibliography, Index. Illustrated. Neat former owner's name on fly. No writing, no highlighting, no spine crease. A clean, square, sound copy. Near very good.. Fourth Printing. Soft Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Matthew Flinders 1774-1814
by Mack, James D.
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Melbourne, Australia: Nelson, 1966 First edition. Cloth in dustjacket. Illustrated. The story of the short but eventful life of Matthew Flinder's, Captain in the royal navy and early exploer of Austrailia, 1801-18 03. White cloth quite clean, though dustjacket shows moderate age soiling. Very good in very good dustjacket.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Omnibus Book of Traveller's Tales Being a History of Exploration Told By Explores
by Waldman, Milton. [ed.]
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New York: Brentano's Hardcover, cloth sans dustjacket. No date, circa 1934 [private library stamp of previous owner on front free endpaper dated April, 1934]. A thick volume, 864pages , containing 4 double page maps and numerous entries by or about explorers from the Historian Herodotus to The expoits of Stanley and Scott. Some finger soiling and darkening to cloth, else a tight, internally clean good copy.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930 (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)
by Carter, Edward C., II [editor]
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Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1999. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, quarto size volume bound in green cloth lettered in gold on spine and with publisher's dust-jacket. 344 pages. Contains an Appendix, Notes on Contributors and an Index. Illustrated with several engravings and maps. First edition, published as volume 231 of the American Philosophical Society. No previous ownership marks. A pristine and as new copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket. .
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Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe Memorable Description of The East Indian Voyage 1618-25
by Bontekoe, Willem Ysbrantsz
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New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1929. Hardcover, red cloth, no dust-jacket. 168pp., Bibliographic References, Index. Illustrated with 10 plates. A title in the Argonaut Series, edited by Sir E. Denison Ross and Eileen Power. First American edition. Translated from the Dutch by Mrs. C.B. Bodde-Hodgkinson and Peter Geyl. Introduction and notes by Professor Geyl. A lournal of the adventures experienced by W.Y. Bontekoe of Hoorn on an East Indioan voyage begun on 18 December, 1618 and completed on 16 November, 1623. No previous ownership marks. A square, clean, internally unmarked copy. Several small marks to red cloth and gold spine lettering darkened and faded. Still a quite acceptable copy of a very difficult to find title in English. Near very good.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The World's Discoverers: The Story of Bold Voyages by Brave Navigators during a Thousand Years
by Johnson, William Henry
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Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1900. Hardcover, gray pictorial cloth with three color image of sailing galley on front cover. 416 pages, with 2 pages of publishers ads appended. Index. Illustrated with full page plates, maps and vignette drawings in text. First edition. Old Christmas gift inscription dated 1900 on fly. Cloth covers clean, with image and gold lettering still bright. Incidental stain to front lower fore-edge of front cover. Overall a very good or better copy of this attractive juvenile history. Very good. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good./Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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