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Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Full orange paper boards. Some discolouration to front board, light bruise to spine foot. Dust jacket is chipped to spine ends and foot of front cover, light edge wear and a few short tears. An explorer probing the frontiers of Earth since 1924 and the author of 19 books and monographs, including the international best-seller The Story of Man, the late Carleton S. Coon was unquestionably the dean of American anthropologists. His autobiography is a fascinating story of adventure and exploration, of discovery and controversy.
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Adventures and Discoveries: The Autobiography of Carleton S. Coon, Anthropologist and Explorer
by Coon, Carleton S.
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Archibald the Arctic
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New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc, 1956. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Quarter black paper, blue paper boards. Top edge purple. Map endpapers. x, 399 pp. [16] pp. B&W photos preceding title. Slight bowing to boards. Foxing to head of spine and boards. Light foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, light wear to extremities. The adventurous life story of the famous Scotsma who dared the desolate wastes of Baffin Land and beyond, where no white man had ever been, to bring Christianity to the Eskimo.
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An Arctic Boat Journey, In the Autumn of 1854
by Hayes, Isaac I.
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Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 16mo. New navy cloth, new spine label, orig. cloth with gilt vignette laid down to front board. New endpapers. xvii, 375 pp., 2 pp. adverts. Two folding maps at front. Orig. cloth is faded, soiled, and worn. Interior age toned. Else near fine. Isaac I. Hayes was the surgeon of the Second Grinnell Expedition (1853-1855), an endeavour to determine the fate of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition.
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Barrow's Boys
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New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Black paper boards. xiv, 489 pp. [16] pp. B&W photos. Sticker ghost to head of front cover of dust jacket, else fine. A stirring story of daring, fortitude, and outright lunacy.
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A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole
by Synge. M.B. [Margaret Bertha]
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Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, Ltd. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. N.d., [1850]. Bound by Birdsall in half contemporary goatskin, brown cloth boards, gilt triple filet, gilt back, raised bands. xxvii, 554 pp., [13] colour plates, [16] B&W plates, numerous B&W illustrations in text. Some minor rubbing to edges and cracking to joints, else fine. A short copy. Bookplate of Charles Cobb Walker, embossed ex libris stamps. A lovely volume.
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The Canoe: A History of the Craft from the Panama to the Arctic
by Roberts, Kenneth G. And Philip Shackleton
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Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1983. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to (large). Orig. brown leather, gilt illustration on upper front board, viii, 280pp. Illustrated. Wear on bottom edges o/w near fine in d/w, a small tear to top edge of rear jacket. A illustrated history of early rafts and floats down to the modern day canoe.
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A Chinese Pioneer Family: The Lins of Wu-Feng, Taiwan 1729-1895
by Menzel Meskill, Joanna
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New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [xv] 375 p.p. [1]. B&W illustrations, reproductions and photos throughout. Binding of green cloth gilt lettered with small gilt design on front. Small stain to front of jacket. Light foxing to text block edges but interior clean. A Social History of Late Imperial China and a frontier family's rise to local eminence, from its pioneer days in 18th century Taiwan through its attainment of gentry status a century later. A most unusual book.
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Confronting Columbus: An Anthology
by Yewell, John, Chris Dodge, Jan DeSirey (editors)
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Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. green cloth. xiv, 217 pp. Fine.
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The Creature in the Map: A Journey to El Dorado
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New York: William Morrow, 1995. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Orig. green paper boards. xii, 398 pp. Dust jacket sunned to spine, sticker ghost to front, else fine.
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The Dangerous Voyage of Captain Thomas James, In his Intended Discovery of a North West Passage into the South Sea, Wherein The Miseries indured, both Going, Wintering and Returning, and the Rarities observ'd Philosophical, Mathematical and Natural are related in this Journal of it, publish'd by the Special Command of King Charles I. To which is added A Map for Sailing in those Seas : Also divers Tables of the Author's of the Variation of the Compass, &c. With an Appendix concerning the Longitude, by Master Gellibrand, Astronomy Reader at Gresham College
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Toronto: Coles Canadiana Collection, 1973. Soft cover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Facsimile of the second edition, revised and corrected. Originally published 1740. Soft cover. 142 pp. Rubbing to extremities, sunning to spine, damp staining to tail edge. Bookplate to inside front cover.
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The Edges of the Earth and Ancient Thought. Geography, Exploration and Fiction
by Romm, James S.
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Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xvi, 228 p.p. Light rubbing to spine, otherwise in fine condition. Explores ideas of geography in ancient times and its role in poetry and literature.
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Enterprise Industry and Art of Man, as Displayed in Fishing, Hunting, Commerce, Navigation, Mining, Agriculture and Manufactures
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Boston: Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1856. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo. Red publisher's cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, blind stamped panels and decoration to boards. vi, 7-335 pp. Staining to head of front board, rubbing and bumping to extremities. Some staining and foxing to interior. Ink ownership inscription to ffep and ornate bookplate to flyleaf.
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Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage that Redrew the Map of the New World
by Hunter, Douglas
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New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Full grey paper boards. 329 pp. B&W photos and maps in text. Bowing to rear board. Remainder mark to tail edge. Tiny short tear to top edge of dust jacket at top edge. Fine overall.
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Half-Hours with the Early Explorers
by Frost, Thomas
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London: Cassell, Petter, & Galphin, 1873. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. 238 (15) p.p. Morocco. No jacket. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations included. Rubbing to extremities, worse to top corners. Staining to bottom of front and rear endpapers. Bookplate to front endpaper by Toronto Unitarian Church, presented to Chester B. Hamilton in 1875. Frost was an English writer, journalist, and a printer. He was a Chartist who aimed to get political rights and influence for the working class.
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Historical Atlas of the North Pacific Ocean: Maps of Discovery and Scientific Exploration 1500-2000
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Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio. Published under the auspices of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization. 224pp. About fine.
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A History of Arctic Exploration: Discovery, Adventure and Endurance at the Top of The World
by Lainema, Matti and Juha Nurminen
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London: Conway, 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 4to. Full brown cloth. 349 pp. Copiously illustrated in colour. Rubbing to extremities, and some light bumping to edges of dust jacket, else fine. First published in 2001 by the John Nurminen Foundation as Ultima Thule. Drawing on many previously unseen charts, artworks, and maps from major European museums, the extensive holdings of the Nurminen Foundation as well as private collections and archives, A History of Arctic Exploration reveals how this remote region was gradually explored and charted by men of surpreme skill, courage, and initiative, overcoming extreme conditions in almost incredible feats of endurance. Today, the future of Arctic is of global concern. In recent years, climate change and sovereignty disputes over territory have highlighted this worrying reality, drawing much attention the region. It has always been an inspiring and fascinating place, as well as a source of much human drama due to its harsh landscape and…
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History of Cavelier de la Salle, 1643-1687: Explorations in the Valleys of the Ohio, Illinois and Mississippi, Taken from his letters, reports to King Louis XIV, also the reports of several of his associates, official acts and contemporaneous documents
by Chesnel, Paul
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. green cloth. Map endpapers. vii, 232 pp. B&W frontis. portrait, [1] B&W folding map. Spine sunned, black staining to upper front joint, chafing to extremities. Spine slightly tilted.
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In Search of Magnetic North. A Soldier-Surveyor's Letters from the North-West 1843-1844. Edited By George F.G. Stanley
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Toronto: The MacMillan Company, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. [Pioneer Books Series] Original dust jacket. xxviii, 171 p.p., [2] leaves of drawings plus frontispiece of J.H. Lefroy, R.A. Pictorial endpapers, showing Lefroy's passage from Montreal to Fort Good Hope. Small tears to dust jacket to head of rear cover and spine. Inside jacket clipped. Rubbing to spine and edges of boards. Pioneer Books logo in gilt on front cover. Title on spine. Very good condition.
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La Salle: The Life and Times of an Explorer
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New York: Weybright and Talley, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Green cloth spine over creme boards, 282pp. Fine. Biography of 22 year old French explorer Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle who, in 1668 arrived in New France to explore the wilderness of what is now the American Midwest and to make his fortune. Unfortunately, his ambition would later lead to his murder.
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The Life and Travels of Mungo Park: With Supplementary Details of the Results of Recent Discovery in Africa
by Park, Mungo
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Edinburgh: W.P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo (small). [1886?] Contemporary dyed red calf, green leather spine label, decorative compartments in gilt with dentelles to boards and inner edges, marbled endpapers and matching edges. 256 pp., frontispiece of Mungo Park at the Drinking Trough. Stamp of Relfe Brothers London on verso of f.f.e.p., owner inscribed on verso of f.f.e.p., light foxing to blank leaves, small tear to upper margin of pp. 256 [not affecting text], some scratches and small smudging to boards, rubbing to joints and outer edges, tips worn, else near fine. Mungo Park [1771-1806] was a Scottish Explorer who led two expeditions along the Niger River in 1795 and 1806. In addition to Park's early writings, the book contains a narrative of his second travels and death, as well as a supplement of Discoveries in Africa subsequent to Park, and down to Dr. Livingstone and H.M. Stanley.
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