Search Results: Travel & Exploration from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

London: Lodestar Books, 2014. First edition. paperback with french flaps. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 239 p. w/ color and b&w illus., kit list and stowage lan, further reading. The adventure memoir of two Royal Marines who followed the Northwest passage across the top of Canada, battling old, ice, and storms in an open boat. Uncommon.

London: G. T. Foulis & Co., ca. 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more so to dust jacket, with a 1 inch tear near spine. 124 p. w/ illustrations. The travel narrative of three Englishmen in a standard A40 Austin, driving from Entebbe Uganda near the equator to Cairo, then from Marseilles to Jokkmokk, Sweden in the Arctic Circle.

Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society, 1972. 1st edition by this publisher. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good. No dust jacket issued. Quarto ( oversized ). Slight wear to edges and coerns of boards. Name of former owner stamped opposite title page, with some ink bleed across to title page. 374 p. w/ illustrations, maps, illustrated endpapers, notes, select bibliography, index. An attractive, complete, and unabridged English translation of this important work of Russian exploration. The expedition successfully made a good many observations and comments on the native peoples, flora and fauna, , geography and geology, and even linguistics.

New York, NY: AMS Press, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover in blue cloth binding. Very Good without dust jacket. Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards. Slight bumping to heel of spine. 106 pages with footnotes and index. A memoir of Digby's adventures as an English privateer in the Mediterranean.

Crows Nest, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thick octavo ( standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. 538 p. w/ illustrations, endnoites, bibliography, index. The life of the naval officer and circumnavigator of Australia Matthew Flinders, who died at the age of 41. He made three exploration voyages to the southern Pacific area and was a good cartographer. He was imprisoned by the French at Mauritius from 1803 - 1809, and his health never recovered. He died before his seminal work A VOYAGE TO TERRA AUSTRALIS was published.

Boston: Lee & Shepard, Publishers, 1891. 2nd printing. Hardcover with illustrated spine & front board. Good. Octavo (standard size). Some wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. Corners bumped. Some soiling and spotting to covers. 386 p. w/ illus. An engaging memoir, with some embellishments, of a trading voyage in the bark MARYLAND from Boston (it seems) around the Cape of Good Hope to the Wusong (Woosung) District of Shanghao China in the 1850s, just before the Civil War.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1929. First thus. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Printed in red and black. vii, 168 p. w/ b&w illus. from the original edition, endnotes, index. An attractive modern reprinting of this Dutch voyage to the East Indies, the only one made by this captain. The work details shipwreck, attacks by natives, and various adventures in service. The original manuscript was edited into a better work by the orginal printer, Jan Deutel of Hoorn.

Webster Groves, MO: Privately Printed, 1962. First edition. Plastic Comb Bound. Very Good. Thin quarto. Some wear to edges and corners of covers. 47 p. w/ additional unnumbered pages that include a 4 page glossary ( primarily geographical), a hand drawn geneology chart, and a well done by amateur large fold out map of southern Euope and the Near East highlighting Fischer's travels, with color added by hand to his outgoing and return routes. An uncommon bit of 19th century travel history, localy produced by the family of the traveler. Fischer, a cabinet maker, traveled to Alexandria via Istanbul, then to Jaffa and on to Jerusalem and elsewhere.