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London: Hakluyt Soc., 2008. First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Edited by C. Ian Jackson, appendix by George Huxtable. 1st thus, navy cloth, near fine in near fine dj. 308 pp. incl. index.

New York: Scribners, 1926. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-. 1st US, tan cloth, vg-, no dj; spine sunned, boards lightly soiled. 416 pp. incl. index. The author was born in Venezuela, was a mercenary in the Spanish-American War and the 1st Sino-Japanese War, returned home to take part in Venezuela's revolution, and got into trouble with the new Venezuelan government, which forced his exile. He is supposed to have worked with Sandino in Nicaragua, as a cowboy in Arizona and joined in the Alaska gold rush. The events of this book recount his experiences in the 1st World War, when he joined the army of the Ottoman Empire and witnessed firsthand the Armenian genocide. This copy INSCRIBED to another renowned adventurer; Alexander Hamilton Rice, who directed a base hospital in France during WWI, married Titanic survivor Eleanor Widener and as the founder of Harvard's Institute of Geographical Exploration organized 7 successful expeditions into the Amazon country. The inscription reads:… Read More

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1961. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. His Journal from 20 April to 2 October 1764". Edited by Georges A. Bonnard. 1st, ltd. #38/105 copies printed on Millbourn handmade paper and bound in gilt-stamped vellum, gilt top edge. Vg; vellum starting to warp. Text clean. 268 pp. incl. index.

New York: Francis P. Harper, 1898. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. First Limited Edition, No. 7 of 950 copies; 8vo, navy cloth, no dj; good (shaken; boards heavily soiled and water damaged; spine ends, corners, and bottom edges heavily worn, often to boards; spine ends bumped; ownership stamp of Hiram M. Dow, a pioneer of Roswell, New Mexico, on front pastedown; waterstains and damage to bottom and top edges of pastedowns and eps; water stain to top edges of pages from ffep to title page; damage to folding frontispiece from water, several chips and scars to side edge; dents and scrapes to margins of pp170-1; cracked at rear ad); 183pp incl. index + ad.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1914. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. First Edition, Published June, 1914 stated; 8vo, brown cloth, no dj; complete in single volume; good (boards bowing and lightly soiled; water ring to and bump to side edge of rear board; spine ends bumped and rubbed; edges foxed, top edge darkened; long gift inscription on ffep; foxing from half-title to p. vii; ink streak on p12; foxing to plates and the pages surrounding them; long, thin two inch portion of side edge of p255-6 torn off and tiny tear to bottom edge of p571-2, neither affects text; toning to eps and pages); all twenty-nine plates accounted for, plate supposedly at p292-3 actually at p296-7; 669pp incl. index.

Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Second Series No. CXXVI and CXXVII; 8vos, blue cloth; vg (cocked; spine ends bumped and crimped; eps and pages toning; top corners of vI bumped and crimped; corners bumped and crimped, affects pages, with dent to top edge of rear board of vII) in good+ djs (toned; spines faded; edges bumped, worn, creased, torn and lightly chipped; soiled; black stains on front panel of vI and rear panel of vII); 446pp and 270pp.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Gordon Grant. Limited Edition, No. 73 of an unspecified number signed by Grant with a color drawing on the ffep; 4to, cream cloth, no dj; vg (shelfworn; dustsoiling to very bottom edges of boards and bottom corners; spine ends and corners bumped and rubbed; eps browned; pages toning; frontis toned along bound edge from glue); 214pp.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. Hardcover. Good+. SECOND Edition, lt. blue cloth, good plus. Both volumes a little shaken, foxed on top edge, less on foreedge, spines darkened. Books were bound with signatures stapled rather than sewn, and this is not a good idea; the staples are rusted, and some signatures are loosening. Moderate foxing in text at beginnings and ends. All plates and maps are present, but the folding map in rear of vol. 2 (with hand-colored routes and rivers) has been repaired with packing tape, now replaced with archival tape, but stained brown where the old tape was. 424 + 422 pp., index in vol. 2.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good-. Sixth printing, Reissued August, 2008 stated; an adaptation 'for boys and girls'; SIGNED by Schwartz on title page; 8vo, orange cloth, no dj; vg- (cocked; spine toned; spine ends and corners worn and bumped; light chipping to cloth on spine head; gift inscription on ffep; cracked at pp20-1, 52-3, and 132-3; edges and pages darkened); 181pp.

New York: Francis P. Harper, 1900. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. American Explorers Series No. 3. First Edition, Limited Edition, No. 54 of 950 copies; 8vos, blue cloth, no djs. Good+ (boards rubbed, stain to rear board of v1; spines darkened with bumped and frayed ends; corners worn; uncut pages; several pages which have been cut are worn and lightly chipped; eps and pages toned; v1 cracked at p101; small tear to top edge of fold-out map in v1; strip of cloth on spine head of v2 worn off); includes fold-out map. 608 pp. total incl. index.

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1847. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. Hardcover 1st US, g+ in contemporary 3/4 leather. Leather scraped on all edges, chipping on spine; owner's name (H.G. Norton, Trenton, N.J.) on tp and ffep; also has ownership signature of the excellent novelist Frank O'Rourke. Text moderately foxed. Bookstore sticker on rear pastedown: Books Inc., San Francisco. This very scarce book has much on the latter days of the fur trade, as the author was governor-in-chief of the Hudson's Bay Company's territories. He made his way across the continent from Boston to Vancouver; he travelled from there down the coast to SanFrancisco and reported on California in the early days of the gold rush.