Search Results: Book-Travel/Exploration from Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC, ILAB

New York: : American Geographical Society, , 1930. lrg. 8vo, . Illustrated and including 2 loose folding maps. wraps with maps housed in a common publisher's slipcase slipcase grubby with wear, one map with stain to upper margin, else very good. The expeditions of Wilkins-Hearst, Byrd, Mawson, and Norwegian whalers. The two maps are entitled "Physical Map of the Arctic" and "Bathymetric Map of the Antarctic" and are colourful and very detailed.

New Haven & London:: Yale University Press,, 1991. First edition. 4to,. Profusely illustrated. printed wraps. Near fine. A sumptuous exhibition catalogue from the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The catalogue covers the history and art of the exploration age and includes detailed descriptions and images of atlases, maps, works of art on paper, objects of vertu, ceramics and sculpture. Beautifully produced and a wealth of scholarly information.

Cambridge: : William Metcalfe, , 1862. Second edition. 8vo,. Illustrated with hand-coloured map and 8 steel engravings, 1/2 morocco and marbled boards, rubbed along joints, ffep torn, plates a little toned, but on the whole quite good. A scarce book on the colleges, churches and town of Cambridge.

New York:: E. P. Dutton and Company,, 1905. 4to,. Illustrated with colour plates and a map. organge embossed cloth anbd blue and gilt spine. Very small ink notations to ffep, else a nice bright copy. A look into India's architecture, landscape, history, people etc.

London: : Hodder & Stoughton, , 1895. . Third edition revised. 8vo, . Illustrated with frontis, plates and a map. green cloth with gilt vignette of a palm tree on front cover. Upper portion of front cover mottled, dampstaining to lower margin of frontis portrait and to blank margins of last 50 pages and endpapers. A fair to good copy. Maggie Paton was the second wife of missionary John G. Paton who settled with him in Aniwa in the New Hebrides. "Her account of life on Aniwa is by turns high spirited and despairing-the latter particularly when one by one her children are sent for their own safety to live with relatives in Australia; it is less saccharine than many a missionary's tale and one of the most often reprinted of them all". (Robinson).

London: : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, , 1870. 4to, . Illustrated with 12 colour plates. pictorial cloth, cloth faded, lower edge stained, pages brittle with some loose, needs either a rebind or broken up and sold as plates, plates generally clean with some minor soiling in margins. Views of Bethlehem, Nazareth, Sidon, Jerico, Gaza and Joppa.

Bruxelles: J. E. Buschmann d'Anvers, 1926.  Illustrated. Oblong 4to,  printed boards housed in a publisher's slipcase. Boards lightly soiled, front hinge cracked, but a very good copy. Deluxe edition limited to 40 numbered examples. Deluxe facsimile edition after the 1825 original. Views of Flanders.

London: : Argonaut Press,, 1930. 4to, . Illustrated with 5 maps. vellum backed red cloth, spine yellowed, else very good. Limited to 1050 numbered copies.