Travel And Exploration from Spafford Books

University of Oklahoma Press [0-8061-2093-2] 1988. (Mass market paperback) 330pp. Very good. Date to ffep..

Lausanne, Switzerland: Edita NONE [NONE] 1966. (hardcover) 221+. Near fine. 4to. Red leatherette embellished with lettering, pictorial and decoration stamped in gilt to front and spine. Housed in sturdy dark green slip case. Decorative endpapers. Frontispiece. Numerous black and white illustrations, tipped-in full colour plates. Slip case stamped in gilt with 'International Book Society' and… Read more about this item

New York: Hunt & Eaton 1890, 1st American Edition. (Cloth) 267pp. Good to very good. Frontispiece, illustrated front cover. Decorated front endpaper missing.Previous owners name to ffep / Starting at title page. Edgewear. Peel(3) 791. Introduction by Mark Guy Pearse..

Montreal: James Lane and Nahum Mower 1819. (Cloth) xxiii, 300, 218, 55, 4, xlviii. Good. Lacks spine, rear board and endpapers. Original front board present. Old hand-printed title-page. Archer Martin's copy with his signature twice. He may have lettered the title-page. Untrimmed. Peel(3) 112. Streeter 3687. TPL 1146. Sabin 79016..

London: Andrew Melrose NONE [NONE] 1955. (hardcover) 208pp. Very good. 8vo. Inscribed to title page. A tour of the Caribbean, its people and places, from the Bahamas through the islands to Venezuela and Columbia. Green cloth, title stamped in black to the spine which is lightly sunned and faded. Starting at front hinge. Some discolouration… Read more about this item

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington 1896. (Cloth) x, [1], 358pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Octavo, red boardss with leather backstrip, gilt lettering and decoration to spine. A beautiful copy, later printing replete with illustrations and a fine fold out map at the rear..

London, U.K.: Burns and Oates 1910. (Cloth) 386 +. Very good, no dust jacket. Bright protected green cloth with gilt decoration to front cover and lettering to spine. An early reprint with a fine folding map as a frontispiece. Book plate. Related ephemera laid in..

Montreal: the Arctic Institute of North America/Mcgill-Queen's University Press 1974. (4to, cloth) 217pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illus..

New York Et Al.: Prentice Hall Press [0-13-372327-5] 1991, 1st edition. (hardcover) xiii, 303pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 8vo. Memoir which spans almost 40 years of Gold's life in Haiti, from the early fifties to 1990. Jacket in loose protective mylar sleeve. Stated first edition, full number line to copyright page. Fine / fine… Read more about this item

London, UK: Hakluyt Society [0 904180 62 X] 2000. (hardcover) xv, 232pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 8vo. Fine / Fine. Dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Gilt sailing ship pictorial stamped to front. Pristine, with colour frontispiece, maps, black and white historical photographs. Series III; Volume 4..

[Paris]: Albin Michel NO ISBN [NO ISBN] 1943. (hardcover) 253pp. Very good. 12mo. Bound in full red leather. Spine with raised bands, title compartment lettered in gilt. T.E.G. Board-edges all simple-ruled in gilt. Notable rubbing to the leather at extremities; tail of spine rubbed. Marbled EPs. Original B&W photo cover bound-in as title page; catalogue… Read more about this item

Paris: Calman Lévy NO ISBN [NO ISBN] 1893. (hardcover) 369pp; 379pp. Good to very good. 12mo. Two (2) volumes. Period rebind, as the set was issued by the publisher in printed wrappers. Volumes bound in quarter green leather over marbled boards. Spine decorated with simple-ruled compartments in gilt, title and volume compartment lettered in gilt.… Read more about this item

Montreal: the Arctic Institute of North America/Mcgill-Queen's University Press 1974. (4to, cloth) 217pp. Fine in very good plus dust jacket. Illus. No external markings. Signed by Houston..

New York: Assouline Publishing [2 84323 368 2] 2003. (hardcover) 44pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 4to. Clean, crisp, tight, bright, solid, and profusely illustrated with colour photographs..

Chicago, Illinois: the University of Chicago Press [circa 1944]. (hardcover) xxxii, 526pp. Very good, no dust jacket. 8vo. First printing of translation. Rust-brown buckram, gilt title block and colophon to spine. Light stains, markings to the cover. There is a bookplate (tasteful) to the front fixed endpaper; internally crisp, clean, tight, bright. Solid binding. This… Read more about this item

Washington: U.S. Naval Observatory/Government Printing Office 1879. () xlix, 644+. Very good. 4to. Ex-lib., with only a small, single stamp and a delicate notation to the front free enedpaper.Original green boards, gilt title to spine, gilt pictorial stamped to front. Frontispiece., illus., ports., maps. Corners softly bumped, covers lightly rubbed and soiled. Hinges solid. Complete.… Read more about this item

London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd. 1929. (hardcover) 240+. Very good, no dust jacket. 8vo. Pictorial blue cloth, stamped in dark blue, gilt lettering to front and spine. Black and white photographic portrait frontispiece. Map, folding. Seven other plates, one of which is the first page of a fold-out letter from Captain Scott to… Read more about this item

London, England: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1968. (hardcover) xi, 403pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 4to. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Navy boards, gilt design stamped to front, title to spine. Comprises works of marine exploration from Vikings to the time of publication. 8 black and white plates, fold-out map at rear. Volume One… Read more about this item

Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society 1972. (hardcover) xxxiii, 375pp. Very good, no dust jacket. 4to. Blue cloth, gold decoration and titles to front and spine. Mapped endpapers. Clean, crisp, solid copy with exquisite black and white illustrations. Front upper corner lightly bumped, as are the first pages up to XXIII. Report of a journey… Read more about this item

New York: AMS Press 1976, reprint. (hardcover) 214+. Near fine, no dust jacket. 8vo. A reprint of the edition published in 1938 by C.A. Reitzels Forlag, Copenhagen, which describes the sixth and seventh, and last, of the Thule Expeditions, 1931-33. Green covers, gilt titles to front and spine. There are 22 illustrations throughout the text.… Read more about this item