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London: George Virtue, 1840. First edition. 2 volumes bound in extra gilt-ornamental red full leather with panels, raised bands, all edge gilting, gilt edge decorations, colored endpapers, ribbon markers. Bookplate of former U.S. Senator and Congressman William L. Scott (Virginia Republican) on pastedown in each volume. Published London: George Virtue, 1840. Large 4to., 8 3/4" x 11", 140pp.,+map+66 engravings+engraved title; state A of volume 2, with contents page numbered, 106pp.,+53 engravings+engraved title. Magnificent views of the Eastern United States before industrialization altered the landscape. Bartlett was a skilled landscape artist with a keen eye. He traveled extensively in the U.S. and Canada. Internally fine with no toning or foxing, plates nearly immaculate under tissue guards. Joints and corners rubbed, front joint of one volume starting. Very good, near fine internally. 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Illus. by William H. Bartlett. 4to.
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AMERICAN SCENERY; or Land, Lake, and River. Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature. (Two Volumes) From Drawings by W. H. Bartlett, Engraved in the First Style of the Art, By R. Wallis, J. Cousen, Willmore, Brandard, Adlard, Richardson, &c.
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AMERICAN SCENERY; or Land, Lake, and River. Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature. (Two Volumes) From Drawings by W. H. Bartlett, Engraved in the First Style of the Art, By R. Wallis, J. Cousen, Willmore, Brandard, Adlard, Richardson, &c.
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London: George Virtue, 1840. First edition. 2 volumes bound in 3/4 green leather with raised bands, all edge gilting, marbled endpapers. Published London: George Virtue, 1840. Large 4to., 8 3/4" x 11", 140pp.,+map+66 engravings+engraved title; state A of volume 2, with contents page numbered, 106pp.,+53 engravings+engraved title. Magnificent views of the Eastern United States before industrialization altered the landscape. Bartlett was a skilled landscape artist with a keen eye. He travelled extensively in the U.S. and Canada. Ocassional foxing to the plates and tissue guards, Light wear/rubbing to extremities, faded area to the cloth of volume two, mild outer hinge starting. Very good. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Illus. by William H. Bartlett. 4to.
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An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli. Illustrated with a New and Accurate Map of Corsica
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Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry, London, 1768. An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli. Illustrated with a New and Accurate Map of Corsica. First edition, first issue, bound with scarce half title, last leaf blank, Z3 in uncorrected state, all misprints present, map in its first form without scale or degrees. Published Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry, London, 1768. 8vo., 5 1/2" x 8 5/16", xxi, [1, blank], [1, table of contents], [1, blank], 382 pp., [1, blank]. Large folding engraved frontispiece map of Corsica by Thomas Phinn inserted between half title and title page. Engraved coat-of-arms on title-page. Table of Contents (b2) follows the Preface (a3-b1); Z3 in original state with "Maraina" typo; D2 in first state, with the words "John Home" incorrectly placed following the first quotation on p. 51; E2 with…
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The Achievements of Stanley and Other African Explorers. Comprising All the Late and Really Great Achievements Won in the Exploration of the Vast Unknown Region of Equatorial Africa
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Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1878. First edition. Full leather. Published Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1878. Thick 8vo., 6 1/2" x 9", 605pp., ilus. frontis, plates and hand-colored folding map. Blind embossed black calf with gilt spine titles, marbled endpapers. Spine chipped, wear along the edges, front outer hinge cracked with old tape repairs. Internally very good, clean, tight. Map very good with short, closed tear. . 1st. Hard. Good. 8vo.
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Africa: The History of Exploration and Adventure as Given in the Leading Authorities from Herodotus to Livingstone
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NY: Henry Holt, 1875. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY: Henry Holt, 1875. 8vo., x+496pp., illustrated with full page plates, reproductions within the text, fold-out map. Blind embossed brown cloth with gilt titles and gilt stamped designs, brown endpapers. A near fine, outstanding example. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.
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Australian Frontier
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NY: Doubleday Doran, 1942. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY: Doubleday Doran, 1942, first printing. 8vo., ix+332pp., illustrated with photos, map endpapers. Blue cloth with green and yellow titles, top edge tinted green. A fine, attractive copy. . 1st. Hard. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo.
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Bolívar Tierra De Prodigios
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Caracas, Venezuela: Gobernación Del Estado Bolívar, 2007. First edition. Hard cover in publisher's slipcase. Published Caracas, Venezuela: Gobernación Del Estado Bolívar, 2007. Square folio, 12 1/2" x 12 1/2", 332pp., profusely illustrated with full page and double page color photographs of Thea Segall. Text of Evelyn Guzmán Bigott in Spanish. Black cloth multicolor titles, black map endpapers. Hairline split to the cloth at the rear hinge and lower edge rear board, else fine in very good slipcase with a cross cut across the rear panel. . 1st. Hard. Very Good. Folio.
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CAMINO DE LOS ARRIEROS. Fotografía Thea Segall. Un camino que tiene siete nombres José Antonio De Armas Chilly. Breves apuntes poéticos José Ramón Medina. Voces del camino Carlos Gottberg
by Segall, Thea - Armas Chitty, Jose Antonio - Medina, Jose Ramon - Gottberg, Carlos
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Caracas, Venezuela: Fotoediciones, 1992. First edition. Hard cover in publisher's slipcase. Published Caracas, Venezuela: Fotoediciones, 1992. Folio, 9" x 12 1/2", 124pp., lavishly illustrated with full color photograps of Thea Segall. Green cloth with silver titles, color pictorial cover inset, black heavy endpapers. Fine in near fine slipcase. . 1st. Hard. Fine. Folio.
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Capetown to the Mountains of the Moon
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NY 1949: Medill McBride Company First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Medill McBride Company, 1949, first printing. 8vo., x+224pp., illustrated with b/w photographs, maps. Green cloth with yellow titles and cover art. Inscription on flyleaf. Near fine in price-clipped, near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.
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A Conquest of Tibet
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NY: National Travel Club, 1934. First edition. Precedes the trade edition issued by Doubleday. Translated from the Swedish by Julius Lincoln. Published NY: National Travel Club, 1934, first printing. 8vo., 400pp., illustrated with 250 pen and ink sketches by the author, photo endpapers, top edge tinted red. Author's adventues in The Forbidden Land. Black cloth with gilt titles and cover emblem. Mild rub to the spine titles, previous owner inscription on half title. 2 page National Travel Club promo sheet and single page letter to members laid in. Very good plus. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo.
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The Crimson Jester : Zapata of Mexico
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NY: National Travel Club, 1934. First edition thus. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: National Travel Club, 1934. Special Edition for The National Travel Club, April, 1934. 8vo., xiv+304pp., illustrated with b/w photographs. Black cloth with gilt titles and cover emblem. Biography of Zapata. Name/address inscription on flyleaf. Near fine in very good dust jacket with small loss/closed tears at the extremities. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo.
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EXPLORATIONS AND ADVENTURES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA. With Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chace of the Gorilla, Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and Other Animals
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London: John Murray, 1861. First edition. Bound in full pebbled leather with raised bands, gilt titles and designs, marbled endpapers, speckled edges. Published London: John Murray, 1861. 8vo., xviii+479pp., plus28pp. publisher's catalog , dated May, 1861. Illustrated with 27 full-page engravings, including a folding frontispiece of a gorilla (the first ever of the animal), and 46 reproductions within the text. Folding map bound at the rear missing, front edge of first two sheets of catalog have old archival repair. Minor wear at the crown, hinges and tips else near fine. Internally fine, pages and plates bright white with no foxing - rare to find as such. French-American anthropologist Paul Du Chaillu spent nearly four years on his first expedition to Central Africa covering 8,000 miles. He brought back numerous specimens of exotic birds and confirmed the existence of the gorilla. His account is a seminal work on Equatorial Africa. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.
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FRENCH ENTERPRISE IN AFRICA. The Personal Narrative of Lieut. Hourst of His Exploration of the Niger
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NY and London: E.P. Dutton and Co. and Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1899. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY and London: E.P. Dutton and Co. and Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1899. 8vo., xvi+520pp.+ frontis portrait, illustrated with 190 photo reproductions, fold-out map. Dark blue cloth with gilt titles. Translated by Mrs. Arthur Bell. In the heyday of French enterprise in West Africa Hourst explored the Niger River from Timbuktu for the French Government. A fine, bright copy. . 1st. Hard. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo.
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Fifteen Thousand Miles on the Amazon and its Tributaries
by Brown, C. Barrington and Lidstone, William
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London: Edward Stanford, 1878. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published London: Edward Stanford, 1878. 8vo., xiii+520pp., illus frontis, plates, fold-out map and drawings within the text. Dark green cloth with gilt titles and black cover designs. "The authors travelled for two years (1873-1875) along the entire course of the Amazon River and its principal tributaries." A near fine example, internally fine, clean, bright white, crisp, unmarked. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.
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Fish, Fowl, And Foreign Lands
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NY: Scribner's, 1950. First American edition, printed in the U.K. and bound with the sheets of the U.K. edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Scribner's, 1950, first printing. 8vo., 176pp., illustrated with b/w plates. Brick cloth with gilt spine titles. Mild toning to the paper, light foxing on pastedown, previous owner name. Very good plus in very good dust jacket with small edge chipping, short closed tear. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo.
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Fotografias
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Direccion De Informacion y Relaciones Publicas Softcover portfolio of color photos of parks. Published Direccion De Informacion y Relaciones Publicas, no place, no date. 4to., 12" x 12", pale green wrappers containing nine 12" x 12" captioned photos with tissue guards. Wrappers near fine, photos fine. . Soft Cover. Near Fine. 4to.
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GAROET en OMSTREKEN. Zwerftochten door de Preanger. Geschreven voor "EITTO" (The East Indian Travelling and Tourist Offices) door J.Z. van Dyck
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Batavia: G. Kolff & Co., 1922. First and only edition. Dutch language travel guide to Garut and surroundings. Hard cover in limp pictorial cloth. Published Batavia: G. Kolff & Co., 1922. Large 8vo., 6 3/4" x 9 3/8", 267pp. plus full page ads at front and rear, publisher's catalog, illustrated with tipped-in color frontis, one additional color plate, numerous b/w photos, translucent fold out plans, six partly colored folding maps in rear pocket. Some darkening to areas of the cloth, spine lettering dull, previous owner bookplate on pastedown. Very good plus, unworn, pages clean and bright. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo.
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The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies. Containing an entire translation of the Spanish work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo (Complete Text in 5 volumes)
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London: James Carpenter et al, 1812. Complete text in 5 volumes. First editions. Published London: James Carpenter et al., 1812 - 1815. 4to's, 8 3/4" x 11", xx+574; 597; 512; 636; xl+462+1+105pp., illustrated with tables (one folding). Bound in embossed glazed half leather over marbled boards with gilt stamped morocco spine labels, all edges specked. Armorial bookplate of Sir Joseph Radcliffe in each volume. First edition in English. First published in Madrid as "Diccionario geográfico-histórico de las Indias Occidentales ó América: es á saber: de los reynos del Perú, Nueva España, Tierra Firme, Chile, y Nuevo reyno de Granada" in five volumes, 1786 - 1789. Sabin 368. Some wear at the tips and along edges, rubbing to the leather glazing, light occasional foxing, else very good plus, attractive set, pages bright, sturdily bound.. 1st. Half-Leather. Very Good. 4to.
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Happy Adventurer
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NY: Wilfred Funk, 1951. First American edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Wilfred Funk, 1951. 8vo., 131pp., illustrated with b/w drawings. Blue cloth with silver titles and design. Author was last man to have spoken to Scott. Minor sun fade to the cloth along top edge, name/address on flyleaf, else very good plus in very good, price-clipped dust jacket with a closed tear and several small chips. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo.
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The Hong Kong Gift Book
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Hong Kong: John and Veronica Stericker, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Published Hong Kong: Privately printed, John and Veronica Stericker, 1954. Folio, 9 1/8" x 12 1/8", 52pp., illustrated with b/w photos, map of the Hong Kong city district, 12 tipped in color plates plus 4 loose color prints in rear pocket, as published. All plates and prints are present. Cream leatherette with gilt titles and emblem. Text in English and Chinese. Minor edge fray to rear flyleaf. All very good plus, clean, bright. A very nice copy. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Folio.
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