Search Results: Titles starting with H from David Spilman Fine Books, ABAA & IOBA

Paris: Hotel de Thou, 1785. First French Edition. Illustration. Very Good. John Webber. [Illus 8.5x14in on 10.5x15.5in Sheet] ; Plate No. 54, uncolored; Some soiling and age toning at edges, vertical fold crease, single worm hole entrance and exit. John Webber (1752-1793) was the official artist that accompanied Captain Cook on the third voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780. This voyage was to the islands of the Pacific, Australia, the Pacific Northwest America, Alaska, Kamchatka and Hawaii. In Hawaii, Cook was killed in a misunderstanding with the natives at Kealakekua Bay. This illustration was from a brief encounter with the natives of Norton Sound, Alaska. Webber likely sketched the illustration, a woman with a child on her shoulder a man standing behind her and a log hut, from Cooks journal descriptions of the encounter (from The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages, Volume III Rudiger Joppien and Bernard Smith, Yale University Press, 1988).

London: Chatto & Windus, 1981. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. [[9x6in]; 640 pp., 16 illustrations, 8 maps, glossary and index; Tan cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine; Color illustration on dust jacket with white and black lettering on front and spine; Minimal shelf wear to covers and dust jacket, price clipped.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. First Edition. Very Good. [7.5x4.75in];xiii, 347 pp., frontispiece image of Yosemite Valley, 26 plates of black and white images of the geology, plants and animals, map of Yosemite National Park; Forest green cloth covers with black lettering on spine and front, black illustration of tree on spine, stamped illustration of Yosemite Valley, Merced river and Half Dome in black, green and pale yellow with green lettering, all edges trimmed; Minor shelf wear to edges with some rubbing to covers, slightly darken spine, faint small stain spot to front cover, faint water stain to top foredge of text. Ansel Franklin Hall (1894-1962) was a naturalist and the first Chief Naturalist and Forester of the United States National Park Service. From 1920 to 1923, Hall was the first Park Naturalist of Yosemite National Park. He established interpretive programs, founded the Yosemite Museum Association, produced geological models, native crafts and natural history specimens for… Read More

Cambridge: The University Press, 1915. First Edition. Very Good. Edward S. Curtis. Limited edition [7.625x5.5in 19x14.2cm image, 12.5x9.5in 23x17cm plate]; Brown ink photograph on Japanese tissue with printed title and 1914 copyright, mounted on Val Gelder paper by chine-colle method, protected by tissue guard, top edge trimmed, others untrimmed, plates are not numbered; Light age-toning to fore edge. [Curtis Legacy Foundation, Howes 965] CS. Image - The Hand-game - Qagyuhl The Kwakiutl "The Kwakiutl are one of several Indigenous First Nations that inhabit the western coast of British Columbia, Canada, from central and northern Vancouver Island to the adjacent mainland coast. Kwakiutl bands consist of four clans: the Raven, Killer Whale, Eagle, and Wolf clans ... each claiming their own ancestor, chiefs, oral histories, and entitlement to certain lands, religious rites, and songs and dances associated with particular family names and masks." (from Milwaukee Public Museum and Franz Boas… Read More

New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1901. First Edition. Very Good. [10.5x7.25in]; Vol. I - xxxvii, [1], 183 pp., [1]; Vol. II- 185-383 pp. [1], index; for both volumes combined, 39 color plates, including frontispieces, 85 photogravure images (50 by E. S. Curtis), 229 illustrations in text, 5 maps (4 in color with 2 fold out, 1 in text); Publisher forest green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, gilt border and illustration on front, top edge gilt, others untrimmed; Minor shelf wear to covers, edges and corners with light soiling and rubbing to edges and joints, Vol. I corners frayed with top front bumped, hinges loose, frontispiece tissue guard loose. [Howgego IV H21, Wickersham 4013, Tourville 1950] DK. The Harriman Alaska Expedition was organized and funded by Edward Henry Harriman (1848-1909) that was originally to be an extended family vacation. Harriman was a railroad developer that that bought a small railroad in 1881 and went on to acquire Union Pacific and Southern Pacific… Read More

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1909. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Very Good. In two volumes, 8vo [10.25x7.75in]; Vol. I - [2], liii, [1], 366 pp. [2], 78 plate leaves of illustrations and images, with frontispiece and 6 in color with printed tissue guards, black/white and diagrams, numerous illustrations in text; Vol. II -xvi, 451 pp., [1], 69 plate leaves, with frontispiece and 6 in color with printed tissue guards, black/white, numerous illustrations in text, in rear pocket a black and white landscape panorama, with 3 colored folding maps of routes; Dark blue cloth with silver lettering on front and spine, ruled borders and silver illustration of three explorers and flag on front (from image at the magnetic South Pole) and silver illustration on spine of single explorer, top edge gilt and other edges untrimmed; Minor shelf wear to covers with rubbing to corners, edges and top/bottom of spine on both volumes, illustration on Vol. II front has rubbed spot, age toning to text edges… Read More

Melbourne, AU: Melbourne University Press, 1962. First Edition, 1st Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo [8.5x5.75in]; xvi, 292 pp., frontispiece image of Davis, 6 plates with 25 images printed on both sides, 6 maps, appendix and index; Original light green cloth covers with silver lettering on spine, all edged trimmed; Pictorial dust jacket with white and red lettering on front and spine, author image and biographical note on back; Minimal shelf wear to covers with top corners bumped and minor fading at very bottom of spine and along top edges, dust jacket unclipped, dust jacket corners, top and bottom of spine and front joint show minor wear. [Rosove 88.A1, Spence 355, Taurus 141, Howgego III]. John King Davis (1884-1967) was a captain, master and chief officer on Antarctic expeditions during the heroic age of Antarctic exploration in the early 1900's.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1965. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. [10.5x7.25in]; xiv, 262 pp., frontispiece color illustration of Tuolumne River by William Keith, 48 images and illustrations in text, five maps of Sierra Nevada, notes and references at end of chapters, index; Dark blue cloth covers with gilt rules and lettering on spine, white ink illustration of Sierra Nevada high mountain ridge line and pass, all edges trimmed, white endpapers; Dark beige dust jacket with black lettering on spine and front, panorama black and white image of Sierra Nevada ridge line and clouds through sugar pine tree branches on rear, spine and front; Minimal shelf wear to covers, light offset shadows of dust jacket on end papers, minor soiling to dust jacket with chips and closed tears on top and bottom edges, faint black rubber date stamp on inside rear panel, price clipped. [J Neate F03, WR Neate 255]. Francis Peloubet Farquhar (1887-1974) was a mountaineer, environmentalist, historian,… Read More

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1965. First Edition. Very Good/Good. SIGNED and inscribed by Author [10.5x7.25in]; xiv, 262 pp., frontispiece color illustration of Tuolumne River by William Keith, 48 images and illustrations in text, five maps of Sierra Nevada, notes and references at end of chapters, index; Dark blue cloth covers with gilt rules and lettering on spine, white ink illustration of Sierra Nevada high mountain ridge line and pass, all edges trimmed, white end papers; Dark beige dust jacket with black lettering on spine and front, panorama black and white image of Sierra Nevada ridge line and clouds through sugar pine tree branches on rear, spine and front; Minimal shelf wear to covers, edges or corners, age toning and shadows edges of end papers some small speckle spots on top edge of text, a warm and personal inscription by Farquhar "For Louise Dunlap soon to be Louise Trendillo who knows from early and continuing experience the beauty of the High sierra - its peaks and… Read More

San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1980. First Edition. Fine/Fine. 8vo [9.25x6.5in]; xv, 314 pp., 13 illustrations [five by J. Goldsborough Bruff] and facsimiles, introduction, bibliography and index; Light linen cloth covers with brown ink lettering on spine, light brown paper with overland route maps on front and back end papers, all edges trimmed; Minimal shelf wear.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1925. Revised Edition. Near Fine. [First Edition 1918][7.5x5in]; Dark green cloth covers with gilt lettering and rules on spine, blind stamped lettering and border on front, all edges trimmed; xxiv, 270 pp., appendix and index; Minimal shelf wear with a faint scrape mark on front. Overall condition is Near Fine.

Austin: The Encino Press, 1971. First Edition, 1st Printing. Near Fine. SIGNED by author, #674 of 850 numbered copies, [xin]; [1], 51 pp., [1] colophon, five black and white images (several double pages); Dark brown paper on boards with gilt lettering on spine, cream label with image of a horse rangler and black lettering on front, all edges trimmed, image of cowboys and horses herding cattle on both end papers; Negligible shelf wear with prior owner book label on front end paper and author's signature on front free flylealf.

San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1929. First Edition. Near Fine. San Francisco: Taylor & Taylor. , limited [5.25x8"]; Light brown, blue, green marbled covers with maroon cloth back strip, gilt lettering on spine, insert color illustration of pioneer settlers viewing landscape and sunset ["The Promised Land!" from the cover of The Pioneer / California Monthly magazines], top edge trimmed all others untrimmed; [2], xii, 56 pp., [1] colophon of San Francisco printer Taylor & Taylor, frontispiece image of Clark and wife, five illustrations with tissue guards, appendix, tipped in errata slip ain rear; Some shelf wear to covers, edges and corners. [Kurutz 137, Howell 1308, Graff 742]. From Kurutz, "Sterling Clark left Holliday, Pennsylvania, on March 11, 1849 for St. Joseph. After a short stay, he resumed his journey, stopped in Salt Lake City, and followed the Humboldt-Carson Route to California. On August 2 - ‘2092 miles later' - he arrived in Sacramento." Clark worked the Mormon Island and Sandwich… Read More

Victoria, BC: Rockland Books, 1998. First Edition. Fine. Limited # 331 of 500 [9.25x6.5in]; [5], 316 pp., xii, 1754 entries, Bibliography and Principal References, index; Dark burgundy cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine, gilt illustration of buffalo in circle, all edges trimmed;.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, Ltd, 1951. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. [5.75x8.75"]; xii, 224 pp., frontispiece image of Hugh Robert Mill Medal of the Royal Meteorological Society, five images; Light green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine; Pastel green dust jacket with red lettering on spine and front and narrative of Mill on rear; Minor shelf wear and bumping to corners; Surface and edge shelf wear and some soiling to dust jacket, darkening of spine, chips to corners, top and bottom of spine with no loss of text. [Rosove 228.B.1a]. Hugh Robert Mill (1861-1950) was a Scottish geographer and meteorologist. Throughout his career he was influential in British exploration and scientific achievement. He was the librarian of the Royal Geographical Society and secretary of the Royal Meteorological Society. He was closely involved with the British Antarctic expeditions during the "Heroic" period (1895 to 1922) of Bruce, Scott and Shackleton. He wrote the first biography of Shackleton after… Read More

New York: Duffield and Company, 1925. First Edition. Fine. [9.25x6.25in]; [9], 462 pp., frontispiece of Nansen, 65 illustrations by Nansen in text, 3 plates and 6 maps;Dark blue cloth on covers with gilt lettering on front and spine with white illustration of polar bear on front; Minimal shelf wear. [ Arctic Biblio 11991]. Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) was a Norwegian explorer of Greenland and the Arctic Islands. From the Arctic Bibliography, "Retrospective account of the author's first trip to the Arctic in the sealer Viking 1882, to study animal life and the physical features of the Arctic Sea ... in the Denmark Strait." Nansen was the "Dean" of polar travel and many of the polar explorers, such as Amundsen, Scott, Shackleton and others came to him for counsel and support.

New York: Duffield and Company, 1925. First Edition. Near Fine. [9.25x6.25in]; [9], 462 pp., frontispiece of Nansen, 65 illustrations by Nansen in text, 3 plates and 6 maps; Dark blue cloth on covers with gilt lettering on front and spine with white illustration of polar bear on front; Minimal shelf wear to edges, book plate of William Pettigrew Darsie. [ Arctic Biblio 11991]. Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) was a Norwegian explorer of Greenland and the Arctic Islands. From the Arctic Bibliography, "Retrospective account of the author's first trip to the Arctic in the sealer Viking 1882, to study animal life and the physical features of the Arctic Sea ... in the Denmark Strait." Nansen was the "Dean" of polar travel and many of the polar explorers, such as Amundsen, Scott, Shackleton and others came to him for counsel and support. William Pettigrew Darsie (1891-1954) played rugby for Stanford University and United States team in the 1913 New Zealand Rugby Union Tour of North America. He became a… Read More