Berlin: Hugo Steinitz, 1887. N/A. Hardcover. 12mo. 150pp. Guide pour les Institutions, les lieux d'Amusements, les Etablissements public et les grandes Maisons d'affaires de la capitale. Decorated brown cloth with lettering on cover and spine. Minor shelf wear. Red page edges. Illustrated front and back endpapers. Sporadic foxing from front... More
![An Index to the Islands of the Pacific Ocean: A Handbook to the Chart on the Walls of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History [INSCRIBED]. William T. Brigham.](/pictures/thumb/34593.jpg?v=1438645945)
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. IV, [5]-171, [1]pp (text), 24 charts. 3/4 morocco over cloth. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Title page inscribed by the author and dated Philadelphia, 30/III/01. Remarkable geographic index to the Islands of the Pacific Ocean, complete with its 24 charts bound... More
Bamberg: Verlag der Buchner'schen Buchhandlung, 1853. Siebente, sehr vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage (seventh revised edition). Hardcover. 8vo. xvi, 744pp. Contemporary half cloth over paper-covered boards with gold decoration and gold lettering on spine. Mid-19th century handbook for Germans who planned to emigrate or travel to North, Central and South America... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XV, [1], 451pp. Uncut. Original green cloth with gold-stamped illustration on front cover and gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece protected with a tissue-guard. Fascinating work in which the author describes the manners and customs of the people of New Britain... More
Hotel del Coronado, (1970). First edition. Softcover. Oblong quarto. 64pp. Original color photographic wraps of an aerial view of the Hotel. "As one reaches the apogee of the San Diego - Coronado bay Bridge and looks straight ahead toward the pacific Ocean, a structure resembling a castle dominates the view... More
San Francisco: The History Company, 1890. Hardcover. 8vo. 576pp. Decorated red cloth and spine with title stamped in gold. Staining and scuffing to boards and spine. Head and tail of spine and corners chipped and frayed. Small stamp on top page edge. Hinges starting. Torn along gutter on front-, and... More
Freiburg; Leipzig: J.C.B. Mohr, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. X, 300pp. Original 3/4 brown cloth over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering on spine. Printer's device on title-page. Fascinating work on the Geography of Ancient Palestine, illustrated with a color plan of Jerusalem, and a fold out map of... More
London: Longman's Rees, Lime, Brown & Green, ca 1829. Hardcover. 8vo. Decorated paper-covered boards, crudely rebacked with heavy age wear. Front board almost detached but still holding. Hinges starting. Small plate with printed name "William Lunn, F.R.G.S. and handwritten "from Phyllis, 1926" on inside of front board. Sporadic foxing throughout... More
![Little America [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR]. Richard E. Byrd.](/pictures/thumb/42500.jpg?v=1493337498)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/2"). XVI, 422pp. Uncut. Original illustrated dust-jacket over gilt-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Top edge blue. Frontispiece portrait of the author by Revecca Lindon Taylor. Lower margin of frontispiece inscribed... More
![Surface at the Pole: the Extraordinary Voyages of the USS SKATE [SIGNED]. James Calvert, USN.](/pictures/thumb/10595.jpg?v=1438650768)
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc. 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii. 220pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Slight bumping at the head and tail of the spine and the corners. Dust jacket is very slightly creased and chipped along the edges. Dated inscription from the author... More
Oaxaca: Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes, 1996. Softcover. 8vo. 93pp. Pictorial wrappers with brown, black and white lettering to wrappers and spine. Minor scuffing and rubbing to wrappers. Brown endpapers. Wonderful work on the customs and traditions of the Zaachila. Beautifully illustrated with b/w photographs. In Spanish... More
London: Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son & Co. 1842. Later edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. [6], II, 80, [2], 44, 45-76, [2], 100, [4]pp.Original 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards with gold tooling along edges of covers and gilt-tooling and lettering on spines. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. frontispiece portrait... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Second edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/4"). XV, [3], 319, [1]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over gilt-, blue-, dark blue-, and purple-stamped cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Frontispiece. Title page in red and black lettering. Splendidly illustrated throughout... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/4"). XIII, [3], 273, [1]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over gilt-, blue-, and purple-stamped cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Frontispiece. Title page in red and black lettering. Splendidly illustrated throughout with 129... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/4"). XIV, [2], 285, [1]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over gilt-, blue-, purple-, orange- and black-stamped cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece. Title page in red and black lettering. Splendidly... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/4"). XIV, [2], 298pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over gilt-, blue-, dark blue-, and purple-stamped cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Frontispiece. Title page in red and black lettering. Splendidly illustrated throughout with... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/4"). XV, [3], 319, [1]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over gilt-, blue-, dark blue-, and olive-stamped cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece. Title page in red and black lettering. Splendidly... More
London: S. Ballard, J. Senex, G. Innys, J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1731. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 180pp. plus 27 fold out maps. Brown blind-stamped calf. Title page printed in red and black. A Latin geography book designed as an aid to the study of the Old and New... More
Paris: L. Hachette et Cie. 1860-61. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. VIII, 424, 426, [2], 426pp. Original half red crushed morocco over red cloth with gold lettering and borders on spines. First three volumes of the renown French Geographic adventure magazine of the 19th century. The Nouveau Journal des Voyages compiles... More
Paris: NP, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 16mo. Unpaginated. Decorative marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering and decoration on front cover. Book housed in publisher's slipcase, with gold lettering on front cover and spine. For the Exposition Coloniale Internationale de Paris held in 1931, the organizers published a series... More
Paris: Société d'Éditions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. [4], 240pp. Uncut. Modern cloth with gold lettering on spine. Remarkable survey of the French colonial territories of Cameroon and Togo, exquisitely illustrated with numerous full-page photogravures. This work was published at the occasion of the Paris... More
Neuchatel: Editions du Griffon, 1946. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 48pp. Uncut. Original glassine over pictorial wrappers. Printer's device on title page. Captivating work on Payerne. The earliest traces of settlements near Payerne include Neolithic objects and traces of a Bronze Age settlement. There are also burial mounds from the Hallstatt... More
Neuchatel: Editions du Griffon, 1946. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 52pp. Uncut. Original glassine over pictorial wrappers. Printer's device on title page. Captivating work on Avenches, which was the capital of Roman Switzerland, at one time supporting a population of 20,000. After a defeat at the hands of Julius Caesar, the... More
Paris: Editions Duchartre & Van Buggenhoudt, (1930). Softcover. 8vo. xliv, 298 pp. Brown paper binding. With 16 plates. Part of the Collection Laque Orange Aventures et Voyages. Most pages uncut. Cover foxed and spine sunned. Binding and page edges lightly chipped. Text and plates not affected. Overall, in good+ condition. More
London: Robert Scott, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 269pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on front board and spine. Frontispiece protected with a tissue-guard. Captivating narrative of the author's journey in the Pacific Islands of Tahiti and the Marquesas profusely illustrated with 64 illustrations, including 2 folding maps and numerous... More