Jerusalem: Hauman Press, 1941. Fourth edition. Softcover. 12mo. 144pp. Original printed wraps. "The pocket Guide to Palestine has been prepared as a greeting of welcome to members of His Majesty's Forces and the Second Australian Imperial Force now stationed in Palestine." Some age rubbing. The first and last couple of...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XL, 328pp. 3/4 crushed morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and illustration on spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece. Here we have a very complete account of Nandi customs and institutions, based upon four years of...
NP, n/d. Oblong folio. Unpaginated. Brown faux-leather with gilt decorated spine, in original illustrated cardboard slip case. A facsimile of a 1824 edition, with 50 reproductions of illustrations by Joseph Lycett, a talented convicted forger who was exiled to Australia and became an important national painter there. The edition, originally...
Geneve: Horizons de France, 1968. Second edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. 287, [1]pp. Original pictorial dust-jacket over illustrated cloth. Pictorial endpapers. Pictorial half-title and title-page. Title-page inscribed by Jacques and Gisèle Maquet to their friend Wolf Leslau, for his birthday. Fascinating work on civilizations of black Africa, profusely illustrated with 216...
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 330pp. Gilt embossed blue cloth and spine. Head and tail of spine bumped. Corners worn. Gilt top edge. Fore-and bottom edges untrimmed. "With the bookplate and signature of Bruce Bryan, the noted author and long time curator of the...
[New York City]: NP, ND (ca 1939). First edition. Softcover. Quarto (9 x 4"). (Unfolded: 15 x 12"). Original illustrated and photo-illustrated leaf folded in three, as issued. Lettering in red, blue and black. Early promotional booklet of the Empire State Building showcasing the magnificent views from the two observatories located...
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 192 pp. Paper wrappers. With illustrations by Polia Chentoff, some with tissue guards. Pages untrimmed. 1/333 numbered copies. With light foxing to wrappers. Else, in very good condition.
George Philip & Son, Ltd., ND. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with gold lettering on cover. Red cloth on front and back has been repaired with clear tape along edges. Folds out into a 35" x 45" color map. 5-inch closed tear on top edge. Upper folding section is cloth backed...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XLIII, 373pp. Uncut. Original green cloth with gold lettering and printer's device on spine. Valuable account, based on all available sources, of warfare, the place of kava, the Arioi society of Tahity, and the sexual life of the natives. This study...
London: Arthur Hall & Co., ca. 1864. Fifth edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Blind-embossed brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. All gilt edges. Frontispiece & half-title page engravings. Fascinating account by William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854) of his forty day journey in the late 1840's from Cairo to Petra. Bartlett was a....
New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. XII, 333, V, 277, [1]pp. Original cloth with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece. An important compilation of articles dealing with the exploration and settlement of Texas and the expansion of the West. The first volume contains contributions relating to the northward...
Culver City, CA: Highland Press, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4"). 90pp. Original photo-illustrated paper covered boards, with olive lettering to spine and front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Photographic frontispiece. Half-title inscribed and signed by the author. Illustrated with 50 b/w photographic reproductions (including frontispiece), this work...
New York: Random House, 1937. New and definite edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 674pp., 1 folding map, 696pp. 1 folding map. original tan cloth with blue lettering on cover, gilt lettering on blue labels of spine. Blue top edge. Frontispiece. Publisher's device on title page. Originally published in 1888 without much immediate...
Salem, Massachusetts: Marine Research Society, 1923. Hardcover. Quarto. 76pp. Black and blue paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine in original photographic dust jacket. Deckled fore-page edge. Frontispiece. Captivating account by William Endicott of his experiences during the 1829-31 voyage on the Glide. The ship struck a reef on March...
New York: Hurst & Co., 1881. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 x 6 1/4"). VIII, 496pp. Original gilt- and black-stamped olive cloth, with gold lettering to spine, and black lettering to front cover. Decorative endpapers. Engraved frontispiece portrait of David Livingstone. Illustrated with numerous full-page and in-text engravings, as well...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. Hardcover. 8vo. xxi, 490pp. Decorated olive cloth with gold lettering on cover and gold decoration on spine. Age wearing throughout binding. Head and tail of spine and corners chipped and frayed. Hinges starting. Inscribed at rear endpapers by previous owner. Frontispiece of authors. A....
Hamburg: Gutenberg-Verlag, 1911. First edition. Softcover. Large Octavo. 489 (1)pp. and 2 maps. Original gray wrappers with black lettering on cover on spine. Published in this edition the account of the 2nd journey of Ibn Batûta, that is that part of his report that starts with an 8 1/2 year...
Zurich: Orell Füssli & Co., 1890. First edition. Softcover. Sm. 8vo. 222,[4],pp. Original wraps bound in modern brown cloth. Decorative endpapers. Frontispiece. Rare edition looking at Zurich and its environs. No. 126. 127. 128. 129. of the series Europäische Wanderbilder. Illustrated with 104 b/w reproductions of wood-engravings by J. Weber...
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1949. First American edition. Hardcover. 4to. xv, 329pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine in original illustrated dust jacket. Deckled fore- and bottom page edges. Frontispiece. I. Pfefferkorn was a Jesuit in Sonora, where he had worked for eleven years. His...
Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1924. Hardcover. Quarto. Original half cloth over blue paper-covered boards with pictorial paste-down, gold lettering on spine. Deckled fore- and bottom page edges. Some pages unopened, as issued. Vol. I: vii,173pp. A History of the Pepper Trade with the Island of Sumatra (Reprinted from the...
South Yarra: Parragon, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. 162, [2]pp. Original Arnott’s Biscuits tin type front and back covers, with black lettering on spine. Illustrated half-title and title page. There is so much to celebrate about Australia that this book just had to be written. This book is a....
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 320pp. Original green cloth with gilt-stamped illustration on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece photograph with tissue guard. A record of observation, experiences and impressions made during a period of over fifty years of intimate association with the natives and...
München: Süddeutscher Verlag, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. 80pp. (Text), Unnumbered pages of plates. Original pictorial dust-jacket over cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Book housed in its original cardboard slipcase. Frontispiece. Remarkable work on the life and work of Michael Wening (1645-1718), the renowned Bavarian.....
Nendeln (Liechtenstein): Kraus Reprint Limited, 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. LXXI, [1], 221, [1]pp. Original blue cloth, with gold lettering and blind ruling on spine. Frontispiece. Lionel Wafer (1640-1705) was a Welsh explorer, buccaneer and privateer. A ship's surgeon, Wafer made several voyages to the South Seas and visited Maritime Southeast...
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. X, [2], 551pp. Half leather over cloth with gold lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers and paper edges. Color frontispiece. The information contained in this volume is the result of the patient and intelligent research of the Rev. Thomas Williams...
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