Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster 1996. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. Crisp, tight copy in mylar cover. True first state, with "salt port" in line 1 of page 134. In a variation, although there is a complete number line on the copyright page, the dust jacket has no price listed. Fine / Fine
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Barthelemy, Jean-Jacques. LE VOYAGE DU JEUNE ANACHARSIS EN GRECE (8 of 14 VOL). Wien & Prag: Franz Haas 1796. Hardcover. +/- 300 pp/ volume. B/w steel engravings & maps. Set consists of Vol. 3, parts 1 & 2; Vol. 4, parts 1 & 2; Vol. 5, part 2; Vol. 6, part 2; and Vol. 7, parts 1 & 2. Books are bound in marbled boards with calf spines and corners. Spines of all have gilt title blocks, raised bands, and gilt embellishments. Old German lettering stamped in gilt. All edges stained red. Corners bumped and rubbed, some edgewear to all volumes. Leather rubbed at hinges, worn occasionally, but all covers are securely attached. Marbled eps. Each book has a bookplate from the Library of Ohio Weslyan University on fpd and a stamp on the title page., with lib. # penciled verso t.p. Although foxed, the contents are tight and completely readable. Three of the books have beautiful steel engraved frontis plates. Barthelemy was a classical scholar who published on coins and languages, but this work achieved popular success for him. It follows a young scholar through Greece in the age of Plato and describes cities, buildings, institutions and manners in great detail. First published in France in 1787, this may have been the first German edition. There are ten maps in our copies, all exquisitely detailed fold-outs. Very Good
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Bingham, Hiram. A Residence of Twenty-One Years in the Sandwich Islands; or the Civil, Religious, and Political History of Those Islands. Hartford, CT: Hezekiah Huntington 1857. Hard Cover. First Edition. 616 pp. Dark brown cloth covered boards. Blind embossed borders and floral design at corners, gold embossed titling to spine. Foxing to endpapers, frontispiece and title page. Frontispiece steel engraving of author with tissue guard; six plates originally executed on wood block by B. F. Childs from sketches by the author, excepting plate six. Folding map of the Hawaiian Islands at rear and in Very Good condition. A very nice copy of an important work on early Hawaii. Very Good / No Jacket
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Bougainville, Lewis De. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD. London: Printed for J. Nourse 1772. Leather. First English Translation. 476 pp. B/w maps & charts. Subtitle: "Performed by Order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. By Lewis de Bougainville, Colonel of Foot, and Commodore of the Expedition, in the Frigate La Boudeuse, and the Store-ship L'Etoile." Translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster, F.A. S. Full leather covers are ruled at edges in gilt. Compartmented spine heavily embellished in gilt. Covers are split at both hinges and detached. Significant edgewear. Eps are a marbled pattern which appears on edges of book. The first English Edition of the account of the first French circumnatigation is a lovely old book. At the beginning, the ffep, first fly, and t.p. are separated from the text block, as are the final two pages in the book. Book is printed on lovely rag paper in a nice large type. Illustrations include a fold-out chart showing the "Track round the World of the Boudeuse and Etoile 1766-1769," a fold-out chart of the Straits of Magellan, 2 fold-out charts of the author's discoveries in the South Pacific ocean, a drawing of an Indian canoe from the isle of Taiti (sic), and a fold-out chart of the Straits of Bouton. An amazing book, tight and clean and full of fascinating information. Good
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Cousteau, Jacques. The Ocean World. New York: Abradale Press/Harry N. Abrams 1979. Hard Cover. First Edition. Slight sunning to dust jacket. Large stain on front cover board, only seen when jacket is removed. Clean and crisp within. Good / Very Good
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de Surville, Jean; Labe, Guillaume; Dunmore, John (Editor). The Expedition of the St Jean-Baptiste to the Pacific. London: The Hakluyt Society 1981. Hard Cover. First Edition. Slight crease to bottom right front panel of dust jacket, price clipped. Clean and crisp within. Fine / Very Good
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Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Columbus. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press 1991. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. Clean, crisp copy. Fine / Fine
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Forbes, Rosita. THE SECRET OF THE SAHARA: KUFARA. New York: George H. Doran Co. Hardcover. First Edition. 356 pp. B/w photo ills.include frontis portrait of author. With intro by Sir Harry Johnston. Sage green cloth covers decorated on front with outline of a palm and a sickle moon in brown. Brown title lettering front and spine. Spine ends creased. Upper edges aged; fore-and bottom edges untrimmed. Contents clean and tight, with a whisper of age to stock. Early explorations of the Sahara Desert. Very Good / No Jacket
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Hartwig, Dr. G.; Guernsey, Dr. A. H. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of a Man and Nature in the Polar and Equatorial Regions of the Globe (Two Volumes in One). Springfield, MA: C. A. Nicholas & Co. 1875. Hard Cover. First Edition. Green cloth covered boards with gold embossed design of a polar and tropical scence, gold titling to spine that has faded from sunning. Brown paper endsheets, numerous illustrations throughout. Very Good / No Jacket
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Lanman, Charles. ADVENTURES IN THE WILDS OF THE UNITED STATES AND BRITISH AMERICAN PROVINCES. 2 VOLS. Bessau, Oscar and Charles Lanman. Philadelphia - London: John W. Moore 1856. Hardcover. First Edition. 514, 517 pp. With an appendix by Lt. Campbell Hardy. Red cloth covers stamped with rules front and back. Gilt moose center front; moose in blind center rear covers. Spines lettered in gilt with a catch of fish illustrated. Spines sunned, with erosion of cloth at either end, three small nibbles to spine of V. 2. Each vol. has one touch of a tear along front joint, about 1" on each. Bottom edges worn, all corners bumped and rubbed. Aged eps w/ gift inscription on ffep of V. 1. Inside, the books are tight and clean, albeit a bit aged. A fascinating account of exploration and discovery in the early years of this country, difficult to put down once started. The writer tells of his travels through the midwest, along the Mississippi, the upper U.S. and lower Canadian lands around the Adirondacks, the Green and White Mountains, and over to Maine and its waterways; through the Alleghany Mountains, and along the Potomac River. In V. 2 he goes to the River Restigouche and back into Canada, goes to the American South for the winter, then heads into the territory along the lower Mississippi and up to the Ohio River. Along the way he explores the people and their particular customs. With six engraved ills. Very Good
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Livingstone, David Stanley. Livingstone's Africa: Perilous Adventures and Extensive Discoveries in the Interior of Africa from the Personal Narrative of David Livingstone, LL.D., D.C.L. Philadelphia, PA: Hubbard Bros 1872. Hard Cover. First Edition. Burgundy cloth covered boards with slight discoloration from moisture damage, minor fraying at edges of boards, minimally bumped corners. Front signature shaken, second signature loose from binding, but present. Otherwise clean and crisp within. Good / No Jacket
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