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Exploration Fawcett Arranged From His Manuscripts, Letters, Log-Books, and Records By Brian Fawcett
by Lt -Col P H Fawcett
The Discovery Of the Solomon Islands By Alvaro De Mendana In 1568 Translated From the Original Spanish Manuscripts Edited, With Introduction and Notes, By Lord Amherst Of Hackney, and Basil Thomson Vol I, Vol II
by Alvaro De, Author; Lord Amherst and Basil Thomson, Critical Apparatus Mendana
The First Military Escort On the Santa Fe Trail 1829 From the Journal and Reports Of Major Bennet Riley and Lieutenant Philip St George Cooke
by Otis E, Text, Drawing On Reports By Bennet Riley and Philip Cooke Young
The Journal Of John Jourdain, 1608-1617, Describing His Experiences In Arabia, India, and The Malay Archipelago Edited By William Foster
by John William Foster, Editor Jourdain
The Journals Of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, With Letters and Related Documents Edited and Annotated By Donald Jackson Volume 1
by Zebulon Montgomerry, Diarist; Donald Jackson, Editor Pike
History Of the Discovery and Conquest Of Costa Rica Translated By Harry Weston Van Dyke
by Ricardo Fernandez Guardia
Expeditions Books & Ephemera
![The Publications of the Champlain Society, The Works of Samuel de Champlain [reprinted 1971] // [complete set of seven bindings in fine shape]. The Works of Samuel de Champlain in Six Volumes; Reprinted, translated and annotated by six Canadian scholars under the general editorship of H.P. Biggar. Volume I, 1599-1607, translated and edited by H.H. Langton and W.F. Ganong, the French texts collated by J. Home Cameron. With a portfolio of plates and maps. Toronto The Society 1922 [exemplary description; ditto for vols II, III, IV, V, VI, and mapcase]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/846/747/1461747846.0.b.jpg)
The Publications of the Champlain Society, The Works of Samuel de Champlain [reprinted 1971] // [complete set of seven bindings in fine shape]. The Works of Samuel de Champlain in Six Volumes; Reprinted, translated and annotated by six Canadian scholars under the general editorship of H.P. Biggar. Volume I, 1599-1607, translated and edited by H.H. Langton and W.F. Ganong, the French texts collated by J. Home Cameron. With a portfolio of plates and maps. Toronto The Society 1922 [exemplary description; ditto for vols II, III, IV, V, VI, and mapcase]
by Champlain, Samuel de
Toronto: University of Toronto Press [the reprinting institution], 1971. Hardcover. Set complete in as-new condition. A labor of love showing very careful insertion of folded maps in amongst the texts of first two books. Red-orange buckram gilt, top edges also gilded. The mapcase was a lot of work, being a slipcase within a slipcase, the inner one provided with an onlaid title/contents label. Contents include two very large folded period maps, one modern map, and drawings in facsimile. The set handles...
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€354.45
![De Colon a Humboldt. Latinoamerica Fin de Milenio [vol.] 11](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/257/395/1027395257.0.b.1.jpg)
De Colon a Humboldt. Latinoamerica Fin de Milenio [vol.] 11
by Zea, Leopoldo [and] Mario Magallon, compiladores
Mexico D.F.: Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia / Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1999. Paperback. 133p., scholarly journal in glossy 8x5 inch wraps decorated in color; faintest signs of any age or handling, entirely sound, clean and free of any markings. A fine copy. Text in Spanish. Coleccion Latinoamerica Fin de Milenio. Bicentenario del otro descubrimiento de Alejandro de Humboldt.
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€18.90
News of the Islands and the Mainland Newly Discovered in India by the Captain of His Imperial Majesty's Fleet. Translated and with Notes by Edward F. Tuttle
by Calvo, Andrea. Edward F. Tuttle, translation and notes
Culver City: Labyrinthos, 1985. Pamphlet. 27p., facsimile text (largepoint) faces translations &c in smallpoint, oversize softbound, a stapled 11x8.5 inch pamphlet in plain printed milkchocolate wraps, faintest signs of age & handling (minuscule abrasion and sunning to spinefold), entirely clean, sound and unmarked within, a very good copy. An early, very early, account of The New World, already with large-scale battles.
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€11.34
![La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo; The Journal of Fray Martin de Munilla O.F.M. and other documents relating to The Voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros to the South Sea (1605-1606) and the Franciscan Missionary Plan (1617-1627) - Translated and Edited by Celsus Kelly O.F.M. With ethnological introduction, appendix, and other contributions by G.S. Parsonson. Volume I, Volume II [the pair complete]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/022/429/1512429022.0.b.jpg)
La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo; The Journal of Fray Martin de Munilla O.F.M. and other documents relating to The Voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros to the South Sea (1605-1606) and the Franciscan Missionary Plan (1617-1627) - Translated and Edited by Celsus Kelly O.F.M. With ethnological introduction, appendix, and other contributions by G.S. Parsonson. Volume I, Volume II [the pair complete]
by Munilla, Fray Martin de, O.F.M., &c &c
Cambridge: Published by the Hakluyt Society at the Cambridge University Press, 1966. Hardcover. xvii, 270, xv, 273-446p., matched pair in Hakluyt's signature format: blue cloth boards gilt & blind and enclosed in their dust jackets. Top edges of both volumes are dusty and foxed, and the second was printed on paperstock not fully alkaline, giving v.2 a pervasive mild browning. Jackets are a bit edgeworn with toned spine panels; these mild signs of age are matched, along with the general design. A good to...
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€28.36
Tibet: land of gentlemen brigands. Retracing the steps of Alexandra David-Néel
by Baldizzone, Tiziana and Gianni
Vercelli: White Star, 2004. 160p., very good hardcover in dj, dj rubbed at top of spine panel, otherwise a lovely copy of this lavishly illustrated book.
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€17.01
The great Chinese travelers
by Mirsky, Jeanette
New York: Pantheon, 1964. 309p., very good hardcover in chipped dustjacket. Discusses Chinese travelers to distant lands, ranging from diplomats to Buddhist pilgrims.
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€11.34
Pietro's Pilgrimage. A Journey to India and back at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century
by Blunt, Wilfred [Scawen]
London: James Barrie, 1953. Hardcover. xii, 320p., scattered period illustrations in b&w, the hardbound first edition in not quite collectable condition, but a good reading copy: spine panel is dimmed from handling with the black cloth of covers flecked and worn,, lacks the dust jacket, text pages are entirely clean and unmarked, and textblock and casing together are square and sound. A useful book just as it is. In Europe, Pietro spent two years in unsanitary Roman Catholic prisons where he could hear...
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€14.18
![A New Account of East India and Persia. Being Nine Years' Travels, 1672-1681. By John Fryer. Edited, with Notes and an Introduction by William Crooke, Formerly of the Bengal Civil Service. Vol. I, Vol. II, Vol. III [all three parts, set complete]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/414/612/1464612414.0.b.jpg)
A New Account of East India and Persia. Being Nine Years' Travels, 1672-1681. By John Fryer. Edited, with Notes and an Introduction by William Crooke, Formerly of the Bengal Civil Service. Vol. I, Vol. II, Vol. III [all three parts, set complete]
by Fryer, John. William Crooke, editor
Millwood NY / London: Kraus Reprint / Reproduced by permission of The Hakluyt Society, 1967. Hardcover. [xl], 353, 371, viii, 271p., maps and illustrations as called for and in fine shape, hardbound in matching light blue cloth boards spine-titled gilt. As new, plainly ordered new by our collector and never handled. Second series, nos. 19, 20, 39.
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€89.79
Darwin and Huxley in Australia
by Marshall, A.J
Sydney: Hodder and Stoughton, 1970. Hardcover. 142p., illustrated with period sketches reproduced sepia on glazed inserted stock, hardbound first edition in black cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. Faint mist of foxing to top edge, the only flaw we see to book itself, while the dust jacket margins are slightly worn, and just a touch of handling soil to panels. Near-fine: sound, otherwise cleanly, and unmarked.
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€18.90
I Come from the Stone Age; translated from the German by Edward Fitzgerald
by Harrer, Heinrich
New York: E.P.Dutton & Co., Inc, 1965. Hardcover. First American edition: 256p., illustrated with numerous photo sections, mostly b&w with several dynamite color shots, Hardbound in red cloth boards lettered orange and green and enclosed in the dust jacket. Book itself bears scattered spots of foxing to fore-edge, and the jacket is a little edgeworn with short tears at the head-rim, an otherwise perfectly sound copy, clean and unmarked. Contains several of the finest colorphoto portraits of indigenous...
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Desert Journeys - An Account of the Arduous Exploration of the Interior of the Continent of Australia by Rival Expeditions in 1873-4
by Rawson, Geoffrey
London: Jonathan Cape, 1948. Hardcover. 270p., illustrated with a half-dozen original line maps, the first edition in 8x5.5 inch red cloth boards lettered in silverfoil. Top edge tinted red, a nice production, lacking the jacket. Slightest edgewear to casing, remains bright and sound, completely clean and unmarked, a very good copy.
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€20.79
Himalayan Barbary
by Furer-Haimendorf, Christoph von
London: John Murray, 1955. Hardcover. xiv, 241p., plentifully provided with portrait and activity photos, hardbound first edition in 9x5.5 inch red cloth boards spine-titled in bronze. This titling is so dim as to be illegible; perhaps dull bronze on medium scarlet was a poor design choice. Lacks the jacket, spine panel faintly grimy, spots of foxing to title page and several adjacent leaves because of something acidic that had been laid in at the half-title, now gone. The bulk of the item is not at all...
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€14.18
German Americana; Catalogue Two Hundred Forty-Five
by Reese, William & Co
New Haven: William Reese Company, 2004. Paperback. Unpaginated, about 120 pages with 161 items, many facsimiles shown (clearly reproduced), softbound in 9x6 inch decorated white wraps. An as-new exemplar, soundly bound, perfectly clean and unmarked in any way. Both front and back covers, and the half-page facsimile at item 133 ("America Tertia Pars", 1592), feature images of cannibalism, whether imputed or actually observed. That on back is an imaginative rendering of the execution of a ritual victim.
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€18.90
![A Call of Contemporary Society for Research in Asia Minor and Syria made through J.R. Sitlington Sterrett [cover title] // A Plea for Research in Asia Minor and Syria Authorized By Men Whose High Achievements And Representative Character Make The Project A Call of Humanity at Large for Light in regard to The Life of Man In The Cradle of Western Civilization by J.R. Sitlington Sterrett [title page version]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/307/339/1388339307.0.b.jpg)
A Call of Contemporary Society for Research in Asia Minor and Syria made through J.R. Sitlington Sterrett [cover title] // A Plea for Research in Asia Minor and Syria Authorized By Men Whose High Achievements And Representative Character Make The Project A Call of Humanity at Large for Light in regard to The Life of Man In The Cradle of Western Civilization by J.R. Sitlington Sterrett [title page version]
by Sterrett, J.R. Sitlington, spokesman
Ithaca NY: Cornell University, 1911. 205p., softbound in 9x6 inch plain printed grey wraps paste-fastened over a tightly stapled textblock, a utilitarian job not meant to last. No illustrations or imagery. Front cover has torn away from the titlepage (there are no blanks, no halftitle, no frontispiece, no preliminaries of any kind. Damage attendant includes a huge chip from the spine panel, a ragged lefthand edge to cover-leaf and ugly rips to lefthand of titlepage. The remainder of the item is in good...
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The Australian Frontier in New Guinea
by Gordon, Donald Craigie
New York: Columbia University Press, 1951. Paperback. 301p., plus a page long vita, folded line-map as frontispiece, softbound dissertation in 9x6 inch plain printed grey wraps. Sound and square with mild edgewear and sunning of extremities, clean and unmarked within, a very good copy of Gordon's book in its fragile first issue state. [dissertation], Columbia University no. 562.
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€18.90
L'Ambassade en Perse de Luis Pereira de Lacerda, et des Peres Portugais de l'Ordre de Saint-Augustin, Belchior dos Anjos et Guilherme de Santo Agostinho 1604-1605
by Gulbenkian, Roberto
Coimbra / Lisbonne: Comite National Portugais pour la Celebration du 2,500 Anniversaire de la Fondation de la Monarchie en Iran, 1972. Hardcover. 194p., folded map & errata slip bound in at terminus, hardbound in 11x7 inch faux-leather boards. Presswork throughout is on coated stock; find numerous old prints in photo-facsimile, an as-new copy: sound, clean, unmarked.
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€61.44
La Decouverte de l'Asie. Histoire de l'orientalisme en Europe et en Russie. Traduit du Russe et annote par B. Nikitine, ancien consul. Membre de la Society Asiatique
by Barthold, V.-V
Paris: Payot, 1947. Paperback. 367p., later printing, issued first a year earlier, 1946. Softbound in 9x5.5 inch rubricated wraps, paperstock acidic and toned, worst damage to cover's fore-edge (edgewear with chipping). First blank is folded vertically, a flaw we have let alone. A somewhat fragile "reading copy.
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€28.36
The Travels of Pedro Teixeira; with his "Kings of Harmuz," and extracts from his "Kings of Persia," Translated and Annotated by William F. Sinclair, Bombay Civil Service (retd.); With further Notes and an Introduction by Donald Ferguson, Reproduced, by permission of the Hakluyt Society from the edition originally published by the Society in 1902 Kraus Reprint Limited
by Teixeira, Pedro. Translation & notes: William Sinclair, Donald Fertguson
Nendelin / Liechtenstein: Kraus / The Hakluyt Society, 1967. Hardcover. cviii, 292p., lacks any illustrations or maps, photo-reproduced text done somewhat clumsily, hardbound in the Hakluyt style: light blue cloth boards gilt, quite a nice copy with a little external handling grime to spine panel, entirely sound, clean and unmarked within, a very good copy of the Kraus reprint. Kraus, by the way, worked closely in conjunction with The Society. Second series no. IX [reprint].
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€56.71
The road to California, the search for a Southern overland route 1540 - 1848
by Hague, Harlan
Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1978. Hardcover. 325p., first edition, illus., maps, very good condition.
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€18.90
Vanished kingdoms: a woman explorer in Tibet, China & Mongolia 1921-1925
by Cabot, Mabel H.; preface by Dr. Rubie Watson
New York: Aperture, 2003. Hardcover. 192p., coated paperstock with b&w and colorized images from photography, first edition oblong spine-titled boards in pictorial dj, very good condition. Janet and Frederick Wulsin's archive from a National Geographic sponsored expedition, stored in the basement of the Peabody, here getting a fine first airing.
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€14.18
![The Caravels of Christ. Translated [from the French] by Richmond Hill](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/080/652/1437652080.0.b.jpg)
The Caravels of Christ. Translated [from the French] by Richmond Hill
by Renault, Gilbert
London: Ruskin House / George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1959. 261p. + publisher's ads, illustrated with perhaps eight simple small line maps from earlier eras and a few old images. Hardbound first edition of this translation in brown boards silver-titled, top edge tinted brown to match, enclosed in the dust jacket. General excellent condition: top rim of casing is mildly crimped, find a small raspberry-pink stain to terminal blanks, the dj slightly edgeworn with a little toning, item is else completely sound,...
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€9.45
Antonio de Saldanha, His Times and His Achievements. Englished by M. Freire de Andrade
by Lobato, Alexandre
Lisbon: Centro de Estudos Historicos Ultramarinos, 1962. Paperback. 138p., rubricated titlepage and buff cover, softbound in 9x6 inch yapp-edged wraps. The edges have picked up a couple droplet stains, dust-soil and abrasion wear, item is otherwise sound and entirely clean and unmarked within.
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€23.63
![Lettera di Amerigo Vespucci delle isole nuovamente trovate in quattro suoi viaggi [1504]. Reproduced in facsimile from the McCormick-Hoe copy in the Princeton University Library](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/821/242/1450242821.0.b.jpg)
Lettera di Amerigo Vespucci delle isole nuovamente trovate in quattro suoi viaggi [1504]. Reproduced in facsimile from the McCormick-Hoe copy in the Princeton University Library
by Vespucci, Amerigo
Princeton / London / Oxford: Princeton University Press / Humphrey Milford / OUP, 1916. Hardcover. A couple of unpaginated leaves, then the facsimile 1-32p., several woodcut illustrations per original, solid print-blocks without paragraphing, appears to us a medieval Italian excursus in blackletter. Nice small hardbound in grey cloth boards gilt (8.5x5.5 inches) and enclosed in the dust jacket. Slim production that remains bright, tight and square, while the plain printed dj is intact but edgeworn. Book...
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Les Naufrages de dieu; Aventures d'un protestant et de ses compagnons exiles en deux iles desertes de l'ocean Indien 1690-1698
by Leguat, Francois
Paris: Phebus, 1995. Paperback. 203p., illustrated solely with the color cover facsimile of a very old map showing the islands in question. Softbound, an 8x5.5 inch paperback entirely in the French language. Structurally a sound pleasant copy, but expect holograph comment (in English) and underlines on pp.13, 14 and back cover, pointing up the possibility of an old and continuing fraud (no shipwreck, no marooning, original publisher uncertain), a critical mind at work with ballpoint pen. An attractive...
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Colombo, ammiraglio del tenebroso oceano
by Bisso, Luisa, text. Flavio Bozzoili, design
Torino: Societa Editrice Internazionale, 1991. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 106p., comix panels in color throughout the item (emphasis on character of Columbus, structure of caravels), presswork on semi-glazed alkaline paperstock hardbound in 11.5x9 inch laminated pictorial boards. Text in Italian. Endsheets provide maps of the transatlantic voyage, and of several Caribbean islands. Inscribed and signed on the titlepage by author as "Luisa Bisso Bozzolli 1992". Nicely-done book in as-new...
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