![Travels in the Island of Iceland During the Summer of the Year MDCCCX [1810]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/704/039/1572039704.0.l.jpg)
Travels in the Island of Iceland During the Summer of the Year MDCCCX [1810]
by Mackenzie, Sir George Steuart
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable et al., 1812. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition. Quarto, pp. xv, 491, complete with 3 maps (one folding), 4 folding charts, and 14 engraved plates, of which 8 are lovely hand-colored aquatints. Additional engravings in the text. Rebound in quarter-leather and brown cloth. Approximately 10 text pages with significant foxing, otherwise very clean. A chemist and geologist by training, Mackenzie 1780-1848) traveled to Iceland with the physicians Henry Holland (1788-1873) and Richard Bright (1789-1858), both... Read More
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La Expedicion Malaspina 1789-1794, Tomos I-V: Circunstancia histórica del viaje; Diario general del viaje (Vol. 1 & 2); Diarios y trabajos botanicos; Trabajos cientificos y correspondencia de Tadeo Haenke; Antropología y noticias etnográficas
by Malaspina, Alejandro; Ricardo Cerezo Martínez; Félix Muñoz Garmendia, María Victoria Ibáñez Montoya, Juan Pimentel Igea
Barcelona: Ministerio de Defensa, Museo Naval, Lunwerg Editores. Hardcover. Very good. Undated, but published between 1987 and 1996. Volumes 1-5, in 6 physical volumes. Includes: Tomo I, Circunstancia histórica del viaje; Tomo II, Vol. 1 & 2: Diario general del viaje; Tomo III, Diarios y trabajos botanicos; Tomo IV, Trabajos cientificos y correspondencia de Tadeo Haenke; Tomo V: Antropología y noticias etnográficas. Volumes measure 11.5" x 9.5" and are printed on glossy stock with color illustrations and maps.... Read More
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Notes of a Twenty-five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory
by M'lean, John
London: Richard Bentley, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 7.75" x 4.75", pp xii, [13]-308; vii, [1], [9]-328 pp, in original brown blindstamped cloth, spines decorated in gilt, patterned endpapers with publisher's advertisements. Chipping to cloth at spine ends, old repairs visible at joints, but still an attractive set, uncommon in the original cloth. Wagner-Camp 169: "John McLean entered the service of the Hudson's Bay Company during the winter of 1820-21 and worked in the Ontario... Read More
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The American Gardener's Calendar: Adapted to the Climates and Seasons of the United States
by M'Mahon, Bernard
Philadelphia: B. Graves, 1806. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, pp v, [1],648 + index, with one folding table, in original full calf with red spine label. Leather scuffed, corner torn from table, with small loss of text, otherwise sound and clean. Bookplate of Benjamin Lincoln Lear (1792-1832, attorney and godson of George Washington) on front pastedown, three manuscript notes in Lear's hand, and several newspaper clippings laid in -- all relating to gardening. "M’Mahon came from Ireland... Read More
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![A Journey from London to the Isle of Wight [Two Volumes in One]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/248/978/1598978248.0.l.jpg)
A Journey from London to the Isle of Wight [Two Volumes in One]
by Pennant, Thomas
London: Printed at the Oriental Press by Wilson & Co. for Edward Harding, 1801. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto, pp 205, 217, with two folding hand-colored maps and 47 engraved plates, in a contemporary full calf binding with gilt rules, spine in six compartments, with red and black spine labels and gilt embellisment. Some rubbing to boards, especially at joints and head of spine, a little worming to boards. Binding sound, scattered foxing, but generally clean. The... Read More
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![Arctic Zoology, Vol. I. Introduction. Class I. Quadrupeds; Vol. II. Class II. Birds [with] Supplement to the Arctic Zoology](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/464/946/1701946464.0.l.jpg)
Arctic Zoology, Vol. I. Introduction. Class I. Quadrupeds; Vol. II. Class II. Birds [with] Supplement to the Arctic Zoology
by Pennant, Thomas
London: Henry Hughs, 1797. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Three volumes in two, with the supplement bound in at the end of Volume II. 4to, 9.25 x 11.75 inches, with wide margins. Volume I: pp [10], cc, [6], 185, [1]. Volume II: pp [2], [187]-586, [14]; Supplement, vii, 163. Collated and complete with frontispiece, two vignette title pages, two folding maps, and 23 full page plates (one folding). In a contemporary binding of red sheepskin with gilt decoration... Read More
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![The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, to Headwaters of the Mississippi River, Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7 [With a Rare Related Pamphlet Bound In]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/486/291/1506291486.0.l.jpg)
The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, to Headwaters of the Mississippi River, Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7 [With a Rare Related Pamphlet Bound In]
by Pike, Zebulon M.; Coues, Elliott (Editor)
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1895. Hardcover. Very good. Three volumes, limited large paper edition, number 53 of 150 sets printed on handmade paper, illustrated with frontispiece portrait and seven maps (six in pocket at rear of Volume III). Original white cloth spines and paper-covered boards. Edgewear, typical light toning and soiling to spine cloth, internally sound and clean, partially unopened. Unique to this set is the addition of a four-page pamphlet bound in after the title page... Read More
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Topographical Map of the Road From Missouri To Oregon Commencing at the Mouth of the Kansas in the Missouri River and Ending at the Mouth of the Wallah Wallah in the Columbia
by Preuss. Charles; Fremont, John Charles
Washington, 1849. Very good. Lithograph map in seven sections, with each sheet measuring approximately 15.5 x 25 inches. Not bound. Second issue of this monumental and important map of the Oregon Trail, described by Wheat as "a road guide for Oregon emigrants such as had never previously existed." The second issue is nearly identical to the first (which appeared in 1846), but the lithographer's name has been omitted and the numbering of sheets III and VI is reversed.... Read More
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A Series of Particular and Useful Observations, Made with Great Diligence and Care, Upon that Admirable Structure, the Cathedral-Church of Salisbury
by Price, Francis
London: C. and J. Ackers, 1753. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 11.25 x`9.25 inches, pp [14], v, 78, [1] (ad), with 13 leaves of plates (one folding). Illustrations engraved by Pierre Fourdrinier after Francis Price. Contemporary calf boards, rebacked with new spine with raised bands, original black leather spine label. Armorial bookplate of British civil engineer and architect W.C. Mylne (1781-1863) on front pastedown. Boards show moderate scuffing and general wear, rear board has staining to the lower... Read More
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A Description of Texas, Its Advantages and Resources, With Some Account of their Development, Past, Present, and Future
by Roberts, O.M. [Oran Milo]
St. Louis: Gilbert Book Co, 1881. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, x, [17]-133 pp, with frontis portrait of Roberts, with 8 chromolithograph plates and 5 lithograph maps, 4 of which are hand-colored, in original publisher's cloth. Boards show considerable insect nibbling and some soiling and p. 131/132 was detached at some time and reinserted backwards, Otherwise internally sound and clean, with all plates and maps in nice condition. Roberts was the 17th Governor of Texas, and this promotional book about... Read More
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An Account of Six Years Residence in Hudson's Bay, From 1733 to 1736, and 1744 to 1747
by Robson, Joseph
London: Printed for J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752. First Edition. 8vo, pp vi + 84, 95, with 3 folding maps. Bound in full mottled calf with gilt rules. Small bookplate ("Lavington") on front pastwdown and one "From the Wilberforce Library Backsettown" on front free endpaper. Frontis map slightly misfolded, but overall a near fine copy. Robson was a former employee of the Hudson's Bay Company who had worked as a surveyor and "Supervisor of the Buildings" (i.e., construction... Read More
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The Chinese Drama
by Stanton, William
Hongkong, Shanghai, Yokohama and Singapore: Kelly & Walsh, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 130 pp, in original blue cloth boards with titles in red. Light soiling to boards, corners bumped, one signature loosening; good to very good overall. With the 1918 ownership signature of West China medical missionary J.C. Humphreys on the front free endpaper and a brief gift inscription on the title page. A native of England, William Stanton served as a policeman in Hong Kong from... Read More
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Altowan; Or incidents of Life and Adventure in the Rocky Mountains, by An Amateur Traveler
by [Stewart, Sir William Drummond]; Webb, J. Watson (Editor)
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1846. First Edition. Two volumes, pp. xxix,[25]-255; 240, in original brown cloth, with small gilt vignette of a buffalo hunt on each front board. Small losses at spine ends, horizontal crack in spine cloth on Vol. II, scattered foxing, but overall very good. Stewart, a British army officer, first came to America 1832. In search of adventure, he traveled west to the Rockies where he remained for several years, participating in the fur trade... Read More
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