Dallas: Hargreaves Printing Co., 1905. First Edition. 249 pp, in original red pictorial boards. Rubbing to corners and spine ends, one small spot on front board, ownership signature dated 1905 on front free endpaper. Binding has some play, but is sound overall. Very good. According to the introduction, Hilory Bedford..... Item #20421
London: Chapman and Hall, 1869. First Edition. Two volumes, pp lxv, 236; vii, 322, complete with 20 colored lithograph plates, 3 botanical plates, woodcuts in the text, a colored folding map and a colored plate with three small maps. An attractive set, recased, with new endpapers but original cloth binding..... Item #16422
San Antonio, TX: 1902. Softcover. Very Good. 131 pp, with frontispiece, illustrations, in original wrappers. Light handling, two small chips to rear cover; text clean. Nicely illustrated little survey of the early history of Texas, the Missions, and the Alamo. Item #2987
London: Lovell Reeve, 1860. Hardcover. Good. xvii, 442 pp + 23 plates with facing pages + 20 (publisher's catalogue). Shelf wear to boards, tears to cloth at spine, front hinge starting to crack, small inscription on front free endpaper; contents clean. From the Preface: "The object of this Work is..... Item #2961
London: Cassell, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 334 pp. illustrated with 48 color photographs and a folding plate showing the route of the expedition. Fine but for a slight spine slant. Signed by Bonington with a generic inscription ("All the best") on the..... Item #11410
![Annapurna South Face [SIGNED]. Chris Bonington](/pictures/thumb/011410.JPG?v=1474055077)
1997. Soft cover. Very Good. Four-page photocopied typescript of Boukreev's remarks, on 8.5 x 11 paper, stapled at one corner and folded once horizontally. Boukreev--whose book The Climb describes the events of the tragic 1996 Everest climbing season from his perspective as a guide for Mountain Madness--here questions the effect..... Item #12423
Nueva York: Polhemus y Compania, 1901. First Edition. Title continues: Tomadas, por parte de México, Bajo la Dirección del Ingeniero Jacobo Blanco, Jefe de la Sección Mexicana de la Comisión Internacional de Limites que Restablecio los Monumentos en Anos de 1892 a 1895. 11 x 14 inches, oblong, in original..... Item #20564
Louvain: Université de Louvain, Institut Orientaliste, 1956. Softcover. Near Fine. Volume I: xvi, 192 pp + illustrations. Volume II: xxxiv, 163 pp + xxiii (illustrations). Orignal printed wrappers. Both volumes have unopened pages, light shelf wear; else clean and sound. Text is in French. DNB: "In 1926 [Philby] settled in..... Item #17805
New York and London: Longmans, Green, 1899. Hardcover. Very good. First edition, American issue. 8vo. pp. xxiv, 490; with two folding maps, 20 full-page plates, many other illustrations in the text. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. Very mild spine slant, rubbing to extremities; internals clean and..... Item #14880
Western Historical Association, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Volume I ONLY. 602 pp, illustrated. Original blue pebbled cloth boards have a few white paint splatters, spine is lightly sunned. Internally very clean and sound. This volume includes the full history of each county, including chapters on local organizations, churches..... Item #19689
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. 360 pp, with 17 plates. Translated from the German by Hugh Merrick. Buhl's solo ascent of Nanga Parbat from the final camp (the first successful summit of the mountain) "ranks as one of the most..... Item #12396
![Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage [SIGNED by Kurt Diemberger]. Hermann Buhl](/pictures/thumb/12396.jpg?v=1474055189)
Louisville, KY: Morton & Griswold, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 4.25 x 7.25 inches, pp xii, [9]-101.Original purple cloth with black leather spine, title stamped in gilt on upper board. Some pale staining to boards, interior very clean. All six original plates present, but folding map supplied in facsimile. Variously..... Item #20259
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume X. xi, 793 pp, with Ives' map (18" x 19") laid in; index, bibliography. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Slight scuffing..... Item #19321
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume II. vii, 212 pp, with illustrations (facsimile pages) and folding map. Blue cloth boards stamped on the spine in gilt; no dust jacket..... Item #18544
Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute and St. Louis Univesity, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Volume II. vii, 212 pp, with illustrations (facsimile pages) and folding map. A fine copy bound in 3/4 red leather and marbled boards; signed by..... Item #17389
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1862. First American Edition. Hardcover. good. 8vo, xii, [4], 574+ [2] ads. Illustrated with engravings; 3 maps on one folding sheet. Blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine darkened, fraying to spine ends, corners rubbed, front hinge partially cracked. Embossed library stamp on a...... Item #13758
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1869. First Edition. Two volumes. 8vo, pp xii, 443; viii, 478, [2] (ads), each with engraved frontispiece and title page vignette. Publisher's green cloth ruled in blind on the boards. Not first issue, but also not matching Penzer's description of the second issue binding, and with no..... Item #17523
London: Edward Stanford, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xiv, 214 pp, with colored folding map (of the Provine of Victoria) and two color plates, but no ads. Rebound in cloth-backed marbled boards with leather spine label. Embossed library stamp on title page; no other libraray markings. Leather corners rubbed, some..... Item #19772
Long Beach: Arthur H. Cawston, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Approx. 8 x 11 inches, 431 pp, with index and 180 additional pages of illustrations not included in the pagination. Original embossed cloth binding. Light rubbing to extremities; binding sound, text clean. Signature of longtime Long Beach businessman and..... Item #20671
San Francisco: California State Board of Trade, 1904. Softcover. Near fine. 55 pp, with chromolithograph frontispiece (of a poppy), folding map (Geographical, Topographical and Railroad Map of California, with birdseye view of San Francisco in 1903 on the verso), tables (one folding), and illustrations from photographs. Minimal general handling wear;..... Item #2821
Milwaukee, WI: North American Press, 1921. First Edition. Soft cover. Good. Unpaginated (c 200 pp), 6 x 9 inches, oblong, bound in flexible leather, illustrated with many b/w photographs from the Klondike Gold Rush (including scenes along the trail and views of Fairbanks and Dawson), one color illustration. Signed "Sincerely..... Item #13466
![Poems of Klondyke's Early Days and Alaska's Long White Trail [SIGNED]. Fred Crewe](/pictures/thumb/13466.JPG?v=1474055333)
Cincinnati: Looker, Reynolds & Co. Printers, 1819. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 12mo, 312 pp, in contemporary calf binding with black spine label. Some rubbing to corners and joints, old dampstaining and foxing to the text, but still quite sound and presentable. Wagner Camp (15a): The major portion of the work..... Item #20701
Washington DC: 1924. Hardcover. Near fine. Unpaginated, approximately 80 pp, with frontispiece, 19 illustrations. Original brown cloth with vignette and title in gilt on front board. Very light shelf wear to boards; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. The introduction to this scarce and rather odd work offers a...... Item #2194
Syracuse: E.H. Babcock & Co., 1853. First and only edition. 12mo, 148 pp, in publisher’s blind-stamped plum cloth. Wood-engraved vignette of a family scene on title page. Inscribed on the front pastedown “Mrs. Clement Dale, the Author L.D. Davis a Cousin of my Mama.” Some staining to boards, internals clean;..... Item #19918
St. Augustine: The Record Company, [1911]. Hardcover. Very good. 383 pp, illustrated. Original blue cloth binding somewhat soiled, internally clean and sound. Very good. A rare and detailed promotional work written just 15 years after the city of Miami was incorporated. In 1910, Miami had a population of just under..... Item #20071
