Berkeley: University of California Press, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. xix, 552 pp, with illustrations, folding map, in publisher's blue cloth and original dust jacket. Upper outer corner lightly bumped, else a fine copy. Dust jacket shows some toning, a few tiny tears..... Item #22705
Paris: Chez le Jay, 1786. Second edition, two parts in one. 12mo, pp xx, 244, [4], 264 pp, with with four engraved plates after designs by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin. Fine copy in a later full-calf binding with red spine label. Jean Bernard Bossu was a French naturalist who traveled widely..... Item #22439
Boston: True and Greene, 1825. First Edition. 22 pp, complete with original wrappers, but with the stitching perished, so gatherings are loose. Pink staining to front wrapper, edgewear, otherwise very good. Scarce pamphlet criticizing monopolies in general and, more specifically, the factions who opposed a new (toll-free) bridge in Boston..... Item #20637
Small broadside and cabinet card photo of El-Joseph Robert Raycroft. Undated, but ca. 1905. Broadside measures 5.75 x 12 inches and has some old creases and short tears. Cabinet card is in fine condition and credited to photographer Geo. F. Reil of Chicago. Both of El-Joseph's parents were preachers, and..... Item #20692
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
San Francisco: H.S. Crocker, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 11" x 8", [60]pp, with 26 halftone photographic plates. Original paper-covered boards with mounted cover illustration. Some chipping to paper over spine and fore edges, upper corners rubbed, library stamp on front free endpaper, card pocket on rear pastedown, illustration clipped..... Item #22279
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1872, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Two-Volume Set (Complete). 576, 568 pp, extensively illustrated. Approximately 12.5 x 10 inches, bound in 3/4 leather and pebbled cloth, with gilt titles and decoration on upper boards and spines, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Corners and some..... Item #22452
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. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 8vo, pp xii, 443; viii, 478, [2] (ads), each with engraved frontispiece and title page vignette, folding map in Volume II. Publisher's green cloth ruled in blind, with gilt figure on each front board. Account of Burton's journey from..... Item #20752
Sacramento: State Office, 1881. 72 pp, illustrated with small wood engravings, in original lavender printed wrappers. Some chipping to spine, old tears and tape repairs to back wrapper, else very good. Matthew Cooke was in the business of manufacturing fruit boxes in the 1870s when California’s apple crop was devastated..... Item #20560
London: Edward Stanford, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xiv, 214 pp, with colored folding map (of the Province 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
Lyndon, VT: 1882. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 233 pp + ads, in original salmon pictorial wrappers, with frontispiece (of a burro) and additional small illustrations in the text. Chips to corners of front wrapper and lower spine, previous owner's signature on front wrapper; internally very good. A series of letters..... Item #20755
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, [1911]. Hardcover. Very good. Early reprint, with "Published March 1911" on copyright but no date on title page. 354 pp, with illustrations, index, and folding map. Original blue cloth binding with lovely illustration of trees against a golden moon. Rubbing to corners and spine..... Item #22347
New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 402 pp, with appendix, bibliography, index, and more than 50 illustrations from photographs, in the simplest binding of unadorned grayish-brown cloth. Spine lettering faded but legible. Upper corners lightly bumped, binding sound, text clean. Short ownership inscription..... Item #22266
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
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London: Truslove & Shirley, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo, 148 pp, with eight photogravure plates, folding plan of outrigger canoe, folding chart, and other illustrations. Number 291 of 500 copies issued. Spine lean, rubbed and bumped corners, old tape repair to verso of chart, otherwise clean and sound..... Item #19168
Mexico City: Editorial LAYAC, 1943. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 9.5 x 7.25 inches, xv, 417 pp, including index and bibliography, illustrations, folding maps and facsimiles, in original colorful printed wrappers. A few penciled check marks in the index, otherwise unmarked, clean and sound. Some pages unopened. Second volume in..... Item #21212
San Francisco: Southern Pacific, 1911. Softcover. Good. 6.5" x 9.5", 160 pp, with many maps and illustrations from photographs, beautiful cover art (front and back) by Randal W. Borough, who created many memorable designs for California-related posters, brochures, and magazines in the early 20th century. Both covers have Library of..... Item #22332
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1899. Hardcover. Near fine. Authorized edition. Two volumes in maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. Small stain on front board of Vol. II, very slight sunning to spines, else fine. Illustrated. As described in the Cambridge edition, this work "began as an expansion of..... Item #22454
New York: Orange Judd, 1868. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Two volumes in original green cloth with gilt spine lettering, with illustrations, index, publisher's ads. Some scuffing to front board of Volume I, softening to spine ends, else fine. As described in the Cambridge edition, this work "began as..... Item #22484
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
[Columbia, South Carolina]: Southern Carolina Environmental Coalition, 1975. Softcover. Near fine. 8.5 x 11 inches, 144 pp, in original wrappers. Ownership signature on first page, "Congaree Swamp" handwritten on the spine, else fine. A collection of articles compiled to explain the importance of South Carolina's old-growth, bottomland forest and to..... Item #20457
