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The Olden Time; A Monthly Publication, Devoted to the Preservation of Documents and Other Authentic Information in Relation to the Early Explorations, and the Settlement and Improvement of the Country Around the Head of the Ohio

Pittsburgh: Dumars & Co., 1846 and 1876. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes, 8vo. First edition of Volume I (1846; viii, 576 pp, one folding plate) with second edition of Volume II, (1876; 580 pp, one folding map). Volume II in original green cloth, Volume I in modern cloth of the... (Item #11126)

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The Olden Time; A Monthly Publication, Devoted to the Preservation of Documents and Other Authentic Information in Relation to the Early Explorations, and the Settlement and Improvement of the Country Around the Head of the Ohio. Neville B. Craig.
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Five Years in Africa

Eugene, OR: Koke-Chapman Company. Softcover. Very Good. First and only edition. Undated, but c. 1935. 48 pp, with b/w illustrations from photographs, in original stapled wrappers. Light handling wear and soiling to wrappers, previous owner's name and address on inside cover; else clean and sound. Scarce account by a female... (Item #2190)

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Five Years in Africa. Violet B. Crandall.
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Catalina, A Poem

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)

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Catalina, A Poem. Nellie E. Dashiell, Loretto Lowenstein.
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Across Aboriginal America. The Journey of Three Englishmen Across Texas in 1568 [INSCRIBED TO HERBERT BOLTON]

El Pason: Peripatetic Press, 1947. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Frontispiece by Cisneros, 11 page introductory text by DeGolyer, followed by a double-page map by Cisneros, 7 pp facsimile of the 1589 edition, colophon. One of 700 copies issued, this one inscribed on the colophon by printer Carl... (Item #19325)

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Across Aboriginal America. The Journey of Three Englishmen Across Texas in 1568 [INSCRIBED TO HERBERT BOLTON]. E. DeGolyer, Jose Cisneros.
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Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824. Extending across the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empire

London: John Murray, 1826. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Two volumes in one. lxvii, 335; 269 pp, complete with 38 engraved plates (1 colored) and maps (1 folding), 6 wood-engraved vignettes in the text. Rebound in red buckram with leather spine label, date... (Item #13060)

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Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824. Extending across the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empire. Major Dixon Denham, Major Hugh Clapperton.
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Summits and Secrets [SIGNED]

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. 344 pp, indexed, extensively illustrated with b/w photos, maps. Translated from the German by Hugh Merrick. Signed by Diemburger on the title page. Boards are sunned at the edges; front board has a subtle... (Item #12488)

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Summits and Secrets [SIGNED]. Kurt Diemberger.
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The True Story of the Hart-Meservey Murder Trial, In Which Light is Thrown Upon Dark Deeds, Incompetency, and Perfidy; and Crime Fastened upon those whose Position, if not Manhood, Should have Demanded Honest Dealing

Boston: Published by the Author, 1882. First Edition. 309 pp, including index and five pages of testimonials regarding the competence and credibility of the author. A good copy in original pictorial cloth; scuffed, well-rubbed at the edges, and lacking front free endpaper. McDade 447: "Mrs. Sarah Meservey was last seen... (Item #19423)

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The True Story of the Hart-Meservey Murder Trial, In Which Light is Thrown Upon Dark Deeds, Incompetency, and Perfidy; and Crime Fastened upon those whose Position, if not Manhood, Should have Demanded Honest Dealing. Alvin R. Dunton.
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The Franciscans in California

Harbor Springs, MI: Holy Childhood Indian School, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xvi, 516 pp, with frontispiece, map, illustrations, index. General wear to boards, both hinges starting, bookplate of Edward Dean Lyman on front pastedown; contents clean. Handwritten sheet tipped in on p. 454 noting that all pages are present... (Item #2962)

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The Franciscans in California. Zephyrin Engelhardt.
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First Expedition of Vargas into New Mexico, 1692 [Coronado Cuarto Centennial Publications Volume X]

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xi, 319 pp, including index. Frontis portrait of Governor Vargas. Original burgundy cloth stamped in guilt. Lower corners and spine ends bumped, small spot of discoloration on rear board. Binding tight and square, text and endpapers unmarked... (Item #13953)

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First Expedition of Vargas into New Mexico, 1692 [Coronado Cuarto Centennial Publications Volume X]. J. Manuel Espinosa, Introduction Translation, Notes.
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In the Shadow of the Bush

New York and London: George H. Doran and William Heinemann, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. xiv, 500 pp, indexed, with color frontispiece, numerous illustrations, and a large folding map of the Oban District, Southern Nigeria. Original green cloth with gilt lettering, mounted illustration. Corners lightly bumped, cloth torn at head of... (Item #13124)

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In the Shadow of the Bush. ETHNOLOGY, P. Amaury Talbot.
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Camp and Tramp in African Wilds, A Record of Adventure, Impressions, and Experiences During Many Years Spent Among the Savage Tribes Round Lake Tanganyika and in Central Africa, with a Description of Native Life, Character, and Customs

Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1913. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 316 pp, with 32 photographic plates and a folding map. Publisher's orange cloth stamped in gilt. Moderate foxing, else clean and sound. Torday describes his extensive travels in the Congo between 1900 and 1907, offering detailed observations on the... (Item #13044)

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Camp and Tramp in African Wilds, A Record of Adventure, Impressions, and Experiences During Many Years Spent Among the Savage Tribes Round Lake Tanganyika and in Central Africa, with a Description of Native Life, Character, and Customs. ETHNOLOGY, E. Torday, Emil.
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Fighting the Polar Ice

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition, with a new Preface. pp. xxii, 296, [iv], appendix, with color frontispiece, many plates from sketches and photographs by Fiala and paintings by Porter and J. Knowles Hare, 4 maps (one folding). Original green cloth with blind-stamped vignette... (Item #15209)

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Fighting the Polar Ice. Anthony Fiala, W. S. Champ, William J. Peters, Russell W. Porter, Oliver S., Fassig.
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Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds

Boston: David R. Godine, 1979. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 11 x 16 inches, ix, 13-304 pp, indexed, with maps, full-color plates of all known species of birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Dust jacket is price-clipped, otherwise as new, in an as-new slipcase. "A feast... (Item #17298)

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Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds. Joseph M. Forshaw, William T. Cooper.
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The Exploration of the Caucasus

London: Edwin Arnold, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes in original green cloth, pp xxiii, 278; x, 295, complete with 76 full-page photographic plates, 4 color folding maps (one in rear pocket), 3 folding panoramas, additional illustrations in the text. Boards have some old insect nibbling at the... (Item #18541)

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The Exploration of the Caucasus. Douglas Freshfield, Vittorio Sella.
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The Gateway to the Sahara, Adventures and Observations in Tripoli [SIGNED, WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING]

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. Hardcover. Very good. New and Enlarged edition. 363 pp, with illustrations from paintings and photographs by the author. Original dark red cloth, with some light general wear and scuffing. No dust jacket. Signed by Furlong, with an original drawing by him of a rider... (Item #18639)

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The Gateway to the Sahara, Adventures and Observations in Tripoli [SIGNED, WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING]. Charles Wellington Furlong.
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To the Alps of Chinese Tibet, An Account of a Journey of Exploration up to and among the Snow-Clad Mountains of the Tibetan Frontier

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1924. First American Edition. 8vo, 321 pp, with illustrations from photographs, folding map, index. Publisher's orange cloth illustrated in black. Mild dust soiling to the cloth, else clean and sound. Very good. Account of a four-month, 1500 mile journey by geologist and explorer John Walter Gregory (1864-1932)... (Item #18137)

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To the Alps of Chinese Tibet, An Account of a Journey of Exploration up to and among the Snow-Clad Mountains of the Tibetan Frontier. J. W. Gregory, Gregory C. J.
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Trans-Allegheny Pioneers, Historical Sketches of the First White Settlements West of the Alleghenies, 1748 and After. Wonderful Stories of Hardship and Heroism of those who First Braved the Dangers of the Inhospitable Wilderness, and the Savage Tribes that then Inhabited It

Cincinnati: Graphic Press, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 5" x 7.25", 327 pp. Publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt, with beveled edges and decorative endpapers. Gift inscription from the year of publication on the front flyleaf, touch of rubbing to corners, else fine. A physician and enterprising businessman, Hale... (Item #14926)

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Trans-Allegheny Pioneers, Historical Sketches of the First White Settlements West of the Alleghenies, 1748 and After. Wonderful Stories of Hardship and Heroism of those who First Braved the Dangers of the Inhospitable Wilderness, and the Savage Tribes that then Inhabited It. John P. Hale.
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Narrative of Don Juan Van Halen's Imprisonment in the Dungeons of the Inquisition at Madrid, and His Escape in 1817 and 1818; to Which are Added His Journey to Russia, His Campaign with the Army of the Caucasus, and His Return to Madrid in 1821

London: Henry Colburn, 1827. Hardcover. Very good. First edition in English. Two volumes, pp. xix, 380, with frontis portrait and two folding facsimiles; xv, 496. with frontis portrait, two folding panoramas, and folding sketch map of the Caucasus and Georgia. Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked with modern calf spine with gilt... (Item #16525)

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Narrative of Don Juan Van Halen's Imprisonment in the Dungeons of the Inquisition at Madrid, and His Escape in 1817 and 1818; to Which are Added His Journey to Russia, His Campaign with the Army of the Caucasus, and His Return to Madrid in 1821. Juan van Halen, Valentin Llanos Gutierrez.
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California '46 to '88

Oakland, CA: Jacob Wright Harlan, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. 242 pp, with frontispiece, decorative endpapers. Original brown cloth with decoration in gilt and black. Small ownership label on front pastedown, light general wear to exterior, front hinge a bit wobbly; else sound and clean. No dust jacket. Second edition. Personal... (Item #2051)

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California '46 to '88. Jacob Wright Harlan.
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Seven Years in Tibet

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1993. Fine. 9.25" x 13", 260 pp. #5 of an edition of 300 numbered copies, signed by Harrer on the colophon. Translated by Richard Graves, with an Introduction by the Dalai Lama. Illustrated with six photogravures; map of Harrer's route laid in. Bound in coarse... (Item #20268)

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Seven Years in Tibet. Heinrich Harrer.
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, New Series, Vol. XVIII

New York: 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, pp. iv, 480. Bound volume containing six monthly issues, January-June 1846, with index, frontis engraving of a statue of Thomas Jefferson, and four engraved portraits by T. Doney. Edited by Thomas Prentice Kettell. Contemporary quarter-leather and marbled boards. Spine and corners... (Item #18871)

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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, New Series, Vol. XVIII. Nathaniel; Schoolcraft Hawthorne, John Greenleaf, Caleb; Whitter, Henry; Cushing.
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Thoughts on Physical Education: Being a Discourse delivered to a Convention of Teachers in Lexington, KY. on the 6th and 7th of Nov. 1833

Boston: Marsh, Capen, & Lyon, 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4.75" x 7.5", 133 pp + errata slip. Original blue cloth with paper spine label. Extremities rubbed, spine cloth chipped, shadow of bookplate removed from front free endpaper; very good. Caldwell (1772-1853) was a student (and at times a.... (Item #14918)

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Thoughts on Physical Education: Being a Discourse delivered to a Convention of Teachers in Lexington, KY. on the 6th and 7th of Nov. 1833. HEALTH AND MEDICINE, Charles Caldwell.
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Breve Descripcion Historica Politica Y Natural de la Alta California 1770-1774, Continuacion y suplemento de los dos impresos de Noticias de California Septentrional, hecjo por el Capitan Don Pedro Fages, en que agrego varias noticias correspondientes a aquellos establecimientos

Mexico: Fondo Pagliai, 1973. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, 133 pp, illustrated with maps and facsimiles. One of 1000 copies printed, this one unnumbered. Bound in full leather with gilt lettering on spine. Extremities rubbed, a few scuff marks to the leather; binding sound, text clean. Previous owner's name on front... (Item #17707)

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Breve Descripcion Historica Politica Y Natural de la Alta California 1770-1774, Continuacion y suplemento de los dos impresos de Noticias de California Septentrional, hecjo por el Capitan Don Pedro Fages, en que agrego varias noticias correspondientes a aquellos establecimientos. Andres Henestrosa, Don Pedro Fages.
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