New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864. Hardcover. Good. Third edition, revised and enlarged (with mining content not found in the first edition). 251 pp, with frontis engraving of the Mowry Silver Mines. Original brown cloth boards are edgeworn, with corners rubbed through, chips at spine ends, and cloth partially split..... Item #2696
London and New York: T. Fisher Unwin and Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 10.75" x 7.5", 360 pp, with frontispiece and 10 other full-page photographure and lithorgraph plates, many other illustrations in the text. A good copy, with soiling to cloth, rubbing to leather panels on spine..... Item #22758
London: Sands & Company, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 10" x 7.5", pp xvi, 163, extensively illustrated, bound in blue cloth with gilt titles, vignette on front board. Rubbing to edges and corners, light foxing to endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown, small bookseller label (W. Erskine Mayne, Belfast) on..... Item #22397
Philadelphia: Thos. H. Palmer, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 296 pp, with facsimile folding map (retaining a small section of the original) and five original acquatint plates, bound in modern green cloth with red leather spine label. Title page has a repaired tear, plates are trimmed close at the outer..... Item #23000
New York: Garland Publishing, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Series: Themes in European Expansion: Exploration, Colonization, and the Impact of Empire. 474 pp, indexed. Lists 3089 items. The first attempt to compile a comprehensive bibliography of English and foreign-language pamphlets and books pertaining to British East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika..... Item #13712
Album containing eleven 7"x 9" professional linen-backed photographs showing the process and results of installing new street lights along a main commercial thoroughfare in Hamilton, Ohio. Hamilton is the county seat of Butler County, about 20 miles north of Cincinnati. In the early twentieth century, “the town was a heavy..... Item #20798
San Jose: Victor Hillis & Sons, 1938. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 6.5 x 9.75 inches, (ix), 16 pp, in beige printed wrappers with half-tone photo of Yosemite Falls mounted on front cover, accompanied by the original (unposted) mailing envelope. One mild crease affects the volume as a whole, otherwise..... Item #22063
Buffalo, NY: E.H. Hutchinson, 1889. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 87 pp, in original printed wrappers. Mild soiling. The author was an attorney and Principal of the Buffalo Classical School. He traveled to Oregon, Washington, Alaska (primarily Sitka), and British Columbia in 1888, reporting back in a series of articles..... Item #14096
London: J. Murray, 1791. First edition in English. 8vo. Vol. I: xiv, 2-289, with folded aquatint frontispiece; Vol. II: iv, 261, [3] (ads). Ex-library copies in recent three-quarter leather and marbled boards, new endpapers. Library ink stamps on three pages in each volume, foxing to first and last few pages..... Item #22898
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1877. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, pp. xxiv, 399 + [6] ads, with chromolithograph frontispiece, many illustrations in the text, double-page Map of the Kaiser Franz Josef Land surveyed by Payer. Original red cloth with decoration in gilt and black. Spine lightly..... Item #21389
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp xviii, 370, with a folding map and many illustrations from photographs. Original pale green cloth with decoration in gilt and white. Corners bumped, previous owner's signature on front free endpaper, small stain at lower spine, otherwise sound and clean..... Item #22759
Philadelphia: R. Rae & Co., 1856. Softcover. Very good. 19 pp, in original pink printed wrappers, with two folding maps ("Map of the Halsey Estate" and "Map Showing the Connections of the McKean Coal Field with the Great Markets of Central and Western New York, and Lakes Erie & Ontario")..... Item #20832
London: Edward Arnold, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 331 pp + publisher's catalogue, with 8 plates, additional illustrations in the text, and two folding maps. Original burgundy cloth, with some uneven discoloration to the spine and mild wear to the corners, small stain on front board. Internals clean and..... Item #16723
Washington, D.C. Department of the Interior, 1891. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 15 pp, 7.75 x 10 inches; stapled self-wrappers. Old creases from folding, light handling wear; very good. Issued in advance of the full 1890 census report on the Alaska territory "in view of the extraordinary interest now being..... Item #19970
New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago: Historical Publishing Company, 1886. Hardcover. Very good. 9.25 x 12 inches, pp [iv] 33-292, in original blind-stamped black cloth with gilt lettering reading " Industries of Pennsylvania" on upper board. Light rubbing to corners; rear board is dampstained, but interior is untouched, clean and sound..... Item #20050
London and New York: Macmillan, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp ix, 300 + 55 (publisher's catalogue). Index, two folding maps, errata slip bound in. Publisher's green cloth w/gilt lettering on spine. Mild rubbing to extremitie, previous owner's name on half-title page. Narrative of the author's hunting (musk ox..... Item #22178
Philadelphia: C.A. Conrad et al. 1810. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Text volume only, complete as issued with frontispiece and tables, but no maps or charts, which were issued in a separate volume. 8vo, pp. [7], 105, [11], [107]-277, [5], 65, [1], 53 [1] 87, in contemporary full-calf binding. Scuffing, loss..... Item #23040
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..... Item #22714
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1922. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, pp. xxvi, 305, "with 164 photographic illustrations by the author, 11 by Captain Scott and others, a map & two drawings, and an Introduction by Lady Scott." Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and upper..... Item #20059
Washington DC: J. & G.S. Gideon, 1849. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 16 pp, in original self-wrappers. Some handling wear, light foxing. Preston proposed the creation of a single new state from all of the former Mexican territory. It was generally assumed that this would not be a slave state..... Item #1533
Roma: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1956. Hardcover. Very good. Serie Orientale Roma, XII. 194 pp text + 82 plates, five maps in rear pocket. Upper corners heavily bumped, foxing to fore edge of text block. Binding sound, contents clean. The Amne Machin range is an eastern..... Item #22443
London: William Pickering, 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes in contemporary full leather, with matching gift inscriptions dated 1836 on the front free endpaper of each volume. A very good, clean set with some scuffing and bumping to the boards. " Roget (of thesaurus fame), describes "in a...... Item #23028
London: Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. Hardcover. Very good. Square 16mo, 112 pp, plus [13] blank pages at the back for memoranda and log; many photographic illustrations, including 2 folding panoramas, a folding color map and a table of distances. Early owner's inscription on the front free endpaper; short tear..... Item #14710
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Philadelphia: Printed by Ormrod & Conrad for J. Ormrod, [1797]. Hardcover. Good+. Titile continues: Delivered before the Society in the First Presbyterian Church, in High-street, Philadelphia, on the 17th Dec. 1796. 8vo, 46 pp, in a later binding of 3/4 polished calf and marbled boards. Rubbing to corners and joints..... Item #20588
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Title continues: "With a Description of the Countries Passed Through, Including their Geography, Geology, Resources, Present Condition, and the Different Nations Inhabiting Them." 7.5" x 4.5", 303 pp, bound in three-quarter leather and marbled boards; rebacked, with new endpapers, earlier..... Item #21994
