New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1940. Archbold, Richard; Rand, A.L.; Brass, L.J.; Tate, G.H.H.; Healy, M.J.; Willis, L.A. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Edges rubbed, ink note and ink stamps on endpapers, paper remains adhered to rear paste-down endpaper.
xviii, 206 pp. Fold-out sketch map.....
Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1946. Caswell, Edward. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with chips and tears. Ink name on front free endpaper.
182 pp. Relates events from the childhood and youth of the boy who grew up to become an explorer of the American West
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Adelaide: The Limited Editions Club / The Griffin Press, 1975. Ingleton, Geoffrey C.; Dunstan, Douglas A. Limited Edition. Large Hardcover.
Limited edition, #1182 of 2000 copies, signed by illustrator and designer and hand-numbered on limitation page. Includes publisher's slipcase and onion skin jacket. Jacket spine absent, wear and several small.....
Boston: G.W. Cottrell, 1870. Small Hard Cover.
No date, circa 1870. Minor loss to spine head and spine base, board corners bumped, pencil name on first blank.
193 pp. A history of Christopher Columbus and his voyages and discoveries. Christopher Columbus, Italian Cristoforo Colombo, Spanish Cristobal Colon, (born between August.....
Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2007. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author on front free endpaper verso with inscription, "To Gerry--with personal regards." Jacket edges rubbed, light stain on rear jacket panel.
400 pp. In 1507, a German cartographer created a world map that, for the first.....
New York: Spring Books, 1970. Reprint. Large Hardcover.
Reprint. Jacket edges rubbed and bumped, spine faded, sticker on front jacket flap. Page ridges lightly foxed.
xi, 337 pp. Traces the development of cartography from the maps and charts of medieval travellers, who filled the unknown areas of their maps with.....
Vercelli, IT: White Star Publishers, 2006. Hard Cover.
Faint edge wear.
384 pp. This volume recounts Henry Stanley's search for David Livingstone, a missionary-explorer lost in Africa during the Victorian era. In 1870, the New York Herald sent journalist Stanley to track down the English missionary. In these pages the.....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Front hinge repaired by previous owner, not crudely but not neatly either, rear hinge weakening, top edge stained, ink gift note on front endpaper.
xvii, 551 pp. With 16 photogravures and a map. Henry.....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front hinge weakening.
xvii, 551 pp. With 16 photogravures and a map. Henry Morton Stanley, in full Sir Henry Morton Stanley, original name John Rowlands, Congolese byname Bula Matari (“Breaker of Rocks”), (born January 28, 1841.....
Jackson, Wyoming: Grandview Publishing Company, 2002. Talbot, Agnes Vincen. 4th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Fourth printing. Signed by author on title without inscription. A fine copy.
96 pp. The story of Sacajawea written and illustrated for children.
Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society, 1970. Limited Edition. Large Hardcover.
Limited edition, #299 of 1950 copies. Boards a bit foxed, slipcase slightly faded.
26 pp., plus 71 color and black-and-white illustrations, maps on endpapers. Reissue of Howes W-114. Captain Warre, topographical artist, led an expedition of British forces to the Oregon.....
New York: Atheneum, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Two tears on jacket edges mended with tape on jacket reverse, jacket edges rubbed.
xvi, 362 pp. In the late fifteenth century Europe was astir with dreams of discovery that would shortly transform the world. It was an age of.....
Arizona: Arizona Western College Press, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. A fine copy.
iv, 153 pp. Arranged in ten broad topics and a catch-all: Indians of the lower Colorado, exploration and settlement, the military, steam navigation, the delta, Mexico and the Colorado, politics of water, reclamation.....