London: Tinsley Brothers, 2001. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
#378 of 500 copies, printed in facsimile in 2001 after the 1863 original. Edges lightly foxed, otherwise an excellent copy.
viii, [2], 303; 295 pp. Fold-out map follows text of first volume. A first-hand account by scholar Sir Richard Francis Burton, based.....
Chicago: S.C. Griggs and Company, 1874. First Edition. Hard Cover.
U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate on front endpaper, and his ink name and date on flyleaf. (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many.....
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.....
New York: Perennial, 2004. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Faint toning.
458 pp. Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning biographer and journalist Laurence Bergreen.....
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.....
New York / Rahway, N.J. Cassell Publishing Company / Mershon Company Press, 1892. Prince Henry of Orleans. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Includes color folding route map in front pocket. Hinges weakening, boards a bit soiled, a few tears along map folds but complete.
xiii, [1], 417.....
Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Press, 1976. Hurley, Wilson. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Light general wear to jacket. Cloth board edges lightly foxed.
ix, 212 pp. 15 maps. 10 color plates from paintings by Wilson Hurley. The Domínguez–Escalante Expedition was a Spanish journey of exploration conducted in 1776 by two.....
Boston: Marie A. Brown, 1888. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate on front endpaper (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). Spine faded.....
New York: L. Nichols & Co. for Evert Dyuckinck, Bookseller, 1801. Third Edition. Full-Leather.
Third American edition. Bottom third of last text page and first three leaves of appendix torn out, boards rubbed with some loss from corners, joints weak, top half of front free endpaper removed.
359 pp. 12mo.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Remainder mark.
xxi, 535 pp. For almost 500 years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth - by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving, flying, going into orbit, even by using their own.....
New York: Routledge, 2002. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Spine base bumped.
328 pp. In this innovative volume, leading historians of the early modern Americas examine the subjects of early modern, continuing colonization, and the relations between established colonies and frontiers of settlement. Their original essays about centers and.....
New York: Liveright Publishing Company, 2013. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Second printing. Remainder mark, edge wear.
xviii, 394 pp. Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that.....
London & Toronto/New York: J.M. Dent and Sons Limited/E.P. Dutton & Co., 1927. Derrick, T. Hard Cover.
No jacket. All volumes: Page ridges and some pages foxed.
Volumes I-IV of VIII. With an introduction by John Masefield. Fully illustrated with 64 drawings by T. Derrick and many reproductions from contemporary.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
xi, 255 pp. The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Rear cover creased.
xiii, 570 pp. Henry Morton Stanley, so the tale goes, was a cruel imperialist who connived with King Leopold II of Belgium in horrific crimes against the people of the Congo. He also conducted the.....
Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Second Edition. Trade Paperback.
Second edition. Spine creased.
xviii, 504 pp. "This new and revised edition, incorporating the results of the latest research, and containing all the original rich illustrative material--30 plates, 58 figures in the text, and 15 maps--will fully maintain.....
New York: Penguin Books, 1992. 8th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Eighth printing. Edge wear, pages toned.
xlii, 143 pp. Bartolomé de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Former school copy - ink stamp only. Covers creased, ink name on half-title page.
xvii, 758 pp. ...begins with the events leading up to Columbus's arrival in San Salvador in 1942 and concludes with the discovery of the.....
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.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Porter and Coates, 1884. Hard Cover.
One gathering loose, front hinge starting, pencil and ink marginalia and underlining.
iv, 733 pp. Henry Morton Stanley, in full Sir Henry Morton Stanley, original name John Rowlands, Congolese byname Bula Matari (“Breaker of Rocks”), (born January 28, 1841, Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales—died.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Trade Paperback.
Book club edition. Edge wear, blind stamp on dedication page.
xviii, 522 pp. Describes the life of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, who explored India, the Near East, and Africa, went to Mecca, discovered the Kama Sutra, and introduced.....
New York: Tauris Parke Books, 2006. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
2nd printing. An exceptional copy.
464 pp. Christopher Columbus' arrival on a small Bahamian island in 1492 is often judged to be a defining moment in the history of mankind, changing forever the map of the world. Kirkpatrick Sale offers.....
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1978. Weber, Marilyn. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some tears, jacket lightly soiled. Light stain on top page ridge.
224 pp. Follows the famous 1804 expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, describing the natural scenes they encountered at each stage.....
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.....