104 pages, and one leaf of ads at rear. Lacking front free endpaper; foxing to pastedowns, rear endpaper, and textblock edges. Illustrated throughout; cover remarkably vibrant. 7.4 x 5.1 inches. View More...
vii, [1], 296 pages, frontispiece and 27 plates as called for. The Canadian issue, with canceled title page. Old signature to first leaf; else unmarked. A lovely example. 7.25 x 5 inches. View More...
xiv, 330 pages, with frontispiece and 16 plates as called for. Publications of the Public Archives of Canada No. 11. An excellent example in the original wraps, with no creasing to spine. Former owner's bookplate (by cartoonist / illustrator Bob Chambers) tipped to front cover verso. Unopened from page 24 to end. 10.75 x 7 inches. View More...
xxiii, [2], 606; ix, 664 pages; will all plates and illustrations called for, with plate to face p. 168 in Vol II used as frontispiece. Half title present in each, as well as tissue guard for frontispiece. Bound by Bayntun in half leather over cloth, with gilt to spines, and marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Bookplate to pastedown of Vol. I. Light occasional foxing. View More...
Volume 2 of 7 only: 'being the second of the first voyage'. vii, 354 pages, three folding illustrations: Family in Dusky Bay, New Zealand; A War Canoe of New Zealand; Inside of a Hippah in New Zealand; and the folding partially coloured Chart of a part of the Great Pacific Ocean (bound upside down; short closed tear). Unsophisticated contemporary paper over boards, with inked titles to spine - paper peeling; binding sound. Upper corner of some leaves dogeared/curled. Old inscriptions to endpapers. 6.9 x 4 inches. View More...
Volumes 5 and 7 of 7 only: 'being the first [and the third] of the third voyage'. lxvii, [69]-438; 472 pages, with 41 page Index, and 3 page catalogue at rear of 7. Two folding illustrations in vol. 5: Christmas Harbour in Kerguelen's Land, A Fiatooka or Morai in Tongataboo. A third plate: The Inside of a Hippah in New Zealand called for in the directions to the binder, is not present. Six folding illustrations in vol. 7: Karakakooa in Owyhee, An offering Before Captain Cook in the Sandwich Islands, Death of Captn. Cook, View of Bolcheretzkoiin Kamtschatka, Inside of a Winter Habitation at Kam... View More...
831 pages, with frontispiece, two title pages, and the four folding maps. Full leather with The Manchester Commercial Schools emblum on front panel and Christmas 1874 on rear. Edges and endpapers marbled. Light marginal foxing to frontis. and title pages; else clear. Text in double column. Binding is sound. Bookseller's small embossed blind stamp: J. Galt & Co., Manchester. View More...
251 pages, 8 plates in colour, and 12 pages of publisher's ads at rear. Good only: gilt edges faded, sound binding worn, and sporadic foxing/stains. 6 x 4 inches. View More...
xii, 279 pages. Publisher's pictorial cloth with light rubbing and fading; foxing to tissue guard and title page, first few and final few leaves. Xmas [18]96 inscription to first leaf. Binding is sound. 7.3 x 5.2 inches. View More...
162 pages, with frontispiece, seven plates, and a few line drawings. [2] and 16 pages of Seeley ads at rear, and 1 page at front. Publisher's note states: "The contents of this book have been taken from ... Elliot's larger book entitled 'The Romance of Savage Life'." Names penciled to first leaf. A well preserved example of this publisher's binding. 7.9 x 5.7 inches. View More...
xvi, 324; xii, 352 pages. Profusely illustrated, but lacking the large folding map. Attractive Rivingtons binding with elaborate gilt tooling to spine compartments. All edges and endpapers marbled. Wear and dents to leather; lower label on spine of II chipped and peeling; slight remnants of bookplate on front pastedown of Vol. I, and painted name to verso of front free endpaper of same. Half-title in Vol. II but not in I. Bindings sound; contents clean. 8.6 x 5.75 inches. View More...
xiii, [2], 288 pages, and plates. Jacket with light toning, and rubbing to extremities; not price clipped - now in a removable archival sleeve. Light fading to publisher's pink topstain. No inscriptions: a tidy example. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. View More...
vi, [4], 132 pages, and 12 page Norie catalogue at rear dated March 9, 1818. 'Sixth Edition newly arranged and considerably improved; with accurate descriptions of the new lights, and other important alterations, to the present time, by J.W. Norie.' Fore-edge somewhat grubby, but a sound example in an attractive contemporary vernacular stitched leather binding retaining original blue paper wraps. View More...
468 pages; folding map, and the seven plates called for. Rebacked; new endpapers; corners bumped. Light offsetting from plates to facing page, else remarkably fresh in sound binding. View More...
425 pages, frontispiece, and 30 plates as called for. General wear to cloth; free endpapers tanned; foxing to first few leaves. The Oak Island money pit is discussed pages 34-41. Binding sound; no inscriptions. 8.5 x 6 inches. View More...
330 pages. One of 1000 printed. Soiling to covers and spine; 5 inch split along joint rear cover; former owner's stamp to front, rear, and title page. Interior clean; binding sound. View More...
xxxiii, [1], 740; xii, 120, cxliv, cii, [1] pages; complete with all maps, illustrations, and the errata leaf in each. Volume I is the large paper issue with 9 coloured plates (instead of 3); the large folding map is bound in at front (instead of rear). Peripheral foxing to some b&w plates - a few of the ones in colour with offsetting but generally fine and vibrant, some retaining the tissue guard. Rebacked, with spines and endpapers repaired. Volume I: 12.75 x 10.4 inches; Volume II: 11.5 x 9.4 inches. View More...
288 pages, 5 illustrated plates (3 folding), and two plans (one folding). Good only, with upper board detached, tape repair to first illustration; plates toned and stained. Textblock binding sound. This volume continues the conquest of Mexico from volume 1, includes the conquest of Peru, and begins the discovery of Florida. View More...
285 pages, 2 portraits, 3 illustrated plates, and three maps (two folding). Good only, with splitting to upper joint, tape repair to gutter between 120/1; small chip to margin of one plate. This volume continues the discovery of Florida from volume 2, covers Magellan, Drake, Raleigh, Row, and Monk. Plates toned; light soil. View More...
342 pages. Map of Ceylon; A View of Winter's Forrest; Rain-deer Sledges; A Plan of the Harbour of Carthagena two defective maps and one defective plate. This volume covers Baldaeus's account of the coast of Malabar and Coromandel; description of Ceylon and the disputes there; a voyage to the north of Europe; some authentic memoirs relating to the affairs of Russia; the voyage of Mr. Lionel Wafer to the Isthmus of America; An account of the expedition against Carthagene, in the West Indies, besieged by the English in the year 1741. Leather scuffed; binding sound. Plates toned; occasional light ... View More...
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