Explorers & Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880-1950
University of Washington Press, 2011. Soft cover. Cover is slightly worn. Inside is clean and unmarked. More
Colonialism
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The Gaunt Gray Wolf
Revell, 1914. Hardcover. Covers shelfworn. Bookplate inside front cover. Title page partially detached. More
Grit A-Plenty
Fleming H. Revell, 1918. Hardcover. Some shelfwear. Bookplate inside front cover. Name written on front endpaper. More
Troop One of the Labrador
Fleming H. Revell, 1920. Hardcover. Covers shelfworn and mildly cocked. Light stainiing on the first few pages. Bookplate on first blank page. More
Union and Anti-Slavery Speeches, Delivered During the Rebellion by Charles D. Drake.
Cincinnati: Applegate & Co., 1864. Hardcover. Cloth, 20 cm, 431 pages. Inscribed, signed and dated in ink by the author on paper pasted down on front endpaper. Fair condition but for institution ink stamp on front free endpaper, edges of binding worn, corners very worn, and bumped, and with a...... More
Into the Ice
Glydendal, 2006. Hardcover. More
The Secret Memoirs of The Duchesse d'Abrantes 1784 - 1838.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. Hardcover. Top inch of front cover and top 4 inches of back cover are sunned. Covers are lightly stained. Corners of boards and edges of spine are lightly rubbed, but binding is tight. Leather is cracked at top inch between front cover and spine. Inside is..... More
The Young Folk's Book of Polar Exploration
Little, Brown and Co., 1928. Hardcover. Nice decorative hardcover. Bookplate on first blank page. Dust jacket chipped and foxed. More
Resultats Scientifiques des Voyages en Afrique
Imperimarie Nationale, 1908. Hardcover. In French. Preface by M. Edmond Perrier. Small folio-sized. Half-leather binding with marbled covers. Spine starting on lower end, with patch separating at bottom edge. Interior in excellent shape. More
Autograph Book of Miss Marietta Fletcher
1856. Hardcover. Leather personal autograph book with tooled and gilt-stamped decorations on front cover and spine, 20 cm, unpaginated (74 pages.), with many autographs collected in New England, some on papers inserted, a few small sketches, and calling cards, leaves and flower petals pasted down. All edges gilt. Contains Edward..... More
Arctic Exploration: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55, 2 vol.
Childs and Peterson, 1857. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Covers shelfworn and faded. Updatded with additional plates. Foldout map. Covers worn, with faded spines. More
My Voyage in the United States Frigate "Congress"
Desmond Fitzgerald, 1913. Hard cover. Corners of boards and spine rubbed. Clean throughout with good binding. More
Dirty Work 2: The CIA in Africa
Lyle Stuart, 1979. Hard cover. Jacket is tanned on edges and worn on corners, but text is legible and images are bright. Cover is bumped on bottom of spine. Spine is shaken, but binding is secure. Edges of textblock and endpaper are lightly foxed, but inside is otherwise clean and..... More
Letters, Volume Two: The Open Door 1930-35
Compton Russell, 1975. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Covers edgeworn and a little faded. More
In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times
Martino Publishing, 2004. hardcover. Spine slightly cocked. Nearly new otherwise. More
Ships in the Coral
The Macmillan Company of Australia, 1976. Hard cover. Good, clean condition with good binding and jacket. More
The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Mapped in Silver and Gold
The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1979. Soft cover. Light sunning along edges of covers, clean and unmarked inside. More
Prospector's Pocket Manual: Where and How to Find Gold and Silver Mines
Published by the Author, 1881. Hardcover. Covers shelfworn. Advertisement detached, but still present. More
Evylene Nunn Miller's Travel Tree.
Santa Ana: Fine Arts Press, 1933. Hardcover. Cloth, 36 cm, not paginated, with black & white plates. Signed by the author and numbered 545 in ink on colophon from an edition of 750 copies. Fair condition but for covers very slightly warped and with some small water stains at bottom..... More
Travels of Ruiz, Pavon, and Dombey in Peru and Chile (1777-1788)
Field Museum of Natural History, 1940. Soft cover. Covers tanned from age, a few spots on front cover. Some cosmetic fraying on spine. Clean throughout inside. More
Manjiro, The Man Who Discovered America
Houghton Mifflin, 1956. Hard cover. Jacket is lightly worn. Front flap has been clipped. Spine is cracked, but secure. Inside us clean and unmarked. Between pages 120 and 121, a three-by-five card has information on Japanese art featured in the book. More
Adventures and Encounters: Europeans in South-East Asia
Oxford University Press, 1995. Soft cover. Very good, clean condition. More
Saddle Bags in Siskiyou
News-Journal Print Shop, 1953. Hard cover. Signed and dated by the author. Includes map tipped in. Some light, uniform tanning inside, otherwise clean and unmarked. Corners lightly rubbed. More
Transcaucasia and Ararat: Being Notes of a Vacation Tour in the Autumn of 1876
Macmillan and Co., 1896. Hard cover. Fourth edition. Some loose signatures, spine still well intact. Discoloration from age on edges of pages. Spotting throughout first twenty pages. Previous owners' names written on inside front cover. Cloth bound covers inside protective plastic jacket. More
The Americas in the Spanish World Order: The Justification for Conquest in the Seventeenth Century
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. Hard cover. Top portion of jacket is lightly tanned, not affecting legibility. Cover is in good condition. Bottom edge of spine is lightly bumped, but binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked. More