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Paris: Chez Louis Bilaine, 1664. First edition. leather-bound. Contemporary mottled calf, Very good. 576 pages. 24 x 18 cm. First issue, with imprint date altered from M.DC.LXIII. to M. DC. LXIIII, last digit added, engraved portrait of Thevenot by Etienne Picart after P. Chauveau. Thevenot began his travels in the Levant in 1655, returning to Paris in 1659… Ler mais sobre este item

London: John Murray, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt and beveled edges. Very good. Vol.I: xviii, [2], 284 pages & Vol.2: xvi, [2], 400 pages. 22.5 x 16.5 cm. Includes: 14 maps (13 colored, 4 folding), 30 plates and 2 hand-colored frontispieces. Also: VoI has one hand-colored lithograph plate by J. G.… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Everett & Co, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter navy calf and marbled boards. Teg. Near fine. 2 Vols. 291, 291, xxv [Appendix & Index]. 22 x15 cm. Sixty one full page photographs (plates & maps). The first lengthy biography of Burton after the sanitized life written by Burton's widow in 1894. Wright had access to extensive and previously unpublished… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Harper and Company, 1871. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Near fine. 314 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Twenty four full page black and white illustrations. Eight pages of adverts at rear. Chaillu explored the regions of West Africa in the neighborhood of the equator, gaining considerable knowledge of the delta of the… Ler mais sobre este item

London: I.B. Taurus, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 272 pages. 34 x 24.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color plates. Index. This volume presents some of the earliest records of the region.

Paris: Tolmer, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pictorial boards and beige cloth spine. Very good. Legrand, Edy. Folio, 11" x 15 1/4", 30 pages, 54 illustrations -- one double-page, two large folding maps on Japan, a plethora of pochoir plates (hand-colored through stencils). A triumph of modern French book making depicting the feats of French exploration -- Cartier,… Ler mais sobre este item

Paris: Henri Charpentier, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. Publisher brown leather spine and brown cloth. Aeg. Near fine. 3 vols. 64, 62, 42 pages. 19 x13 inches. 90 color lithographs (with descriptive text) and two tinted color maps: all present per Indices in the rear of each volume. Plates after Felix Benoist and Joseph Dessaix, with text by Xavier… Ler mais sobre este item

Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue morocco spine and marbled boards. Near fine. Ravilious, Eric. 43 (3) pages. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 114 of 212 in Perpetua type on hand made paper signed by Strong. There were also 1000 unnumbered and unsigned copies. illustrated by Ravilious with a full… Ler mais sobre este item

Paris: A. Barbier, 1846. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary quarter brown morocco and brown boards. Very good. 490 pages. 27 x 19 cm. Nine hand-colored plates (with tissue guards) and a host of steel engraved plates -- Philippoteaux, T. Johannot, E. Bellange, Isabey, E. Lamy, K. Girandet, Morel Fatio, C. Nanteuil, H. Baron et al. Six pages at end… Ler mais sobre este item

London: John Murray, 1828. First edition. Hardcover. Modern, three quarter calf and marbled boards with two red leather spine labels printed in gilt. 2 vols. in one. Near fine. [43] 335, 269 pages. 29 x 23 cm. Thirty-seven plates, one colored, one large fold-out map and six wood-cut vignettes. Exploration of the lower River Niger and the Guinea… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Henry Colburn, 1819. Third edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter black morocco and marbled boards, matching endpapers. 2 Vols. Very good. 375, 396 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Seven hand-colored aquatints, one folding engraved map of the Regencies of Tripoly and Tunis. This third edition with more plates than the two previous editions. Commentary with more than a… Ler mais sobre este item

Nuremburg: Johann Daniel Tauber, 1672. Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Later quarter vellum and boards. Very good. 30.5 x 21 cm. [*3,12, 22, a-d6, B-P6,Q4]. Full page engraving of ship at sea by Boner, frontispiece portrait of Saar, title page in black and red, one leaf with two engravings, 12 engravings in the text, floriated chapter head designs. First published 1662, this… Ler mais sobre este item

London: G.G. and J. Robinson, 1796. First English edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf, rebacked in antique style, armorial gilt escutcheons front and back covers, raised bands, gilt decorated spine panels, marbled endpapers with matching edges. 3 vols. Very good. 288, 383 and 488 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Large folding map, 22 engraved plates, five folding. Le… Ler mais sobre este item

London: John Murray, 1818. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary gilt decorated full calf rebacked with most of original spine laid-down. Very good.. 498 pages. 26 x 21 cm. Thirteen plates, one colored by hand and large fold-out frontispiece map, plus half title and publisher adverts. An Irish born English naval officer captured by the French on a voyage from… Ler mais sobre este item

London: William Crofts, 1836. First edition. Hardcover. Modern ruby cloth, black leather spine label printed in gilt. Very good. 412 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Two folding maps with outline coloring, 26 plates, two in color. Gardiner attended the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth, serving at sea from 1810-1826, rising to rank of Commander. He then devoted the remainder of… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Hafod Press, 1807. First English language edition. leather_bound. Contemporary paneled calf, professionally rebacked, center panel decorations in gilt and dark brown. Very good.. 336 pages. 24 x 15 cm. Folding map of Tartar. Translated by Thomas Johns, proprietor of the Hafted Press, James Henderson, printer. La Brocquiere offers considerable encouragement in support of a campaign against the Turks, and… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth, front cover border fillets in black, frame interior rectangular designs also in black with back covers a design mirror, but in blind. Very good. 2 vols. 360 & 400 pages. 23 x 14 cm. Twenty-seven lithographed plates including the frontispieces, eleven are folding, plus large fold-out color map, and… Ler mais sobre este item