Lisboa: Na Typ. da Academia, 1812. vi, 178 pp. 8vo. Modern three quarter morocco over marbled boards. First edition. Includes: 1. Breve relação dos escrituras dos gentios da India Oriental, e dos seus costumes (pp. 1-59) [A short account of the gentios of India and their customs]; 2. Noticia summaria... More
![Historia Natural y Moral de las Indias. [Two Volumes]. P. Joseph de Acosta.](/pictures/thumb/37841.jpg?v=1434441012)
Madrid: Ramón Anglés, impresor, 1894. xxiii, 486 pp.; xvi, 392 pp. 12mo. Quarter brown morocco over embossed boards, 4 raised bands ruled in gilt, gilt titles, marbled endpapers. Later edition. First published in Seville in 1590, this important work, concerned chiefly with Mexico and Peru, went through a number of... More
Tokyo: Board of Tourist Industry Japanese Government Railways / Hokuseido Press, (1934). xvi, 371 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. Sm. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. A.F. Thomas, intro. Small 4 page advertising brochure from Hokuseido Press laid in loose. A very good unopened (uncut) copy, light soiling along spine, owner's name... More
Tempe: Hayden Library of Arizona State Univ. 1972. 45 pp. Illus. with duotone reproductions and photos. Sm. 4to. Stiff paper wrappers. First edition. Servin, Manuel, preface. Ishmael. A near fine copy. More
![La littérature geographique francaise de le renaissance, répertoire bibliographique: (avec 300 reproductions photographiques). Description de 524 impressions d'ouvrages publiés en français avant 1610, et traitant des pays et des peuples non européens, que l'on trouve dans les principales bibliothèques de France et de l'Europe occidentale [with] Supplément au répertoire bibliographique se rapportant a la Littérature géographique française de la Renaissance [Two Volumes]. Geoffroy Atkinson.](/pictures/thumb/42178.jpg?v=1434441116)
Paris: Editions Auguste Picard, 1927, 1936. 563 pp.; 87 pp. Illus. with 300 b/w reproductions. 4to. Paper wrappers. First edition. No. 2 of 50 copies on pur fil Lafuma. Supplement signed by the author. An important work. First volume with wrappers separated from text block as glue has dried, spine... More
Habana: Oficina del Faro Industrial, 1845. 133, [3] pp., plate. Illus. with 1 folding map and in-text engravings. 8vo. Later half marbled calf over brown cloth boards, four raised bands, red and brown morocco spine labels titled in gilt, decorative endpapers, original wrappers bound in. First edition. Folding engraved map... More
New York / Kingston: Walbridge / A. W. Gardner, 1890. xi, 243 pp. Illus. with 42 b/w plates, photos, drawings, and 2 folding maps. 12mo. Decorated pebbled red cloth. First edition. Spine darkened, front board scuffed, free front endpaper detached, first and last blank partially detached, leaves browning, still about very good. More
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1931. xl, 492 pp. Illus. with 34 maps, 41 plans, and 23 floorplans. 16mo. Limp red cloth with gilt titles. Eighth Edition. A very good or better copy in a worn dust jacket, a few small chips on spine and at corners, fold on rear panel slit. Hinrichsen D414. More
Coblenz: Karl Baedeker, 1870. xliv, 418 pp. Illus. with 21 maps, 7 plans and 7 panoramas. 16mo. Limp red cloth with gilt titles. Fourth Edition, revised and augmented. The 1869 edition with additions and corrections down to the spring of 1870. Includes 1910 newspaper clipping on the Hospice of St... More
Utrecht: Uttgave Van Douwe Egberts, [ca. 1957]. 72 pp. Illus. with tipped-in color photos and maps. 4to. Cloth. First edition. Eschreven door Piet Bakker, kleurenfoto's van Wim Berssenbrugge, Mr. A. Hustinx, K.L.M., Koninklijke Nederl. stoomboot mij., A. Fisher; oomslag, grote kaart van Caraíbisch gebied, illustraties en lay-out, F. Ten Have... More
Honolulu: Editions Limited, 1987. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. The journal of eight Russian explorers. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. As new. More
Norman: Univ. Oklahoma Press, (1962). xxiii, 408 pp. Illus. with 32 b/w photos and 7 maps. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the author. An important work on the exploration and mapping of the west in the years mid-19th century by Hayden, King, Powell, and Wheeler. Scattered foxing else a.... More
London: Trübner & Co., 1878. xviii, [2], 606, [2] pp. Illus. with port. frontis, 13 wood engravings, two plates of geological diagrams, and one folding map. Sm. 4to. Red pebbled cloth, boards ruled in gilt, gilt illustration on front board, edges beveled, all edges gilt, brown endpapers. First edition. Errata... More
Paris: Perrin et Cie, 1926. xvi, 409 pp. 12mo. Three quarter morocco over marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, silk bookmark sewn in. Later printing. First published in 1904. A very good copy, scattered foxing, last leaf with a small tear. More
[La Haye]: [Chez Pierre de Hondt], 1749. 230 x 272 mm. Copper engraving. Map with cartouche and compass. From Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre. - [Hrsg.: Antoine F. Prévost D'Exiles] Nouvelle édition La Haye u.a. Band 6... More
![A Pilgrimage in Europe and America, leading to the Discovery of the Sources of the Mississippi and Bloody River; with a description of the Whole Course of the Former, and of the Ohio. [Two volumes]. J. C. Beltrami, Giacomo Costantino.](/pictures/thumb/37272.jpg?v=1434441003)
London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke, 1828. xxiii, 472 pp.; 545 pp. Illus. with engraved frontis, 3 plates, 2 folding plans, and large folding map of the Mississippi. 8vo. Three quarter dark brown morocco over marbled boards, five raised bands decorated in gilt, black morocco lettering pieces, gilt volume numerals... More
Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1964. xiv, 322, [4] pp. Illus. with b/w reproductions. Sm. 4to. Paper wrappers. First edition. Signed by the author. 754 out 1500 copies. "A bibliography of travelers and foreign authors associated with Rio...gives complete bibliographical information for each entry..." Griffin p. 18. Sunned, a.... More
Angra do Heroísmo: Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo Distrital de Angra do Heroísmo, 1960. vii, 47 pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Manuel Coelho Baptista de Lima, Cites 494 items and sources located during a careful search in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, and Belgium, as well as those in Portugal and... More
Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1964. 54, 32 pp. Illus. with 1 folding b/w map. Sm. 4to. Turquoise and brown plaid cloth, gilt title on spine. First edition. No. 12 in the series of Keepsakes issued by the Friends of the Bancroft Library. Francis P. Farquhar, intro. Contains 32... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1883. x, 509 pp., 6 [adv]. Illus. with 113 wood engravings, and maps. Sm. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. A very good- copy, spine sunned and soiled, ends worn mostly at heel, light soiling on boards, bookseller stamps on free front endpaper, first blank and title... More
Panamá: Impreso en los Talleres Gráficos de "El Tiempo" 1922. 203, [4] pp. Sm. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. Quite uncommon. A good copy, lacking the front wrapper, spine mostly absent, chips and soiling on title, folds to corner, leaves browned. More
Austin: Jenkins & Reese, 1982. xxix, 83 pp. Illus. with 10 b/w reproductions. 8vo. Cloth. Second edition. Contributions to Bibliography, VII. Review copy with letter laid in loose. Faint foxing along fore edge else a near fine copy. No dust jacket. More
Albuquerque: Univ. New Mexico Press, 1949. xvi, 490 pp. Illus. with 3 b/w folding maps and 1 plate. Sm. 4to. Cloth. First edition. Coronado Cuarto Centennial Publications, 1540-1940, Vol. I. Bolton won the Brancroft Prize and Whittelesy House Southwestern Fellowship Award for this, his last work. Also published in a.... More
Barcelona: Imprenta de Ivan Pablo Marti, por Francisco Barnola Impressor, 1701. 14 lvs, [1]-10, 9-38, 1 lv., [2] pp., 39-268, 257-476 pp. Sm. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, title lettered in manuscript. First edition. Numerous errors in pagination. A heroic poem on the discovery of America by Columbus and the Spanish conquests... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. / E.P. Dutton, n.d. viii, 256 pp. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt titles. Later printing. Trubner's Oriental Series. Four travelers examined: Xuanzang (Hiuen-Tsiang) ca. 596-664, traveled to India; Sæwulf, an English pilgrim to Palestine; Muhammad ibn 'Abd Allah, called Ibn Batutah, 1303-1377, traveled... More