First Edition. An uncommon account of travel to Australasia. The Scottish author was prominent in the early Christadelphian movement and edited The Christadelphian magazine from 1864 to 1898. This travelogue, which includes much theological commentary, has been published several times in the 20th century; this original edition is uncommon. [4].....

First Edition. A comic account of of life on a cruise ship, written by the captain with the help of the mystery writer John D. MacDonald. "The least common of [MacDonald's] late-career hardcovers"—Firsts Magazine, Nov. 2002. 305 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A very good.....

First Edition. A classic tale of white pioneer settlement in Washington, by one of the founders of Lynden, Washington. The book was self published a few months before the author died, based on the journals she kept, starting during her overland crossing in 1853. The book remains in print today.....

Two circa 1870s carte de visite photographs from a Brooklyn photographer, probably copy prints from a returned missionary or traveller to India. The first image is a portrait of a seated woman with two young children. On the back (verso) someone has written in a contemporary hand, "A Zenana Lady.....

51 pages. 6-1/2 by 9 inches. Colophon with a printed limitation of 150 copies. A critical transcription of Christopher Columbus's journal entries regarding his time in Cuba with words and phrases crossed out by hand to indicate the corrections made by Bartolome de las Casas. This selection from Columbus's "Derrotero.....

A rare Maori hymnal for the Ratana church. Ratana, a Maori religious, political, and social movement, was founded in 1918 in New Zealand by Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana. He saw a vision and began preaching that the Maori and the Japanese were the lost tribe of Israel. The Ratana church advocated.....

The January 1861 and January 1862 issues of this English-Maori periodical (all published). 24 and 32 pages. 5-1/4 by 8-1/4 inches. The imprint and title varies between issues. Title headed by woodcut in issue one. Charles Oliver Bond Davis (1817–1887), was born in Australia to Irish immigrants and moved to New.....

A stereoview of the Everett Hotel in Jacksonville, Florida. This is no. 1336 in the "B" Series, a vast collection of pirated views issued by an East Coast firm with many locations. This view is a single photograph, almost certainly a copy print of another photographer's work. Near fine. Medium.....

First Edition. viii, 512, 21 pages. 8 by 10-1/2 inches. Includes reports of the British expeditions of the Hawaiian (Sandwich) Islands (pp. 1 to 256); Egypt (pp. 257 to 346); Rodriguez Island (now Rodrigues; pp. 347 to 400); Kerguelen Island (Desolation Islands; pp. 401 to 480); and New Zealand (pp.....

First Edition. 207 pages. Text in Arabic and Spanish. The book, whose title translates ot Vernacular Arabic Readings: Selection of Tales and Sayings. Contribution to the Knowledge of the Language and Folklore of Morocco, includes prose passages in Arabic with selected vocabulary in Spanish and lists of sayings in Arabic with.....