First Edition. Aldrin's memoir, written soon after returning from the Moon. 338 pages, illustrated from black-and-white photographs. First edition (stated, with a numberline ending in 2, which is Random House's method of denoting first printings). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The jacket is chipped at the.....

First Edition. Winner of the Natural Book Award and a modern classic of nature writing. 464 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to one of the great book collectors of the 20th century. "For.....

First Edition. An anti-emigration guide to the US with a chapter exploring the theory that Native Americans were descendents of one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. In 1819, Howitt, a farmer from Nottinghamshire, explored the eastern seaboard of the United States between Washington, DC, to Boston, complaining about.....

First Edition. Commodore Perry's correspondance written during his historic two-year expedition to Japan, which led to the opening of the island nation to the West. This is the first publication of Perry's dispatches detailing his observations on Japan at a time when it was very little known in the United.....

A high-quality facsmile of the 1813 London edition of Langsdorff's account of his participation in a Russian circumnavigation voyage and his subsequent explorations of the Aleutian Islands. xxi, 362, [6]; [viii], 386, [6] pages. With black-and-white reproductions of the original plates, and a large folding map at the front of volume.....

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 scarce 19th century European view of India, notable for its reports on drugs. One of the plates depicts three types of drug use: a b'hangee, or hemp-plant drinker; a chursee bhistee, or a person smoking cannabis resin; and a faqueer postee, an opium "poppy-head drinker." This is the first Indian.....

First Edition. [1], 59-140, iii (index). With a large, folding map of Sikkum, printed in black. A report on a plant-gathering expedition. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers. Map near fine.

First Edition. 399 pages. 7-1/4 by 10-1/4 inches. Illustrated wiht numerous photographs, drawings, and full-color reproductions of paintings. Published on the 500th anniversary of Columbus's voyage to the Americas. First US edition (first printing). Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Fuentes on the dedication page and dated in.....

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.....