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.....
Price: $200
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.....
Price: $500
![Beikoku manyu zakki [Wanderings in the United States] 米國漫遊雜記. Hakken Matsui](/pictures/thumb/307662.jpg?v=1615675818)
First Edition. A Japanese journalist describes a trip to the United States, where he mostly visited the East Coast. This book about the US was published at the very beginning of a period of unrestricted immigration, which lasted between 1901 and 1907, when more than 100,000 Japanese migrated to the.....
Price: $500
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.....
Price: $1,250
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.....
Price: $250
![Correspondence Relative to the Naval Expedition to Japan]. Matthew Calbraith Perry](/pictures/thumb/306986.jpg?v=1615675803)
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.....
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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.....
Price: $40
A high-quality facsimile of the 1799 London edition, with a separate volume of maps and plates. A nice edition of a classic circumnavigation account. [6], lvi, 539; viii, 531, [15] pages. Atlas with 69 folding, full-, and double-page plates and maps. Text volumes, 8 by 10 inches; atlas volume 11 by.....
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A nice profile photograph of Jules Verne reproduced by Woodburytype tipped in as the frontispiece of a bound volume of G. A. Henty's Union Jack magazine. This is identified as Volume III on the title page, but includes vol. II, no. 49 (December 2, 1880) to vol. II, no. 53 (Dec.....
Price: $85
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.....
Price: $750
Second edition, revised and expanded, of this collections of hymns, first published in 1873 as "Temperance songs, etc., in the Maori language." The text of this book is devoted to Maori language songs written to the tunes of the hymnal "Sacred Songs and Solos" as well as popular melodies, including "God.....
Price: $500
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.....
Price: $950
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. Titled headed by woodcut. Charles Oliver Bond Davis (1817–1887), was born in Australia to Irish immigrants and moved to New Zealand about 1830.....
Price: $600
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.....
Price: $500
![East Bay Street, Jacksonville, Fla. [Stereoview]. Best Manufacturing](/pictures/thumb/306921.jpg?v=1600749744)
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.....
Price: $20
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.
Price: $350
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.....
Price: $150
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.....
Price: $25
First Edition. viii, 120 pages, plus 17 handcolored aquatint plates by Lory and a map of the Glaciers of the Canton of Berne. Large octavo, 10-5/8 by 7-1/4 inches. The first book edition of this travelogue, which originally appeared in Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, series 2, volumes XI to.....
Price: $1,250
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.....
Price: $25
