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. Harada's acerbic, illustrated memoirs of a stay in New York City. He is not fond of the people, the crowds, or the culture. Women particularly infuriated him. "Harada's... memoirs treat women as the objects of a kind of sexual rage: 'Because their society has indiscriminately raised them up too.....

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.....

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.....