London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882. Hardcover. 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.....
Price: $85
Wanganui, New Zealand: A. D. Willis, Ltd., [1929?]. Hardcover. 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.....
Price: $750
Akarana [Aukland, New Zealand]: Brett, "Evening Starr" Office, 1885. Hardcover. 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.....
Price: $500
Auckland, New Zealand / Akarana: Printed at the "Aotearoa" Office for the Native People / He mea ta i te Perehi o nga Iwi Maori (no. 1) and Printed at the "Recorder" Office / I tala ki a Aotearoa, ki te perehi Maori (no. 2), 1861–1862. The January 1861 and.....
Price: $950
Auckland, New Zealand / Akarana: Printed at the "Aotearoa" Office for the Native People / He mea ta i te Perehi o nga Iwi Maori (no. 1) and Printed at the "Recorder" Office / I tala ki a Aotearoa, ki te perehi Maori (no. 2), 1861–1862. The January 1861 and.....
Price: $600
Calcutta: Published by the "Bangabasi" Office, 1905. 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.....
Price: $500
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[New York?]: [Best Manufacturing], [ca. 1885]. 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.....
Price: $20
London: The Creset Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 594 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good or better copy in a scuffed, very good dust jacket.
Price: $30
London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1861. First Edition. Two volumes. Octavo. 376; iv, 404 pages. Large folding map. "Based upon three former volumes of journeys and investigations by the same author." Olmsted, the white landscape architect behind New York City's Central Park, made three trips into the American South in.....
Price: $1,500
Calcutta: Superintendent, Government Printing, 1910. 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
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. 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.....
Price: $150
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 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.....
Price: $25
London: Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1823. First Edition. Hardcover. 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.....
Price: $1,250
Tetuán, Morocco: Instituto General Franco de Estudios e Investigación Hispano-Arabe, 1952. First Edition. Trade paperback. 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.....
Price: $25
