The Frigate Pallada
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Quarter black cloth, tan paper boards. Map endpapers. 649 pp. Dust jacket is price clipped, lightly stained to front cover. Else fine. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Quarter black cloth, tan paper boards. Map endpapers. 649 pp. Dust jacket is price clipped, lightly stained to front cover. Else fine. More
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Travellers and Explorers Series. Enlarged centenary edition, re-edited and with introduction by author's great-grandson. Orig. red cloth. 385 pp. [24] p. B&W photos. Dust jacket is warped, sunned to spine, bumped to extremities with some short..... More
Canada: Emanation Press, 1979. Soft cover. Softcover. 80 pages. SIGNED by author on the front free endpaper. Cover condition: Slight discolouration of the whole due to age, and a large but faint stain on the lower half of the front cover; some faint spotting.close to the fore-edge, and a crease..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo [large]. First U.S. Edition. Original jacket and black cloth binding. Title on spine in silver. [xi], 240 p.p., [1]. Illustrated with [8] p.p. of photographs. Nicholas Griffin epxplores the mountain region of Caucasus, a borderland of Christian and Muslim Worlds..... More
Toronto: The MacMillan Company, 1929. Manly, C.M. Hardcover. 8vo. 231 p.p. Brown cloth boards with black stamped titling to spine and front board. B&W illustrated title page + 8 B&W illustrations, incl. frontis. Bumping and rubbing to spine ends and corners, chafing to tail edge. Dust jacket is cropped at..... More
New York: Hurst & Company. Hardcover. 12mo. [n.d., ca. 1900]. With copious notes, and a life of the author, by W.C. Taylor. 360 p.p. Brown cloth boards with green and black stamped decoration and titling. Spine is sunned, tilted, and bumped at ends, some wear to front joint at head..... More
New York: Hurst & Company. Hardcover. 16mo. [n.d., ca. 1900]. With copious notes, and a life of the author, by W.C. Taylor. 360 p.p. Maroon cloth boards with black stamped decoration and titling. Spine is sunned, tilted, and bumped at ends, some wear to front joint at head, bumping and..... More
London: The Early English Text Society, 1960. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Early English Text Society No. 153. Volume I only. Orig. brown cloth. xv, 217 pp. Gilt title faded and small scuff to spine, else fine. More
London: Strahan and Co., 1873. Hardcover. 8vo. xxi, 274 p.p., [5]. Black cloth boards with red ruling and gilt titling to spine. Beveled edges. Bumping and wear to spine ends and corners, markings to boards. Gift inscription to half title and ownership inscription to recto of frontis. Brown endpapers. Black..... More
New York: George Routledge & Sons. Hardcover. 12mo. Black cloth boards with red ruling and gilt titling to spine. xvi, 182 pp., [9 pp. ads]. [17] B&W plates incl. frontis. Bumping and very minor wear to spine ends and corners, markings to boards. Cockling to cloth at foot of front..... More
Edmonds, Washington: Alaska Northwestern Publishing Company, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 10" x 9.5" Oblong. Full grey glossy paper boards. B&W pictorial endpapers. Unpaginated, approx [153 pp.]. B&W photos. Fine. During his 40 years of globe-circling picture-taking, Canadian photographer Richard Harrington's work has been published in Life, Look, National Geographic, Der..... More
Iran: Bank Melli Iran Press, 1961. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Illustrated wrappers, 68pp. Illustrated. Blue rubber stamp on upper front cover, front cover creased down middle, otherwise a very good copy. Travel guide to Shiraz, Iran. More
London: John Murray, 1828. Hardcover. 8vo. Third Edition. Contemporary half-calf, xii, 321pp. Rear board re-attached with archival tape, bookplate to pastedown, very light foxing, corners rounded and worn, some chipping to spine, otherwise a good copy. Francis Bond (1793-1875) accounts of his journey "across the great plains of the Pampas..... More
New Orleans: Tulane School of Architecture, 1997. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to. xi, [1], 163 p.p. Illustrated with archival photographs. Light rubbing, smudges to covers with small soil to head of rear cover. Interior clean, crisp. Tight. A near fine copy of an interesting look at the types and styles..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. Hardcover. 16mo. The Travellers' Library. Full blue cloth. 253 pp., ads. Some light damp staining to cloth, bumping to spine ends. A few small spots of foxing. Near fine. More
[London]: Hellenic Traveller's Club, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo [large]. [2 ads], 158, [1 ad]. With [7] plates of photographs and illustrations, some with images on verso. Bumping to spine ends and corners. Offsetting to front free endpaper. Spotted stains to board, with soil to bottom corner of rear board..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Shenton, Edward. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 295 pp. B&W illustration in text. Creasing to joints and covers, spots of wear to extremities, staining to rear cover. Stain to tail edge of first few pages. Constructed like a...... More
Toronto: Coles Publishing Company, 1971. Hardcover. 8vo. Travels through the Canadas: containing a description of the picturesque scenery on some of the rivers and lakes : with an account of the productions, commerce and inhabitants of those provinces : to which is subjoined a comparative view of the manners and..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. Hewitt, Barbara Finn. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. SIGNED by author to title page. Quarter green cloth, cream paper boards. 288 pp. B&W illustrations in text. A few bumps to edges of dust jacket, else fine. Their dream was to flee the harsh and unforgiving..... More
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1943. Hardcover. 8vo. Full red cloth. Map endpapers. xx, 416 pp. Numerous duotone illustrations in text. Very light chafing to spine ends. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar to front pastedown. Dust jacket is price clipped, lightly edge worn. Newspaper article about Hoffman's death laid in..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1959. Lambo, Donald. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. yellow cloth, black lettering and vignette to front board. Pictorial endpapers. 54 pp. B&W and teal illustrations. Spotting to boards, rubbing and bumping to spine ends and corners. Interior clean. Dust jacket Lightly worn in spots, small chips..... More
Liverpool: The University Press of Liverpool Limited, 1924. Hardcover. 18mo. Full blue cloth. 352 pp. [5] B&W plates, 3 fold-out. Spine sunned, rubbing to extremities. Errata to pp 6 and 175. This handbook was prepared originally for the visit to Liverpool of the British Advancement of Science in September, 1923..... More
Toronto: Thomas Nelson & Sons, Limited, 1927. Hardcover. 12mo. viii, 302 p.p. Green cloth boards with black stamped lettering to spine and vignette portrait of a man to front board. Spine sunned, bumped at ends. Damp stain to rear board, white scuff to head of rear board. B&W portrait frontis..... More
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (imperial). Full red cloth. Unpaginated, approx. [92] pp. Fully illustrated in colour with photos by John de Visser. Fine in near fine jacket. A book of photographs portraying the vast sweep of history of Newfoundland - from the Norse settlement in..... More
London: [Hotel Albemarle], 1891. Hardcover. 16mo. Full red cloth, gilt title and armorial device to front board, unlettered spine. xi, [fold-out map], 46, xiii-xxiii. B&W engravings in text. Damp staining to cloth and some light cockling, spine tilted and slightly darkened, bruising to corners. Hinges cracked. Tear to title page..... More