London: Faber & Faber, 1985. Several maps, other illus. 350 pages, paper toned. 8vo, black boards. d.w. (minor bumping to cloth and wrapper at fore-edge). London: Faber & Faber, (1985). First English edition. A very good(+) copy. More
London: Samson, Low Marston, 1872. Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa Including Four Months' Residence with Dr. Livingstone. 736pp., illustrated with maps and drawings by the author. Mounted sepia photograph of Stanley as frontispiece. Thick 8vo, beautifully rebound in 3/4 red morocco, spine with gilt decoration & raised bands; gilt top. London: Samson Lowe, Marston , 1872. First Edition. Inner front joint cracked, but otherwise fine. More
New York: Scribner, 1891. 2 volumes. 2 steel-engraved frontispiece portraits, and 150 illustrations & maps, many full-page. 2 (of 3) folding maps, loose as issued in rear pockets; nice condition but as usual starting to separate at folds. Tall thick 8vo, original green pictorial cloth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. Second American Edition. A very good set. Account of Stanley's expedition to rescue Emin Pasha. The expedition "accomplished great things; it had made notable additions to African geography and..... More
New York: Scribner, 1890. 2 volumes. Steel-engraved frontispiece portraits, and 150 illustrations, many full-page. 3 folding maps, loose as issued in rear pockets; as usual starting to separate at folds. Tall thick 8vo, original green pictorial cloth (bindings scuffed and edgeworn but solid). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First American Edition. A good set. Account of Stanley's expedition to rescue Emin Pasha. The expedition "accomplished great things; it had made notable additions to African geography and ethnology.... Stanley called..... More
New York: Scribner, 1890. 2 volumes. Steel-engraved frontispiece portraits, and 150 illustrations, many full-page. 3 folding maps, loose as issued in rear pockets; as usual starting to seperate at folds . xiv + 547; xvi + 540 pages. Thick 8vos, original green pictorial cloth; bindings rubbed inner hinges mended, first volume has dampstaining on frontispiece portrait otherwise visible only on bottom edges of unopened pages. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First American Edition. A good set. Account of Stanley's..... More
New York: Harper, 1878. 2 volumes. Frontispiece portraits, and illustrated with 150 woodcuts, some full-page. 10 colored maps and 1 large folding map in rear pocket of Eastern Equatorial Africa, the delicate paper of the map is beginning to split at the folds. (lacks 2nd large folding map). Tall thick 8vo, handsomely bound in the original pictorial green cloth, neatly repaired at spine ends. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. First American Edition. A very nice clean copy. More
Paris: Buisson, 1799. Three 8vo volumes plus one 4to atlas volume. Atlas volume is illustrated with 44 engraved plates and maps. viii + 410; 440; 506 pages. Cotemporary full mottled calf with gilt-bordered covers and decorative spines; rubbed and worn at the joints but sound and attractive; the atlas volume has more wear and a large dampstain at top edge of all pages. Paris: Chez F. Buisson, 1799 (VII). Overall a good set of this important book. Stedman vividly describes..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841. Volume 2 ONLY. Illustrated with engravings. 286 pages, 12mo, full brown mottled calf with brown leather spine label. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841. Tenth edition, with additions. A very good copy with stain on rear cover and some light foxing but otherwise clean. More
New York: Atheneum, 1960. 258 pages. 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Atheneum, 1960. First edition. A fine copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. More
New York: Putnam, 1915. Frontispiece, color and b/w illustrations throughout. 554 pages. Thick 8vo, highly pictorial navy cloth with gilt titles. New York: Putnam, [1915]. A very good attractive copy--light wear to spine ends and corners, a touch of staining to front cloth, toned endpapers, previous owner gift inscription neatly written on fly. More
Philadelphia: Henry, 1825. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. Measures 44.25 x 59 inches. In very good condition. Tanner's large scale map of North America is one of the most significant maps of the continent of the 19th century. It combines the information garnered from a host of important expeditions, such as Lewis and Clark, Pike, and James, into a single map that shows the extent of North America in 1825. Some of the most notable portions of the map include..... More
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006. Illustrated in color and black and white. 316 pages, 8vo, two tone tan boards, dust wrapper. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, (2006). First American Edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. More
London: London Illustrated News, 1873. Print. Wood engraving. Page measures 15 3/4" x 11" This print was published by the Illustrated London News on December 16, 1865 to accompany an article describing Mr. Baker's explorations of the White Nile valley in eastern Africa. The sheet features two engravings made after sketches by Mr. Baker; the top image depicts "Commoro, Chief of the Latooka Tribe", and the bottom image depicts "Homestead of Natives of Gondokoro." Both images depict present-day South Sudan..... More
New York: P. F. Collier, 1935. Illus. 8vo, green cloth. New York: P. F. Collier, (1935). Very good(+). More
Edinburgh: John Thomson, 1816. Map. Set of two. Engravings with original hand coloring. Each image measures 23" x 20" Two impressive maps of the northern and southern hemispheres projected on the plane of the horizon of London. Captain Cook's voyages are delineated and dated. The Northern Hemisphere depicts Europe, Africa, and Asia, as well as North America and part of South America. Southern hemisphere includes Oceania, showing Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific islands, as well as the southern half of..... More
Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1884-. 6 folding maps, 277 text illustrations, 54 plates. 778pp., thick 4to, gilt-pictorial tan cloth, a.e.g.; (rubbed, some foxing, edges of some maps wrinkled). Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1884. Good. More
1961. 8 x 7.75-inch matte finish photo of a smiling Titov at the height of his popularity, seated at a desk with a pen in his hand. Coincidentally, the pen is just above his inscription, giving this item a warm and personal touch: "With much appreciation - Titov - October 12, 1961." Attractively double-matted and set in a gray stainless steel frame measuring 13.75 x 13.25 inches. Creased in the upper left corner; very good(-) condition. Soviet Cosmonaut who became..... More
Hollywood: Van Dyke, 1931. Illustrated. 219pp., 8ov, blue cloth, lightly rubbed. Hollywood: Privately Printed by California Graphic Press for W. S. Van Dyke, 1931. A very good (+) copy Presentation copy signed by W. S. Van Dyke. More
New York: Walker and Company, 1995. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 144 pages. 8vo, black boards, dust wrapper. Page edges foxed, else a very good(+) copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. In this new twist on American frontier life. Elizabeth Van Steenwyk shows us how the pioneers who settled the vast American West managed to survive. Whether using chicken blood to treat appendicitis, blood letting to relieve fever, or firing guns into the air to stop yellow fever..... More
Louvain: Cornelis van Wytfliet, 1597. Map. Copper-plate engraving. Image measures 11.25" x 9.25". This important 1597 map is from the first atlas of the New World by Cornelis van Wytfliet. Sold as is, the map is missing 1/4 inch of the center margin with text loss. Overall and some wear abrasion to border in between 42 and 43 degrees on the center left margin.The atlas contains some of the first printed maps of the New World as well as a...... More
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Paris: Collection du Galion d'Or. 1931. Text by Jean-Paul Alavx and aquarelles by Gustave Alavx. 4to, beautifully bound in full brown morocco, inner dentelles and with the original wrappers bound in. Rubricated title, deckled edges. Paris: Editions Duchartre; Collection du Galion d'Or, (1931). Fine. More
8vo, boards. Paris, (1960). A very good copy. More
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Amsterdam: Cornelius Claesz (Cornille Nicolas), 1609. Map. Uncolored. Sheet measures 12.75" x 9.25" This rare map of Kildin Island and the Kola Peninsula, part of today's Murmansk Oblast of the Russian Federation, dates to 1609. The map covers the Island of Kildin as well as part of the Murmansk Fjord or Kola Bay. It beautifully rendered topography as well as soundings off the coast of Kildin. Towns are noted on the Kola Peninsula. Illustrations of men carrying boats, ships in..... More
Amsterdam: Cornelius Claesz (Cornille Nicolas), 1609. Map. Uncolored. Sheet measures 12.75" x 9.25" This hard to find map of Novaya Zemlya or Nova Zembla, an archipelago in the Arctic Sea located just north of Russia, dates to 1609. The map covers from Kildyn (Kildin Island) off the coast of Finland to the Orange Island (discovered by Barentz), and includes the northern and western coast of the island while the southern and eastern coasts remain unmapped. The map beautifully renders the..... More
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Amsterdam: Cornelius Claesz (Cornille Nicolas), 1609. Engraving. Uncolored. Sheet measures 12.75" x 9.25" Side view of two of the ships used by Willem Barentsz in his third voyage during his Arctic explorations in search of the Northeast Passage. The text above the view describes the curious phenomenon illustrated in the top center, "For the sake of a marvelous Meteor, seen on the 4th day, in the year 1596, for each side of the Sun was another shining Sun, and two..... More
Dear Mr. Hample, Just a short note to confirm receipt of the book and my absolute satisfaction with it. I am in the process of building a library of books from the interwar period to document and understand the events as seen by contemporaries as very often knowledge of what happened afterwards colours the views of historians. I am mainly focussed on Italian matters but books describing current events in other countries such as Germany, UK, France, Spain, Japan and the US are of interest to me. If you have a catalogue or can indicate to me any other books that you think could interest me, I would be very gratefll.Thank you in advance and best regards.
I have just received the copy of Mysterious Island by Jules Verne which I ordered previously. The book arrived in the condition in which it was sent and I am very impressed with the condition of the book. I would like to thank the staff for all of their assistance and will certainly order again!