New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. in the years 1774 to 1776. Illus. 8vo, 3/4 gray cloth, boards worn on edges, pages slightly wavy throughout. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. Author stayed in St. Kitts, Antigua, Wilimington, North Carolina, and Lisbon. More

London: Longman, Rees, 1831. 2 volumes bound in 1. 137 + 194 pages + 54 page appendix. 8vo, 3/4 brown calf over marbled boards (rubbed). London:Longman, Rees, Orme, 1831. A very good copy, internally clean. More

Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu. Map. Copper plate engraving with original hand coloring with highlights in gold. Image measures 15" x 19.5". Sheet measures 20.25 x 24". This sea chart shows the Cape Verde Islands, an archipelago off the coast of Western Africa. The islands became particularly strategic starting in the 15th Century, when the Portuguese colonized them and utilized them as a stop in the Atlantic Slave Trade. The map is beautifully drawn with rhumb lines criss-crossing around a central compass..... More

Paris: Musees, 1987. More than 200 illustrations, some in color. 283pp., 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers, spine very slightly creased. Paris: Musees, (1987). A very good (+) copy. More

London: Cartago, 1999. Many illustrations in color and im black and white. 4to, turquoise cloth, d.w. London: Cartago, (1999). First Edition. Fine in near fine slightly sunned dust wrapper. More

London: John Cary, 1811. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 18" x 20". Beautiful map of Portugal and part of Spain. Full original margins, slight mat burn along upper right edge, image unaffected. Small ink stains in bottom margin. John Cary (1754-1835) was a British cartographer and engraver. His highly detailed and accurate maps mark a turning point from the earlier emphasis on decoration toward a greater emphasis on information. This map is a fine example of Cary's work..... More

New York: New York University Press, 1980. 330 pages. 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. (sunned). New York: New York University Press, 1980. Inscription on flyleaf, else a very good(+) copy. More

1696. Map. Engraving. 17 3/4" x 23 1/2". Unusual map of the the Azores, an autonomous mid Atlantic archipelago of Portugal. Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718) was a Franciscan priest and renowned mathematician and cartographer. He was appointed official Cosmographer to the Venetian Republic in 1685 and founded the world's earliest geographic society, L'Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti. He was known best for his globes, which he made for prominent rulers such as Louis XIV and the Duke of Parma. This map is..... More

New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1869. Frontis. xii, 451pp. 12mo, contemporary 3/4 brown morocco, morocco lightly worn, edges of boards worn, front flyleaf expertly repaired, small newspaper article and plate of the Pepperell House mounted on last two blank pages. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1869. First Edition Presentation copy from the author to her daughter. William Jarvis, a merchant from Boston, was United States Consul to Portugal from 1802 to 1811. His daughter writes extensively on his time in..... More

40pp. 24mo, original printed wrappers; (wrappers very lightly soiled, otherwise very good). Rio de Janeiro: Eduardo & Henrique Laemmert, (1865). "An account of Lincoln's assassination and funeral, beginning with his forebodings when he left Springfield. Concludes with a brief biography." Monaghan 3796. One of two publications in Portuguese published in Brazil in 1865 on Abraham Lincoln. More

London: William Faden, 1780. Sea chart. Engraving with original hand outline. Image measures 20" x 27.5". Beautiful detailed map of the coast of Iberia and northern Africa, with rhumb lines and depths. Offsetting to Mediterranean section. More

London: Phaidon, 1955. Foreword by Anthony Blunt. Folding plate, 37 other plates, 10 color, 13 text illustrations. 18pp. of text. Folio, tan linen, d.w. London, 1955. Near fine. More