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  • Voyage autour du monde sur la Frégate La Vénus

    DU PETIT-THOUARS, Abel.
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    With the rare Atlas Hydrographique. One of the most important and complete records of the Mexican period in California. 'This voyage, ostensibly t...

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  • The possibility of approaching the North Pole asserted

    BARRINGTON, Hon. Daines; BEAUFOY, Colonel.
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    This volume contains papers relating to an expedition under the command of Captain Phipps commissioned by the Government of the day. These papers ...

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  • Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar;

    OWEN, William Fitzwilliam.
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    Family copy of crew member with letters. Lt. Henry Gibbons served on H.M.S. Leven and died on December 26th 1822 from fever. The same fate was to b...

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  • An album of watercolours of Scottish landscapes,

    BURGESS, Henry William; KERR Lady Harriet.
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    Henry William Burgess (c.1792-1837) was highly regarded for his landscape drawings and paintings, with a particular emphasis on the study of trees...

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  • Sport in Somaliland,

    POTOCKI, Count Joseph.
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    One of the rarest of big-game books and certainly one of the most luxuriously produced. Potocki (1862-1922), was a renowned big-game hunter and br...

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  • Voyage pittoresque de la Grece.

    CHOISEUL-GOUFFIER, Marie Gabriel August Florent.
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    A very attractive example of the first edition of one of the most celebrated Voyages pittoresques.Choiseul-Gouffier's masterpiece is the first pub...

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  • Alt-Christliche Baudenkmale von Constantinopel vom V. bis XII. Jahrhundert.

    SALZENBERG, Wilhelm.
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    An excellent example of this celebrated second edition, limited to only a few copies, of this important work on christian architecture in Constant...

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  • Antverpia Totius Inferiorisæ Primaria Urbs

    VRIENTS, Jan Baptist.
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    A rare and finely engraved prospect of Antwerp viewed from the Scheldt, first published by Vrients in 1610, under a privilege issued by Albert and...

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  • A mission to Gelele, King of Dahome.

    BURTON, Richard Francis.
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    One of Burton's more sensational books. Dahomey had the reputation of being the most bloodthirsty land in Africa. Burton had wished to visit whils...

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  • Porte-feuille geographique et ethnographique

    ENGELMANN, Godefroy (1788-1839); G. Berger.
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    Engelmann's superbly illustrated world geography is undoubtedly one of the most elegant of the early nineteenth century.. The text contained in the...

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  • A Supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry's Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, in 1819-20.

    [PARRY'S FIRST AND SECOND VOYAGE]. PARRY, William Edward.
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    All three works inscribed by Parry. all three works inscribed on the title-pages to Acheson Maxwell, the first 'A. Maxwell Esq. with Captain Parry'...

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  • Voyage de la Pérouse

    LA PÉROUSE, Jean-François de Galaup (Comte de).
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    The first scientific voyage to California, with royal provenance. The first edition of one of the most important scientific explorations ever under...

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  • Travels in Sicily Greece and Albania.

    HUGHES, The Rev. Thomas Smart.
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    Hughes travelled in the Mediterranean and Greece in 1813-14 as tutor to Richard Townley Parker. They visited Spain, Italy, Sicily, Greece and Alba...

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  • The Exotic and the Beautiful. Vol V

    SCHEYBEYLER, Catherine
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    Library of Norman R. Bobins. A catalogue of colour plate books from the library of Norman Bobins. Also including a wonderful series of hand coloure...

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  • A new history of Ethiopia.

    LUDOLF, Hiob.
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    The father of modern Ethiopian studies. Scarce English edition. Ludolf (1624-1704), is regarded as the father of modern Ethiopian studies. 'A work ...

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  • Cape Evans.

    PONTING, Herbert G.
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    The hut at Cape Evans. Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing the hut at Cape Evans, surrounded...

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