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GIESTBECK, Michael [1846-1918].
Bilder Aus Der Völkerkunde.
Breslau: Ferdinand Hirt, 1883..
8vo. pp. 160. many text illus. (some full-page). contemporary half roan (rubbed). bookplate of William Libbey. First Edition.
$154 USD Book Number: TESldGIE60 Order / Enquire
GILLY, William Stephen [1789-1855].
Narrative Of An Excursion To The Mountains Of Piemont, In The Year MDCCCXXIII. And Researches Among The Vaudois, Or Waldenses, Protestant Inhabitants Of The Cottian Alps.
London: Printed For C. And J.Rivington, 1825..
8vo. pp. xxiii, 284, lxxv, 3. 2 folding engraved maps. 1 folding facsimile. contemporary half vellum, gilt back (short split in upper back joint). Second Edition. The second edition contains additional material not included in the first, quarto, edition, but the plates have been omitted and the appendix abbreviated. Pine-Coffin 8232n.
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GONZÁLEZ DE SALAS, Jusepe Antonio [1588-1651].
De Duplici Viventium Terra Dissertatio Paradoxica.
Leyden: [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevier, 1650..
small 4to. pp. 2 p.l., xviii, [2 leaves], 240, [10]. engraved title & full-page engraving incorporating author's coat of arms, both by S.Savri after Sebast. de Herrer. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary calf, rebacked with gilt spine mounted (covers worn, some light foxing, paper flaw in upper margin of M2). First Edition of this geographical-historical work based on the Bible and classical sources. According to Willems it was printed at the author's expense. America is mentioned on p. 98. Palau 105824. Rahir 679. Willems 681.
$599 USD Book Number: TNZDGONZ96 Order / Enquire
GOODRICH, [Samuel G.].
Goodrich's Comprehensive Geography And History, Ancient And Modern.
New York: Schönberg & Co., 1860..
4to. pp. 272. numerous maps & illus. in the text (some of the maps hand-coloured & some full-page). original gilt-stamped cloth (soiled, extremities frayed, lower front joint starting to split, several library rubberstamps, Quebec YMCA Library bookplate). Seventy-five percent of the book is devoted to North and South America. Sabin 27894.
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G[RASSET] DE ST. SAUVEUR, A[ndré].
Travels Through The Balearic And Pithiusian Islands, Performed Between The Years 1801 And 1806.
London: Printed For Richard Phillips By J.G.Barnard, 1808..
8vo. pp. vi[i.e.iv], [5]-156. modern bds. (some leaves with pronounced brown stain, some other foxing & browning). First Edition of the English Translation.
$351 USD Book Number: elala139 Order / Enquire
GREEN, John (Editor).
A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels...
London: Printed for Thomas Astley, 1745-47.
4 Volumes. 4to. pp. xi, [13], 680; viii, [4], 732; vi, [4], 605; xii, [3], 751,m[42]index. with list of subscribers. text in double columns. 680; 229 (of 232) engraved maps & plates (many folding; incl. 4 frontis.) (lacking 1 Chinese & 2 African plates). woodcut dedication headpieces. modern cloth (small institutional blindstamp on titles, some plates browned, scattered foxing, blank corner of 1 frontis. defective). First Edition. Compiled by John Green but known as Astley's collection. This generously illustrated collection comprises (1) first voyages of the Portuguese to the East Indies, 1418-1546; first voyages of the English to Guinea, and the East Indies, 1552-1598; first voyages of the English to the East Indies, set forth by the company of merchants, 1600-1620; voyages to Africa and the islands adjacent, 1455-1721; (2) voyages and travels along the western coast of Africa, 1637-1735; voyages and travels to Guinea and Benin, 1666-1726; description of Guinea; (3) voyages and travels to Guinea, Benin, Congo and Angola; description of Loango, Congo, Angola, Benguela, and adjacent counties; description of the countries along the eastern coast of Africa, from Cape of Good Hope to Cape Guarda Fuy; voyages and travels in China, 1655-1722; and (4) description of China, of Korea, eastern Tartary and Tibet; travels through Tartary, Tibet, and Bokhara, to and from China, 1246-1698. Two voyages in Volume II relate to America: a voyage along the coast of Guinea, the island of St. Thomas, and Barbados, in 1693 by Thomas Phillips, and a voyage to Guinea, Brazil and the West Indies, 1721, by John Atkins. Cox I p. 15. Hill p. 210. Sabin 28539. European Americana 745/153. Cordier, Japonica, 232, 277, 279, 322, 405 & 406. Cordier, Sinica, 1947.
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GREENWOOD, James.
Curiosities Of Savage Life.[Volume II titled Savage Habits & Customs.].
London: S.O.Beeton, 1865 & nd..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xiv, 418; xiv, 418. with half-titles. 11 colour plates from watercolour drawings by F.W.Keyl & R.Huttula & numerous wood-engraved text illus. by H.Newsom Woods after designs by Harden S.Melville. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth, Vol. I rebacked with spine mounted, all edges gilt (spine ends & joints of Vol. II frayed, occasional stains, several gatherings lightly embrowned). Third Edition. Many of the chapters relate to North American Indian tribes. Ferguson 10073d. Sabin 28691.
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GREGOROVIUS, Ferdinand [1821-1891].
Corsica In Its Picturesque, Social, And Historical Aspects: The Record Of A Tour In The Summer Of 1852.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, And Longmans, 1855..
small 8vo. pp. viii, 493. original cloth (spine dull). First Edition of this English Translation by Russell Martineau. Including chapters on the towns of Bastia, Isola Rossa, Calvi, Corte, Ajaccio, Val Ornano, Sartene, Bonifazio, and remarks on vendettas, bandit life, Pasquale Paoli, Napoleon, &c.
$256 USD Book Number: TEGrsGRE40 Order / Enquire
GUILD, Curtis [1827-1911].
Over The Ocean; Or, Sights And Scenes In Foreign Lands.
Boston: Lee And Shepard, Publishers & New York: Charles T.Dillingham, 1878..
8vo. pp. 1 p.l.(publisher's ads), viii, 558. original blind-stamped cloth (bit spotted & rubbed, hinges cracked, few leaves with ragged edges & stains to upper margins). The American newspaper editor's account of his travels in Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Italy was first published in 1871. cfSmith G70.
$77 USD Book Number: TILerGUI81 Order / Enquire
HAIGHT, Canniff [1825-1901].
Here And There In The Home Land. England, Scotland, And Ireland, As Seen By A Canadian.
Toronto: William Briggs..., 1895..
8vo. pp. xviii, [19]-616. numerous text illus. A fine copy in original cloth. First Edition.
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HAKLUYT, Richard [1552?-1616].
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries of the English Nation.
Edinburgh: E. & G.Goldsmid, 1885-90.
16 Volumes in 10. 4to. with half-titles. titles in red & black. illustrated with facsimile maps & portraits. An attractive set in contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., others uncut (light foxing to outer blanks). Fourth Edition of this famous compilation, one of the great chronicles of Elizabethan maritime exploration by one of England's most vigorous propagandists, a work referred to by Froude as "the prose epic of the modern English nation". It was first published in 1589, with a second enlarged edition appearing in 1599-1600, and a third in 1809-10. The work relates English travels to the Middle East and Asia, the discoveries of the English towards the north and northeast and Russia, and voyages and travels to the northwestern arctic and North and South America from English and other sources. Related in American section, and arranged in a chronological and regional sequence, using the personal narratives of the explorers and merchants themselves, are the voyages and explorations of Frobisher and Davis to the Arctic, Cabot and Gilbert to Newfoundland, Hore to Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island, Cartier and Roberval to Canada, White to Virginia, Verrazzano, Ribault and Laudonnière to Florida, Ulloa and Drake to California, Hawkins, Hare and Lancaster to Brazil, &c. Many of the voyages recorded by Hakluyt are virtually unobtainable in their original editions, while for other great discoveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, his compilation remains a unique source of reference. cfHill pp. 131-32. cfHowes H-26. cfTPL 12.
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HALL, Basil [1788-1844].
Schloss Hainfeld; Or, A Winter In Lower Styria.
Edinburgh: Robert Cadell & London: Whittaker & Co., 1836..
12mo. pp. 4 p.l., 384 + 4 pp. of publisher's ads. with half-title. untrimmed in original cloth (rear joint partly cracked & frayed, spine chipped, some light foxing). bookplate of Elphinstone, Carberry Tower. First Edition.
$231 USD Book Number: TLLhlHAL71 Order / Enquire
[HAZLITT, William] [1778-1830].
Notes Of A Journey Through France And Italy.
London: Printed For Hunt And Clarke, 1826..
8vo. pp. viii, 416. modern half calf. First Edition, First Issue. Keynes 93. Pine-Coffin 8247. NCBEL 1232.
$450 USD Book Number: elala558 Order / Enquire
[HEAD, Francis Bond] [1793-1875].
Bubbles From The Brunnens of Nassau. By An Old Man.
London: John Murray, 1834..
12mo. pp. iv, 406. additional engraved title & frontis. wood-engraved text illus. later half calf, t.e.g., gilt back (rubbed, light foxing to plates). Second Edition.
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HEDIN, Sven [1865-1952].
Overland To India.
London: Macmillan And Co., Limited, 1910..
2 Volumes. pp. xix, [1], 416; xiv, 357. with half-titles. 2 folding coloured maps & 305 (of 306) illus. on numerous plates (some coloured, 4 folding): lacking plate opposite p. 112 in Vol. II. original gilt-stamped cloth, t.e.g. (some of the plates in Vol. II adhering at lower edge). First Edition in English, published the same year as the Swedish edition. A well-illustrated account of Hedin's journey from Teheran through the deserts of Persia to India in 1905-06.
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