Les Forets du Se-tchouan et du Si-kiang Oriental [Frank White's copy] by Cheng, W.C - 1939

4 volumes. xii+406 pages with 8 maps (3 folding), 4 illustrations including frontispiece, appendices, bibliography and index. The Journal of Friedrich Horneman's Travels from Cairo to Murzuk in the Years 1797-98 and The Letters of Major Alexander Gordon Laing, 1824-26 With Laing's letters are included his 'Cursory remarks on the course and termination of the great river Niger', his 'Notes on Gadamis', his only surviving letter to his wife, and the newspaper report of his death; xiv+306 pages with frontispiece. The Bornu Mission 1822-25. This and the following volumes reprint most of the Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824 by Major Denham, Captain Clapperton and the late Doctor Oudney (2nd edition, 1826). This volume begins Denham's narrative. Includes previously unpublished documents relating to the mission. Each volume contains a glossary of Arabic terms; xii+309-595 pages with 7 maps (2 folding), 30 illustrations including… Read More

Marcel Dekker, New York, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 656pp; Book is in great condition other than that it has quite a bit of underlining; Owner's inscription on front and back endpapers; Otherwise, no significant flaws; Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 - 3 pounds. Category: Science & Technology; ISBN: 0824778383. ISBN/EAN: 9780824778385. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 101913. . 9780824778385 Additional shipping charges may apply.

Madison: Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, 1924. Good condition. SEE PHOTOS. Enclosed in a pocket at the rear is a beautiful, full-color GEOLOGIC MAP OF WISCONSIN SHOWING LOCATIONS FROM WHICH SAMPLES OF LIMESTONE, DOLOMITE, MARL, SHALE OR CLAY WERE ANALYZED (Revised 1924 by E. F. Bean). The map is impressive, printed in at least 12 colors, and measures 22" wide by 24" tall when unfolded. The map is in perfect condition, having been sealed in the original pocket until removed by us to write this description. Suitable for framing. SEE PHOTO. Bound in the original green cloth, stamped in shiny gold on the spine. Cover soiled and frayed at the top edge. Light marginal stain at the top of several pages, not affecting any text. NOT a library discard. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated with 6 plates, 19 figures, and 5 tables. Bulletin No. 66. This book is from the library of scientist and author Robert B. Sosman, with his tiny ink stamp on… Read More

1933 Whittlesey House first edition. Henry Rusby was a well know botanist and participant in numerous expeditions to the Amazon and other tropical climes.Condition of the book is Very Good. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked. The main condition issue is light soil to the exterior edges of the text block. Overall, a clean and sold copy of a somewhat uncommon classic in the field.Please message me with any questions.

1928 Doubleday Doran first edition. Uncommon as a true first with the dust jacket.Condition of the book is Very Good Minus. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked. The main condition issues are light wear to the boards, and a partially cracked but firm hinge at the title pageCondition of the dust jacket is Good. The DJ is complete, not price clipped. It shows moderate edge wear and shelf wear. The DJ is protected in a new mylar cover.Please message me with any questions

Hartford, Conn: J. Blakeslee Frost, 1866. First Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 276pp. Brown cloth. Covers edgeworn, spine chipped at head and tail, dampstaining to preliminary pages and last few pages, text is age-toned and there are a few spots and smudges in some margins, the binding is tight. An uncommon book relating the author's observations during her residence of 5 years in California.

First edition. Printed for B. MacMillan for G. Nicol, Pall Mall. 1798. Octavo. Half title, title, xvii, (1: errata), 597pp. 2 hand coloured folding maps, one folding table. Printed note to the contents: "The Author intended to have inserted a plan of an orchard ... but as it turned out to be inconvenient in point of size, and being of small importance, the idea was given up". Later utilitarian quarter calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands with uneven black rules, gilt lettering, sl. rubbed to head and foot; slightly marked cloth boards. All edges speckled. Apart from a little light sporadic foxing a nice crisp clean copy, firmly bound. Priced to accommodate cost of rebacking which would greatly enhance the volume.
John Middleton (1751 – 1833), surveyor, pioneering and inventive agriculturist, commissioner for enclosures. "The best of all the [board's] surveys of English Counties'". ODNB. An all-encompassing work in the spirit of the age, including the state of property, commons and… Read More

Printed for the Cambrian Archaeological Association by The Bedford Press. London. 1917. Royal Octavo. xvi, 371pp. Engraved portrait plate, 1 photo plate. Later quarter calf, cloth boards. Spine in six with gilt rules, lettering, embellishment and leather labels. More recent endpapers. Lightly toned, with some foxing to prelims and towards the end. Ink splash to top foredge. Slightly strained at portrait.
Richard Fenton (1747-1821), poet and topographical writer. His friends included Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson, Sir Richard Colt Hoare, William Owen Pughe, Theophilus Jones and Sir Joshua Reynolds. "He built up a large library of books, manuscripts … and toured Wales extensively to visit prehistoric sites, many of which he excavated, and other features in the landscape. His books and journals, more tour literature than history, are entertaining reading, being an attractive mixture of accurate reporting and recording interspersed with personal descriptions of scenery and accounts of… Read More

Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle. London. 1873. First edition. Octavo. xii, 347pp, 48pp publisher's adverts. Engraved frontis., map, coloured in outline, 3 further engraved plates, text engravings. Original cloth, gilt lettering, rules and cover vignette. Bumped and rubbed. Hinges cracked. Untrimmed, and partially unopened. Short closed tear to first page of index. Sporadic minor foxing/spotting. Blue silk bookmark. Inscription dated Dec 27th 1873 to verso ffep. WH Smith stamp embossed to ffep.

Hutchinson & Co. London. nd. [1925] First edition. Octavo. xvii, 328pp. Photo frontis., 31 further plates, text and endpaper maps. Original red cloth, gilt lettering, slightly sunned to spine. A little rubbed, marked and bumped. Endpapers slightly toned, light occasional spotting.
"I realised that a new Europe had been moulded out of the old…It mattered little whether it was economically sound or unsound that this or that race should be given national status… independence was in itself sufficient to justify the map of Europe being made out anew".