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Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. First edition (1878). Brown cloth cover worn with rubbing, notably near corners near spine, corner bumps and some light splotches. Spine ends frayed. Name, date and minor notes to front blank pages. Blue endpapers unmarked, with some wrinkling at a crack/split at hinge of front endpapers. Text unmarked and pages intact with some edge wear and aging. Gilt title and decorations intact on cover and spine. Plum Adirondack Bibliography number 7244. Please see image. 176 pages. Note that this edition has 176 pages, fewer than the later 1882 and other Houghton, Mifflin editions, which added two chapters and which have 226 pages. (All Houghton - whether Houghton Osgood or Houghton Mifflin - editions were issued in varying cover colors - red, green, brown - but all with the same blind stamped design. The 1878 1st editons I have seen have the additional gilt design along the top and lower front edges, as seen here.)
The Indian Pass by Street, Alfred B - 1869
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London: Fisher, Sons, & Co, 1832. Hardcover. Good +. [1], 6-44 p.: 20 leaves of steel-engraved plates; 29 cm. Half speckled calf; six spine compartments between gilt rules with red morocco spine label in second compartment reading "Views." Marbled paper over boards. Engraved title page. Caption and running title: Picturesque Illustrations of Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland. This title was issued in parts and this volume apparently contains only the first part. It is bound with parts of "Devonshire Illustrated, in a Series of Views" (Fisher, Son & Co., 1832), consisting of an engraved title page, one unpaginated page, pages 6-8, 13-28, 53-60, 105-108, and 16 leaves of engraved plates (possibly a publisher's dummy?). Each leaf has two views. In Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; front joint just starting to separate from tail of spine; lower corner of front board scraped; foxing.
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A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World: Performed by Captain James Cook, with an account of his life, during the previous and intervening periods
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Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. First edition (1878). Brown cloth cover worn with rubbing, notably near corners near spine, corner bumps and some light splotches. Spine ends frayed. Name, date and minor notes to front blank pages. Blue endpapers unmarked, with some wrinkling at a crack/split at hinge of front endpapers. Text unmarked and pages intact with some edge wear and aging. Gilt title and decorations intact on cover and spine. Plum Adirondack Bibliography number 7244. Please see image. 176 pages. Note that this edition has 176 pages, fewer than the later 1882 and other Houghton, Mifflin editions, which added two chapters and which have 226 pages. (All Houghton - whether Houghton Osgood or Houghton Mifflin - editions were issued in varying cover colors - red, green, brown - but all with the same blind stamped design. The 1878 1st editons I have seen have the additional gilt design along the top and lower front edges, as seen here.)
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London: Fisher, Sons, & Co, 1832. Hardcover. Good +. [1], 6-44 p.: 20 leaves of steel-engraved plates; 29 cm. Half speckled calf; six spine compartments between gilt rules with red morocco spine label in second compartment reading "Views." Marbled paper over boards. Engraved title page. Caption and running title: Picturesque Illustrations of Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland. This title was issued in parts and this volume apparently contains only the first part. It is bound with parts of "Devonshire Illustrated, in a Series of Views" (Fisher, Son & Co., 1832), consisting of an engraved title page, one unpaginated page, pages 6-8, 13-28, 53-60, 105-108, and 16 leaves of engraved plates (possibly a publisher's dummy?). Each leaf has two views. In Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; front joint just starting to separate from tail of spine; lower corner of front board scraped; foxing.
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Hollandsch-Afrikaansche Uitgevers-Maatschappij, v/h Jac. Dusseau & Co. Amsterdam-Cape Town. 1904. 8vo. (1), 220pp, frontis, 28 further plates + text illus. Original decorative green cloth, photo-illustration laid down to front cover, gilt lettering, blind stamped decoration to rear cover. Slightly rubbed to extremeties, rear hinge strained, spotting to edges. Jan N. Brink adjutant of the Ladybrand commando under Crowther when Prinsloo surrendered to General Hunter. The prisoners of war were shipped to Ceylon where Brink had the opportunity to freely travel and explore the island. Written in English, this is a comprehensive contemporary study of Ceylon.
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The Indian Pass. [Cover subtitle: Source of the Hudson]
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Fleischmanns, Purple Mountain Press, 1993. Softcover. Very good condition. . 201p. Reprint of 1869 edition.
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New York: Hurd and Houghton, Publishers. Collectible-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Ref. Plum # 627 . Sm 8vo., 201 pp, Green cloth, newspaper clipping pasted on front endpaper. Former owner's inscription, minor stain on front blank endpaper. .
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NY: Hurd and Houghton, Publisher. Collectible-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Ref. Plum # 627 . Sm 8vo., 201 pp., Tip of spine has small chip. Green cloth. .
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lvi+342 pages with frontispiece, 6 maps including two folding maps, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria embossed on front cover with cover and blind stamped ruled edges with original jacket. Edited by Michael Roe. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, second series, volume 131. First edition.In 1794, Charles Bishop sailed from Bristol as master of the Ruby, a trading ship bound for north-west America. He had instructions to procure otter furs fro the Indians and then to proceed to Canton via japan and sell the cargo. During the years 1794-1802, he rounded South America to reach the Pacific coast, then visited the Pacific islands and the coasts of Asia and Australia. In the Moluccas, he sold the Ruby and purchased the Nautilus; correspondingly, the test is divided into two sections. This narrative is Bishop's journal of his voyages and relates a minor epic of adventure,…
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Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, January 2013. Trade Paperback. Fine. Slight reading wear to corners, otherwise pristine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Not damaged. Suitable for gifting. 163 pages. The 25 authors of this book were volunteers in the first Peace Corps rural community development project in Africa: Sierra Leone, 1965-67. They are also the first group to tell a collective story of Peace Corps volunteers, anywhere. The Peace Corps was in its infancy then, and memories of John Kennedy were strong among the young volunteers. Sierra Leone was also in its infancy in the first few years after independence, before military coups and tribal warfare became common. The authors forthrightly recount their feelings of loneliness and isolation, and their frightening experiences with secret societies and witchcraft, but their uniquely optimistic "can-do" American attitude brought most through a great life experience.
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1823. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [viii]ix-xii [1]2-544. FIRST EDITION. Bound in brown half-leather over marbled boards, title in gilt within a red title piece. The first edition of the author's first book. William Wilson (1772-1849) inherited a substantial sum from an uncle, and decided to indulge his passion for travel. He travelled throughout Europe and The Middle East and wrote a series of books. This was his first, and it was the most popular, going through several editions. This is a good copy as all plates, including the frontispiece, have been excised. The boards show moderate wear, heavier at the spine ends. The front hinge is cracked. The text block is mainly clean with a few marks of unknown origin.
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Berenstain, Stan and Jan: The Berenstain Bears Go To Camp ( A First Time Book) Random House 1982 First Edition. Number line starts with 1. Ex-lib hardcover library-bound edition Brown cloth boards. Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice find for Berenstain Bears fans.
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Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings (1589-1605)
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2 Volumes: xxxii+368 pages with frontispiece, five folding maps and ten plates; ix+[369]-640 pages with frontispiece, two folding maps, six plates, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship to front cover. Translated by Anthony Mango. Second Series, volumes 138 and 139. First edition.By the early sixteenth century the loosely knit kingdom of Georgia had disintegrated from the strong monarch of the middle ages to a number of small states and principalities. This internal disunity made the Georgians easy victims of the power politics of the neighboring Ottoman and Safavid empires, and by the end of the century the southward drive of the Russians intensified the struggle for military and diplomatic control over the whole of the Caucasian isthmus. As a result of this struggle seventeen embassies were exchanged between the Russian tsars and the Georgian kins ruling in Kakheti during the years 1564-1605. W E D Allen and Anthony…
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Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage, 1741-1747: Volumes I & II: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton, 1741-1742; The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith, 1746-1747.
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2 Volumes: Volume 1 subtitled: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton 1741-1742 xii+333 with 8 maps, 3 illustrations including frontispiece, bibliography and index; Volume 2 subtitled: The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith 1746 1747 xv+393 pages with frontispiece, 13 maps, 6 illustrations, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship to front cover. Translated by Anthony Mango. Second Series, volumes 177 and 181. First edition.The eighteenth century saw a resurgence of hope that a Northwest Passage - that elusive target of European seamen over the centuries - might yet be found. Prompted by the Irish MP Arthur Dobbs, the Admiralty sent the Furnace and Discovery to Hudson Bay in 1741 in search of navigable passage to the Pacific. The expedition was commanded by Christopher Middleton, until his resignation in March 1741 a sea-captain in the service of the Hudson Bay Company. With his actions closely scrutinized by his former…
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