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Through Uganda to Mount Elgon. by Purvis, John Bremner - 1909

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Through Uganda to Mount Elgon. by Purvis, John Bremner - 1909

Through Uganda to Mount Elgon.

by Purvis, John Bremner

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London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1909. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. In this travel narrative with inciteful descriptions of Kenya and Uganda the author gives his personal views of European policy. He and his wife voice their reactions to the foreign missions, labor, laws, customs, and the condition of the native inhabitants. A collectible copy. ------------ Publisher's russet textured cloth: spine titles stamped in gilt with front in black with decoration. Bindings are tight and square with a hint of shelf-lean. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Tiny library stamp on front paste down and a withdrawn stamp on rear pastedown, no other ownership markings. First Edition, First Printing 8vo; 8 inches tall; [8], 9-372pp., xv+87+[ii] pp. adverts, folding map, 42 photographic illustrations on 40 plates (included in pagination) and a folding map. -------- Ref: CBI v13 p460; Hathi ------- Subject: East Africa; Africana; Kenya; Uganda, Description and travel. Missions; Ethnology;.
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From East Prussia to the Golden Gate
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From East Prussia to the Golden Gate

by Lecouvreur, Frank; Translated and compiled by Julius C. Behnke

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New York & Los Angeles: Angelina Book Concern, 1906. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Bindings square and tight. Front hinge firm but has some open spots Text clean with a few minor spots of foxing. Minor fading to spine .Light shelf handling. First Edition. xiii, -[14]-355 pp. With black-and-white plates throughout. 23x15 cm (9 x 6inches), Green cloth, gilt vignette on front panel.  Double page map of the area of the Feather and Yuba Rivers. Portrait frontispiece and 22 illustrations. REF: OCLC 816489039; CSL: B L468l; LCon: F865 .L46; Howes: L177. "When the late Frank Lecouvreur left his native land in 1851 for California, leaving behind his parents and the dear friends of his youth, following the promptings of his large heart he kept a careful journal of the sights and the unusual experiences that were his in travel, and in the new land he had chosen as a field for his activities." - Preface. During 1852 and 1853, the author was at the… Read More
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Adventures in New Guinea
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Adventures in New Guinea

by Chalmers, James (1841 - 1901)

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London: The Religious Tract Society, 1889. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/None Issued. Born in Scotland, James Chalmers was a missionary in New Guinea. He was an early explorer and brought first-hand descriptions of the land and people. Early Edition. 6 engraved illustrations, including frontispiece. Decorated boards with title in gilt band. Bindings firm. Lower corners rubbed. Previous owner's name on flyleaf; Closed tear top page 192. [last page]. Text clean with light even toning. Occasional minor staining. 192 pages. 16mo; 5.75 inches tall.. Background Information: James Chalmers was a Scottish-born missionary, active in New Guinea. On 4 January 1866 Chalmers sailed in the missionary ship John Williams to Australia. Chalmers was initially disappointed to find the island partially Christianized, but soon found there was much work to be done in fighting drunkenness and in directing the natives' energies into wiser practices. He learned the language, did much teaching, and became personally… Read More
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Towns of New England and Old England, Ireland and Scotland. [Two volumes printed as one in a...
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Towns of New England and Old England, Ireland and Scotland. [Two volumes printed as one in a presentation box.]

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New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1936. First Edition, Thus. A Near Fine Hardcover in a Very Good Box. Near Fine/Near Fine. Profusely illustrated throughout with reproductions from old prints. No flaw to book to note. Has a gift inscription. Clean and tight. Box has light wear to corners.. Connecting links between cities and towns of New England and those of the same name in England Ireland and Scotland. Containing narratives, descriptions, and many views some done from old prints. Additionally, there is much pertaining to the founders and settlers of New England and to their memorials on both sides of the Atlantic.
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A Gallop Among American Scenery: Or, Sketches of American Scenes and Military Adventure
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A Gallop Among American Scenery: Or, Sketches of American Scenes and Military Adventure

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New York: James Locken, 1881. A Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Slipcase. Near Fine/Slip Case. Bound in red cloth pictorial covers with stamped gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. There is bumping to the lower front fore-edge corner and very light rubbing visible to the covers. The covers are protected by a clear Mylar dust jacket. The binding is tight and square. The text block is adorned with gilt edges and patterned endpapers. A tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait depicts "The Constitution and Gurriere." The pages show mild age toning and scattered light foxing, mostly visible on the preliminaries. This work includes numerous illustrations of Silliman's travels and American history. This work contains a publisher's catalog leaf. The volume is protected by a black cloth-covered slipcase. A very handsome collectible copy. Travel, Adventure and Opinion in the early 19th Century including historical fiction of the War of 1812. REF: LCon: 01031951; OCLC: 15796870; Howes: S458
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The Alps
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The Alps

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Londong: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrated by McCormick, A. D.. Bound in blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and ornate illustrations to the front board and spine cover. Top edge gilt. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, Toning heavy in preliminaries, present and even in text.. Moderate handling wear; light touch to corners. First American Edition. 8vo; 9 inches tall; 294 pages, 4 pages publisher's advert.. A travel and mountaineering classic describing the Alps featuring [70] Captioned tissue-guarded color plates. 'The illustrations seem to us almost the most successful specimens of colour- printing we have met with.' -The Spectator, 1904. Background Information: Sir Martin Conway is artist as well as traveler, and the book is full of pictures of chance impressions caught on the mountains, of which we can only say that their fidelity is as remarkable as their intrinsic beauty. [The… Read More
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From East Prussia to the Golden Gate
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From East Prussia to the Golden Gate

by Lecouvreur, Frank; Translated and compiled by Julius C. Behnke

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New York & Los Angeles: Angelina Book Concern, 1906. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Bindings square and tight. Front hinge firm but has some open spots Text clean with a few minor spots of foxing. Minor fading to spine .Light shelf handling. First Edition. xiii, -[14]-355 pp. With black-and-white plates throughout. 23x15 cm (9 x 6inches), Green cloth, gilt vignette on front panel.  Double page map of the area of the Feather and Yuba Rivers. Portrait frontispiece and 22 illustrations. REF: OCLC 816489039; CSL: B L468l; LCon: F865 .L46; Howes: L177. "When the late Frank Lecouvreur left his native land in 1851 for California, leaving behind his parents and the dear friends of his youth, following the promptings of his large heart he kept a careful journal of the sights and the unusual experiences that were his in travel, and in the new land he had chosen as a field for his activities." - Preface. During 1852 and 1853, the author was at the… Read More
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Adventures in New Guinea
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Adventures in New Guinea

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London: The Religious Tract Society, 1889. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/None Issued. Born in Scotland, James Chalmers was a missionary in New Guinea. He was an early explorer and brought first-hand descriptions of the land and people. Early Edition. 6 engraved illustrations, including frontispiece. Decorated boards with title in gilt band. Bindings firm. Lower corners rubbed. Previous owner's name on flyleaf; Closed tear top page 192. [last page]. Text clean with light even toning. Occasional minor staining. 192 pages. 16mo; 5.75 inches tall.. Background Information: James Chalmers was a Scottish-born missionary, active in New Guinea. On 4 January 1866 Chalmers sailed in the missionary ship John Williams to Australia. Chalmers was initially disappointed to find the island partially Christianized, but soon found there was much work to be done in fighting drunkenness and in directing the natives' energies into wiser practices. He learned the language, did much teaching, and became personally… Read More
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Towns of New England and Old England, Ireland and Scotland. [Two volumes printed as one in a...
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Towns of New England and Old England, Ireland and Scotland. [Two volumes printed as one in a presentation box.]

by Forbes, Allan

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New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1936. First Edition, Thus. A Near Fine Hardcover in a Very Good Box. Near Fine/Near Fine. Profusely illustrated throughout with reproductions from old prints. No flaw to book to note. Has a gift inscription. Clean and tight. Box has light wear to corners.. Connecting links between cities and towns of New England and those of the same name in England Ireland and Scotland. Containing narratives, descriptions, and many views some done from old prints. Additionally, there is much pertaining to the founders and settlers of New England and to their memorials on both sides of the Atlantic.
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A Gallop Among American Scenery: Or, Sketches of American Scenes and Military Adventure
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A Gallop Among American Scenery: Or, Sketches of American Scenes and Military Adventure

by Silliman, Augustus E.

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New York: James Locken, 1881. A Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Slipcase. Near Fine/Slip Case. Bound in red cloth pictorial covers with stamped gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. There is bumping to the lower front fore-edge corner and very light rubbing visible to the covers. The covers are protected by a clear Mylar dust jacket. The binding is tight and square. The text block is adorned with gilt edges and patterned endpapers. A tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait depicts "The Constitution and Gurriere." The pages show mild age toning and scattered light foxing, mostly visible on the preliminaries. This work includes numerous illustrations of Silliman's travels and American history. This work contains a publisher's catalog leaf. The volume is protected by a black cloth-covered slipcase. A very handsome collectible copy. Travel, Adventure and Opinion in the early 19th Century including historical fiction of the War of 1812. REF: LCon: 01031951; OCLC: 15796870; Howes: S458
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The Alps
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The Alps

by Conway, W. Martin

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Londong: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrated by McCormick, A. D.. Bound in blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and ornate illustrations to the front board and spine cover. Top edge gilt. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, Toning heavy in preliminaries, present and even in text.. Moderate handling wear; light touch to corners. First American Edition. 8vo; 9 inches tall; 294 pages, 4 pages publisher's advert.. A travel and mountaineering classic describing the Alps featuring [70] Captioned tissue-guarded color plates. 'The illustrations seem to us almost the most successful specimens of colour- printing we have met with.' -The Spectator, 1904. Background Information: Sir Martin Conway is artist as well as traveler, and the book is full of pictures of chance impressions caught on the mountains, of which we can only say that their fidelity is as remarkable as their intrinsic beauty. [The… Read More
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Through Uganda to Mount Elgon
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Through Uganda to Mount Elgon

by John Bremner Purvis

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Through Uganda to Mount Elgon
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Through Uganda to Mount Elgon

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South American Journals 1858-1859
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South American Journals 1858-1859

by Peabody, George Augustus

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Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum, 1937. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 209pp. Marbled boards, black spine, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, slipcase. Corners lightly rubbed, spine lettering mildly sunned, contents are clean and some pages still unopened. Slipcase is lightly edge-chipped. One of 481 copies printed on Hazelbourn paper by The Southworth-Anthoensen Press.
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A Holiday in Italy
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A Holiday in Italy

by Lucy Andersen

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Walter Scott, London, 1889 revised edition, Very Good Hardcover / no dustjacket, 79 pages, 5" x 7.5", waterstain on front board, otherwise clean and tight, inscribed by author on ffep.
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Panama
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Panama: And The Canal In Pictures and Prose

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This book is an antique but it is in poor condition. The binding is loose and peeling off the spine of this book. The cover is worn substantially on the edged, corners and all over. The previous owners name is written on the inside front board and the front end page. The inside pages are yellowed and tanned and the page is torn. "A complete story of Panama, as well as the history, purpose and promise of its world famous canal - the most gigantic engineering undertaking since the dawn of time. Approved by leading officials connected with the great enterprise. Profusely illustrated by over 600 unique and attractive photographs taken expressly for this book by our special staff." - Panama
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The Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-west Coast of America, in the...
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The Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-west Coast of America, in the Pacific and in New South Wal

by Bishop, Charles (1765?-1810), edited by Michael Roe

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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,… Read More
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Emin Pasha in Central Africa, being a collection of his letters and journals. Edited and...
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Emin Pasha in Central Africa, being a collection of his letters and journals. Edited and annotated by Professor G. Schweinfurth, Professor F. Ratzel, Dr. R.W. Felkin, and Dr. G. Hartlaub.

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547 pages. Black cloth boards; gilt lettering on spine. Spine detatched on one side. JWSC LLC is listing this property on behalf of a private collector's estate. Documentation on file indicates this book was purchased by the estate in the 1970s from (a UK dealer). Additional photos available.
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TRAVELS IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND

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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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A Naturalist in the Guianas
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A Naturalist in the Guianas

by Andre, Eugene

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London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1904. First English edition thus. Octavo, pp xii, 310, illustrated (including two chromolithographs by Keulemans), a rather poor copy, lacking the folding map, an ex-Boots library copy in red library cloth, a bit used and weak internally with cracked hinges (through front and rear hinges tight and strong), some plates a little frayed, a small stamp on the front endpaper and a library label on the rear, the cloth rather worn, marked on the upper cover, the spine torn. A useful working copy. [Andre was an explorer and collector of natural history specimens . He wrote a glossary of common and scientific names of plants and animals and put together a collection of 1800 bird skins which are held at Tring. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Zoological Society. He travelled largely in Venezuala and Columbia and introduced the Anthurium plant to Trinidad & Tobago, 1915.]. Signed by Author. First English edition. Cloth. Fair.
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The Silence Of The North

The Silence Of The North

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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage, 1741-1747: Volumes I & II: The Voyage of Christopher...
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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.

by Barr, William (1950- ) and Glyndwr Williams (editors)

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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… Read More
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Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings (1589-1605)
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Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings (1589-1605)

by William Edward David "W E D" Allen (1901-1973) editor

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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… Read More
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