Exploration from
New Arrivals
My Winter on the Nile
by WARNER, Charles Dudley
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- 12th Edition
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- 1890
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1890. 496pp/frontis. Red pictorial cloth with gilt boat and titles. Text is toned but clean. First edition, published simultaneously in Hartford by the American Publishing Company, of Warner's account of his travels down the Nile and around Egypt. This work includes detailed stories about his exploration of mosques, visits to the Pharaoh tombs, and interactions with local… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Country of the Turkomans: An anthology of exploration from the Royal Geographical Society
by D Cumming
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good+
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- 1st Edition
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- 1977
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- Hardcover
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- 9780905820019
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NZ$133.86
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London: Oguz Press [for] the Society, 1977. 261pp/maps/illus. ncl one large folding in rear. An anthology of exploration from the Royal Geographical Society of travelers tales and essays centered mainly on Central Asia. Incl some overview chapters as well. Covers Vambery, Meazza, Stebnitzky, Napier, Ahmad, Rawlinson, Stewart, Delmar Morgan, Lt Kalitin, O'Donovan, Lessar and more. Crease along middle of spine.… Read more about this item Item Price
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A VISIT TO THE SOUTH SEAS IN THE U.S. SHIP VINCENNES, during the years 1829 and 1830; with scenes in Brazil, Peru, Manilla, the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena
by STEWART, Capt. C.S
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Reprint
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- 1970
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- Hardcover
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NZ$150.70
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New York: Preager, 1970. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1831 original. Two volumes in one, in the Praeger Scholarly Reprints series. Volume I: X*, XI, 12-358 pp. Volume II: IV, 5-360 pp. Cloth cover, gilt title on black vignette on spine. The first American naval circumnavigation. Volume I: On the "Guerrière" to Brazil, round Cape Horn & Peru, then… Read more about this item Item Price
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Arctic whalers, icy seas: Narratives of the Davis Strait whale fishery
by W. Gillies Ross
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- Very Good+
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- 1st Printing
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- 1985
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- Hardcover
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- 9780772515247
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Toronto, ON, Canada: Irwin Pub, 1985. 263pp/illus/end-paper maps. History and narratives of the Davis Strait Whale Fishery. Many first hand accounts and vivid stories. Illustrated with maps, figures, photographs, posters etc. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall (oblong). Item Price
NZ$164.17
Land of the Midnight Sun : Summer and Winter Journeys Through Sweden, Norway, Lapland and Northern Finland (in 2 Volumes)
by Du Chaillu, Paul B.
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- First Edition
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- 1882
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- Hardcover
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NZ$799.80
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1882. 2 volume set - 441, 474 pages. In original blue cloth w/ pictorial sun & birds in gilt & red on cover. Gilt spines. 235 total illustrations + large fold out map in rear pocket. . Contains summer and winter journeys through Sweden, Norway, Lapland and Northern Finland with descriptions of the inner life… Read more about this item Item Price
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Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition In Search of Sir John Franklin 1853 '54 '55 (Two Volume Set)
by Kane, Elisha Kent
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- 1st Edition
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- 1856
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- Hardcover
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NZ$2,104.75
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Philadelphia, PA: Childs and Peterson, 1856. 464pp/illus/maps, 467pp/illus/maps. Letterpress title-page in each volume. Large folding lithographed map (some spotting at edges), two full-page maps, engraved frontispiece portrait in each volume, additional engraved title-page in each volume, 18 engraved plates with tissue guards and numerous wood-engravings in the text throughout (light spotting on edges of some). As ship's surgeon… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Bolivian Andes: A Record of Climbing and Exploration in the Cordillera Real in the Years 1898 and 1900
by Conway, Sir Martin
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- 1st Printing
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- 1901
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NZ$496.72
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901. 403pp/illus. Famous mountain traveller of his times led first significant expedition into this region of the Andes, and wrote this engaging record of their explorations. Decorative Boards. Scarce, Cover lightly worn/bumped. Text clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
NZ$496.72
A Mission to Gelele King of Dahome
by BURTON, Richard (Edited By C.W.NEWBURY)
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- Very Good+
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- 1966
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NZ$113.66
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London, England: Routledge and Kegan Paul: 1966, 1966. 372pp including index, b&w illustrations, map, clean copy in like, illustrated, DJ has light wear. Not price-clipped. A re-issue of Burton's 'Mission to Gelele' (2 volumes) published 1864. Clean. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
NZ$113.66
Voyage of His Majesty Ship Alceste, to China, Corea, and the Island of Lewchew, with an Account of Her Shipwreck
by MacLeod, John
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- 3rd Edition
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- 1820
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- Hardcover
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NZ$715.62
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London: John Murray, 1820. 5 hand- colored aquatint copper etched plates, 339p., appendix, engraved frontis of the captain. Third and best edition. RARE A fascinating primary source, with commentary on China and the Ryukyu Islands. With 8 very nice colored engraved plates. Covering the voyage from England to the Brazils, the Cape of Good Hope, Java, and the Gulf… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sailors in the Holy Land: The 1848 American Expedition to the Dead Sea and the Search for Sodom and Gomorrah
by Andrew C. A. Jampoler
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Printing
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- 2005
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- Hardcover
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- 9781591144137
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Annapolis, MD, U.S.A.: Naval Institute Press, 2005. 312pp/illus/maps. Inscribed by author to an Admiral on ffep and autographed by author on title page. The Lynch Expedition was the first and last U.S. Navy expedition into the storied waters of the Dead Sea. The explorers were all volunteers who had taken an oath of abstinence from alcohol and they… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton, and Antarctic Photography
by Hempleman-Adams, David;Gordon, Sophie;Stuart, Emma
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Printing
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- 2009
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- Hardcover
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- 9781608190072
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2009. 256pp/illus/maps. A treasure trove of photographssome never before reproduced in book formfrom the two greatest Antarctic expeditions. Among the greatest achievements in the history of photography, those of the early polar explorers surely stand out, for the beauty of their images and the almost impossible conditions they encountered. And… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Voyage of the Jeannette. The Ship and Ice Journals of George W. de Long, Lieutenant-Commander U.S.N., and Commander of the Polar Expedition of 1879 - 1881. Ed. by his wife Emma de Long (1897)
by George W De Long Emma De Long Editor
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- 1897
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Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1897. 911pp w/ 2 steel portraits, 1 tinted lithograph, numerous illus & maps, and 1 fold-out map in rear. This is the one volume edition. Author was lieutenant-commander U.S.N., and commander of the polar expedition of 1879-1881. Details the ill-fated voyage of the USS Jeannetee, an early expedition up the coast of Alaska and… Read more about this item Item Price
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My Last Expedition to the Antarctic 1936-1937 (Autographed)
by CHRISTENSEN, Lars
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- 1938
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Oslo, Norway: Johan Grundt Tanum, 1938. 18pp/illus. This copy signed by Christensen beneath the frontis portrait. Original patterned paper-covered boards, printed patch label to the upper board. A little rubbed on the boards, but overall a very good copy. Portrait frontispiece and 10 other plates, maps to the endpapers. Clean. Inscribed by the Author. 1st Printing. Boards. Very Good+/No… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Journals of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark (2 Volume Set)
by Meriwether and William Clark (Nicholas Biddle, Ed.) Lewis
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- 1st Edition
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- 1993
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NZ$496.72
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Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1993. 545pp/illus/maps. Fine, Leather Bound, Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Clean. 1st Edition. Leather. As New/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Price
NZ$496.72
Magnificent Voyagers: The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
by Viola, Herman;Margolis, Carolyn
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1985
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- Paperback
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- 9780874749465
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Washington, D. C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985. 302pp/illus/maps. The story of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, led by Lieutenant Charles Wilkes. Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name. Clean. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket - Wraps. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Price
NZ$71.56
A VISIT TO THE SOUTH SEAS IN THE U.S. SHIP VINCENNES, during the years 1829 and 1830; with scenes in Brazil, Peru, Manilla, the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena
by STEWART, Capt. C.S
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- Reprint
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- 1970
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- Hardcover
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NZ$159.12
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New York: Preager, 1970. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1831 original. Two volumes in one, in the Praeger Scholarly Reprints series. Volume I: X*, XI, 12-358 pp. Volume II: IV, 5-360 pp. Cloth cover, gilt title on black vignette on spine. The first American naval circumnavigation. Volume I: On the "Guerrière" to Brazil, round Cape Horn & Peru, then… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Encounters in the South Seas
by Salmond, Anne
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- Very Good+
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- 1st Printing
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- 2003
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- Hardcover
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- 9780300100921
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NZ$125.44
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Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.: Yale Univ Pr, 2003. 528pp/illus, some color./maps. The story of Captain Cook's great voyages in the South Seas, focusing on the encounters between the explorers and the island peoples they "discovered. DJ slightly rubbed. Text clean.. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
NZ$125.44
BULA MATARI:Stanley Conqueror of a Continent
by Wassermann, Jacob
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- 1st Edition
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- 1933
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New York: Liverright Inc, 1933. 351pp/illus. End-paper maps. An early biography of Lord Stanley, including of course the famous meeting with Livingstone . Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
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Thirty Thousand Miles With John Heckewelder
by Wallace, Paul A.W
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- As New
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- Reprint
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- 1998
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- Hardcover
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- 9781889037134
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Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Wennawoods Pub, 1998. 474pp/illus/maps (some folding). #599 of 1,000 copies. . Reprint. Decorative Boards. As New/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Numbered Copy. Item Price
NZ$293.82
Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857-1858
by Ives, Joseph Christmas (1828-1868)
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- 1st Edition
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- 1861
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- Hardcover
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NZ$2,938.23
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Washington, D. C: Superintendent of Documents, 1861. 5 parts in one volume.. 2 large folding lithographic maps (clean/no tears), 8 fine folding lithographic views, 8 chromolithographic (beautiful color) plates showing dress of various Indian tribes along river and 16 lithographic plates of views (and fossils) from sketches by Baldwin Mollhausen (all clean and in excellent condition). Original decorated black cloth… Read more about this item Item Price
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