Exploration from Great Expectations Rare Books

Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1999. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, quarto size volume bound in green cloth lettered in gold on spine and with publisher's dust-jacket. 344 pages. Contains an Appendix, Notes on Contributors and an Index. Illustrated with several engravings and maps. First edition, published as… Read more about this item

New York: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1994. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, blue cloth with spine lettered in gold, in non price-clipped publisher's dust-jacket. 305 pages. Sources. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks.… Read more about this item

Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press, 2003. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Large folio bound in black cloth and publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 216 pages. Bibliography. Illustrated with 215 color and 65 black and white photographs and illustrations. First American edition. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Dust-jacket clean and… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1900. Hardcover, gray pictorial cloth with three color image of sailing galley on front cover. 416 pages, with 2 pages of publishers ads appended. Index. Illustrated with full page plates, maps and vignette drawings in text. First edition. Old Christmas gift inscription dated 1900 on fly. Cloth covers clean, with… Read more about this item

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1994. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 305 pages. Bibliographic References, Maps. Illustrated with 8 pages of drawings and photographs on coated stock. First edition, first printing with intact number line. A history of North Polar exploration in eye-witness accounts. No previous ownership marks. No reminder mark.… Read more about this item

New York: Warner Books Inc, 1990. Large quarto hardcover, dark blue cloth lettered in gold, in non price-clipped dust-jacket. Appendix, Index. With 400 illustrations, including then and now photographs, color paintings, full color maps, charts and diagrams, and two spectacular full-page foldouts showing the Bismarck in her glory and how she appears today. Introduction by Ludovic Kennedy.… Read more about this item

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1929. Hardcover, red cloth, no dust-jacket. 168pp., Bibliographic References, Index. Illustrated with 10 plates. A title in the Argonaut Series, edited by Sir E. Denison Ross and Eileen Power. First American edition. Translated from the Dutch by Mrs. C.B. Bodde-Hodgkinson and Peter Geyl. Introduction and notes… Read more about this item

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. Large trade paperback. 506pp., Bibliography, Index. Illustrated. Neat former owner's name on fly. No writing, no highlighting, no spine crease. A clean, square, sound copy. Near very good.. Fourth Printing. Soft Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Plume, 1991. Large trade paperback. 453pp., Source notes, Index. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, tightly bound copy. A comprehensive and polemical acoount of the discovery of the America's in the twilight of the 15th century. A near fine copy.. Second Printing Thus. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item

New York: Hyperion, 1992. Hardcover, green cloth in original non price-clipped dust-jacket. Stated first edition, first printing with number line intact on copyright page. 262pp., Bibliography, Index. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, tightly bound copy. Very fine in a very fine dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item

New York: Heritage Press Large hardcover, faux leather spine over ptterned paper covered boards, lacking slipcase. 292pp., Illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. Map endpapers. A clean, solid, very good+ copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Brentano's Hardcover, cloth sans dustjacket. No date, circa 1934 [private library stamp of previous owner on front free endpaper dated April, 1934]. A thick volume, 864pages , containing 4 double page maps and numerous entries by or about explorers from the Historian Herodotus to The expoits of Stanley and Scott. Some finger soiling and darkening to cloth,… Read more about this item

New York: E.P, Dutton & Co., 1973. Large 8vo, orange cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Extensively illustrated in color and black and white. Unmarked, unread copy in dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Melbourne, Australia: Nelson, 1966 First edition. Cloth in dustjacket. Illustrated. The story of the short but eventful life of Matthew Flinder's, Captain in the royal navy and early exploer of Austrailia, 1801-18 03. White cloth quite clean, though dustjacket shows moderate age soiling. Very good in very good dustjacket.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1958. First American edition. Blue cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with nimerous monochrome and color photographes. Cloth faded and dustjacket ta pe repaired on verso. A clean sound very good copy in good dustjacket.. First Edition. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.