Search Results: Exploration from The Owl at the Bridge

Junior Literary Guild / Doubleday, Doran, NY, 1937 [Country Life Press]. Hard Cover. xxv, 319 p., 58 photos; 23.5 cm.; silver boards stamped in blue; ex Pontiac Free Library; some soiling; withal good. 29509 {Fifi}

Three bookseller catalogues listing materials relating to travel. Salloch, 132 items; Marlborough, 147 items; Interlibrum, 191 items, index; all illustrated; all stapled in pictorial paper covers; all Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0322.

Two bookseller catalogues: Howland, 4-79, Full and By, 118 items; Kahn, Men and the Sea, 103 items, 3 illus.; both stapled in paper covers; both Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0289.

Founded to encourage exploration and 'to collect such facts and observations as may tend to the improvement and security of navigation', the Marine Society at Salem in New England (uniquely among East Coast marine societies) included formation of 'a Museum of natural and artificial curiosities' which today flourishes as the Peabody Museum. OFFPRINT. Reprinted from The American Neptune XXV. 3, 1965, pages 176-188, 4 plates; stapled without covers; Good+. Stock#ofc0170.

Roma: Instituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1991. Soft Cover. 94 p.; 20 cm. Head of title page: Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali, Comitato nazionale per le celebrazioni del V centenario della scoperta dell' America. Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-94). Vg / soft cover. Stock#47074x.

N.Y., Atheneum, 1962.. Hard Cover. viii, 183 p. 21.5 cm. "An exploration of the changes in man's vision of nature and himself." Stock #29,759. Vg, discrete ex-lib marks/ dj vg.

Providence: Associates of the John Carter Brown Library, 1967. Exhibition of 37 books and 17 maps and prints to accompany a lecture by John Parry. Soft Cover. Typescript. [13] leaves, 28 cm. Good+. Stock#42029x.

Madrid, Sanz, 1971. Soft Cover. 32 pages, illus. (8 facsimiles, 6 maps); 24.5 cm. VG/ wrappers. Stock#30030.

NY, Norton, 1992. Originally published in hardback, 1991. "By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Cronon opens a new window onto our national past." ISBN (10): 0393308731. Awarded the 1992 Bancroft Prize. Soft Cover. xxv, 530 pages, [30] pages of plates, illus., maps; 24 cm Very Good condition, but introductory material has red-ink underlining/ soft cover. Stock#NEU396.

Two dealer catalogues: Pacific Voyages (Reese), 202 items, illus., color pictorial wraps; VG+; Travels by Land and Sea (Harper). Books of Travel and Exploration many illustrated with Color Plates of Scenery, Architecture and Costume, 179 items, 59 pages, illus., blue printed wraps, library date stamp & markings, Good. Dealer catalogues offer information and knowledge. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0211.

NY, Lyons & Burford, ©1997. Soft Cover. xiv, 281 p.; 23 cm. Title continues: "of a number of those who have searched the world for wild plants." Originally published: Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co. [1970]. "Tales of the botanist-explorers who enriched our gardens"--cover. Stock#46164. Vg / soft cover.

Lisboa, Broteria, 1957. The Historical Position of Nobrega in the Foundation of São Paulo. Retrospective Examination & Summary. Separata /offprint da Revista Brotéria LXV, pages 282-290. Soft Cover. Vg/ wrappers. Stock#30031.

Berkeley & Los Angeles, Universoty of California Press, 1976. Soft Cover. Signed. Offprint, pages 529-536, from First Images of America: The Impact of the New World. Title continues: and the Invention of Printing. Stock#35146. Vg/ offprint.

Crescent Books, NY [1980]. Hard Cover. 96 p., index, photos (mostly color); 32.5 cm. "This book tells of the wider world beyond the Earth, from the humble Moon tothe awesome quasars. It reports on our first tentative steps as a spacefaring race, and looks to our directions in the future." Grey pictorial boards, black spine stamped in white; no dj; spine ends & corners bumped; good. stock#40912 oversize.

VOLUME TWO ONLY. Of the tombs of Thebes which the writer was able to examine, he writes (p. 177), "I observed every thing I met with, and put into my pockets all the portable fragments I found: among the latter was a charming little patera, of baked earth, a morsel worthy of the best age of the arts... figures of divinities in sycamore-wood, carved with extraordinary freedom; locks of fine, soft, and flaxen hair; a little foot of a mummy... doubtlessly the foot of a young lady, of a princess... In obtaining this, I seemed to obtain a favour, and commit an amorous larceny on the line of the Pharoahs!" Irregular paging: 1-96, 111-112, 97-110, plate 7 (Arms of the Mamlucs" "to face p. 110, Vol. II" (verso blank); pages 113- 285; Plate 6, "An Assembly of Shechs", facing p. 135; "Appendix To The Translation", 15 leaves following p. 285; Index, 6 leaves following Appendix; "Books printed for B. Crosby and Co." on verso of last leaf; 22 cm. Bound in textured dark-blue boards; ex-library with call marks on… Read More

"Chronicles the history of exploration of the Nile River in the second half of the nineteenth century, and looks at the personalities of some of the notable people involved in the discoveries." [x], 385 pages, illustrations, 12 leaves of plates, 8 maps (plus endpapers), 22 cm. Stock#48115.

NY, Harper & Bros., 1960.. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 385 p., photos, 22 cm. End- paper maps. "Among heroic annals, the discovery of the sources of the Nile and the exploration of Darkest Africa stand out dramatically." Book Club.Stock# 30,153, Vg/ dj good+