Narrative Of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842

6 volumes. lx+434 pages with frontispiece, 7 plates, 15 vignettes (including music scores), 67 woodcuts, tables and one internal folding map; xvi+476 pages with frontispiece, 13 plates, 14 vignettes (including music scores), 46 woodcuts, and 3 folding maps; xv+438 pages with 12 plates, 10 vignettes (including music scores) and 50 woodcuts; xv+539 pages with fold out frontispiece map, 15 plates,… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, Lea and Blanchard, 1845.5 volumes. Contemporary speckled calf, spines with raised bands, gilt ruled and green morocco title labels. With 11 folding maps (10 folding), 64 steel-engraved plates and ca. 300 wood-engravings in the text.Official trade edition, this edition and all later editions later than 1845 appeared without the atlas (Haskell p.40); the official first edition, of which… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman, 1844-1845.. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845 (last two volumes). Five text volumes, with the five folding maps (two colored) called for in the atlas volume bound into the fourth text volume. Engraved portraits, plates, and maps, with original tissue guards intact. Thick quarto. Contemporary green morocco stamped in gilt, expertly rebacked with original richly… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. A fine set.. Six volumes in five, including the atlas; with 64 steel-engraved plates; text illustrations engraved in steel & wood; nine double-page copper-engraved maps; atlas with five large folding copper-engraved maps & charts (one hand-coloured); contemporary half green pebbled morocco, marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt. The substantial narrative of the massive… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1845.. Five text volumes plus atlas volume. lx,434; xv,476; xv,438; xvi,539; xv,558pp., plus sixty-four engraved plates, nine double-page maps, numerous vignette illustrations. Atlas: five folding maps (one handcolored). Half title in each text volume. Imperial octavo. Original gilt cloth. Cloth worn at corners, spine ends, and along hinges. Early ownership signature on titlepage of each… Read more about this item

London: Whittaker and Co., 1845. vi, 372pp. Octavo. The condensed and abridged edition. Original green blind-stamped cloth with gold gilt lettering stamped to the spine. Coated yellow endpapers. Textblock edges roughly trimmed. Some wear to the boards and along the edges of the boards. Very light and minimal water damage to the cloth… Read more about this item

Philadelphia : Lea & Blanchard, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy, wear and tear as with age. Boards detached. Text remains in fine condition. Physical description; 1 v. : fronts., ill., plates. Subjects; Wilkes, Charles 1798-1877 Travel. United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). Discoveries in geography. Scientific expeditions.

Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845.. Six volumes bound in five, with the atlas bound into the fifth volume. Portrait, sixty- four plates, and nine maps in the text, and five colored folding maps in the sixth (atlas) volume. Numerous vignettes in the text. With four pages of manuscript material and two smaller printed reports laid in. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter… Read more about this item

Whittaker and Co., London, 1845. Very Good/No Jacket. 372 pages (complete). A sturdy copy. Signed on the front pastedown by Henrietta M Hamilton - the wife of Sir Charles Hamilton (2nd Bt) who was Governor of Newfoundland. She is most known for her portrait of aboriginal Beothuk Demasduit, and is considered by many to be… Read more about this item

Adamant Media Corporation, 12/25/2002 12:00:01. paperback. Very Good. 1.4173 8.1890 5.2756.

Adamant Media Corporation, 2002-12-25. Paperback. Used:Good.

London: Whittaker and Co., 1845. 1st ed. thus. Very Good. octavo. hardback in original cloth vi + 372pp., appendix, index, Condensed & abridged from the five volume edition. Cloth rather worn & split at head of spine. Lacks free front end paper, nice engraved antarctic-themed bookplate on front paste-down & some chipping to index pages o/w internally… Read more about this item

Fiji Museum, 1985-01-01. Paperback. Good. . A copy that's been read with the usual wear and creases on the cover. Pages are clean and intact.

Suva: Fiji Museum, 1985. soft cover is in very good condition with slight wear with no dust jacket. this is volume III of a five volume set and an atlas. 438 pages.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Illustrated. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardback. New.

Suva: Fiji Museum, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. Quarto. Savage, Jack. Please note" This is Volume Three only. Facsimile of 1845 Edition. Light rubbing. Shipped from the Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975.

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.