London: Printed by J. Nichols for T. Cadell, 1780. First edition. Hardcover. xxii, 344, [16] pp., 5 folding plates (large frontispiece "General Map of the Russian Empire", view of the Frontier Town of Miamatschin, 3 additional folding maps);l quarto (267 mm) contemporary marbled boards, later rebacking with russet calf, maroon..... More

Paris: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, An V (1796/97). First edition thus. Hardcover. xvi, 385 pp. 2 folding maps; small quarto, contemporary full mottled calf, gilt spine, morocco lettering piece. First French edition of Thomas Howel's "A Journal of the Passage from India, by a Route Partly Unfrequented through Armenia and..... More

Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original burgundy cloth; 303 pp., frontispiece and 8 plates with tissue guards. First English translation of the French text originally published in London in 1702. This copy with the Barnes & Noble dustjacket, as described in Clark and Brunet #151: "In..... More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, quart, original beige cloth, slipcase. First volume contains introduction, commentary and background to the text, second volume is full-color facsimile of the original manuscript in the Beinecke Library. An account of Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe by a volunteer..... More