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[Bache, A.D. Superintendent].

SKETCHES ACCOMPANYING THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE UNITED STATES COAST SURVEY. 32nd Congress, 2d Session. Senate. Ex. Doc. No. 3. (Cover title: Maps - Coast Survey).

[Washington, DC: Robert Armstrong], 1852. First edition. Original dark brown cloth with gilt title and blind stamped decoration, quarto (9.5 x 11.5 inches), drop-title with list of "sketches", 58 maps and plans of varying sizes, many folded, on 57 sheets (complete). The Coast Survey of 1851 included the first detailed..... More

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Camus, A. G.

MEMOIRE SUR LA COLLECTION DES GRANDS ET PETITS VOYAGES [of de Bry] et Sur La Collection des Voyages de Melchisedech Thevenot.

Paris: Baudouin, Imprimeur de l'Institut National, 1802. First edition. Hardcover. [2] fl., iii, (403) pp.; small quarto, pastepaper boards, old cloth rebacking, morocco spine label. “Not merely is this admirable essay the best bibliography of the collection of De Bry and Thevenot, but it also contains a great variety of..... More

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Casteret, Norbert. Preface by E. A. Martel. Translated and edited by Barrows Mussey.

TEN YEARS UNDER THE EARTH.

New York: Greystone Press, (1939). Third printing. Hardcover. xx, 283 pp., 58 illustrations and maps; octavo, original green cloth, pictorial jacket. First-person account of explorations and discoveries beneath the earth's surface by a renowned speleologist. More

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Coxe, William. (1747-1828).

AN ACCOUNT OF THE RUSSIAN DISCOVERIES BETWEEN ASIA AND AMERICA: To which are added the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China . . .

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

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Edited by Kenneth R. Andrews.

THE LAST VOYAGE OF DRAKE AND HAWKINS. (Hakluyt Society Second Series, Volume 142).

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. First edition thus. Hardcover. xiv, 283 pp., illustrated; octavo, original pale blue cloth with gilt title and ornaments, jacket. "This is an account of the expedition of royal and private ships which left Plymouth in 1595 under the command of Drake and Hawkins with the..... More

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Hilton-Simpson, M. W.

LANDS AND PEOPLES OF THE KASAI: Being a Narrative of a Two Year Journey Among the Cannibals of the Equatorial Forest and Other Savage Tribes of the South-Western Congo.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1912. First US edition. Hardcover. Octavo, green cloth with color pictorial inset on front cover; xx, 356 pp., illustrated with 8 color plates and 74 half-tones, large folding map at rear. Covers are clean and bright, moderate foxing to text throughout. Melville William Hilton-Simpson..... More

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Howel, Thomas. James Capper.

VOYAGE EN RETOUR DE L'INDE, par Terre, et par une Route en Partie Inconnue Jusqu'ice, par Thomas Howel; Suivi D'OBSERVATIONS SUR LE PASSAGE DANS L'INDE PAR L'EGYPTE ET LE GRAND DESERT, par James Capper. Traduit de l'Anglais par Theophile Mandar.

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

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Lussan, Raveneau de. Translated and edited by Marguerite Eyer WIlbur.

RAVENEAU DE LUSSAN: Buccaneer of the Spanish Main and early French filibuster of the Pacific. A translation into English of his Journal of a Voyage into the South Seas in 1684 and the following years with the Filibusters.

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

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Peary, R(obert) E.

NEAREST THE POLE; A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906

NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth stamped in gilt, red, and white; large octavo (7 x 10.5 inches); xx, 411 pp. Profusely illustrated with 95 b/w photos, color frontispiece, 2 large folding maps. More

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(Sir Francis Drake). Preface by Charles E. Pierce, Jr., Foreword by Patrick O'Brian, Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg, Translations by Ruth S. Kraemer.

THE DRAKE MANUSCRIPT In the Pierpont Morgan Library. Histoire Naturelle des Indes.

London: Andre Deutsch, (1996). First edition. Hardcover. xxii, [1], 272 pp.; quarto, original green cloth with gilt spine title, pictorial jacket. Introductory text is followed by the complete facsimile with circa 200 full color reproductions of the extraordinary late-sixteeenth-century Drake manuscript. More

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