New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1881. First US edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, octavo, original purple cloth with gilt title and cover ornaments; xxiii, 407; (xiv), 392 pp., frontispiece and 20 full-page illustrations in each volume, folding map at rear of first volumes. Isabella Bird Bishop (1831-1904) was a British traveller..... More

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

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1955, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, large octavos, original blue buckram, gilt; cclxxxiv, 684; clxx, 1021 pp., both volumes profusely illustrated with plates, maps, charts, etc. First editions of the first 2 volumes from the first publication of "Cook's own record..... More

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

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

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. Minor wear to covers, owner name and bookplate to front fixed..... More

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