New York: W. W. Norton, (1967). First edition. Hardcover. 390 pp., illustrated; octavo, original black cloth, pictorial dustjacket. A well-written and well-regarded history of the famed explorer and author. More about THE DEVIL DRIVES: A Life of Sir Richard Burton
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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 about MEMOIRE SUR LA COLLECTION DES GRANDS ET PETITS VOYAGES [of de Bry] et Sur La Collection des...
New York: Trustees of the Lennox Library, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. xiii, [2], 61 pp. illustrated; small octavo, original maroon cloth stamped in gilt. More about THE LETTER OF COLUMBUS ON THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA: A Facsimile of the Pictorial Edition, with a...
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 about THE JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK ON HIS VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY: Vol 1 - The Voyage of the...
Lisboa: Divisao de Publicacoes e Biblioteca. Agencia Geral das Colonias, 1939. Second edition (2.a Ediçao correcta e levemente aumentada). Hardcover. Contemporary full tan calf with morocco spine labels, original card wrappers bound in, octavo (6.5 x 9.5 inches), 532, [1] pp. Profusely illustrated with plates, maps and charts (many folding)... More about A MARINHARIA DOS DESCOBRIMENTOS
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 about LANDS AND PEOPLES OF THE KASAI: Being a Narrative of a Two Year Journey Among the Cannibals of...
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 about VOYAGE EN RETOUR DE L'INDE, par Terre, et par une Route en Partie Inconnue Jusqu'ice, par Thomas...
Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original burgundy cloth; 303 pp., frontispiece and 8 plates with tissue guards. Small stain to front free endpaper, else very good in moderately edgeworn dustjacket. First English translation of the French text originally published in London in 1702. This copy with... More about RAVENEAU DE LUSSAN: Buccaneer of the Spanish Main and early French filibuster of the Pacific. A...
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 endpaper. More about NEAREST THE POLE; A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S....
London: Hakluyt Society, 1848. First edition thus. Hardcover. Later (but not recent) half slate-blue calf and boards with spine gilt in compartments; lxxv, xv, 240 pp. Illustrated with folding frontispiece map showing Ralegh's route, facsimile title page from the first edition. Corners lightly bumped, small ink notation to half title... More about THE DISCOVERY OF THE LARGE, RICH, AND BEAUTIFUL EMPIRE OF GUIANA; with a Relation of the Great...
New York: E.P. Dutton, no date (preface dated 1932). First US edition? Hardcover. xii, 276 pp., 16 plates from photographs (most with 2 images on the plate), folding map; original brown cloth, pictorial jacket. US edition with E. P. Dutton imprint, printed in London by Morrison & Gibb, Ltd. Scarce... More about SMARA THE FORBIDDEN CITY: Being the Journal of Michel Vieuchange while travelling among the...