[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

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

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

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

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

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