Voyage en Egypte
Paris[?]: Bibliotheque de l'Image, 1992. 93p., minimal text and gorgeous fullpage color reproductions, 9.5x12.5 inch oblong color wraps, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 170469
Paris[?]: Bibliotheque de l'Image, 1992. 93p., minimal text and gorgeous fullpage color reproductions, 9.5x12.5 inch oblong color wraps, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 170469
Leicester: Printed by OUP for the Leicester University Press, 1962. Hardcover. 222p., illustrated with charts, tables, diagrams, and maps of various sorts and periods. Handsome big quarto (11.5x9 inches) with gloriously executed bevelled green cloth boards (gilt) and plain printed dust jacket on matte stock. Foxing is the primary condition..... More
Cat.No: 264762
Ceres: Self-published by the author, 1970. 32p., 6x9.25 inches, epilogue, author bio, illustrated with drawings by Darlene Davi, very good booklet in original stapled pictorial wraps. Short biographies of "remarkable Californians" published on the 201st anniversary of California's founding. More
Cat.No: 107660
Assen - The Netherlands: Van Gorcum & Comp. B.V., 1975. Hardcover. First separate publication; softbound in 10x6.5 inch gloss-white wraps. Externally, irregular foxing blemishes cover, and there's a corner-tip bump and edgewear. Internally, item is sound, cleanly and unmarked. At first, expulsion from Spain opened up maritime work for Portugal..... More
Cat.No: 272541
Mexico City: Editorial Jus, 1976. 76p., first edition, wraps, maps, part of its blue laminate torn off at top of front cover, front blank lightly foxed else good. Number 1250 of 2000 copies. Myth and reality in Homer's Odyssey. More
Cat.No: 123950
Madrid: Libreria General Victoriano Suarez, 1960. Paperback. 79p., letterpress on nice alkaline paperstock, rubricated titlepage and cover, softbound in 10x7 inch plain printed wraps, two colors on fine buff stock. A sound, clean, unmarked exemplar. Laid in is a sash wrapper (obi) belonging to a different volume of the same..... More
Cat.No: 279518
Millwood / London: Kraus Reprint / Reproduced by permission of the Hakluyt Society from the edition originally published by the Society in 1900, 1967. Hardcover. viii, lxxxvii, 242p., photo-facsimile text with all illustrations including folded map, hardbound in pale blue cloth boards gilt. Aside from a mere touch of foxing..... More
Cat.No: 280656
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1932. Paperback. 58p., illustrated with a single large folded map (19x9 inches) neatly bound inside terminal cover. Difficult to unfold but we did that without damage. Softbound in 10.5x7 inch plain printed blue-grey wraps which are badly edgeworn. Cover and text-block are separated along upper..... More
Cat.No: 275819
New York: Grove Press/Evergreen, 1988. Paperback. [ii] 184p., small b&w photo section, very good reissue trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Originally published in 1969. More
Cat.No: 245504
Melbourne: F.W. Cheshire, 1949. Hardcover. 273p., illustrated with b&w photography from the expedition, first edition hardbound pale grey cloth boards lettered in dark grey, and enclosed in the dust jacket. Endsheet map is a doublespread that shows the huge distances from Heard northwards to the Aussie mainland and southwards, to..... More
Cat.No: 297153
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1976. Hardcover. 240p., brown boards, previous owner's gift inscription to front free endpaper, very good. Price clipped dust jacket shows some dulling, bit of edgewear. More
Cat.No: 267834
Bethesda MD: Decatur Press, Inc., 1970. Hardcover. illustrated with folded maps bound in (well-designed modern maps), hardbound in 9x6 inch blue cloth boards spine- and cover-titled gilt; old bookstore sticker on free front endpaper else very good later printing. More
Cat.No: 264676
Bethesda: Printed [for the author] by Decatur Press Inc., 1968. Hardcover. 136p., illustrated with a folded line map on cardstock, hardcover in 9x6 inch red cloth boards. Sound, clean, and unmarked, a very nice copy. More
Cat.No: 265534
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. xiv, 432p., preface, illustrations, staining in the gutters of the first and last few pages, otherwise very good reprint edition in brown cloth and gilt. No dj. More
Cat.No: 156505
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977. xxiv., 226 p., hardback in very good condition. Includes Stapp's journal of captivity by the Mexican forces. More
Cat.No: 123343
Ithaca NY: Cornell University, 1911. 205p., softbound in 9x6 inch plain printed grey wraps paste-fastened over a tightly stapled textblock, a utilitarian job not meant to last. No illustrations or imagery. Front cover has torn away from the titlepage (there are no blanks, no halftitle, no frontispiece, no preliminaries of..... More
Cat.No: 262509
Nendelin / Liechtenstein: Kraus / The Hakluyt Society, 1967. Hardcover. cviii, 292p., lacks any illustrations or maps, photo-reproduced text done somewhat clumsily, hardbound in the Hakluyt style: light blue cloth boards gilt, quite a nice copy with a little external handling grime to spine panel, entirely sound, clean and unmarked..... More
Cat.No: 280650
Cambridge / New York City: Harvard College Library / New York Public Library, 1966. Paperback. x, 192p., 247 numbered exhibits extensively annotated, accompanied by essays in English and scattered b&w facsimiles. Softbound, 9x6 inch plainish wraps with a decorative swipe from the exhibit acting as title cartouche. Slight signs of..... More
Cat.No: 264812
New Delhi: National Archives of India, 1949. Hardcover. lxiv, 434p., rubricated titlepage, folded maps bound in (one with an onlaid red route line), and other maps and period images on coated inserted stock, hardbound in 10x6.45 inch spring-green cloth boards gilt. Cloth casing rather worn with handling, bumped corners, spine..... More
Cat.No: 276148
Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1866. Hardcover. 480p., brown cloth boards; frontis., boards soiled and edgeworn with some exposure on corners, chip along spine tail, endpapers somewhat soiled and front free endpaper partially detached, gilt spine dimmed and slightly tilted, foxing throughout, front hinge cracked and back hinge delicate. More
Cat.No: 296676
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Paperback. xxxviii, 309p., softbound illustrated solely with five skimpy line maps (a 1998 reprint may be better-furnished), anyway, theoretical cartography by a scholar of African history who had taught in Zambia, later doing research made possible by a Carter G. Woodson Institute fellowship. Thornton builds..... More
Cat.No: 264899
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. Hardcover. [Copperplate map fixed to pastedown]; xli, 180p., two maps described below, hardbound first edition in cinnamon-brown cloth boards, 8.5x6.5 inches, eccentric and rather beautiful book design: smartly framed in blind and gilt, with an onlaid spine decoration (armorial). Signatures opened neatly throughout, fine..... More
Cat.No: 277603
Princeton / London / Oxford: Princeton University Press / Humphrey Milford / OUP, 1916. Hardcover. A couple of unpaginated leaves, then the facsimile 1-32p., several woodcut illustrations per original, solid print-blocks without paragraphing, appears to us a medieval Italian excursus in blackletter. Nice small hardbound in grey cloth boards gilt..... More
Cat.No: 276925
London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd, 1928. Hardcover. xi, 255p., letterpress on laid-lined paperstock throughout, illustrations and maps as called for. Hardbound in 9x5.5 inch dark blue cloth boards titled gilt and decorated in blind, doublespread endsheet maps (two different ones). Untrimmed fore- and bottom-edges, a mildly edgeworn volume..... More
Cat.No: 281543
Sacramento: California State Department of Education, 1935. ix, 22p., 6.25x9.25 inches, foreword, preface, map, suggestions for study and activities, illustrations, very good booklet in stapled green wraps. Bulletin 14. Brief biography of Rodrigues Cabrillo, a Portuguese explorer who landed at San Diego in 1542. More
Cat.No: 26008