Los Angeles: Center for Media Studies, 1982. v, 203p., 8.5x11 inches in wraps, black plastic comb binding. On the Falkland Islands war. More

Cat.No: 188345

Mexico D.F. Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1958. Hardcover. vii, 32p., plus 40 full-page modern line maps in colors printed rectos only, hardbound in oblong boards, 9.5x13.5 inch wraparound pictorials overprinted with titling, under cloth backstrip gilt-titled. A banged-up copy, quite edgeworn with a severe bump to upper left corner that..... More

Cat.No: 276870

New Delhi: Published for the Division of Ocean Sciences, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. by Amerind Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 1991. Hardcover. v, 97p., lcciv (plates); enormous hardbound (11.5x17 inches) bound with plastic rings beneath glossy paper over boards, matte and coated paperstock throughout. Facing German and English texts. Charts/maps..... More

Cat.No: 208873

London: Printed for The Hakluyt Society, 1907. Hardcover. xxvi, 221p., illustrations as called for (b&w plates, maps in colors). hardbound Hakluyt style in blue cloth boards gilt and blind, worn copy with backstrip darkened by handling and a small splash of paint, edgeworn with turned frayed corner-tips, acidicly-toned endsheets (even..... More

Cat.No: 281546

London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society [by the university press, Glasgow], 1943. Hardcover. xliii, 209p., illustrations and maps, many folded, as called for; hardbound in the Hakluyt fashion, blue cloth boards gilt and blind, cheaper cloth on thinner boards from wartime scarcity, square and tight with good corner-tips and hinges..... More

Cat.No: 280917

Paris: Chandeigne, 2006. Hardcover. [302]p., illustrated with three line maps, a few b&w period vignettes, and a longish series of color facsimiles (pp.227-247). Hardbound in 8.5x6 inch matte-white boards printed in pale green, a lovely design choice, and enclosed in a pictorial green dust jacket. A perfect, as-new copy... More

Cat.No: 278881

London: Routledge, 1992. Trade Paperback. xi, 274p., wraps, mild cover soil. Greatest emphasis here is on slavery. More

Cat.No: 101921

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1931. Hardcover. 314p., first edition in 8x5 inch grey cloth boards lettered red (top edge tinted red, a nice production) and enclosed in an interesting dust jacket. Book itself is perfectly sound, clean and unmarked, and while the dj is a bit edgeworn..... More

Cat.No: 265312

Louvain / Paris: Editions Nauwelaerts / Beatrice-Nauwelaerts, 1965. Paperback. xxxvii, 253p., illustrated with several period images and a modern line map printed in inserted coated stock, main text in French, softbound in 10x6.5 inch pale green wraps titled black and brown. Opened neatly throughout, foredge slightly toned with a couple..... More

Cat.No: 279519

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

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