Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 2014. 315p., very good hardcover, profusely illustrated with color photos of artifacts reflecting long-distance trade and diplomatic relations going back to the Han Dynasty. More
Cat.No: 263814
Lisboa / Coimbra: Junta de Investigacoes do Ultramar - Lisboa, 1973. Hardcover. 195p., plus addendum and corrigenda, illustrated with a few diagrammatic coastal maps and a spooky color portrait of da Gama inserted as frontispiece, hardbound in 10x7 inch green cloth boards gilt & blind, has a sprinkle of foxing..... More
Cat.No: 296363
Norwalk, CT: Heritage Press, 1967. Hardcover. 383p., illsutrations, ,very good Heritage Press Club edition in illustrated cloth boards and plain dark brown slipcase, gilt spine titles, newsletter laid-in. The 1929 edition is Young 1052. More
Cat.No: 247689
San Francisco: printed and designed by Lawton Kennedy for The Book Club of California, 1961. Hardcover. 28p. + 13 plates (including large map at rear) 10x13.25 inches, biographical sketch, commentary, drawings and map, very good first edition limited to 450 copies bound in white cloth with drawing reproduced on cover..... More
Cat.No: 212867
San Francisco: printed by Taylor & Taylor for The Book Club of California, 1958. Leather Bound. xxvii, 36p., 7.75x12.5 inches, introduction, footnotes, illustrated with drawing by Rusk and plates of drawings by the anonymous author, humorous poetic errata sheet tipped-in at rear, untrimmed edges, very good first edition limited to..... More
Cat.No: 212872
San Francisco: printed by Taylor & Taylor for The Book Club of California, 1958. Hardcover. xxvii, 36p., 7.75x12.5 inches, introduction, footnotes, illustrated with drawing by Rusk and plates of drawings by the anonymous author, humorous poetic errata sheet tipped-in at rear, untrimmed edges, very good first edition limited to 400..... More
Cat.No: 212873
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1951. Hardcover. 302p., first edition, hardbound in openweave blue cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. A pleasant copy, with a couple of caveats for collectorship: spine panel is a bit dimmed with handling (lettering remains legible), find a penetrating fleck to half-title..... More
Cat.No: 319060
San Francisco: printed by the Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, November 1955. Leather Bound. xvi, 68p., immense hardbound, a 15x10 inch folio in openweave linen boards backed in lovely red-orange morocco gilt. Frontispiece reproduces Myers' map of the Pacific area, many color plates, marginal decorations, introduction, notes..... More
Cat.No: 212802
San Diego: Cabrillo Historical Association, 1968. Magazine. [iv], 20p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, introduction, appendix, very good newsletter in stapled tan pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 127170
New York: William Beverly Harison, 1891. Hardcover. [2], 222p., boards. Bound in blue cloth covered boards, block stamped in blue with a decorative title design on front board. Gilt titling on spine. Very Good. Narratives by a ship captain who turned to journalism. More
Cat.No: 319978
[Stamford, CT]: Stamford Foundry Co., 1914. Pamphlet. 21, [5]p., 3 leaves of plates, illustrations, wraps. 7.75 x 6.25 in. Soiled wraps. Good only. Shipmate, 4. Advertising fiction involving a mutiny aboard a ship sailing into the U.S. west coast carrying Chinese sailors and corpses. With references to Shipmate, a stove..... More
Cat.No: 310413
New York: The Viking Press, 1977. Hardcover. 405p., previous owner's name and address in ink on fep otherwise a very good first US edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped, lightly-worn dj. Gay Australian author's novel of a woman shipwrecked on an island. More
Cat.No: 32869
Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2021. hardcover. 303p., in dustjacket, new. More
Cat.No: 274874
