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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrations by J.B. Gibbs. The book is in six parts: In the Cocos-Keeling Islands; In Java; In Sumatra; In the Moluccas and in Timor-Laut; and In Timor. Each part has an appendix. Publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; xix, 536, 4 pp.; 3 folding maps, 2 full-page maps, 1 in-text map, color frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations, publisher's advertisements. Color tissue guarded frontispiece by J.B. Gibbs. 6 maps in total all present. First American edition. Bindings are tight and square. Minor shelf lean. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Light wear to extremities, lightly and evenly toned throughout. Collectible condition.. The British zoologist H.O. Forbes (1851-1932) travelled from the Keeling Islands through Indonesia between 1878-1883. He visited Java, South-Sumatra, the Moluccas and New Guinea. Giving in…
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The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea with Notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu and Various Islands of the Malay Archipelago
by Guillemard, Francis Henry Hill (1887-1892)
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London: John Murray, 1886. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcovers. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Engravings by Edward Whymper.
Publisher's blue decorated cloth with stamped titles and decoration in gilt. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Upper front corner of vol. 2 bumped. Armorial bookplate of C. W. Prescott Westcar and a small bookplate in upper corner of front paste-down. Two volumes, [Complete] 8vo; (230 x 157 mm). First Edition, First Printing.
Illustrated with 2 colored frontispieces, 14 maps, 27 plates. The plates are beautifully engraved by Edward Whymper (of Matterhorn fame) from drawings by Charles Whymper. This work is notable for its focus on lesser-known islands as well as important ornithological observations.
A first-hand account of a private scientific expedition and voyage on the schooner "Marchesa" from Japan to the South Pacific. As a member of the Royal Geographical Society, Guillemard worked as both a naturalist and ethnographer.
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Edward Whymper (1840-1911) was an English mountaineer, explorer, illustrator, and author best known for the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. Four members of his climbing party were killed during the descent.
REF: Ferguson 10138a; cf. Hill 735 (second edition).
Publisher's blue decorated cloth with stamped titles and decoration in gilt. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Upper front corner of vol. 2 bumped. Armorial bookplate of C. W. Prescott Westcar and a small bookplate in upper corner of front paste-down. Two volumes, [Complete] 8vo; (230 x 157 mm). First Edition, First Printing.
Illustrated with 2 colored frontispieces, 14 maps, 27 plates. The plates are beautifully engraved by Edward Whymper (of Matterhorn fame) from drawings by Charles Whymper. This work is notable for its focus on lesser-known islands as well as important ornithological observations.
A first-hand account of a private scientific expedition and voyage on the schooner "Marchesa" from Japan to the South Pacific. As a member of the Royal Geographical Society, Guillemard worked as both a naturalist and ethnographer.
Background Information:
Edward Whymper (1840-1911) was an English mountaineer, explorer, illustrator, and author best known for the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. Four members of his climbing party were killed during the descent.
REF: Ferguson 10138a; cf. Hill 735 (second edition).
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- Keywords Exploration; Marchesa (Schooner yacht); Natural history; Oceania; Natural History; Voyages; Ornithology; Explorers
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A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago. A Narrative of Travel and Exploration From 1878 to 1883
by Forbes, Henry O[gg]
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[Norway] With Ski & Sledge Over Arctic Glaciers: Companion and acting as an appendix to The First Crossing of Spitsbergen.
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London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1898. First Edition, First Printing. A Good Hardcover. A Good Hardcover; No Dust Jacket As Issued. Photography by E. J. Garwood (1864-1949). Ex-library, with markings from Cardiff Public Libraries; spine relaid along back cover, extremities bumped, cloth torn; foxing, chipping, and tears throughout. 8vo. 8 inches tall; vi, [4], 235pp. with index; gravure frontispiece, 11 plates, 2 text illustrations, folding map (tape-repaired along folds), top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original cloth, stamped with gilt. First Edition, First Printing. Illustrated with photographs by E. J. Garwood.. Difficult to find in any condition. Background Information: An exploration of the interior of West Spitsbergen undertaken during the summers of 1896 and 1897, in the company of E. J. Garwood, whose photographs illustrate this book. Conway and Garwood with two companions, ascended the Nordenskiold Glacier, proceeded by boat to King's Bay, from there they sledged and skied along King's Highway…
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Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator: A Story of Nine Months Experiences in the Last of the Soudan Provinces
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good Hardcovers. with Complete Maps, No Dust Jacket As Issued. Pictorially embossed dark green cloth lettered in gilt depicting Pasha standing in a small boat leading the expedition across the Congo. Gravure frontispiece portrait of Mountney-Jephson; Etched portrait of H.M. Stanley; With folding map of Equatorial Province and a facsimile of the Mahdi's letter in Arabic to Emin Pasha demanding his surrender to in back pocket. Wood engravings in the text: 22 plates (incl. photogravure frontis. portrait), title vignette, & 24 text illustrations. First American Edition. 8vo; 8.75 inches tall; xxiv, 490 pp. index. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear.. The dramatic story of the rebellion of the Mahdist in 1885 and of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, under H.M. Stanley, journeying to the rescue of General Gordon's lieutenant and friend, Emin Pasha…
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[Florida] Across the Everglades A Canoe Journey of Exploration
by Willoughby, Hugh L. (1856-1959)
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Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1898. First Edition, First Printing. Decorated Cloth Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Navy blue cloth with silver gilt titles and front decoration, top edge gilt. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with minor top gutter dampstain not affecting text through page 15. Numerous b/w period photographs taken by the author highlight the narrative. Folding map has age-toned lightly and is intact. 8vo; 7.5 inches tall; xii, 9-192 p. incl. front. plates (incl. ports.) maps (1 folding) 1898. Includes 18 pages of Seminole vocabulary. First Edition, First Printing.. The Florida Everglades were a mystery to map makers as late as the 1890's. In 1898 Hugh L. Willoughby, the wealthy son of a banker, and who had never held a real job, set out in early January to explore the remote southern part of Florida; uncharted territory, at least to everyone but the Seminole Indians who fled there decades earlier…
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Beyond Petsora Eastward. Two Summer Voyages to Novaya Zemlya and the Islands of the Barents Sea [Arctic Exploration]
by Pearson, Henry J. (1859-1913); Colonel H. W. Feilden (1838-1921)
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London: R.H. Porter, 1899. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. Near Fine Cloth Hardcover.. Green cloth decoratively stamped and titled in gilt with beveled edges. 24 by18.5 cm.; 9.5 by 7.25 inches 8vo; xiv, 335 pages. Illustrated with a color frontispiece on card stock of the eggs of Little Stint; numerous plates [88] from photographs, and 2 folding maps. First Edition, First Printing. The Bindings are tight and square. light foxing to edges of text block. Text clean, Light even toning and minor occurrences of offsetting. Minimal shelf handling wear. With appendices "On The Botany and Geology" by Colonel H.W. Feilden. (1838-1921) Includes notes on glacial deposits in Green Harbour Spitsbergen p 255. A remarkable account of an ambitious project, this book forms part of the nineteenth-century genre of scientific travel literature and contains still-relevant information about the Arctic environment. In 1895, naturalists Henry J. Pearson and Colonel H. W. Feilden sailed to Norway…
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A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago. A Narrative of Travel and Exploration From 1878 to 1883
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrations by J.B. Gibbs. The book is in six parts: In the Cocos-Keeling Islands; In Java; In Sumatra; In the Moluccas and in Timor-Laut; and In Timor. Each part has an appendix. Publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; xix, 536, 4 pp.; 3 folding maps, 2 full-page maps, 1 in-text map, color frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations, publisher's advertisements. Color tissue guarded frontispiece by J.B. Gibbs. 6 maps in total all present. First American edition. Bindings are tight and square. Minor shelf lean. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Light wear to extremities, lightly and evenly toned throughout. Collectible condition.. The British zoologist H.O. Forbes (1851-1932) travelled from the Keeling Islands through Indonesia between 1878-1883. He visited Java, South-Sumatra, the Moluccas and New Guinea. Giving in…
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[Norway] With Ski & Sledge Over Arctic Glaciers: Companion and acting as an appendix to The First Crossing of Spitsbergen.
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London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1898. First Edition, First Printing. A Good Hardcover. A Good Hardcover; No Dust Jacket As Issued. Photography by E. J. Garwood (1864-1949). Ex-library, with markings from Cardiff Public Libraries; spine relaid along back cover, extremities bumped, cloth torn; foxing, chipping, and tears throughout. 8vo. 8 inches tall; vi, [4], 235pp. with index; gravure frontispiece, 11 plates, 2 text illustrations, folding map (tape-repaired along folds), top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original cloth, stamped with gilt. First Edition, First Printing. Illustrated with photographs by E. J. Garwood.. Difficult to find in any condition. Background Information: An exploration of the interior of West Spitsbergen undertaken during the summers of 1896 and 1897, in the company of E. J. Garwood, whose photographs illustrate this book. Conway and Garwood with two companions, ascended the Nordenskiold Glacier, proceeded by boat to King's Bay, from there they sledged and skied along King's Highway…
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Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator: A Story of Nine Months Experiences in the Last of the Soudan Provinces
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good Hardcovers. with Complete Maps, No Dust Jacket As Issued. Pictorially embossed dark green cloth lettered in gilt depicting Pasha standing in a small boat leading the expedition across the Congo. Gravure frontispiece portrait of Mountney-Jephson; Etched portrait of H.M. Stanley; With folding map of Equatorial Province and a facsimile of the Mahdi's letter in Arabic to Emin Pasha demanding his surrender to in back pocket. Wood engravings in the text: 22 plates (incl. photogravure frontis. portrait), title vignette, & 24 text illustrations. First American Edition. 8vo; 8.75 inches tall; xxiv, 490 pp. index. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear.. The dramatic story of the rebellion of the Mahdist in 1885 and of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, under H.M. Stanley, journeying to the rescue of General Gordon's lieutenant and friend, Emin Pasha…
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[Florida] Across the Everglades A Canoe Journey of Exploration
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Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1898. First Edition, First Printing. Decorated Cloth Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Navy blue cloth with silver gilt titles and front decoration, top edge gilt. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with minor top gutter dampstain not affecting text through page 15. Numerous b/w period photographs taken by the author highlight the narrative. Folding map has age-toned lightly and is intact. 8vo; 7.5 inches tall; xii, 9-192 p. incl. front. plates (incl. ports.) maps (1 folding) 1898. Includes 18 pages of Seminole vocabulary. First Edition, First Printing.. The Florida Everglades were a mystery to map makers as late as the 1890's. In 1898 Hugh L. Willoughby, the wealthy son of a banker, and who had never held a real job, set out in early January to explore the remote southern part of Florida; uncharted territory, at least to everyone but the Seminole Indians who fled there decades earlier…
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Beyond Petsora Eastward. Two Summer Voyages to Novaya Zemlya and the Islands of the Barents Sea [Arctic Exploration]
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London: R.H. Porter, 1899. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. Near Fine Cloth Hardcover.. Green cloth decoratively stamped and titled in gilt with beveled edges. 24 by18.5 cm.; 9.5 by 7.25 inches 8vo; xiv, 335 pages. Illustrated with a color frontispiece on card stock of the eggs of Little Stint; numerous plates [88] from photographs, and 2 folding maps. First Edition, First Printing. The Bindings are tight and square. light foxing to edges of text block. Text clean, Light even toning and minor occurrences of offsetting. Minimal shelf handling wear. With appendices "On The Botany and Geology" by Colonel H.W. Feilden. (1838-1921) Includes notes on glacial deposits in Green Harbour Spitsbergen p 255. A remarkable account of an ambitious project, this book forms part of the nineteenth-century genre of scientific travel literature and contains still-relevant information about the Arctic environment. In 1895, naturalists Henry J. Pearson and Colonel H. W. Feilden sailed to Norway…
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The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka and New Guinea: Vol. 2
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The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea, I: With Notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu and Various Islands of the Malay Archipelago. Volume 1
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