The Lands of the Orient by Mark Boatner Chapman - 1888

Cape Town: A.A. Balkema [0-86961-123-2] [1980]. (4to) 456pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrations, photographs, maps, plans, bibliography, index. The spine of the dust jacket is very lightly sunned. Locale: Cape Town; South Africa. (Architecture).

Fine. London: Travellers' Bookshop, 2001. Edition limited to 500 copies, 4to., [x], 197pp., approx. 160 colour illustrations, publisherÕs black cloth with gilt spine titles, dust-wrapper. A Fine copy in Fine dustjacket - As New and signed by Julian Mackenzie on the main title page.A pictorial bibliography of one of the finest collections of Antarctica in private hands. The collection is limited to first-hand accounts, and was assembled with a view to condition. It contains many outstanding copies, some with rare dust-wrappers. The Taurus Collection was formed with two objectives in mind: First was to obtain the finest possible copies of books on the Antarctic; second was to focus on the people and expeditions who went to the Continent when heroism was most important, ie: before the age of mechanization. - from the introduction.The Taurus Collection publication should prove to be a valuable resource for both written and visual documentation for key books important to documentation of exploration of… Read More

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. xi, [1], 405, [1] p., frontispiece and 3 leaves of plates: many in-text illustrations; 21 cm. Contemporary half morroco with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment; gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Marbled paper over boards. Top page edges gilt. Brown and red decorated endpapers. Errata on unpaginated page following Preface. With: 1920 clipping from the Daily Chronicle of article by Trevor Allen, "Kensington in The Season: Things Seen in a Twilight Stroll." In Very Good Condition: edges are rubbed; clean and bright.

New York, NY: J. B. Lippincott, [1940]. First edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +. 8vo. 376 p. Bound in brown and cream zebra-patterned cloth, 'Adventure' in italics on front cover and spine, deckle edge, top-edge stained red. No other printings stated on copyright page. Lacking dust jacket. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Very Good+, bright and clean, hinges strong and solid, very light rubbing to extremities and very faint age-toning to spine. Sharp copy.

СК XVIII №№ 3462, 3464, Битовт № 1950, Сопиков № 9263.The book isnt in great shape. The binding is from different book.

Collins, Capt. Greenville: Netherlands, Untitled chart of Holland, Flanders and Eastern England. Ca 1753. Copper engraved chart. Size approx 600mm x 480mm. Good margins, hand coloured, good impression on heavy paper. Coast line of Flanders at Calles [Calais] to Der Scheling [Terschelling]of the West Frisian Islands and then Eastern England Margate in Kent to Burnham Flats in Norfolk. Much detail is given of the Thames estuary and Rotterdam soundings. Depth soundings and rhumb lines indicated. A compass rose is set at the centre of the Chart. Title cartouche "To the Honourable Sir john Ashby Kt. Admiral of the Blew/ This is most humbly dedicated and presented by Capt G Collins". Some age soiling to edges, one small tear, without loss and repaired to centre fold area. A scarce, attractive sea chart in good, bright condition suitable for display.

London: George Newnes, Ltd. 1898. (Hardcover set) xv, 480, viii, 456pp. Very good. Dark green cloth with beveled edges, each volume with elaborate illustrations in gilt and silver on the cover and spine. All edges gilt, color plate, photographs, illustrations, folding color map, index. Some wear at the edges and corners, and the map repaired with archival tissue. In mylar wrappers, the set is bright and the folding map clean. Locale:. (Arctic/Polar, Expeditions--Polar, Exploration--Arctic, Norwegian Polar Expedition 1893-1896).

Corner of back dust jacket states, "BIG TIGER & CHRISTIAN MUHLENWEG CAPE 15s, net. Dust jacket is very worn along top & bottom edges of spine and corners wtih small tears. Edges are worn. Back sisde of dj. is soiled and has water stain marks. Top pages dyed brown, foredge has some soiling, bottom pages are scraped. A couple of marks inside HC. Page crease goes through to page 14. Several page tips creased. 4 over 58 written in pencil other side of flyleaf. Rest of book in VG condition. Ships where available with confirmation.

New York:: Putnam,, 1996.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed by astronaut Mitchell on the half-title page. Apollo 14 astronaut Mitchell offers a vision in which technology and intuition are harmonized in pursuit of a more advanced consciousness. When Mitchell was hurtling back to earth after walking on the moon in 1971, he had a profound sense that all things are interconnected and that the universe is an intelligent process with which we need to link up. We hear how Mitchell began a career as a fighter pilot in the years following WW II, switched to NASA with the hope of being part of the new space program, and came to know the legendary Wernher von Braun, whom he believes was a true visionary rather than a Nazi opportunist. Mitchell tells how, while returning to earth, he carried out a private ESP experiment that seemed to yield positive results. Subsequently, he founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences, in order to test paranormal phenomena… Read More

Barcelona, Maucci, 1903
8º. 2 vol. Tomo I: XV pp + 421 pp; Tomo II: 291 pp. 243 ilustraciones, 2 panoramas, 3 mapas, 1 plano en color. Holandesa de época en tela, con grabado seco al frente y en verso, lomo en piel con títulos en dorado. Excelentes condiciones. Narración muy completa con episodios de caza, aventuras y técnicas de supervivencia. Contiene fotografía de la isla de Northbrook (75 x 24), foto de la bahía de Teplitz (98 x 24), 1 mapa litográfico de la misma bahía, 1 mapa de la ruta de H. Cagni,