Report Of The Exploring Expedition To The Rocky Mountains And To The North Carolina by Capt. J. C. Fremont - 1845

Published by The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, Ordnance Survey Office, 1867. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. Published by The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, Ordnance Survey Office, 1867. 1st Edition . Fair. Complete in 3 Parts. Elephant folio, approx. 22'' by 16''. Original quarter leather with blue cloth binding, titles & Royal crest in gilt on front cover & emblem on back cover. All parts show shelf wear, particularly at corners/edges/spine. All absent outer spine. Upper edge gilt. Occasional foxing/marks throughout, particularly at front of parts II & III. Inner books generally in good condition for their age. Part I (1867), scrape to front cover, xviii + 43pp with 78 manuscripts illustrated on 41 plates. Part II (1870), Xxii + 68pp, 84 facsimiles, Part III (1871), Xvi + 108 facsimiles & accompanying text. This set covers all the major events in Scotland's history from 900 AD, royal marriages, deaths, battles, letters, charters etc to the Treaty of Union (1706).… Read More

Augspurg, Johann Schultes, 1621.Folio. Contemporary limp vellum (soiled; sl. dam.). Title printed in red and black with woodcut coat of arms on verso, full-page woodcut genealogical tree of the rulers of Austria, woodcut device at the end, 2 full-page woodcut portraits of archduke Ferdinand and his spouse, and ca. 400 woodcuts in the text of emperors, kings, counts, etc. and their coats of arms. (12),469 (wrongly numbered 481),(1),(46) pp.First German edition, the first Latin edition appeared in Innsbruck in 1592. - Inportant genealogical work on the annals of the Austrian line of the Habsburg dynasty compiled by the Dutch-born librarian Gerard de Roo. He was librarian to archduke Ferdinand. The House of Habsburg is one of the most prominent and important dynasties in European history, they were the ruling house of Hungary from 1526 till 1780. - (Somewhat waterstained throughout; wormholes in fly-leaves).Cf. Lipperheide I, p.195.

Amsterdam, M. Westerman, 1830.Original printed wrappers. With lithographed title-page and 3 folding lithographed plates of Gunung Gedeh, Gunung Tangkuban Perahu, and the Tjitarum. II,243,(3) pp.First edition. - 'The author, Andries de Wilde (1781-1865), had great experience of the Preanger Regencies of Java, first as Opziener and Assistant Resident at Buitenzorg, and subsequently as owner of the famous estate, Sukabumi, comprising the districts of Gunungparang, Tjimahi, Tjiheulang and Tjitjurug, which had been sold by the British colonial administration in 1813, and which ten years later was expropriated by the Netherlands Indies Government' (Bastin & Brommer p.133). A detailed description of the Preanger regencies, Java.- Copy from the library of Dutch parliament. - (Some foxing).Bastin & Brommer N 185; Tiele 1209.

Amsterdam, Frans Buffa en Zonen, (ca. 1860).Chromolithographed plate by J.E. van Heemskerck van Beest. Ca. 38 x 48,5 cm.From: Gezigten uit Neerland's West-Indien. Views of the coffee plantation Jagtlust and sugar plantation Suzanna's Daal, both on the Suriname river. Drawn by Gerard Wernard Catharinus Voorduin (1830-1910), a Dutch lieutenant-commander, who spent six years in Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles and lithographed by the Dutch sea-officer and artist Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest (1828-1894). ' A splendid series of large scale finely coloured views' (Landwehr, Coloured plates, 465). - Tear repaired, lower margin strengthened otherwise fine. Cat. NHSM I, p.276; Koeman, Suriname, 71-72; Suriname-catalogus UB Amsterdam 7265; Daalder, Tekenen op zee, p.24-25 and 69-72.

London, J. M'Creery, 1811. 4to. Later blue buckram (spine discoloured). With large folding engraved map and engraved plate of the Rajang, Batta, Lampoon alphabets. VIII,479,(9) pp.Third and best edition; first published in London in 1783; with the bookplate of Arthur Hereward Millard. - 'This book gave Marsden a reputation that still holds today. He was an orientalist, in the service of the East India Company (VOC), and resided in Sumatra in 1771-79. He studied everything that came under his notice, including the difficult Sumatran tongue'' (Cox I, p.300). His book is the first important monograph on Sumatra, including a chapter on Nias and also the first text in English devoted to the island. - (Without the atlas as usual). Wellan-Helfrich D 238; Howgego M55; Hill 1093.

Two volumes. First editions. s.n. London. 1705. s.n. London. 1707. Small quartos. (22), 544, (8)pp; (10), 549, (6)pp. Later full calf, spines in 6 compartments with raised bands and leather labels. Renewed endpapers. All edges sprinkled to volume I. Variable light toning and occasional spotting to Volume I; intermittent light water staining, spotting and toning to Volume II. Minor insect damage to gutter margin p211-250 Volume II. Paper fault: 2 small holes and corner loss to penultimate page of Volume II with no loss to text.
ESTC T94112.
Jean Crasset
(1618 – 1692)
George Webb (1653 – 1725)
"The History I have now in hand, speaks of so strange and surprising Adventures which happedn'd at the very utmost extremities of the World, that they may well pass for Romance and Fables." [From the Preface.]

Washington D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1896. Hardcover. Excellent. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large octavo. Original green cloth, titles to upper board gilt, yellow coated endpapers. Corners and tail of spine bumped slightly affecting leaves, else a very fresh copy in excellent condition. First separate edition, first printing of the first publication on the discovery of argon, which led to Nobel Prizes for its co-discoverers. "Few discoveries have been as dramatic as the discovery of argon in the atmosphere by Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay, professor of chemistry at University College, London. The discovery of argon involved a bitter public dispute concerning the legitimacy of a chemical element whose most important characteristic was its inertness, and which forced the chemists to reassess the very notion of a chemical element." Rayleigh had begun work to determine the densities of atmospheric gases in 1882. In 1892 he uncovered a strange discrepancy between the atomic weight of… Read More

179 pages. Rebound in full vellum; binding tight, all pages clean, no tears, no repairs, some pencil marks. Very slight foxing here and there and delicate age-tinting. Five raised bands, title stamped in gold on red leather label.Scholar, poet, musician, literary figure and Cardinal Pietro Bembo's (1470-1547) vernacular translation of his famous history of Venice (originally in Latin).

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884. First Edition. Near Fine. [9.25x6.5in]; viii, index to Miscellaneous Documents, 1046 pp., index to the Jeannette Inquiry document, facsimile of last page of De Long journal, witness statements, excerpts of De Long, Ambler and Collins journals, letters and extracts from letters, telegrams, and notes, and statements from counsel; Rebound dark brown cloth covers with original spine label of gilt lettering on red leather and additional gilt lettering on black label, all edges trimmed; Minimal shelf wear , top text block age darken, minor age toning to edges of text, book plate of Steve Fossett on front end paper. [Howgego III D4]. The Jeannette expedition (1879-81) was led by Lieutenant-Commander George Washington De Long (1844-81). The purpose was to find a route through the Bering Strait, that was warmed by the Pacific Kiro Shio current to an open polar sea. The 'Jeannette' became icebound, northwest 350 Km and sunk in May 1881 some 400 Km from the… Read More

LONDON: Hodder and Stoughton, 1921. 1st Edition ONLY PRINTING. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket, as Issued. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. ATTWELL, MABEL LUCIE. TRULY RARE DELUXE FIRST & ONLY PRINTING!! FIRST BRITISH PRINTING, HODDER & STOUGHTON, FINE CONDITION!! EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE ORIGINAL 1921 "PETER PAN & WENDY" Illustrated by MABEL LUCY ATTWELL with 12 BEAUTIFUL FULL COLOR (COLOUR) HINGED PLATES. THIS IS THE DELUXE ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION PRINTING, IN LOVELY ROBIN'S EGG BLUE CLOTH, EMBOSSED COLOR FRONT ILLUSTRATION with FRONT COVER & SPINE LETTERING IN BRIGHT GILT. THIS EXAMPLE IS NEAR FINE, COVERS EXCELLENT, BINDER TIGHT, FAINT FOXING ON A FEW PRELIMS & FINAL PAGES...VERY FAINT. SLIGHT COLOR VARIATION ON REAR BOARD!! ALL 12 COLOR HINGED (EDGE GLUED ON HEAVY DARKER STOCK) IN PERFECT CONDITION!! ____________________________ NOTE: THIS BOOK WAS ONLY PRINTED ONCE in the U.K. in 1921. "NOTE: THERE WAS ALSO A "CHEAP" VERSION OF THE FIRST RELEASED SHORTLY AFTER THE DELUXE. IT IS A SMALLER FORMAT, (THICKER MORE… Read More