Search Results: Geography from The Owl at the Bridge

Three bookseller catalogs from William Reese Co.: no. 60, American Travel, 390 items. "This catalogue is devoted to narratives of travel, mostly in North America in the nineteenth century, and even more specifically, mostly in what is now the United States between 1800 and 1875. Within that frame the narratives run from East to West. There are a good number of middle western and southern narratives in particular. ...entries begin as early as Josselyn in 1672 and Hennepin in 1697 and run to the early 20th century. Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean are also represented, with a few bold travellers in South America and the Pacific." No. 107, Travels East of the Mississippi, 471 items; "...includes a wide variety of travel accounts from Canada to the Caribbean." No. 148, European Travellers in America, 346 items; list of frequently cited references at end. "This catalogue is made up entirely of books by European travellers who visited America. While there is considerable geographical and… Read More

National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. [c1973]. Hard Cover. 207 p., index, color photographs throughout; 26 cm. New England; Long Island Sound; Manhattan to the Delaware; the Chesapeake; Carolina capes & islands; Florida. Color pictorial dj; minor wear; VG. 39408 NS.

NY, Harper, ©2010. Hard Cover. xiv, 495 p., illus., maps; 24 cm. "Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, tells the breathtaking saga of the magnificent Atlantic Ocean, setting it against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution " ISBN (10); 0061702587. Stock#46834. Vg / dj vg.

Three bookseller catalogues listing materials relating to travel. Salloch, 132 items; Marlborough, 147 items; Interlibrum, 191 items, index; all illustrated; all stapled in pictorial paper covers; all Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0322.

Two bookseller catalogues. Cavendish: 151 RGS Journal & Proceedings + 38 mountaineering journals. Grigor-Taylor, 18th & 19th century Alps & Mountaineering, 14; 20th century mountaineering, 29; 18th-19th century polar exploration, 16; 20th century polar exploration, 97 items. Both stapled in pictorial paper covers; both Good+. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0293.

Penguin [1950]. . Soft Cover. 182 p., illus., [16] p. of plates, 18 cm. Stock# 32,186. paper; dampstain on upper corner edge throughout but still good. Geography, physical world, mapping

In French. Two volumes in one: Dictionnaire de géographie ancienne et moderne (dictionary of ancient & modern geography), viii, 1591 pages; Index alphabétique français des noms Latins (French alphabetical index of Latin names), pages 1468-1591; L'Imprimerie hors l'Europe (Printing outside Europe), [vi], 208 pages; index, pages 195-208; 22 cm. Single volume bound in green cloth stamped in gold; no dust jacket; ex-Rhode Island School of Design Library with bookplate & markings; lightly used; Good. Stock#ofc0829. Overseas shipping will cost $50.

New York : Harcourt, Brace, [1958]. Soft Cover. 684 p., illus., maps (some color), index, 23.5 cm. End paper maps. Textbook, first pub., 1951. Stock# 40,230. Good, covers soiled, used paperback.

Snaebjörn Jönsson & Co., Reykjavik [1967?]. Two small handlists. The larger list includes Icelandic Sagas and Classics (various saga series; Early Icelandic Manuscripts in Facsimile; Corpus Codicum Islandicorum Medii Aevi; Rámnafélagid; Nordisk Filologi; Bibliotheca Arnamagníana); Folklore, Mythology; Icelandic Literature; Icelandic Language; Geology, Geography, Natural History; Art; History, Politics, Economics; Viking Stories; Translations of Foreign Works; Maps of Iceland; the smaller list offers much the same categories. Soft Cover. 48 & 20 pages, 15 cm.; stapled in printed wraps; VG. Stock#36259.

Washington, National Geographic Society, 1983. Periodical. 423-562p., illus., 25.5 cm. Five articles: The fascinating world of trash; Chattooga River country; This year Jerusalem; The Uncertain State of Puerto Rico; Voyage to the Antarctic. Stock# 45,186. Vg / periodical.

Five bookseller catalogues listing materials on travel and voyages. Kahn, catalogues 20 (1985), 145 items; 23 (1987), 141 items; 60 (2002), 125 items; stapled in paper covers; Good+. Lawson, Catalogue of Scarce & Interesting Books: Africana, Slavery, Americana, Australasia, Canada, Canadian Patriots, West Indies, Voyages & Travels, 465 items; stapled in pictorial paper covers; pages darkened; Good. Chamonal, 427 items, illus.; paper covers; Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0323.

New York, Julian Messner, [1957]. Book club edition.. Hard Cover. 512 p., index, illus. throughout incl. portrait front.; 24 cm. Contents include The Shape of the Sea; Life in the Seven Seas; The Sea in Action; The Ships of the Seven Seas; The Great Voyages; Battles at Sea; Treasures of the Seven Seas; The Islands of the Seven Seas; The Law of the Seven Seas; Strange Tales from the Seven Seas. Stock# 39,143. Vg/ dj good+a bit worn. Oceanography, exploration, discovery, history.

NY, Harper & Brothers, 1856. Hard Cover. 348 pages, XIII plates (5-13 folding); 24 cm. First published 1855, this work is considered the first textbook of modern oceanography. Contents include Influence of the Gulf Stream upon Climates; The Atmosphere; Land and Sea Breezes; Red Fogs and Sea Dust; On the Probable Relation between Magnetism and the Circulation of the Atmosphere; Currents of the Sea; The Open Sea in the Arctic Ocean; Salts of the Sea; Equatorial Cloud-Ring; On the Geological Agency of the Winds; Depths of the Ocean; Basin of the Atlantic; Winds; Climates of the Ocean; Drift of the Sea; Storms; Routes. Publisher's brown embossed boards stamped in gold; spine faded, top re-glued, ends chipped & frayed, corners worn, old tape mark across top of spine; ex library with stamps & remains of paste inside covers; with all this, very good condition for its age. Stock#OB512.

NY, Columbia UP/ American Geographical Society, [1966].. Hard Cover. 358 p., index, illus., endpaper maps; 24 cm. Thoreau, while tending his own local universe, was reading extensively in the travel literature of his era. Stock# 31,6321. Vg/ dj clipped.

Merriam, Springfield, Mass. [c1949]. Hard Cover. xxxi, 1293 p., text maps, 24 color maps at end; pictorial endpapers; thumb indexed; 25 cm. "A Dictionary of Names of Places with Geographical and Historical Information and Pronunciations. Illustrated with Many Maps in the Text and with Twenty-four Maps in Full Color." Red cloth stamped in gold; binding faded, bumped, rubbed, cloth of front hinge torn; ex-library with marks & stamps; good. stock#45025.