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Privately printed signed Limited Editions Club edition of Richard Burton's The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night; one of 1500 numbered copies signed by illustrator Valenti Angelo
BURTON, Richard F. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo.
The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1934.
Privately printed signed Limited Editions Club edition of the unabridged translation of Burton's famed work. Octavo, six volumes bound in half leather over printed paper boards, elaborate geometric and botanical stamping to the spine, illustrated with 1001 drawings by Valenti Angelo. One of fifteen hundred numbered copies made for the members of The Limited Editions Club and signed by the illustrator, Valenti Angelo, on the colophon, this is number 1398. In fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145165
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one of the few commercial maps of New England issued immediately following the American Revolutionary War: fine Hand-colored engraved map of New England by renowned 18th century English cartographer John Russell
RUSSELL, John.
Map of the Northern, or, New England States of America. Comprehending Vermont, New Hampshire, District of Main, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
London: H.D. Symonds, Feb. 7, 1795.
Hand-colored engraved map of New England by renowned 18th century English cartographer John Russell, one of the few commercial maps of New England issued immediately following the American Revolutionary War which appeared in Russell's 1795 American Atlas. One page, the folding map covers the northeastern part of the United States including part of New York and the entirety of Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. In near fine condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 23 inches by 19 inches.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 146812
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Rare Japanese Western Fashion Collection
Japanese Western Fashion Collection.
Japan: c. 1800.
Collection of six plates depicting the traditional attire of countries west of Japan including England, Germany, Portugal, Holland, Denmark, and Russia. Folio, each painting housed in a custom mat with a mylar guard. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 132604
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"I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood": Rebecca West's Masterpiece; Inscribed by the author in volume one
WEST, Rebecca.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: The Record of a Journey Through Yugoslavia in 1937.
London: Macmillan, 1941.
First edition, second printing of Rebecca West's masterpiece. Octavo, 2 volumes, original green cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "With all wishes to Kathleen Flint from Rebecca West- 1943." Both volumes are in very good condition, recipient's name to the front free endpaper. Scarce and desirable signed by West.
Price: $1,450.00 Item Number: 129759
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"This is one of those books which makes a permanent difference to one’s view of the world": First Edition of Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
THESIGER, Wilfred.
Arabian Sands.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1959.
First edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, illustrated, map in the inside pocket, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 144385
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First Edition of John Muir's A Thousand-Mile Walk To the Gulf; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
MUIR, John.
A Thousand-Mile Walk To the Gulf.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916.
First edition of this work by Muir. Octavo, original green cloth, color pictorial cover label, lettered in white, top edge gilt. Edited with an introduction by William Frederic Badè. Illustrated with several plates from photographs, including a frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; map. Fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 124411
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"I will come again and conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can": First Edition of High Adventure; Signed by Edmund Hillary
HILLARY, Edmund.
High Adventure.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955.
First British edition of Hillary's account of his ascent of Everest. Octavo, original blue cloth, with maps by A. Sparks and sketches by George Djurkouic. Boldly signed by the author in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper, "E.P. Hillary." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 140292
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First Edition of Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa; Finely Bound the Harcourt Bindery
DINESEN, Isak [Karen Blixen] .
Out of Africa.
New York: Random House, 1938.
First American edition of the author's masterpiece, a lyrical meditation of the years she lived in Kenya. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 142171
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First Edition of Winston Churchill's London To Ladysmith Via Pretoria
CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer.
London To Ladysmith Via Pretoria.
London: Longmans, Green, 1900.
First edition of Churchill’s fourth book and personal record of his impressions during the first five months of the Second Boer War. Octavo, in original cloth, with three folding maps (one printed in color). In very good condition, owner's small name. A nice example.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 140931
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"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves": First Edition of High Adventure; Signed by Edmund Hillary
HILLARY, Edmund.
High Adventure.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955.
First British edition of Hillary's account of his ascent of Everest. Octavo, original blue cloth, with maps by A. Sparks and sketches by George Djurkouic. Boldly signed by the author in a contemporary hand on the title page, "E.P. Hillary." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 132749
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"Be good and you will be lonesome": First Edition of Mark Twain's Following the Equator
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World.
Hartford, Connecticut: The American Publishing Company, 1897.
First edition, first issue of the author's pointed social critique of British Imperialism with the signature mark "11" on page 161. Octavo, bound in three quarter crushed levant navy morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, ribbon bound in, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Twain, illustrated by Dan Beard, A. B. Frost, B.W. Clinedisnt, and Frederick Dielman among others. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146301
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Rare second edition of Cochin and Bellicard's Observations Upon the Antiquities of the Town of Herculaneum, Discovered at the Foot of Mount Vesuvius
COCHIN, Charles; Jerome Bellicard.
Observations Upon the Antiquities of the Town of Herculaneum, Discovered at the Foot of Mount Vesuvius. With some Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Ancients. And a short Description of the Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Naples.
London: Printed for D. Wilson and T. Durham, 1756.
Second edition of the first illustrated account of the discoveries made in the excavation of Herculaneum. Octavo, bound in full calf with gilt ruled raised bands to the spine, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, profusely illustrated with 42 engraved plates. In good condition. Ownership stamp.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 134550
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“In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work”: First Editions of Sir Douglas Mawson's The Home Of The Blizzard; From the Library of Adventurer and Explorer Steve Fossett
MAWSON, Sir Douglas.
The Home Of The Blizzard: Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–1914.
Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott and William Heinemann, 1915.
First edition of this classic account of Antarctic exploration. Thick octavo, 2 volumes, original dark blue cloth, profusely illustrated with 18 color plates, hundreds of black-and-white plates, numerous in-text illustrations and three color folding maps in rear pocket of Volume II. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown of each volume. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 111828
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First Edition of Smith's The Cries of London
SMITH, John Thomas.
The Cries of London: Exhibited Several of the Iternerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times.
London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1839.
First edition of this collection of this work on the street cries of London. Quarto, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, illustrated with 30 engraved plates. In very good condition. A very nice example.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 71850
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First Edition of Herbert A. Giles' A Chinese Biographical Dictionary
GILES, Herbert A.
A Chinese Biographical Dictionary.
London: Bernard Quaritch and Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1898.
First edition of Giles' Prix Julien award-winning work which "enjoys pride of place in the history of Chinese bilingual dictionaries as the authoritative source for the Wade-Giles system of Romanization" (Yong and Peng). Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, original publisher's wrappers bound in. In very good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 138772
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Edmondo de Amicis' Spain and the Spaniards; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
AMICIS, Edmondo de; Translated by Stanley Rhoads Yarnall [William Tecumseh Sherman].
Spain and the Spaniards.
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co, 1895.
Early American edition of this exceptional piece of travel writing translated from the original Italian; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, two volumes, publisher's decorated boards, top edge gilt, original silk ribbons, frontispiece of The Immaculate Conception, by Murillo to Vol. I and the Fountain in the Court of Lions, Albambra to Vol. II, heavily illustrated with black and white photographs and a fold-out map of Spain and Portugal in the second volume. P.T. Sherman's bookplate to the front free endpaper of both volumes. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities, crown and foot of…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 145934
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First Edition of Samuel Kneeland's The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California; finely bound
KNEELAND, Samuel.
The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California.
Boston: Alexander Moore, 1871.
First edition of Kneeland's historic guide to Yosemite; "one of the better early guide books to the Yosemite Valley" (Cowan, 333). Quarto, bound in full dark blue morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, illustrated with 10 tissue-guarded mounted albumen photographs by John P. Soule. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 101328
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First edition of Samuel White Baker's Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade; elaborately illustrated
BAKER, Samuel White.
Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Organized by Ismail Khedive of Egypt.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1847.
First edition of Baker's classic work documenting his journeys to the Nile. Octavo, two volumes. Bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Engraved frontispiece portraits with tissue guards to each volume, with fifty full-page illustrations by Zwecker and Durand, folding map of Baker's routes. In very good condition. From the library of George Lucien Edwards with his bookplate to the pastedown of each volume.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 96200
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First Edition of Dickson's Kuwait and her Neighbours; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
DICKSON, H.R.P.
Kuwait and Her Neighbours.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1956.
First edition of Colonel H.R.P. Dickson's classic work on the people and history of Kuwait. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs, maps, tables. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is price-clipped.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 140006
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First Edition of Edward Whymper's Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator; From the library of Explorer Steve Fossett
WHYMPER, Edward.
Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator.
London: John Murray, 1891-92.
First edition of this work by the mountaineer and explorer. Octavo, 2 volumes, original publisher's cloth, with 34 engraved plates and 4 maps (one folding, one large folding route map in rear cover pocket). From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown of each volume. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 111798
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"We hope it may while some hours away & that you are not tired with the subject": First Edition of Wilfrid Noyce's South Col: One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest 1953; inscribed by him to Susan Hunt
NOYCE, Wilfrid; Foreword by Sir John Hunt.
South Col: One Man’s Adventure on the Ascent of Everest 1953.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1954.
First edition of Noyce's firsthand account of the ascent of South Col. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photogravures and maps including frontispiece. Foreword by Sir John Hunt. Association copy, signed by Noyce on the title page and inscribed by him on the front free endpaper to Susan Hunt, "Susan Hunt, Specially - We hope it may while some hours away & that you are not tired with the subject. Rosemary & Wilf Jan 1955." The recipient, Susan Hunt, was the daughter of Sir John Hunt, the leader of the first expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 114308
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"Along with most of my fellow fliers, I believed that aviation had a brilliant future. Now we live, today, in our dreams of yesterday; and, living in those dreams, we dream again": The Spirit of St. Louis; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
The Spirit of St. Louis.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.
First edition, early printing of Lindbergh's autobiographical account about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146307
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Sven Hedin's Trans-Himalaya. Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet; From the Library of Explorer and Adventurer Steve Fossett
HEDIN, Sven.
Trans-Himalaya. Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet.
London: Macmillan & Company, Limited, 1909-1913.
Early printings of volumes one and two and a first edition of volume three of this work by the famed explorer. Octavo, 3 volumes, frontispieces, 14 maps (4 of which are folding route maps), numerous illustrations. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown of each volume. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 111827
