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Large seventeenth century hand-colored map of the Danish island of Funen by renowned Dutch cartographer Jan Blaeu
BLAEU, Joan.
Fionia vulgo Funen. [Seventeenth Century Joan Blaeu Map of Funen].
[Amsterdam]: c. 1645.
Large seventeenth century hand-colored map of the Danish island of Funen by renowned Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu. One page, hand-colored with two decorative cartouches. In near fine condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 26.5 by 22 inches.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 137508
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Rare first edition of Joseph Louis Russo's Present Day Italian; from the library of John and Elaine Steinbeck with Elaine's ownership signature
RUSSO, Joseph Louis. [John Steinbeck; Elaine Steinbeck].
Present Day Italian.
Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1947.
First edition of Joseph Louis Russo's Present Day Italian, from the library of John and Elaine Steinbeck with Elaine's ownership signature and marginal notes throughout. In very good condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 114534
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First edition of Christopher Wordsworth's Greece, Pictorial, Descriptive & Historical
WORDSWORTH, Christopher.
Greece, Pictorial, Descriptive & Historical.
London: Wm. S. Orr and Co, 1839.
First edition of Wordsworth's classic history of Greece. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco elaborately decorated in gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, ribbon bound in, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved vignette title, 26 engraved plates and numerous illustrations. In good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 138649
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"The most extensive review of the 1915 San Francisco Panama Pacific International Exposition ever written": Complete first edition set of The Story of the Panama Pacific Exposition
TODD, Frank Morton.
The Story of the Exposition; Being the Official History of the International Celebration Held at San Francisco in 1915 to Commemorate the Discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the Construction of the Panama Canal
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons/The Knickerbocker Press, 1921.
Complete first edition set of the most extensive review of the 1915 San Francisco Panama Pacific International Exposition ever written. Quartos, five volumes, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, pictorial endpapers. With 600 illustrations from photographs, including 61 color plates. Near fine in the scarce original paper jackets which are in good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 98504
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Rare Collection of Album von Berlin Postcards; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
[WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN],.
Album von Berlin.
Rare collection of color postcards featuring destinations in Berlin, Germany; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Sextodecimo, seven pages in a folding album, illustrated. In fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 145936
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Fine hand-colored Map of Asia by Johnson and Ward
JOHNSON, Alvin J. and Benjamin P. Ward [Asia].
Johnson’s Map of Asia.
New York: Johnson and Ward, c, 1865.
Large hand-colored map of Asia by American cartographers Johnson and Ward. One page, hand-colored. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 21.5 inches by 19 inches.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 137233
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First Edition of the Author’s Comic Masterpiece; Signed by Eric Newby
NEWBY, Eric.
A Short Walk In the Hindu Kush.
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1958.
First American edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Eric Newby on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Although not marked this copy is from the library of travel collector, Mary Anna Marten, who was the daughter of the 3rd and last Lord Alington of Crichel and later trustee of The British Museum.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 3413
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First Edition of Eddie Rickenbacker's Seven Came Through; Inscribed by Him
RICKENBACKER, Captain Edward V. Introduction by W.L. White.
Seven Came Through: Rickenbacker’s Full Story Including His Message to America.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1943.
First edition of Rickenbacker's account of 24 days adrift in a life raft. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With my every best wish to Gertrude Moellering Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker." Very good in a good dust jacket.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 143617
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"Israel is the light of a New dawn. As in ancient days, she is again a bridge from the world of darkness to a world of light": First Edition of Leon Uris' Exodus Revisited; Signed by Him
URIS, Leon; Photographs by Dimitrios Harissiadis .
Exodus Revisited.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1960.
First edition of this monograph of photographs of Uris' visit to Israel. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Shalom Leon Uris." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Sydney Butchkes. Project coordination by Ilan Hartuv.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 112569
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"The place for the Arabian horse is again at hand": First edition of William Robinson Brown's The Horse of the Desert
BROWN, William Robinson. Introduction by Major General G. Harbord and Henry Fairfield Osborn.
The Horse of the Desert.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1929.
First edition of William Robinson Brown's authoritative work on the Arabian horse. Quarto, original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, patterned endpapers, tissue-guarded full color frontispiece from a painting by Harrington Bird, illustrated throughout. One of 750 copies. In fine condition. A beautiful example.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 138919
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First Edition of Gerald Durrell's The Overloaded Ark; Signed by Him
DURRELL, Gerald.
The Overloaded Ark.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 1953.
First edition of Durrell's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Gerald Durrell on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Bill English. Uncommon signed.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 131079
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"The climate of the East Coast of Florida is nearer perfection than that of any other place on earth": Rare First Edition of Florida: Beauties of the East Coast
INGRAM, Mrs. H.K.
Florida: Beauties of the East Coast.
St. Augustine: Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Indian River Railway Company, 1893.
Scarce first edition of this early brochure for the state of Florida. Oblong octavo, original illustrated wrappers, gilt titles, with color illustrated frontispiece. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates from photographs. With text by Helen K. Ingram.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 103179
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"Everything sounds big in the woods": First Edition of Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods; Signed by Him
BRYSON, Bill.
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail.
New York : Broadway Books, 1998.
First edition of this classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny hike of the Appalachian Trail” (The Washington Post). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Bill Bryson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Art Wolfe/ Tony Stone. Jacket design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich. With a photograph of laid in of Bryson signing this book.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 125678
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"Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God": Mark Twain's Europe and Elsewhere; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].
Europe and Elsewhere.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1923.
Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. With an appreciation by Brander Matthews and an introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 74026
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First edition of Francis Galton's The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa
GALTON, Francis.
The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa.
London: John Murray, 1853.
First edition of Sir Francis Galton's account of his expedition to South West Africa. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to this spine six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate gilt tooling to the front and real panels within triple gilt ruling with fleuron cornerpieces and central motif stamped in blind, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt. Illustrated with maps, plates and woodcuts including tissue-guarded frontispiece in color. In near fine condition. Name to the pastedown.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 115371
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Rare 18th century engraved map of North and Central America by famed French cartographer Guillaume Delisle
DELISLE, Guillaume.
America das Mitternachtige nach der Zeichnung des Herrn Wilhelm Delisle in Verlag Joh. Justine Gebauers. [18th Century Guillaume Delisle Map of North America].
Halle: Johann Justinus Gebauer, 1752.
Rare 18th century engraved map of North and Central America by famed French cartographer Guillaume Delisle. One page, hand-colored, the engraved map shows North and Central America including California, Nova Mexico, Florida, and Greenlandia, decorative cartouches. In near fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 138497
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"An important contribution to the record of world exploration": First Edition of John Grierson's Sir Hubert Wilkins: Enigma of Exploration
GRIERSON, John.
Sir Hubert Wilkins: Enigma of Exploration.
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1960.
First edition of John Grierson's biography of fellow Arctic pioneer Sir Hubert Wilkins. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs and maps. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "to my distinguished Namesake from John Grierson 5.10.60." From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. 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…
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 111212
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First edition of Frankl Hurley's Argonauts of the South
HURLEY, Frank.
Argonauts of the South: Being a Narrative of the Voyages and Polar Seas and Adventures in the Antarctic with Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton.
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925.
First edition of Hurley's appreciation of the two principal figures of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Royal octavo, original publisher's cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 75 plates and maps. Provenance: from the Arctic and Antarctic collection of Gerald F. Fitzgerald with his library plate to the pastedown. In near fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 143724
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Rare Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried Signed Photograph
VON EHRENFRIED, Manfred .
Manfred “Dutch” von Ehrenfried Signed Photograph.
Rare original photograph of Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried. Boldly signed by him, Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried Apollo A9-11B Suit." The photograph measures 8 inches by 10 inches. In fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 106020
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First Edition of A Long Way Up: The Story of Jill Kinmont; Inscribed by Jill Kinmont
VALENS, E.G. [Jill Kinmont].
A Long Way Up: The Story of Jill Kinmont.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967.
First edition of this powerful biography of Jill Kinmont. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs by Burk Uzzle and others. Presentation copy, inscribed by Kinmont on the front front free endpaper, "To Dr. Robinson, Thank you for your nice letter. Best Wishes- Jill Kinmont 2-27-67." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 124068