Viaggi e geografia

A KOTO PLAYER [A hand-coloured albumen photograph from 'JAPAN Described and Illustrated by the Japanese']

BRINKLEY, Captain F. (ed.) · 1898 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$135.46 (€86.14 | $94.94 | £71.85 | ¥15,163)

Boston, MA J. B. Millet Company The photograph has lightened, but the image is clearly defined. From the explanation printed on the tissue guard: 'The koto is the most important of Japanese musical instruments, and proficiency in playing upon it is highly esteemed. The tones e...

LOUISIANA [Map]

GROSVENOR, Gilbert (ed.) · 1930 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$8.13 (€5.17 | $5.70 | £4.31 | ¥910)

Washington, DC National Geographic Society A full colour folded map of the state, measuring 33 x 34 cm. Small closed tears to margins, else in very good condition. Inset shows map of New Orleans. Scale 27.62 miles to one inch.

FLORIDA FOR FREE

ALLYN, Rube · 1959 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$12.20 (€7.76 | $8.55 | £6.47 | ¥1,366)

St. Petersburg, FL Great Outdoors Association 1st edition pp. 32. 4to. Bound in original pictorial stiff card covers. A catalog of free books and publications on, or about, Florida. Corners thumbed, light shelf wear, else in very good condition. black-&-white illustrations

Twenty Years in the Himalaya

Bruce, Major The Hon. C. G. · 1910 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$487.60 (€310.06 | $341.76 | £258.64 | ¥54,580)

London Edward Arnold 1st edition pp. xiv, 335. Royal 8vo. Handsomely re-bound with a polished red calf spine over marbled boards. New endpapers. The spine is nicely tooled, with five raised bands. Frontispiece photo of the author (in local costume) is present with tissue guard...

An Account of the Voyages undertaken by Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere

[Captain James Cook] Hawkesworth, John LL.D. / Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook · 1773 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$7,222.93 (€4,593.06 | $5,062.51 | £3,831.28 | ¥808,513)

London W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1st edition 4to. Leatherbound. This is the first printing, first state, of the famous account of what is now described as 'Cook's First Voyage', although primary credit for the creation of this account is given to John Hawkesworth (who had been ...

A Voyage of Discovery to the Pacific Ocean

Cook, Captain James [Vols. I and II] / Captain James King [Vol. III] / [Vol. IV - plate volume] · 1784 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$13,001.25 (€8,267.50 | $9,112.49 | £6,896.29 | ¥1,455,321)

London W. and A. Strahan 1st edition 4to. Complete four volume set of the first edition. In the original boards, but boards detached. Overall, the contents remain tightly-bound and in remarkably good condition. Vol. I complete but for The List of Plates (pp. xci to xcvi - howe...

Solitary Rambles and Adventures of a Hunter in the Prairies

Palliser, John · 1853 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$541.74 (€344.49 | $379.70 | £287.36 | ¥60,641)

London John Murray 1st edition pp. xix, 326. 8vo. Bound in original grey-brown speckled cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and gilt-embossed buffalo on the front board. With the original pictorial title page and seven other tissue-guarded, black-&-white illustrations. Two pag...

REPORT ON THE EXPLORATION OF THE COUNTRY BETWEEN LAKE SUPERIOR AND THE RED RIVER SETTLEMENT [etc.]

DAWSON, S. J. · 1858 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$319.61 (€203.24 | $224.01 | £169.53 | ¥35,776)

Toronto John Lovell, Printer pp. 45, maps. Large 4to. Bound in older half blue morocco over lighter blue cloth boards,This item was published in 1859 as Appendix 4 to the Seventeenth Volume of the Journals of The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada (as it was then c...

VOYAGE DE PARIS A ST. CLOUD par mer, et retour de St. Cloud a Paris par terre

LOTTIN, Louis Neel-Augustin · 1762 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$81.21 (€51.64 | $56.92 | £43.08 | ¥9,090)

Paris Duchesne pp. 118, 120. 12mo. Bound in original full leather. The leather binding is worn: joints are cracked, and the boards hanging by a thread. The map has some early repairs to the reverse, and shows some creasing and age-toning. Some signatures standing proud but no ...

An Historical Account of the British Trade Over the Caspian Sea: with the Author's Journal of Travels; Complete two volume set

Hanway, Jonas · 1754 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$2,166.86 (€1,377.91 | $1,518.74 | £1,149.37 | ¥242,552)

London T. Osborne et al. Second edition 4to. Pagination: volume I, pp. xxiv [pp. xxv-xxviii mis-bound at end of volume], 1-458 [pp. 459-460 mis-bound after pp. xxviii], [1] 'Explanation of the Copper-Plates in this Work', [1-8] Index; volume II, pp. xx, [plate], pp. [1]-460, [...

VOYAGE D'UN FRANCOIS EN ITALIE, Fait dans les Annees 1765 & 1766 / Tome Premier / A Venise et se trouve a Paris

LALANDE, Joseph Jerome Francais de · 1769 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$54.14 (€34.43 | $37.95 | £28.72 | ¥6,060)

Paris Chez Desaint 1st edition pp. xlviii, 576,12mo. Bound in original mottled full leather with marbled endpapers. The original binding is worn, spine is cracked and flaking. The joints are weak, although the hinges are tight. A few early marginal notes to the first part of t...

THE DISCOVERIE OF THE LARGE AND BEWTIFUL EMPIRE OF GUIANA

RALEIGH, Sir Walter / Edited from the Original Text, with Introduction, Notes and Appendices by V. T. Harlow · 1928 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$70.41 (€44.77 | $49.35 | £37.35 | ¥7,881)

London The Argonaut Press pp. cxi, 182. 4to. Bound in embossed brown cloth over vellum spine with gilt titles. This edition is the fifth publication of the Argonaut Press and is limited to 975 copies on Japon vellum, this being designated as copy number 55. The original woodcu...

The Tourist in Italy / The Landscape Annual 1831

Roscoe, Thomas · 1831 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$162.53 (€103.35 | $113.92 | £86.21 | ¥18,193)

London Robert Jennings, Wm Chaplin pp. vi, 271. 8vo. Bound in full green leather with gilt lettering to spine. Binder's sticker to rep. Gilding to page edges has been scuffed up some. Leather scuffed, front board slightly bowed, moderate foxing scattered throughout, ffep split...

THE JOURNAL OF JAMES BOSWELL 1779-1781 / David Boswell's Return to Scotland June 1780 / Jaunt to London Spring 1781 / LETTERS

BOSWELL, James [Geoffrey Scott, editor] · 1932 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$121.87 (€77.50 | $85.42 | £64.64 | ¥13,642)

[Privately printed] pp. vii, 275. Larger 4to. 'Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle' - the first publication of Boswell's private papers, which had, since Boswell's death in 1785, lain locked in a cabinet sequestered in the estate of Lord Talbot de Malahide, un...

Bibliotheque Universelle des VOYAGES. / Europe [together with] VOYAGES AUTOUR DU MONDE / Histoire des Voyages

DUFAY, M. [Jules Dufay] · 1826 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$92.13 (€58.59 | $64.57 | £48.87 | ¥10,313)

Paris Courval et Compagnie pp. 308, 260. Small 8vo. Recent re-bind in half buckram over marbled boards. The volume on Europe contains eight full-page hand-coloured plates, with tissue guard, each showing a couple attired in their national dress, or costume. Each plate in excel...

ST. PETERSBURG: Its People; Their Character and Institutions

JERRMANN, Edward; Frederick Hardman [trans.] · 0 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$27.07 (€17.21 | $18.97 | £14.36 | ¥3,030)

New York City A. S. Barnes & Co pp. 234. 8vo. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with blind stamped floral design to boards, & gilt lettering to spine. Plain endpapers. Boards a bit scuffed & soiled, with some minor rubbing to edges. Foredge a bit stained, not affecting con...

Boswell's Journal of A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

POTTLE, Frederick A. and Charles H. Bennett (eds.) · 1936 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$16.26 (€10.34 | $11.40 | £8.62 | ¥1,820)

London William Heinemann Ltd 1st edition pp. xviii, 435. Royal 8vo. Spine a bit sunned, boards sl. bumped & scuffed; else gd+. folding map, b&w illustrats.

VOYAGES ET AVENTURES DE LEBRET A LA HAYE Lisieux, Lourdes et Verdun

Morice, Adrien Gabriel · 1925 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$27.07 (€17.21 | $18.97 | £14.36 | ¥3,030)

St. Boniface, Manitoba Published by the Author 1st edition pp. 310, (2). 8vo. Card covers a bit sunned, soiled & rubbed, pages uncut, else very good. The author, a famous Western Canadian historian and cleric, describes in a series of letters his 1924 voyage to France, the shr...

REPORT ON THE EXPLORATION OF THE COUNTRY BETWEEN LAKE SUPERIOR AND THE RED RIVER SETTLEMENT etc.

DAWSON, S. J. · 1859 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$325.07 (€206.71 | $227.84 | £172.43 | ¥36,387)

Toronto Canada, Legislative Assembly 1st ed. thus Unpaginated. 4to. This item was published in 1859 as Appendix 4 to the Seventeenth Volume of the Journals of The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada (as it was then called). It had previously been published by Dawson...

HOUSEBOAT CHRONICLES Notes from a Life in Shield Country

MacDONALD, Jake · 2002 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$18.94 (€12.04 | $13.27 | £10.05 | ¥2,120)

Toronto McClelland & Stewart 1st edition pp. 291.,8vo,,Near fine condition in like dust jacket, Author's signed presentation copy to (former Manitoba Premier) Duff Roblin and his wife Mary - 'fellow Manitobans'.