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Round the World

Butler, Frank Hedges · 1925

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. 1925. Second edition. Cloth. 269 pp. Illus. with 78 b/w photos. 8vo. Covers Asia, China, Japan, Hawaii, Korea, Kandy Botanical Gardens, Falkland Islands, Panama Canal, Cuba, Tobacco, Java, Bali, Australia, South Seas. Boards rubbed else a very good...

Journey Around Myself. Impressions and Tales of Travels Around the World: Japan, Hong Kong, Macao, Bangkok, Angkor, Lebanon

Marti-Ibanez, Felix · 1966

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. 1966. First ed. Cloth. 404 pp. 8vo. Inscribed by the author. A near fine copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.

After You, Magellan!

Leys, Jr., James Farquarson · 1927

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York, Century Co. 1927. First edition. Cloth. vii, 354 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. Sm. 8vo. Inscribed by "Jim Plummer's Mother" to whom the book is dedicated. Leys and James Plummer travelled on an around the world tour with much time spent in Japan and China. Wear to head...

Central Asia. Travels in Cashmere, Little Thibet and Central Asia

Taylor, Bayard; Stevens, Thomas · 1892

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. Revised. Cloth. vii, 294 pp. Illus. with 15 b/w drawings and engravings. 12mo. Illustrated Library of Travel. First published in 1874 and reprinted in 1881, this edition was revised by Stevens to incorporate new materials especially on ...

Erinnerungen Eines Weltreisenden

Wegener, Georg · 1921

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1921. Illustrated paper-covered boards. 158 pp. Illus. with b/w photos plus 1 map. 8vo. In German. Travel to Asia including India. Repaired with cellotape, otherwise a good reading copy. Clean.

Weltgeschichte Des Krieges. Von Leo Frobenius Unter Mitwirkung Von Oberstleutnant a D.H. Frobenius Und Korvetten-Kapitan A.D. E. Kohlhauer; Mit Ca. 800 Illustrationen

Frobenius, Leo; Frobenius, Hermann; and Kohlhauer, E. · 1900

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

Jena, Thuringer Verlagsanstalt, 1900. First edition. Cloth. vi, 807 pp. Illus. with 800 b/w drawings & reproductions. 4to. The stamp of the library of F.A. Wittfogel [Karl August], the German historian and sinologist. Profusely illustrated examination of the history of war, ex...

My Life with the Eskimo

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur · 1929

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

New York, Macmillan Company, 1929. Later printing. Cloth. xvii, 538 pp. Illus. with 61 pages of b/w photos and map end papers. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to Lucy Stander. Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962), anthropologist and explorer, went on three expeditions into the Alask...

The Northward Course of Empire

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur · 1924

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

New York, Macmillan Company, 1924. First edition. Cloth. xi, 274 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and a map. Sm. 8vo. Nelson, Edward William, intro. Inscribed by the author to Lucy (who is Lucy Dietz Stander). Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962), anthropologist and explorer, went on t...

Adventures in Error

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur · 1936

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

New York, Robert M. McBride & Co. 1936. First edition. Cloth. viii, 299 pp. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to Lucy (who is Lucy Dietz Stander). Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962), anthropologist and explorer, went on three expeditions into the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic between ...

The Francis Robinson Collection of Theatre, Music, and Dance: A Manuscripts Catalog

Couch, Nena · 1986

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Nashville, Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University, 1986. Paper wrappers. 200 pp. + 1 sound disc (33 1/3 rpm. Illus. with b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Wrappers rubbed else a near fine copy, disc unplanned.

Decorative Art 1937: Thirty-Second Annual Issue of the Studio Year Book

Holme, C.G., ed · 1937

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

London / New York, The Studio, 1937. First edition. Cloth. [x], 144, Adv [xxxiv] pp. Illus. with 8 tipped in color plates, 450 b/w photos, & 21 drawings. 4to. Includes the work of 197 designers and architects including Alvar Aalto, Andre Arbus, Marcel Breuer, F.A. Breuhaus. Wa...

Mathew Brady's Illustrated History of the CIVIL War 1861-1865 and the Causes That Led Up to the Great Conflict

Lossing, Benson J. (Brady, Mathew) · 1977

$22.50 (€20.41 | £17.03 | ¥3,593)

New York, Fairfax Press, 1977. Reprint of 1912 edition. Cloth. 512 pp. Illus. with 16 plates color from paintings of H.A. Ogden & 737 b/w reproductions. 4to. Originally published as "A History of the Civil War," in 1912. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some minor s...

Terrae Incognitae. The Journal for the History of Discoveries. Volume XV. 1983

Society for the History of Discoveries · 1985

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1985. First edition. Paper wrappers. viii, 256 pp. Illus. with b/w maps. Sm. 4to. Special Columbus issue with articles on the Caicos, the Diario de Colon, passage to Cuba, a transcription of the Diario of Columbus' first voyage, and much ...

Abyssinia and Its People; or, Life in the Land of Prester John... . with a New Map; and Eight Coloured Illustrations by MM. Vignaud and Barrat

Hotten, James Camden, ed · 1868

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

London, James Camden Hotten, 1868. First edition. Cloth. vi, 384, adv [8] pp. Illus. with color plates, 1 folding map, and 1 in-text drawing. 8vo. Advert. tipped in. Written at the height of the concern over the British captives in Abyssinia who were freed from King Theodore b...

The Age of Exploration. Pictures of Explorers Who Sought New Routes for Eastern Trade & Found the New World on the Way, of Rulers Who Urged Them on, of Places They Visited & of the Treasures They Found in the East

Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1942

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1942. First edition. Paper wrappers. Unpaged [82 pp]. Illus. with 36 b/w reproductions. 12mo. One of 3,000 copies. Owner's initials stamped on title page else a very good copy.

Thomas Forrest, Renaissance Seaman

Schwartzberg, Joseph E. · 1998

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

[Minneapolis], The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1998. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. 35 pp. Illus. with b/w reproductions. Sm. 8vo. James Ford Bell Lectures, No. 35. About fine.

Goods, Ideas, and Values: The East Indies Trade As an Agent of Change in Eighteenth-Century Sweden

Metcalf, Michael F. · 1988

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

[Minneapolis], The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1988. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. 28 pp. Sm. 8vo. James Ford Bell Lectures, No. 25. About fine.

Expedição Italiana Ao Karakorum K-2

Marussi, Antonio · 1956

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Lisbon, Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa, 1956. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. 253-268 pp. Illus. with 8 b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Separate Bulletin from Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa, July-Sept. 1956. History of the explorations of the Karakorum and the Italian expedi...

A Bibliography of Near and Middle Eastern Studies Published in the Soviet Union from 1937 to 1947," in Oriens. Journal of the International Society for Oriental Research. Vol. IV, Nr. 2, 1951

Loewenthal, Rudolf, trans · 1951

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

London, E.J. Brill, 1951. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. 328-344 pp. 8vo. A very good+ copy.

Ambassador from Venice. Pietro Pasqualigo in Lisbon, 1501

Weinstein, Donald. Pasqualigo, Pietro · 1960

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Minneapolis, Univ. Minnesota Press, 1960. First edition. Embossed paper covered boards. 112 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. 8vo. Number 18 of 750 copies. Contains a facsimile of Pasqualigo's oration (Latin) in which he attempted to gain support from the Portuguese to help the Ve...