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The South Polar Trail; The Log of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition [Ross Sea Shore Party in support of Shackleton's 1914-17 Endurance expedition]
Joyce, Ernest
London: G. Duckworth, 1929. Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo [8.5x6in]; 220 pp., frontispiece image of Joyce and Oscar, introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, 31 plates of 60 black and white images, map of route p. 30; Light blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, without errata slip after map;..... Item #11282
Illustrations from James Cook's Second (1772-1775) and Third (1776-1780) Voyages; A Group of Four illustrations of the South Pacific Island people from the French editions
Webber, John and William Hodges
Paris: Hotel de Thou, 1778 & 1785. Very Good. First French Editions. [10.5x8in individual prints] Three Polynesian women in native ceremonial dress with 2 in hand-colored. Illustration of Omani who accompanied Cook as a translator and then to England in the second voyage. He was presented to George III court..... Item #13796
A Tour of Duty in California:; Including a Description of the Gold Region: and an account of a Voyage around Cape Horn; with notices of Lower California, the Gulf and Pacific Coasts, and the principal events attending the conquest of the Californias
Revere, Joseph Warren
New York: C. S. Francis & Co., 1849. Very Good. First Edition. 12mo [7.5x5in]; [1], vi, [6], 305 pp., [6] advertisements (1-2, 6-7, 10-14), frontispiece fold out map of Harbor of San Francisco by Revere (12x9.75in Neatline, from Beechey 1833 map), 6 lithographic plates of illustrations by Revere, six pages..... Item #13817
The Story of Goldfield; Esmeralda County, Nevada [Historic Mining Camps of Nevada] [No.10 completing the Nevada Mining Camp series 1969-1982]
Shamberger, Hugh A.
Carson City, NV: Nevada Historic Press, 1982. Very Good. First Edition. Betty Helgren. Signed by Author, [11x8.75in]; xv, 240 pp., 170 images and illustrations, 7 maps (3 fold-out), tables and index; Double binding with beige leather hard covers with gilt lettering on front and spine with brown ink illustration on..... Item #13815
The Story of Cervantes; A Scholar, A Poet, A Soldier, A Slave among the Moors, and the Author of "Don Quixote"
Edwards, Amelia B
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1863. Very Good. First Edition. 8vo, [6.5x4.5in]; xii, 240 pp., [2] advertisements, frontispiece, with tissue guard, and five illustrations; Dark green blind stamped covers with gilt lettering and design on spine, all edges trimmed; Some shelf wear to covers edges and corners with darkening of..... Item #13809
Summary of English History; With Observations on the Progress of Art, Science, and Civilization, and Questions adapted to each Paragraph [Campbell's British-American Series of School-Books] [For the Use of Schools in British North America]
Edwards, Amelia B.
Toronto: James Campbell and Son, 1869. Very Good. Second Edition, Revised. [6x3.75in]; 122 pp.; Cream cloth on boards with black lettering and design in border on front, reproduced title page, and title on spine, advertisement of book on "Canadian History" on rear cover; Some darkening and soiling of covers, few..... Item #13808
Map of the Pioneer and Kennedy Mining Claims; Jackson MG District, Amador County Cala. [Exhibit "A" to Kennedy Mining and Milling Co. v. Argonaut Mining Co., 189 U.S.1 (1903)]
Kennedy Mining and Milling Co.
California: Chas E. Uren, C.E., [1902]. Very Good. First Edition. [15x10.5in Neatline, 16.5x12in sheet]; Laid flat Plat map on light bisque paper of Jackson Mining District in Amador County, California, very detailed with ownership, roads, mining buildings, equipment and facilities, reservoirs, mine shafts and tunnels; Fold creases, a few small..... Item #13806
From the Ocean to the Sky
Hillary, Edmund
New York: The Viking Press, 1979. Near Fine in Near Fine dust-jacket First Edition, 2nd Printing. Inscribed/Signed by Hillary, [9.5x6.5in], [2], 273 pp., 13 color and 47 black and white images, 9 maps and drawings, appendices and index; Brown paper on covers with light blue back strip, silver lettering on..... Item #13805
Ghost Trails to California; with Selected Excerpts from Emigrant Journals [Images by Thomas H. Hunt and Robert V.H. Adams]
Hunt, Thomas H.
Palo Alto, CA: American West Publishing Company, 1974. Fine. First Edition. Limited Deluxe Edition, [11.25x8.5in]; [8], 17-262 pp., bibliographical sketches, [26], index, [286 pp.], 1 double page colored route map, portfolio of 28 detailed black and white maps of trails overlaid on '... present day roads, cities, political boundaries and..... Item #13801
Russian Expansion on the Pacific 1641-1850; An Account of the Earliest and Later Expeditions made by the Russians along the Pacific Coast of Asia and North America; Including some Related Expeditions to the Arctic Regions
Golder, F. A.
Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1914. Near Fine. First Edition. Item #13797
Pictorial Humor of the Gold Rush; [The Book Club of California annual keepsake]
Wheat, Carl, [Ed. Chair of Keepsakes Comm]
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1953. Very Good in Good dust-jacket First Edition. Grabhorn Press. Keepsake to members of the Book Club of California of 12 folders [10x8in], issued in three parts, with commentary and facsimile reproductions of articles, illustrations and cartoons with several from the collection of..... Item #13793
Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1885; [H. Ex. Doc 153, 49th Congress, 1st Session, V. 32]
Healy, M. A.
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1887. Near Fine. First Edition. [11.75x9.25in]; 102 pp., 42 plates with 67 illustrations [4 chromolithographs], two large folding maps of Koowak River [Neat line 22x32.5in, Sheet 23.75x39in] and Noatak River [Neat line 18x36.25, Sheet 19.75x37.25in]; Rebound black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, all..... Item #13568
Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska,; Formerly Russian America - Now Ceded to the United States - And in Various Other Parts of the North Pacific
Whymper, Frederick
London: John Murray, 1868. Very Good. First Edition. [8.75x6in]; xix, [1], 331 pp., frontispiece of Auroral light, title page vignette of loading a sledge, 34 illustrations on plates or in text, appendices, after last page, fold out map of the Yukon or Kwich-Pak river with insert of North Pacific Ocean..... Item #13492
Christmas at Little America; [Landing of the first Byrd Antarctic Expedition 1928-30]
Rudge, William E. and Hobart Skofield
Mount Vernon: Private Printing for Authors, 1930. Very Good. First Edition. Limited to 250 copies, [8.75x6in]; [3], 25 pp., [1] colophon, 4 images of men working on the ice; Light brown paper covers with gilt lettering on spine, all edges trimmed; Minor wear to covers, edges and corners, some rubbing..... Item #11306
The Life of Captain James Cook; [Volume IV of The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery] [Hakluyt Society Extra Series No. XXXVII]
Beaglehole, J. C.
Cambridge: The Hakluyt Society - University Press, 1974. Near Fine in Very Good dust-jacket First Edition, 1st Printing. [9.5x6.5in]; Vol. IV - xi, 760 pp., 51 illustrations including color frontispiece portrait of Cook by Nathaniel Dance and four others, five maps with one fold out, bibliography and index; Dark blue..... Item #13799
Victorian Silhouette Portraits
[Victorian Silhouette Portraits]
19th Century. Very Good. (approximately 4x3in) 19th century scissor cut silhouette portraits of husband and wife (Mr. & Mrs William Wardams), young boy, young man (William Livesery), youngwoman (M G Jackson), and lady. Six individually mounted on stiff paper with tissue guards. Some age toning and a few foxing spots..... Item #13795
Stereoscopic Studies of Anatomy; Prepared under authority of the University of Edinburgh [Section VI Viscera | Perineum
Cunningham, D.J. [Waterston, David, Ed]
New York: Imperial Publishing Company, 1911. Very Good. Second Edition. [New revised edition], Section VI Viscera and Perineum [9.5x7.5in]; 31 loose heavy card stock (9x7in) Title card and Table of Contents on back, 30 cards with summary and legend to silver gelatin stereoscopic photographs [Rotary Photo E.C.] each (3.5x7in) with..... Item #13115
California: A History of Upper and Lower California From their First Discovery to the Present Time; Comprising an account of the Climate, Soil, Natural productions, Agriculture, Commerce, etc. A Full View of the Missionary Establishments and Condition of the Free and Domesticated Indians. With an Appendix relating to Harbors and Steam Navigation in the Pacific [Reprint of 1839 edition]
Forbes, Alexander
San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1919. Near Fine. First Edition. William Smythe, Illus. Signed by Publisher, #184 of limited to 250 [10.5x7.5in]; [5], 5a-10a [Forward], xvi, 372 pp.,10 lithographic color plates, including frontispiece of Father Antonio Peyri, woodcut illustration in text, fold out colored map of Pacific Coast from Panama..... Item #13788
J. Ross Browne: Confidential Agent in Old California
Dillon, Richard H.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. Near Fine in Near Fine dust-jacket First Edition. Inscribed and Signed by author, [9.25x6.25in]; xix, 218 pp., [1] colophon, 16 illustrations and images, index; Brown cloth covers with gilt and black ink lettering on spine in dark brown field, top edge yellow ink..... Item #13787
Frontier Politics; Alaska's James Wickersham
Atwood, Evangeline
Portland: Binford & Mort, 1979. Near Fine in Near Fine dust-jacket First Edition. Inscribed and Signed by author, [9.5x6.5in]; x, 449 pp., appendices, notes and index; Blue cloth covers with white ink lettering on front and spine, all edges trimmed; Blue dust jacket with with lettering on front and spine..... Item #13786
Death Valley in '49; Important Chapter of California Pioneer History. The autobiography of a pioneer, detailing his life from a humble home in the Green Mountains to the Gold Mines of California; and particularly reciting the sufferings of the band of men, women and children who gave "Death Valley" its name.
Manly, William Lewis
San Jose: Pacific Tree & Vine, 1894. Near Fine. First Edition. [8x5.5in]; 498 pp., frontispiece portrait of Manly, three plates with half-toned illustrations, end of chapter illustrations; Dark mustard cloth covers with black stamped lettering and linear decorative bands on front, gilt lettering on spine, blind stamp lettering and decorations..... Item #13785
Along the Washington Irving Trail in Oklahoma; [Reprint from the Chronicles of Oklahoma article, Oklahoma Historical Society V.35, No. 1]
Shirk, George H.
Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1957. Fine. First Edition. [9x6in]; [1] map, [95-110] 16 pp., fold out 1957 map [9x15.75in] with original 1832 route by Irving and 1957 trail route with dates and places of Irving camps, bibliographic references; Cream paper wrappers, two staples, with green tape backstrip and typed..... Item #13784
The Malaspina Expedition 1789-1794; Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina [In Three Volumes] [The Hakluyt Society Third Series No. 8, 11 & 13]
Malaspina, Alejandro [Andrew David, et al. Ed.]
London: The Hakluyt Society, 2001-04. Fine in Near Fine dust-jacket First Edition. [10x7.25in]; Vol. I - Cadiz to Panama, xcvii, 338 pp., 39 color and monochrome illustrations on plates and in text including frontispiece of Malaspina, 10 sketch maps; Vol. II - Panama to the Philippines, xx, 511 pp., 44..... Item #13782
Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth; Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society 1846-1996 | [Hakluyt Society Second Series, No. 183]
Bridges, R. C. and P.E.H. Hair, Ed.
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1996. First Edition. Item #13781
The Discovery of the South Shetland Islands; The Voyages of the Brig Williams 1819-20, as recorded in contemporary documents, and the Journal of Midshipman C. W. Poynter [Hakluyt Society Third Series No. 4]
Campbell, R. J. (Ed.)
London: The Hakluyt Society - Cambridge University Press, 2000. Near Fine in Near Fine dust-jacket First Edition. [10x7in]; xv, 231 pp., 22 plates with color frontispiece of the ship Williams, 30 color and monochrome maps, charts and views illustrations, appendices, bibliography and index; Royal blue cloth covers with gilt lettering..... Item #13780