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Peter Parley's Tales About China and the Chinese
by Peter Parley  Notes London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1843. First Edition, 16mo, 240pp. Original illustrated cloth boards, rebacked with original spine laid-on, bearing gilt-tooled decorations on spine and front board. Front and rear boards are both decoratively blind-stamped....
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$250.00 Vellum
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New Voyage Around the World
by William Dampier Notes London: Argonaut Press, 1927. 4to, 376pp. Quarter vellum,maroon cloth over boards, with light rubbing, gilt-blocked title on spine and decorative stamp on front board. All pages are very clean, printed on Japon vellum, deckled edges, uncut, with 4 maps...
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Travels Among the Arab Tribes Inhabiting the Countries East of Syria and Palestine, including a Journey From Nazareth ...Through the Plains of Hauran to Bozra, Damascus, Tripoly, Lebanon, Baalbeck...
by James Silk Buckingham Notes London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825.Large Quarto in size; half bound in leather & marbled boards; beautifully rebacked. Map of Syria in very good condition with some foxing. (i-xvi),(1)-669 pages followed by and advertisement for...
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$700.00 Hardcover
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Geographical Annual for 1834: Family Cabinet Atlas
by Notes Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1834. Duodecimo, 12x18cm. Second American edition. Twentieth Century full dark green buckram, spine gilt. Contains 4 diagrams and 48 maps, all hand-colored, each with a tissue guard and each with letterpress...
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$120.00 Hardcover
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Chow-Chow: A Journal Kept in India, Egypt and Syria, 1st Thus
by Amelia Fitz Clarence Cary Falkland Notes London: Eric Partridge, 1930. 8vo, 220x145mm. xxv + 408pp. First thus. Bound in the original navy cloth, spine gilt. Top edge gilt. This is a reprint of the 1857 original. 2 volumes bound together. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by H.G...
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Letters on Iceland: Containing Observations on teh Natural History of the Country, Antiquities, Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, 3rd Edition
by Uno Von Troil Notes London: for J. Robson & W. Richardson, 1783. Octavo. Rebound in half red morocco with marbled paper over boards; new marbled endpapers. Light rubbing to edges & boards. xxvi, 400pp. Ex-library, with rubber stamp & perforated stamp to title page; previous...
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Wanderings in South America, The North-West of the United States, & the Antilles
by Charles Swaterton Notes London: J. Mawman, 1825 First Edition 326 pp, marbled endpapers, 1/4 leather over marbled boards. Good/none as issued: foxing to front free endpapers, frontis and title page. Gilt lettered spine is missing an inch at the bottom and another small chip by...
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East India Register & Directory for 1843; Containing Complete Lists of the Company's Servants, With Their Respective Appointments; with Indexes to the Same, and Lists of Casualties. 2nd Edition
by F. Clark and Richard Francis Burton 
Notes London: William H. Allen, 1843. 2nd edition, corrected. 12mo, red straight grain morocco, gilt borders on covers. Stain to front board, gilt title & dec on spine, marbled ep's, teg. Previous owner's bookplate on ffep. Red pencil marks under probable...
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$450.00 Set Hardcover
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Cathay and the Way Thither: Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China, 2nd Edition 4 Volumes
by Henry Yule Notes London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1913-16. 4 volumes. 8vo, 225x150mm. xxiii, 318, xxxvi; xii, 367; xv, 269; xii, 359. 2nd edition. Revised by Henri Cordier. Bound in the original blue cloth-covered boards. Boards stamped in blind & gilt; spines...
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Decouvertes et Etablissements Des Francais Dans L'Ouest et Dans Le Sud L'Amerique Septentrionale (1614 - 1754) Memoires et Documents Originaux, 6 Volumes
by Pierre Margry and Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle From Powells.com The set is a collection of original reports, journals and letters of French exploration and trade in North America "from Canada to the Gulf, from the St. Lawrence to the Rockies" (Howes M-238). It includes La Salle's correspondence and the complete...
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Highlands of Brazil: 2 Volumes: 1st Edition
by Richard F. Burton Notes London: Tinsley Brothers, 1869 First edition, octavo, two volumes bound in maroon cloth w/double line borders in blind, enclosing an Indian in gilt, gilt on spine, brown endpapers; xii, 443; viii, 478pp. plus 2pgs. ads. Frontispiece, illustrated title...
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New, Authentic & Complete Collection of Voyages around the World containing...Complete Historical Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third & Last Voyages
by George William Anderson Notes London: Alex Hogg (1784-86). Folio, rebound in 3/4 leather with brown cloth over boards, five raised bands, red leather label. New yellow endpapers. 153 illustrations including the fldg map of globe, repaired. Frontis not present. pp. iv, (5),655,(1...
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$300.00 Hardcover
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Land of the Lamas Notes of a Journey Through China Mongolia and Tibet
by William Rockhill Notes New York: The Century Co., 1891. First edition. In original brown cloth with morocco spine label. Label is worn and chipped, binding showing some wear at extremities. Front hinge starting. All maps and plates as called for. Unopened, 399pp. MPA/kb...
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Narrative of an Expedition to the Polar Sea in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, and 1823. Commanded by Lieutenant, Now Admiral, Ferdinand von Wrangell, of the Russian Imperial Navy 1st American edition
by Ferdinand Wrangell Notes New York: Harper and Brothers, 1841. First American edition. Edited by Edward Sabine. 8vo. 302pp. Black cloth with gilt on spine. Family Library No.148. Spine extremities chipped 1/8", with cloth tears at joints. Corners bumped and heavily rubbed...
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$450.00 Hardcover
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From Cowboy To Pulpit 1st Edition
by Rev. Sir Genille Cave-Brown-Cave Notes London, Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1926. 1st...
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$150.00 Hardcover
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The Last Voyage, to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' 1st Edition
by Annie Brassey Notes London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. Octavo, 15x22cm. xxiv + 490pp. First edition. Original dark blue cloth over bevelled boards, front board and spine stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Numerous engraved cuts and monotone plates, 2 folding maps. No dust...
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Whaling Cruise To Baffins Bay and The Gulf of Boothia and An Account of the Rescue Of The Crew Of The Polaris
by Albert Markham Notes London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875. Octavo, 19.5x12.5cm. xxxi, 307, 32pp. Brown pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black. Includes Frontispiece and seven full page illustrations. Boards are edge worn, bumped, and rubbed. Spine thumbed...
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Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World: Its Aims and Achievements, 1st Edition
by Henry R Wagner Notes San Francisco: John Howell, 1926. First edition. Quarto. x, 543pp. All engravings, plates, maps and portraits as called for. Original publisher's cloth. Spine faded, corners bumped. Front hinge tender. Bookplate on front paste down, light age-toning to...
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$65.00 Hardcover
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Account of Palmyra and Zenobia with Travels and Adventures in Bashan and the Desert
by William Wright Notes London: Thomas Nelson & Sons,1895 First Printing,Blue Cloth Boards With Gold Gilt,B&W FrontisMap,112 Interior Illustrations,394pp G/NI(Boards rubbed,Corners bumped,Interior clean,Spine cocked;Binding "starting" between pp.64/65 & 176/177 but held intact...
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A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America, 2 Volumes
by Louis Hennepin Notes Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1903. Reprint edition. 2 volumes, cloth over boards. Waterstain to rear board of volume 1. Both volumes lightly worn. With 2 folding maps. Good condition....
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