Journal of the Right Hon Sir Joseph Banks, during Captain Cook's first voyage in H.M.S. endeavour in 1768-71 to Terra del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies etc. de Hooker, Sir Joseph D - 1896

New York: Francis B. Felt & Co., 1871 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. RARE. 384pp in a library binding, has portrait frontis, with binding & hinges tight. Contents include Sports on the Moors & Lochs, Canna, Night on the Minch, Sport in the Wilds, Skye, Saga of Haco the King, Glen Sligachan and more.

Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. First edition (1878). Brown cloth cover worn with rubbing, notably near corners near spine, corner bumps and some light splotches. Spine ends frayed. Name, date and minor notes to front blank pages. Blue endpapers unmarked, with some wrinkling at a crack/split at hinge of front endpapers. Text unmarked and pages intact with some edge wear and aging. Gilt title and decorations intact on cover and spine. Plum Adirondack Bibliography number 7244. Please see image. 176 pages. Note that this edition has 176 pages, fewer than the later 1882 and other Houghton, Mifflin editions, which added two chapters and which have 226 pages. (All Houghton - whether Houghton Osgood or Houghton Mifflin - editions were issued in varying cover colors - red, green, brown - but all with the same blind stamped design. The 1878 1st editons I have seen have the additional gilt design along the top and lower front edges, as seen here.)

Hardcover. Good. Gustave Dore engraved illustrations, AEG, copy with bright gilt decorations and title on front cover and spine. All pages edged in gilt. Repaired damage to 50% spine along gutter visible but tight, small cloth removal at top of spine and repaired inner gutters that are less than attractive but this accounts for lowered price else G+ or better, 523pps. Rest of book is impeccable the obvious flaws do exist and account for the price reduction. Beautifully illustrated with lithographs throughout book. Sold with all faults!

1st Edition . Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. Small pamphlet on the Scottish Hebrides and nearby areas, f/o view plus 11 other scenes, all colour and all loose, 16pps sewn text, front but no back paper cover, measures 16.4 cm x 10.5cm, rare.

Hardcover. Very Good. 16, 000 miles of research among wild/tame tribes of the Philippines area, 1st edn, f/o map, photos, teg, some cover stains mostly to rear boards else VG.

Berkeley: University of California Press 1967. (Hardcover) 317pp. Very good in good to very good dust jacket. The dust jacket has minor edgewear and chipping, is a bit rubbed, has a small scuff on the front cover where a price label has been removed, and the spine is faded. Still, not a bad copy of a scarce book. Translated by Lindy Foord & Rayner Heppenstall. (Fiction).

New York: The Century Co., 1892. PLAY IN PROVENCE- Joseph & Elizabeth Pennell- Illustrated by Joseph & Elizabeth Pennell- The Century Co.- NY- 1892- 1st Edition-1st Printing- Hardcover:-8vo- VG/ no dj as issued- original publishers beige cream cloth illustrated and titled in red and brown- book is tight, somewhat soiled, but a desireable copy of a scarce book nonetheless- 202pp are clean, no tears or writing-no loose pages- some adhesions to endpapers, probably from PO bookplate which was removed- "Over 100 b&w illustrations-Notable sketches of southern France and the "country of Mireio"; particularly interesting for Pennells drawings of the pageantry of a Provencal bullfight."- Non-fiction-France-travel-stories-anecdotes-illustrated (1387). 1st Edition-1st Printing. Illustrated Cloth. VG/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Joseph & Elizabeth Pennell. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1871. THE COUNTRY OF THE DWARFS- Paul Du Chaillu- Ill. by Engravings- Harper & Brothers- 1871-1st Edition-1st Printing- No Ads- Hardcover:-12mo- Good/ no dj as issued- Beige cloth rebind of 1884 Woodstock Library Assoc.- 314pp, mostly clean, with some foxing towards ffeps- numerous full page engravings in B&W with head and tailpieces-vignette map on title page with opposite frontis of Du Chaillu and native chief- Woodstock Library Assoc.- plate dated 1884- Title and # written by hand on spine-last page has corner loss not affecting- SEE PHOTOS- A fiction based on factual travels by Chaillu in remote regions of Africa "(Fiction-non-fiction-French European Explorers African Travel and Exploration Narrative Africana Du Chaillu-illustrated) -Nice engravings-Scarce 1st- "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1871 by Harper and Brothers." on verso of title page- World Cat.- Harvard Special Collections:Author : Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul… Leer más

NY: Freeman Hunt & Co.. Good with no dust jacket; Boards stained and worn, endpapers foxed and scattered foxing in text.. 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. 209pp + 6pp of publisher's ads. Original brown blindstamped cloth titled in gilt on spine. 6x4 inches. Sabin 33849. Travel essays about towns up and down New York's Hudson River, including Poughkeepsie, Peekskill, Tarrytown, Troy, Fort Edward, Albany, West Point, and Saratoga Springs. Penciled owner name (Eliza Warren, Saratoga Springs) on front free endpaper and title page. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

Brattleboro, [VT]: William Fessendeh for Isaiah Thomas. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, pages toned and foxed.. 1806. Hardcover. Brown tree calf with gilt-titled leather spine label. Early American printing of this travelogue of the English author's adventures in France, first published in England in 1803. Contemporary owner signature on front flyleaf (E. J. King? ). ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 288 pages .