First edition of one of the greatest illustrated English works on the New World, with 51 splendid double-page engraved views and maps, six full-page portraits, frontispiece, and 66 illustrations in the text. The work contains "the first extensive account of Maryland" and one of the earliest views of New York City. A handsomely bound, wide-margined copy. $65,000. | More...
An Embassy from the East-India Company... to China
John Nieuhoff, 1673
Second edition in English of this important first-hand account of a Dutch official's visit to China as an ambassador in 1655-1657, first published in Dutch in 1665. The English edition was significantly augmented with an appendix and additional illustrations drawn from all six parts of Athanasius Kircher's China Monumentis (Amsterdam, 1667). Splendidly illustrated with frontispiece portrait, engraved title page, double-page engraved map, 18 full-page folio copper-engraved plates (including one double-page plan) and 94 in-text copper engravings. $15,000. | More...
Seen in the Hadhramaut
Signed by Freya Stark
First edition of this travel memoir detailing a British woman's journey through Yemen, with 130 plates after photographs by the author, inscribed by her on the half title: "By Freya Stark." $2800. | More...
A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine
Published by Rudolph Ackermann
First edition, first issue, of one of Ackermann’s wonderful Picturesque Tours, beautifully illustrated with 24 hand-colored folio aquatints and large folding map. A lovely copy. $11,000. | More...
Bahrain and the Persian Gulf
Maureen Tweedy
First and only edition of this scarce guidebook to the Persian Gulf, illustrated with 16 half-tone plates from photographs by the author and three maps, in scarce original dust jacket. $1400. | More...
The Conquest of Everest
Signed by Edmund Hillary, George Lowe & Charles Evans
First American edition of the official account of the first summit of Mount Everest, signed on the half title by Edmund Hillary and expedition members George Lowe and Charles Evans. With eight color photographic plates, 48 half-tone plates and a number of in-text illustrations after pen-and-ink sketches. $1800. | More...
Travels in Arabia Deserta
Charles M. Doughty, from the library of British diplomat Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles
First edition of this classic of Arabian travel, illustrated with numerous plates, maps and in-text wood engravings, and folding map printed in color laid into a pocket at the rear of Volume I, as issued. Very hard to find in such nice condition in the original cloth, and with an intriguing provenance, from the library of British Arabist, colonial agent and diplomat Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles. $13,500. | More...
Travels Through the Canadas
George Heriot
First edition, uncolored issue, of one of the most important and beautifully illustrated accounts of North America, illustrated with folding aquatint frontispiece view of Quebec, 26 aquatint plates (five folding), and a folding hand-colored map of the St. Lawrence River region. $4500. | More...
The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
Richard F. Burton
First edition of this important travel narrative exploring 19th-century America from the civilized East to the Wild West, with an extensive look at the early Mormon community including an interview with Brigham Young, illustrated with a folding plan of Salt Lake City, a folding chart, frontispiece, and eight plates. $3800. | More...
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