Travel And Exploration from Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB

Normon, OK, (2008, 2010 and 2012): University of Oklahoma Press. First Editions. Quarto. In three volumes. Color frontispieces. Translated by William Orr, Paul Schach and Dieter Karch. Illustrated in color and in black and white, maps. Vol. 1May 1832-April 1833, 467pp., Vol. II; April-September 1833, 771pp. and Vol. III, September 1833-August 1834. 512pp and with a CD in the… Read more about this item

London: Printed by T. Gillet for T. Chapman, 1799. First Edition. Quarto. The First Gillet Edition. Compiled from Journals of the Officers and the Missionaries and Illustrated with Maps, Charts, and Views drawn by Mr. Wiliam Wilson, and engraved by the most Eminent artist with a Preliminary Discourse on the Geography and History of the South Sea Islands and… Read more about this item

New York; (1970): Burt Franklin. Octavo. lvi, 200 pages, translated, with notes, a preface, and an introductory life of the Timour Br by Clements R. Markham, with folding map of Clavijo's travels through the Islamic states all the way to Samarkand. One of the most valuable sources for the Timurid period is the narrative of the embassy of Ruy… Read more about this item

New York; (1969): Burt Franklin. Octavo. ). xxvii, 416 pages, 18 page index, with folding 4 panel map of Abyssinia, translated from the Portuguese and edited with notes and an introduction by Lord Stanley of Alderley. The earliest and the fullest of Ethiopia, and the only one which refers to the period wars of 1527-42, which opened the way… Read more about this item

Adelaide,(S. Australia, 1990): William Torrens Publishers. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 250 copies of which this is #21. xix, 105 pages. Geoffrey Kenihan is a specialist on the maritime exploration of Australia and the South Pacific. In his introduction, he has traced much on Hamilton that has not been discovered before. Already a scarce volume. A fine copy bound… Read more about this item

New York, (1971): Burt Franklin. Octavo. cii, 62 pages, index, folding maps of Greenland, the Faeroe Islands, the southwest coast of Greenland, and finally a nice facsimile copy of their original navigational map. Towards the close of the fourteenth century Niccoli Zeno, a member of one of the noblest and most ancient families in Venice, went, at his own… Read more about this item

New York; (1971): Burt Franklin. Octavo. xlviii, 259 pages. Translated with notes and introduction by Clements R. Markham. The journal of Columbus is a vital part of the early records of great sea voyages including that of Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real. It is certain that the Americas would have been reached within that era around 1500 but these… Read more about this item

London, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1937, 1939 and 1979-1986: The Golden Cockerel Press. Limited Editions. Quarto. Owen Rutter 1889-1944 was an English historian who wrote many important books on travel and history around the globe. He became a partner with The Golden Cockerel in 1933 and he began writing this important collection on Bligh and the Bounty. He edited the… Read more about this item

New York, Nd(ca.1978): Burt Franklin. Octavo. 278 pages. One folding map. Reprint of Hakluyt Society, I, series, no. 52. This edition reprints the original documents with notes and Lord Stanley's introduction. Bound in a blue gray cloth, spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy.

New York, Nd(ca.1970): Burt Franklin (Hakluyt Society). Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, lxxx, 430 pages, xxxv, errata. Originally published by the Hakluyt society in 1900 (No. XLII), Variation, no. 42. This work was translated from the Portuguese by the Honorable Henry E.J. Stanley. The author had gone to India very young and sixteen years later India was discovered, about 1514. He… Read more about this item

(London, 1953): Hodder and Stoughton. First Edition. Octavo. 299(1) pp. This is the story of how two men, both endowed with outstanding stamina and skill, reached the top of Everest, and made it back to rejoin their comrades. Bound in blue cloth, spine lettering gilt, corners lightly rubbed, in clipped pictorial dust jacket depicting Mt. Everest in white and… Read more about this item

Np/nd [ca.2008]: [Robert Parkin Johnson]. Limited Edition. Octavo. No. 136 of 500 privately printed copies. [iv] 182 pages, map, photographs, with an introduction by Mayotta Southworth. Written by a physician who spent six months on Pitcairn caring for the medical and some of the psychological needs of the islanders, this book gets "inside" the Pitcairners' lives in a way… Read more about this item

London: Francis Edwards, 1915. Octavo. 177pp., large folding chart following the last page. With an introduction and notes by Basil Thomson. Mutiny on the Bounty ranks first among the stories of the sea, with the living elements of romance, of primal passion and of tragedy, all moving to a happy ending in the Arcadia of Pitcairn Island. The Pandora,… Read more about this item

London: Published for the Hakluya Society By Cambridge University Press, 1970. Octavo. xix, 393 pages, folding map in rear pocket. Translated from the Chinese text edited by Feng Ch'eng-Chin with introduction, notes and appendices by J.V.G. Mills. Ma Huan, a Chinese Muslim, sailed on the 4th, 6th, and 7th voyages of the eunuch admiral Cheng Ho in the early… Read more about this item

New York; (1979): The Viking Press. First Edition. Octavo. 273pp. signed by the author. Hillary had a dream of traveling with a group of friends from the mouth of the Ganges River up stream against the current as far as they could go. This is his dramatic record of the journey, a 1500 mile long journey which provided menu… Read more about this item

London and New York, 1922, 1924 and 1925: Edward Arnold and Longmans, Green and Co.`. First Editions. Small Quartos. In three volumes, mixed editions. frontispieces, 356, 339 (1 p. ad) and 372pp. Each volume illustrated with amazing photographic images and maps (some folding). To climb mount Everest, it was imperative to locate many men called Coolies who were accustomed… Read more about this item

The Folio Society, 2010. Limited Edition. Large Folio. A beautiful work. 6 volumes in two. Limited to 1000 copies for members only. The present set is #30. Another 20 lettered copies were published but not for sale. This set was reproduced using the first edition held in The John Rylands Library. It also reproduced every word and image from… Read more about this item

Boston: Page Company, 1914. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. Color frontispiece, 439 pages, index, and several other illustrations. One of the finer guides to Spain in the beginning of the 20th Century. Bookplate of Jesse M. Averill. A lovely copy, nearly fine bound in green pictorial cloth accented in blue, dark brown and gilt, pictorial spine and top edge… Read more about this item

New York: A.R. Keller & Company, 1911. First Edition. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, 448 pages. Illustrated with photographic images. The Arctic explorers such as Walter Wellman, Roald Amundsen, and Lincoln Ellsworth, captured the attention of the world at the beginning of the 20th century. His attempt to get above the North Pole was marked by horrendous weather. His next trip… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara; (2002): ABC-Clio. Quarto. Later printing. 512 pages. index. This major work brings together the work of over 100 experts covering historical figures, relevant legal and historical concepts, states that formed in the new territory, frontier outposts, and the Native Americans uprooted by expansion westward. The book examines every aspect and consequence of Thomas Jefferson's momentous transaction: the… Read more about this item