Exploration from Minotavros Books

Leicaster: Bickers and Sons, 1893. Hardcover. Near Fine. Brown tree calf, rebacked with orig. spine laid down, gilt stamp of London Freemen's Orphan School on upper front cover; x, 404pp. With 12 plates incl. fronti reproduced from facsimile from Cook's Voyages. Orphan school prize label on the front pastedown, otherwise a near fine. Kippis book about the three… Read more about this item

London: Readers Union with The Pilot Press, 1949. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Quarter navy cloth, blue cloth boards. xii, 388 pp., xxvii pp. B&W plates. Fading to extremities, spine tilted. Light age toning to interior. Dust jacket is toned, sunned to spine, chipped to spine ends.

Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 16mo. New navy cloth, new spine label, orig. cloth with gilt vignette laid down to front board. New endpapers. xvii, 375 pp., 2 pp. adverts. Two folding maps at front. Orig. cloth is faded, soiled, and worn. Interior age toned. Else near fine. Isaac I. Hayes… Read more about this item

[Alexandrie]: Impr. par l'E?cole professionnelle des fre`res, pour la Socie?te? arche?ologique]. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo (super). [1923]. Limited first edition, 500 printed, 10 with printed dedication, 490 copies numbered 11 to 500, #137. Societe Archeologique A'Alexandrie. Rebound, new navy leather, red leather spine label raised spine bands, gilt stamped compartments, new marbled paper boards. New endpapers. Orig.… Read more about this item

Maryland: Heritage Books, 1979. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Facsimile Reprint. Heritage Classic. Paperback in red covers, xxxiv, 547pp plus glossary & index. Illustrated. The story of the Channel Islanders who established fisheries in the New World and their coastal settlements.

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Volume II only of 5. Orig. blue cloth, gilt ship device. xii, 271-537 pp. [3] folding maps. Bookseller ticket to front pastedown. Small stains to copyright page. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned to spine, chipped to extremities, soiled to… Read more about this item

New York: Weybright and Talley, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Green cloth spine over creme boards, 282pp. Fine. Biography of 22 year old French explorer Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle who, in 1668 arrived in New France to explore the wilderness of what is now the American Midwest and to make his fortune. Unfortunately, his ambition would… Read more about this item

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Black paper boards. xiv, 489 pp. [16] pp. B&W photos. Sticker ghost to head of front cover of dust jacket, else fine. A stirring story of daring, fortitude, and outright lunacy.

London: I.B. Taurus, 2012. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. xiii, 226 pp. [16] pp. B&W photos. Fine. Ibn Battuta was, without a doubt, one of the world's truly great travellers. Born in fourteenth century Morocco, and a contemporary of Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta has left us an account in his won words of his remarkable journeys throughout… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. green cloth. Map endpapers. vii, 232 pp. B&W frontis. portrait, [1] B&W folding map. Spine sunned, black staining to upper front joint, chafing to extremities. Spine slightly tilted.

Toronto: Methuen, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to. Full grey cloth. 233 pp. Copiously illustrated mostly in colour. Dust jacket lightly sunned to extremities, some light bumping to edges and small chip to upper front corner.

New York: Promontory Press, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Bodmer, Karl. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Orig. russet cloth. Map endpapers. 256 pp. Fully illustrated in colour. Dust jacket is lightly bumped and sunned to extremities.

New York: William Morrow, 1995. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Orig. green paper boards. xii, 398 pp. Dust jacket sunned to spine, sticker ghost to front, else fine.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc, 1956. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Quarter black paper, blue paper boards. Top edge purple. Map endpapers. x, 399 pp. [16] pp. B&W photos preceding title. Slight bowing to boards. Foxing to head of spine and boards. Light foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket is sunned… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, Ltd. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. N.d., [1850]. Bound by Birdsall in half contemporary goatskin, brown cloth boards, gilt triple filet, gilt back, raised bands. xxvii, 554 pp., [13] colour plates, [16] B&W plates, numerous B&W illustrations in text. Some minor rubbing to edges and cracking to joints, else fine. A short… Read more about this item

New York: Hawthorn Books, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Full red cloth. 381 pp. Rubbing to extremities, slight tilting to spine. Pencil scuff to tail edge. Dust jacket is price clipped, rubbed to extremities, lightly soiled to rear. Twenty-one of the world's most exciting adventures - from the Norman invasion of England to the space… Read more about this item

New York: Burroughs Wellcome & Co, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Full maroon cloth, unlettered spine, gilt title and unicorn device to front board. Silver embossed endpapers. T.E.G. 160 pp. Copious illustrations in text. Slight sunning to spine and offset panel to rear board, rubbing to front joint, light… Read more about this item

Toronto: Coles Canadiana Collection, 1973. Soft cover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Facsimile of the second edition, revised and corrected. Originally published 1740. Soft cover. 142 pp. Rubbing to extremities, sunning to spine, damp staining to tail edge. Bookplate to inside front cover.

Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. green cloth. xiv, 217 pp. Fine.

Canmore, AB: Coyote Books, 1989. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. B&W maps inside covers. 290 pp. B&W photos in text. Fine. Off the Beaten Track is the story of fourteen women explorers, writers, artists, mountaineers, and trail guides who were active during the period between the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Second… Read more about this item