Exploration from Page 1 Books

Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Second Series No. CXXVI and CXXVII; 8vos, blue cloth; vg (cocked; spine ends bumped and crimped; eps and pages toning; top corners of vI bumped and crimped; corners bumped and crimped, affects pages, with dent to top edge of rear board of vII) in good+ djs (toned; spines faded; edges bumped,… Read more about this item

Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1914. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. First Edition, Published June, 1914 stated; 8vo, brown cloth, no dj; complete in single volume; good (boards bowing and lightly soiled; water ring to and bump to side edge of rear board; spine ends bumped and rubbed; edges foxed, top edge darkened; long gift inscription on… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Gordon Grant. Limited Edition, No. 73 of an unspecified number signed by Grant with a color drawing on the ffep; 4to, cream cloth, no dj; vg (shelfworn; dustsoiling to very bottom edges of boards and bottom corners; spine ends and corners bumped and rubbed; eps browned;… Read more about this item

London: Hakluyt Soc., 2008. First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Edited by C. Ian Jackson, appendix by George Huxtable. 1st thus, navy cloth, near fine in near fine dj. 308 pp. incl. index.

New York: Francis P. Harper, 1900. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. American Explorers Series No. 3. First Edition, Limited Edition, No. 54 of 950 copies; 8vos, blue cloth, no djs. Good+ (boards rubbed, stain to rear board of v1; spines darkened with bumped and frayed ends; corners worn; uncut pages; several pages which have been cut are worn… Read more about this item

New York: Scribners, 1926. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-. 1st US, tan cloth, vg-, no dj; spine sunned, boards lightly soiled. 416 pp. incl. index. The author was born in Venezuela, was a mercenary in the Spanish-American War and the 1st Sino-Japanese War, returned home to take part in Venezuela's revolution, and got into trouble with the… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan Company, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good-. Sixth printing, Reissued August, 2008 stated; an adaptation 'for boys and girls'; SIGNED by Schwartz on title page; 8vo, orange cloth, no dj; vg- (cocked; spine toned; spine ends and corners worn and bumped; light chipping to cloth on spine head; gift inscription on ffep; cracked at pp20-1, 52-3, and… Read more about this item

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1961. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. His Journal from 20 April to 2 October 1764". Edited by Georges A. Bonnard. 1st, ltd. #38/105 copies printed on Millbourn handmade paper and bound in gilt-stamped vellum, gilt top edge. Vg; vellum starting to warp. Text clean. 268 pp. incl. index.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. Hardcover. Good+. SECOND Edition, lt. blue cloth, good plus. Both volumes a little shaken, foxed on top edge, less on foreedge, spines darkened. Books were bound with signatures stapled rather than sewn, and this is not a good idea; the staples are rusted, and some signatures are loosening. Moderate foxing… Read more about this item

New York: Francis P. Harper, 1898. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. First Limited Edition, No. 7 of 950 copies; 8vo, navy cloth, no dj; good (shaken; boards heavily soiled and water damaged; spine ends, corners, and bottom edges heavily worn, often to boards; spine ends bumped; ownership stamp of Hiram M. Dow, a pioneer of Roswell, New Mexico,… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1847. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. Hardcover 1st US, g+ in contemporary 3/4 leather. Leather scraped on all edges, chipping on spine; owner's name (H.G. Norton, Trenton, N.J.) on tp and ffep; also has ownership signature of the excellent novelist Frank O'Rourke. Text moderately foxed. Bookstore sticker on rear pastedown: Books Inc., San… Read more about this item