Ballantyne, Robert Michael

The Coral Island : A Tale of the Pacific Ocean

London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1869. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. Dalziel. 438pp. Green cloth, decorative spine with gilt lettering, engraved frontispiece and vignette title page. Covers are worn and scuffed, joints and hinges splitting but holding, preliminary pages foxed and text lightly foxed, endpapers missing, number written on pastedown, illustrations present and all with tissue-guards, and text is complete. Fair/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002436

Catalogue: Travel and Geography, Health

Keywords: Ocean Maritime Tropics

Cox, Ross

Adventures on the Columbia River, Including The Narrative of Residence of Six Years on the Western Side of the Rocky Mountains, Among Various Tribes of Indians Hitherto Unknown: Together with A Journey Across the American Continent.

New York, J. & J. Harper, 1832. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Half-Leather. xv, 335pp. Original green boards with paper spine label. Front board detached but present, rear board tender but holding, spine missing one inch piece at top, paper label heavily worn and chipped, dampstaining to some margins, foxing mainly to first and last few pages, Maryland Historical Society bookplate on front pastedown. A fascinating narrative by Cox, of the fur trading industry in the American northwest, his relations with the indians of the region, and some OF the harrowing experiences he dealt with. Howes C-822. Good.

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Book number: 004112

Catalogue: Travel and Geography, Health

Keywords: Indians Oregon Washington Exploring

Kingston, H. G.

Round the World

Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1875. Hardcover. 444p. Brown stamped covers, gilt spine lettering, frontispiece with tissue-guard. Edgeworn and mildly soiled, some internal separation but holding, text is toned but unmarked. Illustrations by John Andrew. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002120

Catalogue: Travel and Geography, Health

Keywords: "World Tour" Sightseeing

Ray, G. Whitfield

Through Five Republics on Horseback: Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America

Cleveland, Ohio, C. Hauser, 1925. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 305pp. Green pictorial cover, gilt lettering. Light wer to edges, spine sunned, gift inscription on front pastedown, text is mildly toned. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on front free endpaper, photo illustrations. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001813

Catalogue: Travel and Geography, Health

Keywords: Argentina Brazil Paraguay Uruguay

An Old Traveller

The Romance of Travel : Comprising Adventures in Foreign Countries, and Descriptions of Manners, Customs, and Places

Philadelphia, H.C.Peck & Theo. Bliss, 1857. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 299pp. Brown blind-stamped boards, gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Chipping to head and tail of spine and edgewear to boards, endpapers missing, soiling to preliminaries and last, but text is otherwise quite clean, with only very occasional foxing. Heavily illustrationed throughout. Fair/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002548

Catalogue: Travel and Geography, Health

Keywords: Damascus Spain Gold Greenland