PARKMAN Francis

[The Centenary Edition of the Works of Francis Parkman]. THE CENTENARY EDITION COMPLETE IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING

Little Brown, Boston MA,, 1924-32. 12 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 12 frontispieces (original tissue guards captioned in red) and many maps; original blue buckram, backstrips with printed paper labels (one label chipped but wholly legible; all save three volumes with spare label tipped-in at rear paste-down;), a few hinges tender (but all bindings sound), backstrips unevenly faded where library labels have been removed, else a very good, bright, clean set. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-downs and small blind stamp on front free endpapers. The set comprises: Vol. I: Pioneers of France in the New World; Vol. II: The Jesuits of North America; Vol. III: La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West; Vol. IV: The Old Regime in Canada; Vol. V: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV; Vol. VI: A Half-Century of Conflict I; Vol. VII: A Half-Century of Conflict II; Vol. VIII: Montcalm and Wolfe I; Vol. IX: Montcalm and Wolfe II; Vol. X: The Conspiracy of Pontiac I; Vol. XI: The Conspiracy of Pontiac II; Vol. XII: The Oregon Trail.

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Book number: 21661

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PATERSON'S GUIDE

Paterson's Guide to the Rhine and its Provinces.

Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, Edinburgh,, [c.1900]. 8vo., First Edition, with 12 tinted and monochrome maps (6 double-page and 6 full-page) on japon, and a large folding map at end, endpapers browned; original red limp cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, radial corners, very neatly recased, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. Scarce.

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Book number: 19524

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PATON James

John G.Paton. Missionary to the New Hebrides. An Autobiography edited by his Brother. [First Banner edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Banner of Truth Trust,, [1965]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and full-page map in the text, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter rubbed at edges and with loss at upper third of backstrip. Facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1890.

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Book number: 41114

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Keywords: travel, australasia, pacific, new hebrides, john paton, minnionaries, james paton

PATTERSON Lieut.-Col. J.H.

In the Grip of the Nyika. Further Adventures in British East Africa. [Second Impression.] REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Macmillan,, 1909. 8vo., Second Impression, with numerous photographs and 9 full-page maps in the text, free endpapers browned; original blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, expertly recased, a remarkably bright, clean copy. With the trade ticket of Rowland Ward on front paste-down and 2pp publisher's catalogue at end. Published a month after the first edition. Hosken, p.155 (recording the first edition).

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Book number: 39105

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Keywords: travel, africa, east africa, british east africa, patterson, nyika

PAYRE B.

Histoire de Merindol en Provence. [Facsimile reissue]. 400 COPIES WERE PRINTED

Laffitte, Marseille,, 1971. 8vo., with frontispiece and illustrations in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; brown faux-morocco, gilt back, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 400 COPIES. Facsimile reissue of the scarce original edition (Avignon, 1939).

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Book number: 30282

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Keywords: travel, france, provence, merindol, peyre

PEROUSE Jean-Francois de Galup de la

The Journal of Jean-Francois De Galaup De La Perouse, 1785-88. Translated and edited by John Dunmore. NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

Hakluyt Society,, [1994-95]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, plates and maps; original series binding of blue cloth, upper boards framed in blind and blocked in gilt, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Vols., 179, 180.

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Book number: 32423

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Keywords: travel, hakluyt society, perouse, jean-francois perouse, australasia,

PFEIFFER Ida

Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North. Translated from the German of Madame Ida Pfeiffer. With explanatory Notes. To which are added an Essay on Icelandic Poetry, from the French of M. Bergmann; a Translation of the Icelandic Poem 'The Voluspa'.

Ingram Cooke,, 1852. 8vo., First Edition, with a tinted lithograph as frontispiece, engraved and printed titles, and 6 tinted lithographed plates, some light spotting (mainly marginal) as often; original 'National Illustrated Library' series binding of cloth richly blocked in blind, pictorial back gilt extra, hinges cracked (but binding entirely sound), backstrip lightly frayed at head and tail else a very good, tight copy. With the contemporary binder's ticket of Leighton, Son & Hodge (who bound many titles in this series) and the contemporary trade ticket of Willmer & Smith of Church St., Liverpool. This work was translated into English expressly for inclusion in Cooke's popular series following the success of the same author's 'Woman's Journey round the World' (1852); to maintain uniformity the more expensive tinted plates were once again adopted here. In the event, the present work proved even more popular with an audience eager for information from exotic lands, and 'Pfeiffer's Iceland' became a travel standard of the nineteenth century. Abbey, Travel 161.

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Book number: 6293

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PHILBY H. St. John

Arabia. IN FULL MOROCCO

Ernest Benn,, 1930. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with large folding map on japon, half-title and title very lightly spotted, lower corner of half-title and several following leaves lightly creased; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, fore-edge faintly spotted else an attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With a double-page genealogy of the House of Sa'ud. Published in Benn's series 'The Modern World'. Bright copy of a key work by the great Arabist.

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Book number: 44601

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Keywords: travel, middle east, philby, arabia, arabs, saudi, sa'ud

PICARD Giblert Charles

The Life and Death of Carthage. A Survey of Punic History and Culture from its Birth to the final Tragedy. Translated from the French by Dominique Collon. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Sidgwick & Jackson,, [1968]. 8vo., First Edition, with 52 plates and endpaper maps; salmon cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A STANDARD REFERENCE AND VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 23631

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Keywords: africa, carthage, punic wars, g.c. picard, c. picard, travel, exploration, africa, the, life, death, carthage

PIGNATORRE Theodore

The Ancient Monuments of Rome. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Trefoil,, [1930]. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 60 fine plates by the author, neat contemporary inscription on blank preliminary; original red buckram, gilt back, lower board lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy.

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Book number: 22129

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Keywords: travel, europe, italy, rome, ancient rome, theodore pignatorre

POLE J.R.

Political Representation in England and the Origins of the American Republic. PUBLISHER'S REVIEW COPY

Macmillan,, 1966. 8vo., First Edition, with maps; green cloth, gilt back, green top, a very good clean copy. Publisher's review copy with courtesy slip loosely inserted.

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Book number: 23121

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POLLARD W.C.

Pioneering in the Prairie West. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Arthur Stockwell,, n.d. [1934]. 8vo., with 18 plates; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its stamp on front paste-down and press-marks on front free endpaper. The author gives a short history of Rupert's Land, later the North-West Territories. SCARCE.

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Book number: 19930

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Keywords: canada, ruperts land, northwest territories, sakatchewan, w.c. pollard, travel, exploration, americana, pioneering, the, prairie, west

POMPEI

Ricordo di Pompei, 32 Vedute. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

n.d.. Sm. 8vo., with 32 glossy plates arranged concertina style, and folding into cloth covers, double-page city plan on paste-downs and coloured illustrated title mounted on upper board, a near fine copy. Each plate is captioned on obverse in Italian with an extended caption on reverse in Italian, French, English and German.

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Book number: 9869

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POWER Brian

The Ford of Heaven. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Peter Owen,, [1984]. 8vo., First Edition, with 18 plates; brown cloth, gilt back, beige endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Author's biography set in Tientsin, China, during the 1920s and 1930s.

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Book number: 26453

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POWYS Llewellyn

Henry Hudson. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY

John Lane Bodley Head,, [1928]. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps in red and black; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, blue top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 2pp series catalogue bound in at end. The Golden Hind series comprises biographies of great explorers written by acknowledged authorities under the general editorship of Milton Waldman. Noted for their appearance and quality of design and production, all volumes are highly collectable.

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Book number: 32838

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