CAPTAIN NATHANIEL URING With Introduction and Notes by Captain Alfred Dewar

The Voyages and Travels of Captain Nathaniel Uring

London, Cassell and Company, 1928. Hardcover. pp. xxxiii, 263. 8vo. Corners slightly bumped; else vg in dustjacket showing sunned spine and a couple of small chips. First published in 1720, this is a title in The Seafarers' Library reprinted verbatim from the original. Ill.: black-&-white illustrations.

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Book number: 9900003609

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Jacobsen, Johan Adrian; Erna Gunther (trans.)

Alaskan Voyage, 1881-1883 an Expedition to the Northwest Coast of America; an Expedition to the Northwest Coast of America

Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1983. Paperback. pp. 266. 8vo. General shelfwear; very good. From the German Text of Adrian Woldt. .

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Book number: 080063

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JERRMANN, Edward

St. Petersburg: Its People; Their Character and Institutions

New York City, A. S. Barnes & Co, nd. pp. 234.12mo,Translated from the German by Frederick Hardman. First published in the U.S. by Putnam, then reprinted a number of times by Barnes. No date of publication shown here, but this copy is consistent in appearance with other copies we have seen which were published by Barnes in the 1850s/1860s. Boards a bit scuffed & soiled, with some minor rubbing to edges. Foredge a bit stained, not affecting contents, which are clean and unmarked. Hinges and joints tight. Overall, a good plus to just less than very good copy. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with blind stamped floral design to bds. & gilt lettering to spine. Plain endpapers. .

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Book number: 9900029678

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Kassabova, Kapka

Border; a Journey to the Edge of Europe

Minneapolis, Graywolf Press, 2017. Paperback. pp. xviii, 379. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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Book number: 088065

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Keeler, Mary Frear (ed.)

Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage; 1585-86

London, The Hakluyt Society, 1975. Hardcover. pp. 358. 8vo. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contains fold out maps and illustrations. General shelfwear. Dustjacket sunned to spine; very good in very good dustjacket. Second Series No. 148. .

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Book number: 085442

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Kelly, Celsus [ed.]

La Austrialia Del Espíritu Santo / the Journal of Fray Martin de Munilla O.F. M. / and Other Documents Relating to the Voyage of Pedro Fernández de Quirós / to the South Sea (1605-1606) / and / the Franciscan Missionary Plan / 1617-1627 (Two Volumes)

Cambridge, Printed for the Hakluyt Society at the Cambridge University Press, 1966. Hardcover. pp. xvii, 270; xv, 273-446. Bound in sky-blue cloth with lettering and decoration in gilt and blind. Maps and illustrations present as called-for. Light shelfwear, bookplate to ffeps, red ribbon page marker taped to rfeps, contents unmarked, binding sound; very good in good+ slightly worn and sunned dustjackets, showing short closed tears along edges. Works issued by The Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Part 2, No. 126 & 127. "With ethnological introduction, appendix, and other contributions by G. S. Parsonson..The ‘Relación' of Munilla, chaplain and vicar of the royal fleet and commissary of the Franciscans in the Quirós expedition, with an extensive introduction..The ‘Sumario Breve' of Juan de Iturbe, followed by documents bearing on the preparations for the expedition, the voyage of Quirós, Quirós in New Spain, negotiations for another expedition, and the missionary plan. Two appendices, one by G. S. Parsonson. .

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Kpomassie, Tété-Michel; James Kirkup (trans.)

An African in Greenland

New York, New York Review Books, 2001. Paperback. pp. 300. 8vo. Very light shelfwear, ink inscription to half title page; very good+. .

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Book number: 082138

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Kroetsch, Robert

Alberta

Edmonton, NeWest Press, 1993. Paperback. 8vo. Black and white and colour photographs. Light shelfwear; very good+. Afterword by Rudy Wiebe. .

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Book number: 060046

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Lahontan, Baron de [Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce]; Reuben Gold Thwaites, ed

New Voyages to North-America / Two Volumes

Chicago, A. C. McClurg, 1905. Reprint. Hardcover. pp. xciii, 407; vi, 412-797, ads. 8vo. Dark brown cloth spines with gilt lettering, over tan cloth boards. Top edges gilt. Illustrations present as called-for, with one folding map showing a couple of tears at folds. Minor edgewear, charming bookplate to both front pastedowns, ink name, top edges a little dusty, Vol. I: front endpaper split at hinge, text block pulling away but binding sound; contents clean and unmarked. With Algonkin Dictionary at p. 732. Amtmann L-148. Pilling Algonquian p. 295: Lahontan "arrived in Canada probably as a private soldier, in 1683.. Truth and fiction are so blended in his works they have long since ceased to have any authority. - Appleton's Cyclop. of Am Biog. .

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Book number: 083307

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Lalande, Jeff;

First over the Siskiyous; Peter Skene Ogden's 1826-1827 Journey Through the Oregon-California Borderlands

Portland, Oregon Historical Society Press, 1987. Hardcover. pp. xxxvii, 149. 8vo. Black cloth over maroon boards with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white maps and photographs, including frontispiece. Light shelfwear, ex libris book plate to front pastedown, pencil owner's name to front endpapers; very good in good, rubbed dustjacket with abrasion to spine. .

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Book number: 080395

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LALANDE, Joseph Jerome Francais de

Voyage D'Un Francois En Italie, Fait Dans Les Annees 1765 & 1766 / Tome Premier / a Venise Et Se Trouve a Paris

Paris, Chez Desaint, 1769. 1st edition. Leather Bound. pp. xlviii, 576,12mo. Bound in original mottled full leather with marbled endpapers. The original binding is worn, spine is cracked and flaking. The joints are weak, although the hinges are tight. A few early marginal notes to the first part of the book. Contents generally age-toned, with some foxing. Overall, a decent reading copy only. Priced accordingly. Published in a set of twelve volumes bound in eight, of which this is the first volume (of eight), containing accounts (in this volume) of the author's visits to, and observations made, in the Alps, Turin, Milan, Parma and Modena. .

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Lawrence, T. E.; Jeremy Wilson, preface; Don Stewart, foreword

An Invitation to British Columbia; a Letter from T.E. Lawrence to Martin A. Grainger

Vancouver, Heavenly Monkey, 2005. Paperback. Slim 8vo. Bound in limp parchment wraps with lettering to spine, and black block letters "T.E.L / M.A.G" to cover. Woocut frontispiece by George Kuthan; fold-out facsimile of letter on parchment. Set by hand in Garamont, printed on HM Text paper with a Washington handpress. Covers slightly splayed, no other detectable flaws; near fine. No. 49 of fifty numbered copies. signed by Wilson and Stewart. .

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Book number: 079325

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Leavitt, David

Florence, a Delicate Case

New York, Bloomsbury, 2002. Hardcover. pp. 176. 12mo. Light shelfwear, some discoloured spotting to dustjacket; very good+ in very good dustjacket. .

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Book number: 090959

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Letts, Malcolm; ed

The Travels of Leo of Rozmital / Through Germany, Flanders, England, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy / 1465-1467

Cambridge, Printed for the Hakluyt Society at the Cambridge University Press, 1957. Hardcover. pp. xii, 271-537. 8vo. Bound in sky-blue cloth with lettering and decoration in gilt and blind. Maps and illustrations present as called-for. Slightly slanted, some edgewear, age-toning to endpapers and half-title, bookplate to front free endpaper, frayed cotton pagemarker taped to rfep, thumbing to pages; very good. Works issued by The Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Part 2, No. 108. "From the German account by Gabriel Tetzel, with supplementary passages from the Latin versions (printed in 1577, 1843 and 1951) of the lost account in Czech by Václav Sasek, both having been Rozmital's companions. .

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Book number: 068902

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LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow

Listen! the Wind

New York City, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1938. Hardcover. pp. xii, 275. 8vo. Edgewear, else vg in torn, slightly chipped, rubbed, good- dj. Foreword & map drawings by Charles A. Lindbergh. 'the story of a survey flight around the North Atlantic Ocean in 1933.'. Ill.: Map eps.

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Book number: 9900027101

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