Clarke, Edward Daniel

A Tour Through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland, Made During the Summer of 1791

London, Printed at the Minerva Press for R. Edwards, 1793. Leather Bound. pp. xxx, 403. 8vo. 20th century 3/4 brown leather, over marbled boards. Gilt lettering and five raised bands to spine. With 12 aquatint plates (11 plates plus one plan of Stonehenge), some folding. Spine sun-faded, edges rubbed, one library rubber stamp, contents clean and complete, binding sound. Lovely! "The emanations of fancy, the sportive ebullitions of inventive genius, beam not though the thin texture which is here interwoven from the materials of a summer excursion. .

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Book number: 084560

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M'Clintock, Francis L.

A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and His Companions

Edmonton, Hurtig, 1972. Hardcover. pp. 375. 8vo. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contains fold out maps and illustrations. Light shelfwear. Dustjacket sunned to spine; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. The voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic seas. .

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Book number: 086893

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Polar; western expansion; colonialism; north-west passage; Canadian history

M'Clure, Robert le M; Sherard Osborn (Ed.)

The Discovery of the North West Passage; by H.M. S. "Investigator," Capt. R. M'Clure, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854

London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1857. Second edition. Hardcover. pp. 463. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Frontispiece, fold-out map, and four tissue-guarded engravings. Ex Library: sticker residue to spine, rubber stamps to endpapers, title page, and bottom edge, sticker removal scuff to front pastedown. Edgewear, spine pulled, front hinge hanging by a thread; contents clean and unmarked, text block solid. A good working copy or candidate for rehabilitation. Illustrated by Commander S. Gurney Cresswell. .

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Book number: 077156

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

COLERT, Walter, M.D.

Centennial Trip Around the World in 1970 with the Addition of Other Interesting Trips, Addresses and Events

NP (Winnipeg, MB), Published by the author, 1972. 1st printing. pp. 138.Larger 8vo,,Spine frayed, card covers a bit worn, else g/vg condition,A laboriously-written travelogue of several lengthy trips the author took between 1970 and 1972. Notwithstanding, a relatively scare item, WorldCat noting only three institituional holdings. Name and address stamp of former owner on several preliminary pages. No other markings. Ill.: black-and-white photographs.

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Book number: 9900044708

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Keywords: ;;;;;;;; black-and-white photographs

Connelly, Karen

Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Turnstone Press, 1993. Third printing. Paperback. pp. 206, 8vo. Very good. .

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Book number: 050511

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Cook, James; Philip Edwards (ed.)

The Journals; Prepared from the Original Manuscripts by J.C. Beaglehole for the Hakluyt Society, 1955-67

London, Penguin Classics, 2003. Paperback. pp. 646. 8vo. General shelfwear, creasing; good. The Journals of Captain Cook. .

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Book number: 090028

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COOK, Captain James [Capt. James Hawkesworth]

The Landing at Mallicolo, One of the New Hebrides. [Plate LX from Hawkesworth's Account of the Voyages of Capt. James Cook]

London, Wm. Strahan, 1777. 1st printing. An original copper engraving from a painting by William Hodges,Taken from Hawkesworth's 1773 account of the voyages of Capt. James Cook, Joseph Banks, and Capt John Byron. Hodges (1744-1797) joined Cook's second expedition to the South Pacific (1772-1775) as a draughstman. Cook visited Vanuatu in July of 1774. In his judgment the islanders - the Malekulans - were 'the most ugly and ill-proportioned people' he ever saw. Hawkesworth commented that they wore no clothes, except a piece of cloth or leaf by which the men tied their penis to their belly. They had wooly, short-cropped hair, thick lips, and very dark complexions, and the septum was perforated by a sharp stone. When Hodges painted 'The Landing at Mallicolo' (the original of which hangs in the National Martime Museum) he adopted what has been described as 'the transitional mode of history painting, using the mitigated realism popularized by Benjamin West'. Cook's men are shown in contemporary dress and the islanders are painted to accord with the ethnographic reports, but in poses and with gestures whose origin appears to lie in classical statuary, thus making them tall and dignified of bearing - a clear contrast with Cook's description of them as being 'ape-like'. This is plate LX appearing opposite page 129. The margins show staining. There is some faint staining to the image, and several small closed tears (not affecting image). The margins are untrimmed. Measuring 29 x 49 cms, with three folds, as issued. Uncoloured. Ill.: Engraving by William Hodges.

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Book number: 9900044466

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Keywords: James Cook;Exploration;Engravings;;;;;; Engraving by William Hodges

Thos. Cook and Sons

Peking; North China, South Manchuria and Korea

London, Thos. Cook and Sons, 1920. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. pp. 161 (i-xxii). 12mo. Bound in dark green cloth. Contains duotone illustrations and plans, and fold out maps. Light general shelfwear; very good. .

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Book number: 088042

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Beijing; Imperial China; colonization; Boxer rebellion; Chinese Republic; Mandate of Heaven; tourism

Cornell, S.S.

Cornell's Intermediate Geography; Forming Part Second of a Systematic Series of School Geographies

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1874. Revised Edition. Hardcover. pp. 100. 4to. Black binding to spine. Heavily worn and soiled, hinges tender but holding, bookplate to ffep, foxing throughout; good-. .

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Book number: 087166

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Cortázar, Julio; Anne McLean (trans.)

Autonauts of the Cosmoroute

New York, Archipelago Books, 2007. Paperback. pp. 354. 8vo. Contains black and white photographs and illustrations. Light shelfwear, predominantly to edges; very good+. Ill.: Stéphane Hébert.

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Book number: 080767

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Stéphane Hébert

Da Costa, M.G. (ed.); Donald M. Lockhart (trans.)

The Itinerário of Jerónimo Lobo

London, The Hakluyt Society, 1984. Hardcover. pp. 417. 8vo. Bound in Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good dustjacket. .

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Book number: 085240

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CUMMING, Roualeyn Gordon

Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa / 2 Volumes

New York City, Harper & Brothers, 1852. Hardcover. pp. 326, 303. Small 8vo. Complete two volume set bound in original dark brown cloth. With extra illustrated title page to both volumes, and eight-page publisher's catalogue at end of volume II, dated February, 1852. Boards of both volumes edge-worn, bumped and scuffed. About two-thirds of the spine of volume II detached. Front hinge weak on volume II and rear board almost detached. Contents of both volumes foxed, but otherwise clean. Can be read with care; thus a good reading set. 'With notices of the native tribes, and anecdotes of the chase of the lion, elephant, hippopotamus, giraffe, rhinoceros, etc.' First published by John Murray in 1850, in London, and by Harper, in New York in the same year. This is a later printing of the first edition. .

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Book number: 9900034116

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Keywords: Big game hunting;African;;;;;;;

Cummins, J. S. [ed.]

The Travels and Controversies of Friar Domingo Navarrete

Cambridge, Printed for the Hakluyt Society at the Cambridge University Press, 1962. Hardcover. pp. cxx, 163; x, 165-475. 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 minor spotting and short closed tears along top edge of volume II. Works issued by The Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Part 2, No. 118 & 119. "A translation of the autobiographical portions of the Tratados Historicos, with interpolations from his unpublished ‘Controversias' and other works. Describes travels in China and the outward and homeward journeys. The origin and nature of the Jesuit-Dominican controversy over the Chinese rites are summarized in the editor's Introduction. The main pagination of this and the following volume is continuous..Includes Navarrete's account of the island of Santo Domingo (1679) and appendices on various matters such as the detention of the missionaries in Canton, 1666-70, and Navarrete's relations with Richard Cony, governor of St Helena. .

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Book number: 068933

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DAWSON, S. J.

Report on the Exploration of the Country between Lake Superior and the Red River Settlement [Etc. ]

Toronto, John Lovell, Printer, 1858. Leather Bound. pp. 45, maps. Large 4to. Bound in older half blue morocco over lighter blue cloth boards,This item was published in 1859 as Appendix 4 to the Seventeenth Volume of the Journals of The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada (as it was then called). It had previously been published by Dawson in 1858. This version also includes a letter by Bishop Tache (the bishop of St. Boniface) on the Red River settlement and the 'half-breeds' in the settlement. See Peel #207. It contains a coloured map showing 'the Route by Road & Navigation for Connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans', as well as two very long folding maps; one showing the 'Profile of Route by the Grand Portage and Pigeon River from Lake Superior to Rainy Lake', and the other being a 'Plan Shewing the Region Explored by S. J. Dawson and his party between Fort William and the great Saskatchewan River'. The maps are in nice condition, with usual creasing and edge chipping but no significant defects. The folding maps are all creased, as is to be expected when two of them are so long and have so many folds. Text is in vg cond. Ill.: Three folding maps.

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Book number: 9900039978

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Keywords: Winnipeg;Manitoba;Exploration;Red River;Saskatchewan;Hudson's Bay Co;Indians;Canoe; Three folding maps

DAWSON, S. J.

Report on the Exploration of the Country between Lake Superior and the Red River Settlement Etc.

Toronto, Canada, Legislative Assembly, 1859. 1st ed. thus. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 4to. This item was published in 1859 as Appendix 4 to the Seventeenth Volume of the Journals of The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada (as it was then called). It had previously been published by Dawson in 1858. This version also includes a letter by Bishop Tache (the bishop of St. Boniface) on the Red River settlement and the 'half-breeds' in the settlement. See Peel #207. It contains a coloured map showing 'the Route by Road & Navigation for Connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans', as well as two very long folding maps; one showing the 'Profile of Route by the Grand Portage and Pigeon River from Lake Superior to Rainy Lake', and the other being a 'Plan Shewing the Region Explored by S. J. Dawson and his party between Fort William and the great Saskatchewan River'. The maps are in nice condition, with usual creasing and edge chipping but no significant defects. It has been bound in plain dark blue cloth with gold lettering to front board and spine. The text is separating at centre but is still intact. The folding maps are all creased, as is to be expected when two of them are so long and have so many folds. Text is in vg cond. Ill.: Three folding maps.

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Book number: 9900011389

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Winnipeg;Manitoba;Exploration;Red River;Saskatchewan;Hudson's Bay Co;Indians;Canoe; Three folding maps