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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N° du livre: 9900027101

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Aviation;Airplanes;North Atlantic;Air-routes;;;;; Map eps

Livingstone, David

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years Residence in the Interior of Africa,; and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence Across the Continent, Down the River Zambesi to the Easter Ocean

London, John Murray, 1857. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. ix, 687. Thick 8vo. Handsomely bound in contemporary 3/4 leather over marbleds boards. With folding lithographed frontispiece of Victoria Falls (signed in the plate by Whymper), a steel engraving of the author facing page 1, (untinted) full-page engravings and line drawings in the text, and two folding maps tabbed-in at the end. Three page 8s, second marked with an asterisk, and third with 'dagger'. No advertisements at end of book. Three book plates of previous owners: the first, a small (one inch by one inch) armorial leather label, is of Robert Hoe (1839-1909, a New York printing press manufacturer, book collector and founder of the Grolier Club. The second, a more conventional armorial bookplate printed on paper, is of Lewis Montgomery Bond, a Philadelphia tea merchant. The third, a printed label affixed to the inside of the rear board, is of Charles Williston McAlpin (1865-1942), a member of a prominent family involved in the industrial and social development of New York City in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. The extremities of the boards are modertaely rubbed, as is the marbled paper on the front board. The hinges are tight, and the contents tightly bound and free of foxing or soiling. Overall, an interesting association copy of the second state of the first edition in good+, to very good, condition. .

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N° du livre: 9900040730

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Africa; Exploration; Darkest Africa;

Loti, Pierre; Laura Ensor (trans.)

Japan; Madama Chrysanthème

London, T. Werner Laurie, 1926. Hardcover. pp. 335. 8vo. Dark rust binding with gilt lettering to spine. Two hundred illustrations by Rossi and Myrbach. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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N° du livre: 088795

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

LOTTIN, Louis Neel-Augustin

Voyage de Paris a St. Cloud Par Mer, Et Retour de St. Cloud a Paris Par Terre

Paris, Duchesne, 1762. Hardcover. pp. 118, 120. 12mo. Bound in original full leather. The leather binding is worn: joints are cracked, and the boards hanging by a thread. The map has some early repairs to the reverse, and shows some creasing and age-toning. Some signatures standing proud but no pages (except the front free endpaper) are loose. Contents remarkably clean. Two parts bound in one. The first part of the book, which contains the folding map entitled 'Plan du Voyage de St. Cloud', was published in 1762 as the fourth edition. The second part of the book, which follows immediately after the first part, is entitled 'Voyage et Retour de St. Cloud; par mer et par terre. Premiere Parties. Nouvelle Edition, Augumentee des Annales & Antiquites de S. Cloud', and was published in Paris by Duchesne in 1760. 'Revue, corrigee & augumentee, avec une Carte tres-exacte, dont le Plan a ete leve sur les lieux.'. Ill.: folding map.

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N° du livre: 9900036718

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: ;;;;;;;; folding map

Lovell, John

Lovell's Montreal Street Guide

Montreal, John Lovell & Son, Limited, 1945. Paperback. 8vo. Creasing to covers, else good. .

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N° du livre: 034538

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Lowenstein, Tom

Ancient Land Sacred Whale

London, Harvill, 1999. Paperback. pp. xxiv, 166. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+. .

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N° du livre: 074871

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: History;

MacDONALD, Jake

Houseboat Chronicles Notes from a Life in Shield Country

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 2002. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 291.8vo,,Near fine condition in like dust jacket, Author's signed presentation copy to (former Manitoba Premier) Duff Roblin and his wife Mary - 'fellow Manitobans'. .

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N° du livre: 9900004873

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Canadian Shield;Memoirs;;;;;;;

Magris, Claudio

Microcosms

London, Harvill Press, 1999. Hardcover. pp. 277. 8vo. Light shelfwear, dog earing; else very good-. .

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N° du livre: 069728

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mannes, Marya; Herb Snitzer

The New York I Know

Philadelphia and New York, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1961. Hardcover. pp. 159. 4to. Bound in black cloth with white lettering to spine. Contains many duotone photographs. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good+, price clipped dustjacket. .

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N° du livre: 083458

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

O'RELL, Max et Jack Allyn

Jonathan Et Son Continent / la Societe Americaine

Paris, Calmann-Levy, 1889. Hardcover. pp. 380. 8vo. Bound in 3/4 red calf over mabled boards. Library bookplate on the inside of the front board and sticker remains to base of spine. Three old French postage stamps tabbed on to first blank front free endpaper; triangular piece of flimsy paper tipped-in on title page stating 'Brentanos / 592 / Rouge'. (Brentanos was, and is, a famous book store). Edges rubbed. Binding tight, contents clean. A good copy. The text is in French. Max O'Rell was the pseudonym of Leon Paul Blouet (1848-1903), a French author and journalist. In 1872 he travelled to England to serve as foreign correspondent for several French newspapers, and in 1876 became the French master at St. Paul's School in London. His first book, 'John Bull et son Ile' ('John Bull and his Island') was published in 1883, and proved to be such a major success that, in 1884, he resigned his post. Several similar volumes followed, including this one on life in America. He was very popular as a lecturer in both England and the United States. .

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N° du livre: 9900038972

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: America;United States;Humour;Humor;;;;;

McPhee, John

The Survival of the Bark Canoe

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992. Paperback. pp. 114. 8vo. Light shelfwear and rippling; good. .

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N° du livre: 088068

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Indigenous studies; craftwork; Indigenous craft; Algonquin

McPhee, John

The Survival of the Bark Canoe

New York, Warner Books, 1975. Paperback. pp. 114+. 8vo. General shelfwear, light age toning and soiling; good+. .

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N° du livre: 091366

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Menzies, Gavin; Ian Hudson

Who Discovered America?; the Untold History of the Peopling of the Americans

New York, William Morrow, 2013. Hardcover. pp. 308. 8vo. Colour photographs. Light shelfwear, marker dot to bottom page edge; very good in very good dustjacket. .

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N° du livre: 076754

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Milton, Viscount; Walter Butler Cheadle

The North-West Passage by Land; Being a Narrative of an Expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific

Toronto, Prospero Books, 2001. Hardcover. 8vo. Black and white illustrations and fold-out map. Very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. .

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N° du livre: 058566

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Morice, Adrien Gabriel

Voyages Et Aventures de Lebret a la Haye Lisieux, Lourdes Et Verdun

St. Boniface, Manitoba, Published by the Author, 1925. 1st edition. Paperback. pp. 310, (2). 8vo. Card covers a bit sunned, soiled & rubbed, pages uncut, else very good. The author, a famous Western Canadian historian and cleric, describes in a series of letters his 1924 voyage to France, the shrines, sites and cities visited, and comments upon the social, political and religious conditions he observed. Not in Peel. Written in French. A scarce title from this prolific author. Ill.: Black-and-white photographs.

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N° du livre: 9900025375

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Catholic missionary;Europe;Roman Catholic;Religion;;;;; Black-and-white photographs