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Buck, Peter H.
Explorers of the Pacific.
Fine condition in original soft cover wraps, cover illustration by Jean Charlot. Octavo (7 x 10.5 Inches). Pp. 125, Captain Cook frontispiece, fully illustrated w/ b/w paintings and maps. AN account of European explorers in the Pacific.
Publisher Information:
Bernice P. Bishop Museum,
Honolulu, Hawaii:
1953.
Price: $75.00
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Douglas, Miss M.
Across Greenland's Ice-fields : The Adventures of Nansen and Peary on the Great Ice-Cap
A Very Good+ copy. Octavo (5.25 x 7.25 inches). Decorated blue buckram. (Lightly soiled) printed end papers with engraved bookplate of William Pettigrew Darsie. Pp. 218 plus 11 wood-engraved illustration and frontispiece- portrait of Nansen. A romantic and daring tale of adventure. As stated in the intro by Clements R. Markham, President of the Royal Geographic Society; Miss Douglas selected heart-stirring narratives for her theme which relate the difficulties and perils attendant on the exploration of the inland Ice of Greenland.
Publisher Information:
Thomas Nelson and Sons,
London:
1897.
Price: $95.00
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Morwood, William.
Traveler in a Vanished Landscape. The Life and Times of David Douglas.
A Fine copy in a Fine DJ. Octavo (6.25 x 9.25 inches). Green cloth with blind embossing to cover and gilt lettering to spine. Pp. 244, with over 25 line drawings and maps. Douglas offer a major contribution to the discovery and identification of several native West Coast botanical species, including the Douglas Fir and the California Poppy. Scots-born, an estute adventurer and plant hunter, Douglas explored the early nineteenth century western landscape with a passion, traveling over 1200 miles on foot and horseback over a two decade period in pursuit of the undiscovered. A true adventurer's tale.
Publisher Information:
Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.,
New York:
1973.
Price: $75.00
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Poesch, Jessie.
Titian Ramsay Peale 1799-1885. And His Journals of The Wilkes Expedition.
A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. Small closed tear repair to dj. Folio (9.5 x 12 inches). Photo printed boards. Printed endpapers; map of the route of Major Long's expedition plus foldout of the route of the Wilkes expedition aboard the SS Vincennes. Pp. 214. A fine illustrated biography of an important Early American pioneer artist/naturalist, and son of prominent painter Charles Wilson Peale. Illustrated with TR Peale's drawings from the expedition, historical photographs and naturalist's engravings. In addition, Peale's Journals of the Wilkes Expedition are here published in their entirety for the first time.
Publisher Information:
The American Philosophical Society,
Philadelphia:
1961.
Price: $95.00
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Tomlinson, H.M.
The Sea and the Jungle.
Near Fine condition, tanning to head of boards & foxing to FFL, in a Good dust jacket, sun tanned w/ paper loss to head & tail of spine, minor chipping to head corners & paper loss to tail of rear and back. Royal Octavo (6.25x9 Inches). Green fern decorated boards, dark green cloth and gold lettering to spine. Pp. 343, "A sad woman and several naked children" b/w woodcut frontispiece, fully illustrated with 19 b/w woodcuts by Clare Leighton. This narrative focuses on the tramp steamer Capellas journey in 1909 and 1910 from Swansea to Para in the Brazils.
Publisher Information:
Duckworth,
London:
1930.
Price: $95.00
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Woodcock, George.
The Hudson's Bay Company.
Fine condition in a Near Fine DJ. Octavo (6 x 8.5 Inches). Tan boards title imprint w/ black lettering to spine. Pp. 185. The Hudson Bay had a significant impact in both the French and British involvement in the New World, being a company that simply refused to die out as its counterparts, the East India and Africa trading companies of the British Empire were enveloped by history.
Publisher Information:
Crowell-Collier Press,
Toronto:
1970.
Price: $55.00
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