The Quest for Africa; Two Thousand Years of Exploration
New York: G. P. Putnams Sons, 1957. 1st. Hardcover. Translated from the German by Diana Pyle. Dust jacket torn but complete. More
Travel & Exploration
Bering Bridge; The Soviet-American Expedition from Siberia to Alaska
Duluth: Pfeifer-Hamilton, 1989. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth over boards, spine and cover stamped in white. Price clipped dust jacket is sunned at the spine. Signed presentation from the author on the ffep. More
Glaciers of the Canadian Rockies and Selkirksd (Smithsonian Expedition of 1904)
Washington, D. C. Smithsonian Institution, 1907. 1st. Hardcover. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and line drawings. Bound in publisher's orginal green cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. Ex-library with the ususal markings. The front inner hinge is torn at the title page. Rear inner hinge is weak... More
Mission to Earth: Landsat Views of the World
Washington, D. C. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1976. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in the publisher's original illustrated cloth over boards. Some soiling to cloth and light shelf wear. Profusely illustrated throughout, including 400 plates (most in color) with their explanations. More
Travels In Switzerland In 1817, 1818, And 1819
London: Sir Richard Phillips, 1822. Bound in plain grey wrappers. 128 pp. Pages trimmed, lacks plates. Minor foxing to title page, otherwise fine. More
Canibal Quest.
New York: Farrar & rinehart, 1934. 1st. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Chronicles the author's adventures while traveling from Afghanistan through India, Burma, Thailand (Siam), Singapore, Borneo, Bali, New Guinea and Australia. Bound in orange cloth with title in black, spine shows a bit of sun. More
Travels in the Land of the Gods (1898-1907): The Japan Diaries of Richard Gordon Smith
New York: Prentice Hall, 1986. 1st. Hardcover. Edited by Victoria Manthorpe. Illustrated. Fine condition in a fine dust jacket. More
Mountaineering. Volume Xviii Of The Lonsdale Library Of Sports, Games And Pastimes.
Philadelphia, Lipincott, n.d. Fine condition. Spine and cover gilt-stamped. 130 photographic and line illustrations. More
Rambles In Germany, France, Italy, And Russia In Search Of Sport
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in half red morrocco with marbled boards and marbled end papers. Includes four full page color lithographs. Text and illustrations are bright. Near fine condition. More
The Congo and the Founding of its Free State, a Story of Work and Exploration; two volumes.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt and elaborately illustrated. Grey top edge. Brown endpapers. First American edition. Edges and hinges moderately worn with small areas worn through cloth, otherwise intact and bright. Over one hundred..... More
Over California
San Francisco: Collins, 1990. Hardcover. Bound in the publisher's original green cloth over boards, spine and cover stamped in gilt. Profusely illustrated throughout in full color. Dust jacket is chipped and worn at the extremities. More
My Life with the Eskimo.
New York: Macmillan, 1919. 1st. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs in black and white. Bound in navy cloth with spine titled in gilt. Spine slightly faded. More
Victorious Mountaineer; a memoir of Harry Peirce Nichols 1850-1940
Louisville: The Cloister Press, 1943. 1st. Hardcover. Introduction by Frederick C. Grant. Drawings by Carleton M. Winslow. More
Illustrated Maps of Scotland; From Blaeu's Atlas Novus of the 17th Century
London: Studio Editions, 1991. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in the publisher's original green cloth over boards, spine stamped in gilt. With frontis and 46 full color plates and illustrations throughout. More
Travels in the two Sicilies in the Years 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. Two Volumes
London: Printed for P. Elmsly, 1783, 1785. 1st. Hardcover. Quarto. Rebound in modern quarter brown morocco and brown cloth boards with six raised bands and spines stamped in gilt. Marbled end papers. Volume 1, xxxi, 423, vi. Volume 2, viii, 529, v. All maps and plates present and in very..... More
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star; On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards, spine stamped in gilt. More
The Happy Isles of Oceania; Paddling the Pacific
New York: Putnam Pub Group, 1992. 1st. Hardcover. 528 pp. More
Out of This World; Across the Himalayas to Forbidden Tibet
New York: Greystone, 1950. 1st. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs in black & white. More
Pageant of Adventure
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940. 2nd. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Minor wear to the extremities. More
Pageant of Adventure
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940. 1st. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Minor wear to the extremities. More
Snow on the Equator
New York: MacMillan, 1938. 1st. Hardcover. First American Edition bound in the publisher's original red cloth covered boards, spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is rubbed, chipped at the edges and extremities. Light soiling to ffep and pastedown pages. Illustrated throughout from photographs, maps. More
Cote D'or (criterion Miscellany - No. 2)
London: Faber & Faber, [1929]. 1st. Hardcover. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation page. Printed at the Chiswick Press on English hand-made paper. Bound in the publisher's original stiff cream colored boards with the front cover stamped in gilt. Minor chips to the extremities..... More
Cimes et Neige; 102 Sommets a Ski
Arthaud, 1971. Hardcover. Text in French. With 108 pages illustrees en heliogravure, 102 croquis. More
Before the Wind; The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833
New York: Viking, 1999. 1st. hardcover. Edited by Susan Fels. Preface by William T. LaMoy. Afterword by Thomas Philbridk., More