London: John Murray, 1856. 8vo. xvi, 456 pp., plus 32 pages publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Complete with half-title, frontispiece, small vignette of Prince Tshukuma on the title page, large folding plate of plans of the ship Pleiad, folding map of rivers. Half morocco over linen, gilt spine; a very nice..... More
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. 4to. x, [ii], 632 pp. Second edition. With 8 plates, including the hand-colored frontispiece, 4 additional hand-colored aquatints, plus 3 black and white plates (2 double page). Half morocco with marbled boards, chipped and faded along the edge, corners bumped and showing some..... More
London: John Murray, 1863. Two volumes. 8vo. viii, [ii], 351; vi, 423 pp. FIRST EDITION. Separate frontispieces, 7 full-page illustrations plus numerous text illustrations and 1 folding map. Contemporary half-calf and marbled boards; a very nice copy, though without the publisher's advertisements often found in Volume I. First edition of..... More
Chicago: J.W. Henry, [1892?]. 8vo. xii, 479 pp. Later American edition. With frontispiece, folding map, plates, and numerous in text illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, gilt, front hinge very tender; interior very good. Later American edition. Baroness Annie Brassey (1839-1887) was an English travel writer. This was her most popular work, describing..... More
St. Louis: Thompson, [1899]. Two volumes. Folio. 784 pp. FIRST EDITION. With over 1200 illustrations, maps and photographs, including many in color. Green cloth titled in gilt on front cover and spine, patterned end-papers, all edges marbled. Boards soiled and rubbed, very good. Introduction by Major General Joseph Wheeler. Includes..... More
Amsterdam: Wetsteins & Smith, 1730. Two vols. 12mo. [viii], 341; [ii], 276, [11] pp. First Edition of French Translation. Complete with 7 engraved plates (including frontispieces in both volumes), titles in red and black, woodcut ornaments and initials. Contemporary calf, gilt spine with raised bands and spine label; marbled endpapers..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1933]. 8vo. viii, 439, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece, 3 plates and 4 folding maps; the final map has been partially torn away and the remainder rebound between pp. 128-129. Recent buckram; first 3 leaves (including frontispiece) showing water stains, but otherwise in good..... More
Edinburgh: Constable and Co., 1829. Two volumes. 12mo. xxxiv, 326; vi, 262 pp. New (third) edition. Each volume with half-title, author portrait in Volume I, engraved view of St. Petersburg in Volume I and of Irkutsk in Volume II, folding map in Volume II. Cloth-covered boards, morocco spine label, new..... More
London: Matthew Iley, 1821. 8vo. [4], 251 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates. Modern sprinkled calf, gilt-ornamented spine. Text in verse. First edition. The text is in verse and the plates similar in style to William Combe's Dr. Syntax, illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson. Tooley lists this work under..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1839. Three volumes and the separately bound appendix to volume 2. 8vo. xxviii, (4), "597" [= 601]; xiv, (2), 694, (2); viii, 352; xiv, "615" [= 638] pp. With 8 folded engraved charts and maps loose. First edition. First issue. With 44 lithographed plates, most with tissue..... More
Carlisle: Printed by George Philips, 1817. Two parts in one. 8vo in-4. xvi, [ii], [19]-617, [18] pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Lacking the frontispiece, but with half-titles to each part present. Later quarter calf and marbled boards with red morocco spine label; interior browning with the occasional stain, marginal loss to..... More
Leipzig: Thomas Fritsch, 1696. Folio (330 x 210 mm). [xxvi], 898, 899-943 col., [76] pp., including two half-titles and index. Title in red and black with engraved printer's device, woodcut chapter initials, head- and tailpieces. Text in Greek and Latin in parallel columns. Bound in full period calf, spine elaborately..... More
Boston: I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1795. 12mo. iii, 137 leaves. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. French and English text on facing pages. Contemporary calf, somewhat worn; offsetting and browning throughout and a few marginal tears, not affecting text. Contemporary ownership signatures of A. Watkins and William Wayland, with a manuscript correction..... More
Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1903-04. Three volumes. 4to. 670; 699; 775 pp. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated. Green cloth titled in gilt on spines, gray end-papers, top edge gilt. Ex-libris with usual markings, spines sunned, extremities rubbed, otherwise very good. Though these were originally published by Putnam this set has an..... More
