New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. Marbled paper over boards with leather spine and fore corners.. Sixteenmo. 483 pages. A genuine American classic. Dana was a gifted observer and writer, and his memoir paints a colorful portrait of Mexican California in the 1830s, including the ports of San Diego, San..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1903. First edition. Black and white photographs. Full cloth. Small quarto. xiv, 492 pages. Observations and impressions by an American woman who was with Ambassador Horace Porter's party on a diplomatic visit to Turkey. Dodd stayed at the Sultan's Yildiz Palace at Constantinople. Illustrated..... More
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, (1901). First printing. Black and white photographs, illustrations. Cloth over boards with printed paper sides. Tall octavo. 176 pages. Beautiful depiction of child life in China, revealing something of their nursery's, school rooms, and playgrounds. Numerous photographs throughout, along with old prints, to illustrated..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., (1938). First Edition. Illustrated with 31 black and white plates and a fold-out map. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. viii, 322 pages. The famous Swedish Explorer's account of his expedition, undertaken at the direction of the Chinese government, to survey possible highway routes to..... More
San Francisco: Towne and Bacon, 1860. First Edition. Illustrated with 12 plates after sketches by noted San Francisco artist Charles Nahl. Leather. Duodecimo. [v]-vi, [1], [9]-378 pages. One of the great California frontier narratives in its beautiful first edition, chronicling the exploits of the legendary "Grizzly Adams" in the Sierra..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. First Edition. Color and black and white photographs, maps. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. xx, 366, [4 pages ads]. Account of a month-long scientific and sporting expedition in 1907 into the deserts of southern Arizona and the uncharted Pinacate region of northwestern Mexico. Hornaday..... More
London: Printed by John Hughs for Olive Payne, 1738. Frontispiece engraving of Confucius, fold-out plates, table. Leather over boards. Octavo. [viii], 536 pages. Landmark account of Qing‑era China based on the detailed observations of Jesuit missionary and mathematician Louis le Comte while on the French Jesuit mission to China in..... More
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1839. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimos. 242 and 228 pages. Frederick Marryat was a British naval officer and pioneering nautical fiction writer. He traveled to America in 1836-1837, and this is the first American edition of his account of that visit. It is an..... More
[New York] and London: The Macmillan Company, Collier-Macmillan Ltd., (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [x], 246 pages. Messick's exposé of Meyer Lansky and the vast criminal syndicate he was believed to operate in the Bahamas following his departure from Cuba after the revolution. Prior ownership name of prominent Washington attorney..... More
London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd., (1928). First Edition. Black and photographs by the author and others, fold-out map at rear. Original cloth hardcover. Octavo. [i-iv], v-[xvi], 1-305 pages. A. Blayney Percival was a prominent safari guide and ranger in Kenya in the early 20th century. This is the scarcer of..... More
London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd., (1924). First Edition. Black and photographs by the author and Martin Johnson. Original cloth hardcover. Octavo. [i-iv], v-[xviii], 1-374 pages. Percival spent thirty years in Africa as safari guide and a member of the Kenya Colony Game Department. Here he shares numerous hunting adventures as..... More
(Agoura): Trophy Room Books, (1997). First Edition, limited to 1,000 copies. Black and white photographs. Hardcover. Quarto. xiv, 230 pages. First publication of this remarkable memoir by probably the most famous guide in the golden age of African safaris. Philip Percival went to Africa in 1905 to join his older..... More
London: The Argonaut Press, 1928. Limited edition of 975 copies, this copy not numbered. Frontispiece portrait, 2 folding maps. Hardcover. Quarto. cvi, 182 pages. A superb edition of Sir Walter Ralegh's Guiana expedition in search of the golden city of El Dorado. Appendices A and B contain Spanish official dispatches..... More