NS, Canada: Lunenburg Exhibitors, 1953. 1st Edition. Paperback. Small stapled wraps with complete Dj. Boldly Signed and dated by author. Dj with closed tears now protected with Mylar. Sm 8vo.
Printed in the USA. David West. 1797. No edition marks. Leather over boards. Hardcover leather (brown) over boards. 12mo. xvi, 6-312 pp. Unillustrated. Unknown edition; the first edition of this book was published in 1778. Carver dies two years later in 1780, and his book is printed by several publishers.....
Printed in Austria. Collectors Club. 1984. First edition. Faux leather over boards. Hardcover faux leather (blue) over boards. Slim 8vo. Unpaginated. Illustrated with a b/w plate photograph frontispiece of Dali as a child, 3 phosphorescent line drawings on blue paper, and 623 b/w plate reproductions of Dali's signatures. Note: there.....
Printed in the UK. John Murrauy. 1848. First edition. Leather and paper over boards. Set of two volumes. Hardcover 1/4 leather (brown) over paper (marbled) over boards. 8vo. Pagination: volume I - xvii, 385 pp; volume II - xi, 395 pp. Illustrations: volume I - a b/w engraved frontispiece portrait.....
Printed in the UK. John Stockdale. 1789. First edition. Leather over boards. Hardcover leather (brown) over boards. 4to. xii, 384, xl, +[frontispiece portrait]+[6 engraved maps]+[13 engraved plates] pp. Illustrated with a b/w engraved frontispiece portrait of Captain Nathaniel Portlock, 6 b/w fold-out engraved maps, and 13 engraved plates - 8.....
London: For T. Chapman, 1799. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean, Performed in the Years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the Ship Duff, Commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from Journals of the Officers and Missionaries; and Illustrated with Maps, Charts, and Views, Drawn by Mr.....
Boston: J.B. Millet & Co, 1901. Red Cloth. Vg+. TEG, nicely illustrated .Limited edition of 1,000; this one No. 505.
Boston & Tokyo: J. B. Millet, 1920. Approx. 250-350 pp. per volume. Red cloth; spine lettering gilt; spine vignette gilt; top edge gilt. Ilustrated with photographs (frontispiece in colour plus 5 plates per volume). A few hinges just slightly started, but firm; v. 11 has damp stain on rear board.....
New Zealand Shipping Company, 1922. Paperback. Stapled wraps. n.d. (1922?). 12-page pamphlet in printed wraps. 1 illustration in b/w. Wrappers slightly soiled and corner crease to a couple of pages. 8vo.
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. B/w & 6 colour illus. 1st edition. Cloth. Vg+/spine sunned.
Christchurch, NZ: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1908. Rev. & Enlarged Ed. Hardcover. Hardcover, red cloth. 375 pp. Illustrated in b/w. Ink name and number stamp on front free endpaper; spine faded, spotted & soiled; extremities rubbed. 8vo.
London: John Lane the Bodely Head, 1922. Hardcover. Hardcover. Orange cloth. 287 pp. + ads. Illustrated with b/w photographs; 2 maps, one folding. Spine foot worn; slight split to pine edge, and frontispiece partially detached; interior otherwise clean & bright. 8vo.
London: Lockwood & Co., 1866. Hardcover. Hardcover. Original red cloth with gilt cover vignette; new endpapers. x + 174 pp. + ads (16 pp.). Illustrated with fronispiece portrait engraving of Captain Musgrave; folding map.Slight soiling to cloth; minor bump; binding slightly cracked; interior browned only on 2 pp. (where something.....
N. Y. Wiley & Halstead, 1822. 2nd Ed., Rev. Hardcover. Hardcover. Modern spine and contemporary paper boards; black spine label printed in gilt; new endpapers. lxxvi + 246; 256 pp. Illustrated with 7 engraved plates; folding map; folding chart; frontispiece portrait engraving of Porter. Title continues: To Which Is Now.....
London: Navy Records Society, 1913. 1st Edition. Cloth. 224 pp. Folding map at rear. Ex library with very faint institutional stamp on front free endpaper only, endpapers and fly-leaves browned, but interior otherwise bright. Navy Reocrds Society, vol. 42. 8vo.
London: John Murray, 1935. Reprint. Cloth. Nicked & closed tears to dj. This is The Cheaper Edition, 1st published in 1927. Arranged by Leonard Huxley with a preface by Sir Clements Markham. With 8 illustrations and maps. 497pp. 8vo.
London: A & C Black, 1903. 1st. Decorative Cloth. xii + 274 pp. Maps & pen-and-ink sketches in text plus 66 full-page colourplates by the author. Ex lib. Book pocket on front pastedown and institutional rubber stamps; still a nice bright copy, w. nicked and chipped spine tips and frontispiece.....
London: Seeley & Co., 1910. Hardcover. Hardcover. Red cloth lettered in gilt with gilt cover vignette; top edge gilt. 328 pp. + ads. Illustrated with photographs; colour folding map. Ink name on front pastedown & front free endpaper; else a nice tight copy with slight fading to spine and minor.....