The Travellers Guide to China; Shanghai and Its Vicinity
Shanghai: The China Advertising Co, 1909. First Edition. Paperback. Duodecimo. 4.75 x 7.25. xviii + 106 + [iv]. With 21 black and white illustrations, ads. Scarce guide-book to Shanghai. More
HISTORY & TRAVEL
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Muslims and Others in Scared Space
(Oxford): Oxford University Press, (2013). First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25. xviii + 232 pp. Occasional black & white reproductions and a map. A collection of seven essays offering in depth studies of sites sacred to Muslims. More
The Pepper-Hearst Expedition; A Preliminary Report on the Exploration of Ancient Key-Dweller Remains on the Gulf Coast of Florida
Philadelphia: MacCalla & Company, 1897. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo. 5.875 x 9.125 in. 120 pp. Illustrated with ten plates, including reproductions of black & white photographs, charts and figures. Eminent archaeologist and ethnologist Matthew Stirling's copy, with his ownership signature on first page. More
Saint Patrick's Purgatory: A Poem
Binghamton, New York: Medieval & Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1993. First Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. 178 + [4] pp. Translated, with an introduction and notes, by Michael J. Curley. Text in French and English. Inscribed by the translator in year of publication, "To Melinda / who was..... More
Leo Strauss, the Straussians, and the American Regime
(Lanham, MD): Rowman and Littlefield, (1999). First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.125 x 9.25 in. xv + [i], 451 pp. Photographic frontis. of Strauss. More
The Island of Stone Money: Uap of the Carolines
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 6 x 9 in. 278 pp. Illustrated with numerous reproductions of black & white photographs from the author. A superior copy. More
The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and "Discovery" in the Southeast
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. xvi, 457 pp. Georgia archaeologist Lewis Larson's copy, with his ownership stamp to front free endpaper. More
Tales of Tahitian Waters
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1931. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 7.75 x 10.75 in. vi, 303 pp. First printing (I-F). Illustrated with numerous photographic plates; pictorial endpapers. First binding in turquoise cloth. More
Blood, Class and Nostalgia; Anglo-American Ironies
London: Chatto & Windus, (1990). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. viii + 398 + [6] pp. More
Beyond a Boundary
New York: Pantheon Books, (1983). First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 14.5 x 21.5 cm. 256 pp. A commentary on cricket in the colonial West Indies, a look at the game and its political and psychological overtones, from the author of The Black Jacobins. Lovely dust jacket illustration by..... More
John Adams
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. 751 pp. Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Signed by McCullough on title page. More
Fleur de Lys and Calumet; Being the Pénicaut Narrative of French Adventure in Louisiana
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1953). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.875 x 8.5 in. xvii + [vii], 281 + [3] pp. Georgia State Archaeologist Lewis Larson's copy, with his previous ownership signature and stamp to front free endpaper, and with his business card laid in. More
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Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion [Signed, Limited]
Asheville, NC: The Captain's Bookshelf, 2011. First Limited Edition. Octavo. xxviii, 497 pp. With eight pages of black and white illustrations and nineteen maps. One of 52 specially-bound and numbered copies. The first 12 copies of this limited edition have been reserved for the author, Algonquin Books (Morgan's trade publisher)..... More
Jean Lafitte in the War of 1812
Worcester, Massachussetts: American Antiquarian Society, 1941. First Separate Edition. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.75 in. 22 pp. Scarce. More
Francis Drake & San Francisco Bay: The Beginning of the British Empire
Davis: University of California, 1974. First Edition. Paperback. Thin octavo. 6 x 9 in. vii + [i], 28 + [2] pp. With several black & white illustrations, including maps. Title page, and several drop caps and vignettes, printed in blue. One of 1800 copies. More
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The Social & Economic History of the Hellenistic World [3-Volume Set]
(Sandpiper), (1998). First Sandpiper Edition. Hardcover. Octavos. 6.5 x 9.5 in. 1,779 pp. in total. Illustrated with several black & white plates. Special edition for Sandpiper Books of Oxford edition, originally published in 1941. More
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Abraham Lincoln: The War Years [Four-Volume Set, Inscribed to Jack Kapp]
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, (1939). First Trade Edition. Octavo. 7 x 9.5 in. xxxi, 660; xii, 655; xiii, 673; xii, 515 pp. With black & white illustrations throughtout; each volume with photographic frontis. Inscribed at half-title to legendary record producer Jack Kapp: "Jack Kapp / as between fellow..... More
Sixteenth Century North America
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 6 x 9.125 in. xii, 319 pp. With several black & white illustrations, including maps. Georgia state archaeologist Lewis Larson's copy, with his ownership signature to front free endpaper. More
Odyssey: Patagonia to the Antarctic
Peacham, Vermont: The Perpetua Press, (2004). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with 50 black & white photographic reproductions, printed in duotone. Limited issue, one of 250 copies and signed by Norman Seider at colophon. Elegant, beautifully printed—winner of the Best Pictorial Book at the New..... More
Flowers for the King; The Expedition of Ruiz and Pavon and the Flora of Peru
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. xv + [i], 378 pp. Scarce in dust jacket. More
Oxford and Empire: The Last Lost Cause
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1986). First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. xviii, 366 pp. Illustrated with a suite of reproductions of black & white photographs. More
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (2014). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. vi, 278 + [1] pp. More
Views of Carisbrook Castle, Isle of Wight
London: R. Westall, [1839]. First Edition. Paperback. Smaller, thin quarto. 7 x 10.5 in. Engraved title page, with 5 engraved plates (complete). More
Selected Collections of Yunnan Nationality Museum
(Yunnan): (Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House), (1995). First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Tall quarto. 8.5 x 11.25 in. 175 pp. Fully illustrated with reproductions of color photographs. Text in Chinese and English. More
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