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The Narrative of Robert Adams, A Sailor, who was Wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa, in the year 1810, was Detained Three Years in Slavery by the Arabs of the Great Desert, and Resided several months in the city of Tombuctoo. With a Map, Notes, and an Appendix.
London: Printed for John Murray by William Bulmer and Co., 1816. [African Travel] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 22cm), pp.xl; 231 [1]. With a large folding map. Rebound in the mid twentieth century in tan half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper over..... More
Farthest East, and South and West. Notes of a Journey Home through Japan, Australia and America.
London: W. H. Allen, 1892. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. xii, 343. With 12 photographic plates including frontispiece. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, as well as black/white illustrations. Navy end-papers. Black ink prize inscription to verso of front free end-paper. Reading lean. Clean and..... More
Among the Sioux of Dakota. Eighteen Months Experience as an Indian Agent.
New York, NY: D. Van Nostrand, Publisher, 1881. [Native Americans] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.235 [3]. Recently re-backed in red calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the original red calf boards with gilt and blind ruling to margins. Lightly trimmed to all edges..... More
A Sporting Tour Through Various Parts of France, In the Year 1802: Including a Concise Description of the Sporting Establishments, Mode of Hunting, and Other Field-Amusements, as Practised in that Country With General Observations on the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Husbandry, and Commerce: Strictures on the Customs and Manners of the French People; With a View of the Comparative Advantages of Sporting in France and England. In a Series of Letters to the Right Hon. The Earl of Darlington. To Which is Prefixed, an Account of French Wolf-Hunting. By Colonel Thornton, of Thornville-Royal, Yorkshire. Illustrated With Upwards of Eighty Correct and Picturesque Delineations from Original Drawings from Nature, by Mr. Bryant, and Other Eminent Artists. In Two Volumes.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1806. [Travel] FIRST EDITION, in two volumes. Quartos (30 x 24cm), pp.lxvi; 168; [6], pp.xii; 260; [12]. With numerous in-text engravings and 51 engraved plates across the two volumes, some of them fold-out. Both with frontispieces and vignette title pages, frontispiece of volume II..... More
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