1719Best.-Nr. 59230Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office Hydrographic Office U.S. Navy 1917; 1930. Two vols. 8vo. ix 1 4 364 pp.; 19 mimeograph leaves. With 2 large folding colour map. First vol. in black publisher’s buckram silver lettering stamped on front cover & spine minor shelfwear slight interior toning shelfwear 2nd vol. mimeographed typescript & stapled at gutter margin minor dustsoiling edgewear predation to lower fore-edge tear to last leaf of blank lower portion still a VG set. First editions of these coast pilot guides to Arctic waters during and after World War I issued about the time of the Russian Revolution and offered key navigational guides for Naval forces during the ill-fated White Russia Revolution and over 13000 troops in the Polar Bear Expedition. Prior to modern GPS systems and satellite navigation these regularly updated and revised navigation handbooks provided key sailing instructions often drawing not only from Russian & British sources but also sailing reports from U.S. Navy vessels and those from merchant ships. The two maps serve as indexes to sailing charts to be ordered from the Hydrographic Office and keyed to sailing instructions within the coast pilots. The supplement is uncommon no copies located in Worldcat. Government Printing Office, Hydrographic Office, U.S. Navy, hardcover

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LA RUSSIE; Manuel Du Voyageur

1902Best.-Nr. 21102Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. Very Good-. Third Edition. Hardcover. Front hinge a bit started. Small tape residue on front free endpaper. Browning to front and rear fold-out maps.; Third edition in French. Not quite as rare as the only English edition. "Avec 19 cartes et 32 plans." Hinrichsen F 212; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 476 pages . 1902. Karl Baedeker hardcover

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My Life As An Explorer

1925Best.-Nr. 0005088Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co. 1925. Popular Edition. Full Leather. Fine. Sketches by Sven Hedin. Thick octavo full leather top edge gilt. Handsomely rebound in full yellow-gold morocco by Kalmbacher of Toledo. Gilt spins with six raised bands with a soaring crane giltstamped on the top cover inner gilt rules. Reading travel books inspired the Swede Hedin to become an explorer. He became one in 1885 when he trekked through Russia Persia and Turkey. Later he went through the Gobi Desert to eastern China and then into Tibet and the Himalayas. Sketches by Sven Hedin. Garden City Publishing Co. hardcover

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THE DUAB OF TURKESTAN; A Photographic Sketch and Account of Some Travels

1913Best.-Nr. 681Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Very Good. Hardcover. Spine boards and endpapers professionally repaired. Endpapers a bit browning. First and last couple of pages with tiny holes; Beautifully illustrated with 207 maps photographs and fold-outs. Top edge gilt; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 564 pages . 1913. Cambridge University Press hardcover