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1901ref. 0009096New York: Dodd Mead 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo 313 pages untrimmed blue cloth This is the American issue of the British sheets. "Though Burton wrote and published many bulky volumes of travel . none of them assumed a popular form . The essays that follow were all prepared by Burton himself . Burton here gives an epitome of his principal travels in three continents - Preface." The "three" continents are Africa South America. North America Asia. Dodd, Mead hardcover
1938ref. TRAF00004New York: The Macmillan Company 1938 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full red cloth reverse foil titles on spine xi 265 pp 4 maps 20 ff b & w photo plates. Half of plate 17 missing large chip to margin of pp 135-6 tears to margins of plate 16 pp 127-8 otherwise very good cloth sunned on spine & near top & fore-edges partially removed bookplate on fpd. Memoir of the author's fourteen years in Africa during which time he farmed land awarded to war veterans in British East Africa later Kenya climbed mountains Kenya Mountain Ruwenzori and Kilimanjaro prospected for gold and finally began his return to England by bicycling most of the way across the continent from Uganda to Cameroon. In the same year this book was published Tilman led an attempt to climb Mt. Everest having previously taken part in a 1935 reconaissance expedition. Bad weather forced the abandonment of the 1938 attempt. 95 pages and 16 of the 20 plates are devoted to mountaineering. Shipping weight 2 lbs. First US Edition. . Fair/No dj. 22 X 15 cm. The Macmillan Company Hardcover
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1995ref. EXNW00005New Haven & London: Yale University Press 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth gilt-on-black titles on spine black endpapers lxvi 291 pp 25 ff plates not in pagination including 4 oversized folding plates footnotes index. Light soil to fore-edge else fine. DJ has two tears with creasing to top edge of rear panel; in Brodart archvial cover. The Vinland map believed to have been drawn in about 1440 shows the Old World Iceland Greenland and the coastline of northeastern North America. It was discovered bound in a volume with a manuscript copy of the Tartar Relation "an account of Friar John of Plano Carpini's mission to the Mongols from 1245 to 1247." This volume contains facsimiles of the map and the Relation a transcription and translation of the Relation history and description of the manuscript by Marston a study of the map by Skelton and an interpretation of both by Painter. The preliminaries include essays by Wilcomb E. Washburn on the controversy surrounding the map Thomas A. Cahill & Bruce H. Cosko on forensic studies of both and antiquarian bookseller Laurence C. Witten II on his acquisition of the map in 1957. Shipping weight 6 lbs. Revised Ed. . Fine/Fine. 30 X 23½ cm. Yale University Press Hardcover
ref. EXNW00004New York: Oxford University Press WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Both volumes: tan cloth with navy blue cloth spine blue titles on front board & gilt titles on spine color frontispiece chapter bibliographies many b & w illustrations in text index DJs in Brodart archival covers. Northern Voyages: 1971 BOMC edition xviii 712 pp chapter notes; shaken front hinge repaired previous owner's address label on fpd else fine; DJ very good extremities rubbed; in Brodart archival cover. Southern Voyages: 1974 ISBN 0-19-501823-0 xvii 758 pp footnotes; Fine/Near Fine; DJ extremities lightly rubbed. In addition to being trained as an historian Morison was a sailor and served in the U. S. Navy during World War 2. He brings a sailor's knowledge and experience to all his books on voyages and discovery "has made transatlantic voyages under sail and coasted the eastern shores of the United States and Canada; and in preparation for this book Northern Voyages he flew at low altitude in a small plane from Maine to Labrador around the Gulf of St. Lawrence and along the North Carolina Outer Banks. These personal investigations have allowed him to identify almost every place mentioned by the discoverers." From the DJ for Southern Voyages: "Admiral Morison personally retraced the routes of the explorers he writes about including every part of Magellan's voyage which forms the core of the book." He had previously in the 1930s sailed the routes taken by Columbus in his four voyages in the cases where records survived to recreate them. Fits in medium flat-rate box. Shipping weight 6 lbs. . 23½ X 16 cm. Oxford University Press Hardcover
1903ref. EXNW00003New York: New Amsterdam Book Company 1903 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ribbed maroon cloth gilt titles on front board & spine top edge gilt maroon endpapers frontis. 368 2 pp footnotes index. A bit of rubbing to extremities and faint spotting to rear board else fine. Scholarly biography of Amerigo Vespucci which collects in English translalion many of the documents relating to his life & voyages. This is a rather attractive little reprint in a size convenient to carry around. Shipping weight 2 lbs. Reprint. . VG/No dj. 18 X 11½ cm. New Amsterdam Book Company Hardcover