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Invitation to Ireland. The Emerald Isle

By: N/A

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Ireland, Browne and Nolan, Limited,: 0

Seller ID: 005951

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good

Eight panel folded promotional booklet. 16 x 9 inches when unfolded. 4 x 9 inches unfolded. Published in the 1930's by The Government of Ireland at Dublin. Contains test and b/w photographs. Passport and visa information. Travel arrangements. No copies found on WorldCat/OCLC
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[Engraving, hand-colored] A Chief and other Natives of O-Taheitee visiting Capt. Cook in his Second Voyage to the Southern Hemisphere

By: N/A

Price: $265.00

Publisher: 1782

Seller ID: 009784

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good

Engraving, hand-colored (later). Engraved by C. [Charles] Grignion after S. [Samuel] Wale. 29x19 cm (11½x7½"), matted and framed under glass. Published in Millar's New Complete Universal System of Geography. ------- Depiction: Native men and women meet with James Cook aboard the Resolution (or Adventure), with the Union Jack fluttering above in 1773 or 1774. ------ Historical context: Cook visited Tahiti in 1773 and 1774 during his second voyage. It is not certain which of the two visits is depicted in this engraving. ------ The artist Samuel Wale an English historical painter and boo...
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Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Hispaniola, or St. Domingo.

By: N/A

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Carey & Lea.: 0c1822

Seller ID: 010803

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good

Philadelphia: Published by Carey & Lea. c.1822. 16 1/2 x 20 1/2" (420 x 518 mm) including text, plus margins. Hand-colored.

A fine map from Carey and Lea's "A Complete Historical, Chronological, and Geographical American Atlas." . The text describes the boundaries, climate, rivers, chief towns, civil divisions and population. The map was drawn by F. Lucas Jr. and engraved by Young & Delleker. A nice, bright impression with typical age toning.

The best atlas of nineteenth-century America.

With the French part of the island, to the west, shown in pink and the Spanish par...
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Island of Maui U-Drive & Tour Map

By: N/A

Price: $14.95

Publisher: [Unknown]: 1960s

Seller ID: 010860

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good

Stamped as issued by National Car Rentals of Kahului Airport. C 1960's. Good condition with tanned edges and a few stray markings. The map is printed in green and red. 16.87 by 14 inches when unfolded. 8 panels. on Reverse half Adverts and numbered tourist spots which are marked on the map.
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Trip to Oregon 1936 Scrapbook page. United Airlines Three Postcards 1936

By: N/A

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Unknown: 1936

Seller ID: 011616

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good

Trip to Oregon 1936 Scrapbook page. United Airlines Three Postcards 1936. Mounted on a "scrap book page" with caption: "Plane We Flew to Oregon July 14, 1936". Card measures 9 by 12 inches.
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Citta' Del Vaticano 36 Color Slides in Plastic Frames

By: N/A

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Rome, ATS italia: 1994

Seller ID: 012135

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

7.5 by 9 inches plastic folder with separate sleeves for the slides. Title card with slide descriptions in Italian, English, German, French and Spanish.

No flaws to note, appears that the slides may never have been taken from sleeves.

Published Rome: ATS italia, 1994
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Born Free: A Lioness of the Two Worlds.

By: Adamson, Joy

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, NY, Pantheon Books: 1960

Seller ID: 007188

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

First Edition - First Printing. Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. Some aging discoloration on inside front and back covers. No DJ. Inscription inside front cover. --- Illustrated with B/W photos throughout. --- The author captures not only Elsa's story, but the Adamson's love of Africa, the people, the animals, the land itself.
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Alaskan Voyage 1881-1883: Johan Adrian Jacobsen. An Expedition to the Northwest Coast of America

By: Adrian. Translated by Erna Gunther. Johan Adrian Jacobsen Woldt (Author)

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press: 1977

Seller ID: 009541

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Bindings tight and square. Text clean, Moderate handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has light shelf handling. ------- Johan Adrian Jacobsen (1853 - 1947) was a Norwegian ethnologist and adventurer. He is mainly known as a collector of ethnographical objects, and a recruiter of indigenous peoples for the ethnographical shows for a zoo in Hamburg. Starting in mid-1881, Jacobsen was hired by the Berlin Museum to gather ethnographic objects and other specimens. His travels took him from the Arctic to South America, North America, Korea, Japan, Siberi...
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Bellinzona, Gateway to the Alps, Key to Lombardy, Capital of Ticion. Bellinzona World Heritage (Unesco World Heritage)

By: Agustoni, Paolo

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Bellinzona E Dintorni, Ente Turistico Di: 2003

Seller ID: 010395

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Text in English. Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal handling; Still Gift Quality. Text in English. 4to; 10 inches tall; 126 pages. -------- The city is famous for its three castles. The town lies east of the Ticino river, at the foot of the Alps. It stretches along the river valley, surrounded by the southern ranges of the Lepontine Alps to the east and west, and by the Lugano Prealps to the south. [wiki]
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New Dawn for the Kissimmee River: Orlando to Okeechobee by Kayak

By: Alderson, Doug

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Gainesville, Florida, University Press of Florida: 2009

Seller ID: 009160

ISBN: 0813033950

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. 8vo; 152 pages with index and b/w photographic illustrations.

Alderson uses his substantial reporting and photography skills to bring us a story of environmental destruction and restoration. I learned a lot about places I've visited dozens of times but never fully understood. [Willie Howard, outdoors editor, Palm Beach Post]
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Mustang: Life and Legends of Nevada's Wild Horses

By: Amaral, Anthony

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Reno, NV, University of Nevada Press: 1977

Seller ID: 006622

ISBN: 087417046X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Bindings tight and square. Text clean, Minimal handling wear. Dust Jacket in new clear protective Mylar sleeve only flaw is that it is price-clipped. (The Lancehead series: Nevada and the West) Illustrated with photographs and drawings.
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

By: Anderson, Norman

Price: $39.95

Publisher: London, UK, Stacey International: 2006

Seller ID: 007437

ISBN: 0955219302

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality. Dust Jacket is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve.

Illustrated with nearly 400 photographs, 60 maps and diagrams.

This book covers history, culture, religion, economy and government of Saudi Arabia and provides detailed information on cities, industry and development.
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The Channel Islands

By: Ansted, David Thomas & Latham, Robert Gordon

Price: $65.00

Publisher: London, Wm H Allen & Co: 1893

Seller ID: 010053

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Detailed (and illustrated) nineteenth-century description of the 'Physical Geography', 'Natural History', 'Civil History', 'Economics and Trade' of the Channel Islands. Illustrated by Paul J. Naftel. ------- This third edition, published 30 years after the highly esteemed first edition, "numerous and extensive alterations.to the original text, reflecting the changes that have taken place" ---------- Green cloth with stamped gilt spine titles. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Hinges appear to have been strengthened. Many signatures uno...
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Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy

By: Arms, Dorothy Noyes

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1932

Seller ID: 012496

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A delightful travelogue with exquisite artwork of John Taylor Arms. He specialized in portraying the gothic architecture of France and Italy. Traveling the back roads and visiting the then out-of-the-way towns of northern Italy by car, he visually captures the look and feel as his wife provides a charming travelogue.

Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear; Perimeter of cloth is sunned, light rubs to lower edge and corners, top spine band lightly pulled. Bookplate on front paste-down and lovely gift inscription on front free endpage. ...
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Motor Boat Boys Among the Florida Keys or, the Struggle for the Leadership

By: Arundel, Louis [pseudonym of George Rathborne]

Price: $145.00

Publisher: Chicago, M. A. Donahue & Company: 1913

Seller ID: 008116

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, First Printing. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear, with loss of tip spine band. Three color front pictorial and spine decoration clean and vivid. Dust Jacket unclipped is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has toned with small loss on edges. 231 pages with publisher adverts. 7 5/8 inches tall.

Motor Boat Boys Series #5. A series of adventure books featuring six teen-aged boys and their adventures on various waterways
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Baja California [Automobile Club of California]

By: Automobile Club of California

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Los Angeles:, Automobile Club of California; Travel Publications Department: 1985

Seller ID: 010503

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

A lavishly illustrated guide to points of interest, tourist facilities and recreational opportunities along major highways and side roads in Baja California.

Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. 8.25 inches tall; 132 pages with index. Vintage b/w photographs and maps. 4 copies located in universities [OCLC 13394339]

Other features of this tour book: highway signs, useful Spanish words and phrases, lots of travel hints tucked away in sidebars, highway distances and average temperatures.
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The Mother Lode [California Gold Rush Sites Guide Book]

By: Automobile Club of California

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Los Angles, Automobile Club of California: 1985

Seller ID: 010504

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The guidebook focuses on the 267-mile stretch of SR 49 between Mariposa and Sierraville with additional descriptions of the most rewarding side-trips.

Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. 8.25 inches tall; 74 pages with brief biographies of several notable persons from the era. Vintage b/w photographs and maps.
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Panoramic Israel; Israel 360

By: Aviad Kleinberg (text)

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Bnei Brak, Israel, Steimatzky; MOD Publishing Hou: 2002

Seller ID: 006683

ISBN: 9650511164

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling to one picture, creased; Still Gift Quality. Dust jacket has two small tears at corners. Dust Jacket in new clear protective Mylar sleeve has a minor crease and rud to the upper rear corner. Several of the color photographs which are 4 pages wide, opening up to double the width of the book are 53 inches in length.
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Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River, and Along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835.

By: Back, George (1796-1878)

Price: $1,475.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1836

Seller ID: 011950

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The first edition of "one of the fundamental books on Arctic exploration." Back covered over 7500 miles, 1200 of which were previously unknown territory. His narrative holds literary esteem and is "full of details about the Cree, Chippewa, Coppermine Indians, and other tribes, upon whom members of the exhibition were obliged to depend during a terrible winter" [Hill]

Back was commissioned to complete the survey of the coast between Prince Regent's Inlet and Turnagain Point but the Terror was beset by ice for nearly a year (August 1837- July 1837), drifting in the pack off northeast Southa...
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Image for Sport in The Alps in the Past and Present. An account of the chase of the chamois red-deer bouquetin roe-deer capercaillie and black-cock with personal adventures and historical notes and some sporting reminiscences of H.R.H. the Late Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

Sport in The Alps in the Past and Present. An account of the chase of the chamois red-deer bouquetin roe-deer capercaillie and black-cock with personal adventures and historical notes and some sporting reminiscences of H.R.H. the Late Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

By: Baillie-Grohman, W. A. (1851-1921)

Price: $275.00

Publisher: London, Adam & Charles Black: 1896

Seller ID: 012106

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A classic account of Alpine sport, mostly in the Austrian Alps including chamois-stalking, stag, roebuck, and other big game. "Sport in the Alps is altogether one of the most complete existing accounts of a fascinating subject . excellent dissertations on the history of sport." [Times]

Half navy-blue leather with five raised spine bands and decorations on to lighter blue cloth with an emblem in gilt. All edges gilt. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall; 356 pages with index. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with sun-fading on the spine and a sc...
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