North America

  • [CHILDREN’S GAME] Voyage dans les cinq parties du monde.

    # 35516

    BUSSIÈRE (publisher); MATENET, Jules Xavier (designer); COUDERT, B. (illustrator); JANNIN, H. (lithographer)

    [CHILDREN’S GAME] Voyage dans les cinq parties du monde.

    Paris : Bussière, [between 1870 and 1880]. Original cartonnage box, 235 x 295 x 40 mm, the lid with hand-coloured lithographic onlay of a scene on the Amazon with printed game title above and picture caption below, along with the publisher’s imprint ‘Bussière, Ed. Paris’, framed by an embossed paper border (scattered silver fishing at …

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  • Logbook of HMS Zephyr, July 1873 - August 1876, recording visits to ports on the eastern Canadian seaboard (Halifax, Charlottetown, Picton and St John’s) as well as Bermuda and various ports in the West Indies.

    # 48892

    Lieutenant Commander Charles Richard Cole Hamilton (1842-1911)

    Logbook of HMS Zephyr, July 1873 – August 1876, recording visits to ports on the eastern Canadian seaboard (Halifax, Charlottetown, Picton and St John’s) as well as Bermuda and various ports in the West Indies.

    Foolscap folio (330 x 210 mm), original leather-backed marbled papered boards (somewhat rubbed and worn) with manuscript title label to each board, worded ‘HMS Zephyr, Letters &c. June 1873’ and ‘HMS Zephyr, Orders &c, June 1873’, respectively; [79] pp., manuscript in ink, with copies of letters (entered at the front) and orders (entered at the …

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  • Haida art

    # 49613

    MacDONALD, George F.

    Haida art

    Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1996. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (one corner bumped), pp. xii;242, illustrated. Haida art is the rich, symbolic artistic expression of the Haida Nation from the Pacific Northwest Coast, instantly recognizable by its distinct formline design. This art form is a visual language that narrates history, ancestry, and the spiritual …

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  • The Arts of the North American Indian. Native Traditions in Evolution

    # 49619

    WADE, Edwin (editor)

    The Arts of the North American Indian. Native Traditions in Evolution

    New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1986. Quart, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket, pp. 324, extensively illustrated, small scratch to dustjacket at foot of spine, a good reference copy. A scholarly study examining over 3,000 years of Native artistic, social, and cultural evolution across over 60 tribes. It features essays from fourteen authorities, analysing diverse art …

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  • Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean [together with] Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas

    # 49394

    BECHER, A. B.

    Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean [together with] Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas

    Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean, containing a brief account of the winds, weather, and currents prevailing therein. With charts. London : J. D. Potter, 1859. Second edition. [Together with] : Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas, with an account of the winds, weather, and currents found therein throughout the year. London : …

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  • Narrative of a journey round the world, during the years 1841 and 1842

    # 46652

    SIMPSON, Sir George (1787 - 1860)

    Narrative of a journey round the world, during the years 1841 and 1842

    London : Henry Colburn, 1847. Two volumes, octavo, polished half-calf over marbled papered boards, spines in compartments with raised bands, ruled in gilt, contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt, a few scuffs, spines a little faded, edges speckled red, armorial bookplates to front pastedowns, portrait frontispiece (foxed), pp. viii; large folding map of the …

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  • [COOK] Costumes de différentes nations, en miniature. Avec des descriptions.

    # 47286

    [WAKEFIELD, Priscilla; MILLS, Alfred, illustrator]

    [COOK] Costumes de différentes nations, en miniature. Avec des descriptions.

    Paris : Guyot et de Pelafol, 1816. 32mo (68 x 60 mm), original calf, boards with decorative borders in gilt, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (a little worn at the junctions of the head and outer joints), marbled endpapers; 96 pp. with a frontispiece and 47 copperplate illustrations of people of the world; binding …

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  • [GAME] Nouveau jeu de Loto Géographique et Universel, ou Tableaux des capitales de l'univers.

    # 45944

    A. LION (publisher)

    [GAME] Nouveau jeu de Loto Géographique et Universel, ou Tableaux des capitales de l’univers.

    [Paris] : [A. Lion], n.d. [c.1845]. Original box of thick card, 230 x 290 x 40 mm, the lid with paste-down chromolithograph; containing 18 sections of playing board (each 125 x 215 mm), each with a paste-down lithograph illustrating five different locations, mostly major cities (all 90 locations illustrated are briefly described in an accompanying …

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  • Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Her Majesty's Colonies.

    # 49242

    TRENDELL, A. J. R.

    Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Her Majesty’s Colonies.

    A series of original papers issued under the authority of the Royal Commission. London : William Clowes and Sons, 1886. Octavo, presentation binding of full crushed morocco over bevelled boards, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with gilt rule and lettering (edges a little rubbed), all edges gilt, gilt-lettered morocco presentation label to front pastedown to …

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  • A Mideast kaleidoscope

    # 49164

    NEADERLAND, Louise

    A Mideast kaleidoscope

    New York : The International Society of Copier Artists (ISCA), 1983. Artist’s book, metal fastener, loose sheets of photocopied text and image with holes punched at each corner, explanatory booklet. ‘A game book “based upon a photograph by Fadi Mitri and a portion of the Israeli Government statement announcing a cease fire in Lebanon on …

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  • Tours to the West Indies

    # 49068

    HENRY GAZE & SONS

    Tours to the West Indies

    London and New York : Henry Gaze & Sons, circa 1898. Oblong octavo, tourist brochure, lettered wrappers, pp. 20, illustrated, folding map at rear of the route of the Red “D” Line of steamships between New York, La Guarya, Puerto Cabello, Curacao and Maracaibo, a fine copy. Scarce tourist brochure with detail on St. Thomas, …

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  • Pierce's Tropical Tours. Winter of 1896 - 1897. Jamaica, West Indies, Central and South America

    # 49069

    Pierce's Excursion Company

    Pierce’s Tropical Tours. Winter of 1896 – 1897. Jamaica, West Indies, Central and South America

    Boston : Pierce’s Excursion Company, 1896. Oblong octavo, tourist brochure, illustrated wrappers featuring Jamaica, pp. 32, illustrated, a fine copy. Scarce tourist brochure with detail various sights and destinations in Jamaica.

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  • Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del Mar Oceano,

    # 48706

    HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de.

    Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del Mar Oceano,

    Escrita por Antonio de Herrera coronista mayor de Sv Md. de las Indias y sv coronista de Castilla. En quatro decades desde al año de 1492 hasta el de 531. Decada primera al rey Nuro Señor. Madrid : Officina Real de Nicolas Rodriguez Franco, 1726 – 1730. Eight volumes (decades) bound in five, with the …

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  • Document signed by William McKinley, 25th President of the United States of America

    # 48425

    Document signed by William McKinley, 25th President of the United States of America

    The President of the United States of America appointment document, printed on vellum, 435 x 345 mm (window), engraved illustrations, completed in manuscript, appointing Mervyn Chandos Buckey to the position of Second Lieutenant, countersigned by Robert Alger, Secretary of War, dated 7th July, 1897. Seal of the War Office of the United States of America. …

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  • Defensa de los nuevos christianos y missioneros de la China, Japon, y Indias,

    # 48321

    Le Tellier, Michel; Gabriel de Párraga (pseud. de José López de Echaburu) (translator)

    Defensa de los nuevos christianos y missioneros de la China, Japon, y Indias,

    contra dos libros intitulados, La practica moral de los Jesuitas, y El espiritu de M. Arnaldo Traducida de Frances en Espanol … por Don Gabriel de Parraga. Madrid : Antonio Roman, 1690. Quarto (213 x 153 mm), contemporary vellum, spine with early manuscript title in ink; original endpapers; title-page with device and border (staining across …

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  • [INDIAN MUTINY] First Geography for Natives : or, guide to the map of the world

    # 48451

    [CLIFT, Horace William]

    [INDIAN MUTINY] First Geography for Natives : or, guide to the map of the world

    Calcutta : printed at the Calcutta School-Book Society’s Press, and sold at their Depository, Circular Road, 1846. Sixth edition. Octavo (177 x 110 mm), original plum cloth (faded and with scattered stains); ownership inscription to front free endpaper: ‘R. Moore of the 1 Company 6 Bn. Bengal Artillery Feby. 12 the [sic] 1857 Anno Domino …

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