1579 University Avenue · St. Paul, Minnesota 55104 · (651) 644-7605
ESTABLISHED IN 1965
Minneapolis: Ross and Haines, 1961. Hard Cover. Octavo. 9 1'2" x 6". 258pp, Ixxxiv pp. Nice edition of writings from French explorer from 17th Century. A fine copy in a price clipped dust jacket. In a brodart protective wrapper. "From the Original Manuscript in the Bodleian Library and the British..... More
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1850. First American Edition. Hardcover. Two volume set bound in brown boards. 20 x 13.5 cm. Small octavo. 371pp + ads and 400 pp.Translated from the German by W. D. Cooley. Edgewear to the boards. Scattered foxing. Some damp staining. Bindings are tight. More
Connecticut: Columbian Book Co., 1878. Hardcover. 514pp. Dark brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Front gutter cracked. Bookplate has been removed from front endpaper. Label of previous owner's name on front endpaper and his private library stamp on title page. Head and tail of spine worn. Corners bumped. Complete..... More
London: Chatto Windus Ltd, 1963. Hardcover. 22 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 240pp. Fold-out map. Blue boards in dust jacket. There is some staining to the bottom foredge. Jacket spine is faded and shows some shelf wear. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. More
Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, Hay. & Mitchell, no date. Hardcover. 19.5 x 13 cm. 12mo. iv 295, 256pp. Two works bound as one each with frontispiece. Binding is blue cloth: Library of History, Travel and Adventure. Gutters are cracked. Boards are rubbed and shaken but still holding. More
Philadelphia: J.T.Lloyd, 1860. Hardcover. 12mo. (20cm x 13cm). Brown boards. Gilt lettering to spine. 403pp including publisher's ads in rear of book. Folded map. Illustrations. Wear at head and tail of spine. There is some staining throughout book including soiling to back cover. Binding tight. More
Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. 22 x 15 cm. Octavo. 477pp. Bound in red-orange decorative boards. Corners of boards are bumped and rubbed. Gutter cracked between pages 304-305. Some chipping to the spine. Previous owner's name stamp on front fixed endpaper. More
Norman and London: University Of Oklahoma Press, 1989-03. First edition. Hardcover. 26 x 18.5 cm. 491 pages. Grey cloth in dust jacket. Abstracted by Fray Bartolomé de las Casas. Transcribed and translated into English with notes and a concordance of the Spanish by Oliver Dunn and James E. Kelley, Jr...... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1963. Limited ed. Hardcover. 31 x 23 cm. Quarto. 417 pages. Blue cloth with embossed stamp tom cover. Limited to 1500 copies signed by the artist, Lima de Freitas, this being copy number 851. Some fading to the spine and rubbing to the endlabel..... More
London: Messrs. Cadell and Davies in the Strand, 1803. Fourth Edition. Full Leather. 21 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. xxiv 500pp. Bound into contemporary full leather covers rebacked with a more modern spine. Illustrated with 5 maps, of which 4 are fold-out, and 1 plate, "View of Maimatschin". Small closed tear..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1881. Second edition. Hardcover. Two volume set. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. xii 424pp, xii406pp. Frontispiece. Volume 1 illustrated with 4 chromolithograph plates of birds and 36 additional full page engravings and vignettes, complete. Volume 2 with 29 plates or vignettes as well as a...... More
Glasgow: M'Gready, Thomson & Niven Publishers, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto.(12" x 10") Rebound in brown boards. Gilt lettering to spine. 824pp. Lithorgraph frontispiece. Numerous coloured illustrations, maps and other engravings With twenty-four plates and two maps. (Clear tape on folded chart of the North Polar Seas). An anthology covering..... More
London: John Murray, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes.octavo. new endpapers. Red cloth. (Spines faded) . ( 7 1/4" x 5") Folding lithographed map in rear of Volume 1. Wood engraved title vignettes, 22 wood engraved illustrations. 351pp & 332pp. (Rebound) Name of previous owner on half-title page... More
De Capo Press, 1970. Hardcover. Quarto. 10" x 8". Brown cloth. 376pp. Reprint of the 1927 Argonaut Press Edition. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1866. Hardcover. 24 x 15 cm. Octavo. 638 + 6 ads. Large fold-out map in rear, with one small closed tear to one of the creases. Bound in 20th century blue cloth. Previous owner's bookplate and date stamp on front fixed endpaper. 36 full..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, October 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. *8 1/2" x 6") Red cloth. Sunning to spine. 426pp. Sixty-six illustrations and three maps - one doublepage.Bookplate of previous owner on front pastedown. From the library of Robert Lloyd Lillestrand with his bookplate. Lillestrand was an authority..... More
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1895. Limited New Edition. Hardcover. Three volume set bound in green cloth. 24.5 x 16 cm. Octavos. Volume I: Memoir of the Author - Mississippi Voyage, frontispiece portrait, cxiii 356pp, volume II: Arkansaw Journey - Mexican Tour, vi, 357-855pp, volume III: index - maps, (plate)857-955pp..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1946. Second Impression. Hardcover. 20.5 x14 cm. Octavo. 124pp. Green cloth in dust jacket. Stated second impression. Light rubbing to edges of the boards. Jacket is clipped at all four corners.Foxing to first and last few pages. More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1899. First American edition. Hardcover. Bound in gray cloth with mounted plate to front cover. Gilt lettering to cover and spine. 941pp and 4 pp of publisher ads. Published simultaneously in London the same year. Five color printed maps, 2 portraits, plates and illustrations. Stamp..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. 30 x 31 cm. Quarto. 320 pages. 1st edition with full number line. Yellowing and some edgewear to the dust jacket. Some toning to the page edges. There is some water staining to page edges. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1874. First American Edition. Hardcover. 24 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. xvi 559pp & x 521pp + 6 ads. Two volume set bound in 20th century grey boards ( circa 1920s or 30s). Frontispieces as well as two maps and many woodcuts by J. D...... More
London: John Murray, 1952. First edition. Hard Cover. 391pp. Illustrated. A nice copy in a chipped dust jacket. A couple of creases at top Protected in a brodart wrapper. More
Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1941. Revised Edition. Hardcover. 24 x 16.5 cm. Octavo. 360 pages. Bound in green cloth. Gilt top foredge, which shows some spotting. Spine is faded. Fold-out map frontispiece as well as 4 additional plates. A few pages have some scattered foxing. Originally published..... More
London: Edward Arnold, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Mauve/brown covers with silver lettering to cover and spine. 211pp with 30 pp of publishers ads in rear of book. Sixteen plates and two maps. Bookplate of previous owner on front pastedown. Some rubbing to edges and head and tail of spine..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. First American Edition. Hardcover. 23 x 15 cm. Octavo. Two volume set. Bound in green illustrated boards. Rubbing to edges of the bindings. Hinges in both volumes are cracked. Previous owner's bookplate and date stamp on front fixed endpaper of both volumes. Large fold..... More