Search Results: Travel, Exploration & Voyages

Veracruz: November 7, 1842. Good plus.. Broadside form, completed in manuscript, approximately 12.5 x 8.5 inches. Previously folded, with minor wear and soiling along old folds. A couple of small chips at right edge. Even tanning and scattered foxing. A passport granted to one Smith…

[New York, New York]: J.S. Adams, Commissioner of Immigration, 1870. Good. Light dust soiling, wrps chipped with larger short tear to foot of spine.. A brief treatise published in 1870 to promote Florida to immigrants, farmers, and other groups seeking a new home. Published for the state by…

1858. Two with trimmed top margin. Appear to have been disbound.. Three ( 3) different pieces of printed music with illustrated covers depicting the enthusiasm surrounding the laying of the cable. Both romanticized and scientifically accurate depiction of the Niagara & Agamemnon laying the…

1813. GUIGNES, Chretien-Louis-Joseph de. Dictionnaire chinois, français et latin. Publié d'après l'ordre de sa majesté L'Emperuer et Roi Napoléon le Grand par M. de Guignes, résident de France à La Chine, Attaché au…

1687. CONFUCIUS. Confucius Sinarum Sive Scientia Sinensis Latine Exposita. cxxiv, 108, 160, xx, 20, 8, [2], 23-108, [2] pp. Illustrated with engraved portrait of Confucius and a map of China engraved by François de Louvemont from a drawing by the Belgian missionary Philippe…

Florence: L. Torrentino, 1551. INTERIM BINDING OF CONTEMPORARY LIMP VELLUM (soiled), contemporary manuscript title on the spine and bottom edge, evidence of four pigskin ties, edges gauffered in blind; spine lining from a medieval vellum manuscript.             First Edition of the…