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Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55 (Volume 1)

By: Kane, Elisha Kent

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Childs & Peterson: 1857

Seller ID: 53527

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Volume 1 only. Rebound in blue buckram. Wrong author name gilt-stamped on spine. Illustrations; fold-out map present. Very light surface rubbing on cloth binding. Foxing, some dampstaining in the margins of the plates. Closed tear repaired with clear tape on last page of text. The fold-out map is age-darkened, with a 3/4" mostly closed tear at the edge of one fold. ; B&W Illustrations; 464 pages
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Wanderings of an Artist, Among the Indians of North America from Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon through Hudson's Bay Company's Territory and Back Again (Master-Works of Canadian Authors, Volume 7)

By: Kane, Paul

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Toronto, The Radisson Society of Canada: 1925

Seller ID: 50593

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Spine and board top edges a bit sun-lightened; gilt appears unaffected. Just a bit of very light rubbing at the corner tips. Else binding clean. Light foxing on the endpapers. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Else pages clean. ; 329 pages
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Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan

By: Kent, Rockwell

Price: $42.00

Publisher: New York, Halcyon House: 1924

Seller ID: 44029

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Some faint foxing to the front board. Spine a bit sunned (lettering still very readable), and a bit at the board edges. Just a bit of light rubbing at the tips of the corners. Endpapers and page edges somewhat age-darkened. Inked previous owners name on front flyleaf. Tiny pieces of tape residue at the edges of the pastedowns. Else pages clean. No dustjacket.; B&W Illustrations; 184 pages
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The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in North America (1610-1791)

By: Kenton, Edna (ed); introduction by Reuben Gold Thwaites

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Albert & Charles Boni: 1926

Seller ID: 49336

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

A few tiny white speckles near the fore-edge of the front board. Just a bit of very light rubbing. Else binding clean. Previous owners name inked on the front flyleaf. Else pages clean. ; 527 pages
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West African Travels and Adventures: Two Autobiographical Narratives from Northern Nigeria

By: Kirk-Greene, Anthony; & Paul Newman

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: 1971

Seller ID: 41204

ISBN: 0300014260

Binding: Hardcover

Ex-Library copy; with typical markings. 2 library labels on the front board. Tips of top corners bumped, with short tears. Trace of rubbing at spine tail. Else binding quite clean. Pages clean, but for library markings. No DJ. ; 0.8 x 8.1 x 5.4 Inches; 255 pages; Ex-Library
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Travel Journal / Cape to Zululand: Observations by a collector and naturalist, 1838-40

By: Krauss, Ferdinand; edited by O. H. Spohr

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cape Town, South Africa, Published for the Friends of the South African Library by A. A. Balkema: 1973

Seller ID: 41504

ISBN: 0869610465

Binding: Hardcover

Ex-Library copy; with typical markings. 2 library labels on the front board. Some rubbing at corners. Light surface rubbing. Pages clean, but for library markings. No dustjacket. ; 90 pages; Ex-Library
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Adventures in the Wilds of North America

By: Lanham, Charles; edited by Charles Richard Weld

Price: $65.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans: 1854

Seller ID: 44035

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Rebound in green cloth. Just a bit of rubbing at spine extremities and tips of corners. Else binding clean. Light soil to the title page, and a small stain at the fore-edge of the following couple pages. Else pages just a bit age-toned, but clean. ; 300 pages
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The Conquest Of The Great Northwest Being the Story of the Adventures of England Known As the Hudson's Bay Company

By: Laut, Agnes

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company: 1918

Seller ID: 36893

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Some bumping to spine extremities and corners. End papers age-toned. Spine lean. Just a bit of pencil notes on a couple pages. Pages edges foxed, soiled. Partial DJ: portion of front DJ only. ; 415 pages
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History of the Expedition of Captains Lewis and Clark, 1804-5-6 (2 volume set)

By: Lewis and Clark; Introduction by James K. Hosmer

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Chicago, A. C. Mcclurg & Co.: 1902

Seller ID: 44022

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Two volume set. Reprint of the edition of 1814. TEG. Spine extremities and tips of corners lightly rubbed, with a tiny tear at rear corner of the spine head. Just a bit of very light rubbing along the spine edges. Some fairly light staining to the boards; the worst to the rear board of V1. Board cloth appears to be a bit age-darkened. In V1, the verso of the half-title page and the facing recto of the frontis are foxed, from a sheet of acid-content paper laid-in at one time. Else pages clean. All maps present. A nice set, with fairly minor flaws.
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The History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (in 3 volumes)

By: Lewis, Meriwether; and William Clark; (edited by Elliott Coues)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Dover: 1979

Seller ID: 57522

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

This is an unabridged reproduction of the 4-volume edition by Harper in 1893. No publication date listed; circa 1979/ This trade paperback edition is published in three (3) volumes with a total of 3 maps at the end of volumes 1 and 2. Two of the maps are affixed and one is loose. All 3 maps are in VG condition. The edges and corners of all 3 volumes show light bumping, creases and wear. The bottom page edges of all 3 volumes show some light staining. There is a former owner's name in ink on the FFEP of volume 2. This is a large, heavy set; Priority and/or International may require shipping ove...
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Radisson, The Voyageur: A Verse Drama in Four Acts

By: Long, Lily A.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Company: 1914

Seller ID: 44031

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

115 pages, plus 4 pages ads. Signed, inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf. Some slight fading to areas of the boards. Spine extremities and corners lightly bumped, rubbed. No dustjacket. ; Signed by Author
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A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to Reach Repulse Bay, Through Sir Thomas Rowe's "Welcome", in His Majesty's Ship Griper in the Year MDCCCXXIV

By: Lyon, G. F.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Coles Publishing Company: 1971

Seller ID: 46843

Binding: Hardcover

Ex-Library copy; with typical markings. Library rebinding in blue buckram. Library label on front board and label residue on the spine tail. A couple tiny spots of soil on the boards. Else binding clean. Pages clean, but for library markings. Fold-out map. No dustjacket. ; 198 pages; Ex-Library
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Alexander Mackenzie's Voyage to the Pacific Ocean in 1793

By: MacKenzie, Alexander; introduction by Milo Milton Quaife

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Citadel Press: 1967

Seller ID: 44074

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

A bit of light surface rubbing to the front board. Else binding quite clean. Pages clean. Some surface rubbing to the DJ front panel and spine. Else DJ clean. ; 384 pages
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Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the Year 1852 (Report of the U. S. House of Representatives, 33d Congress, 1st Session)

By: Marcy, Randolph B.; and George B. McClellan

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., A. O. P. Nicholson: 1854

Seller ID: 43906

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Edgeworn, with chipping at spine extremities. Wear along spine edges. Some staining / lightened discoloration at fore-edge of the boards. Front hinge cracked. Spine gilt completely faded. Pages foxed. Geology plate 2 and biology plate 18 are not present, as issued; all other plates present. A bit of light foxing here and there to plates, but overall, they are fairly clean. "Report of the secretary of war - Jeffn. Davis". The accompanying map volume is not present.
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Life of Sir John Franklin and The North-West Passage

By: Markham, Albert Hastings

Price: $16.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: N.D.

Seller ID: 44206

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: with no dust jacket

No publication date; circa 1900. Four color maps; two fold-out. Ex-Library copy; with typical markings. Paper label at tail of spine. Bumping, some wear at spine extremities and tips of corners. Bumping along bottom edges. Light surface rubbing. Hinges starting. Pages a bit age-toned, and some light soil to endpapers. Else pages clean, but for library markings. No dustjacket. ; 7-1/8 x 5"; 324 pages; Ex-Library
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A Life of John Davis, The Navigator, 1550 - 1605, Discoverer of Davis Straits

By: Markham, Clements R.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, George Philip & Son: 1889

Seller ID: 53519

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

301 pages, plus 10 pages ads. Brown cloth with black & gilt. Ex-library copy, with minimal markings: remains of bookplate on the front and rear pastedowns, and inkstamp on the half-title page & rear flyleaf. Corners bumped, with some light rubbing. Spine extremities lightly bumped, with a couple short tears in the cloth. Else binding clean. Very slight spine lean. Missing front flyleaf. Some smudging to the half-title page. Else pages clean.
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Expeditions into the Valley of the Amazons, 1539, 1540, 1639

By: Markham, Clements R. (ed)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Burt Franklin: N.D.

Seller ID: 46851

Binding: Hardcover

Ex-Library copy; with typical markings. Library label on front board and a bit of label residue on the spine tail. Just a bit of light rubbing at the tips of the corners. Else binding clean. One sentence underlined on one page. Else pages are clean, but for library markings. Fold-out map. No dustjacket. ; 190 pages; Ex-Library
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Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound

By: Meany, Edmond S.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Portland, OR, Bindfords & Mort: 1942

Seller ID: 43960

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Binding clean. There is a portion of a previous owners gift letter pasted on the front endpapers. The flyleaves and page edges are age-toned. Else pages clean. DJ spine and edges are sunned; although the spine lettering is unaffected. Some chipping at DJ extremities. Clear tape on the inner DJ at the upper fold extremities. DJ price-clipped. ; 344 pages
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The Tattooed Man

By: Meredith, J. C.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce: 1958

Seller ID: 50144

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Lower front corner is lightly bumped. Pages clean. DJ spine extremities and corners are rubbed. Staining, surface rubbing to rear DJ. ; 90 pages
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Finding the North Pole: Dr. Cook's own Story of his Discovery, April 21, 1908; The Story of Commander Peary's Discovery, April 6, 1909 Together with The Marvelous Record of Former Arctic Expeditions

By: Morris, Charles (editor)

Price: $28.00

Publisher: W. E. Scull: 1909

Seller ID: 58560

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Hardcover with no dust jacket. Recased in green cloth and red leather decorative spine. A handsome copy with light rubbing and wear to the corners and spine extremeties. There is a 1/2" tear to the spine heel leather. Gilt on spine is slightly rubbed. Page edges are marbled but lightly faded. Some pages have small, light dime-sized spots. ; Vol. 24A; 9-1/4 x 7"; 448 pages
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