Washington, DC: U.S. Coast Survey, 1853. A GORGEOUS multi-color mid 19th-century nautical map of Chesapeake bay and the Eastern Shore of Maryland. This large map triangulates between various points on both sides of the Bay as well as Washington, DC, and includes historic towns such as Oxford, Easton, Cambridge..... More

Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1929. 1st Edition. Quarto. An extremely scarce catalog of historic items loaned to the Library of Congress by Maggs Bros. of London for a 1929 exhibition. In a later hardback binding of blue cloth with original title wrap laid down to front board, making..... More

Chicago, Ill: The University of Chicago Press, 1935. 8vo. A beautiful 1st Edition with a warm inscription to a colleague on the half title page, signed boldly in blue ink. Red cloth. Square tight binding. Clean interior. Very mild wear to binding. Beautiful Art Deco illustrated dust jacket..... More

Amsterdam: Nicolaas Goetzee, 1749. 1st Edition. An uncommonly nice and beautiful example of this scarce 18th-century map of the 'Old World' showing the continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa divided among the sons of Noah. The continental outlines are shown according to 18th century knowledge, with interiors reflecting..... More

Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1903. 1st Edition. 8vo. A spectacular 1903 1st Edition, 1st Printing of this turn of the last century Maine wilderness memoir, in Fine condition. Frederick Barker (1853-1937) lived in the Rangeley Region of Maine and was what one might call a wilderness renaissance..... More

New York: G. P. Putnam & Co., 1855. 8vo. First.edition of Bayard Taylor's first hand account of his travels across the world. Red cloth. Tight square binding. Gilt on spine slightly worn. Bumping to the top and bottom of the spine and edges. Illustrated with a detailed folding map..... More

London: The Gentleman's Magazine, 1740. 1st Edition. Quarto. "An Accurate Map of the WEST INDIES, Exhibiting not only all the Islands possessed by the English, French, Spaniards, & Dutch, but also all the Towns and Settlements on the Continent of America adjacent thereto" A lovely pre-Revolutionary War map of..... More

New York: Macmillan and Co, 1894. 1st Edition. 8vo. A lovely copy profusely illustrated from the golden age of Egyptian archeology. 570pp. Burgundy Publisher's cloth. Eleven black and white plates plus dozens of in-text illustrations. Square tight binding. Clean interior, save for contemporary inscription to front flyleaf. Sporadic..... More

Brockhampton, 1960-01-01. Hardcover. Light green cloth. Square Tight Binding. Warmly inscribed by Rear Admiral Dufek, presumably to the son of one of fellow Operation Deep Freeze adventurers D-Diroche. Dufek waxes about the possibility of the son going to the Antarctic like his father. Dufek was a WWII hero who commanded..... More

London: Hakluyt Society, 1982. 8vo. Four volume set devoted to the journals of the naturalist aboard the second expedition of Captain James Cook to the South Pacific. "When Joseph Banks withdrew at the last moment as naturalist on Cook's second voyage, Forster and his son were appointed to..... More

New York: Catholic Publication Society, c.1867. Early Printing. 8vo. A beautiful early reprint of this 19th-century Holy Land classic. Russet cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Square tight binding. Clean interior. Black and white plates. A desirable edition. More

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1916-1924. 1st Edition. 8vo. A STUNNING 10-volume Limited Edition set with a manuscript leaf from Muir's "1897 essay "The American Forests". This 1st Edition Set is number 336 of 750 printed, is bound in olive publisher cloth with brown leather spine labels titled in gilt..... More

London: Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, 1676. A Fine example of the all-important 1676 map, "A Map of Virginia and Maryland", the ninth and last derivative of the 1608 John Smith map. Offered here without later coloring, in its original published form. This map was engraved..... More