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Americas
Travel books to the Americas, New World exploration accounts, geographical and historical studies of Latin America and United States, Americana, Far-West, discovery of America
First edition, never reprinted, illustrated with 95 plates, in color and black and white, some after the author's own drawings. Full white cloth. Illustrated dust jacket. Very good condition.
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Waterlow bro. & Layton|London 1880|15 x 24 cm|broché
First edition in French, with no mention of deluxe copies. Pamphlet with a folding plan at the beginning of the volume. Lacking spine, loose covers with corner losses, handsome interior condition. Rare.
Félix Alcan|Paris s. d. [circa 1930]|15.50 x 23 cm|agrafé
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint from the Revue des sciences politiques. This is a conference given by the author to the Society of former students of the École libre des sciences politiques on January 18, 1935. Rare and handsome copy.
J. de Grandpré & Cie|Blois 1933|18 x 22.50 cm|agrafé
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint. Beautiful autograph inscription from Saint-Pierre to Countess Emmanuel de Lévis-Mirepoix. Our copy is enriched with manuscript notes by the author at the foot of two pages providing clarifications to the dedicatee on the subject treated in this pamphlet. Worming to boards. Rare.
First edition. Full sand-colored sheep binding, smooth spine, cherry red shagreen title-label, navy blue shagreen date label, slight tear at head of spine, triple twisted rope border on covers. Foxing.
Maravilla literaria|Buenos Aires 1864|15 x 24 cm|relié
First edition. Half dark green shagreen binding, smooth spine with traces of rubbing decorated with quadruple gilt fillets, navy cardboard boards with traces of rubbing, corners slightly bumped. Work illustrated with 18 engravings. Some pages tending to come loose, foxing. Rare.
First edition. Half red shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands showing slight traces of rubbing, marbled paper boards, upper corners slightly bumped, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, bookplate pasted to verso of front board and stamp of the same bibliophile at foot of title page. Anglo-American poets and novelists, the Puritans, poetry of revenge, the young Acadian woman... Occasional foxing affecting mainly the first pages of the volume.
Harper & Brothers|New-York [New York] 1862|12.50 x 20 cm|reliure cartonnée de l'éditeur
Second edition with some parts in first edition. Publisher's full blue paper boards, smooth spine faded and decorated with blind fillets, frames of floral motifs in blind on boards which show small stains, one tear without loss to second board. Work illustrated with engravings, copy almost entirely free from foxing.
Ministère de l'agriculture|Ottawa 1878|14.50 x 21 cm|broché
First edition. Work illustrated with a folding map at the beginning of the volume. Two small corner bumps on front board, worming on boards, light foxing.
First edition. Full dark brown sheep binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt compartments, blind-ruled frames on boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt edges, contemporary binding. Work illustrated with 2 engravings, one as frontispiece and the other on the title page. Occasional light foxing. Rare.
Second edition. Half-shagreen binding in brown, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, traces of rubbing to headcaps. Frontispiece illustration, foxing.
First edition. Topography, physical geography, political institutions, population, customs, railways of Salvador and Honduras... Spine cracked and reglued with very slight loss at foot, handsome interior condition. Rare.
Imprimerie Audin & Cie|Lyon 1923|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies. The mechanism of production, advertising, a problem: circulation, the worker, Prohibition, Chicago, Harvard among others. A handsome and rare copy.
First edition in French. Episode from the life of a gambler, the rose of Tuolumne, Wan-Li the pagan, the legend of Monte del Diablo... Spine with slight lacks at head and foot, one joint cracked and reglued, occasional light foxing.
First edition. Work illustrated by A. Gérardin, G. Scot, L. Tinayre, Guilliod and Moreno. Small lack to foot of spine. Work sold for the benefit of the victims of the cyclone of August 18, 1891, which caused 1800 casualties and extensive damage.
M. Lévy frères|Paris s. d. [circa 1850]|9 x 14 cm|broché
Edition banned for Belgium and abroad. On women, transatlantic marquises, blacks and whites, political life... Spine reglued but otherwise handsome copy.
New edition of the French translation. Full brown sheep binding, smooth spine showing traces of wear decorated with gilt typographical motifs, gilt school blazons on boards, gilt fillet frame on boards. Work illustrated with two engravings. From the library of the 'écoles chrétiennes'. Foxing.
First edition. Publisher's red boards, smooth spine decorated with gilt motifs at head and foot, front cover richly decorated, top edge gilt. Work illustrated with one engraving, fine interior condition.
C. Delagrave & Cie|Paris 1873|14.50 x 23 cm|broché
The first edition published in a small number of copies of this offprint from the 'Bulletin de la société de géographie'. Two small tears with slight lacks at head and foot of spine, handsome interior condition.
V. Giard & E. Brière|Paris 1910|16.50 x 25 cm|broché
Second edition of the French translation. Spine and back cover missing, handsome interior condition. An interesting work that we nevertheless catalogue, despite its condition, given its rarity.
Au bureau du Moniteur de l'enseignement • A. Decq|Tournai • & Bruxelles [Brussels] 1855|14 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation printed in small numbers as an offprint. One angular tear to the front board, otherwise rare and handsome copy.
New edition with some parts in first edition. Memories of Chicago, women's colleges, a women's prison: Sherborn, nursing schools, New Orleans... Press clippings pasted on endpapers. Marginal sunning affecting covers, handsome interior condition.
Lecoffre fils & Cie|Paris • & Lyon 1878|11.50 x 18 cm|relié
First edition. Half sheep binding in havana brown, spine in four compartments with minor rubbing, decorated with gilt floral motifs, red shagreen title-label, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding. Work illustrated with two maps. An angular lack to the half-title page where an author's inscription should have appeared, handsome interior condition.
Imp. & lib. centrales des chemins de fer • Imp. Chaix|Paris 1907|13.50 x 22 cm|relié
First edition published in a small number of copies of this offprint. Publisher's full burgundy flexible leather binding, smooth spine sunned with traces of rubbing. Finance, agriculture, mines, commerce, industries, railways... Complete with its folding map at rear. Pleasant interior condition. Rare.
Illustrated with 7 engravings and a frontispiece. Publisher's full chocolate sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with floral motif in blind, gilt school stamps on first cover. Some light foxing.
Imp. centrale des chemins de fer|Paris 1875|15.50 x 23.50 cm|broché
First edition. Rare pamphlet illustrated with 3 maps at rear. A pale marginal dampstain to the front cover which also has a small angular lack at foot, a slight angular lack at foot of the back cover, handsome interior condition.