Category: Discovery & Exploration

Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, A Facsimile of the 1792 London edition embellished with its nine original plates, also seventeen additional illustrations and an introduction by Gordon DeWolf.

By: Bartram, William.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, (1980).

Seller ID: 9187gcs

Octavo, [2], xx, [2], xxiv, 534, [1] pp. Fine in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket.
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The Voyage of the ÔFox' in the Arctic Seas. A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and His Companions. With Maps and Illustrations.

By: Captain M'Clintock, R.N., LL.D.

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Boston: Ticknor and Fields, MDCCCLX (1860). First American Edition.

Seller ID: 8981gcs

Octavo, brown pebbled cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and gilt illus. to upper cover of ship, xxiv + 375 pp + fold-out map, tissue-protected frontis. Very Good+, with tiny chip to spine. From Preface: The following narrative of the bold adventure which has successfully revealed the last discoveries and the fate of Franklin, is published at the request of the friends of that illustrious navigator. The gallant M'Clintock, when he penned his journal amid the Arctic ices, had no idea whatever of publishing it; and yet there can be no doubt that the reader will peruse with the deepest interest t...
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Columbus, the Man.

By: Chapman, Paul H.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Columbus, Ga.: ISAC Press / The Institute for the Study of American Cultures, [1992].

Seller ID: m1876

1st edition. Octavo, cloth, ix, 141 pp. Fine with dust jacket.
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Discovering Columbus.

By: Chapman, Paul H.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Columbus, GA: ISAC Press, The Institute for the Study of American Cultures, (1992). First Edition, First Printing.

Seller ID: qms200

Octavo, grey cloth (hardcover), silver letters, xvii, 265 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Illustrated, including numerous maps. From Jacket: Who Was He? When i started this book it was intended to be simply a study of a navigator, by a navigator. Christopher Columbus has been depicted as a braggart, liar and incompetent ass. I found him to be modest, truthful and a highly skilled navigator. Having made these findings, the question arose as to where he could have acquired his skills. Could he have been raised as an illiterate, apprenticed as a wood carder, and gained experience at sea a...
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Life, Letters and Travels of Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, S. J.... Edited from the original unpublished manuscript Journals and Letter Books and from the Printed Works with Historical, Geographical, Ethnological and other Notes; Also a Life of Father De Smet.

By: Chittenden, Hiram Martin and Alfred Talbot Richardson.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1969. Reprint of the 1905 Harper edition.

Seller ID: 60721bd2

Four volumes in two. Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), xv,402 pp, viii, 403-794 pp.; vi, 795-1211 pp; vi, 1213-1624 pp. Large fold-out maps.
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La Santa Maria, La Pinta, Y La Nina/The Nina, The Pinta And The Santa Maria.Translated by Paul A. Isbell. [Text in Spanish and English].

By: Chocano, Guadalupe; Vial, Ignacio Fernandez; Varela, Consuelo.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The State Enterprise for the Quincentenary, (1991). First Edition.

Seller ID: 14044kms

Quarto, hardcover (illus. blue boards), full-color illus., 130 pp. Near-Fine, with lightly rubbed edges.
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Everest to Arabia: The Making of an Adventuresome Life. [Signed].

By: Clarke, Jamie.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Canada: Azimuth Inc., (2000).

Seller ID: 9426gcs

Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 327 pp. Very Good+, in a Fine dust jacket. Making lives adventuresome -- not just his own, but others' too -- is what the work and writings of Jamie Clarke are all about. From Everest's airless summit to the searing heat of Arabia's daunting dunes, Jamies Clarke's journeys and journals focus on the adventure of self-discovery. Clarke rejects the tired myth of humankind Òbattling nature,Ó of exploration as Òconquest.Ó He embraces instead the notion that journeys through landscapes are explorations of the self, of culture, of what it is to be h...
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Monumenta Henricina. Volume II: 1411-1421.

By: Comissao Executiva das Comemoracoes do VCentenario da Infante D. Henrique.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Coimbra, 1960.

Seller ID: qms1330

Quarto, paperbound (stiff white illus. wrappers), xv + 485 pp. Good+, with rubbing & light foxing to covers; interior clean & tight.
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The Age of Expansion, 1848-1917.

By: Cunliffe, Marcus.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam Company, [1974]. First Edition.

Seller ID: 70281s

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), 336 pp. Color plates, illus. Near-Fine, in a chipped dust jacket.
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Columbus Vagy Amerika Folfedezese.

By: Danielik Nep. Janos.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Pesten: Nyomatott Herz Janosnai, 1856.

Seller ID: 2389gls

Biographies of Columbus have appeared in many countries and most languages, including this book published in Pest (part of presernt-day Budapest), Hungary. Tissue-Protected frontis. The frontispiece portrait of ÒColumbus Kristof is unique and has appeared only in this 1856 book.
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The Florida of the Inca: A History of the Adelantado, Hernando de Soto, Governor and Captain General of the kingdom of Florida, and of other heroic Spanish and Indian cavaliers, written by The Inca, Garcilaso de la Vega, an officer of His Majesty, and a native of the great city of Cuzco, capital of the realms and providences of Peru.

By: de la Vega, Garcilaso. Translated and Edited by John Grier Varner and Jeannette Johnson Varner.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Austin; University of Texas Press, (1962).

Seller ID: 9084gcs

Octavo, khaki cloth (hardcover), brown letters and illus. to upper cover, xlv, 655 pp. Near-Fine, with light soiling to page edges; in a Good+, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: Although Garcilaso de la Vega's epic account of the De Soto expedition has been rightly called Òthe first great classic of American history,Ó three and a half centuries elapsed after its first publication in Spanish before it was finally made available to the English speaking world in 1951 in this splendid translation by John and Jeannette Varner. The Florida ...
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The Columbus Gallery. The Discoverer of the New World, as Represented in Portraits, Monuments, Statues, Medals and Paintings. Historical Description by Nestor Ponce de Leon. Illustrated.

By: de Leon, Nestor Ponce.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York: N. Ponce de Leon, Publisher, 1893.

Seller ID: qms133

Quarto, orange cloth (hardcover), gilt letters & decorations to upper cover, 178 pp. Good+, with lightly soiled covers & spine, single leaf loosed.
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Narratives of De Soto in the conquest of Florida. As told by A Gentleman of Elvas and in a relation by Luys Hernandez de Biedma. Translated by Buckingham Smith with an introduction by Andrew Lytle.

By: De Soto.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Gainesville, FL: Palmetto Books, 1968.

Seller ID: 9661gcs

Octavo, coral illus. cloth (hardcover), xxxii, 324 pp. Fine.
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Quest for the Indies: Routes of Exploration, April 23-September 13, 1992.

By: Fitzgerald, Joseph H.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Historical Museum of Southern Florida, 1992.

Seller ID: 12313scs

Quarto, softbound (stiff white wrappers illus. in full-color), 28 pp. Fine. Contents: The Driving Force: Setting the Stage for the Age of Exploration; Quest for the indies; Ophir and Tarshish; Treaty of Tordesillas; The Arctic and the Northeast Passage; The Search for a Northwest Passage; Some Pacific Islands Visited by Eurpean Explorers before 1650; Vessels of the Age of Expansion, Discovery and Exploration; Life Aboard Ship, 1450-1650; Winds; The Challenge of Navigation; Medicine in the Age of Exploration; Part II - Maps [Exhibition of the same name, Historical Museum of Southern Florida...
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Hernando de Soto and the Exploration of Florida. Explorers of New Worlds.

By: Gallagher, Jim.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, (2000). Medallion Edition.

Seller ID: 50380bd

Octavo, hardcover (slick, full-color illus. boards), 63 pp. Illustrated in full color. Fine (As New). From lower cover: Hernando de Soto was a brave Spanish soldier and a daring horseman. He became rich when he helped lead the Spanish conquest of the Inca Indians in South America in 1536. He hoped to gain even more riches by exploring in the New World. For three years, de Soto led a party of Spanish soldiers through the unexplored region called La Florida -- today the southern United States -- on a quest for gold and glory. He and his men wandered through a large area, discovering the ...
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Sir Hubert Wilkins: Enigma of Exploration. Illustrated and with Maps.

By: Grierson, John.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London: Robert Hale Limited, (1960). First Edition.

Seller ID: 60982bd

Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 224 pp. Bookplate; otherwise, Fine; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: Sir Hubert Wilkins' most publicised feat was his unsuccessful attempt to navigate a submarine called Nautilus under the North Pole in 1931. This was a glorious failure, and one of the few Wilkins' expeditions well known to the world at large. For the Australian farmer's boy, having stowed away in a ship at the age of twenty, proceeded to distinguish himself as a photographer, nautralist, meteorologist, geographer, aviat...
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A Death on the Barrens, A True Story. With an Introduction by George Juris Luste, Founder of the Wilderness Canoe Symposium.

By: Grinnell, George James.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario: Northern Books, 1996.

Seller ID: 910051gcs

Octavo, softbound (slick photo. illus. white & gray wrappers), 334 pp. From Introduction: On September 14, 1955, Art Moffatt, an experienced wilderness canoeist, died from exposure on the banks of the Dubawnt River, deep in the heart of the Barren Lands of northern Canada. He was thirty-six. The five younger companions with him just barely survived. After forty years of reflection, guilt, and gestation, this book represents the personal story of that unusual wilderness sojourn and that horrific day by one of its survivors. Intertwined and juxtaposed, it is also a tale of George Grinnell...
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation. Made by Sea or Over-land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 Yeeres. [Twelve volume set].

By: Hakluyt, Richard.

Price: $950.00

Publisher: Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1903-05. Twelve volumes, complete. Of an edition of 100, initaled by the publisher, and printed on handmade paper with the illustrations on Japanese vellum, this is No. 23.

Seller ID: 6628fd

Octavo, quarter vellum & blue cloth (hardcover), gilt decorated spines, gilt-stamped front covers, top edges gilt, uncut. Maps, plates. Generally Very Good; most volumes are in Fine or Near-Fine condition; Volume I bears severe damp-staining to the rear cover.
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A Black Explorer at the North Pole: An Autobiographical Report by the Negro Who Conquered the Top of the World with Admiral Robert E. Peary. By Matthew A. Henson. Foreword by Robert E. Peary, Rear Admiral, U.S.N. Introduction by Booker T. Washington.

By: Henson, Matthew A.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Walker and Company, (1969). Third Printing.

Seller ID: vas915

Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), xiv, 190 pp. Near-Fine, with bookplate remnants to ffep.; in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: On April 9, 1909, the Stars and Stripes were Ònailed to the North Pole.Ó The only other American who accompanied Admiral Robert E. Peary to the summit of the world and worked with him throughout eighteen years of his polar explorations was Matthew A. Henson, a Negro born forty-three years earlier in Charles County, Md. In this auto-biographical account, originally published in 1912, Henson tells of this feat of man against nature in conquerin...
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The Master Puzzle of History. With Illustrations from Photographs by the Author.

By: Hinman, Eleanor.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Published by the Author, 1947. First Edition.

Seller ID: qms202

Signed & Inscribed by the Author. Octavo, tan cloth (hardcover), unpaginated. Near-Fine, with lightly rubbed spine, with torn dust jacket laid-in.
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Category: Discovery & Exploration