[Rarebooks] F/S Travels: North America

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Mon Jul 3 08:47:26 EDT 2006


N 43386	ANONYMOUS, 1826
Histoire des États-Unis; 166 p., small 12mo (6 x 10 cm), contemporary hcalf.
Published in the series ''Bibliothèque economique''(2ND ED.)
euro	45,00

N 43387	BEAUVALLET, L., 1856
Rachel et le Nouveau-Monde. Promenade aux États-Unis et aux Antilles;
  viii, 304 p., contemporary red hcalf, spine gilt.  (1ST ED.)
euro	75,00

N 43388	COHEN STUART, M., N.D.  (1880?)
Zes maanden in Amerika;
  viii, 499 p., decorated cloth (outer ends spine slightly worn). 
Half-title with
tear and partly stuck to front cover, previous owner's name, paper brittle.
( 2ND CHEAP EDITION)
euro	35,00

N 43389	EBELING, C.D., 1793-1794
Erdbeschreibung und Geschichte von Amerika. Die Vereinten Staaten von 
Nordamerika.
  Erster Band: New Hampshire & Massachusetts,
Zweiter Band: Rhode-Island, Connecticut, Vermont & New York
; lxxiv, 877, [2] p., 1135 p., new hcalf (spine gilt)
euro	300,00

N 43390	ELLET, C., 1851
Contributions to the Physical Geography of the United States. Part I. 
Of the Physical
  Geography of the Mississippi Valley, with Suggestions for the 
Improvement of th
  Navigation of the Ohio and Other Rivers;
64 p., 1 fig., 1 folded pl., 4to, disbound.
Published in: Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge
euro	37,50

N 43391	MENDENHALL, W.C., 1902
Reconnaissance from Fort Hamlin to Kotzebue Sound, Alaska by Way of 
Dall, Kanuti,
  Allen, and Kowak Rivers;
  68 p., 10 (1 double, 2 col., 3 folded) pls, 4to, paperbound (front 
cover with a few
  repaired tears, a very small hole and a library stamp).
Interesting account of a conoe expedition into the interior of Alaska
euro	47,50

N 43392	PARKE, J.G. & A.H. CAMPBELL, 1854-1857
Report of Explorations for Railroad Routes from San Francisco Bay to 
Los Angeles,
California, West of the Coast Range, and from Pima Villages on the 
Gila to the Rio
Grande, Near the 32d Parallel of North Latitude;
23, 204, 28, 116, 37 p., 8 beautiful col. lithographed pls of views and the
expedition party (wagons etc.), 2 folded col. geological maps, 43 pls
  (on paleontology, geology, botany, and meteorolgy),
4to, contemporary decorated ( blind stamped) cloth (gilt somewhat 
rubbed off spine).
With reports by T.A. Conrad (palaeontology), John Torrey (botany), and others.
Several plates somewhat foxed (but no or very little foxing in the 
first 8 col. plates)
euro		375,00

N 43393	SAGRA, R. DE LA, 1837
Cinq mois aux États-Unis de l'Amérique du Nord, depuis le 29 avril jusqu'au
23 septembre 1835: journal de voyage;
xxviii, 458 p., 3 pls, frontispiece, full blind stamped calf 
(rebacked, and edges worn).
Plates somewhat foxed. A translation from the Spanish by R. Baissas.
Sagra was a Spanish-born economist and director of the botanical 
garden of Havana
and travelled through the United States in 1835. He collected information on th
e social and industrial conditions of the North-east and admired the progres
made by the United States
euro	225,00

N 43394	SATTERFIELD, A., 1978
Lewis & Clark Country;
144 p., 100+ stunning col. photographs of the landscapes Lewis and Clark
  encountered when they explored the Missouri river, 1 map, roy.
4to, half artificial leather. The large and beautiful photographs 
were taken by David Muench
euro	25,00

N 43395	THEVET, A., 1558  (1878)
Les singularitez de la France Antarctique; lxii, 459 p., several 
figs, new hcalf
(original front cover bound in). Slight foxing. Scarce reprint of the extremely
  rare 16th century book on Canada, which also gives the first account of the
  Canadian flora and fauna, (NEW EDITION BY P. GAFFAREL, 1878)
euro	93,75

N 43396	TYRRELL, J.B., 1913
Hudson Bay Exploring Expedition 1912;
  51 p., 2 large folded and partly col. maps, printed wrappers
euro		30,00

With regards

Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli





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