[Rarebooks] F/S Travels: North America
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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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