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A Voyage round the World,
ANSON, George.Original price $3,505.00 - Original price $3,505.00Original price $0.00$3,505.00$3,505.00 - $3,505.00Current price $3,505.00| /A landmark of eighteenth-century English circumnavigation. Anson's voyage recounts the expedition made to cut off Spanish supplies of wealth from S...
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Il Gazzettiere Americano
[AMERICAS].Original price $6,372.00 - Original price $6,372.00Original price $6,372.00$6,372.00$6,372.00 - $6,372.00Current price $6,372.00| /A crisp copy of this wide-ranging topographical dictionary of the New World, in the preferred Italian version. Published in English a year earlier...
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Istoria della Conquista del Messico,
SOLIS, Antonio de.Original price $956.00 - Original price $956.00Original price $956.00$956.00$956.00 - $956.00Current price $956.00| /A fine copy of the Italian edition of this celebrated history of Mexico, which describes the three years between the appointment of Cortes to comm...
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An Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Chile.
OVALLE, Alonso de.Original price $1,116.00 - Original price $1,116.00Original price $0.00$1,116.00$1,116.00 - $1,116.00Current price $1,116.00| /As quoted by Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray. First printed in Rome by Francisco Cavallo in 1649, before being translated into English an...
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Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836,
DARWIN, Charles; FITZROY, Capt. Robert; KING, Capt. Philip Parker.Original price $82,830.00 - Original price $82,830.00Original price $0.00$82,830.00$82,830.00 - $82,830.00Current price $82,830.00| /With important Australian provenance. Darwin's first published, and his most widely read book: the account of the most important 19th-century voyag...
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Histoire de l'expedition de trois vasseaux,
[BEHRENS, Carl Friedrich].Original price $9,239.00 - Original price $9,239.00Original price $0.00$9,239.00$9,239.00 - $9,239.00Current price $9,239.00| /Roggeveen's voyage - Europeans discover Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The first French account of Roggeveen's voyage and the European discovery of Rapa...
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Journal de la navigation autour du globe
BOUGAINVILLE, Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien (Baron de).Original price $19,115.00 - Original price $19,115.00Original price $0.00$19,115.00$19,115.00 - $19,115.00Current price $19,115.00| /The official record of Bougainville's voyage around the world. The main intention of the voyage was political: to extend French influence in Indo...
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Voyage autour du monde sur la Frégate La Vénus
DU PETIT-THOUARS, Abel.Original price $82,830.00 - Original price $82,830.00Original price $0.00$82,830.00$82,830.00 - $82,830.00Current price $82,830.00| /With the rare Atlas Hydrographique. One of the most important and complete records of the Mexican period in California. 'This voyage, ostensibly t...
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Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae Navigationum;
SPILBERGEN, Joris Van.Original price $25,487.00 - Original price $25,487.00Original price $0.00$25,487.00$25,487.00 - $25,487.00Current price $25,487.00| /The first Latin edition of the first circumnavigation to have the official support of the Dutch government. A book of primary importance in the h...
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The History of America.
ROBERTSON, William.Original price $3,186.00 - Original price $3,186.00Original price $0.00$3,186.00$3,186.00 - $3,186.00Current price $3,186.00| /This was the first sustained attempt to describe the discovery, conquest and settlement of Spanish America since Herrera's Décadas. Robertson inte...
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Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des européens dans les deux Indes.
RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas.Original price $12,106.00 - Original price $12,106.00Original price $0.00$12,106.00$12,106.00 - $12,106.00Current price $12,106.00| /The definitive edition. The final, expanded edition of this radical tour-de-force of global commerce and politics. The definitive version of the te...
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Bradford on Mount Fairweather
WASHBURN, Bradford.Original price $192.00 - Original price $192.00Original price $0.00$192.00$192.00 - $192.00Current price $192.00| /Bradford Washburn was one of America's foremost mountaineers. He led many first ascents and established new routes on several Alaskan peaks, often...
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Polymetis:
SPENCE, Joseph.Original price $1,912.00 - Original price $1,912.00Original price $0.00$1,912.00$1,912.00 - $1,912.00Current price $1,912.00| /Images from Polymetis were consulted during the creation of the seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia.'Joseph Spence (1699 – 1748) was an English s...
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The Travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke,
LEWIS, Meriwether.Original price $3,505.00 - Original price $3,505.00Original price $0.00$3,505.00$3,505.00 - $3,505.00Current price $3,505.00| /Compiled from previously published sources, this 'Apocryphal' narrative remained a prime source of information about the Lewis and Clarke expediti...
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Seven years' travel in Central America,
FROEBEL, Julius.Original price $1,912.00 - Original price $1,912.00Original price $0.00$1,912.00$1,912.00 - $1,912.00Current price $1,912.00| /Froebel (1805 –1893) was a German geologist and mineralogist, and journalist. He emigrated to the United States, where he became editor of a Germa...
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Astoria;
IRVING, Washington; ARMSTRONG, Margaret (binding design & decorations).Original price $606.00 - Original price $606.00Original price $0.00$606.00$606.00 - $606.00Current price $606.00| /An amazing set of the Tacoma Edition of this Oregon Trail classic by Washington Irving, originally published in 1836. The stunning cover design by...
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An account of the new Northern Archipelago
STAEHLIN, J[akob] v[on].Original price $4,800.00 - Original price $4,800.00Original price $0.00$4,800.00$4,800.00 - $4,800.00Current price $4,800.00| /Alaska as an island. Fresh copy of the first English edition of 'an important work in the history of north-west coast exploration' (Hill).Preceded ...
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Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos
HERRERA TORDESILLAS, Antonio de.Original price $31,858.00 - Original price $31,858.00Original price $0.00$31,858.00$31,858.00 - $31,858.00Current price $31,858.00| /The second Spanish edition of a highly important collection of Spanish narratives of exploration and conquest, drawing on some sources no longer e...
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A true and impartial Journal of a Voyage to the South-Seas,
[ANSON'S VOYAGE]. THOMAS, Pascoe.Original price $2,231.00 - Original price $2,231.00Original price $0.00$2,231.00$2,231.00 - $2,231.00Current price $2,231.00| /Earliest account of Anson's Voyage. Pascoe Thomas kept a full and faithful daily journal of the incidents of this important four-year voyage. Inclu...
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Hechos de Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza, quarto margues de cañete.
SUAREZ DE FIGUEROA, Cristobal.Original price $20,389.00 - Original price $20,389.00Original price $0.00$20,389.00$20,389.00 - $20,389.00Current price $20,389.00| /First edition of this account of the deeds of Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza (1535-1609), Captain General of Peru and from 1590-1596 Viceroy of Peru. ...
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Relacion del viage que por orden de su Magestad, y acuerdo de el real Consejo de Indias...
NODAL, Bartolome Garcia de & NODAL, Goncalo.Original price $11,469.00 - Original price $11,469.00Original price $0.00$11,469.00$11,469.00 - $11,469.00Current price $11,469.00| /The first to include the important Derrotas, the instructions for navigation within the Americas. 'The original edition of the voyage for the disc...
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