"Abiel Abbot (August 17, 1770 – June 7, 1828) was a prominent clergyman. He was born to John and Abigail Abbot in Andover, Massachusetts, and went...

Rare surreptitious account of Cook's Third Voyage . A rare surreptitious account of Cook's Third Voyage which appeared nearly three years before th...

'Exceedingly rare' (Holmes). Issued some seven years after the first edition of the author's Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and A...

Richardson, the noted naturalist, accompanied Franklin on his first and second expeditions. The present work includes the journals of Richardson a...

A frequently used viewpoint, afloat on the Bosphorus, the life blood of the city, with small boats and local people going about their daily busine...

Holland House copy. Griffiths travelled out to Constantinople with the philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham in 1785, before going on to t...

Part of the large body of interesting literature relating to schemes to build either a railway or a canal through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Barn...

In Jewish religious law Get Mekushar is a special document for Cohanim (Jewish High Priests) seeking to get a divorce from their wives (literally ...

Wilbraham was a Captain in the British Army on military secondment in the service of Mohammad Shah. He gives a good description of Qilhak village,...

Originally published in a small Bombay edition. A thrilling account of the capture of Ghazni; the pursuit over rough terrain of Dost Mohammed Khan...

Northwest Passage. Hakluyt Society First Series, No. 5.Accounts of the voyages of Cabot, Davis, Frobisher, and others, drawn chiefly from the works...

Georg Emanuel Opiz, or Opitz (1775-1841) was born in Prague, but moved to Dresden where he studied painting under Giovanni Battista Casanova. His ...

One of the finest accounts of natural history travels. Henry Bates (1825 1892) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific...

With the rare supplement. The rarely found supplement makes good the omissions from Journal.First edition. 4to., [viii], xxx, [ii half-title], 310,...

The printed record of a weekly newspaper devised by Sabine to uphold morale amongst the crew of Parry's first voyage whilst frozen-in during the A...

Lyon's official account of a search for a Northwest Passage by Hudson Bay. The narrative of the voyage as far as Wager Inlet and Repulse Bay also ...

Journal by an officer on the first expedition commanded by William Parry. Fisher gives especially useful remarks on natural history and ice condit...

The first traversal of the North-west Passage. Even though it was intended as a rescue voyage seeking Franklin survivors, and (by explicit orders) ...

'Kane, on board the Advance, was commander of this expedition, which was financed by Grinnell. Franklin was not found; however, much data concerni...