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Toronto, 2023, First edition, Folio, 205 pages, hardcovrer, cloth, Vinland finally found! More than thousand years ago, Viking sailors from Greenland and Iceland discovered a new continent in the West--America. This is fact since the finding of Norse remains at L'Anse oux Meadows in Northern Newfoundland, Canada. Shortely after the discovery of that new land in the western sea. a settlement expedition started from Greenland , two old Norse sagas telling us so. But where on this new continent had they settled? And what had happened there. This is one of the few remaining questions open in human history.
The Author of this book spent years of research to find the answer to this question. By delving deep into the nordic sagas and by studying the early American litherature he found Vinland, Vinland the Good and also Ho'p, the first settlement of Europeans on the American continent. A large book with more than hundred photographs, most all in color.

204 pages octavo, map, frontiespiece, half title, Photo of the Gilbert homestead, original publishers red cloth stamped in gilt, one of only 276 copies printed, this is library of congress copyright copy, One of the most important North American captivity stories. In 1780 were 15 persons taken in Pensylvania and carried by Iroqouis Indians led by Rowland and John Monteur to Canada.

Toronto, 2023, First Edition, Folio, 205 pages, Hardcover, cloth. Vinland finally found! After a seven year long research, the author located Vinland, Vinland the Good and also Ho'p, the first settlement of the Vikings in America. With painstaking research, the author proves in his book where the Viking settlement expedition of 1010 had their homestaeds built. It is one of the very few remaining questions open in human history. More than thousand years ago. Viking sailors from Greenland and Iceland discovered a new continent in the West--America. This is fact since the finding of Norse remains at L'Anse aux Meadows in Northern Newfoundland. But where settled the Viking expedition of 1010? This question puzzled Scholars for more than 300 years. Now, this Norse settlement place is found and the location proven beyond any doubt. A wonderfull book with more than 100 photo ducomentations, most all in color. Signed by the Author!

Toronto, 2023, First Edition, Folio, 205 pages, Hardcover, cloth. Vinland finally found! After a seven year long research, the author located Vinland, Vinland the Good and also Ho'p, the first settlement of the Vikings in America. With painstaking research, the author proves in his book where the Viking settlement expedition of 1010 had their homestaeds built. It is one of the very few remaining questions open in human history. More than thousand years ago. Viking sailors from Greenland and Iceland discovered a new continent in the West--America. This is fact since the finding of Norse remains at L'Anse aux Meadows in Northern Newfoundland. But where settled the Viking expedition of 1010? This question puzzled Scholars for more than 300 years. Now, this Norse settlement place is found and the location proven beyond any doubt. A wonderfull book with more than 100 photo ducomentations, most all in color. Inscribed and Signed by the Author!

Large Octavo, 2 vol. 512 pages volume 1, 496 pages vol 2, both frontis, half titles and map present, Many illustrations incl. 4 cromo lithographs, quater morrocco with marbled paper boards. The books are about Hedins exploring travels in the unknown of inner Asia at the end of the 19th century.
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London: J.Budd, 1808, octavo, 381 pages, 2 pages advertising present, 8 1/16 x 5 inches, full contemporary calf with covers fine bordered in blind, spine in six compartments with raised bands, the bands highlighted with gilt roll and flanked with a dark band, lettered with gilt in second compartment the others with repeat decoration in blind, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Sir Thomas Munro, 1th Baronet, General, Governor of Madras (armorial bookplate) The first English edition ( after the first American edition of 1807) with the first account of the Lewis and Clark expedition from St. Louis to the western (pacific) ocean. Because of the delay of the publication of the official account, Gass's journal was first to appear and as such was eagerly taken up by readers starved for information about Lewis and Clark's important expedition. Gass's London journal was printed on much better paper stock and larger format than the American edition, making this edition much more fine and durable. Patrick Gass was a… Read More

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Special Edition. New York, W.A.Townsend, 1859-61, octavo 190 x 129 mm, The Complete Works, 32 volumes, gilded top edges, with all the engraved illustrations by drawings of F.O.C. Darley, tissue guards present, faint foxing to a few frontis, illustrated title pages and additional frontis, illustrations throughout, in a spectacular half morocco binding by Whitman Bennet, New York, titles and elaborate decoration on spines, raised bands, matching boards, an near perfect set of the Townsend edition including the " The last of the Mohicans", probably the best set in a most pleasing binding on the market for a long time.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Frankfurt am Main, David Zoepfel, 1562, small quarto,(196 x 150 mm)ff,(8), 300. Late nineteen-century brown crushed morocco, spine with five raised bands, gilt in compartments, sites paneled in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, by Francis Bedford. Woodcut title vignette, 43 woodcuts in text (some repeats), title printed in black and red. Ownership inscription of William Tite dated 1856 to front free endpaper verso; engraved bookplate of C.S. Ascherson to front pastedown; above label of Edward Ascherson, with gift inscription from C.S.A to E.A. on front free endpaper verso dated Christmas eve 1901. Extremities very lightly rubbed, an excellent copy. The first of two Frankfurt printings by David Zoepfele that year, using the same woodcuts. The text is descended from the Low German version Reynke de Vos, first printed at Luebeck in 1498. This copy from the renowned library of the eminent British architect and book collector Sir William Tite (1798-1873), whose… Read More

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: V.G.Audubon, 1849-1851-1854, 3 Volumes 10 x 6 4/8 inches, 155 fine handcolored lithographed and chromolithographed plates by W.E.Hitchcock and R.Trembly after J.J. and J.W. Audubon, all tissue gards present, the plates clean and crisp, 2 half titles, new endpapers, 20th-century half blue morocco, blue cloth minor rubbing in all a fine set. First octavo edition, bound from the original parts. The 'Quadrupeds' was first published in three folio volumes between 1845 and 1848 as "The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America", with 150 color plates. The first octavo edition, issued in response to the success of a similar edition of the 'Birds of America', between 1851 and 1854, contains all of the original 150 plates, reduced by means of the camera lucida, with 5 of the 6 supplemental octavo plates that were issued separately with the text in 1854.Audubon's enthusiasm at the start of the project was unbridled. Around 1840 he wrote to his collaborator, the… Read More

New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co, The Works, The Crowborough Edition, octavo, 24 volumes, Fine and clean, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, with photogravure frontispiece portrait of Arthur Conan Doyle in volume 1, Contemporary full blue crushed morocco, spines with extra tooling gilt, raised bands, triple line rule with corner tools to front and also to back board, inner dentelles gilt. Limited edition of 760 numbered sets of which this copy is number 21. Signed on the limitation page by Arthur Conan Doyle in volume 1. The best and only complete edition of his collected works. A very fine set in an extremely rare contemporary (probably publishers deluxe) binding. Fine and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. New York, Gabriel Wells, 1922-25 octavo, 37 volumes, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, frontispiece portrait and numerous illustrations throughout the set. Printed on specially made all rag Old Enfold Paper which bears the watermark "Samuel L Clemens - Mark Twain". Pages nice and clean. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery, London, in burgundy morocco, titles and decorations to spine, raised bands, rule to boards, signature to front boards, inner dentelles. Signed by Mark Twain. An exceptional fine and clean set in a spectacular full morocco binding. The Definitive Edition. Limited to 1024 sets, this is number 390. Signed in 1906 SL Clemens/Mark Twain in anticipation of this ultimate edition, as explained by the publishers announcement. The set includes the extra two volumes of Autobiography. It was Mark Twain's most cherished desire that a definitive and complete edition of his entire literary output be published. Whit this end in view,… Read More

London: printed for Ralphe Mabb, 1638, First Edition, " The Marchants Mapp of Commerce. Necesarie for all such as shal be Imployed in the publique afaires of Princes in foraine partes. For all gentlemen & others that travell abroade for delight & plesure. And for all marchants or their factores that Exercise the Arts off Marchandiseinge in any Parte of ye habitable World. Folio 10 7/8 x 7 1/8 inches. Engraved title after Cornelius van Dalen, engraved portrait frontiespice of the author by G. Glover, 1 double -hemisphere engraved map of the world by Robert Vaughan, 4 full-page engraved maps of the continents by Henricus Hondius. Contemporary dark brown morocco, covers paneled with double fillets, with stylized foliage volutes and flower-head corner pieces and a central lozenge composed from the same tools, the spine tooled with twenty pairs of equally-spaced gilt fillets tooled horizontally, gilt edges, spine rebacked with original spine laid down, ties laking. Provenance: Lord Sandriz (signature)… Read More

Printed for Benjamin Motte, London 1726, 2 volumes, First edition, First printing, Octavo, contemporary full speckled brown calf gilt, raised bands, brown morocco spine labels, housed in two custom cloth chemise and a fine clamshell box. Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. In four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon and then a Captain of several Ships. An extraordinary copy in unrestored full contemporary calf, one of the scarcest and most desirable books in all of English literature, with engraved frontispiece portrait of Gulliver, six plates (four maps and two plans), as well as numerous woodcut initials, head- and tail pieces. Exceptionally rare first issue, particularly in contemporary calf. A classic "at once a favorite book of children and a summary of bitter scorn for mankind", Swifts Masterpiece will "last as long as the language, because it describes the vices of man in all nations" (DNB) "A remarkable feat in the creation of imaginary worlds as a vehicle for satire upon… Read More

Burden's State 5 (of 9), with the line engraving on the armor, Paynes island named, and the engraver's name spelled " Passaeus", copper engraving London 1616 (1626), Paper size: 13 1/2 x 14 7/8". Condition very good with wide margins and strong imprint. A few weak folds expertly mended. Watermark of mail coat and crown.
The foundation map of New England cartography The map that gave it its name and the first devoted map to the region. It covers the area from the present Penobscot Bay in Maine to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The compass card shows orientation to the N. The scale of leagues, as in Smith,s earlier map of Virginia, shows 20 leagues or 60 miles to the degree of latitude (see the markings on the right and left margins). The latitude of the various geographical features themselves are notably accurate, generally; e.g., modern charts show such sample readings as these: Aborden (upper right), identified with Penobscot village, modern Castine, 44 degrees 25 minutes N latitude; Smith's lies, modern… Read More

The Generall Historie... with the names of the Adventurers, Planters and Governours from the first beginning Anno 1584 to this present 1626. With the Proceedings of those Several Colonies and the Accidents which befell them in all their Journeyes and Discoveries. Also maps and descriptions of all those Countryes, their Commodities, Customs, and Religion yet Known. Small folio [28 x 19 cm], engraved title signed John Barra, (6)ff., 1-96, 105-248, 4 plates, of which 2 are folding maps, 2 views, Note: copies are complete without the O signature, which was never printed (see Stevens apud Church 402, p.937). Title in 6th state showing King Charles in mature years. Ould Virginia in 4th state with the addition of the name "Adams Sound" above " C. Henry". Virginia in 11th state with the cross-hatched hair on the Indian. New England in 9th state with the addition of the settlements along the Charles River and Boston appearing twice. The summer Isles in 3th state with the addition of the line "printed by James… Read More