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$16.50
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Live to Ride: The Rumbling, Roaring World of Speed, Escape, and Adventure on Two Wheels


JOHNSON, WAYNE

Super 8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Atria Books 2010

KEYWORDS: vehicles motorcycles history speed sport

$10.00
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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: A Sketch


LESKOV, NIKOLAI; CHANDLER, ROBERT (transl)

Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hesperus Press 2003

KEYWORDS: Russian romance fiction social history women

$12.50
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Voyages and Discoveries: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation


HAKLUYT, RICHARD; BEECHING, JACK (ed)

Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1972

KEYWORDS: English voyages ship renaissance anecdote history Richard Hakluyt

$15.00
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Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine


STRAUSS, BARRY

Super 8vo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 2020

KEYWORDS: classical history ancient Roman emperors Augustus Caesar Constantine

$25.00
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Rare Pacific Voyage Books from The Parsons Collection of David Parson (2 vols)


HORDEN HOUSE RARE BOOKS

2 VOL SET. Imp 8vo hardcover catalogue (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hordern House Rare Books 2005

KEYWORDS: rare books antiquarian pacific voyage history historical catalogue

$35.00
xx54pol201946

New Found Land: Maps in the History of Exploration


WHITFIELD, PETER

4to hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The British Library 1998

KEYWORDS: maps cartology history voyages discovery exploration

$40.00
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The Life and Letters of the Great Earl of Cork


TOWNSHEND, DOROTHEA

Super 8vo, grey/brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, teg, frontis. & plates with tissue guards, xvi + 531 pp., plates, VG- (light to moderate soiling/scuffing to boards, moderate 2cm tear to front joint, moderate scuffing & tearing to edges & extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to pg edges & eps/prelims/terminals, prev owner's inscription in black ink to ffep, moderate tanning to plate tissue guards, sporadic light soiling & foxing throughout, light to moderate cracking to front hinge, bgd sl sloppy).

PUBLISHER: Duckworth and Company 1904

KEYWORDS: 16th century Earl of Cork England renaissance social history biography life lives esquire gentlemen

$45.00
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Prometheus and the Bolsheviks


LEHMANN, JOHN

8vo, red buckram boards, tooled label to front board & spine with gilt lettering & rules, frontis., [12] + 256 pp., plates, foldout map to rear, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards & spine, moderate fading to spine, light bruising to edges & extrems, light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges, minor foxing throughout), lacking d/w.

PUBLISHER: The Cresset Press 1937

KEYWORDS: Soviet Union Georgia Europe 20th century history Russia socialism communism

$22.50
xx55pol201979

Treasure-House of the Language: The Living OED


BREWER, CHARLOTTE

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2007

KEYWORDS: linguistics language dictionaries Oxford English dictionary etymology history

$35.00
xx55pol201980

Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED


WILLINSKY, JOHN

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1994

KEYWORDS: linguistics language dictionaries Oxford English dictionary etymology history

$22.50
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Byron's Journal of His Circumnavigation 1764-1766


GALLAGHER, ROBERT E (Ed)

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt / Cambridge University Press 1964

KEYWORDS: hakluyt exploration history maritime nautical John Byron 18th eighteenth century journals diaries voyages

$15.00
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The Navigation of the Frobisher Voyages: The Hakluyt Society Annual Talk 1997


McDERMOTT, JAMES

Octavo stapled light card covers (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 1998

KEYWORDS: Hakluyt society annual talks past years 1997 exploration voyages Frobisher history historical nautical maritime

$15.00
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The Impact of Physical, Spiritual & Mental Health on Shipboard Order in the Early English East India Company Voyages, 1601-1611: The Hakluyt Society Annual Lecture 2018


FURY, CHERYL

Octavo stapled light card covers (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 2019

KEYWORDS: Hakluyt society annual talks past years 2018 exploration voyages history historical nautical maritime early English East India 17th seventeenth century

$15.00
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From Geneva to the Rigi: British Images of Switzerland in Texts, Guidebooks and Maps, 1650-1904: The Hakluyt Society Annual Lecture 2020


BARBER, PETER

Octavo stapled light card covers (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 2020

KEYWORDS: Hakluyt society annual talks past years 2020 exploration voyages history historical nautical maritime Switzerland

$15.00
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The Struggle for the South Atlantic: Sources and Serendipity: The Hakluyt Society Annual Lecture 2019


PHILLIPS, CARLA RAHN

Octavo stapled light card covers (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 2020

KEYWORDS: Hakluyt society annual talks past years 2019 exploration voyages history historical nautical maritime South Atlantic

$22.50
xx55pol201990

Farewell Pamir


HENDERSON, MURRAY J

Octavo stapled light card covers (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: None Stated

KEYWORDS: New Zealand maritime nautical voyages exploration Pamir sailing vessels history

$20.00
xx55pol201992

Travels in the Tian'-Shan' 1856-1857


SEMENOV, PETR PETROVICH & THOMAS, COLIN (Trans, Ed & Annotated) & GILMOUR, LIUDMILA (Trans) & WHEELER, MARCUS (Trans)

Octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society c/o The Map Library 1998

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society history historical exploration voyages maritime nautical Tian'-Shan'

$20.00
xx55pol201993

Pieter van den Broecke's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola (1605-1612)


LA FLEUR, J D (Trans & Ed)

Super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society c/o The Map Library 2000

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society history historical exploration voyages maritime nautical Pieter van den Broecke journals diaries 17th seventeenth century Cape Verde Guinea Angola

$20.00
xx55pol201994

The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island 1578


McDERMOTT, JAMES (Ed)

Super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society c/o The Map Library 2001

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society history historical exploration voyages maritime nautical Martin Frobisher Baffin Island 16th sixteenth century

$25.00
xx55pol201995

The Discovery of River Gambra (1623)


JOBSON, RICHARD & GAMBLE, DAVID P (Ed & Add. Material) & HAIR, P E H (Ed & Add. Material)

Super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society c/o The Map Library 1999

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society history historical exploration voyages maritime nautical River Gambra 17th seventeenth century

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