Greenbrae, CA: Allen Press, 1982. 8vo, 122 pp. With title in red and black and headings in various colors. Fine in hand-blocked Fortuny fabric over boards and original clear acetate wrapper with the original prospectus laid in. § One of 140 copies. Printed on all-rag paper. Dickens' account of his..... More

London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1785. Sm. 8vo, iii-vii (lacks half-title), [1], 524, [1]pp. Modern full diaper calf panelled in gilt, backstrip stamped and lettered in gilt with 4 raised bands, a lovely retrospective binding by Dusel. Light scuff on upper board, early name on title page; a clean and..... More

The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1948 Large 8vo. xii, 297pp. Map on end-papers, and 16 plates. Original cloth in dustwrapper, a very good copy. Ink signature at front, old price in pencil (£240). § First edition. "The book is not a history of Macao, but, as the subtitle implies, a study..... More

London: Cadell & Davies, 1804. 4to, xx, 394pp., [2pp. adverts], 9 engraved plates and maps, 7 folding, plate list on p.394. One folding plate backed with modern paper. Some browning and foxing but not offensive, generally a very good complete copy in contemporary calf rebacked, lettered in gilt, a very..... More

London: Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, for Payne and Foss, and John Murray, 1819. 8vo, viii, 310pp. With two folding charts. Modern half red morocco, backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, joints rubbed but sound. Internally very good. § Including Cook’s third voyage First edition, and very scarce. Although..... More

Honolulu: Thos. G. Thrum, 1896 Sm. 8vo, x, 134, vi (index and ad.)pp. Original white printed wrappers, backstrip chipped at head and foot but a very good bright copy preserved in a blue cloth slipcase. § First separate publication of an important account. "A “Narrative of several trading voyages from..... More

London: Printed for the Author..., 1838. 2 vols, royal 8vo, (i-v) vi-xv [xvi], (10, subscribers, plates, contents), (1) 2–436, (i) ii-xxx (supplement), (1, errata) +12 plates; (iv), (437–39) 440–1090 pp. With 40 plates and woodcut vignettes on titles and throughout the text. Original pinkish buff boards, printed paper labels, skillfully..... More

Kentfield, CA: Allen Press, 1959. Small 4to, [66] pp. With designs by Mallette Dean. Original cloth-backed decorated paper boards. Bookplate. A very good copy lacking dust-jacket. § One of 200 copies with hand-colored marginal decorations by Mallette Dean and a frontispiece reproduction of a daguerreotype of John Charles Duchow and..... More

New York: Redfield, 1854. 8vo, 376, (16, ads.)pp. With a frontispiece and two plates, with tissue guards, foxed. A very fine copy in publishers green cloth. Early ink signature and bookplate of Joseph Button 1854. § A five month trek through the Rocky Mountains First edition in English of Gabriel..... More

San Francisco. The Book Club of California, 1958. Tall 8vo, xxvii, 36 pp. Black and white illustrations by Rusk throughout. Quarter black morocco and marbled paper covered boards. A fine copy with the rhymed errata slip in rear and with the original prospectus and ordering envelope laid in. § Limited..... More

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1839. 3 vols. 12mo: (4), 321; (4), 319; (4), 312 pp. Original quarter cloth and plain boards, printed paper backstrip labels. Bindings moderately worn and faded, labels chipped with loss, hinges cracked but holding. A complete, unsophisticated set, good plus, with the bookplate..... More

San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1920 4to, xii, 120pp. Portrait frontispiece of Daines Barrington. Tipped-in map at p. 74 and a large folding map at the end. Original blue boards, buckram backstrip, printed paper label, dust-jacket. Very fine as issued. § Limited to 230 copies of which this is #175..... More

[London: White, 1781]. Slim 4to, 7pp. text and 10 plates (one folding). Cleaned and recently bound in half speckled calf, red morocco label, green boards, by Dusel. § The extra plates that go with the first edition of Pennant’s Tours of Wales, usually cited as Pennant’s best book. “Pennant's topographical..... More