![Item #28792 A Year in Spain [Two Volume Set]. "A Young American", Alexander Slidell Mackenzie](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28792.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1707056789)
London: John Murray, 1831. First U.K. Edition. Two volumes; 12mos; contemporary navy blue calf over marbled boards; xi,[1],413,[3]; vii,[1],377pp. Minor rubbing to leather and boards, brief occasional foxing to textblocks, else a Very Good, quite attractive set. "If, by accident, this work should find favor among his countrymen, some..... More
Philadelphia: Moses Thomas, 1815. Six volumes bound in one; octavo; contemporary sheep over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],524,4(ads)pp.; three engraved frontispieces including two portraits, as well as added engraved title page, plus three portrait plates bound at head of separate issues, text illus. throughout. Boards rather scuffed, Ex-New Castle Library..... More
New York: Anson D.F. Randolph & Company, 1882. First Edition. Slim 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's limp tan cloth stamped in blue, red, and gilt, all edges stained red, decorative endpapers; 69pp.; pictorial title page, one map in text, text printed within red rule throughout. Some wear and toning to cloth extremities..... More
Chicago: Tribune Company's Book and Job Printing Office, 51 Clark Street, 1863. First Edition. Octavo. 248pp. Printed wraps, removed. Light chipping to corners of wraps with general smudging and soiling; exposure to spine. Binding sound and pages unmarked; about Very Good. Uncommon record of the Civil War era, ante-fire Ship-Canal..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957. First U.S. Edition. Bookplate signed by Arhtur C. Clarke loosely laid in at front. Tall octavo. 205 pp. Color and black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $5.00 price present. Blue and orange boards with spine stamped in black; illustrated endpapers... More
New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1968. New and Revised Edition. Two octavo volumes. 264 p.; 259 p. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Photographic blue and red dust jackets. Black boards stamped in gilt. Dust jackets are creased and rubbed along edges, more heavily at spine ends. Staining..... More
![Item #32279 The Cingalese Prince [Inscribed and Signed with Type Letter Signed Laid in]. Brooks...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32279.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1741200374)
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50), decorative map endpapers; vii,[3],303pp. Wear to jacket margins including closed tears and chips with extensive old tape repairs to verso, spine panel quite toned, cloth spine..... More
![Item #6546 International Law for Seagoing Officers - Fifth Edition [Signed]. Burdick H. Brittin](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6546.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1595445065)
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1986. Fifth Edition. Signed by Brittin on title page with inscription, "For Stella Matalas - whose skill in making me be accurate in the interview will long be remembered with pleasure! Cheers, Burdick Brittin, Sept 1986." Octavo. 503 pages. Illustrated blue dust jacket over green..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1934]. First Edition. Slim quarto; publisher's red cloth, pictorial paste-on to upper cover; 124pp.; chiefly illus. throughout. Cloth a bit worn and frayed at corners and spine ends with brief exposure, spine darkened, brief soil to endpapers, else Very Good and sound. Comic book-style..... More
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1933. First Edition. Octavo 22cm.); publisher's cloth in blue and white pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 224pp.; frontispiece, half-tone illus. and maps throughout. Light wear to jacket margins, spine panel toned, cloth unevenly darkened, contemporary bookseller ticket affixed to front free endpaper; a Very Good, internally..... More
Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, Centro de Estudos Maritimos de Macau, 1988. Facsimile re-edition from the same title published by the Centro de Estudos Historicos Ultramarinos, Lisbon, 1959. Octavo. 361 pp. Black and white illustrations including fold-out map to rear. Illustrated wraps. Edgewear to wraps with curling and creasing to..... More
Paris: Journal de la Marine Marchande, 1962. First Edition. Large quarto (31.5cm); publisher's grey pictorial cloth stamped in white and gilt; 349pp.; six leaves of folding ship plans on yellow paper bound in rear, halftone photographic illus. throughout. Cloth a bit soiled and toned along margins, dark dampstain at spine..... More
![Item #46356 Raise the Titanic! [Signed with Original Doodle]. Clive Cussler](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46356.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1765287134)
New York: Viking Press, [1976]. Second Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; [6],314pp. Moderate wear and light chipping to jacket margins, small closed tear at top edge of rear panel not approaching text, brief soil to jacket spine, binding slightly cocked, ownership pressure stamp to..... More
![Item #46359 Raise the Titanic! [Signed with Original Doodle]. Clive Cussler](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46359.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1765287608)
New York: Viking Press, [1976]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; [6],314pp. Dust jacket rather dust-soiled and worn along margins with chipping and curling to top edge of spine and rear panel, corners bumped, binding a bit cocked; overall Good to Very Good... More
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1863. Third Edition, revised and enlarged. Small octavo; 93pp +14pp publisher's catalog. Tables and illustrations throughout. Publisher's blindstamped blue cloth with gilt lettering and anchor ornament. Boards edgeworn, with rubbing at corners and spine ends and some general scuffing and smudging to surface. Opens widely..... More
San Diego: Tofua Press, 1978. First Edition. Octavo (22.4cm); illustrated dust jacket with $17.95 price intact; boards in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine; x,502pp; b&w photos throughout. Jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges. with some toning down spine and folds; small abrasion to rear..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1969. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($7.50); xiii,[3],205pp.; photographic illustrations throughout. A few small chips and closed tears to jacket margins with brief tape repair to verso, cloth margins lightly rubbed, else Near Fine in Very Good..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1910. Edition De Luxe, one of 75 copies signed by Halford at title page of volume I, with an additional 50 copies published in the U.S. Two quarto volumes. Volume I with frontis portrait; 9 color plates of flies; 18 color samples; 16 photogravures. Vol..... More
Copenhagen: Carlsberg Foundation / C.A. Reitzels Forlag, 1946 & 1949. First Editions. Two slim quarto volumes (31.5cm); publisher's tan printed card wrappers; 40;132pp.; halftone illus. and graphs throughout. Wrappers a bit spotted and dust-soiled, Vol. II spine chipped with small loss at spine crown; contents clean and sound. Very Good..... More
Tokio [Tokyo]: [s.i.], 1908. First Separate Edition, originally published in "Tokyo Mainichi Shimbun" in the same year. Octavo; printed wraps; 8pp. [English text] + [18]pp. [Japanese text]. Frontis portrait of Townsend Harris; errata slip. Light wear; a few minor nicks; smudging; still Very Good. An olive branch of..... More
Philadelphia: 1792-93. Single folded sheet (41.5 x 33.5cm); report in manuscript, verso filled nearly to completion, recto a quarter filled. Signed by Captain David Ross and two other parties; docket dated 1793 signed by Inspector Jeremiah Simmons. Stock exceedingly brittle with shallow chipping, long closed tears along folds with old..... More
Richmond, VA: Privately Printed for the Author for Distribution Among His Friends / Whittet & Shepperson, n.d. [but ca. 1932]. First Edition, Limited to 200 copies of which this is no. 53. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; 134pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout including maps. Light wear to cloth, endpapers toned..... More
![Item #29855 Gale Warning [UK title: Maddon's Rock]. Hammond Innes](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29855.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1717435170)
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1948. First American Edition (stated First Edition, with publisher's B-X code). Octavo. 272 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Tan and gray patterned cloth stamped in black and brown. Price-clipped dust jacket chipped and creased light rubbing and smudging to surface. Spine ends slightly nudged and..... More
New York: International Life Suit Corporation, n.d., ca. 1918. Narrow octavo (22.5cm); photo-illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; sixteen panels printed on [8]pp.; halftone illus. throughout. Some dust-soil and foxing, contemporary rubberstamp of the Boston agent W.H. Eaves to upper panel; Very Good and sound. Promotional pamphlet for this ingenious floating..... More
North Truro, Highland Light, MA: Nichols & Eldridge, Printers, 1925. First Edition. Octavo; printed wraps with photograph mounted to front; 57, [1]pp. Black and white photographs. Light edgewear; curling to corners; creasing to front photo; binding sound; pages unmarked; a Very Good and sound copy. More