Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); no dust jacket as issued; publisher's illustrated boards; [xx],311pp; graphs and b&w photos throughout. Boards are sturdy and square with light nudging at spine ends. Prior owner's name in pen at top of front free endpaper, else interior unmarked. Binding is..... More
![Item #33961 Gondwana: Images of an Ancient Land [Inscribed and Signed by Tuft]. Diane Tuft,...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33961.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1755180057)
New York: Assouline, 2014. First Edition. Large quarto (33cm); publisher's photo-illustrated boards in matching dust jacket; [128]pp.; chiefly color photographic illus. Short closed tear at bottom edge of upper jacket panel, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed by the photographer on half title, "To Pierre / Enjoy the..... More
Paris: Garnier Freres, 1880. Nouvelle Edition. Octavo; publisher's red decorative cloth stamped in black and gilt, all edges gilt; lix,[1],492pp.; engraved frontispiece, folding map bound in rear, illus. throughout, many full paged (collated complete). Moderate wear to cloth margins, more heavily so at spine ends, spine cloth faded, spotting to..... More
![Item #8834 A Taste of the Antarctic [Signed]. Michael Richey](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8834.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1614719518)
[N.p.]: Privately Printed for Nicholas Sheetz at the Martin Art Yonno Press, 1997. Limited Edition of 80 copies, this being #24. Signed on limitation page by Rickey. Additional ownership inscription to previous owner on front free endpaper. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. Wood engraving by the author. Marbled boards with white ribbon..... More
Wein [Vienna]: Alfred Hölder, 1876. First Edition. Large octavo (24 cm); cvi; 696pp; woodblock illus. throughout and 57 plates including frontis; 3 folding maps. Boards in brown cloth with gilt and black pictorial stamping. Edges marbled. Board extremities rubbed and slightly worn with shelfwear and clean break to spine tail..... More
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1861. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); full contemporary gilt-ruled calf, gilt spine in six compartments, black gilt spine label, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; ix,[1],[9]-406pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece and title page, hand-colored folding map and five leaves of tinted plates. Leather rather dried and scuffed, spine..... More
New York / San Francisco, CA: C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co. / H.H. Bancroft & Co., 1860. Reprint. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xiii,[1],[25]-517,[5](ads)pp. (complete despite error in pagination); double frontispiece, woodcut text illus. throughout. Light shelf wear to cloth margins, spine gilt dulled, foxing throughout textblock..... More
New York: O.A. Roorbach, 1827. First Edition. 12mo (18cm); printed paper-covered boards and brown leather spine with gilt lettering; xii,[13]-256pp; 12 plates and 2 full-page illustrations, all present. Rebacked. Boards edgeworn, showing heavy bumping, rubbing, and exposure to corners, and moderate to heavy scuffing to front and rear panels; lettering..... More