Marshall Rare Books
Travel & Exploration
Pacific, Americas, Polar, Asia
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Considerations touching a Warre with Spaine. Written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Vi. St. Alban. [s.i.]. [s.n.]
Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, describing their Examination of the Southern Shores of South America
First edition, a very attractive set, of the complete narrative of ‘one of the most famous scientific expeditions in history’ (DSB). The third volume…
“A Sketch of the Action of the 3rd of May 1810”. The Spartan, Engaging a French squadron in the Bay of Naples, May 3rd, 1810.
A Scarce Contemporary Watercolour of the Action against a French Squadron.
An Act to restrain the Trade and Commerce of the Colonies of New Jersey, Pensylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina, to Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Islands in the West Indies
Anno Regni GEORGII III REGIS Magnae Britaniiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, DECIMO QUINTO. At the Parliament Begun and holden at Westminster, the…
An Act to authorise, for a limited Time, the Punishment by Hard Labour of Offenders who, for certain Crimes
Anno Regni GEORGII III REGIS Magnae Britaniiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, DECIMO SEXTO. At the Parliament Begun and holden at Westminster, the…
An Act for giving a publick Reward unto such Person or Persons, being His Majesty’s Subject or Subjects, as shall discover a Northern Passage for Vessels by Sea
Anno Regni GEORGII III REGIS Magnae Britaniiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, DECIMO SEXTO. At the Parliament Begun and holden at Westminster, the…
An Act for giving a publick Reward to such Person or Persons, His Majesty’s Subject or Subjects, as shall discover a North West Passage through Hudson’s Streights
Anno Regni GEORGII II REGIS Magnae Britaniiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, DECIMO OCTAVO. At the Parliament Begun and holden at Westminster, the First Day…
A new voyage and description of the Isthmus of America. Giving an account of the author’s abode there, the form and make of the country, the coasts, hills, rivers, &c., woods, soil, weather, &c.
FIRST EDITION, engraved folding map, and 3 engraved folding plates, pp [8]. 224. [16], contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, London, printed for James…
An Account of the Pelew Islands, Situated in the Western Parts of the Pacific Ocean, Composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson and some of his officers, who
FIRST EDITION, with engraved portrait frontispiece, 16 engraved plates, charts and maps, 2 folding, errata leaf, contemporary tree calf, gilt…
The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land: Or, a New Survey of the West-India’s, Containing a Journall of Three Thousand and Three Hundred Miles within the Main Land of America.
FIRST EDITION, title within woodcut border, woodcut initials and decorations, contemporary calf, rebacked, small folio, R. Cotes, and are to be sold…
A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean.
FIRST EDITION, 5 volumes, 28 engraved maps (16 folding), and 13 engraved plates, 4to (300 x 235mm), full polished calf gilt, spines gilt in…
An Act to Impower His Majesty to Secure and detain Persons charged with, or suspected of, the Crime of High Treason, committed in any of His Majesty’s Colonies or Plantations in America
FIRST EDITION, [2], 311-312, woodcut coat of arms on title, woodcut floriated initial, text in black letter, unbound, folio (320 x 200mm), London…
Regnum Congo. Vera Descriptio Regni Africani, Quod Tam Abincolis Quam Lusitanis Congus appellatur….
Frankfurt, Wolfgang Richter, 1598, folio (300 x 200mm), crushed Morocco gilt by Pratt, with Engraved Title-Page, Engraved Arms of Frederick IV, 2…
A Narrative of the Loss of His Majesty’s Ship the Litchfield, Captain Barton, on the Coast of Africa with an Account of the Sufferings of the Captain and the surviving Part of the Crew
Third edition of a scarce account of the HMS Litchfield, wrecked on the Barbary coast of North Africa on the 28th November, 1758. The HMS Litchfield…
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[PIRACY] A Journey Over Land from the Gulf of Honduras to the Great South-Sea
FIRST EDITION, viii-349[3], folding map frontispiece showing Central America and the Isthmus of Panama., lower margin of map trimmed without loss…
Histoire de la Laponie, sa description, l’origine, les moeurs, la maniere de vivre des ses habitans. Traduites du Latin par L. P. A. L(ubin).
Paris (chez la veuve Olivier de Varennes) 1678. Small 4to (237 x 176 mm.). (14), 3-4 (variant of leaf signed A2), 1-408 pp. Engraved extra title…
Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921
London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1922, 47 photographic plates, 3 maps, errata slip at p. 350, bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, some toning to…
A Series of Fourteen Sketches made During the Voyage up Wellington Channel in Search of Sir John Franklin, K.C.H., and the Missing Crews of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror
Title, 6, [1, list of subscribers]; 14 tinted lithographic plates on 13 sheets. Publisher’s brown cloth with title label on upper cover, gilt, small…
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Journal Book 1756 [Packet Ship Newcastle from Bristol to the West Indies]
Manuscript log book, [5pp.], full page compass drawing, original paper wrappers, manuscript title and calculations to cover, folio (320 x 210mm)…
Log Book of H.M.S. Hibernica, Sea Trials
Manuscript log book, 30pp., 3 full page illustrations, four inserts including a manuscript coastal chart of Gibraltar, marbled wrapper, folio, 29th…
A Journal of a Voyage from England Towards Madeira in the Ship Britannia
Manuscript logbook and workbook, 2 calligraphic title pages, [76][8], several text illustrations and diagrams, 3 full page watercolour illustrations…
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Work Book and Letter Book [Royal Navy]
Manuscript naval letter book, 78pp, excluding blanks, numerous illustrations and diagrams, original roan backed marbled board, lacks spine but…
Journal of the Proceeding of the Late Embassy to China; Comprising A Correct Narrative of the Public Transactions of the Embassy, of the Voyage to and from China
FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait frontispiece, 7 hand-coloured aquatints, 3 engraved maps, 1 folding, light browning to final map, occasional light…
A Selection of Papers on Arctic Geography and Ethnology. Reprinted and Presented to the Arctic Expedition of 1875
FIRST EDITION, text diagrams, 2 folding lithograph plates, publishers blind stamped blue cloth, spine titled in gilt, 8vo, London, Murray, 1875