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- Coleccion de varios documentos para la historia de la Florida y tierras adyacentes. Tomo I.
- ISBN: NA Price: $861.73
- Publisher: Londres: En la Casa de Trubner y compania, Date Published: 1857
- Description: first edition; Volume 1, all published; limited to 500 copies, "Se han tirado 500 ejemplars por Jose Rodriguez Madrid, ano de 1857"; small folio (leaves slightly shorter than 30.5 cm.), [viii], 208 pp.; lacks the portrait of Ferdinand V, library book plate and markings including blind stamp on title, later quarter leather very rubbed at spine but sound, text age toned, overall good+; a collection of thirty three documents, 1516 to 1794, most from the Archivo General de Simancas (see Sabin 84379). Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Spanish Florida, exploration, CRN Show items similar to this.
Request a photo for this item.- Item Number: 721983
- L'Histoire notable de la Floride situee es Indes Occidentales. Contenant les trois voyages faits en icelle par certains Capitaines et pilotes francois, descrits par le capitaine Laudonniere ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,280.99
- Publisher: Paris: Jannet Date Published: 1853
- Description: qui y a comande l'espace d'un an tois moys: a laquelle a este adjouste un quatriesme voyage fait par le capitaine Gourgues. Mise en lumiere par M. Basanier.; 16mo (leaves slightly shorter than 15 cm.), [4], xvi, 228 pp.., later dark brown full morocco with all edges gilt; library boom plate and markings, binding rubbed with short peel mark on front cover, light general age toning to text, still near very good; French expeditions of 1562, 1564, 1565, and 1567. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Florida, exploration, Huguenots, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 730276
- Noticias historiales de las conquistas de Tierra Firme en las Indias occidentales ... Edicion hecha sobre la de Cuenca de 1626.
- ISBN: NA Price: $2,124.27
- Publisher: Bogota: Imprenta de Medardo Rivas, Date Published: 1882
- Description: 3 parts in 5 Volumes; small quarto, library hand stamps and markings, first volume lacks paper wrappers others chipped and some sides detached, text browned and partially disbound, needs very careful handling, working set. Volumes Included: 5
- Subject: South America, Spanish exploration, Colombia, El Dorado, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 730265
- Loyalists in East Florida, 1774 to 1785. The most important documents pertaining thereto, edited with an accompanying narrative by Wilbur Henry Siebert.
- ISBN: NA Price: $431.80
- Publisher: Deland: Florida State Historical Society, Date Published: 1929
- Description: first edition, limited to 355 sets; 2 volumes, large quarto, Volume I. The Narrative. x, [4], 262, [1] pp., frontis., 5 other plates + Volume II. Records of Their Claims for Losses of Property in the Province. x, 431, [1] pp.; library book plate and markings, red original cloth faded, still overall very good. Volumes Included: 2
- Subject: Florida, American Loyalists, American Revolution, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 676526
- Sketches of St. Augustine. With a view of its History and Advantages as a Resort for Invalids.
- ISBN: NA Price: $70.01
- Publisher: NY: Published for the Author by George P. Putnam, Date Published: 1848
- Description: first edition, with pages 39/40; small octavo, 69 pp., [12] pages of Putman advertisements between last two blanks, 6 plates including the frontispiece; library book plate and markings, original cloth rubbed with fraying at extremities and center of front joint, general light age toning with occasional age staining, two leaves have some pencil scribbling in bottom margins, overall good+; this copy has pages 39/40 with all of the material found offensive but it is a cancel and on slightly smaller paper, these pages are almost always missing, the circumstances explained by E. H. Reynolds in The Standard Guide. St. Augustine., published in 1894, "Minorcans had at least education enough to comprehend the uncomplimentary tone of Mr. Sewall's allusion to them; and when the edition of Sketches came to hand they showed their enterprise by mobbing the store where the books were, bent on the destruction of the whole lot. They were only restrained by a pledge, faithfully kept, that the obnoxious pages should be torn from every book.", this copy also has a slip of yellow paper attached to front free endpaper, with a extremely faded and barely readable inscription from "... the Author", perhaps he had some extra pages on hand. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: St. Augustine, Saint Augustine, Florida, CRN Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 730344
- Divers voyages touching the discouerie of America, and the ilands adiacent vnto the same, made first of all by our Englishmen, and afterwards by the Frenchmen and Britons ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $662.16
- Publisher: London?: Date Published: 1900
- Description: facsimile of the 1582 edition, not stated but appears to be one of the 300 copies produced for Sir John Evans but not commercially circulated; [116] pp., two folding maps; text browned, a half morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe rubbed with front cover detached, good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Americana, exploration. CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 810554
- Missao Rondon. Apontamentos sobre os trabalhos realizados pela Commisao de Linhas Telegrahicas Estrategicas de Matto-Grosso ao Amazonas sob a direccao do Coronel de Engenharia Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon de 1907 a 1915.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,181.08
- Publisher: Rio de Janeiro: Typ. do Journal do Commercio, de Rodrigues & C., Date Published: 1916
- Description: first edition; quarto, 463 pp., plates with one of them color (to be viewed through ther window front cover); libraryn markings, paper wrappers soiled with black tape at head and tail of spine but block sound; includes material on the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Brazil, telegraph, exploration, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 735921
- Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, embracing Colorado and Parts of Adjacent Territories; being a Report of Progress of the Exploration for the Year 1874.
- ISBN: NA Price: $73.71
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1876
- Description: first edition; ix, [1], 515 pp., plates with some folding including small maps; library markings, original cloth very worn with spine covering chipped and almost detached, text age toned and lightly shaken, reading copy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Western Americana, exploration, Colorado, CRN Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 738386
- Les singularitez de la France antarctique. Nouvelle edition. Avec notes et commentaires par Paul Gaffarel.
- ISBN: NA Price: $50.17
- Publisher: Paris: Maisonneuve & Cie. Date Published: 1878
- Description: small octavo, lxii, [2], 459 pp., illustrations in text, follows the text of the 1558 edition but omits many of the illustrations; library book plate and small blind stamps, paper wrappers badly chipped but text block sound and clean. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Brazil, Florida, Canada, Indians of North America, ethnology, CRN Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 727027
- Diccionario Quichua-Castellano y Castellano-Quichua por el R. P. Fr. Honorio Mossi ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $848.21
- Publisher: Sucre: Imprenta de Lopez Date Published: 1860
- Description: first edition; large quarto (29 cm. tall x 19 cm.), [4] (beginning with title), [142] (Quichua-Spanish section, 284 numbered double columns), [3] (Rezo den Quichua), [2] (section title Castellano-Quichua .. with its own imprint Sucre, Abril 28 de 1860, Imprenta Boliviana), [112] (Spanish-Quichua section, 224 numbered double columns) pp.; library book plate and minor markings, early cloth binding with leather spine and tips very rubbed and hinges broken, general age toning to text but not fragile and block well sewn. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: language, Quichua, Spanish, dictionaries, crn Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 716956
- Missions de l'Oregon et voyages aux montagnes Rocheuses, aux sources de la Colombie, de l'Athabasca et du Sascatshawin, en 1845-46.
- ISBN: NA Price: $344.04
- Publisher: Gand: Impr. & lith. de ve. Van der Schelden Date Published: 1848
- Description: first French edition of Oregon Missions and adds two letters and an appendix, Origine des Americains; small octavo (leaves 19 cm. tall), [4], (half title, imprimatur), ix, [3], 10-389 pp., 3 folding maps, frontispiece, pictorial title, 14 other plates; library book plate and markings, later cloth with original paper sides bound in and the maps on new stubs, near very good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Oregon, Jesuits missions, missionaries, exploration, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 690538
- Reise in Peru und Ecuador ausgefuhrt 1909. (Wissenschaftliche Veroffentlichungen der Gesellschaft fur Erdkunde zu Leipzig, Band 8)
- ISBN: NA Price: $218.71
- Publisher: Munchen/Leipzig: Verlag von Duncker & Humblot, Date Published: 1914
- Description: first edition; large octavo, xii, 411 pp., 74 illustrations after photographs on seventy two pages, 28 profiles on six folding sheets 5 folding color maps in printed paper pocket; library book plate and markings, light general age toning to text and pocket has short tears with no damage to maps, near very good in later cloth with original paper front cover bound in . Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Peru, Ecuador, physical geography, geology, exploration, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 733659
- Charles F. Sibbald ... The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the joint resolution of the Senate for the relief of Charles F. Sibbald, with accompanying papers ... report ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $306.50
- Publisher: Washington Date Published: 1851
- Description: 212 pp.; issued as 31st Congress, 2d Session, HR 38; light extraction roughness at spine, age spotting and speckling, library hand stamps on edges, self wrappers; according to Sibbald when Florida was purchased by the United States he was the owner of a Spanish land grant for 16,000 acres of valuable timber and agricultural land on the East coast, had a thriving lumber business, and was ready to reap millions when agents of the Navy and Treasury Departments descended on his land and destroyed his assets. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: rare, Florida, Spanish land grants Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 531880
- Nahuatlismos de Costa Rica. Ensayo lexicográfico acerca de las voces mejicanas que se hallan en el habla corriente de los Costarricenses.
- ISBN: NA Price: $341.14
- Publisher: San Jose de Costa Rica, Tipografía nacional, Date Published: 1892
- Description: first edition, inscribed by author to American archaeologist Marshall H. Saville and tipped in is an 1897 written note to him that he has decided to return to Costa Rica, "I shall not have the pleasure to see you again"; lxxv, [1], 148 pp.; later quarter leather rubbed and front hinge cracked, general age toning but not fragile, good+. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: language, Spanish, Nahuatl, Aztec, Costa Rica, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 693435
- Historia de Costa Rica durante la dominacion espanola, 1502-1821.
- ISBN: NA Price: $44.54
- Publisher: Madrid: Tipografia de Manuel Gines Hernandez, Date Published: 1889
- Description: first edition; quarto, vii, [1], 640, [29] (including a section of fifty facsimile autographs), coat-of-arms plate; paper wrappers badly chipped, text browned and partially disbound but mostly unopened, reading copy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Costa Rica, Spanish colonies in Central America, CRN Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 738348
- Gobernantes del Peru, Cartas y papeles, siglo XVI. Documentos del Archivo de Indias. (Volumes 1-3)
- ISBN: NA Price: $170.87
- Publisher: Madrid: Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, S.A., Date Published: 1921
- Description: Volumes 1 through 3 only; quarto, covers the period 1533 to 1573 with overlap at end in the following volume, issued as part of the Coleccion de publicaciones historicas de la Biblioteca del Congreso argentino; x, 580 pp. + [iv], 666 pp. + xxxii, 700 pp.; library markings. paper wrappers chipped and torn with portions of spines taped, only light general age toning to interiors. Volumes Included: 3
- Subject: Peru, Spanish colonies, colonial administration, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 738371
- A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to reach Repulse Bay, through Sir Thomas Rowe's "Welcome," in His Majesty's Ship Griper, in the year MDCCCXXIV. By Captain G. F. Lyon, R.N. With a chart and engravings.
- ISBN: NA Price: $265.98
- Publisher: London: John Murray, Date Published: 1825
- Description: first edition; xvi, 198, [2] pp., folding "Chart of Hudson’s Strait & Sir Ths. Rowe's Welcome" as frontispiece, 6 plates (of 7, lacks Sea Piece), 8 pp. of Longman ads dated December 1824 between front endpapers; library markings including book plate, signatures of a previous owner, original paper covered boards darkened and rubbed with spine covering fragmentary and front cover detached, offset from plates on facing pages, good only; the expedition was a failure, largely from factors out of Captain Lyon's control but it effectively ended his career; Arctic Bibliography 10530, Lande 1292, Sabin 42851. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Northwest Passage, Hudson Strait, Repulse Bay, exploration, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 693468
- Vias del pacífico al Madre de Dios. Publicacion de la junta de Vias Fluviales
- ISBN: NA Price: $731.69
- Publisher: Lima: Imprenta de El Lucero Baquijano. Date Published: 1902
- Description: first edition; large quarto, 189, [5] pp., 3 folding tables, 5 folding color maps in pocket at end, illustrations in text; minor library markings, orange pictorial paper wrappers faded and split at spine, text age toned, the paper pocket broken but maps not damaged, good+ only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Peru, rivers, exploration, Rio Tambopata, Rio Inambari, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 716958
- Bureau of Historic Sites and Properties Bulletin. (Numbers 1, 3, 4, 5)
- ISBN: NA Price: $36.63
- Publisher: Tallahassee: Date Published: 1971
- Description: these 4 numbers only; all quarto and illustrated, each number contains several articles; library hand stamps, else very good in original paper wrappers. Volumes Included: 4
- Subject: Florida, archaeology, historic preservation, CRN Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 791659
- Slavery, Secession and Success. The Memoirs of a Florida Pioneer
- ISBN: NA Price: $101.38
- Publisher: San Antonio: Southern Literary Institute Date Published: 1934
- Description: 36 pp.; original red paper wrappers, minor library markings, text age toned, else near very good; written in 1910 and begins in the year 1859. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: North Florida, MMW Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 753191
