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Pre-Columbian Historical Treasures, 1000 - 1492. The Flatey Book and Recently Discovered Vatican Manuscripts Concerning American as Early as the Tenth Century

By: Anderson, Rasmus B.

Price: $12.47

Publisher: Norroena Society: 1906

Seller ID: 120887

ISBN: B000IKGDFI

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good-

Heavily worn. Cloth missing from spine.
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The New Eldorado: A Summer Journey to Alaska

By: Ballou, Maturin Murray

Price: $27.32

Publisher: Boston, MA, Houghton, Mifflin and Company: 1890

Seller ID: 99262

ISBN: B00087GXTC

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dark green cloth, black pictorial decoration, gold lettering. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Hinges excellent. pages excellent. 352 pages.
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The New Eldorado: A Summer Journey to Alaska,

By: Ballou, Maturin Murray

Price: $28.76

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company: 1890

Seller ID: 118895

ISBN: B00087GXTC

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 352 pages.
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Little America, Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic, The Flight to the South Pole

By: Byrd, Richard Evelyn

Price: $91.15

Publisher: New York, NY, G. P. Putnam's sons: 1930

Seller ID: 111117

ISBN: B0006ALHHY

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Signed by Author on Half-Title page. 1st Printing. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Also included: Byrd Prize Letter Contest, G. P. Putnam's Sons, publishers of 'Little America,' by Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd, announce a series of special prizes to be awarded for the best letters upon the following subject: 'The Value, To the Civilized World, of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition'. For the best letters on this subject (not to exceed two hundred and fifty words), received at the office of G. P. Putnam's Sons, on or before March 2, 1931, the following prizes will be awarded. 422 pages.
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Little America, Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic, The Flight to the South Pole

By: Byrd, Richard Evelyn

Price: $72.91

Publisher: New York, NY, G. P. Putnam's sons: 1930

Seller ID: 111116

ISBN: B0006ALHHY

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Signed by Author on Half-Title page. 1st Printing. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 422 pages.
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The Voyage of the Jeannette. The Ship and Ice Journals of George W. De Long, Lt. Commander U.S.N., and Commander of the Polar Expedition of 1870-1881. In Two Volumes.

By: De Long, George [edited by Emma De Long]

Price: $205.15

Publisher: Boston, MA, Houghton, Mifflin: 1884

Seller ID: 99730

ISBN: B001VIZYEW

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

2 volumes complete. Brown cloth with black + gold pictorial decorations. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Binding cloth frayed at points. Rear map pocket empty. Hinges good. 911 pages. With many illustrations. The ship was purchased in 1878 by James Gordon Bennett, Jr., owner of the New York Herald; and renamed Jeannette. Bennett was an Arctic enthusiast, and he obtained the cooperation and assistance of the US government in fitting out an expedition to the North Pole through the Bering Strait. Soon afterward she was caught fast in the ice pack near Wrangel Island. For the next 21 months, Jeannette drif...
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The Discovery of America, With Some Account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest, 1896 (Volume Two. Vol. 2)

By: Fiske, John

Price: $22.92

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin: 1898

Seller ID: 90725

ISBN: B007BNWJXA

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Seventeenth thousand. Crimsom cloth, gold spine lettering, top page ends gold gilt. Nice Firm copy ! Previous owner name. Has pristine 1500 folding map by pilot Juan de La Cosa (North, Central, South America and Caribbean). Small folding map of 1513 Ptolemy. Many other page maps of early exploration scattered throughout. 631 pages. A detailed, thorough and authoritative guide to the Age of Exploration in the Americas. Contents: Chap. VII Mundus Novus, covers a myriad of explorers after Columbus; Chap. VIII The Conquest of Mexico; Chap. IX Ancient Peru; Chap. X The Conquest of Peru; Chap. XI Ba...
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South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917

By: Hurley, Frank

Price: $61.97

Publisher: BCL Press: 2004

Seller ID: 106384

ISBN: 0760756260

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy !
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The Journals of Captain Nathaniel J. Wyeth's Expeditions to the Oregon Country, 1831-1836

By: Johnson, Don (Editor)

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Ye Galleon Pr: 1997

Seller ID: 109894

ISBN: 087770323X

Condition: Good

Moderate general wear. 133 pages.
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Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier; Including An Introductory View of the Earlier Discoveries in the South Sea, and the History of the Bucaniers. Harper's Family Library No. Xxx.

By: Johnstone, Christian Isobel (1781 - 1857)

Price: $43.73

Publisher: New York, NY, J. & J. Harper, 82 Cliff Street.: 1832

Seller ID: 115338

ISBN: B002MHT532

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Brown cloth, black lettering. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 332 pages.
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition, Vol. 2 (Keystone Western Americana Series)

By: Lewis, Meriwether

Price: $10.03

Publisher: J. B. Lippincott: 1961

Seller ID: 110560

ISBN: B002MBPJSS

Condition: Good+

Moderate general wear. 590 pages.
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition Volume 3: The 1814 Edition, Unabridged

By: Lewis, Meriwether

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Lippincott: 1961

Seller ID: 110559

ISBN: B002LC0YHE

Condition: Good+

Moderate general wear.
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Columbus' Ships

By: Martinez-Hidalgo, Jose Maria

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Barre, MA, Barre Publishers: 1966

Seller ID: 121135

ISBN: B0006BOFOA

Condition: Good+

Moderate general wear. 123 pages.
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By Airplane Towards the North Pole. An Account of an Expedition to Spitsbergen in the Summer of 1923

By: Mittelholzer, Walter

Price: $36.43

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin: 1925

Seller ID: 89346

ISBN: B0037U9ZD8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 176 pages. B/w photos, 2 folding maps.
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Great Days in New Zealand Exploration

By: Pascoe, John

Price: $36.43

Publisher: Wellington, New Zealand, A.H. & A.W. Reed: 1959

Seller ID: 120167

ISBN: B0189MSJ3A

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! 192 pages.
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Narrative Of The Coronado Expedition

By: Pedro de Castaneda of Nejera

Price: $13.40

Publisher: The Lakeside Press: 2002

Seller ID: 101200

ISBN: B000GI03VC

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Crisp Firm Clean copy ! In original shrinkwrap!
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Westward Before Columbus

By: Prytz, Kare

Price: $27.27

Publisher: Norumbega Books: 1991

Seller ID: 99386

ISBN: 8290319134

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Signed by Author on Title page with Presentation notation. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 237 pages.
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Portugal and the Sea

By: Rasquilho, Rui; Jorge Barros

Price: $18.67

Publisher: Lisbon, Italy, Distri Cultural / Circulo De Leitores: 1983

Seller ID: 126333

ISBN: B0000EDFKN

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy !
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The History of Hernando De Soto and Florida: Or, Record of the Events of Fifty-Six Years, from 1512 to 1568

By: Shipp, Barnard; Garcilasso De La Vega; Hernando D'Escalante Fortanedo; Pierre Richelet (Trans.)

Price: $319.20

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, Collins, Printer: 1881

Seller ID: 117110

ISBN: B00085P70A

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Signed by Author Shipp on front free page with Presentation note, with date + place. Most pages unopened, uncut. Two folding maps of Florida and Louisiana. Brown cloth, gold decor. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Binding very good, hinges fine, text pages fine. 689 pages. Authored mostly by Garcilasso Inca de la Vega. History of voyages by various persons to Mexico,Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru and Florida. Introduction. Francisco Hernandez De Cordova to Yucatan 1517. Juan De Grijalva to Mexico 1518. Hernando Cortes to Mexico 1519. Pamfilo De Narvaez to Mexico 1520. Francisco De Garay t...
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Old South Leaflets (Volume V, 101-125)

By: Stated, Author Not

Price: $38.30

Publisher: Boston, MA, Directors of the Old South Work: 1902

Seller ID: 99258

ISBN: B002LDKBTY

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm copy ! Light general wear. Previous owner name of Boston philanthropist Augustus Hemenway. 25 articles primarily on New World exploration and nineteenth century American politics.
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