BUCANIERS OF AMERICA
First edition in English of Exquemelin's illustrated history of famous pirates, the central primary source on the subject during its most famous era, with the continuation by Ringrose.
First edition in English of Exquemelin's illustrated history of famous pirates, the central primary source on the subject during its most famous era, with the continuation by Ringrose.
First edition of the final African journals of Scottish missionary, abolitionist, and explorer David Livingstone, including his own account of the famous meeting with Stanley.
Uncommon account of the life of a South African ostrich farmer near the turn of the twentieth century.
Rare first separate edition of this journal by a Donner Party survivor, edited by a member of the rescue party, one of only 65 copies signed by the publisher.
First edition of these travel writings by the father of American landscape architecture, with his impressions of England's inns, interiors, pastries, ports, prostitutes, and public gardens, with particular attention to Birkinhead Park, which impressed him greatly.