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In Darkest Africa or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890.

First edition of Stanley’s classic work. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in the original publishers three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, marbled edges and endpapers. Tw...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-102433

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Rainsford, Marcus

An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti: Comprehending a View of The Principal Transactions in the Revolution of Saint Domingo; With Its Antient and Modern State.

[London]: Albion Press Printed: Published by James Cundee, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row, 1805.

First edition of this important turn-of-the-19th century work on the inhabitants of Haiti and St. Domingo which discusses at length the struggle for independence among the black colonies, slavery, and...

$1,650.00 Item Number: RRB-151802

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Hemingway, Ernest; Taylor Williams; Mary Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway, Mary Hemingway, and Taylor Williams Photograph Collection.

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Rare original black and white photograph collection of legendary American writer Ernest Hemingway with his wife Mary Hemingway and fishing guide Taylor Williams in Cuba. Collection of five black and w...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150109

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Huxley, Elspeth

The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1959.

First edition of Huxley’s autobiographical work based on her early life among white settlers on her father’s coffee plantation in Kenya. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Elspeth Huxley on...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-129827

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Duke, Charlie

Charlie Duke Signed Crescent Earth Photograph.

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Large satin-finish black and white photograph of a crescent earth rising over the lunar surface, signed by the 10th and youngest person to walk on the Moon, Charlie Duke, in silver pen, “Life Is...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-145933

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Boynton, C.B. and T.B. Mason

A Journey Through Kansas; with Sketches of Nebraska: Describing the Country, Climate, Soil, Mineral, Manufacturing, and Other Resources.

Cincinnati : Moore, Wilstach, Keys, 1855.

Rare wrapper-bound issue of the second book on Kansas. Octavo, original wrappers, with a folding map of Nebraska and Kansas by Boynton. The pictorial advertisement for the publisher on the rear wrappe...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-76010

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[Conder, Josiah] [Millard Fillmore]

The Modern Traveller. A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe: Volume VII Mexico and Guatimala. Volume X Russia.

Boston and Philadelphia: Wells & Lilly and Thomas Wardle, 1830.

Early American editions of these travel and reference volumes with accessible accounts of world geography and culture. Duodecimo, volumes VII and X, bound in full calf, rebacked with archival cloth ta...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-151233

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Blixen, Karen [Isak Dinesen]

Den Afrikanske Farm. [Out of Africa].

Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1937.

First Danish edition of the author’s classic memoir, which recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition. Rare in this co...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-151113

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Dinesen, Isak [Karen Blixen]

Out of Africa.

New York: Random House, 1938.

First American edition of the author’s masterpiece, a lyrical meditation of the years she lived in Kenya. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spi...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-141302

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Rollin, Charles [William Tecumseh Sherman]

The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians Macedonias and Grecians.

New York: George Long, 1830.

First edition of this historical collection of travel accounts; from the library of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, four volumes, bound in full calf with gilt titles and labels to the spine,...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-145753

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Michener, James A. [Lech Walesa]

Pilgrimage: A Memoir of Poland and Rome.

Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Press, 1990.

First edition of this memoir of Michener’s travels in Poland and Rome. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed and dated by James Michener on the title page and signed by Nobel Peace Prize wi...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150419

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Lindbergh, Charles A

Of Flight and Life.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons , 1948.

First edition of this prophetic discourse on weapons of mass destruction. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “To Dean Walter Bartky with...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144537

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Blake, Michael [Kevin Cosner]

Dances with Wolves.

New York: Newmarket Press, 1991.

First hardcover edition, early printing of the Newmarket Press edition of this classic novel, basis for the Academy Award-winning film. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscri...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148667

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Bourdain, Anthony

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.

New York: Bloomsbury, 2000.

First edition, later printing of the legendary chef’s bestselling memoir and first work of non-fiction. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page,...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149281

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Scott, Robert Falcon

Scott’s Last Expedition.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1913.

First edition of Scott’s diaries from his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Quarto, two volumes, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to spine and front panel, tissue-guarded fronti...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-129351

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Yarrow, David

Wild Encounters: Iconic Photographs of the World’s Vanishing Animals and Cultures.

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2016.

First edition of this unparalleled collection of high-art photography of fauna and cultures from around the world with a foreword by HRH the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William. Boldly signed and dated...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149298

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Leigh Fermor, Patrick; George Psychoundakis

George Psychoundakis: A Letter to C.A. Trypanis.

Athens: The American College of Greece, 1999.

First edition of this work by the author of A Time of Gifts. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed by both Patrick Leigh Fermor and George Psychoundakis to John Leatham, who contr...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-3911

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Dinesen, Isak. [Karen Blixen]

Out of Africa.

New York: Random House, 1938.

First edition of the author’s classic memoir, which recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya. Octavo, original pictorial half cloth, top stain green. Near fine in a ne...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148336

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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George. Introduction by Edgar Johnson

The Last Days of Pompeii.

The Officina Bodoni Verona: Printed For The Members of the Limited Editions Club, 1956.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Bulwer-Lytton’s most celebrated work, a classic of historical fiction and the basis for the 1935 Hollywood film of the same name directed by E...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149522

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A New and Accurate Map of East and West Florida. Drawn from the best Authorities. [18th Century Map of Florida].

London:, [c. 1765].

Engraved 18th century English map of the state of Florida; one of the earliest printed maps of the state which appeared in the London Magazine in March of 1765. One page, the map is divided into Briti...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138232

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Duke, Charlie [Neil Armstrong]

Charlie Duke Signed Photograph of Neil Armstrong on the Moon.

:, July 20, 1969.

Large photograph of Neil Armstrong on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. Color photograph of Neil Armstrong on the moon. Lengthily inscribed in gold felt tip by Capsule Communicator Charlie Duke,...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145297

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Huxley, Elspeth

The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1959.

First edition of Huxley’s autobiographical work based on her early life among white settlers on her father’s coffee plantation in Kenya. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Elspeth Huxley on...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-110441

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

India and the Awakening East.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1953.

First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s account of her travels through the Middle East and India. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. Sign...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-115782

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Japanese Western Fashion Collection.

Japan:, c. 1800.

Collection of six plates depicting the traditional attire of countries west of Japan including England, Germany, Portugal, Holland, Denmark, and Russia. Folio, each painting housed in a custom mat wit...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132604

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