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Voyages successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, And Captain Cook, In the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: Drawn up From the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, And from the Papers of Joseph…

This is a captivity narrative among the Comanche Indians of Ohio.

With an introd. by Dee Brown & wood-engravings by Gillian Tyler.

Translated by A. Chapman from a speech delivered in Washington in 1879. First published in 1925 under title: Chief Joseph's own story. (wood engravings).

Colored facsimile of a manuscript with Mexican hieroglyphics; has an accordion binding.

Shown here is the titlepage from a reprint of the Roman geographer Pomponius Mela's Description of the World. He described the world as it was perceived by the ancient Romans.

His work is presented as a circumnavigation of the known world at that…

Robert Morden was a geographer and a prolific maker of maps and globes. Displayed here are maps from the first edition of his Geography Rectified.

This geographical primer was reprinted in 1688, 1693, and 1700. In addition to containing a small…

Aumentada con otros docvmentos, y notas, por el ilustrissimo Senor Don Francisco Antonio Lorenzana, arzobispo de Mexico. Con las licencias necesarias


Herman Cortes arrived in the West Indies in 1504, traveled on to Cuba in 1511 and marched into…

Escrita por Antonio de Herrera, coronista mayor de Su Md. d[e] las Indias y su coronista de Castilla ; en quatro decadas desde el año de 1442 hasta el de [1]531 ..

(Bound with several works which have engraved title pages)

Travels to the source of the Missouri river and across the American continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by order of the government of the United States, in the years 1804, 1805, and 1806. By Captains Lewis and Clarke. Published from the…