London: Henry S. King & Co., 1877. First edition. Hardcover. XVIII, 468 pages. 19.5 x 14 cm. 16 full page illustrations, lacks the folding map. Appendix of flowerless plants of Greenland. Index. Rink was a Danish geologist, one of the pioneers of glaciology, and the first to accurately describe the inland ice..... More
New York: Cassell Publishing Company, ca1891. First American edition. Hardcover. 301 pages. 18 x 13.5 cm. Illustrated. The author, a British novelist and writer was the epitome of an adventurous modern woman. Carpathian Mountains, second longest in Europe, a chain forming the eastward continuation of the Alps in Central and..... More
New York: R. Worthington, 1881. First American edition. Hardcover. XII, 251 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Wood engraved frontispiece, title vignette and 11 plates. Lady Florence, the Marquis of Queensberry's daughter journeyed to Patagonia and to South Africa (the Land of Misfortune). She traveled to South America because she was..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 259 pages. 26.5 x 22 cm. 252 black and white illustrations and 17 in color. A definitive history of of the twentieth century roadside marketplace with rare archival images. More