Timbuktu Books | Antiquarian books, maps, and manuscripts
Timbuktu Books sells antiquarian books, maps, and manuscripts with an emphasis on travel and adventure. Collections, signed books, and notable works are also part of our collection.
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We Buy Books. We’re interested in buying older, collectible, and signed books in good condition, as well as old manuscripts, albums of photographs, journals and diaries, and other historical material.
About - Timbuktu Books
Timbuktu Books is an online vintage and antiquarian book business located in Seattle, Washington. My offerings are focused on travel, adventure, history, and exploration. I also sell many other types of nonfiction, as well as literature, first editions, leather-bound volumes, author-signed volumes, original manuscripts, and images.
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Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. — Mason Cooley
Some English Gardens… | Timbuktu Books
Fifty spectacular English gardens of the early 1900s are featured – the best of their time – with handsome color plates after watercolors by George Elgood. The book’s author, Gertrude Jekyll, was a pioneering British horticulturist and garden designer whose own home and fabulous gardens were recently acquired by Britain’s National Trust.
Cook’s Voyage - Timbuktu Books
This first American edition of Captain Cook’s voyage is quite rare. A New Voyage, Round the World, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770 and 1771, by Captain James Cooke in the Ship Endeavour, drawn up from his own Journal and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq, was published in 1774. Cook ventured into uncharted areas and mapped parts of the globe that beforehand were virtually unknown.
The Travels of Marco Polo - Timbuktu Books
Cannibals, pirates, rubies as big as a man’s palm, a country swarming with lions, sorceries by diabolic art – Marco Polo’s tales of his travels in the exotic Far East brought back fabulous stories of riches and strange customs to the people of medieval Europe.
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Read about books we’ve recently found or sold … Faces of China c1890s… This handsome-looking group of women is one image from an album of photographs c1890, acquired by a Scottish man serving in the colonial British army there at the time.
The photographs of Fratelli Alinari | Timbuktu Books
Just one of many wonderful old albumen photographs in four large, heavy albums of original photographs by Fratelli Alinari, the world’s oldest photography firm, founded in Florence in 1852.
My Life at the Limit - Timbuktu Books
A couple of years ago, when this book was first published, he spoke in Seattle and was utterly charming. My Life at the Limit is a fascinating account of his adventures, told in a question-and-answer format, not unlike the style that’s so popular with online communications today.