Los Angeles, (CA): Ward Ritchie Press, 1964. First edition thus (originally published in 1840). 8vo. 2 volumes: xxii, 270; vi, [271]-552 pp. Plates, some in color, maps, endpaper maps, chapter headpieces; prospectus laid in. Howes D-49: “This account of California in 1835 and 1836 surpassed in popularity all other books..... More

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1857. First edition. 12mo. 466, (14, publisher’s ads) pp. Typical Grand Tour of England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, back to France and England, and Ireland. Smith E15. Original embossed brown cloth (rubbed, spine ends showing a little wear), gilt spine title. Several marginal pencil..... More

New York: American News Co., 1866. First edition. Small 8vo. xii, 274 pp. Illustrated from line drawings, mounted portrait photograph of the author (small chip); title-page printed in red and black. Inscribed by the author on the title page in 1874. Davidge (1814-1888), an “English comedian, moved to the United..... More

Bangkok, (Siam): Printed at the “Bangkok Dailey Mail,”, 1924. First edition. Large 8vo. (12), 344, (14, index, “numbered” A-N) pp. A discussion of the rights of every sovereign nation “to exercise exclusive jurisdiction within its own territory.” Inscribed on the front endpaper “Avec mes compliments a / mon cher ami..... More

Boston, (MA): Little Brown, 1909. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 319 pp. Prefatory note by Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard, 1869-1909. Account of a 1900 trip to the area, published posthumously. Original burgundy cloth, gilt spine title (somewhat dull). Very good untrimmed and partly unopened copy. More

Paris: Chex Pierre le Petit, 1676. 16mo (17 cm) in eights. (12), 509, (36, table) pp. [printed double-column, with facing text in French and Latin]. Selections, prayers and Christian instructions drawn from the Old and New Testament. OCLC locates two copies in the United States (Georgetown, Dominican). Contemporary calf (rubbed..... More

London: Printed for George Cowie and Co., 1825. Second edition, with a new preface (the 1824 first edition was published in a single 4to volume). 8vo. 2 volumes: (8), 498; (4), 486 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait to volume one. Clarke (1769-1822) was a mineralogist and antiquary whose Travels (Europe, Africa..... More

London: Trigraph for the A. G. Leventis Foundation, (c1984). First edition, 1/200 copies (this #8), first publication of the manuscripts. Small 4to. Illustrated from old art, frontispiece and 22 plates, portraits, facsimile, double-page map. Publisher’s gilt-stamped green leather, gilt spine title. Fine. More

London: Henry Colburn, 1839. Second edition, (first published in 1838). 12mo. 2 volumes: xii, 361; iv, 377, (1, errata) pp. Engraved frontispiece view in each volume. Cairo, the Pyramids, Thebes, Mount Sinai, Suez, Akaba, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Jericho and the Dead Sea, Jordan, Palmyra, and Damascus, among other places visited. Later..... More

London: John Murray, 1852. Second, abridged edition (first published in 1839 and 1841). Small 8vo. xvi, 510 pp. Two folding maps, six folding plates, many illustrations in the text. Fellows made to journeys into Lycia, in 1838 and 1839, publishing journals of those explorations in 1839 and 1841; he discovered..... More

London: John Murray, 1883. First edition. 8vo. ix, (2), 430 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the subject in Arabic dress, facsimiles. Palmer (1840-1882), an Orientalist by training, was killed in the Suez while on a mission for the British government. Inscribed on the front endpaper, “A. M. Charrington / from the..... More

London: Macmillan & Co., 1871. First edition. 8vo. xii, 277; vi, (2), 272 pp. 31 plates; erratum slip tipped in. Large engraved bookplates of Johann & Dora Kruse in each volume; Kruse (1859-1927) was an Australian violinist and conductor. Later red three-quarter morocco and marbled boards (corners rubbed), gilt titles..... More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, nd [1912]. First edition with the Thomson illustrations, 1/350 copies (this #21) signed by the illustrator. 4to. (4), 197, (1) pp. Mounted color plates, in-text line drawings; advertisement for Thomson’s drawings and watercolors laid in. Publisher’s green and gilt-stamped decorated vellum (some browning), top edge gilt..... More