Philadelphia: Printed by T. and G. Palmer, 1813. 8vo. 26 pp. Map. Original printed wrappers (somewhat chipped around the edges and eroded along the spine; some browning, but a very good untrimmed copy. "Third edition, enlarged and improved; and illustrated by a map of the country between Lakes Erie and..... More

Paris: L'Imprimerie de Giguet et Michaud, 1802. 8vo. (4), 331, (1) pp. Errata, half-title. Contemporary marbled boards, recently rebacked in calf, employing the original endpapers, new leather spine label. Very good copy. First edition. Signed by the author beneath his justification on the verso of the title page. Howes M-599..... More

Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1837. 8vo. 143 pp. Folding map with hand-colored outline (dated 1838). Original cloth-backed printed boards (giving the title "Illinois in 1837 & 8" and dated 1838). Cloth a little frayed along the front joint and chipped at head of spine, else very good. Second edition. Howes..... More

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1902. Second edition (following a rare 1867 privately printing). Large thick 8vo. xxxv, 444 pp. Illustrated, frontispiece portrait, plates, maps. Neate 535: "Moore was a member of the party which made the first ascent of the Brenva ice-ridge on Mont Blanc." Original green cloth, gilt spine title..... More

NY: H. Wilson, 1849. 16mo. 179 pp. Illustrated, ads, folding map of the city. Original gilt-stamped black cloth (soiled and somewhat faded). Good solid copy. The first in this series was issued in 1845. Sabin 54298. More

[1937]. Grey cloth bound scrapbook, with printed lettering laid down on the front cover: "My Book / Estel[la] Orlopp / 1 / Six Weeks in Europe / 1937." The scrapbook measures 12 x 10 inches, with 173 pp., all but a handful of which are covered with copies of Mrs..... More

Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette, 1866. First edition in French (first published London, 1865). 8vo. 2 volumes: xvi, 346; (4), 429, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece, double-page map, four plans. As a Catholic missionary in Syria, Palgrave "undertook an adventurous journey across Central Arabia in 1862 and 1863. His object was..... More

Panama: I.L. Maduro, nd [ca. 1910]. Broadsheet, 18 x 24 inches, two color maps and an elevation panorama. Folded into illustrated charcoal wrappers. Very good. First edition. A profile map of the proposed, and then unfinished, canal, with locks and dam indicated; the verso, a "History of the Panama Canal"..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Privately printed, 1945. First edition, 1/275 copies. 8vo. 39 pp. Illustrated from photographs, frontispiece. Description of the Moroccan city at the turn-of-the-century, with a long account of the author's participation in a wild boar hunt. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Not in Czech..... More

Avranches: Henri Tibouillard, (1865). Second edition. 12mo. (4), xxxvii, (2), 182, (2) pp. Illustrated, 3 plates, chromolithographic frontispiece, folding panorama. Detailed historical guide to the church. We have not found a bibliographical citation for a first edition. Not cited by Henry Adams in his Mont St.-Michel and Chartres. OCLC locates..... More

Philadelphia: Reading & Company Publishers 1019 Cherry Street, 1890 (stamped 1901 underneath). First edition. 8vo. xv, (2), 278 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates. Reading traveled extensively and commented on all aspects of life in Gabon and other areas of West Africa. Owner's library stamp on title page, bookplate on front..... More

London: Richard Phillips, 1820. First British edition (first published New York, 1817). 8vo. iv, 116 pp. Engraved frontispiece plate, a view of Quebec. Based on a trip to Quebec in 1817. Sabin 76707: "Contains 'Cornelius's Tour to Virginia and Tennessee,' pp. 96-116." Lande 776. Not in Haynes. Later navy three-quarter..... More

San Diego, CA: University Library, U. of California, San Diego, 1974-1983. Tall 8vo. 3 volumes: xv, 333; xviii, (2), 337-627; x, (2), 629-766 pp. Illustrated, plates, endpaper maps; errata slip laid into volume two. Original gilt-stamped light blue cloth. Very good. First edition. The first volume includes items in the..... More