San Diego, CA: 1928. First edition, 1/300 copies, inscribed by the editor on front endpapers. This copy belonged to Jean Hersholt, with bookplate. 8vo. 279, (2) pp. Illustrated; plates (last plate wanting, as often). The editor of this volume is the daughter of L. and E. Gunn. Howes M-324. Gilt-stamped..... More
London: published by Saunders and Otley; New York: sold by Harper & Brothers, 1838. First American edition. Two volumes. 8vo. [6] including 2p. ads for publisher, 13-276p.; (5)-239p. Beige muslim with paper labels chipped, soiled with wear to joints and spine ends internally foxed. A good copy. " It describes..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1895. First American edition (from British sheets, with a new title page). 8vo. xii, 306 pp. Illustrated, portrait frontispiece, line drawings, folding map. Very good.. Original illustrated gray cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. (#1536). More
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, (1)pp. Folding map with hand-colored outline. Original cloth-backed printed boards (soiling & rubbing to boards). Scattered foxing, but a crisp copy. First edition, second issue ("animals" correctly spelled on title page). Howes M-689. 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
Philadelphia: Hinman & Dutton, 1838. 16mo. 78 pp. Large folding map: Mitchell's Traveller's Guide through the United States: a Map of the Roads, Distances, Steam Boat and Canal Routes, &c. (Philadelphia: Mitchell, 1838; engraved on steel by J.H. Young and D. Haines; 17 1/2 x 22 inches). Original gilt-stamped and..... 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
Jerusalem: Jamal Bros. c1921. First edition (?). 4to. Title and contents leaf, 24 photogravures of scenes from the Holy Land, each captioned and signed by the photographer in brown ink and protected with a tissue guard. All of the scenes are from Palestine: David's Tower, the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem..... 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
Lewisburg, PA, Bucknell Univ. Pr. 1956. 1 of 300 copies. Wraps; viii, 143pp. Portrait frontis. Inscribed by the editor. Evarts, Secretary of the Amer. Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, travelled extensively throughout the South, visiting the mission stations in the Cherokee, Choctaw & Chickasaw Indian country. His letters also..... 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
London: Benjamin White, 1771. First edition in English. 8vo. 2 volumes: xx, 396; (2), 367, (32) pp. 13 engraved plates; lacks half-titles. Bradley Martin sale 1772. Recent contemporary-style calf, leather labels and gilt rules on spines; ex-institutional copy, with stamps on several leaves, title-page to volume one re-margined. Still a...... 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
Winchester, England: Warren & Son, 1920. First edition. 8vo. (8), 56 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Diary of an August - November, 1920, visit to the United States by an educated, informed woman: New York, Niagara Falls, Philadelphia, and Boston, society and the sights. Inscribed by the author in..... 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
London: Heinemann, (c1970). First edition. 8vo. x, (2), 180 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, endpaper maps. "Adventurous account of the author's solitary [1968] exploration of [Bhutan's] remote interior ... the last uncharted land of Asia." Very good. Red cloth, gilt spine title, color illustrated dust jacket. (#8449). 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
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1969. Two volumes in red slipcase. 4to. (xii), 195pp. (translation); unpaginated fascimile of original reproduced in color. Cream colored cloth with red spine labels and gilt lettering. Very good. 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, PA: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836. First American ed. 12mo. viii, [13]-262, 2; 219 pp. Publisher's ad leaf. Volume two deals largely with Power's travels in the South, including sojourns in Savannah, Charleston, Mobile, and New Orleans, and visits to smaller towns in the upcountry. Howes P-533. Sabin 64780..... 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
Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, 1837. First edition, part of the "L'Univers: pittoresque, histoire et description de tous les peuples" series. 8vo. (8), 400 pp. [printed double-column]. 96 plates, folding map. Howes R-472: "By the French Minister to this country, 1829-1831. French editions formed part of 'L'Univers.'" Sabin 73516. Later navy..... 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
