From The Lakes Of Killarney To The Golden Horn
New York: Charles Scribner, (1876). Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 355; black ruled green pebbled cloth, gilt lettered spine, brown coated endpapers;. A Grand Tour account. More
New York: Charles Scribner, (1876). Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 355; black ruled green pebbled cloth, gilt lettered spine, brown coated endpapers;. A Grand Tour account. More
(New York): Knickerbocker Press, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; viii, 129; Illustrated with twenty black and white photographs; green cloth, gilt; previous owner's bookplate and namestamps on the rear pastedown;. A volume born of a trip, on which prior to his departure, the author could not find adequate travelogues..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1921. Later printing. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; (9), 10-203 plus 4pp. ads; blue cloth, gilt with a bookseller's tag from Mercy Boyd's Bookshop in Waterbury Ct.;. A nice vintage edition of a classic travel book. More
(London): Great Western Railway Of England, 1913. Wraps. (1913). Duodecimo; pp; 16; illustrated with nineteen small photographs and a folding double sided color map at rear, showing Devon on one face and the GWR Routes on the other; original decorated printed tan card stock wrappers. More
San Francisco: H. S. Crocker Company for the Washington Novelty Company, 1955. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 48; profusely illustrated with views in color and black and white, large folding map at rear; original glossy printed pictorial paper wrappers;. Washington D.C. during the Eisenhower Presidency. More
New York: Travel Enterprises, 1952. First Edition. Wraps. Quarto; pp; 114; Illustrated with numerous maps and photographs; A good or better copy, wrappers detached but present, internally tight and clean, very good;. Guide books naturally always reflect the era of their publication. New York in the 1960’s was an exciting..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, green gilt-stamped pictorial cloth. Top edge gilt. 326, (1)pp. Illustrated with photographs in black and white and drawings by Norman Irving Black. Very good condition. More
London: Longman, Brown Green & Longman's Co, 1853. Fourth enlarged edition. Hardcover. 16mo; pp. xii, 292, index; eight double page colored maps; green cloth, gilt, decorated advertising endpapers; cloth faded;. This copy is signed by H. M. Blue of the U. S. Naval Academy on a preliminary. More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., (1936). Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 253; green textured boards lettered in gilt;. A tale of a trip from Vermont to California by car in the 1930's; an inciteful book largely forgotton today. Much of the trip was on Route 66 as..... More
London: Cassell And Company, Ltd., 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes; Quarto; pp; I; xv, (i), 568; II; xii, 569-1132, with index and errata slip; Profusely illustrated in black and white "from old prints, photographs and drawings" and plans; decorated blue cloth with gilt lettering, top edges gilt;. A lovely..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852. First American Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp. 264; Numerous black and white text illustrations and a full page initial plate and an illustrtated title page; brown cloth, stamped in blind, gilt spine lettering, yellow coated endpapers; spine faded, werar at spine ends;. James Jackson Jarves..... More
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, (1892). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. (viii), 288; Illustrated, frontispiece plus nineteen photogravure plates; decorated blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt; a bright substantial copy;. A book you would want to read before you embarked on the "Grand Tour" More
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1996. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; lix, (i), 447, (i), with index and a list of the Lakeside Classics; frontispiece portrait, plus twenty-seven additional illustrations including two maps; brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Kane's is a well known tragedy of Arctic exploration. More
Boston: C. M. Clark Publishing Co., 1907. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. vii, (i), 163, plus pp. ads; Frontispiece portrait and many black and white photographs; pictorial red cloth lettered in black; spine lightly faded, edgewear, Detailed travelogue by a young man on the Grand Tour just before WWI. He..... More
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; xviii, (ii), 387, index; Frontispiece portrait of the author plus thirteen black and white plates; green cloth, gilt, top edge gilt; Very good, edge wear. Travels in the USA and reflections on TR. More
Boston: Marshall Jones Co., 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. xiv, (ii), 139; Frontispiece map plus twenty-two photographs; Foreword by Anthony Fiala; pictorial tan cloth, lettered in brown; Very good. Adventure in British Guiana! An account of a river trip up the Mazaruni from Georgetown, British Guiana in search of..... More
Spokane: The Eastern Washington State Historical Society, printed by the Inland-American Printing Company, 1923. Limited edition, Np. 551 0f 1000 copies. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 333, (iii), index, list of subscribers; illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and fifteen additional photographs and three maps including one in color; burgundy cloth, spine lettered..... More
Paris: J. H. Moronval and others, 1829. Fourteenth edition. Wraps. 24mo; pp; xii, 292, 40; engraved frontispiece plus an additional twenty-three inserted engraved views and a map; original printed green paper wrappers;. All relevant monuments, curios; the views are beautifully engraved. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (5.75" x 8.75), red cloth, gilt, with photographic paste-on illustration. 310ppIllustrated with black and white photographs. Light wear and a bumped corner. A lengthy gift inscription on the half-title by a couple to another couple who were also on their..... More
New York: Giles Company for Quebec Steamship Company, (1890). Wraps. oblong 16mo; pp.unpaginated, (32); illustrated in black and white; original string-tied beige stiff wrappers lettered in red script; Small ink stain on rear wrapper else, very good. Advertising view book with full page ads for the "Hamilton" & "Princess" Hotels..... More
Buckarest: Jugendverlag, 1960. First Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 109, (iii),; illustrated with a black and white frontispiece portrait of the author, thirty pages of reproduced cyanotype photographs comprising forty-four images and three large folding maps; original printed pictorial color wrappers; Text is in German;. Scarce, OCLC locates just a single..... More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1835. With a frontispiece, title-page vignette, and eighteen other fine steel engraved plates after Turner. Octavo, half navy morocco and blue cloth. Top edge gilt. Lower joint with a two inch crack, the occasional minor spot in the text. Corners bumped else..... More
Boston: Royal Blue Lines, 1925. Wraps. Narrow octavo; pp; 40; illustrated with photographs, centerfold double page map of Boston; original decorated printed blue self-wrappers;. (Petroliana) Outines many regional tours as well. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. (1980). Octavo (65." x 9.5"), brown cloth and tan boards in dust jacket. 292pp. with index. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with photos in color and drawings in black and white. Jacket is slightly edgeworn. Slight slant. The author spent six years in..... More
Hamburg and Leipsig: Richters Reisefuher - Verlag, 1917. First Edition. Wraps. Duodecimo; pp. xii, (i), 64 with index 32pp. illustrated ads; three folding maps colored in outline, two of the larger region, one of the city, printed green wrappers, lettered in black, spines faded. Given the fact that these guides..... More