Boston: Wright & Potter Co. State Printers, 1917. Sixth Edition. Wraps. Duodecimo; pp; 112, with an appendix of names, index; illustrated with a frontispiece and three additional plates; original printed pictorial paper wrappers;. Great tourist's guidebook or reference piece on the building. More
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1981. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; xliii, 388,including an index and followed by a list of the previously issued Lakeside Classics; illustrated with a frontispiece & twenty-seven additional plates including a double page colored map; brown cloth covered boards, spine lettered in gilt with a...... More
New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1912. Third printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xix, (i), 398, appendix; illustrated with frontispiece map and one hundred-fourteen illustrations from photographs by the author; green cloth, gilt with a map inset on the front board, top edge gilt; A solid copy with minor..... More
(Philadelphia): John D. Cardinell, 1926. First Edition. Wraps. Oblong octavo; pp; unpaginated, (64); profusely illustrated with sepia toned views of the Exposition grounds, buildings and other Philadelphia locations; pictorial brown printed wrappers lettered in blue and gilt;. Photographic souvenir book of the Philadelphia 150th Anniversary Exposition. More
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (6" x 9.5"), burgundy and tan boards in dust jacket. 273pp. Map endpapers. A hole in the dust jacket corresponds to a hole in the front joint. Otherwise a very nice copy. Chapell, his Brazillian wiffe and two young sons..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay Publisher, 1889. A New Edition with Illustrations. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. (2), 3-310, index; illustrated with photo-mechanical plates after engravings; pictorial yellow cloth, gilt, top edge gilt;. Attractive late 19th century synopsis of the Grand Tour. More
Bern Switzerland: A. Francke, 1931-1937. Second Edition. Hardcover. Volume II; 16mo; pp. 124, index; color maps, seven plates of peaks with climbing routes; Volume III; 16mo; pp; 182, index; color maps, over thirty plates of peaks and glaciers with climbing and crossing routes; terra-cotta cloth lettered in black; previous owner's..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. xxv, (i), 417 with bibliography and a 10pp. index; Folding map at front, and a colored frontispiece introduce the many plates, over one hundred, photographs and line drawings; Photographs by Rose Covarrubias; decorated black cloth and yellow boards in..... More
New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co., 1873. Hardcover. Small octavo; pp; xiv, (ii), 372, (iv), ads; frontispiece and seventeen black and white plates; original pictorial terra-cotta cloth, stamped in black and gilt;. A remarkable relic of Gilded Age publishing offering a look at the unknown places of the World. Taylor..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp. x, 228; frontispiece plus fifty-two black and white illustrations; decorated sage cloth lettered in gilt; Lightly faded else very good. Part travelogue, part reportage by this journalist and storied war correspondent. BAL 4515;. More
New York: Random House, 1937. New and Definitive edition. Hardcover. Volume One Only of Two Volumes; Quarto; pp; 674; illustrated, frontispiece portrait, text illustrations, a plate of Inscriptions, seven additional plates, large folding color map at rear; cream buckram, spine title tile in blue, gilt lettered, top edge stained blue;..... More
Augusta: Homan and Manley, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 404; frontispiece portrait; brown cloth, gilt, decorated in blind. Drew's memoir of a trip to London and the Crystal Palace via Montreal and Quebec. A valuable account of London and the Exhibition. This is a curious copy. It is adorned..... More
London: Longman's, Green & Co, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (5.25" x8.5"), green cloth gilt in pictoroal jacket. Illustrated with maps and photos in black and white. Jacket has a little edgewear.0-]]. Adapted from the Norwegian Explorer's New Land: Four Years in the Arctic Regions by the Norwegian explorer Otto..... More
New York: Charles Scribner, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 243, (iii), ads; color frontispiece map of the Holy Land; black ruled green pebbled cloth, gilt lettered spine, brown coated endpapers;. A very nice copy of a 19th century trip. 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: The Century Company, 1921. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (xiv), 378; profusely illustrated with a frontispiece and eighty-seven black and white photographs and a folding color map; pictorial green cloth lettered in dark green in a pictorial dust jacket;. Travels in Mexico & Central America a century ago..... More
(New York): Furness Bermuda Line, 1933. Only Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp.20; illustrated; original saddle-stiched beige gilt decorated stiff wrappers lettered in black script;. This voyage sailed from New York on August 19, 1933 to Bermuda. The pamphlet is filled with passenger info; The Monarch was referred to as "A Millionaires..... 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. Wraps. 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
Boston: Fields, Osgood & Company, 1870. Twelfth edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. xii, 563; green cloth, gilt, decorated in blind, brown coated endpapers;. First published in the 1850's this is an extensive in depth travelogue of Italy. Hillard was a Bostonian and law partner of Charles Sumner. A very nice copy..... More
Johannesburg: Africana Book Society, 1975. facsimile of the 1881 edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xi, (i), 479, index; illustrated with black and white plates and vignette illustrations; pictorial green cloth, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket, pictorial endpapers. Great adventure. 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