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: 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): 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
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
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