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19228194New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1922. First edition. 8vo 245 1pp ads. Inscribed by Chappell with his own name as well as Traprock to the former owner on the dedication. Photo plates. Publisher's gray cloth boards color illustrated endpapers in dust jacket. Near fine book with a few bumps to edges of boards in jacket with staining rubbing and chipping to edges. A good example. <br /> <br /> First edition of this second book in a travel memoir parody series by American journalist George Shepard Chappell 1877-1946 writing as Walter Traprock. Scarce in the jacket and especially so signed. G.P. Putnam's Sons unknown
1890576371890. Very good. Photographers not known. Oblong quarto 28 cm x 35 cm Pictorial lacquer boards. Binding professionally rebacked/repaired. Beveled edges. Gilt turn ins. Spine professionally and attractively restored. All edges gilt. 11.5 inch crack across front board. The embossed faces on the front board are missing and it looks as though someone has tried to drawn in one of the faces. Previous owner's brief inscription on the front free endpaper. Leaves with 48 striking hand-tinted albumen prints 19 cm x 25 cm. Each leaf has two images one on each side. Tissue guards in between. Very occasional light foxing to the images. A wonderful visual chronicle of the views people dress habits and customs of Japan. With the following images:<br /> <br /> No. 1043. Gardens at Tokio; No. 143 B. Temple at Shiba Tokyo; No. 954. Shiba at Tokyo; Carriages and stand in park under blossoming trees no caption; Two women in natural setting one carrying tray of tea; No. 140 B. Tokyo Costle sic; No. 988. Takinogawa Near Tokyo; Forest Image no caption; 715. Yomeimon Gate at Nikko; No. 127 B. Chiuzenji Road; Waterfall no caption; 1155. Chuzenji; Village scene no caption; Flower stand no caption; Village port with boats no caption; Port with boat and lighthouse no caption; 574. Daibutsu at Kamakura; Beach small boats workers not captioned; Two men in small boat on river no caption; 610. Hakone; Four young girls gathering berries/leaves - no caption; 930 B. Kioto Town from Maruyama; No. 452. Kioto; 1051. Interior of Honganji Temple; Waterway with logs and Cherry Blossom Tree no caption; Small vessel with man woman and child on board no caption; Ceremony with five people no caption; Human and deer in park no caption; 76B. Osaka Street; 1080. Nunobiki Foll Kobe; Small boats no caption; Two women bowing towards each other in doorway no caption; Two women engaged in a ritual with their heads and hands on the ground no caption; Two women one pouring tea the other smoking no caption; Woman playing string instrument tea and snacks on a plate in front of her no caption; Two women one playing a string instrument the other dancing with a fan no caption; A number of people under a bridge no caption; Woman on terrace with ladel bowl and hand towel no caption; Two young girls no caption; Young woman with umbrella; Young woman in bold triangle-patterned Kimono no caption; Man with fan and sword no caption; Two people in shallow water one holding a fish the other stooped over gathering something no caption; Young Japanese man with bucket over shoulder no caption; Young street merchant with handcart full of brooms feather dusters baskets and household items no caption; Man in straw coat pulling woman with umbrella in carriage; Men and women working in rice fields no caption. unknown
1970155825circa1970. Colour Thai travel poster 62 x 42cm. Some light creasing and very light wear but still a good copy. . unknown
1970155824circa1970. Colour travel poster of Thailand 63.5 x 42cm occasional light wear good copy. . unknown
19489230Torrance CA: Delaney and Company Inc 1948. First edition. 8vo 640pp. Inscribed by Hill to the former owners on the ffep and dated in 1949. Publisher's pebbled maroon cloth stamped in gilt in gold illustrated jacket. Few minor blemishes to boards else a near fine copy in very good jacket with some shallow chipping at head of spine and rubbing. <br /> <br /> Charming and scarce mid-century travel guide written by the Minnesota renaissance man: "traveler lecturer politician soldier and connoisseur of excellent food" Roland L. Hill who at the time of publishing had "travelled a million miles." The 48 states are included as well as Canada Cuba Mexico and North Africa where Hill was stationed with places to "Go Eat Stop Play and Shop." A nice example and scarce inscribed and in jacket. . Delaney and Company, Inc unknown
1859D18410London: T. Nelson and Sons 1859. Hardcover. Very Good. London original cloth map and colored plates. A fragile little book cords a little weak but a nice copy. <br/><br/> T. Nelson and Sons hardcover
195034712n.p. 1950. Photograph Album. Good. Photograph album. Soft red covers with photographs on the front cover. Approx. 11.5" x 10". Album consists of 172 photographs plus a couple of post cards. Slight musty smell to the album. Photographs include 1952 Christmas; Queenie the dog; Prairie Dog at Cincinnati Zoo; Barn at the Farm; Old Model Cars; several car pictures; Will Rogers Memorial; Hannibal Mo. Mark Twain's home; Mississippi River scenes; Kansas Plains; Rocky Mountain scenes; Denver; abandoned gold mine; Cattle Range New Mexico; Going to Santa Fe; Looking down over Colorado Springs; Red Rock Theater Colorado; tractors and trucks; Smoky Mountain scenes in Tennessee and North Carolina; some sort of land industrial mining; waterfalls; boats etc. unknown
194834646Warren Rhode Island: n/a 1948. Scrapbook. Fair. Approx. 12" X 10" scrapbook album. Black string tied album with embossed designs and gilt decoration and title on the front cover. Front cover is detached. A few places holding photographs are empty and there are a few loose items inside including the letters.<br /> <br /> Album includes 40 pages consisting of 104 photographs measuring approx. 5" x 3.5" a plane ticket from Pan American World Airways System news clippings travel ephemera a bull fighting ticket with bullfighting photographs a menu from "Skyways Club "North Star" 4 letters sent from Lisbon to Frederick J. Coyle in Warren Rhode Island and more. <br /> <br /> The news clipping on the front paste down describes two ladies taking the trip to "participate in religious ceremonies marking the 31st anniversary of the appearance of the Blessed Virgin in a vision to three children at Fatima Portugal." The article goes on to add "Following the religious pilgrimage Mrs. Nunes and Mrs. Coyle will spend three weeks with relatives of Mrs. Nunes in the Azores." On the rear paste down is a news clipping announcing the return of the two women. Photographs consist of scenery in Portugal several couples in leisure poses cruise ship etc. n/a unknown
19913551San Francisco: Alex Wofsy Fine Arts 1991. Later edition. Reprint authorized by the trustees of J.R. Abbey and Dawsons. Four folio volumes measuring 310 x 232 mm. Faux leather with gilt to spines all in Fine jackets. Collating xx 399; xxi 428; xiii 299; xiv 301-675: complete including 633 illustrations. A pleasing set in all. <br /> <br /> Drawing from his own collection Major J. R. Abbey producied the following representation of landscape and architecture of the 18th and 19th centuries. "I have for over a quarter of a century been collecting books on the Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland illustrated with aquatints or lithographs published between the years 1775 and 1860. In this Bibliographical Catalogue the word 'Scenery' is not strictly confined to landscape but includes architecture and urban and social scenes. I have found it a fascinating subject and a field in which there seem to have been few serious collectors. Many of the illustrations are of real beauty and the fact that a large number are from books of the greatest rarity and therefore known to few in their original form gives added significance to those which are reproduced in this catalogue. It is perhaps true to say that the thirty-five plates are a microcosm of the English scene as well as showing something of the social life of the period. Alex Wofsy Fine Arts unknown
180968371London: Printed for F. C. & J. Rivington 1809. No additional printings listed. Leather Bound. Very Good. 350; 297pp. Octavo 22 cm 3/4 red leather with brown paper over boards hubbed spines and gilt stamped titles on the spines. All edges gilt. Spines darkened. Extremities moderately rubbed. Underlying boards peeking through at the corners. Lengthy contemporary notations in pencil on the preliminary pages of both volumes. Contemporary owner's name on the front flyleaves. Thomas Pennington was born in Deal Kent in 1761. He entered Trinity College Cambridge in 1775 and was awarded the degree of B.A. in 1780. Shortly thereafter he embarked on three continental excursions. He is also known for being an extremely active promoter of vaccination at the time. Printed for F. C. & J. Rivington unknown
196628747<p>Both volumes are Near Fine copies with a bookplate in each volume in Fine dust jackets. "The Complete Travel Books of Mark Twain" is a complete collection of Mark Twain's books on his travels – including 'The Innocents Abroad' 'Roughing It' 'A Tramp Abroad' 'Following the Equator' and "Following the Equator"- presented in two volumes. Based on a series of letters Mark Twain wrote from Europe for San Francisco and New York newspapers as a roving correspondent The Innocents Abroad published in 1869 is a caricature of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. Mark Twain's fresh and humorous perspective on hallowed European landmarks lacked reverence for the past and was as mocking about American manners as it was about European attitudes.</p> Doubleday, hardcover
1839140457Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Edinburgh William and Robert Chambers 1839 to 1843. Large octavo seven works in one; contemporary half calf and marbled papered boards; spine decorated in blind with a contrasting leather title-label; covers scuffed rubbed and slightly worn at the corners and edges of the boards; endpaper hinges expertly reinforced; early binder's ticket and later ownership signature on the front endpaper; textblock tanned with minor foxing and occasional light signs of age and use; overall a very good copy. The works are: <p>1 MacKENZIE Sir George Stewart: Travels in Iceland 1842 revised edition; 88 pages with several tables. <p>2 CHAMBERS William: A Tour in Holland the Countries on the Rhine and Belgium in 1838 1842 second edition/ 1839; 94 pages with numerous illustrations. <p>3 CHAMBERS William: A Tour in Switzerland in 1841 1842 first thus; 88 pages with several illustrations. <p>4 The Sea. Narratives of Adventure and Shipwreck Tales and Sketches illustrative of Life on the Ocean 1840; 144 pages. <p>5 The Life and Travels of Mungo Park. Also an Account of the Progress of African Discovery 1842; 88 pages with a full-page map. <p>6 Palmyra. Being Letters of Lucius M. Piso from Palmyra to his friend Marcus Curtius at Rome. Now first translated and published 1839 first English edition/ 1837; 112 pages. <p>7 Julian or Scenes in Judea. By the Author of 'Letters from Palmyra and Rome' 1843 first English edition/ 1841; 116 pages. William and Robert Chambers hardcover
18156819London: J. Mawman 1815. Third revised. Leather Bound. Very Good leather back flaps professionally realigned leather backs full with gilt lettering and patterns clear very small amount of very light foxing to a few pages marbled edges light corner wear former owner's bookplate in each vol. Francis Saptel. Octavo pp. 427 428 515 451 plus index Volume 2 includes 10 architectural plans two foldouts; map missing from volume 1. J. Mawman hardcover
18708367Philadelphia: Lippincott 1870. First edition. Cloth over Boards gilt lettering. Very Good mild ex-library. Octavo pp. 225 plus Pennsylvania Railroad ad illustrated w/ b/w engravings. Accounts of eyeless fish vain attempts to cure tuberculosis patients in the atmosphere of the caves other fascinating lore. Very scarce especially in this condition! Lippincott hardcover
19283092Lima: Libreria e Imprenta Gil 1928. First edition. Paperback in box of gray cloth. Very Good mild ex-library. octavo. pp 322. illustrated with b/w and color drawings. important work on the history and culture of Peru as well as the land itself. in Spanish. Libreria e Imprenta Gil paperback
18938710Philadelphia: Sessler & Dungan 1893. First edition thus. Cloth over Boards. Very Good mild ex-library title page loose professionally repaired w/ tape. Octavo pp. 524 indexed illustrated w/ b/w drawings and photographs. Sessler & Dungan hardcover
18553164Flat Woods Va: December 10 1855. Very good. 4pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor wear. A detailed record of one man's travels upriver and overland to Missouri in search of a place to resettle. Jonathan Koiner 1820-1889 of Flatwoods West Virginia went on a western tour in 1855 to scout potential emigration destinations. He traveled with his brother Absalom who quite abruptly stepped off the steamboat in northern Iowa leaving Jonathan to continue alone. Most of this letter describes Jonathan's travels in Missouri: from Hannibal by hack to Paris and then 25 miles on foot to Mexico. There he saw a prairie fire a bustling courthouse with judges and lawyers chomping on cigars and several relatives of his wife's. He took a carriage thirty miles to Columbia "the Athens of the state where the state university is situated & several fine female institutions." At Marshall his westernmost point he saw the 300-acre hemp farm of a man named Bruce who "has a good many slaves but he is one of the largest hemp growers in the U.S." He also witnessed "scores of wild cranes & wild geese one cloudy day in the corn fields above Marshall." He met the well-known pro-slavery jurist William Barclay Napton "the great antagonist of T.H. Benton"; former governor Meredith Miles Marmaduke; and numerous extended family members and friends who had already made the move west. On his way home he was inspired by St. Louis and Cincinnati with their "living moving masses of men & things!" He concludes with his decision to sell his Virginia land and move his young family west though census records suggest that he never did so. An informative missive of an exploratory emigration journey. December 10 unknown
18807164Frankfurt: PH Frey & Co. N.D. circa 1880. First edition. Red Cloth over Boards. Loose from binding else Very Good w/ 3 inch white stain to back cover. Octavo pp. 15 foldout continuous map w/ buildings and locations of historical interest illustrated in drawings along course of the river plus 15 pp. companion text in German French and English. PH Frey & Co. hardcover
192660190Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1926. 8vo. 12 365 1 pp. Green ribbed publisher’s cloth gilt lettering front cover & spine embossed lozenge on front cover illustrated endpapers w/ d.j. wraparound cover art of ocean liner steaming past icebergs on front while seaplane flies above tropical islands on back chipping w/ minor loss head & foot of spine minor wear to corners some creasing couple very small closed tears still NF/G- copy. First edition in book form of this Odyssey of adventure stories which had previously appeared from the “Mutiny on the Bounty†trilogy co-author in Atlantic Monthly Harper’s Magazine and Travel. Hall 1887-1951 includes accounts of his native Iowa village time in a World War I prison camp while flying with the Lafayette Escadrille and later visits to Papeete Tahiti and Iceland. Scarce in original dustjacket. Houghton Mifflin Co., hardcover
18463867London: John Ollivier 1846. First edition. Marbled Boards. Very Good prof rebacked w/leather over orig bds some foxing to first few pages. 12 mo 5 1/4 X 8 1/2 pp. vi 347. . Fascinating reading: first-hand impressions of a British professional soldier during a ten month stay in Berlin preceded by his impressions during the trip on the continent through the Rhine Frankfurt Leipzig en route to the Capitol city during the 1830s. The second half of the book contains his impressions in Paris during "the crisis of 1839." Wonderful insights from a contemporary European. John Ollivier hardcover
191553613San Francisco: J.B. Scofield Engraved & Printed by Sunset Publishing House 1915. 4to. 70 pp. Title and text leaves printed in red & black colour printed photo plates throughout woodcut borders. Gray illustrated softcovers embossed & raised gilt & green poppies on front cover front flap yapp fore-edges very minor soiling to front cover very faint tidemark to lower fore-edge of a few leaves still VG- copy. First edition of this splendid travel brochure designed by C.E. Fisher and featuring scenic photographs and paintings coloured by W.H. Bull to simulate the beauty and depth of Parrish illustrations. The artists include Maynard Dixon Thomas Moran and photographs from Karl Moon Fred Harvey Benjamin Gifford Edward Curtis and George Weister. J.B. Scofield, [Engraved & Printed by Sunset Publishing House], paperback
19484877New York 1948. Very good. 23pp. of typescript on rectos only. Minor wear inner margins punched with two holes for storage in an album or folder. "The purpose of this Tour around the United States was to fulfill a suppressed desire to see our country while we were still young and free." So begins this original typescript of a 1948 trip around the country by two young Connecticut men John M. Hubbard and Brad Randall Jr. in a 1938 Plymouth sedan with 97130 miles "on the speedometer to start with." The text was written by Hubbard who often references Brad within the narrative. The trip took the two young men from New York City to Florida and then across the Southwest to California then eastward again over the course of just over a month in the Summer of 1948. The men mostly camped out in hammocks set up near their car. On their first day they attempted to make it to Cape Charles Maryland though they fell twenty miles short instead spending the night in a trailer park near "a squalid negro section with tumbled down houses." Their trip continues down the eastern seaboard partly by ferry to North Carolina. They spend a few days swimming fishing and staying with Brad's family in Fort Myers Florida before turning westward.<br /> <br /> Along their way westward through the "southland" of Tallahassee Mobile and New Orleans they encountered "a colored porter" at a motor lodge passed by "an occasional plantation framed in giant oaks covered with spanish moss" described the area between Mobile and New Orleans as "the Riviera of the U.S." and more. Next they visited various Texas locales on the Gulf Coast including Beaumont Houston and Galveston where they spent time golfing at River Oaks Country Club and took dates to Galveston's Turf Athletic Club "a very swanky gambling club that the Texas Rangers have been trying to raid for months." They then continued west through Texas visiting San Antonio Marfa and El Paso on their way to Tucson and Yuma Arizona.<br /> <br /> The two men reached El Centro California on July 31. They spent almost two weeks in California visiting San Diego Coronado Island Los Angeles San Francisco Berkley Sacramento and Lake Tahoe while passing through many other named cities along the way. Hubbard often provides wonderful descriptions of their various stops as well as interesting observations on locals landscapes wildlife their meals and experiences at country clubs their visits with friends and more. They also mention at least twice their attendance at the movies watching Key Largo in Houston Foreign Affairs in San Diego and an unspecified movie at Grauman's Chinese Theatre "where the movies first make their appearance.and where the stars put there sic initials and hand and foot prints on the sidewalk." While in California they also attended car races went fishing saw the world's biggest bowling alley and spent at least one day "job hunting."<br /> <br /> By mid-August Hubbard and Randall turn for home visiting a few towns in Nevada Carson City Virginia City and Reno and Utah Salt Lake City before visiting the Continental Divide at Berthoud Pass Colorado and proceeding thence to Denver. They then raced for home through Kansas Illinois Ohio West Virginia Pennsylvania and New York before Hubbard took a train to Hartford Connecticut. His mother planned to meet him there for the final leg to his home in Pomfret Connecticut.<br /> <br /> 1948 was a banner year for intrepid travelers heading out on the open highways of America -- the same year Jack Kerouac began work on his seminal Beat novel On the Road which was based on his own adventures on the American open road between 1947 and 1950. The present travel account has echoes of the freedom of Beat literature in its descriptions. Hubbard also mentions that they visited a "war buddy of Brad's" in Columbus Ohio; cross-country travel was a particular feature of the lives of war veterans in the late-1940s and 1950s as returning soldiers sought to see the country they fought so hard to defend in Europe and the South Pacific. The present travel narrative is a brief but albeit descriptive and interesting account of a cross-country jaunt by two well-to-do Connecticuters who saw a great deal of the United States in just over a month in 1948. unknown
17883323Paris: Buisson Libraire Hotel de Mefrigny 1788. First edition. Leather over Original Beautiful Marbled Boards. Very Good original condition. 3-vol. pp 332 312 350. some b/w illustrations and one fold-out map. . Buisson, Libraire, Hotel de Mefrigny hardcover
190163390New York: Dodd Mead & Co. 1901. 8vo. xii 313 1 pp. Title in red & black photogravure frontisp. w/ tissue guard. Cobalt-blue publisher’s cloth gilt lettering & ruling on spine t.e.g. minor bumping & fraying to head & foot of spine dustsoiling still VG bright copy. First American edition using British sheets and cancel title of this omnibus volume including the accounts Burton’s extraordinary pilgrimage in 1853 to Mecca and Medina which transformed his career; a stripped-down version of his account of Mormonism Salt Lake City and meeting with Brigham Young first published as “The City and the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California;†along with his tips up the Congo through Brazil and expedition to Palmyra Syria. Dodd, Mead & Co., hardcover
193841443Pittsburgh PA: Pittsburgh Motor Club 1938. Near fine. A seemingly complete 1938 membership packet of the Pittsburgh Motor Club containing maps of the environs surrounding Pittsburgh membership materials and pamphlets with fantastic examples of period design. A scarce surviving group from the dawn of the American highway. Folding printed card folder measuring approximately 10.5" x 5"; unfolds to approximately 20" wide. Contains 15 various publications maps and ephemera all loosely laid-in. Contents housed in original mailing envelope mild age toning in areas otherwise near fine throughout. Pittsburgh Motor Club unknown
