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186614703London: Longmans Green Reader & Dyer 1866. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition re-drawn first published 1864. 10.25 x 14 inches oblong. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. Elizabeth Fox Tuckett 1837-1872 was the sister of the well-known English alpinist Francis Fox Tuckett 1834-1913 who regularly gathered a party of friends and family to accompany him on climbing expeditions. Elizabeth had a talent for drawing as well as a love of travel and produced four popular light-hearted books of which this was the first chronicling her adventures in the form of humorous sketches. Neate T66. Some creasing to cloth corners rubbed occasional foxing lacking rear free endpaper; overall about very good. Inscribed in light pencil on the front free endpaper "With heartfelt good wishes for the/New Year E.F. Tuckett iIllegible place name Dec. 30 1869." In addition Tuckett has written out the full names of the members of the expedition on the "Dramatis Personae" page where they are identified in print only by their initials. Rarely found signed. Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer hardcover books
189926955Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co 1899. "New Edition Revised and Corrected.". Dark blue binding with elaborate gilt decorations/lettering. TEG. Ribbon page marker. VG sq & tight/gilt bright/minor shelfwear/bpt/poi. 2 volumes vii 1 303; vii 1 318 pp including Index. Illustrated with inserted plates. Folding map at rear of Volume II. 8vo. <br/><br/> Henry T. Coates & Co unknown books
188714499Racine WI: Advocate Steam Print 1887. 1st edition. Original green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Beveled edges. VG slt lean/avg wear. iv 148 pp. 5" x 6 3/4" <br/><br/>Miss Mary McMurphy's European trip via the steamer Noordland. Not in Smith. Advocate Steam Print hardcover books
185211322New York: D. Appleton & Co 1852. 1st US edition. Original publisher's red cloth with black lettering. VG foxing & browning/bpt/pos on ffep/lower joint starting on Vol I. 2 volumes 245; 248 pp. 12mo 4 1/2" x 6 7/8". <br/><br/> D. Appleton & Co hardcover books
189044169New York: D. Appleton and Company 1890. "Authorized" edition. Original publisher's light brown cloth binding with dark brown blue & gilt stamping. Pale green eps. General shelf-wear. One proud gathering. Bookplate & booklabel to front paste-down. Evidence of pocket removal to rear paste-down. Withal a VG copy. x 417 5 pp. 4 pages of publisher adverts conclude volume. 111 illustrations by Townsend. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/> D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
187314933New York: Geo. A. Crofutt 1873. Hardcover. Very Good. "Fifth Vol. Fourth Annual Revise." 224 pp extensively illustrated with maps and plates five folding and printed on both sides with ads on the reverse. Original cloth splitting along front joint worn at corners. Map of Omaha detached and laid in large colored map of the world split along one fold with minor losses. All else sound and very good. One of the most popular of the many guidebooks available to tourists crossing the United States by rail Crofutt's guide went through numerous editions and offered plentiful detail about the cities and towns along the route as well as excellent images of western scenery. It includes historical information description of the terrain and details of attractions lodging recreational opportunities and mining agriculture and other commercial activity. Geo. A. Crofutt hardcover books
188943100Jacksonville Florida: DaCosta Prg. and Pub. House 1889. 1st printing thus. Self-wrappers. A fragile item with wear along the folds with the occasional short split. About Very Good. Single printed sheet of yellow paper folded 6x to form a 24 panel brochure. Woodcut of a JT&KW locomotive to front panel. 3-panel JT&KW route map in Florida. Unfolded: 19-7/8"x 14-1/8". Folded: 7-1/8" x 3-1/4" <br/><br/>"The Tampa Peace Creek and St. Johns River Railroad was incorporated in 1879 and on June 27 1881 the name was changed to the Jacksonville Tampa and Key West Railway. The Palatka and Indian River Railroad was incorporated in 1881 to run from Palatka south past Sanford. The JT&KW bought it in 1887. Eventually the JT&KW main line stretched from Jacksonville to the St. Johns River port of Sanford where the separately-owned South Florida Railroad continued to Tampa. The full line opened on February 20 1886. The Atlantic Coast St. Johns and Indian River Railroad was organized in 1883 to build a connection from the JT&KW's branch to Enterprise another St. Johns River port southeast to Titusville on the Indian River. The JT&KW acquired the line in 1886. The Jupiter and Lake Worth Railway opened in 1889 as a short connection between the JT&KW's Indian River Steamboat Company at Jupiter and the north end of Lake Worth where steamers continued south. The line was abandoned by 1896 after the completion of the parallel Florida East Coast Railway. In 1893 the JT&KW went bankrupt." Wiki. This a rare travel brochure/train schedule for this relatively short-lived Florida-based railway system. OCLC locates just 2 similar items in single copies one from 1891 one from 1892. DaCosta Prg. and Pub. House unknown books
187328870New York: D. Appleton and Company 1873. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. Thick clothbound octavo. 720 pp followed by fold-out map and several pages of advertisements. Photo-frontis with tissue guard present. Includes two hundred illustrations. Seward was a U.S. Secretary of State who in retirement decided to travel the globe. Rough red cloth covers decorated in gilt at front panel and spine. Quite faded at spine color. Overall a good to very good example. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
181620655London: Printed for J. and A. Ach 1816 1816. Second edition enlarged; the first edition was published in 1813. ODNB; Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Edges a little rubbed; hinges starting but sound; very good copy. 2 vols 8vo contemporary diced calf gilt rules decorations and lettering. Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck 1788-1856 visited the famous abbey Port-Royal in France where she was attracted to the serious study Jansenist piety their theories of philosophy education religious observance and the social duties of men. She wrote and translated several works on the Port-Royalists including this translation of a 17th century tour by Dom Claude Lancelot with her impressions from the early 19th century. <br/><br/> London: Printed for J. and A. Ach, 1816 unknown books
1811548Libanon: Gedruckt und zu haben bey Jacob Schnee 1811. 12mo. 170 x 100 mm. 6 ½ x 4 inches. 31 pp. Stitched as issued missing front wrapper back wrapper soiled; text browned with age. Scarce Lebanon Pa. edition of Richter's allegorical travel book where the author is looking for the true Children of God and the spiritual society where all live in harmony in the grace of God. This is printed by the author and is called the fifth edition on the title-page. The first American edition was published in 1792 by Samuel Saur of Chestnut Hill Pa. Arndt German Language Printing II 1827 listing only two copies at NYPL and the Free Library of Philadelphia. Not cited in NUC or OCLC. Gedruckt und zu haben bey Jacob Schnee unknown books
187227077London England: Chapman and Hall 1872. xxi 365 pages; with the half-title. Folding frontispiece map "Itinerary Sketch of the Exploration of Indo-China between Saigon and Sou-Tcheou-Foo by the French Commission 1866 - 1868 Drawn out by Francis Garnier Lieutenant of the Vessel" with color route-lines; also with several black and white illustrations in the text. The explorations of these areas as recorded by Louis de Carne 1843-1871 son of the politician and academician Louis-Marie de Carne count of Carne-Marcein 1804-1876 was a French explorer. Appointed by his uncle the Governor General of Cochinchina Pierre-Paul de La Grandiere Louis de Carne participated as an attaché at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the French Mekong expedition from 1866 to 1868 under the command of Ernest Doudart de Lagree an expedition of which he was the youngest member. The only civilian in the mission and directly responsible to the governor he was often in conflict with the other members of the expedition because of his special position. He was tasked with the descriptive part of the trip and more particularly for commercial information. Seriously ill on his return he could not finish writing his travel notes. After his death it was his father who took charge of the preface and the publication of the book in 1872. This work was immediately translated and published in English." Writing of travels through Cambodia Angcor Bassac the Mekong Vien-Chan Kingdom of Luang-Praban; Bangkok; into the Burma territory; western China Yunan; concerns about the Mussulman insurrection in China and the Kingdom of Tali; the Blue River; the arrival at Shanghai and return to Saigon. Robson & Sons Printers London. Title page with the small and faint previous owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush; M.D. in the U.S. Navy; a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Volume approx. 6" x 8 3/4" size; bound in marbled-paper covered boards brown leather corners and spine; contrasting black leather label titles gilt; gilt floral decorations in compartments; all edges marbled to match; marbled endpapers. Some edge tips wear and rubbing to the binding; front endpaper scraped at edge; plate pages paper very darkened and with old dampstains; map clean as is the text in very good condition. First English Edition. Leather. Good. Chapman and Hall books
1856007973Boston: Phillips and Sampson and Company 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition first printing. Emerson's observations on England based in part on his visits there in 1833 and 1847. Called one of the best of American travel books and one of the great and permanent works of its kind according to Van Wyeck Brooks. Publisher's original black-brown cloth spine lettered in gilt and ruled in blind with blind decorative devices cover bordered in blind. 312 pp. A good to very good copy with shelf wear and wear at tips. Prior owner name to second endpaper. <br/><br/> Phillips and Sampson and Company hardcover books
188210447London: Thomas Nelson 1882. 1st edition. Original bright blue cloth with gilt lettering/design. Bevelled edges. Floral patterned-paper eps. A bright Nr Fine copy. viii 9 - 249 7 pp. 6 pages of adverts at rear. illustrated with woodcuts. 8vo. 7-1/8" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/> Thomas Nelson hardcover books
1873770271873. NEW ENGLAND: A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS; A Guide to the Chief Cities and Popular Resorts of New England and to its Scenery and Historic Attractions: With the Western and Northern Borders From New York to Quebec. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1873. First edition. With 6 maps and 11 plans. 12mo. orange cloth gilt title to spine and front board. Ex-library; all usual markings including spine label. Sunned at spine and general exterior soil. Spine covering is severed at rear hinge; front hinge cracked. Rear pocket map is in shambles. A scarce edition being offered as is. unknown books
1832774171832. THE SCOTTISH TOURIST AND ITINERARY; or a Guide to the Scenery and Antiquities of Scotland and the Western Islands. With a Description of the Principal STeam-Boat Tours. Edinburgh Stirling and Kennedy 1832. Octavo. xvi432pp. With two large folding hand-colored maps in fine condition. Several engraved views and smaller maps. Fourth edition "with very considerable additions and improvements." Light foxing to title and frontispiece; one signature starting to detach. Contemporary red roan gilt worn at extremities. Two-inch crack along hinge with foot of spine lifting. unknown books
18921393St. Louis 1892. About very good. 74pp. Oblong octavo. Original illustrated wrappers stapled. Light wear and chipping to spine rear cover with closed tear minor soiling. Minor scattered foxing and offsetting. Handsome illustrated trade catalogue for the firm of P.C. Murphy manufacturers of fine trunks and traveling bags. The work is filled with a wide variety of trunks and suitcases illustrating each with prices listed for available sizes. Choose from barrel top or flat top canvas or leather or imitation etc. Forematter indicates this to be the company's twenty-first annual catalogue and terms for purchase are listed inside the front cover. An ephemeral piece we find single copies of three other years in OCLC but none of the present edition. unknown books
18753184qsLondon: Hurst and Blackett Publishers 1875. First Edition. Octavo leather backed marbled boards hardcover gilt letters xiv 319 pp. Good with heaving scuffing to spine light edgewear. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1875. First Edition. hardcover books
1891228426Boston: James H. Earle 1891. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Bound in publisher's red cloth title blocked in gold on the front cover and the spine; scattered silverfishing to the covers; blindstamped at the top of the frontispiece; front free endpaper has been mended at the hinge; pages toning and somewhat brittle; endpapers chipped; digital images can be made available upon request. Very Good binding. James H. Earle unknown books
1859WRCAM54728N.p. likely Hartford 1859. Broadside sight size 13 3/4 x 11 inches. Woodcut vignette. Minor toning and foxing two small pencil notations. Very good. Matted and framed. A wonderfully evocative and patriotic illustrated broadside advertising a steamer trip down the Connecticut River from Hartford to Lyme then on to Greenport or Sag Harbor by connection to another steamer or on to New London by car and eventually back to Hartford on Independence Day in 1859. The woodcut illustration shows the steamship L. BOARDMAN in action with smoke flying from the stacks and the American flag flying proudly off the stern. A rare historical advertising piece with only one copy recorded in OCLC at the Connecticut Historical Society Library. OCLC 20878562. unknown books
18502673London: David Bogue 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xi 236 pp publisher's catalogue with hand colored frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text. Original publisher's cloth gilt spine; endpapers replaced. Edgeworn with chips and head and tail of spine tear to cloth along rear hinge binding slightly pulled at title page; text clean. Account of Smith's travels in the Near East including description of dervishes the slave market bazaars mosques a gun factory and other interesting locales. David Bogue hardcover books
185313461Paris: Arthus Bertrand 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Xlvi 383 pp with a preface by the translator A. Giraud. Dark pebbled cloth with five raised bands marbled endpapers. Tight binding light foxing a few marginal pencil lines. First French edition of Sarmiento's most famous book considered one of the most important works of Argentine literature and one of the most influential Spanish-language works of the nineteenth century. Written during a period of exile the work traces the life of a violent Argentine gaucho named Facundo using his biography as the basis for an analysis and critique of Argentine culture which is characterized by a dichotomy between civilizing and barbaric influences. Sarmiento's views had a profound effect on discussion about the region's potential for progress and modernization. He was able to put his theories into practice when elected to the Presidency of Argentina in 1868. Arthus Bertrand hardcover books
1893244501Richmond VA: Whittet & Shepperson 1893. First Edition. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. 242pp. Previous owner name; no markings in text; light edgewear to boards spine; small closed tears fraying and small loss of cloth at top and bottom spine; digital images can be made available upon request. near Very Good binding. Whittet & Shepperson unknown books
188746346Chicago: Rand McNally Co. for the Passengern Department Sante Fe Route 1887. 1st Edition. Card stock covers printed in black & red. Now house in an archival mylar sleeve. Volume professionally refurbished. Covers soiled. Frontis with crinkled top right corner image not affected. Leaf with pp 37/38 with repaired short marginal tear. Overall Very Good. 47 1 pp. Chromolithograph frontispiece. 3 vignetttes. 12 full page wood engravings. Ground plan p. 47. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 6-3/8" <br/><br/>Blurb on front cover: "The Karlsbad of America." Uncommon in commerce. Rand McNally Co. [for the] Passengern Department, Sante Fe Route unknown books
1841038863London: Richard Bentley 1841. First Edition. Full Calf. Fine. Two volumes octavo. Pagination of Volume I begins as page 38 following the engraved portrait and title-page collating with originals at U Cal and U Wisconsin. Bound in tan calf ribbed spine with leather labels double-ruled covers marbled endpapers and edges. 8.5" x 5.25" Provenance: On a yellow-coated flyleaf in each volume is written in an old hand--"C.G. Young Esq from R.H. Barkham." On the endpapers of both volumes are the engraved bookplates of William Henry Rossington along with engraved book labels of Walter W. Colpits and James Murton. <br/><br/> Richard Bentley unknown books
187721389Nrw York: D. Appleton and Company 1877. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo pp. xxiv 399 6 ads with chromolithograph frontispiece many illustrations in the text double-page Map of the Kaiser Franz Josef Land surveyed by Payer. Original red cloth with decoration in gilt and black. Spine lightly sunned. Blind stamp and "withdrawn" ink stamp of the California Academy of Sciences Library on title page but no other markings. Sound and clean. Arctic Bibliography 13202: "Narrative of the voyage from Norway to the waters northwest of Novaya Zemlya the drift in the ice Aug. 1872-Mar. 1874 the discovery and exploration by sledge of Franz Joseph Land including chapters on auroras the technique of sledge travel and the effect of cold on the men. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
