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1419171112東京. Tokyo.: 伊林書店. Ibayashi Shoten. 昭和14 1939. Colour printed folding map 78 X 109cm minor damage original envelope 27.5 x 20cm. Very good copy. This map offers comprehensive information on northern China Manchuria the Soviet Union and Hokkaido including Kuril Islands under the Japanese control. It also includes the Jewish Autonomous State which existed in the late 1930s. The inset map provides detailed information on the border area of Japan Manchuria and the Soviet Union. Legends include national borders railways major cities iron mines and oil wells. <br> <br>Published in 1939 this map is an expression of the tension Japan felt in its relationship with the Soviet Union. At the time the Soviet Union was seen as the mighty threat to the lying just north of Manchuria and Japan . . 伊林書店. [Ibayashi Shoten]. unknown
1572160538東京.Tokyo.: 日本名所圖繪社.Nihon Meisho Zuesha. 昭和16 1941. Folding colour Japanese map of the Malay Archipelago and Thailand scale 1: 8500000 with attractive original pictorial paper envelope. This map also shows the Dutch French and American colonies. Hainan Province and the South China Sea are shown in the north. Agricultural and mineral resources indicated across the map. Few small holes at holes and other light signs of wear. Slipcase lttle torn. Text in Japanese and English. 53.3 × 78.2cm. . 日本名所圖繪社.[Nihon Meisho Zuesha]. unknown
1938215547Los Angeles.: Los Angeles Examiner. Sunday 1 May1938. Printed colour pictorial map 33 x 48 cms; 41.8 x 54.5 cms sheet central fold sheet toned corners chipped with some loss to the bottom border and at the central fold in good condition; and on the verso "Movie-Go-Round" by Louella O. Parsons black and white photos and advertisements. Pictorial map printed for the weekend supplement of the Randolph Hearst owned newspaper the Los Angeles Examiner. The map-maker and artist Howard Burke had also worked for the San Francisco Examiner and was known for pictorial maps many with a persuasive or rhetorical edge and as here were designed to shore up American patriotism and defences against a wider world in the increasingly turbulent pre-war 1930s. The caption to this map outlines a multi-billion dollar 25 year proposal by Congressman J. Buell Snyder for a network of coast to coast transcontinental highways "in case of an attack by a foreign power at any point along the border". Buell Snyder earned the soubriquet "the father of superhighways" and during the War he was assigned to a Congressional Committee in charge of appropriations for the War Department. Scarce. . Los Angeles Examiner. unknown
1819155215統正社 Tōseisha . Showa 18 1943. Colour folded map 54. x 76.5cm. Pinholes at corners light even browning good copy. This Japanese map of Micronesia shows the Mariana Islands Eastern and Western Caroline Islands Marshall Islands and Gilbert Islands. The separate maps around the edge are clockwise from the upper right corner: Jaluit Atoll Guam Island Rota Island Saipan Island Palau Islands Yap Island Hall Islands Pohnpei Island Truk Islands and Kusaie Island. . 統正社 [Tōseisha ]. unknown
1944205765London.: George Philip & Son. 1944. Full colour folding map 101.5 x 76cm sheet inset maps legend folding into title wrapper 25.7 x 19.4 cms covers a little dusty and discoloured a few short fold splits without loss but the map in very good bright condition. Map of the Pacific Theatre of World War II with borders drawn as they stood in 1937 - complete with Chinese claims on Mongolia Tuva and Tibet. <br> <br>Shows transportation routes principal railways oil fields Allied naval bases territory occupied by the British Empire French Empire and the United States. This map shows only the northernmost section of Australia which allows for much better detail of the countries of East Asia. Small inset map of the Hawaiin Islands at mid right. Inset map of the Pacific Ocean at upper left. . George Philip & Son. unknown
1898004651Dublin: Academy House 1898. Paperback. Very Good -. Sold also by Hodges Figgis & Co. Dublin and Williams & Norgate London. 4 xiv 12 2 p. 12 leaves of photogravure plates: in-text illustrations and 1 full page of illustrations; 44 cm. Grey cloth spine; card covers printed in black. In Ireland the High Crosses marked sanctuaries under the invocation of certain saints and offered protection to a fugitive who sought shelter there. This publication focuses on those crosses at Castledermot Monastery and at Durrow. Scarce. In Very Good- Condition: cover is lightly soiled; shadow on front cover; chipping along cover edges; lacking upper corner of back cover; front cover is partially detached from tail; minor chipping along fore-edge of several plates; pages and plates are clean and bright. Academy House paperback
1826g8840London: Hunt and Clarke. G : in good condition. Cover lightly rubbed. Fore edge of ep and fep chipped. 1826. First Edition. Contemporary diced calf. 220mm x 130mm 9" x 5". viii 416pp. Edition with author's name on title page. . Hunt and Clarke unknown
1882e6277Edinburgh: David Douglas. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. 1882. First Edition. Green/gilt hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 140mm 9" x 6". 149pp. '. and speculations regarding the period in the world's history to which they may be referred and the climatic changes they suggest.'. . David Douglas hardcover
1813e6440London: Ledger and Shaw; Longman Hurst Rees Orme & Browne. G: in Good condition with marbled eps. Spines rubbed with crack near lower tail of volume II. Several fold out plates in volume II torn at folds no loss. Some offsetting from plates and browning to prelims. 1813. First Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards. 280mm x 210mm 11" x 8". xlviii 366pp; 390pp. 18 plates some folding. Volume II published in 1814 and includes a list of subscribers. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Ledger and Shaw; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Browne hardcover
1901g8927London: Hurst and Blackett Ltd. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover lightly rubbed. Darkening to page edges. 1901. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 160mm 9" x 6". xvi 350pp. B/w illustrations two maps and rear fold out coloured map. 'Being an account of the modern aspect of Central Africa and of some little known regions traversed by the Tanganyika Expedition in 1899 and 1900. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Hurst and Blackett, Ltd hardcover
1833e9219Liverpool: Printed by E. Smith & Co. G : in Good condition plus. Small chip to outer spine joint. Heraldic book-plate on paste-down. 1833. Third Edition Improved. Brown hardback cloth cover with laid on title. 180mm x 110mm 7" x 4". 89pp. Fold out engraved map. Heraldic book-plate of Richard Watts. . Printed by E. Smith & Co hardcover
1863g4888Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons. G: in good condition. Re-bound with new eps. Cover lightly rubbed and marked. Some creasing to spine. Frontis portrait torn and soiled with stamp on rear. Sporadic foxing and marking. Some pages re-attached. 1863. First Edition. Brown hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 150mm 9" x 6". xxxi 658pp ads. 26 b/w plates in-text illustrations folding map of Eastern Equatorial Africa & Map of the White Nile from its Source. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . William Blackwood & Sons hardcover
a683051922 Printed fo Private Circulation in Great Britain by T. and A. Constable at the Edinburgh University Press. Cruise to Mexico Majorca Gibralter Sardinia etc. Small octavo 132pp. blue cloth hardcover with paper label on front. Inscribed but not signed: With the writer's best wishes for 1923. Good plus 9 pages have stainat top corner not near text light foxing. . hardcover
19032697Cleveland: Winn & Judson 1903. About very good. 64pp. Original color printed wrappers. Light wear to wraps spine chipping at foot. Light toning internally. An extensively detailed and well illustrated promotional for the Winter 1903 Gates Tour of Mexico with optional itineraries for the Grand Canyon Las Vegas and California. A 1904 article in the National Magazine lauded Gates as a "world-renowned manager of Mexican tours" stating that no one should contemplate touring Mexico with anyone else. Traveling to Mexico by rail in proprietary rail cars Gates provided full service tourism to all the most interesting and prominent locales in Mexico -- tourism the American way. Participants traveled south from Chicago through Texas and central Mexico to Mexico City and returned to the United States by way of the Sonoran Desert and El Paso. Heavily illustrated with photographs and a map of the route and with painstaking descriptions of travel amenities and the many sights and towns on the journey. Winn & Judson unknown
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
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
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
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
182319975London: Samuel Leigh. Fair. 1823. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Contents are complete but this is a binding copy meaning the binding is shot and the book needs to be rebound. The spine is missing and the front cover and first few pages are loose. However all 8 plates plus the folding plan of Brussels and folding map of the Netherlands are all present and in "fine" condition undamaged. As-is. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 391 pages . Samuel Leigh hardcover
1894038153NY: D. Appleton and Company 1894. Revised Edition. Morocco & Cloth. Very Good. Two volumes small-folio 720pp; 30 engraved plates many other wood and steel engravings many full-page. Bound in 3/4 brown leather and cloth embellished gilt title on covers gilt lettering and blind devices on spines patterned endpapers marbled edges. A clean tight example of this revised edition. 13" x 10" x 1.25" each volume. D. Appleton and Company unknown
189121657Dublin: P. Wogan. Good. 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in contemporary three-quarter leather. The spine has been covered with clear tape. No pocket or number on the spine but library book plate and stamps. ; Ex-Library; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 184246 pages . P. Wogan hardcover
1846004221New York: J. Disturnell 1846. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 62pp. Brown blind-stamped flexible boards gilt lettering map not present. Light shelfwear foxing confined mainly to inside covers very lightly to text. In addition to the routes of travel author includes brief descriptions of the surroundings of the countryside travelled. <br/> <br/> J. Disturnell hardcover
193328707NY: The MacMillan Company. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 1933. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed by Ditmars on the fep dated 1933. DJ has a chip at the top of the spine and closed tears at the edges. Two vertical tears one along the front hinge and another down the center of the front panel. . Neither is apparant thanks to the DJ cover. The "almost fine" condition of the book is due to a small faded area under the DJ chip to the spne. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 258photos pages . The MacMillan Company hardcover