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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
193019165London: Gollancz 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. 8vo 464 pp with 48 b/w plates from photographs; indexed. A very good copy with mild sunning to the spine some foxing on the edges of the text block. In the very scarce dust jacket which has internal tape reinforcements and chips missing from the head and foot of the spine and one corner of the front panel. Account of the unsuccessful 1930 International Himalaya Expedition led by Gunter Dyrenfurth which was plagued by bad weather an avalanche and other mishaps. Smythe describes the extensive preparations for the expedition the Himalayan scenery travels in the region--including a visit to the Pemayangste Monastery and the party's successful ascent of Jonsong 24344 feet. Neate S118. Gollancz hardcover books
1938WRCAM55556Various locations in Latin America 1938. 100pp. containing 230 photographs as well as postcards maps dozens of menus greeting cards and other travel ephemera. Thick folio. Contemporary brown paper-covered cloth string-tied. Boards lightly scuffed and worn. Some leaves loose moderate edge wear and chipping. Photographs clean and nice annotations highly legible. Good plus. An illuminating and entertaining illustrated scrapbook documenting the travels of six friends on a trip to Mexico Panama and various points in South America including Colombia Peru Chile Argentina and Brazil in 1938. One of the opening leaves has four photographs of the travellers comprised of two elderly couples and two single women captioned "Rogues to the Pampas!" Throughout the album there are numerous photographs both vernacular and professional a great many capturing locals in native dress as well as images of scenery and the city streets. The photographs are accompanied by colorful descriptive annotations. <br> <br> The voyage began January 20 1938 aboard the Japanese NYK Liner S.S. Bokuyo Maru. There are numerous menus and other ephemera from the ship as well as a photograph of the Japanese crew signed by the ship's officers. The first photographs depict Manzanillo Mexico a week later with captions such as "Worst city we ever saw says the man from Capetown South Africa who has been around the world" and "Sid Thompson says 'I bet if these Mexicans had a good hot bath they'd find a suit of underwear they didn't know they had!" They picture a "peddler of hats and drink" and a "man carrying load on his head" in the streets of Manzanillo. They then take a train to Colima Mexico on which a passenger is noted to say "Jesus Christ you'd think they never saw an American before" and where they eat papaya for the first time. In Panama on February 3 they see "a native with an iguana in each hand - we also saw our first sloth and a land crab" and they witnessed "a negro funeral." <br> <br> On February 5 the travellers stop at Buenaventura Colombia where they experienced an earthquake and their first sight of the Andes along with a "strong acrid wet odor that pervades atmosphere everywhere." There are several photographs of the city and the locals including one of "natives" fishing accompanied by significant commentary on the locals: <br> <br> "The natives have plenty of fish which they catch in nets thrown by hand - plenty of bananas and fruits and cocoanuts and will not work enough to buy anything but a little clothing rice and coffee. There are no public schools in Colombia - a few religious schools inland. All education for boys and girls of better class is in U.S. or Europe. U.S. buys 85% of Colombia's coffee. Population 80% negroes on coast. Government is unstable foreign capital will not make very much of an investment here but Standard Oil Co. has a $52000000 pipeline in Colombia. Malaria is the greatest plague here though typhoid is also guarded against in fruits and vegetables. Buenaventura is wholly tropical." <br> <br> The group then proceeds to Lime Peru where they arrive "in a dense fog - worst in 10 years." They take numerous snapshots of various cultural sights around the city images of "guano birds" along the shoreline and a "Typical Peruvian Indian of the High Andean Plateaus." They stayed three nights at the Hotel Bolivar before proceeding to Cuzco Tacua and Mollendo which they describe as "a dirty town." Still they took several photographs here including "Descendants of the Incas at Cuzco" an "Indian woman riding Burro - typical scene" in Tacua and other street scenes. <br> <br> Chile was next for the group. They were in Santiago by February 23 and shot several images at a street market such as a soap dealer the flower market a corn stand and other scenes. Shortly thereafter they traveled to Valparaiso Puerto Varas Puerto Montt and other Chilean locations. They captured the port of Valparaiso the Three Brothers at Chilean Lakes scenes in the Chilean mountains Lake Llanquihue and include in the album a professional real photo postcard captioned "Typical Araucanian Indian Hut" among other images. <br> <br> The travellers then moved on to Argentina. They describe Buenos Aires as "the most beautiful city in South America so far as the city itself is concerned." Their time in the city is illustrated exclusively with postcards but they include a plethora of descriptive text for numerous monuments landmarks harbor scenes gardens and other sites. <br> <br> During their time in Brazil the travellers document coffee production cattle and other agricultural settings as well as cities and architectural features. These include numerous images of Rio de Janeiro which "no picture however beautiful can portray with any accuracy the beauty of Rio." On March 30 the group heads "from Buenos Aires down the muddy Rio de la Plata" towards the Amazon River. Here they include real photo postcards of "Typical Indians of the Amazon" an "Amazon Indian Hut" and "More Indians - These are some of the most primitive people living." Among the images taken on the streets of Brazil is one showing a black woman walking with a bundle on her head which is captioned "N asterisks ours mammy in pink dress and head load - and was she furious when I took her picture! If looks could kill I'd be buried in Brazil." <br> <br> The group rejoined their cruise in Brazil boarding the Rio de Janeiro Maru and finished their journey at the end of April. A detailed revealing and lengthy travel account extensively illustrated and annotated by a group of judgmental American tourists. hardcover books
200611106Frankfort KY: Gnomon Press 2006. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in original black cloth lettered in gilt and fine matching slipcase. Large square quarto. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Limited issue numbered 14 of 50 numbered copies. Signed by David Spear on colophon. Includes a signed numbered print "Juana Paloma 1998." Scarce. <br/><br/> Gnomon Press hardcover books
19511781London: John Murray 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. xiii 341 pp illustrations from photographs map with index. Light wear and pale spotting to boards; internals clean and sound. No dust jacket. Second volume of Stark's autobiography told through her self-edited correspondence including letters from her first journey Canada to Baghdad into Persia the Persian Summer Journalism in Baghdad and the last of Baghdad from 1928-1933. John Murray hardcover books
194720956London: John Murray 1947. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Fourth printing. 218 pp indexed with many illustrations from photographs. Bookplate of collector Theodora Duncan on front pastedown else a fine copy. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has a small chip at the foot of the spine. Overall a very attractive copy. Recounts Stark's war experiences in Arabia Egypt Palestine Syria Iraq and Persia. John Murray hardcover books
195614611London: John Murray 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. xi 204 pp indexed illustrated with photographs drawings in the text by the author; title page wood engraving by Reynolds Stone. Corners lightly bumped else a fine copy. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has very mild dampstaining to the upper front panel and small chips at the corners and spine ends. The second of Stark's books recounting her travels in Turkey following Ionia. There is much of historical interest in the book for as Stark writes "In Turkey particularly and in the Levant and the Aegean a journey without history is like the portrait of an old face without its wrinkles." John Murray hardcover books
1946778London: John Murray 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. 282 pp with photographic frontispiece map appendix bibliography. Bookplate on front pastedown light wear to edges; else clean and sound. Dust jacket shows moderate shelf wear and has several tape reinforcements. Stark lived and travelled with the Hadhramaut people producing a unique and pioneering account of South Arabia modern-day Yemen. John Murray hardcover books
19501470London: John Murray 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xii 346 pp illustrations from photographs map with index. Boards show pale staining and minor insect damage store stamp on rear pastedown; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. John Murray hardcover 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
1971235096Barre MA: Imprint Society 1971. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Illustrated with 80 Elegant Engravings from Drawings Made By the Author; Sold as a 2 volume set in slipcase. No pencil or ink markings in text of the 2 volume set. Cloth and paper-covered boards. Cloth and paper-covered boards. Light edgewear to bottom spines of both volumes. Top of spine at front board of volume II is lightly bumped. Top side bottom edges of slipcase are cloth. Side edges of slipcase are paper-covered. Slipcase -- Very Good . Very Good binding. Imprint Society unknown books
199625626NY: Pantheon. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0679421343 . First printing. Fine in a very near fine price clipped dust jacket. . Pantheon hardcover books
199730786San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0152016104 . Illustrated by the author. First American printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Harcourt Brace & Company hardcover books
21848Brussels Verona and Trieste March–April & September–October 1852. VOLUME ONE: Large 4to. 340 × 265 mm contemporary marbled boards ms. paper label ‘Zettel von Brüxelles’ to front cover containing two large folded playbills 845 × 583 and 1230 × 583 mm printed on pink paper for the Casino des Galeries St. Hubert upper corner torn away and subsequently restored with loss of a couple of letters; sense recoverable and for some English performers at the Théâtre du Vaudeville plus issues of "L’Echo moniteur des théatres" three nos.; "L’entr’acte" eight nos.; "L’organe des Arts" one no.; "Le lutin journal des théatres" four nos.; "Moniteur des théatres" fourteen nos.; "L’Hippodrome de Londres" the inside of which is a playbill for an equestrian display; "Cirque oriental" two nos.; again both doubling as playbills inside; plus a flyer; with a couple of other printed announcements; also a variety of playbills from Germany Baden Baden Mainz Frankfurt; some light browning creased where folded to fit the volume a few tears to spine. VOLUME TWO: Large 4to. 333 × 260 mm contemporary marbled boards ms. paper label ‘Theater Zettel von Verona & Triest’; some waterstaining to front cover containing six folded playbills: three for the Teatro Filarmonico Verona one chipped in the lower margin; the first annotated in a contemporary German hand commenting on the performers: ‘Gut’ ‘Sehr gut’ etc. and one each for Trieste’s Teatro Filodrammatico waterstained Teatro Grande and Teatro Mauroner this the largest: 1118 × 570 mm. Together: very good overall. <br/><br/>Remarkable and remarkably preserved collection of theatre ephemera from Brussels Verona and Trieste assembled and bound in matching volumes by a contemporary traveler likely German during a pair of two-month trips in 1852. While this vernacular travel book offers a vibrant portrait both historical and typographic of local European theatre in the mid-19th century it was also clearly collected and assembled by a lover of the stage dare we say an early theatre geek who to this cataloguer at least seems a proto-member of what we would now call fan culture. A rare early and striking physical manifestation of cultural enthusiasm at the birth of the modern era. hardcover books
2000120715Boston: Houghton Mifflin 2000. First edition first prnt. Signed by Theroux on the title page. Board corners tapped cloth backstrip ends lightly pushed. Near Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover books
20001200311Boston: Houghton Mifflin 2000. First edition first prnt. Signed by Theroux on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.<br />The images are of the book described and not stock photos. Houghton Mifflin 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
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
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
1796WRCAM54712Mostly at sea from New York with stops in Calcutta Saint Helena Ascension Island and Cornwall England 1796. 246pp. Square folio. Original crude burlap covers stab-sewn with thick string. A bit toned and foxed occasional ink or tobacco burns. Very good. A remarkable artifact of early American naval commerce containing the sailing directions and shipboard activities of the "Ship Washington of Philadelphia" which sailed from New York to Calcutta rounding the southern tip of Africa and visiting Saint Helena and Ascension Island before crashing on the rocks at Cornwall England on the way to Hamburg Germany. The log contains a navigational ledger with locations headings wind and weather remarks along with occasional sick lists names of men "unfit for duty" those put on light duty temperatures and other information. The remarks are quite detailed and specific regarding shipboard work and activity. <br> <br> The captain of this final voyage of the ship WASHINGTON was Samuel Hubbart but the identity of the sailor who kept this log is unknown. The ship departed New York on July 4 1795 and reached Calcutta on August 31. Without the need for recording navigational data while in port the log's author switches from the ledger-style format and writes longer more-detailed daily entries describing the crew's activities. The crewmen mentioned include pilots boatswains carpenters coopers caulkers sailmakers and others. Most of the entries pertain to the maintenance of the ship while anchored in the bay. Numerous mentions are made of crew on board fixing various equipment including types and amounts of supplies. A few entries note the employment of Indian "Cooleys" on board the ship making various repairs. An interesting incident of September 17 bears relating: <br> <br> "Hearing a noise upon the main Deck Mr. Naylor went to see what was the matter - upon engaging found Abraham Moor had struck Thomas Williams the Cook as Moor said for wanting to trouble a girl which Moor had on board - Mr. Naylor told him he should not ill use that man for he had every reason to believe it to be false what he alledged against the Cook. Moor said he did not come here to be jawd by a black Man.S." <br> <br> After swearing he would "never go home" on the WASHINGTON Moor literally jumped ship just after this confrontation and hid on another ship before being found and brought back to the WASHINGTON "in irons." <br> <br> In early November a few entries mention the ship receiving a supply of sugar taking on "Three Burr Load of Sugar" on November 7 and two more "Burr Load" two days later. Subsequent entries detail the loading of several "Burr Load of Bales" and "one hundred bags of ginger." <br> <br> Over the course of the ship's time at Calcutta the author mentions encounters with at least four other American ships: the GANGES the HAMILTON the MAJOR PINKNEY of Charleston and the "American Ship Camilla of New York arriv'd here from London." <br> <br> By early February the WASHINGTON left Calcutta for the voyage to Hamburg spelled variously here as "Hamborough" and "Hamburgh" though the ship would never make it to Germany. On March 15 and again on April 6 the recordist notes an inventory of the ship's water supply. By March 23 the ship reaches a point "prependicular on Cape Lagulas Bank" the southernmost point of Africa. About a week later the punishment of a drunken sailor is reported: <br> <br> "Joseph Gonrabbysp who has for some time past been addicted to Drunkeness and no person on board having given him any liquor he was discovered this morning to have taken from the Ships stores about half a Gallon of rum and from his being frequently very drunk there is no doubt of his having been Guilty of the same offence before for which Capt. Hubbart is necessitated to order his Boatswain to flog him. Accordingly mustered all hands aft and give him one and a half dozen lashes." <br> <br> On April 16 the WASHINGTON arrived at the remote island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean sending "the Boat on shore with an Officer to the Governor for permission to Anchor." Here the WASHINGTON restocked supplies including water potatoes & other vegetables rice and bread before embarking for Ascension Island which they reached on April 25. The author remarks on the "number of remarkable rocks like pyramids" and "a low point of black Rocks with a fine white sandy beach back of it" witnessed at Ascension Island. The WASHINGTON spent one night at Ascension where a group of men went ashore in order to "spend the Night in Catching Turtle in the different Bays." The crewmen caught twelve turtles and brought them aboard ship before continuing their journey. <br> <br> While heading north to Europe the WASHINGTON was boarded on May 17 by the "Quebec British Frigate Cap J Cook in Company with the Carnatic 74 Rear Admr Powel with a convoy of 21 sail of Transports & Gun boats with 10000 Troops on board bound for Martinico Martinique." On June 7 they again encounter another ship "a Spaniard from some port in South America bound for Cadiz out 3 months & 10 days - we cannot understand rightly what port she was from." <br> <br> Then on June 18 disaster struck the WASHINGTON as it ran aground at the Lizard Rocks off Cornwall England. The log book records the ship's demise: <br> <br> "The weather still very thick and hazy. At 9PM hearing the Surf break on shore took in all the studding sails Braced the Yards sharp and hauled to the Southward finding ourselves in amongst the Rocks off the Lizard have all aback and endeavored to get her out from among them but the Flood tide making very strong drove the Ship so hard upon the Rocks that with every endeavour we found it impracticable to get her off she having settled on them & the strength of the tide Thumping her very hard upon the Rocks sounded the Pump and found she made water very fast. Fired several Guns as a signal of Distress which brought several boats off from the Shore to our assistance." <br> <br> For the next couple of weeks the crew of the WASHINGTON participated in "discharging the cargo" from the ship so that it is not "plundered by the natives" sending everything to Falmouth "where the Goods are deposited under the protection of a Custom house Yaught." The log book mentions one crewman of the WASHINGTON "threatening revenge on Captain Hubbart." Another crewman is put "under a Guard of Soldiers" after selling off some of the muslin stored in the bales rescued from the wreck. Here the ship's log ends along with the career of the Ship WASHINGTON. <br> <br> A unique record of the last voyage of an early American trading vessel with insight into late 18th-century navigational methods and the commercial interests of Federal-era America. unknown books
1757317340Dublin: Printed for J. Smith on the Blind-Quay 1757. Same year as the London edition. Folding frontispieces in each volume and other plates. 269; 287; 287pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Bound in modern three quarter brown calf and marblked boards. Text with some stains. Binding fine. Same year as the London edition. Folding frontispieces in each volume and other plates. 269; 287; 287pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Volume I<br/>A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem By Mr. Henry Maundrel<br/>The Travels of Thomas Shaw<br/>An Account of a Journey to Palmyra otherwise Tedmor in the Desart<br/>Volume II: <br/>The Travels of Richard Pococke<br/>Thre Travels opf Henry Drummond<br/>A Description of Aleppo. By Alexander Russel M.D<br/>THE TRAVELS OF MR. HANWAY Through Russia Persia and several other parts for settling a trade upon the Caspian Sea<br/>Volume III contains:<br/>continuation of.THE TRAVELS OF MR. HANWAY Through Russia Persia and several other parts for settling a trade upon the Caspian Sea<br/>With: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF NORWAY by Erich Pontoppidan;. ESTC T164169 Printed for J. Smith, on the Blind-Quay unknown books
1753860351753. TRAVEL HISTOIRE GENERALE DES VOYAGES OU NOUVEAU COLLECTION DE TOUTES LES RELATIONS DE VOYAGES PAR MER ET PAR TERRE . TOME QUARANTE-UNIE'ME. Paris: Didot 1753. 8 550 3 plates two of whioch are folding and 8 folding maps. 12mo. mottled calf gilt spine raised bands. Spine mostly chipped away joints cracked loose leather cracked. Marbled endpapers. Some plates and maps have closed tears or dampstaining first map missing piece at bottom left corner rest complete. Title page continued: "Qui ont ete publiees jusqua present dans les differentes Langues de toutes les Nations connues: contenant ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable de plus utile et de mieux avere' dans le pays ou les voyageurs ont penetre': avec les moeurs des habitans la religion les usages arts sciences commerce manufactures &c. pour former une systeme complet d'histoire & de geographie moderne qui represente l'etat actuel de toutes les nations; enrichi de cartes geographiques et de figures." As is. Depuis le commencement du XVe Siecle Seconde Partie Livre Second: Suite des Voyages aux Indes Oriuentales par le Sud-Ouest. unknown books
1749860361749. TRAVEL HISTOIRE GENERALE DES VOYAGES OU NOUVEAU COLLECTION DE TOUTES LES RELATIONS DE VOYAGES PAR MER ET PAR TERRE . TOME SECOND. Paris: Didot 1749. 450 5 folding maps. 12mo. mottled calf gilt spine raised bands. Spine chipped spine label slightly chipped joints cracked leather cracked. Marbled edges and endpapers small chip to front flyleaf small printed bookplate to front pastedown. A few maps with small closed tears but else in very good condition. Title page continued: "Qui ont ete publiees jusqua present dans les differentes Langues de toutes les Nations connues: contenant ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable de plus utile et de mieux avere' dans le pays ou les voyageurs ont penetre': avec les moeurs des habitans la religion les usages arts sciences commerce manufactures &c. pour former une systeme complet d'histoire & de geographie moderne qui represente l'etat actuel de toutes les nations; enrichi de cartes geographiques et de figures." Depuis le commencement du XV Siecle Premier Partie: Voayages au Sud-Est et aux Indes Orientales. As is. unknown books
1751860371751. TRAVEL HISTOIRE GENERALE DES VOYAGES OU NOUVEAU COLLECTION DE TOUTES LES RELATIONS DE VOYAGES PAR MER ET PAR TERRE . TOME TRENTE-CINQUIE'ME. Paris: Didot 1751. 408 1 plate p. 197. 12mo. mottled calf gilt spine raised bands. Spine chipped spine label slightly chipped joints cracked leather cracked. Marbled endpapers small printed bookplate to front pastedown. Plate in very good condition. Title page continued: "Qui ont ete publiees jusqua present dans les differentes Langues de toutes les Nations connues: contenant ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable de plus utile et de mieux avere' dans le pays ou les voyageurs ont penetre': avec les moeurs des habitans la religion les usages arts sciences commerce manufactures &c. pour former une systeme complet d'histoire & de geographie moderne qui represente l'etat actuel de toutes les nations; enrichi de cartes geographiques et de figures." Fernand Mendez Pinto. As is. $200.00. unknown 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
