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12679Soft cover. Fine. Facsimile reprint of the original pamphlet printed in London in 1743. Stapled binding printed on faux-parchment. Clean tight unmarked. "Bitter vindication of Knowles' conduct in the disastrous Cartagena expedition during which he served as surveyor and engineer of the British fleet" Swann. unknown books
19946451NY: Times Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 081291984X . Second printing. Fine in a very near fine price clipped dust jacket. . Times Books hardcover books
190212369New York: Lewis Scribner and Co 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Published under the auspices of the Arctic Club. 386 pages bound in drab green cloth illustrated. Corners rubbed cloth at spine ends frayed rear hinge wobbly. Binding otherwise solid contents clean and bright. Reminiscences and impressions from 22 Explorers on subjects including eskimo superstitions eskimo music shipwreck and other perils polar photography hunting whaling. Arctic Bibliography 8556. Lewis, Scribner and Co hardcover books
189214486London: R.H. Porter 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp. xvi 269 2 ads with illustrations folding map. Original blue cloth. Edges of boards rubbed mild scuffing to rear board. Contemporary ownership signature on title page otherwise unmarked and sound. "In the following chapters I propose to give a sketch of South America from a naval officer's point of view and of the sport to be obtained there whilst engaged in the duties of protecting British interests.I am firmly convinced that a happy combination of work and sport is.conducive to the best interests of the service and the health and temper of those in it" Chapter 1. Includes a log of all game bagged by the officers of his ship the HMS Ruby during a three and a half year tour. Among their kills were a variety of game birds more than 1000 ostriches wild cattle deer and wild sheep goats and pigs. R.H. Porter hardcover books
21423Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover. Very good. Early reprint title page undated copyright page states "Published February 1913." 338 pp indexed and illustrated including double-page map in original blue cloth binding. No dust jacket. Light shelfwear to boards; binding sound text clean with the exception of some foxing to the first few leaves. Previous owner's raised stamp on front free endpaper. As described in contemporary review in the Missionary Herald "the earlier part of Miss Kendall's journey brings out vividly the life of such unfamiliar regions as French Tonking and the provinces of Yunnan and Szechuan in West China and includes such unusual experiences as a peek into Lolo Land a stop at Tachieniu--gateway to Tibet--and a remarkable sojourn at the monastery of Omei Shan that ancient and mysterious mountain shrine of Buddhist China. The middle part of the journey follows the more usual highways down the Yangtze and north to the Wall but the route becomes adventurous again as it crosses the Gobi Desert and pushes northward through Mongolia to Siberia. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
194420734Palo Alto CA: Dramatists' Alliance of Stanford University 1944. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 106 pp ca. 8.5 x 11 inches original illustrated wrappers. Moderate handling wear including creasing to cover resulting from a binding error; very good. Second volume in the Coester Series of Translations from the drama of Southern American states "issued as a means of familiarizing North Americans with the literature of the southern stage." The plays included in English translation are: For the Sake of a Good Reputation a farce of office life by Chilean Eduardo Barrios 1913; The Traitor a tragedy of the war of liberation by Cuban Jose Antonio Ramos 1916; Sargeant Canuto a farce in the commedia dell'arte manner by Peruvian Manuel Ascencio Segura 1839; Lottery Ticket a play for children by Ecuadoran Victor Rendon 1934; Common Clay a naturalistic play on the outcast poor by Argentinian Pedro Pico 1918; An Old Yarn a funeral farce by Mexican Jose Joaquin Gamboa 1925; Midsummer Day Partners a tragedy of customs and character by Argentinian/Uruguayan Florencio Sanchez ca. 1900; and The Inn of Bethlehem a nativity play for radio by Colombian Jose Zalamea 1940. Dramatists' Alliance of Stanford University paperback books
199230168University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0271007265 . Edited by John Auchard. First edition thus. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper else fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Pennsylvania State University Press hardcover books
19871221College Station TX: Texas A&M University Press 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. xiv 160 pp. Signed by author with short inscription on half-title. Minimal wear to edges book store label affixed to rear pastedown; else fine. Dust jacket shows very light shelf wear. "When artist Everett Jackson and his young wife Eileen crossed the border from Mexico in 1927 after he had painted there for four years they realized that Mexico had bewitched them. Never again would they see life quite the same way as the Americans around them and never would they be able to stay out of Mexico for more than a few months at a time" dust jacket. Texas A&M University Press hardcover books
2013WRCLIT77031Potts Point New South Wales: Hordern House 2013. xi543pp. Quarto. Cloth. New in pictorial dust jacket. First edition. A fine reference and the most important bibliographical contribution to the genre in decades published by our colleagues at Hordern House in Australia presenting "a comprehensive guide to invented imaginary apocryphal and plagiarized narratives of travel by land sea and air from the earliest times to the twentieth century" and tangentially to many utopian narratives as well. In 640 articles Howgego treats over 1000 narratives with indices of 2800 editions in all languages extensive annotations analyses and bibliographical citations. An additional 6000 citations to secondary sources are included. Published as the free-standing fifth volume in Howgego's extraordinary ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXPLORATION. Published at $145 and offered now for a limited time at:. Hordern House hardcover books
1789WRCLIT68407Amsterdam et se trouve a Paris: Chez Maradan . 1789. 4110pp. Octavo. Later wrappers labeled in manuscript. Small adhesion flaw at gutter of title leaf affecting one letter scattered foxing else very good. A response by Diderot's friend and editor to Barthélemy's celebrated imaginary travel account VOYAGE DU JEUNE ANARCHARSIS EN GRÈCE . Paris 3 vols 1788 including the supplementary texts by Pierre C. de Chamblain de Marivaux Louis Fontanes and Barthélemy himself. OCLC/Worldcat locates copies at NYPL Loyola Cambridge and London Library. OCLC 28807945. Chez Maradan ... unknown books
19112221585<p>DRINKING AND DRIVING - COGNAC</p><p>First edition. Octavo. Color frontispiece and 15 full page color plates; large folding map at end. Original dark green pictorial cloth with winged auto and two persons in gilt and olive green; t.e.g. No dust jacket. No foxing. Fresh bright tight fine copy. 337 pages six advertisements. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Includes full page ad for Gautier Freres Cognac; "Fine Spirit in the pocket is a desirability."</p> Adam and Charles Black hardcover books
200536366Vancouver:: Greystone Books. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 1553651189 . Illustrated. First printing. Upper corners slightly bumped else fine in a fine dust jacket. . Greystone Books, hardcover books
21433Hardcover. Very good. Black leather album containing 54 tissue-guarded leaves of watercolor paper of which 43 have been used. 10 x 12 inches stamped in gilt on the front "Sketches on the Nile / Alan Hinch / 1938." Leather scuffed cloth tape reinforcement to inner hinges all else very good. Alan Hinch was born in England c. 1881 but was living in the United States by 1920 when the federal census documents him working in Miami as pilot of a private yacht owned by socialite James Deering an executive in International Harvester Company. He apparently embarked on this Nile cruise as companion to his next employer Richard Flint Howe 1863-1943 another International Harvester executive who had married James Deering's sister Abby. Passenger manifests show Hinch as traveling in the company of a "Mr. R. Howe" and the census of 1940 lists him as butler on Howe's estate. He was clearly more than a simple servant however as this charming and humorous album reveals. The album documents the journey from departure on the Italian Line passenger ship Conte de Savoia on January 15 1938 to arrival home at Banksia Howe's custom-built mansion in Aiken South Carolina on March 26 1938. Each page includes an original watercolor most measuring about 4.5 x 8 inches but some larger with a related original doggerel poem. Hinch's paintings are skillful. His poetry is markedly less so but it is clever observant and skillfully captures the traveler's experiences. On a visit to Asyut Hinch writes: Assuit the place they said would be warm/ Was 42 degrees at early morn/ If the like keeps on we will have to don /Earlaps coonskins as at a football game./ Rode through the quarters where the natives were/ Couldn't say lived for it looked so bare/ They called out for bakscheesh/ Both old and young/ They thought we came only to give to them./ Oh what a place to be born and live./ Then through the bazaar narrow and crowded/ Maybe bargains galore/ But we passed through as quick as we could./ Oddments and rubbish in hovels so poor./ Then to the tombs too high to climb/ And round the modern town we drove/ Back on board the "Memnon" to dine. A visit to the ancient cemetery at Beni Hasan is described from the perspective of the donkeys who labor under the weight of well-fed tourists. Other subjects include the ocean liners and streamers they traveled in local people they encountered a dragoman a water carrier a little girl in a red scarf boats on the Nile camels and water buffalo the Pyramids Sphinx Panopolis El-Balyyana Abydos Karnak Kom Ombo Wadi Haifa Abu Simbel and Luxor. There are also several views of the Mediterranean coast and one of Banksia in South Carolina. In all a charming and lovely representation of the places and time. hardcover books
199226907Portland: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 1558680934 . Color photographs throughout by David Muench and Robert Reynolds. First edition. Fine in a near fine slightly sun faded along the spine dust jacket. . Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company hardcover books
1936253323Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. Signed and inscribed by Parkhurst on the half title. Publisher's blue cloth binding; sunned and a bit stained at the spine; contents are quite clean; digital images can be made available upon request. Good binding. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
607821not signed from the 1974 film "The Golden Age of Sinbad." 1. Full length shot of John Phillip Law as Sinbad studying a map with Caroline Munro in the background. 2. Full length fantasy shot with John Phillip Law as Sinbad having a sword fight. Photographs are on single weight stock; 10" x 8"; very good minor signs of handling; short tear right margin photo #1; 1974. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
37825n. p.: Oklahoma Travel Association n. d. 1st printing presumed ca 1940. Blue stiff color illustrated paper wrappers with color photographic image of Miss Oklahoma Martyne Woods to center front wrapper. Mild spine wear. Light tanning to edges of back wrapper. Text block separated from wrapper. Previous owner's signature to front wrapper lower margin. Withal a VG copy. 41 pp. Inserted color map of Oklahoma b/w illustrations to each page. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> Oklahoma Travel Association unknown books
1919228863New York; Chicago; London; Edinburgh: Fleming H. Revell Co 1919. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Illustrated; No pencil or ink markings in text but rubbing to front pastedown where paper has been removed. Front hinge a little weak but holding well. Brown cloth binding. Closed tear at top of front board at spine. Moderate edgewear to boards; Not Ex-Library. near Very Good binding. Fleming H. Revell Co unknown books
1977962Glorieta NM: Rio Grande Press 1977. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint of the 1829 edition. 558 pp foldout map with map illustrations appendix index. Fine copy in decorative cloth. "When author Hardy traveled from the mainland to the Baja and around the Sea of Cortes he was confronted with great empty vistas of terra incognita . Lieut. Hardy an Englishman lately an officer in the Royal Navy described Mexico he visited as it was shortly after throwing off the heavy yoke of Imperial Spain. He traveled literally thousands of miles by boat muleback and shank's mare. There were no luxuries for travelers in Mexico in those days" Publisher's Preface. Rio Grande Press hardcover books
186121267Boston: Abel Tompkins 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 171 pp 4 pp publisher's ads with frontis portrait of the author. Original black cloth with blind-stamped decoration and image of a ship on each board. Complete but well worn; spine slant corners rubbed through small losses of cloth at head and foot of spine moderate foxing and soiling throughout. A good reference/reading copy. Hall who signed on to the New Bedford whale-ship Condor at the age of 15 suffered so much abuse on board that he and a companion deserted on the coast of Siberia. They spent the winter of 1858-59 at a Russian penal settlement and were rescued the following summer by another New Bedford whaler and taken to Honolulu before returning to New England. "In 1861 Hall published Artic Rovings in an attempt to expoose the abuses of crewmen in the whaling industry. His father making use of letters sent home by his son subsequently brought a lawsuit against Whiteside Captain of the Condor accusing him of abandoning young Hall on the shores of Okhotsk. A judgement of $300 was awarded in favor of the father" Howgego Ocean Islands & Polar Regions H6. Sabin 29745. Abel Tompkins hardcover books
19908169NY: Knopf. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0394571894 . First edition. Remainder mark on top edge else fine in a fine dust jacket. . Knopf hardcover books
1980247245Bernardoni Di C. Rebeschini E. C. // Arti Grafiche Reina 1980. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Facsimile of the 1881 edition. Bound in quarter cloth over marbled boards. An attractive book printed up as 100th anniversary edition. Some fade to the spine from the publisher's belly band wrapper which is now torn and is laid in the book. Very Good binding. Bernardoni Di C. Rebeschini E. C. // Arti Grafiche Reina unknown books
197514777Gainesville FL: College of Architecture and Fine Arts University of Florida 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Catalogue of an exhibition shown and documented in conjunction with the special photographic exhibition Machu Picchu of the Inca with photography by Roy C. Craven Jr. 36 pp stapled wrappers. Illustrated with 28 b/w photos. Includes introductory essay bibliography. Minor cover wear; contents clean and sound. College of Architecture and Fine Arts, University of Florida paperback books
19315466London. Walter Perry and Co. Ltd. 1931. Gilt titled crimson cloth. 4to. Edition for 1931. Profusely illustrated with photographs drawings and period advertisements. An absolute treasure depicting the grand and elegant days of travel. A complete guide to Hotels and boarding houses in Great Britain Europe Australia New Zealand South Africa Canada and the USA. Charming period advertising allows one to travel back to the heady romantic days of Somerset Maugham and the Orient Express. Indexed and tabbed this is a true gem of nostalgia. A Very Good copy Walter Perry and Co. Ltd. hardcover books
1920198Portland ME: Thomas B Mosher 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. viii 215 pp. Limited edition of 700 copies for sale in America. Original green textured paper boards with paper spine label. Corners rubbed uneven sunning to rear board; contents clean and sound. Gissing's journal of travel in southern Italy including Naples Cotrone Catanzaro Reggio and elsewhere. No dust jacket. Thomas B Mosher hardcover books
