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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
49011Paris: J. Morax Imp n. d. Ca 1940s. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Modest signs of use Very Good Plus. One sheet of beige card stock printed in maroon & green folded twice vertically to form a 6 panel brochure. Illustrated with 2 drawings two photographic images & a map. Folded: 9" x 4" <br/><br/>Le Hotel Meurice is a 5-star hotel in the 1st arrondissement of Paris opposite the Tuileries Garden between Place de la Concorde and the Musée du Louvre on the Rue de Rivoli. From the Rue de Rivoli it stretches to the Rue du Mont Thabor. The hotel was opened in 1815 and from that day has consistently served society's elite. J. Morax, Imp unknown books
193848459n. p. 1938. 1st printing presumed. Self-wrappers now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. General wear & soiling. A few short splits along folds. Very Good. Single sheet printed both sides folded 3 times to form a 6 panel brochure. Illustrated with 8 tinted half-tone photographic images one map and a front panel graphic by Wiley Padan. Folded: 11" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/> unknown 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
195642978New York 1956. 1st Printing. Self-wrappers. Age-toning. Light wear. Very Good. One sheet folded vertically twice to form a 6-panel brochure. Illustrated with 2 b/w photographic images & one drawing. Folded: 8-1/4" x 3-5/8" <br/><br/> unknown books
193042942n.p. 1930. Paperback. Very Good. 2p. text plus 19 photos of Osaka Castle printed on one side only with captions above and below in English and Japanese. Tied pictorial wrapper. Oblong 13cm. Title in Japanese our English title is just a guess. Brief text and captions in Japanese and English. <br/><br/> paperback 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
197629322Boston: Little Brown & Co 1976. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Small hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. 240 pp. Illustrated in color and black and white. Stated first American edition. A handsome very good copy in dustwrapper. Little, Brown & Co hardcover books
191531418Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1915. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. Cloth octavo with tipped on illustrated photograph on the front panel. 326 pp. With photographic frontispiece protected by tissue guard. Preface by William Frederic Bade. All photographic illustrations present with this copy. Prior owner name to the front endpaper else a clean well-bound copy. General light handling wear. Houghton Mifflin 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
171227989London: Printed by D. L. for E. Curll E. Sanger R. Gosling and W. Lewis 1712 1712. First edition translated into English issue not certain. Pine-Coffin 698; Straus The Unspeakable Curll page 217; ESTC T110070; and see ESTC N21633. Text somewhat foxed and browned; binding rubbed; very good copy. 8vo contemporary panelled calf rebacked black leather label gilt lettering. Five engraved plates four folding 15 engravings in the text and vignettes. ¶ An important work by Bernard de Montfaucon 1655-1741 a French Benedictine monk who was a pioneer in the disciplines of paleography and archaeology. In 1698 Montfaucon traveled to Italy to study antiquities and manuscripts the results of which were published in Paris in 1702 as Diarium Italicum. It was translated into English in 1711 and published by Edmund Curll. There is an issue with a second title-page that reads "Diarium Italicum: or a Journey Through Italy London 1711." It appears as stated in ESTC to be the same setting of type as this edition which has a cancel title-page. <br/><br/> London: Printed by D. L. for E. Curll, E. Sanger, R. Gosling, and W. Lewis, 1712 unknown books
193926152New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1939. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. Yellow cloth binding lettered in brown. 182 pp adventure tale of two boy scouts who set out from Holland and end up in Pnom-Penh in Cambodia. Map endpapers. Photo frontis. Translated into English by Andree J. Rie. With decorations by ierre Joubert. Light soiling to cloth covers. Internally clean and well-bound book. Very good condition. lacking the uncommon dustwrapper. G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
191125340Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. First edition of this charming 390 pp travelogue through the chateaus of FRance. Illustrated with photographs. Some age spotting to paper else a handsome very good copy. Lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Laid into this copy is a small card INSCRIBED by the author. J. B. Lippincott hardcover books
194925383London: Werner Laurie 1949. First edition. Cloth. Very Good /very good . 8vo. Handsome first edition in dustwrapper. 207 pp travelogue in Italy with decorations provided by Isobel R. Beard. Werner Laurie unknown books
196425384London: Hogarth Press 1964. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. 8vo. 307 pp travelogue of adventures in Soviet Russia. Folding map tipped in at back of book as called for. A handsome very good copy in dustwrapper. Hogarth Press 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
1936276582Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh Limited 1936. Very Good binding. Soochow Suzhou was much more accessible at the building of a railroad connecting it to Shanhai in 1911 and thus brought within the range of day-trips and making it a more desirable location for wealthy Chinese. "By 1936 it was possible.for F. R. Nance .to write a detailed guidebook to Suzhou naming it for the first time as 'the garden city' an appellation it retains in travel literature down to the present day" Craig Clunas; "Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China" p. 202. With attractive colored maps on the endsheets of The Waterways; plates from photographs by C. H. Wong and 5 folding maps. An important guidebook. Very Good binding. Kelly & Walsh, Limited unknown books
1911851901911. TRAVEL - YOKOHAMA. AMENOMORI N. THE GRAND HOTEL LIMITED. H. E. MANWARING MANAGER. GUIDE BOOK FOR YOKOHAMA AND VICINITY. Yokohama: "Japan Gazette" Press 1911. A small pocket-size guide 14 x 10.5 cm in color illustrated paper wrappers that show the Grand Hotel on the front and a view of Fuji on the back side-sewn with ribbon ties. 46518 text pp. 81 adv. pp. folding map. Following the first section a description of the hotel and the surrounding area which also includes lists of holidays postage money weights and measures etc. there is a section of Anglo-Japanese conversation for tourists. The advertising section is comprised of a wide variety of merchants products and services pearls jewels and curios silks and embroideries photography studios fine hotels pharmacies cars for hire ship and rail lines etc. The small fold-out plan 12.5 x 20 cm of Yokohama City at the end is in fine condition. Negligible edgewear to wrappers and the first few text leaves have one slightly dog-eared corner otherwise it is quite fresh and in very good condition overall. unknown books
70603The personal photographic album of Eppes Bartow Hawes Williams 1902-81 a St. Louis debutante and U.S. Senator's daughter who married five times and traveled annually to Europe. The album dates from the mid 1930s and contains more than 100 photographs including original photos of Gertrude Stein and the French artist Bernard Boutet de Monvel aboard ship. The first image in the album is a magazine clipping from the wedding of Laura and Peter Bostwick in 1933 at which Eppes nee Mrs. Lewis T. Preston served as matron of honor. Bostwick the grandson of Standard Oil founder Jabez A. Bostwick was a sportsman and one of the leading steeplechase owners. Eppes' father was Senator Harry Bartow. She graduated from Maryville College in Missouri and was presented to Society first in St. Louis and then in Washington D.C. and New York. As a young girl she was noted for her athletic ability and qualified for the Olympics as a high board diver. The photographs some which are briefly captioned in pencil or ink show Eppes and her friends at the beach playing tennis and socializing. A few images in the album are captioned "polo Aiken" and "Gold Cup races" presumably referring to steeplechase races in Virginia. It appears this album dates from 1933-35 as clippings in the album refer to her as Mrs. Preston; however many original photographs show her with Lloyd Moore her second of five husbands whom she married in 1935. Her first husband was Lewis Thompson Preston CEO of JP Morgan and eighth president of the World Bank Group. On May 11 1935 Eppes and Moore who were not yet married sailed from New York to England aboard the SS Champlain a cabin class ocean liner. Among the passengers was the French artist Bernard Boutet de Monvel who posed for a photograph with Eppes. The album also contains two photographs of Gertrude Stein standing on the ship's deck. For Stein this voyage was her return trip home to Paris. In October 1934 Stein arrived in America after a 30-year absence for an exhausting six-month tour that transformed her from a noteworthy but little known author into a national celebrity. The photographs are pasted to the stiff album pages only half the album is used which are bound in an oblong brown leather album with gilt stamping. Though both joints are cracked the binding remains sound. unknown books
194228732Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1942. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/fair. Clothbound octavo in trimmed dustwrapper. 360 pp. Map endpapers. Illustrated with photographs. Covers a bit scuffed and worn. A good to very good copy in beige cloth covers. Bookplate from the Stefansson Collection afixed to the second endpaper. Laid into this copy is a trimmed dustwrapper see photo. This copy INSCRIBED "From the perpetrators Slly and Arthur Twomey" Uncommon thus. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
008193London: A & C Black Ltd. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Attractive illustrated travel book with full color paintings by Forestier. Very good elaborately decorated clothbound volume. <br/><br/> A & C Black, Ltd hardcover 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
199115629Italy: Biblos Edizioni 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Wide oversized quarto. A book of sumptuous color photographs with text in Italian featuring the natural and architectural splendor of Arcipelago Del Leone. English and German translation section at rear of book. A very good copy in pictorial silver boards with cloth spine in matching silver pictorial dustwrapper. This is a large and heavy volume. Additional postage charges may apply. <br/><br/> Biblos Edizioni hardcover 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
