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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
1979431801979. Printed paper. Occasional light soil and edgewear to exterior panels; few scattered slight separations at folds; evidence of tape removal to front panel of one map; horizontal crease to one map. Some ink and pencil markings to blank verso or guide not affecting maps. Overall in VG condition or better. 16 individual titles some duplicates; 25 maps total. Sizes vary. ~9" x 4" folded; on average ~18" x 24" opened. <br/><br/>Maps include: - TRAVEL OKLAHOMA With CONOCO. Oklahoma State Highway Map. Ca. 1965. - OKLAHOMA'S GREEN COUNTRY. Ca 1979. - ENJOY OKLAHOMA. Official Oklahoma State Highway Map. 1961. 2 copies - VISIT OKLAHOMA. Official State Highway Map. 1964. - STANDARD OIL COMPANY OKLAHOMA HIGHWAY MAP. Ca 1960s. - DIAMOND ROAD MAP. Oklahoma and United States. Ca 1940s. 4 copies - OKLAHOMA OFFICIAL STATE TRANSPORTATION MAP. 1979. - ENJOY The OUACHITA NATIONAL FOREST. Arkansas. Oklahoma. Ca. 1970. - RAND MCNALLY OKLAHOMA POCKET MAP. Reference Map; Highway Map. Plus 28 pp guide. 1952. - PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY OKLAHOMA HIGHWAY MAP. Ca. 1960s. 2 copies - OKLAHOMA OFFICIAL STATE HIGHWAY MAP. 1965. 3 copies. - TEXACO TULSA And OKLAHOMA CITY STREET MAP. 1967. - TULSA CITY MAP. Compliments of National Bank of Tulsa. 1955. 3 copies - Mapco MAP Of TULSA And VICINITY. Oklahoma. Revised edition. 1956. - MAP Of GREATER TULSA. Skelly Oil Company. Ca. 1970. - D-X MAP Of TULSA OKLAHOMA. D-X Quality Petroleum Products. 1948. unknown 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
D4278early 20th century. Very Good. Morocco over flexible boards "Photographs" stamped in gilt on upper board bound with thin black rope; oblong approx. 8-by-6 inches; contains more than 150 black leaves each with a b/w photograph silver gelatin print affixed to the recto and labelled by hand in white ink. Photos occasionally are attached to the verso as well. Nearly 200 photographs total. Average photo size is about 4.75-by-3.5 inches. Boards scuffed along the edges; slight wave to text block; photographs are in near fine condition a few subject to some a touch of fading and light rubbing. <br/><br/>Though only a few images directly mention the "Steamer Manchuria" showing members the band a group of Russian children and "Embarking at Honolulu" it is likely that this rich travelogue captures it's entire voyage through the Far East -- either on it's regular route for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's trans-Pacific service or in 1905 when the Mancuria sailed from San Francisco on a goodwill tour of the Far East carrying a large U.S. Congressional delegation under the leadership of Secretary of War William Taft. There are very few personal photographs to establish our photographer's identity as most pictures are of landmarks landscapes and artifacts such as a bamboo organ in Manila pagodas in Rangoon horse-drawn carriages in various locations. The few images that include people are usually candid with their subjects ignoring or unaware of the photographer -- such as people playing games on deck and surfing photos taken at Waikiki beach. And one labelled "Diving for Coins Singapore" is particularly lovely showing the young men jumping from their canoes. A long far-flung journey with scenes of Manila Rangoon Penang Singapore Java Seoul Hawaii California San Francisco Yosemite Park and Arizona Grand Canyon. Demonstrates a curious eye it seems that the elephants working in the lumber yards of Rangoon were particularly compelling and thankfully an adept one as all photographs are nicely composed exposed and printed. hardcover 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
