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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
186614703London: Longmans Green Reader & Dyer 1866. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition re-drawn first published 1864. 10.25 x 14 inches oblong. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. Elizabeth Fox Tuckett 1837-1872 was the sister of the well-known English alpinist Francis Fox Tuckett 1834-1913 who regularly gathered a party of friends and family to accompany him on climbing expeditions. Elizabeth had a talent for drawing as well as a love of travel and produced four popular light-hearted books of which this was the first chronicling her adventures in the form of humorous sketches. Neate T66. Some creasing to cloth corners rubbed occasional foxing lacking rear free endpaper; overall about very good. Inscribed in light pencil on the front free endpaper "With heartfelt good wishes for the/New Year E.F. Tuckett iIllegible place name Dec. 30 1869." In addition Tuckett has written out the full names of the members of the expedition on the "Dramatis Personae" page where they are identified in print only by their initials. Rarely found signed. Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer hardcover 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
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
191218158Washington DC: Press of Byron S. Adams 1912. 6 x 9.25 inches 72 pp with chromolithograph frontispiece many b/w illustrations from photographs. Near fine with mild edgewear to wrappers. Stamp of the Bolivan Consulate in San Francisco on front endpaper. An attractive informational booklet aimed at potential investors with description of the major cities of Bolivia and details of topography demographics climate natural resources mining the financial system laws and tariffs and transportation. A colored folding map of the country shows forest agricultural areas and mineral locations. Press of Byron S. Adams unknown books
200533462NY:: Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 1400040957 . Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely. First American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Knopf, 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
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
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
1828E00212 Volumes: viii323 pages; iv304i ad pages with glossary. Small octavo 7 3/4" x 5" in original paper covered boards and spine title labels as originally issued. From the library of Professor George M Foster. Sabin:42852; Hill page 186 1st edition.<br /><br />G F Lyon was an English traveler born in Chichester England in 1795; died at sea in October 1832. He entered the British naval service in 1809 was present at the attack on Algiers by Lord Exmouth in 1816 and in 1818 was commissioned to accompany Joseph Ritchie on his tour of exploration into central Africa. Ritchie died in Fezzan and Lyon returned to England after encountering many dangers and privations which he described in his Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa London 1821. In 1821 in command of the Hecla he accompanied Captain William E. Parry on his arctic expedition publishing on his return The Private Journal of Captain G. F. Lyon 1824. In 1824 he sailed in command of the Griper' with the mission of exploring Melville peninsula and following its western shore as far as Turn-again he found after three months' searching a passage through the group of islets called Southampton island but was unable to enter Repulse bay through Sir Thomas Rowe's Welcome. On 13 September a violent tempest compelled him to return to England. The story of the voyage was told in A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt 1825. He subsequently passed several years in Mexico and died on his return from a second visit to America. His remaining works are The SketchBook of Captain G. F. Lyon during Eighteen Months' Residence in Mexico No. 1 London 1827 and Journal of a Residence and Tour in Mexico in 1828 London 1828.<br /><br />George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in. Condition:<br /><br />Spines renewed with original chipped spine labels laid on front end papers chipped and damaged at edges corners bumped and rubbed Foster's stamp on end papers old owner's signature on covers internally near fine else over all very good. John Murray hardcover books
192915008London: George Routledge & Sons 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. vi 356 pp 9 illustrations with map notes index. Edited with an introduction by Mona Wilson. Boards toned and lightly soiled at edges; binding sound text clean. No dust jacket. An English novelist and playwright best known for his gothic novel The Monk Lewis b. 1775 here records his time in Jamaica after he inherited substantial property there. George Routledge & Sons hardcover 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
199934720Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0226900185 . First printing. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper else fine in a fine dust jacket. . University of Chicago Press hardcover books
198538047n. p.: United Airlines 1985. 1st printing presumed. Some light edgewear in margins. A VG example. Broadside. Large image 20-3/4" x 17" of impressive mountains of Kauai overlooking the ocean. Burgundy border printed with white lettering. 28" x 22" <br/><br/> United Airlines unknown books
19271775London: Gerald Howe 1927. Hardcover. Very Good/good. 96 pp. Light offsetting to endpapers light wear to edges contents clean and sound. Dust jacket has internal tape reinforcements and is chipped at corners and spine ends with a small loss along the front joint. Lady Stanhope 1776-1839 was a rather eccentric British aristocrat who grew bored with life at home and began traveling in 1810. She spent a few months in Malta then a year in Constantinople before moving on to tour Syria and the Holy Land. "She travelled in style made lavish gifts to pashas and others in authority and arrogated to herself the right to do very much as she pleased. She was warned that when she reached 'fanatical' Damascus she must wear a veil and conform to convention in other ways but this she refused to do. Unveiled tall and impressive in her Turkish male clothes she entered the city on horseback and made a great sensation" DNB. A few months later she became the first European woman to visit Palmyra. Eventually she moved herself and her entourage to a remote monastery in Lebanon where she lived out her days under increasingly impoverished conditions. Gerald Howe hardcover books
188746346Chicago: Rand McNally Co. for the Passengern Department Sante Fe Route 1887. 1st Edition. Card stock covers printed in black & red. Now house in an archival mylar sleeve. Volume professionally refurbished. Covers soiled. Frontis with crinkled top right corner image not affected. Leaf with pp 37/38 with repaired short marginal tear. Overall Very Good. 47 1 pp. Chromolithograph frontispiece. 3 vignetttes. 12 full page wood engravings. Ground plan p. 47. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 6-3/8" <br/><br/>Blurb on front cover: "The Karlsbad of America." Uncommon in commerce. Rand McNally Co. [for the] Passengern Department, Sante Fe Route unknown books
1893244501Richmond VA: Whittet & Shepperson 1893. First Edition. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. 242pp. Previous owner name; no markings in text; light edgewear to boards spine; small closed tears fraying and small loss of cloth at top and bottom spine; digital images can be made available upon request. near Very Good binding. Whittet & Shepperson unknown books
197638041n. p.: United Airlines 1976. 1st printing. Very light edgewear. A VG example. Broadside. Large image 20-5/8" x 18" featuring stereotypical Hollywood character look-a-likes ie. Madonna Frankenstein a cowboy looking humorously toward camera. 28" x 22" <br/><br/> United Airlines unknown 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
02896912mo Includes the following: 14 pp. Richard Wheatley's Journal dated 13 Sept 1805 - 26 Nov 1807; 10 pp. Richard Wheatley's business ledger; and 12 pp. of Ellen W. Pease's manuscript poetry and verse dated February 5 1835 - February 24 1839 plus blanks. The last leaf is missing. Bound in contemporary vellum worn rubbed scuffed text block nearly detached from binding written in ink some fading though largely legible else good.Manuscript journal of Richard Wheatley b. c. 1770-80 d. c. 1840 describing his travels including a trip to Savannah and elsewhere in Georgia. The journal commences with Wheatley's return home after an eight week "passage." He takes a stage from New York to his home in Boston making several stops along the way. Upon returning to Boston he visits a number of places including Canton the home of his future wife Hannah Dunbar. <p>Wheatley who appears to have been in the textile business begins another trip traveling by steam packet to New York before boarding a brig for Savannah. Here he meets fellow business men and inspects cargos upon arrival from Liverpool. </p> <p>The journal contains a four page description of his travels within Georgia. He meets a Mr. Macky <i>"a Scotchman who told me he could walk thru the streets of this town </i>Savannah<i> from the first of July to the end of September without meeting a white man and if he appeared to meet one he looked like as if he had come out of the Hospital."</i> Wheatley then set out by stagecoach for Augusta Georgia where he met with some businessmen purchased a horse and rode to Briar Creek where he dined then on to Louisville and to Milledgeville a place that is <i>"to be the capital of the state of Georgia. 12 months ago there was no house in it but a log house."</i> </p> <p>After further travels in Georgia Wheatley made his way back to Savannah. Here he became sick and complained: <i>"This country is troubled with almost all kind of troublesome insects. such as sand flies tick Myscatoco sic and several kinds of insects that breed in rotton sic food several stories being told of Mrs. Wilson such as that no sick person ever got well in her house." </i> Wheatley was then an unfortunate guest at Mrs. Wilson's house. </p> <p>Wheatley departed Savannah upon his recovery aboard the Brig <i>Mount Vernon</i> bound for Providence Rhode Island. While traveling he witnessed an eclipse which he describes before returning to Boston. </p> <p>Wheatley later makes a journey to Maine here he mentions visiting a horse fair at Brunswick on a trip from Boston to Bath Maine. He made a number of stops at Hallowell Freeport "Kennebunk" as well as others. At Augusta he relates hearing the news of a man who killed his wife seven children and then himself. Wheatley conducts his travels to further his textile business and interests. There is not much detail on his business the journal only mentioning the names of people he met with. </p> <p>Almost every Sunday that Wheatley is in Boston he attends "Stilman's Meeting-House" which would appear to be the Revolutionary War Baptist preacher Samuel Stillman's 1737-1807 church. Stillman's Boston church was a place where the likes of John Adams and John Hancock could be found listening to Stillman's preaching. It was also Stillman's Church at about this time 1805 that gave birth to the First African Church now Peoples Baptist Church of Roxbury. In 1807 Wheatley mentions attending the funeral for "Docter Stilman." sic </p> <p>Near the end of the journal Wheatley mentions renting a house from an "Ezra Davis" for "$400 per annum" and then getting married to "Hannah Dunbar" of Canton MA and returning with her to Boston. </p> <p>Ellen W. Pease the author of the poetry and verse has written under her name that she was born 22 April 1808. Also under her name are the names Mary D. Pease born June 9 Windwell Pease born April 19 and Gamaliel Pease born May. While there are no years for the birth of Mary D. Windwell and Gamaliel Pease the names of Windwell and Gamaliel Pease are unique enough that a check of the genealogical databases of Ancestry.com shows that George Pease of Suffield CT had married Ellen Wheatley. George immigrated to Ohio in 1825 and along with other Pease family members they were considered some of the pioneers of the Miami Valley. The couple moved to Miami OH where George had a sizable farm. The couple had at least four children Mary D. Windwell Gamaliel and Ellen. George Pease's family had been in Enfield CT since at least the 1680's and before that in Salem MA since the 1650's. </p> <p>Ellen Wheatley is statedin <i>Centennial Portrait and Biographical Record of The City of Dayton and of Montgomery County Ohio</i> 1897 to be the daughter of Richard Wheatley and Hannah Dunbar of Washington Township Ohio. It would appear that Richard Wheatley immigrated to Ohio as well and went into business with Thomas Basson Isaac Cowder and William Black and formed The Ohio Manufacturing Company in 1816 where they manufactured yarn and cloth from cotton and wool at Woodbourn in Montgomery County Ohio. The company purchased the original plots numbered 26 and 33-34 in the town plan. After the Panic of 1819 the Ohio Manufacturing Company bought out some of its competitors in town and acquired the mill dam raceway and all the machinery and unfinished and finished stock of the Farmers and Mechanics Manufacturing Company of Centerville Ohio. He appears to have been somewhat successful for a time. </p> <p>Ellen's poetry is of a morbid nature with such titles as: <i>"Lines on the Death of a lovely Child"</i> and <i>"Epitaph."</i> In another poem Ellen welcomes death so that she can sleep with her loved one: </p> <p> <i>"I come I come if in that tide</i> </p> <p> <i>Thou sleepest tonight I'll sleep there too</i> </p> <p> <i>In death's cold wedlock by thy side</i> </p> <p> <i>Oh! I would ask no happier bed</i> </p> <p> <i>Than the chill wave my love lies under</i> </p> <p> <i>Sweeter to rest together dead</i> </p> <p> <i>Far sweeter than to live asunder."</i> </p> <p>Ellen Wheatley welcomed death and it came; she died the same year as some of poems were written still grieving over her lost children. </p> hardcover books
198538046.1n. p.: United Airlines 1985. 1st printing. Some light edgewear only in margins. A VG example. Broadside. Large image 20-3/4" x 17" of waterfall rushing through lush wild green scenery. Light yellow border with black lettering. 28" x 22" <br/><br/> United Airlines unknown books
199710152Seattle: Sasquatch Books. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 1570610746 . First printing. Faint stain to front board else fine in a fine dust jacket. . Sasquatch Books hardcover books
194612280Philadelphia: Westminster Press 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 148 pp illustrated with small woodcuts. Mild rubbing to edges some evidence of erasure on the dedication page. Tight binding unmarked text. Dust jacket has some chipping and small tears. Yong adult fiction based on "the perilous expedition of the fore-and-aft schooner United States to the arctic in 1860. Westminster Press hardcover books
