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186920752London: Tinsley Brothers 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 8vo pp xii 443; viii 478 2 ads each with engraved frontispiece and title page vignette folding map in Volume II. Publisher's green cloth ruled in blind with gilt figure on each front board. Account of Burton's journey from Rio to the rich mining area of Minas Gerais via Tres Barras River Velhas Penedond Paulo Afonso Falls. He canoed down the entire 3000 kilometer length of the previously uncharted Sao Francisco River to the Atlantic. Borba de Moraes I p. 110; Penzer pp. 78-79. Corners bumped some scuffing to upper spines foxing to first and last few leaves of each volume. With the bookplates of British Civil Engineer Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt we believe prominent early Los Angeles physician Walter Lindley and his son Francis Haynes Lindley. Tinsley Brothers 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
196739680n. p. 1967. 1st printing presumed. Modest edgewear and age-toning to paper. An About VG copy. Broadside. Large color photographic image of Libertador San Martin Square Glory Hill and the Monument to the Army of the Andies monument to the General San Martin. 17-1/2" x 16-1/2" <br/><br/>1967 was designated the International Year of Tourism by the World Tourism Organization with the slogan “Passport to Peace” dating this poster circa 1967. 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
38832n. p.: Qantas Airlines Printed in Australia by S. T. Leigh & Co n. d. 1st printing ca. 1960s. Some light edgewear sunning to rear edges. A VG example. Broadside. Four large color photographic images featuring a "Surfboat Crew in Action at Cronulla Beach Sydney" "A Saturday Afternoon Sydney Harbour" "The Porpoise Pool at Tweed Heads New South Wales" and "Water Ski-ing on the Hawkesbury River Near Sydney". 39-3/8" x 25" <br/><br/> Qantas Airlines, Printed in Australia by S. T. Leigh & Co unknown books
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2013UFODFOD00CCWFodor's 2013. Fine. Fodor's Travel Publications Inc. COR. Fodor's New York City 2013. New York: Fodor's 2013. 541pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine. Fodor's paperback books
WELLER9781101879948New. New book. 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
19243357Kentucky Wisconsin Illinois Kansas Minnesota Ohio Wyoming Michigan South Dakota Colorado 1924. Red leather sheep over card ornately stamped in gilt. Album measures 8 x 9.75 inches and is comprised of 108 manuscript pages in a variety of hands with multiple entries per page. Also includes two pasted-in newspaper clippings and a series of loosely inserted ephemera two obituary clippings for the book's owner five calling cards a church bulletin a gown ad an envelope with a death notice of a friend and a car rental flyer from Oklahoma. Tracing the life of Laura Nethers nee Earl from her girlhood and marriage to her old age. Obituaries and census records show that Laura was a resident of Colorado Springs for 56 years following her family's move from the South through the Western US.<br/><br/>The inscription to the first page of the album reveals it to be a gift: "1860. A Christmas gift from father. Covington KY." Above this is the ownership stamp of Laura L. Earl. Little did Laura know the album would follow her across 64 years and to a variety of states documenting her relationships and major moments in her life. For researchers it is an opportunity to trace a woman's development from one century to the next across multiple states in the South and West as she grew into a teacher wife and woman's club activist. Growing up in Kentucky Laura's family moved West. Entries show that she and her father lived awhile in Minnesota and she became a teacher in Wisconsin before marrying and settling in Colorado Springs. Entries come from family pastors students neighbors and friends. Many entries show women's bonds across large stretches of space and together they show what a mobile lifestyle women were increasingly living. No longer confined so a small radius or single homestead they were maintaining relationships and making friends across the miles. <br/><br/>Some early entries like that of Celia E. Hay Illinois 1878 are traditional in nature: "Over our hearts and into our lives shadows may sometimes fall But the sunshine is never wholly dead And heaven is shadowless overhead And God is over all." Students politely thank her for her work and hope they made an impact too: "I ever remain your true friend James U. Cobb. To Miss Laura Earl much Respected Teacher Ellensboro Wisconsin Feb 25 1872." People write poetic verses on friendship or her new marriage throughout.<br/><br/>Yet more often entries are personal. In 1879 Laura's father leaves her a humorous message that "It is ten o'clock and your sixty-one year old father expects a long trip to the Injun Reservation two hundred miles north in the morning.So you see I cannot write any tonight." Elva Walker writes from Colorado in 1885 "We will ever remember our camping trip.and going in a cave" and John Dietrich writes of the same trip "Did it rain while we were camping! I hope we will meet again soon." In August 1919 a friend Emma Eggleston writes an original piece about their recent travel titled Pike's Peak by Auto which begins "19 and 19 was a year to remember from the last of July to the last of September" and which documents in 36 verses the landscapes they passed and the friendship they strengthened while driving. Moments like these are a reminder of changing times -- of early attitudes toward indigenous tribes or of women's freedom as suffrage approached. <br/><br/>A charter member of the Colorado Women's Club and a participant in Frances Willard's Women's Christian Temperance Union according to her obituary Laura's friendship album is a rich space for researchers to trace her movements through communities in the West for genealogists to study the families and lives of contributors and for historians to track which entries come from other educated women and activists. The present is one of the best we've seen. unknown books
38238n. p.: Pan American World Airways n.d. 1st printing ca 1963 inferred from a Pan Am ad campaign the same year featuring the same image. Some edgewear. A VG example. Broadside. Full color image of internationally known golfer Gene Sarazen sitting astride a white donkey with his clubs in a basket to his right smiling out at a lush green gold course on a sunny day. Poster identifies him as "Gene Sarazen" in black lettering and has the title and Pan Am logo printed in white. 42" x 28" <br/><br/> Pan American World Airways 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
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
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
14710London: Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. Hardcover. Very good. Square 16mo 112 pp plus 13 blank pages at the back for memoranda and log; many photographic illustrations including 2 folding panoramas a folding color map and a table of distances. Early owner's inscription on the front free endpaper; short tear to the fold of one parorama; all else very good or better in original green cloth. The "South American Route" begins in Spain and Portugal proceeding to Madeira Teneriffe St. Vincent Fernando de Noronha Pernambuco Bahia Rio Santos Sao Paolo Monte Video Buenos Ayres etc. Descriptive information history commerce landscape tourist excursions etc is provided on each locale. There is also a list at the end of more than 50 books on South America recommended for the education of travelers including works of history and geography fiction travel narratives dictionaries emigrant's guides and statistics on commerce and natural resources. An uncommon guidebook; 7 copies located in OCLC. Royal Mail Steam Packet Company hardcover books
38060n. p.: United Airlines n. d. 1st printing ca. 1960s. Light edgewear small tear to upper left corner. A VG example. Broadside. Full size image of bemused Hawaiian woman in white and yellow orchid lei with a yellow orchid in her hair staring directly into camera. 40" x 25" <br/><br/> United Airlines unknown books
38066n. p.: United Airlines n. d. 1st printing ca. 1980s. Light edgewear rubbing to corners. Bottom right corner bumped. A VG example. Broadside. Large image depicting lush wildlife purple orchid and Hawaiian tiki statue. Below small images of posters depicting the different islands are presented. Title printed in orange and blue. 28" x 22" <br/><br/> United Airlines unknown books
38100n. p.: Northwest Orient Airlines n. d. 1st printing ca. 1980s. Light edgewear. A VG example. Broadside. Large blocks of images featuring Hawaii beaches a golf course exotic flowers a waterfall and the U. S. S. Arizona memorial. Title printed in teal and red lettering to top white background. 40" x 25" <br/><br/> Northwest Orient Airlines unknown books
197738053n. p.: United Airlines 1977. 1st printing. Some light edgewear in margins. A VG example. Broadside. Large image 31" x 21" of stunning Hawaiian beauty in orange bathingsuit gazing into wild foliage. Title printed in orange lettering to white background. 40" x 25" <br/><br/> United Airlines unknown books
197838058n. p.: United Airlines 1978. 1st printing presumed. Some edgewear in margins. A VG example. Broadside. Large image 30-1/2" x 21" of smiling Hawaiian beauty staring directly to camera from behind palm fronds. White border printed with "Hawaii" in red lettering. 40" x 25" <br/><br/> United Airlines unknown books
38052n. p.: United Airlines n. d. 1st printing ca. early 1980s. Some edgewear and light rolling wear evident. A VG example. Broadside. Large image 30" x 20-1/2" of turbulent waves crashing against a rocky beach covered in lush greenery and palm trees. Image sits on a white background with title printed in black. 40" x 25" <br/><br/> United Airlines unknown books
197638039n. p.: United Airlines 1976. 1st printing. Very light edgewear. A VG example. Broadside. Full size image 28" x 22" of Hawaiian lady in yellow dress smiling directly into camera. 28" x 22" <br/><br/> United Airlines unknown books
197637999n. p.: United Airlines 1976. 1st printing. Some light edgewear only in margins. A VG example. Broadside. Large image 27-1/2" x 21" of Hawaiian lady staring directly into camera. 40" x 25" <br/><br/> United Airlines unknown books
38059n. p.: United Airlines n. d. 1st printing ca. 1970s. Light edgewear in margins. A VG example. Broadside. Large image 27" x 23" of 3 lavender/purple orchids in full bloom in front of a dark green backdrop. Lettering printed in purple on a white background. 40" x 25" <br/><br/> United Airlines unknown books
