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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
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
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
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
2003215564n.p.: AAA Travel 2003. 28p. includes covers 10.75x8.5 inches landscape layout color photos breakdowns and prices of travel packages very good trade catalog booklet in stapled glossy pictorial wraps. California State Automobile Association guide and catalog. AAA Travel 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
38938n. p. n. d. 1st printing ca 1960s. Light edgewear. A VG example. Broadside. Large color photograph of a family enjoying the life-size statue of George Washington sculpted by Jean-Antoine Houdon in the Virginia Capitol building. 37-7/8" x 24-1/2" <br/><br/>This statue by Houdon is the only one Washington physically posed for. unknown books
59771Two un-edited first drafts of Claire's memories of his first meetings with Larry McMurtry and James Dickey. Written at Yaddo in the mid 1970's. unknown books
196731038Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Three hardbound octavos in dustwrappers. Sold here together. All are from this publisher's Latin American Travel series of books. 102 174 and 196 pp respectively. All three books were edited and with an introduction by C. Harvey Gardiner. Fine books in dustwrappers save for corner price-clips on all three. Southern Illinois University Press hardcover books
1903162Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Company 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 397 pp illustrations with frontispiece. This story follows journey of young Harry from Seattle to the arctic. Accompanied by illustrations from photographs from the arctic. Light wear to edges; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin Company 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
196114387London: The Adventurer's Club 1961. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 186 pp with map photographs. A clean tightly bound copy with no visible wear. Dust jacket is sunned at the spine and has light dust soiling to the rear panel but remains quite attractive; in a new mylar cover. At the age of 17 the author ran away from her school in Rome to join her uncle a member of the White Squadron--a multinational group of men who "battled against the ruthless Arab drug and slave traffickers in the remote areas of the Sahara and Libyan deserts." She remained with the Squaron for 4 years patrolling the desert on camel-back living "the tough life of a trooper" amd experiencing a variety of hardships and adventures which are recounted here. The Adventurer's Club hardcover books
1931LLV2250London:: Macmillan & Co. 1931-32. 1931. 3 issues. Small 4to. pp. 1053-88; 181-216; 413-448. Original self-wraps. Very good. Macmillan & Co.), 1931-32. paperback books
2004252558Stanhope: Memoir Club 2004. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. 464pp. Slight bumping to edges of dust jacket but dust jacket protected in a mylar cover; no markings of any kind. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Memoir Club unknown books
19822297London: AMS Press 1982. Hardcover. Fine. Undated facsimile reprint of the 1909 edition. xvi 296 pp illustrations with frontispiece index. Fine copy in black cloth spine lettered in gilt. No dust jacket. Includes chapters on Turks from the capital denizens of the palaces country folk holiday life mosques pilgrimage the harem system family ceremonies and other topics. AMS Press hardcover 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
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
189926955Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co 1899. "New Edition Revised and Corrected.". Dark blue binding with elaborate gilt decorations/lettering. TEG. Ribbon page marker. VG sq & tight/gilt bright/minor shelfwear/bpt/poi. 2 volumes vii 1 303; vii 1 318 pp including Index. Illustrated with inserted plates. Folding map at rear of Volume II. 8vo. <br/><br/> Henry T. Coates & Co unknown books
17419Quito Ecuador: Pan American Society of Tropical Research. Softcover. Fair. Undated but c. 1945 per OCLC. 90 pp in original printed wrappers. Complete but wappers heavily chipped and edgeworn with some staining along the spine small tears. Internals unmarked paper tanned. A vocabulary of the Quichua Quechua language with each word translated into Spanish and English. Pan American Society of Tropical Research paperback books
1929249716London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. 158pp. No pencil or ink markings in text; hardcover cloth binding with very light edge wear to extremities; front hinge is loose but board holding; spotting on front and rear boards; spine darkened; digital images can be made available upon request. Good binding. Victor Gollancz Ltd unknown books
19661780New York: George Braziller 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very Good. xv 240 pp illustrations. Bookplate on front pastedown some offsetting to endpapers; else fine. Dust jacket has some uneven discoloration from sun exposure an old sticker shadow and chipping to head of spine. "The dramatic story of a talented young American composer in the Paris of the early Fifties." George Braziller hardcover 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
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
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
197212074NY: Viking 1972. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Davies on the title page. Faint dampstain on the green topstain few soil spots on the botton edge; dustjacket with a touch of edgewear mostly at spine ends and corners beginning toning on flap top and bottom edges and a shallow crease on the rear flap. Tight bright copy. Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Second volume in Davies' Deptford Trilogy. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Viking Hardcover books
