Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1900. Maps & plans. Fourteenth Revised Edition. Limp cloth. 16mo, red limp cloth with glt lettering & blind-stamping, illustrated with 45 maps and 25 plans of towns, xxxiv + 448 pages. A useful pre-WW I guide that appeared before so many sites in Germany were destroyed. Clean... More
London Boulder New York Toronto Plymouth, UK: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008. Color photographs. First Edition. Boards. 4to, cinnamon boards, profusely illustrated with color photographs, map endpapers, viii + 280 pages. A wonderfully illustrated travelogue and retracing of the great trek into the enormity of Mongolian-controlled China under Kublai... More
New York: Metro Books, 2008. First Edition. Cloth. Small 8vo (7 5/8" x 4 7/8"), blue buckram over boards with silver lettering on spine and cover, profusely illustrated with gray-blue images on light beige paper, 160 pages. Charlotte Booth is an archaeologist who has given lectures and guided many tours... More
Seattle: Educare Press, 2001. Maps. First Edition. Boards. 8vo, brown boards with gold stamping on spine and cover, 6 color plates of maps & 13 B&W illustrations, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a galleon, xxiv + [4] + 188 pages. Exceptional condition for this highly informative study. More
Philadelphia: Crawford & Co., Publishers, 1881. Profusely illustrated with B&W engravings. First American Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Tall 8vo, brown embossed cloth with gilt decorative spine & black decorated cover, engraved double-frontispiece of David Livingston & Henry M. Stanley, profusely illustrated with B&W full page engravings & intra-texual vignettes..... More
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Florence: Giannini & Son, 1931. Photographs. First Edition. Quarter leather and marbled boards. 12mo, tooled and gilt-stamped quarter calf over decorative boards with small green, gold, and beige lozenges, engraved frontispiece sketch map of the Casentino [with depictions of buildings in Poppi, Romena, Castiglion Fibocchi, Bibbiena, and other sites], 28... More
Lincolnwood, Illinois: Passport Books / National Textbook Company, 1988. Alisa Mueller Burkey. First Edition. Cloth and boards. 8vo, brown cloth with gold lettering on spine over tan boards, illustrated with 15 B&W maps for walking by Alisa Mueller Burkey, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket set in an English village with Sherlock... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1972. Photographs. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, ocean blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, illustrated with several B&W photos and maps, with an Epilogue by THOR HEYERDAHL, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a Swedish yellow viking ship against a deep blue background, map endpapers..... More
New York Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1937. First American Edition. Cloth. 8vo, green cloth with gold lettering on spine, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket with colorful map,full color glossy photo of primitive art as frontispiece 24 B&W engravings in text, [viii] + [1-2] + 3-408 pages. EXCEPTIONAL COPY internally & externally! Ford... More
London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1914. Photographs. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, tan cloth with embossed blue-&-tan cover sketch of the author on a burrow, frontispiece & 15 B&W glossy photographs by Underwood & Underwood, xi + 321 pages PLUS the large folding map of "The Amazon River" (no tears). By... More
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Paris: Vigor Freres, 1939. Photographs. First Wrappered Edition. Wrappers. 8vo (7 3/4" x 9 3/4"), photographic illustrations, 46 pp. Text in French/Texte en français. Excellent account with useful photographic illustrations of the author's visits to sites in Tahiti and the Marquesa Islands frequented by Paul Gauguin. Scarce, tight, and clean copy... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1873. Steel engravings. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. 8vo, original publisher's blue decorative gilt cloth, frontispiece and 23 full page steel-engraved illustrations (most with tissue guards) plus 128 smaller in-text engravings & a folding engraved map of Santo Domingo, brown endpapers, [i-vii], vii-xvi, [xvii-xxi], xxii-xxix... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / A Peter Davison Book, 1991. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Tall and thick 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold spine lettering over beige boards, several detailed maps as chapter headings, Mylar-protected dust jacket (unclipped) with watercolor of prairie beneath lowering skies, map endpapers of Chase... More
London & New York: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1906. Joseph Pennell. Reprinted One Volume Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Thick crown 8vo, red cloth with gilt lettering and engraved castello [Montepulciano?] atop a mount on front cover, 120 B&W illustrations and plates by Joseph Pennell, top edges gilt, 658pp, index... More
An Exploration of the Southern, Realm from Itchen to Otter: Robert Scott, N.D. [c.1922]. Edric Homes; M.M. Vigers. First Edition: from "The English Countryside" Series. Cloth. Small 8vo (7 5/8" x 5 1/4"), publisher's original green buckram with gilt lettering and tudor roses on spine, profusely illustrated with 12 full-page... More
Washington -- New York: Joseph J. Binns Publisher, 1977. Walter Imber. First Edition. Cloth. Small folio, beige buckram with brown lettering on spine & stylized Maori face on the front cover, profusely illustrated with color and B&W photos taken by Walter Imber, several experts have contributed essays (R. B. Rains..... More
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. First American Edition. Cloth. Oblong 8vo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering on spijne, with a colour reproduction of "Canterbury Cathedral from the Stour" by Dan Sherrin laid down on the cover, profusely illustrated in color and B&W with reproductions of paintings and other artwork..... More
London: Sidgwick & Jackson. Cloth. Oblong 8vo, blue cloth with photo of Renoir's "A View of Cagnes" laid down, profusely illustrated in color and B&W, Mylar-protected dust jacket with another photograph of Renoir's painting, 256 pages. Exceptional Condition and a most attractively illustrated volume. Great Gift Book! More
Tokyo: Board of Tourist Industry / Japanese Government Railways, [March] 1941. Folding engraved maps. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Cloth. 12mo, reddish cloth with black lettering on spine and cover, profusely illustrated with folding colored maps, 898 pages. All folding maps present in this Very Rare edition published just as Pearl... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931. John Dos Passos. First Trade Edition. Wrappers. INSCRIBED & SIGNED Copy by John Dos Passos, the Translator-&-Illustrator, 4to (9 1/2" H x 7 3/4" W), tan pictorial wrappers with colored scene of a port with ships by Dos Passos, Translator's Foreword... More
New York: Random House, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with silver lettering on spine over black boards, an archival quality clear plastic cover protects the photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a bare-chested man on... More
New York Evanston London: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968. Mircea Vasiliu. First Edition. Cloth. SIGNED by the Author on the decorative half title, 8vo, blue-gray cloth with red lettering dominant & black plus a red compass rose on the front cover, illustrated with several full page and in-text B&W drawings..... More
Miami, Florida: E. A. Seemann Publishing, Inc., [1976]. Photos. First Edition. Boards. SIGNED by both Authors, red boards, profusely illustrated with B&W photos of Chicago, photographic dust jacket (clipped) of city scenes, pictorial endpapers of a bird's-eye view of the city, 204 pages. Excellent Condition internally; dust jacket has become... More
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929. Later Edition. Cloth. 12mo, blue cloth with gilt traveller on spine, Mylar-protected tan dust jacket with traveller emblem on cover, [224] pages + [6] adverts. In this condition, this is a Scarce Lawrence title. A lively series of travel narratives, it was... More
Erie, PA. A-No1 Publishing Company, 1917. Seventh Edition. Wrappers. 12mo [7 5/8" x 5 1/8"], thick pictorial wrappers printed in black and red with oval inset photo of Jack London beside the author, numerous black & white line drawing illustrations throughout, 136 pages. Scarce title in any edition. A larger... More