New York: Random House, 1937. Photos by authors. First Edition. Cloth. Small 4to (9 1/8" x 6 1/8"), beige buckram with green & off-white pictorial printed paper labels on spine and front cover, illustrated with 58 B&W photos by the authors, includes Auden's lengthy "Letter to Lord Byron" & an..... More
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
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
London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1927. B&W Photos. First British Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Thick royal 8vo, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and embossed Ashanti masked man on front cover, iilustrated with B&W glossy frontispiece (the figure on front cover) & 23 plates of Ashanti and..... 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
London: Spring Books, N.D. Photos. Reprint. Cloth. Small 4to (9 3/4" x 7"), black cloth with gold lettering on spine, illustrated with glossy B&W frontispiece and 91 similar plates (some 2 images/page), archival mylar-protected color photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a statue of Perseus on Pegasus foregrounding the Eifel Tower..... 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: The Limited Editions Club, 1953. Edy LeGrand. First Edition: Copy #431 of 1,500. Decorative cloth. Small quarto (10 1/2" x 7 1/2"), rough beige linen with brown Arabic motives and an image on the cover of a man mounted on a camel superimposed on a map line running..... More
New York: Random House / World Landmark Books, 1958. Clarence Doore; photographs. First Edition. Pictorial cloth. 8vo, pale green decorative cloth with red lettering on spine, cover, and compass rose on cover, illustrated by Clarence Doore with B&W in-text drawings plus 12 pages of glossy B&W photographs of mountain scenes..... 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
Kathmandu, Nepal: Ratna Pustak Bhandar: Bibliotheca Himalayica, 1979. Photos and maps. Second Edition. Cloth. 8vo, blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting the mountain in a pinkish glow, Introduction to this 2nd edition by conservationist Dr. Harka B. Gurung, illustrated with 2 large..... 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 / Paperback. 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..... More