NP [Tokyo?]: NP ND [ca. 1893?]. 12 hand-colored photos. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall (oblong). VG- in lacquer boards (upper cover detached, lower loosening). oblong 8vo [ 24]pp Series of original hand-colored photographic views taken in and aroun d Nagasaki, Japan, at the turn..... More
Yokohama, Japan: Fujiya Hotel Ltd. / Yamagata Press, 1964. Second Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" [26] + 591pp. including index. Illustrated throughout with 899 b/w line drawings and photo reproductions. Japanese stab binding with limp cloth covered boards, and mounted paper label on front cover; housed in..... More
London: Daniel O'Connor, 1922. 16 plates / 1 facsimile. First Thus. Original Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Very good (slight browning to cloth/endpapers). 4to xxiv+90+[2]+plate. Notable for the frontispiece portrait of Gay by Aikman, plus illustrations by Hogarth, et al. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Bound in..... More
Driggs, ID: Prodigious Press LLC, 2014. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Book is in Very good condition. First edition. Little to no visible shelf or handling wear. Text is clean with a tight spine. More
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1859. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" vii + 298pp., illustrated with 4 engraved plates including frontispiece. Original blue cloth with gilt illustrated spine. Cloth soiled and worn, spine ends frayed; a few signatures sprung, and page 211 has been repaired along the inner..... More
Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit, 1874. 12 photogravures/2 fold maps. Ninth Edition. 3/4 Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" iv,363,[1]pp+p Text in French. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco over dark red/black marbled boards, gilt-stamped and decorated spine, gray marbled endpapers, edges flecked red/brown. Spine title: Voyage: Australie. The first volume..... More
New York: Thompson & Moreau ND [ca. 1885]. few engr illus / fold map. Later Edition. Original Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A very good copy in cloth (slight rubbing/sunning to cloth; slight internal browning). 12mo xiii,[3],1 42pp Includes most European countries. Notable for the folding map..... More
New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1857. Fifth Edition, (revised). Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good in original red cloth stamped in gilt and blind (rubbing to cloth and joints; ex-library with markins). 408pp+plts "Originally written by J. Aspin, Esq. and now improved and adapted to the use..... More
New York: D. Appleton, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. small 8vo xii,421,[9]pp Concentration on Russia (and Moscow in particular), plus travels through most of Europe as well; particularly notable for the 3-page appendix ("Constitutional Government for Russia"). A very good copy in cloth (slight..... More
Kathmandu, Nepal: Ratna Pustak Bhandar, 1976. B/W Photographs, Illustrations and Folding Map. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Clean copy. Wear to dust jacket edges. More
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New York: American Subscription Pub. 1859. Illustrated by Num. hand-colored ills. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 2 volumes. Good in original gilt decorated red cloth (foxing and browning to text, cloth dull, spines chipped with tears and wear; boards rubbed and darkened) 500; 396+96pp., with 2..... More
Cairo, Egypt: Cairo Post Card Trust, 1900. B/W Photographs. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" (oblong). Original olive-green pictorial wraps with red silk ties, printed in gilt, red, green, and gray, oval photograph tipped-on front cover (minor wear). Issued by the Cairo Post Card Trust ("No. 984"..... More
London: Fisher & Son, & Co., 1836. B/w Engraved Plates. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Publisher's green leather over green cloth boards, spine and covers elaborately decorated in gilt, covers embossed in blind (binding rubbed; minor stains to front cover; text and plates foxed)..... More
Philadelphia: M. Carey / For sale by Wells & Lilly, 1816. First American Edition. Disbound. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Good in leather (lacks covers; spine/prelims worn). 8vo 364 First American issue; originally published in Great Britain in 1815. Howes USIANA C-326: "A luminous preface sketches maritime discovery..... More
New York: Tiebout and O'Brien for Benjamin Gomez, 1796. 16 Engraved Plates. Early American Edition. Full Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Volume II only of this rare early American edition. This volume deals primarily with Hawaii and Alaska. [3], vi-xii, 359, [1] p., [16] leaves of plates. Period..... More
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Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons Ltd, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 293; 324pp., with 7 b/w illustrated plates, and one fold-out map (all accounted for). Original tan cloth with brown stamped titles and decorations to both volumes. Wear and soiling to the cloth (vol..... More
Berlin: Christian Friedrich Voss und Sohn, 1790. First German Edition. Leather Binding. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 314pp. Complete with thirteen plates and a large folding frontispiece map, this copy without the 'notes to the binder' leaf mentioned by Forbes. In a contemporary binding of quarter polished calf..... More
N.Y. Columbian Pub Co, 1891. 3 engr plates (inc frontis). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fair to good (spine wear; upper cover/sig detached). Tall 12mo 132+plates " Seal Edition" (spine). Author's extensive travels in central and eastern Africa. Scarce. More
N.Y. & London: Putnam's Sons, 1885. First Edition. Leather Binding. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ix+[1]+212pp. Contains 5 etchings of Sicilian locales. Bound in gilt stamped dark brown morocco, fore- and bottom edges uncut. Rubbing to the leather at teh corners and spine; scattered foxing throughout. More
New York: H. Dayton, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" vi + 473pp. + 4 pages of ads at the back. Original dark purple pebbled cloth, with gilt titles on spine. Light fading to spine, some rippling to the top corners of the first 100 or..... More
New York: Worthington Company, 1891. Over 100 Engraved Illustrations (including frontispieces, etc). First Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. x+331+[1]10pp; plus plates, With 5 full page plates. Wear to corners, and rubbing to the cloth; endpapers browned, else a fairly good copy. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. B/w Illustrations. First American Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Original mustard-yellow cloth stamped in black (chip to top of spine with fraying to spine tips, residue of old tape mend, minor foxing, edges browned). More
London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co., 1824. Second Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" This edition, the second in English, is the first to present all three volumes of Golovnin’s narrative as a set. iv, lxxxix, 315; 356, [ii]; viii, 302pp., pluis one leaf of ads at..... More
London: J. Mitchell, 1853. Over 40 Color & b/w Illustrations. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 4to. [4]+299 +[1]pp Uncredited English translation. Printed in Paris by J. Claye and Company. Contains 6 hand-colored costume plates, 1 hand-colored map ("Duchy of Baden") and 13 steel-engraved..... More
Edinburgh: T. Nelson and Sons, 1854. Color Lithograph Plates. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 339pp., with a double-page color frontis lithograph of St. Petersburg, and a double-page color lithograph of Moscow at the center of text. The Moscow plate is often lacking. Rebound in..... More
