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 about Japanese Photo Book
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 about We Japanese Being Descriptions of Many of the Customs, Manners, Ceremonies, Festivals, Arts and...
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 about The Big Bucks Guide to Shipping Out As a Merchant Seaman
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 about Australie: Voyage Autour du Monde / par le Comte de Beauvoir
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 about Bischoff's "America Abroad": A Guide for American Tourists in Europe
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 about A View of the World, as Exhibited in the Manners, Costumes, & Characteristics of All Nations
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 about Roundabout to Moscow: An Epicurean Journey
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 about Diary of a Journey Across Tibet
Stanley Publishing, 1889. Illustrated by with many b/w Plates, Monochrome 'color' Plates. First Edition, Later Printing. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 800pp., Original blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, silver, red, and black. Inner hinges splitting, text block shaken, some darkening and wear to cloth, else a Good... More about Stanley in Africa. The Wonderful Discoveries and Adventures of the Great African Explorer and...
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 about Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor &c. Illustrated in a Series of Views. First [First series
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 about Recollections of Italy, England and America: With Essays on Various Subject s, in Morals and...
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 about A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean; for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere : performed...
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1910. B/w Illustrations. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A stunning copy of this two-volume set, essentially perfect copies in the original red cloth, elaborately decorated in gilt with grape leaf motifs, top edges gilt; original blue cloth jackets and publisher's matching... More about The Mediterranean and Its Borderlands
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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 about At Home in Fiji [2 Volume Set
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 about Palermo: A Christmas Story
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 about Our Boys in Ireland
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 about The Sacred 5 of China
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 about A Summer at Baden-Baden
New York / London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Octavo, xxiv, 940, + [4]pp. publisher's advertisements, with 2 frontispiece portraits and 188 illustrations plus 13 plates and 5 folding maps. Original decorated Dark grey blue cloth, gilt titles and white/grey... More about A Thousand Days In The Arctic
London & Glasgow: Collins, 1911. B/w Illustrations. Early Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Early English reissue of this classic 1911 narrative (first published by Chatto & Windus) a feminine life in Turkey. Original red cloth stamped in gilt (slight wear; some browning to text; erasure from... More about Behind Turkish Lattices (Collins' Wide World Library
Buffalo, New York: Matthews, Northrup & Co. / Southern Pacific Company. 1890. Duotone, Monochrome, and b/w Illustrations. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Quite scarce. Original brown pictorial wraps stamped in gilt, red and brown, Southern Pacific logo on rear cover (spine chipped; some staining and wear... More about West by South. Half South
London: John Ollivier, 1845. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" xi+[1]+423pp., plus litho frontispiece and plate. Original green cloth, with gilt titles and decoration. " Fourth edition" (so stated on title page); originally published in 1844. Boards are heavily worn, cloth stained and faded in places, and... More about Eothen
Stuttgart und Augsburg: J.G. Cotta'fcher, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Two volumes. 576pp., together. Text in German. "Travel in Canada, and Through the Countries of New York and Pennsylvania." Very Good in quarter calf over paste-paper boards. 19th-century ex-library marks, remnants of library labels... More about Reisen in Canada, und durch die Staaten von New York und Pennsylvanien. [travel in Canada, New...
A La Haye (The Hague): P. Husson, et al, 1724. First Thus. Leather Binding. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First duodecimo edition in six volumes: xxii + [4] + 504pp.; [4] + 576pp.; [2] + 528pp.; [4] + 539pp.; [4] + 504pp.; [2] + 514 + [58]pp. Index... More about Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de l'Amerique, Contenant l'Histoire Naturelle de ces pays, l'Origine,......
London: John Murray, 1825. First Edfition. Leather Binding. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Attractively bound in three quarter black calf over marbled boards, with plain orange endpapers. Rubbing along the edges, especially at the corners and along the spine; light foxing and offsetting from the plates, else overall a.... More about A Brief Narrative Of An Unsuccessful Attempt To Reach Repulse Bay, Through Sir Thomas Rowe's...
