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
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
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: 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
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
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
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
New York: Hunt & Eaton, 1892. B/w Frontis. First Edition, Later Printing. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very good copy in original brick-red cloth stamped in gilt (slight wear; nick to corner of front endppaer; front inner hinge tender). More
