THE CONDOR AND THE COWS,; a South American travel-diary. Frontispiece and photographs by William Caskey.
NY: Random House, (1949). First printing. 8vo, pp. 217. Illustrated with photographs. Cover little worn, o/w VG. More
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THE MEXICAN GUIDE; With three maps I. The Republic of Mexico II. The City of Mexico III. Environs of the City of Mexico.
NY: Scribner's Sons, 1900. This seems to be a reprint of the fourth edition on 1889. Small 8vo, pp. 531. Bound in flexible green cloth, stamped in gilt. A very good copy. Not in BAL which lists the first 4 editions of 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889. This edition was revised..... More
TOCQUEVILLE; A biography
NY: Farraar Straus Giroux, (1989). Second printing. 8vo, pp. 550. Bibliographical note, index. Translated by Lydia Davis, with Robert Hemenway. Top edge slightly spotted, several leaves bumped at upper corners, o/w a nice copy in scuffed dj. More
HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS FROM THE ST. LAWRENCE TO VIRGINIA
NY: Macmillan, 1913. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xi, 340. Illustrated with photos by the author. Ex library; bookplate and pocket removed. VG. More
THE LAND OF HEATHER
NY: Macmillan, (1909). Third printing. Small 8vo, pp. xii, 258. Illustrated with photographs and drawings by the author. Owners' names and bookplate on endpapers. Frontis separate, edges somewhat spotted, cover scuffed and little worn at corners and ends of spine, o/w VG. More
BURMA; Painted & described
London: Black, 1912. Second printing. 8vo, pp. 261. Illustrated with 75 color plates of the author's paintings. Maroon cloth, elaborately stamped in gilt, green and red of peacock's in gilt on a purple cover. Cover somewhat faded on spine and little scuffed at corners, o/w a nice tight copy. More
JOURNAL; in two volumes.
Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard, 1835. First US Edn. 8vo,pp. 252 + adv, 218 + adv. Untrimmed in original muslin with worn paper label. Spine faded and some foxing, front cover of volume one separate, name stamp on front pastedown, a good set. Howes B-1051, Robinson pp 240-41. This edition..... More
LONDON FOR THE LITERARY PILGRIM
London: Rockliff, (1949). First Edition. 8vo, pp. x, 237. Index. Illustrated with photographs. VG in worn dj. More
WEST AFRICAN STUDIES; with (24) illustrations and maps
London: Macmillan, 1899. First Edition. Thick 8vo, pp. 639. Bound in green cloth (front hinge starting, rear tender). A very good clean copy. Folding map in the rear. More
ADVENTURES OF TWO YOUTHS IN A JOURNEY TO SIAM AND JAVA; With descriptions of Cochin-China, Cambodia, Sumatra and the Malay Archipelago
NY: Harper, 1881. Large 8vo, pp. 446. Heavily illustrated with engravings. Yellow cloth with decorative stamping in silver, red and black. Cover somewhat worn, a few pages loose in front, o/w VG. Basically the author's account, for young people, of some of his travels. Digressions are added: the story of..... More
THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA; Adventures of two youths in a journet to the Sadwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan, and Feejee Islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand.....
NY: Harper, 1889. First Edition. Large 8vo, pp. 538. Profusely illustrated with black & white images, chromolithographic frontispiece of Mount Kosciusko by C. Graham, end paper maps. Front hinge little tender, cover little soiled, o/w VG. More
THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN SOUTH AMERICA; Adventures of two youths in a journey through Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia...
NY: Harper, (1885). Large 8vo, pp. 510. Profusely illustrated with engravings. Color frontis, maps on endpapers. Decorative cover in brown cloth, stamped in black, dark brown, gray and gilt. Cover slightly worn at edges, o/w a VG tight copy. More
ETRUSCAN PLACES
NY: Viking, 1932. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 198. Illustrated with photographs. Front flyleaf missing, one hinge tender, cover somewhat scuffed and worn, o/w VG. More
NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS; With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or Devil Worshippers; and an Enquiry Into the Manners of the Ancient Assyrians
NY: George P Putnam, 1849. First US edn. 8vo, pp.(viii, 326 p., plates (some folded); 373 p., plates (some folded). Bound in publisher's brown cloth (rebaked with red binder's tape, ex-library copies with booklates, etc. Name on title page (Geo. Thacher). Extensively illustrated with approximately 100 full-page, folding, double-page and..... More
FILIBUSTERS IN BARBARY
NY: National Travel Club, 1932. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 308. 1/1000 copies. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Black cloth, stamped in gilt. A nice copy. Morrow & Latourcade A16b. Travels in Morocco and the Sahara. More
THE IMMORTAL ADVENTURE
NY: Macaulay, (1928). 8vo, pp. 279. Introduction by Dr. Stephen S. Wise. Illustrated with photographs by J. Benor-Kalter. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt. cover somewhat worn, o/w VG. Travels through Palestine. "A Jewish Soul's book of Zion." An American Zionist's travels in the BritishMandate of Palestine, and her observations on..... More
NEW LIFE IN NEW LANDS:; Notes of travel by Grace Greenwood.
NY: J. B. Ford, 1873. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 413, 8pp of adv. Pictorial cloth, a nice bright copy. Flake 4946, Paher 728, Cowan, p. 249, Currey & Kruska 239. Beginning in Chicago, Lippincott traveled west by train to Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Calif. and back. Some of these letters appeared..... More
LIVINGSTONE'S TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA;; Including a Sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the River Zambesi, to the eastern ocean. From the personal narrative of David Livingstone, LL.D., D.C.L., Fellow of the faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow; Corresponding member of the Geographical and Historical Society of New York; Gold medallist and corresponding member of the Royal Geographical Societies of London and Paris, etc. etc. To which is added A Historical Sketch of Discoveries in Africa. Illustrated with numerous engravings."
Philadelphia: Bradley, Boston: Crown, 1858. First edition, thus. 8vo, pp. 440 + adv. Bound in drab brown cloth, little worn, some light foxing, a very good copy. Illustrated. More
MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA;; Including a Sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the River Zambesi, to the eastern ocean. by ... Fellow of the faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow; Corresponding member of the Geographical and Historical Society of New York; Gold medallist and corresponding member of the Royal Geographical Societies of London and Paris, etc. etc. To which is added A Historical Sketch of Discoveries in Africa. Illustrated with portraits, maps by Arrowsmith; and numerous illustrations.
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1858. First edition. 8vo, pp. 732 + adv. Bound in drab brown cloth, cloth cut along the hinge, end papers stained, illustrated with plates and a map. A good copy. Mendelssohn III 136. cfGarrison & Morton 5269. cfGay 3034. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 341..... More
MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA;; Including a Sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the River Zambesi, to the eastern ocean. by ... Fellow of the faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow; Corresponding member of the Geographical and Historical Society of New York; Gold medallist and corresponding member of the Royal Geographical Societies of London and Paris, etc. etc. To which is added A Historical Sketch of Discoveries in Africa. Illustrated with portraits, maps by Arrowsmith; and numerous illustrations.
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1858. First edition. 8vo, pp. 732 + adv. Bound in leather backed boards, rubbed along the hinges, bookplate, end papers toned, hinge starting, illustrated with plates and a map (well worn at the folds). Just a good copy. Mendelssohn III 136. cfGarrison & Morton 5269. cfGay..... More
FIRESIDE TRAVELS
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885. 12mo, pp. 282. Blue cloth. [The Riverside Aldine series.] Cover slightly worn at edges, o/w a nice copy. Reminiscences about his travels. More
BOROUGH OF ST. EDMUNDSBURY; "Shrine of a king, cradle of the law"
St. Edmundsbury: St. Edmundsbury Borough Council, (1976). 8vo, pp. 197. With ads and index to advertisers. Copiously illustrated with color photographs, maps, and plans. Maroon paper over boards, stamped in gilt. Cover slightly spotted, owner's name and address on pastedown, o/w a nice copy. More
HOME LIFE ON AN OSTRICH FARM; with ten illustrations.
NY: Appleton, 1891. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 288 + adv. Bound in orange cloth stamped in black and gilt. A very good tight copy. 'An account of life in the Karoo, in the "Zwart Ruggens" country near Port Elizabeth. The writer accompanied her husband to South Africa in 1881..... More
PEOPLE OF THE REEDS
NY: Harper, (1957). First American edn. 8vo, pp. x, 224. Illustrated with photographs. Top edges slightly spotted, o/w a VG tight copy in chipped and faded dj. The author's travels among the marsh dwellers of southern Iraq. More
THE ARCTIC DESERT.
Berkeley, CA: Sand Dollar, 1975. First edn. 1/400 copies. Paper wraps. Small 8vo, pp. 36. Author's inscription to the poet Paul Metcalf. VG. Meditations on travels in Norway, Sweden and Iceland. More