BLUE SKIES, BROWN STUDIES
Boston: Little, Brown, (1961). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 208. Illustrated with photographs. Travel essays. VG; no dj. More
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THE MOST SCENIC DRIVES IN AMERICA
Pleasantville NY: Readers' Digest, (2002). Ninth printing. Square 4to, pp. 400. Index. Illustrated with hundreds of color photographs and maps. Pictorial paper over boards. Cover little soiled, o/w a nice copy. Illustrating 120 tours in states across the U.S.A. More
TEMPLE REFLECTIONS
Albuquerque NM: Hummingbird Press, 1980. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 103. Illustrated with small drawings and with several photographs. Paper wraps. Cover and edges slightly spotted, o/w a nice copy. A memoir of travel to temples in Japan, Java, India, Iran, Sicily, and Greece. More
SHEPP'S PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE WORLD...; Representing the world as it exists to-day...Forming the largest and most unique collection of photographs ever published in one volume...
Philadelphia: Globe Bible, (1892). Horizontal 8vo, pp. 523. With 250 photographs of famous sites, from Windsor Castle, to temples of India, to Yosemite Valley. Each photo has a short, and sometimes slightly florid, comment on the scene. Sold by subscription only. Brown cloth, with pictorial stamping in black, lettering in..... More
THE TRAVELER'S READING GUIDE; Ready-made reading lists for the armchair traveler
NY: Facts on File, (1987). Revised and expanded edn. 8vo, pp. 831. A nice copy in little scuffed dj. A guide for reading before a trip--or for the arm-chair traveler. More
WONDERS OF THE WORLD; As seen and described by great writers
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1912. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 359. Illustrated with photographs. Green cloth, stamped in gilt. One hinge near tender, cover slightly bumped and scuffed at edges, o/w VG. Essays include, among many others, The Pyramids, by Arthur Stanley; The Wonders of Thebes, by H. D. Traill; The Aqueducts..... More
ESCAPE WITH ME!; An oriental sketch-book
NY: Harrison-Hilton Books, 1940. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 322. Illustrated with photographs. Cover little soiled, o/w VG. More
ESCAPE WITH ME; An oriental sketch-book
NY: Harrison-Hilton, 1940. First American edn. 8vo, pp. xxxvii, 322. Index. Illustrated wtih photographs. A VG tight copy in worn dj. Fifoot OA29b. Travels to Cambodia and China. More
THE FOUR CONTINENTS; Being more discursions on travel, art and life
NY: Harper & Brothers, (1954). Daniel Maloney. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 282. Illustrated by Daniel Maloney. Spine little faded, edges little soiled, o/w VG. Fifoot OA52b. Library stamp on bottom of the leaves. More
LONDON; Through the looking glass in colour
London: Eurasia, (1973). Second edition revised. 4to, pp. 137. Captions in English, French and German. Blue paper over boards, stamped in gilt. Cover little scratched and slightly scuffed at edges, owner's name on flyleaf, o/w a nice copy in scuffed and chipped dj. More
VILLAGE LIFE IN CHINA,; A study in sociology, with illustrations.
NY: Fleming, (1899). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 360 + adv. Bound in yellow cloth stamped in black and red. A very good tight copy. More
WITHOUT RESERVATIONS; The travels of an independent woman
NY: Random House, 2000. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 278. Small chip at top of cover, o/w a nice copy in slightly soiled dj. A Pulitizer writes as she travels. More
JOYFUL ERRAND
Cape Town: South African National Council for the Blind, 1959. Small 4to, pp. 448. Index. Foreword by E. G. Jansen. Includes an article by L. Van Schalkwijk on programs for the blind in South Africa. Illustrated with many photographs, some in color. Dark green leatherette over boards, stamped in gilt..... More
HEBRIDAN JOURNEY
London: Catholic Book Club, (1940). 8vo, pp. 276. Map on front endpapers. Tan cloth. Owner's name on half-title. Edges and cover spotted, hinges tender, o/w VG. More
THE ROMANTIC JOURNEY; The story of Thomas Cook and Victorian travel
NY: Harper & Row, (1974). First American edn. 4to, pp. 201 plus index. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Donor's presentation on flyleaf. VG in price-clipped and somewhat soiled dj. More
A RUSSIAN PAINTS AMERICA; The travels of Pavel P. Svin'in, 1811-1813
Montreal: McGill-Qween's University Press, (2008). 8vo, pp. x, 220. Notes, bibliography, index. Illustrated, some in color. Includes Svin'in's text about his travels, with annotations. As new in little scuffed dj. Pavel Petrovich Svin'in (1787/88-1839) was a painter, diplomat, and journalist who spent two years as part of the first Russian..... More
VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD; and visits to various foreign countries in the United States Frigate Columbia; Attended by her Consort, the Sloop of War John Adams, and Bearing the Broad Pennant of Commodore George C. Read, also including an account of the bombarding and firiing of the town of Muncie, on the Malay coast, and the visit of the ships to China during the opium difficulties at Canton, and confinement of the foreigners in that city. Two volumes in one.
New Haven: H. Mansfield, 1847. 9th edition. 8vo, pp.317; 331, [1], 2 ads pp. Illustrated, frontispieces (including a hand-colored stipple engraving of the Emperor of China). Thick octavo. Publisher's brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt, spine elaborately decorated in gilt (wear to the extremities), some foxing, a good copy..... More
MEMORIES OF THE CRUISE OF A LIFETIME AROUND THE WORLD; January -- April 1964
8vo, pp. various. A bound collection of a ship's newsletters during the cruise, illlustrated, a few in color. Paper over boards. A VG tight copy. More
THE KINGDOM BY THE SEA; A journey around Great Britain
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. First printing. 8vo, pp. 353. Map on endpapers. Author's signature on blank. Paper over boards with cloth spine. About fine in slightly scuffed dj. More
TRAVELLING SKETCHES; [Reprinted from the "Pall Mall Gazette".
London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 112. rig. sand-grained red cloth, bevelled boards, lettered in gilt; sl. marked, spine sl. faded. Name and address stamped at the top of the title-page, A very good copy.Trollope Society Catalogue 26. Sadleir 23. Eight essays exploring the characteristics of various..... More
ONE YEAR ABORAD; By the author of "One summer"
Boston: Osgood, 1877. First Edition. 12mo, pp. 247. Brown cloth, blind stamped and lettered in gilt. Donor's presentation on flyleaf. Hinges very tender, cover little worn at corners and ends of spine, o/w VG. A travel narrative. More
ROME; Painted by Alberto Pisa
London: A & C Black, (1925). Pisa, Alberto. Revised edition. 8vo, pp. 244. Index. With color reproductions of 32 paintings. Blue cloth. Front hinge tender, some foxing throughout, edges soiled, o/w VG. More
FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR.
Hartford: American Publishing Co, 1897. First edition, first state (single imprint, with signature mark on page 161 and terminal flyleaf). 8vo, pp. 712. With portrait frontispiece from a photograph of the author and 192 other illustrations by notable illustrators as A. B. Frost, Peter Newell and Dan Beard or from..... More
LIVINGSTONE LOST AND FOUND; or Africa and its explorers. A complete account of the country and its inhabitants, their customs, manners, &c of the prominent missionary stations, of the diamond and gold fields, and the explorations made; with a Comprehensive Sketch of Dr. David Livingstone, his travels, adventures, experiences and disappearance, and a most interesting account of his discovery by the American expedition in command of Henry M. Stanley. With over 100 illsutations and maps. Compiled by ...
Hartford: Mutual Publishing, 1873. First Edition? Thick 8vo, pp. 782. Bound in publisher's cloth (front himge loose), a good copy. More
LA PROVENCE
Fernand Nathan, 1960. 8vo, pp. 159. Illustrated paper over boards. Copiously illustrated, with commentary in French. Cover and edges soiled, o/w a VG tight copy. More