ONE HUNDRED AND ONE VIEWS: MANCHESTER AND DISTRICT
London: Rock Bros. Ltd. Hard Cover. No pencil or ink markings in text. Light soiling at side and bottom edges of front board. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration; NOT Ex-Library.
Travel and Adventure
The Route Book Of Devon: A Guide For the Stranger & Tourist To The Towns, Watering Places, and Other Interesting Localities of this County. With Maps of the Roads, County of Devon, and Plans of Exeter, Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse.
Exeter: Henry Besley, circa 1850. Hard Cover. A New Edition. Original cloth with gilt decoration. Four folding maps or plans as called for, plus an additional folding plan of Torquay; illustrated with 26 steel engraved plates in vignette. Some moderate...
TAHITI, WITHOUT THE GOSPEL.
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, [1833]. Quarter Leather. First Edition. First Edition of the American Sunday-School Union’s Tahiti, Without the Gospel, a colonial view of the ‘uncivilized’ culture of pre-contact Tahiti, with a short section on “tatauing” (pp. 200-205), or tattooing.....
TOKYO. SECTION IV. (ONE VOLUME)
J. B. Millet Company, [1897]. Folio. Hard Cover. Limited “Tokyo” Edition. Volume IV only of a ten volume set. Japan, published by the J. B. Millet Company, with descriptions of Japanese history, society, everyday street scenes, and other commentaries. The.....
WONDERS OF JAPAN. A PORTFOLIO OF VIEWS IN THE ENCHANTED BAMBOO-LAND.
New York: The Hobart Company, 1904. Hard Cover. The Hobart Company’s Wonders of Japan; A Portfolio of Views in the Enchanted Bamboo-land, with photographic illustrations and descriptions throughout. Personal inscription on the front endpaper in pencil. Shelfwear and minor soiling.....
THE NORTH PACIFIC SURVEYING AND EXPLORING EXPEDITION; OR, MY LAST CRUISE. WHERE WE WENT AND WHAT WE SAY: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF VISITS TO THE MALAY AND LOO-CHOO ISLANDS, THE COASTS OF CHINA, FORMOSA, JAPAN, KAMTSCHATKA, SIBERIA, AND MOUTH OF AMOOR RIVER.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1858. Half Leather. First published in 1857, quite a good travel chronicle by Alexander Habersham detailing his observations while on duty as a lietenant with a US surveying and exploring expedition to the North...
BAHIA: MYSTERY LAND
Arcueil, France: Editions d’art Yvon, 1984. Hard Cover. An attractive copy with no marks of any kind. The dustjacket has a few short tears and presents well in a new mylar cover.
HISTORY OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS MISSION. (A Heathen Nation Evangelized.)
Boston: Congregational Publishing Society, 1870. Hard Cover. Frontispiece; Previous owner's bookplate attached to front paste-down. Frontispiece and map present. No pencil or ink markings in text. Brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine.
ANNAPURNA: Spedizione Italiana nel Nepal
Pero; Milano: Editioni Virginia, 1974. Hard Cover. No pencil or ink markings in text. Text written in Italian. Covers clean. Light shelf-wear at top and bottom of dustjacket spine. Very small closed tear at bottom of front dustjacket cover near...
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. LETTERS FROM FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, GERMANY, ITALY, AND ENGLAND
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1868. Octavo. Embossed Cloth. 397 + 18 pp publisher’s ads. Bound in publisher’s brown embossed cloth, tastefully rebacked with original backstrip laid down; a lovely copy; previous owner name and notes on the front...
THE SEA FATHERS: A SERIES OF LIVES OF GREAT NAVIGATORS OF FORMER TIMES.
London, Paris & New York: Cassell & Company, 1884. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Edition of Clements R. Markham’s The Sea Fathers. With portrait frontispiece. Contemporary owner’s name in pencil on the front flyleaf. Foxing throughout. Gilt lettering on the.....
A STROLL IN ATHENS
Vergas Publications, 2004. A clean copy of this book by photographer Costas Vergas.
THE UNFORGIVING MINUTE
Stanhope: Memoir Club, 2004. Octavo. Hard Cover. 464pp. Slight bumping to edges of dust jacket but dust jacket protected in a mylar cover; no markings of any kind.
HOLLAND AND ITS PEOPLE
New York; London: G. P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, 1885. Hard Cover. Limited, numbered edition. Signed by Publisher. Illustrated; #210/600. Zuyder Zee Edition. No pencil or ink markings in text. There is some very light scattered foxing throughout. One...
FULL TILT. IRELAND TO INDIA WITH A BICYCLE.
London: John Murray, [1978]. Hard Cover. Fifth Printing. Reprint edition of Dervla Murphy’s travel account of biking from Ireland, through Afghanistan and Pakistan, to India. Contains no markings of any kind. Front flap pricelipped and stickered. Previous owner’s name on.....
WESTWARD WANDERINGS: The Narrative of a Journey Around the World Made in the Years 1926 and 1927: As Told in the Home Letters of Harriet Newton Dimond
Privately Printed. Hard Cover. Previous owner's bookplate attached to front paste-down endpaper. No pencil or ink markings in text. Boards very lightly soiled. Small bump at top of spine at front board. Cloth and paper-covered boards. Digital pictures of book...
UNDER THE BLACK FLAG. (THE ROGUE’S LIBRARY)
New York: Lincoln MacVeagh | The Dial Press, 1925. Hard Cover. First Edition. Signed. First Edition of Don C. Seitz’s Under the Black Flag, from the Rogue’s Library series. Signed by the author with an amusing inscription on the front.....
SAILORMAN
London: Oxford University Press, 1933. Hard Cover. There is a previous onwner name on the front endpaper, dated “Shanghai, 1934”. The endpapers have a trace of toning. With a lovely color plate frontispiece.
THE OPEN ROAD. A LITTLE BOOK FOR WAYFARERS.
London: Methuen & Co., [1906]. Full Leather. Ninth Edition. An attractive copy. Bound in brown morocco with lettering stamped in gilt. Contains no markings of any kind. Two page, black and white print at the front and rear. Marbled endpapers...
SPAIN AND THE SPANIARDS
New York: G. P. Putnam’s | The Knickerbocker Press, 1885. #8 of the Guadalquiver Edition limited of 600 copies, of which the first 40 have been expanded to two volumes printed upon Whatman Paper and accompanied by an Extra Set...
BIBLICAL RESEARCHES IN PALESTINE, MOUNT SINAI AND ARABIA PETRAEA. A JOURNAL OF TRAVELS IN THE YEAR 1838 (3 Volumes)
Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1838. Hard Cover. The three volume set of the American Edition; in the publisher’s brown embossed cloth with titling in gold to the spines. All maps present as called for. The set has been neatly and.....
CATHEDRALS AND CLOISTERS OF NORTHERN FRANCE IN TWO VOLUMES (2 Vols.)
New York | London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1914. Hard Cover. First Edition. A clean First Edition set in two volumes; there are no marks of any kind. The dustjacket for Volume II (only) is present; it is a bit...
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PLACES I HAVE VISITED. [SUMMER OF 1903.]
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1900. Hard Cover. The manuscript travel diary of an Elora Brandon of Pennsylvania, in the Summer of 1903, when she was 24. Ms. Brandon traveled through Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, England, and Scotland. Each...
JUST WANDERING IN DEVON.
Exmouth: The Raleigh Press, [1954]. Hard Cover. Blindstamp on the front endpaper. Otherwise a clean copy, with no marks of any kind. Good dustjacket, with minor wear and a two inch closed tear to the front.
MARCHING ON TANGA
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1917. Hard Cover. First Edition. There is a previous owner name and date on the front endpaper; illustrated with black and white photographs; no other marks in the book. Lacking the dustjacket.