NY: Knopf, 1921. Limited. Cloth. First printing, limited to 2100 numbered copies of which two thousand were for sale (this being number 393). Tomlinson's tales of the London section of the Thames. Very good. Spine and spine label rubbed. No jacket.
Philadelphia: James Challen, 1861. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Ornately decorated black full leather. All edges gilt. . 475 pp. with index plus publisher's list at rear. Frontispiece color tinted engraving of the Mosque of Omar and Temple Area; nine additional tinted engravings. Travel memoirs of the Middle East including.....
New York and London: D. Appleton, (1899). Limited ed. Hardcover. One of 1000 numbered copies, this being No. 306. Selected Works of John Tyndall, Westminster Edition. Hardcover in navy blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. xii+ 481 pp. with index. Six plates. A tight, fine, bright.....
NY: Crowell, 1881. First. Hard Cover. First edition. Color litho illustrated hardcovers; patterned endpapers; 314 pps. Illustrated throughout with full and partial page engravings. Travel book for young people which describes the European travels of an old-fashioned New York schoolteacher nicknamed Rip Van Winkle by his pupils. Generally very good.....
London: Duckworth, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in royal blue cloth lettered in gilt. 238 pp. plus one page adverts at rear. With a folding map and 24 photographic plates. Very good or a bit better, foxing to the half title, title on the text pages facing the.....
London: George Routledge and Sons. Hardcover. N.d. (ca. 1877). Early, though apparently not a first, edition. Green cloth ornately decorated in black , spine stamped in gilt and black. 264 pps. With 46 illustrations by Riou. Verso of title page lists five Verne title with this book listed third. A......
New York: Harper & Bros, 1878. Leather_bound. Red limp leather self folding covers. Illustrated advertising endpapers. Sequentially paginated 540-1001 + 24 (index) + 173 PP. section of adverts including many for hotels illustrated with engravings; two sheets of blank lined notepaper bound into the inner rear cover. Illustrated throughout with.....
NY: J. Day Co, 1973. First. Hard Cover. First printing. Cloth, 198 pps. with index, index of the writings. Composer Richard Wagner is seen in a new and unexpected light through this collection of his letters written from Paris in the 1840s. At age 26, Wagner gave up his as.....
New York: A.L. Burt, 1928. Reissue. Hardcover. Royal blue cloth lettered in orange. 325 pp. Illustrated with photographic plates. Early reprint. Unique travelogue, a record of seven years in a young man's life (age 14 to 21) He was thrown on his own in Chicago at age 14, was cptured.....
NY: Wiley & Putnam, 1845. Three-Quarter Leather. Mid-19th century three quarter brown leather over patterned paper-covered boards; spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Two volumes in one (268 and 242 pps.). Wiley & Putnam's Library of Choice Reading. Originally published in London in the same year. Classic work on travels.....
London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1891. Hard Cover. Maroon cloth lettered in gilt; xxxix + 367 pps. with index, plus publisher's catalogue at rear. Illustrated with full page engravings. The stories of four journeys to the wilds of South America, the first beginning in 1812. The author's descriptions and observances.....
Chicago: Wheeler, 1927. Cloth. Blue cloth lettered in gilt with color illustration tipped onto front cover; map endpapers; 404 pps.; illustrated. part of the Burton Holmes Travel Stories Series of Infromational Silent Readers, profusely illustrayted with Holmes' photos. Very good, faint school stamp front pastedown.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. Later printing. Hardcover. Hardcover in ribbed light grey cloth lettered and decorated in dark blue. An association copy with inscription on the front free endpaper, "Grenfell Mission/ St. Anthony, Newfoundland/ August 30, 1937" . xxv+ 69 pp. Ilustrated with photographic plates. fine in very good dust.....
Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (stated). Hardcover in sky blue cloth stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Title page printed in red and black. xxiii+275 pp. Very good, spine lettering dulled. No jacket. World traveller William McFee describes the sights, sounds, and peoples of Columbia--for.....
