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Agra, India ILLUSTRATED AGRA GUIDE: with Photos and Map.
Delhi, India Jain Sons 1961 First Edition Pictorial wraps Very Good
92pp; illus from photographs, double-page map, full-cover colored view of the Taj Mahal. This guide to Agra the City of Taj includes a brief history of the Moghul Empire as well as views and text relating to the Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, and other local sites. Also given is information on hotels and hostels, travel connections, &c. 7" x 4.75"
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All Saints Church THE BULLETIN OF ALL SAINTS' PARISH CHURCH, NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE [British Guiana]: Run, issue #1-8.
New Amsterdam, British Guiana Popular Printery 1960 First Edition Original wraps Very Good
64pp in all; illus from photographs. 11" x 5.5" This is a very scarce collection of the first eight issues of this grass-roots church bulletin, containing: messages from the parish priest; discussions of finance and gifts; notice of club meetings; Saint Clements Infant School news; religious messages; news of parishoners; holy days; a "devotional alphabet" (A for Adoration, B for Blessings, &c.); church history; and many advertisements for local businesses. Bound in printed wraps of various colors. Text in English.
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30.00 USD
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Allen, Grant BELGIUM: ITS CITIES. In Two Volumes, Illustrated.
Boston L.C. Page 1904 First Edition Decorative Cloth Very Good
Two volumes. pp: xviii, 199; 247, index; two frontispieces, 80 plates. Bound in gilt-armorial cloth, top edges gilt. 7" x 4.5" The author aims to supply the tourist "with such historical and antiquarian information as will enable him to understand, and therefore to enjoy, the architecture, sculpture, painting, and minor arts of the towns he visits."
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Anderson, Isabel CIRCLING SOUTH AMERICA
Boston Marshall Jones Company 1928 First Edition Original Cloth Very Good
pp: xviii, 214; map, 48pp illus from photographs. 9" x 6.25" This is a readable account of cruising Cuba, Panama and South America, written for tourists by a prolific author of travel books.
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20.00 USD
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Balch, William Ralston CAPE MAY TO ATLANTIC CITY: A Summer Note Book.
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Railroad 1883 First Edition Staplebound Wraps Good
56pp; vignette illustrations in text, map inside back cover. Pictorial covers and frontispiece supplied in facsimile from Library of Congress copy. 6.5" x 5" The author was General Passenger Agent for the PRR. This book describes Cape May, Cape May Point, Life Along the Shore, Sea Isle City, Somers Point, fishing and hunting, and Atlantic City, the coastal climate, the art of traveling, &c., including hotels and rates, railroad routes, trolley car exchange points, and ticket prices in 1883.
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90.00 USD
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Bancroft, Mrs. George (nee Elizabeth Davis) LETTERS FROM ENGLAND, 1846-1849
NY Scribner's 1904 First Edition Original Cloth Very Good
pp: (xii), 224, index; 18 plates. 8" x 5.5" Elizabeth Davis Bancroft was married to historian-statesman George Bancroft who became America's Minister to England in 1846. This work contains extracts from her letters home, including accounts of the Bancrofts' dealings with major English figures of the day--Queen Victoria, Lord Palmerston, the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Lady Byron, and many others, 1846-1849.
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Bangor, Maine BANGOR, A MOTOR CENTER
Bangor, ME Chamber of Commerce 1926 First Edition Original Wraps Very Good
20pp; illus from photographs, map; trace of faint foxing on cover. 9" x 8" Promotes travel by car with routes to Bangor, motor trips around Bangor, Mount Katahdin, lakes and ponds, etc.
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25.00 USD
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Bates, Katharine Lee SPANISH HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS
Chautauqua, NY Chautauqua Press 1920 Second Edition Original Cloth Very Good
pp: xii, 448; 40 plates from photographs. 8" x 5.5" The author recounts her trip through Spain in 1899, visiting Seville, Toledo, Madrid, Andalusia, &c. Included are chapters on bullfights, gypsies, &c. Bates (1859-1929), a Wellesley professor and poet who wrote "America the Beautiful," here gives an educated view of Spain at the turn of the 20th century, including historical and sociological insights.
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Bauer, Wright CINDERS: (The Diary of a Drummer).
NY G.W. Dillingham 1907 First Edition Original Cloth Very Good
pp: 117, (10); 10 plates from drawings. Bound in the publisher's red paisley cloth, paper cover label. 7" x 4" Episodic account of the life of a door-to-door salesman and his travels in Baltimore, Cleveland, Chicago, Columbus, Buffalo, Boston and New York. Written on the blank flyleaf: "From Mrs. Malcolm, 212-Leaside, Aug. 1910. He was a tenant there."
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Bisbee, Frederick A. A SUMMER FLIGHT
Boston Murray Press 1911 First Edition Pictorial Cloth Very Good
pp: xii, 370; plates and text illus from photographs. 7.75" x 5" The author and nearly 200 other Americans sailed on the "Devonian" from East Boston to Berlin to attend the 1910 World Congress of Free Christianity and Religious Progress. He tells of their extended tour of Europe, including England, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy.
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Blichfeldt, E.H. A MEXICAN JOURNEY
Chautauqua, NY Chautauqua Press 1919 Second Edition Original Cloth Very Good
274pp, index; 33pp photo-illus, double map. 8" x 5.25" The author toured Mexico in 1911. His narrative is updated here with political comment regarding the Madero revolution.
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25.00 USD
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Boulger, Demetrius C. BELGIAN LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY
NY G.P. Putnam's Sons 1904 First Edition Pictorial Cloth Very Good
pp: x, 321, index; frontispiece, 16 plates from photographs. 7.25" x 4.75" Discusses the Flemings and the Walloons, burgher life, mining, education, amusements, legends, military, etc.
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Bowen, Barbara M. THROUGH BOWEN MUSEUM WITH BIBLE IN HAND
Grand Rapids, MI Wm. B. Eerdmans 1946 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Very Good Jacket
184pp; 4pp illus from photographs. Bowen studied at Jerusalem's American School of Oriental Research and collected "several tons" of antiquities. She also conducted many interviews with Jerusalem residents. Here, she presents a handbook of several hundred entries on the life, scenes and customs of Biblical times, grouped by types of antiquities (charms, ossuaries and utensils, agricultural tools, drinking vessels, musical instruments, alabaster, carvings and heads from Egypt, models of tombs, medicines of the primitive Arabs, caravans and legion tiles, jars, etc.). 8" x 5.25"
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