San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1991. Reprint. Hardcover. pp: xx, 399; frontispiece in color, 34 collotype plates and 54 text illustrations in black & white. Bound in red leatherette, gilt-stamped spine, decorated dust wrapper. 12.5" X 9" More about SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY, 1770-1860, FROM THE LIBRARY OF...
London / Mansfield, CT: Curwen Press / Maurizio Martino, 1956 / nd. Reprint. Hardcover. Two volumes bound as one. pp: xiii, 675 with indices; black-and-white frontispiece and illustrations from title=pages, etc. Bound in gray cloth, red spine block with gilt lettering. 11.25" x 8.5" "This reprint is strictly limited to 100 copies" (statement on verso title-page). More about TRAVEL IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY, 1770-1860: From the Library of J.R. Abbey. Volume I: World,...
Cairo, Egypt: Costa Tsoumas, 1956. First Edition. Softcover. pp: 288, (7); frontispiece photo-portrait of author, folding map of Thebes & Luxor, illustrated throughout from photographs, one in color. Few marginalia in pencil. White wrappers, decorations in color. 8" x 5.5" Includes four pages of hieroglyphic alphabet and common words, a.... More about ABOUDI'S GUIDE BOOK TO THE ANTIQUITIES OF EGYPT:; Historically treated with many Illustrations,...
Montreal: John McConniff, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. pp: (90 + 2 publisher's advert); illustrated throughout from photographs and old prints. Bound in red cloth and pictorial boards; inner hinges cracked, corner of boards rubbed. 6" x 9" [Unrecorded by OCLC.]. More about ILLUSTRATED QUEBEC (The Gibraltar and Tourists' Mecca of America).; 1535-1608:1763-1892. Under...
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., (1930s). First Edition. Softcover. Map in color, opens to 21" x 28". Folded into gray stiff wrappers, 9.25" x 4.25" Inset of the Aleutian Islands. More about ALASKA: POCKET MAP--Showing Political Divisions, Cities and Towns, etc
1945. Original photograph album. Original Cloth. This album contains 67 high-quality b/w photographs, 41 taken by Col. Swift, the remainder taken by Col. Jay D.B. Lattin. Swift’s photos are two sizes: the smaller, numbering 34 shots, with images measuring approx. 3 ¼” or 3 ½” by 5 ¼” or 5... More about PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF 67 ORIGINAL IMAGES TAKEN BY COL. ROBERT GRAY SWIFT AND COL. JAY D.B. LATTIN...
NY: American Airlines, December 1965. First edition thus. Folded brochure, opens to 24" x 34", illustrated throughout in full color, including a large map of the US and Mexico showing American Airlines routes. Also includes detailed information on the Astrojet, flights, amenities, &c. More about WELCOME ABOARD: Flight Information & Map
1877. Original manuscript. 4pp, octavo, written in sepia ink on a single, folded leaf; top few lines of first page are cross-hatched as the writer finishes up her message. In the original mailing envelope (torn open) addressed to Hannah Pancoast, Mount Holly, Burlington Co., New Jersey, with a three-cent stamp... More about HANDWRITTEN LETTER WRITTEN ABOARD THE STEAMSHIP "BOLIVIA" BY A QUAKER WOMAN RETURNING...
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., (1933?). First Edition. Softcover. Map in color, opens to 21" x 28". Few small, archival repairs on verso of folds. Folded into gray stiff wrappers, 9.25" x 4.25" [WorldCat locates five library holdings: Syracuse, U Chicago, Florida State, U Arizona, UCLA.]. More about ASIA: POCKET MAP--Showing Political Divisions, Cities and Towns, etc
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 287pp. Bound in red cloth, yellow lettering; top edge of binding sunned, gift inscription on endpaper. In a chipped dust wrapper. 8.75" x 5.5" The British author drove his wife and two kids in a Plymouth from New York to California in 1934... More about COVERED WAGON, 10 H.P. Being the Further Adventures of an English Family in its Travels across...
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s.l. [Melbourne]: s.n. [Samuel Cooke?], circa 1890. First Edition. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. 13 panels of views from photographs in accordion-fold (leporello) format. Views include: birdseye view of Melbourne (triple-leaf); General Post Office; Federal Coffee Palace; New Law Courts; Exhibition Building; Railway Pier; Prince's Bridge; Collingwood Town Hall; &c. Folded into..... More about ALBUM OF MELBOURNE VIEWS: Advance Australia [cover title
Cairo: Societe d'Archeologie Copte, (1953). First Edition. Softcover. pp: 94, (3), colophon; frontispiece map, 37 figures in the text, including floor plans, some full-page. Text in French, with indices of proper names, place names, and a general index. Has sections on the Coptic Museum, Cairo's Coptic churches, monasteries, sanctuaries of... More about GUIDE DE L'EGYPTE CHRETIENNE:; Musee Copte Eglises Monasteres
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, nd. First Edition. Softcover. 38pp, printed on rectos only. Bound in blue report cover with clear front. 11.5" x 9" More about BAEDEKER'S HANDBOOKS FOR TRAVELLERS: A Bibliography of English editions published prior to World...
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1907. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. pp: lxiv, 331 with index; 25 maps and plans in color, some folding. Bound in red cloth over flexible boards, gilt lettering on spine and cover. 6.25" x 4.25" More about THE DOMINION OF CANADA, WITH NEWFOUNDLAND AND AN EXCURSION TO ALASKA. Handbook for Travellers. ...
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1910. First Edition. Original Cloth. pp: xiv, 274 with index, (2) publisher's ads; 32 plates from photographs, sketch map of Crete, fold-out plan of Knossos. Bound in blue cloth, decorated in burnt-orange and gilt, top edges gilt. 8.25" x 5.5" Provenance: Bookseller's ticket of Old Corner Book Store, Boston. More about THE SEA-KINGS OF CRETE. With 32 full-page illustrations from photographs
Philadelphia: Bartlett Tours Co., 1934. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. 72pp; illus throughout text from photographs of ships and some views. Gives itineraries and costs of many different cruises and trips, including: Economy Tours to Europe; Candadian Trips; Cruises to Labrador; Chicago World's Fair Trips; Great Lakes Cruises; Cruises to... More about VACATION TRIPS AND CRUISES, 1934
NY: G.W. Dillingham, 1907. First Edition. Original Cloth. 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... More about CINDERS:; (The Diary of a Drummer
Boston: L.C. Page, 1904. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. 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... More about BELGIUM: ITS CITIES; By Grant Allen. In Two Volumes, Illustrated
[Anvers, Belgium]: s.n., circa 1870s. First Edition. Decorated Boards. 24 Albertype, photographic views on 24 plates, accordion format, folding into embossed green boards, gilt cover title. Contains exterior and interior views of: Anvers Place Verte et Cathedrale; birdseye views; La Bourse; Cour du Mussee Plantin; Musee Steen; Le Puits de... More about SOUVENIR D'ANVERS:; Viewbook
Frankfurt: G. Blumlein, 1880s. First Edition. Decorated Boards. 24 lithographed views from photographs, printed on 12 panels, accordion-fold (leporello) format. Brief captions in French. Views include: Theatre Royal; La bourse; Hotel de Ville; Place du Congres; Anciennes maisons des corporations; Maison flamande; Le Jardin botanique; Hotel des Brasseurs; Porte de... More about SOUVENIR OF BRUXELLES
Hamilton? Bermuda Photo Service? circa 1910. First Edition. Pictorial Stiff Wrappers. 2pp text; 20 full-color views from photographs. Views include: Front Street, Hamilton; St. Georges; Warwick, with Glimpse of Hamilton; The Lane; Easter Lily Field; Stone Quarry; Sailing; Khyber Pass; Twelfth Tee, Riddles Bay Golf & Country Club; &c. Ribbon-tied... More about BERMUDA, AN ISLAND PARADISE:; With Description and Map. Text by Alice Glenister. Photographs by...
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1878. First Edition. Original Cloth. pp: 213, (3)publisher's ads; 14 illustrations on text stock, decorative chapter headpieces. Bound in brown cloth, decorated in black and gilt. 6" x 4.25" More about ARTISTS AND ARABS; OR, SKETCHING IN SUNSHINE.; With Numerous Illustrations
Austin - New Haven: Jenkins & Reese Companies, 1982. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. pp: xxix, 83; frontispiece, 10 full-page illustrations showing title pages of books cited. Bound in gray cloth, black lettering on spine and picture on cover, black endpapers. 8.75" x 5.5" Describes 66 accounts of automobile travel... More about AUTOS ACROSS AMERICA: A Bibliography of Transcontinental Automobile Travel, 1903-1940
Victoria, Vancouver, Canada: Empress Hotel, Circa 1930s. First Edition. Broadsheet, printed in black and blue, with full-color front and back panels, 9.25" x 32", folded to brochure format. The detailed text is supplemented by a color rendering of the entire hotel, with 29 inset illustrations from photographs. The Empress Hotel... More about THE EMPRESS HOTEL, VICTORIA, B.C. A Canadian Pacific Hotel
Lincoln, Nebraska: Woodruff-Collins Printing Co., 1904. First Edition. Original Cloth. 397pp; frontispiece photograph of the author with his son and Count Leo Tolstoy. Bound in red cloth, white lettering; spine lettering flaked, prior owner's name on front endpaper. 8.75" x 5.75" More about UNDER OTHER FLAGS: Travels, Lectures, Speeches