[BRUNEL (Antoine de)]:

A Journey into Spain.

London, Printed for Henry Herrignman..., 1670. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, 163 x 105 mms., pp. [viii], 247 [248 blank], notes in pencil on recto of rear free end-paper, later wrappers; front hinge exposed, but a good to very good copy. This abridged translation of Voyage d'Espagne curieux, historique, et politique (1665) by Antoine de Brunel is also attributed to François van Aerssen, 1572-1641, and to his grandson François van Aerssen, 1630-1658. "Dutch diplomat Antoine de Brunel's Voyage d'Espagne (A Journey into Spain, 1665) tends to burden the reader with intricacies of court politics, but he also inserts here and there superb portraits of political figures - under lining the pettiness of the Spanish nobility - as well as poignant descriptions of a mostly desolate land, its miserable lodgings, its precarious buildings, and other evidence to Spain's low quality of life" (Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza, Anxo Abuín González, César Domínguez, editors: A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula 2010). Brunel's volume was the first mention of bullfighting in Spain in English and had wide literary repercussions, being a source, for example, of Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon (1932). Brunel discusses the bullfights over several pages (77 - 83).

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Book number: 9215

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Travel topography prose

FELLOWES (W. D. [William Dorset]):

Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe, In 1817: With Notes, Taken During A Tour Through La Perce, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou.And The Environs Of Paris. Illustrated with Numerous Coloured Engravings, from Drawings made on the Spot. Second Edition.

London: Printed for William Stockdale, 1818. 1818. Tall 8vo, 222 x 136 mms., pp. xii, 186, 13 hand-coloured aquatints, one engraved vignette within texts, one outline, contemporary half calf, spine embossed in blind, red morocco label, marbled boards; slight wear to binding, but the plates are fresh and clean, with bright, unfaded colours. A very good copy The Monastery of La Trappe began as a small chapel in 1122; it grew and prospered over the next six hundred years or so, until the Hundred Years War. After the French Revolution, the government sold it as national property. It was rebuilt in the 1880s and re-opened as an abbey imn 1895. Fellowes' splendid illustrations at an unfortunate time impressive represent what happened.

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Book number: 10301

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Travel illustration prose

FIFE (John W.):

American Visit, 1947.

Burnley Printed by Hortus PrintingN Co. Ltd., Burnlety for J. W. Fife, Amulree, Barnton, Midlothian, 1948. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 4to, 248 x 185 mms, pp. 66, lithographed and liberally illustrated with pictures, at least one on every page, also with amusing drawings in the margins made by Fife, fine quality paper, attractive binding with gilt outline of American on front cover, white paper wrappers (soiled and worn), and inscribed by Fife on recto of front free end-paper, "With my compliments / John W. Fife / Oct. 1948." John Weir Fife (1900-c.1979), British horticulturalist and traveller, was a director then chairman of Dobbie & Co., Ltd, a well-known horticultural firm of Britain. The company is still going strong today as Dobbies Garden Centres. Much of his travelogue is about his horticultural visit. He attended George Watson's College in Edinburgh and travelled extensively. The John Fife Travel Awards were inaugurated in 1979: "The aim is to encourage young people of Scottish birth or parentage working or studying in horticulture to expand their horizons by enabling them to travel overseas to attend courses or conferences and experience for themselves different cultures and broaden their horticultural knowledge and understanding." The only copy that I have located is in the NLS.

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Book number: 8999

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Travel horticulture prose

FRIEDLANDER (Herman):

Views in Italy, during A Journey in the Years 1815 and 1816. Published in in Leipzig 1819. 2 vols.

London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips..., 1821. 8vo, 202 x 117 mms., pp. 124, recent marbled wrappers; text only, lacks plates.

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Book number: 8631

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Travel Italy prose

GIBBON (Edward):

Gibbon's Journey from Geneva to Rome. His Journal from 20 April to 2 October 1764. Edited by Georges A. Bonnard.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1961. 8vo, pp. xxvi, 268, 12 illustrations, original cloth, fine copy in very slightly worn dust-jacket.

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Book number: 5312

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: travel scholarship prose

[HALSEY (Tappen):

A Little Travel.

No place Printed by Albert F. Allen [from colophon] [c. 1895] FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 200 x 130 mms., pp. [3] 4 - 184, minimal title-page, bound in sturdy buckram, title on front cover, with inscription on verso of front free end-paper: "With the Compliments of / 'The Pilgrim' / Tappen Halsey / 1895"; small water-stain on front cover, but a very good copy, printed on thick paper. Tappen Halsey was a well-known citizen of Chicago in the late nineteenth century, being a businessman who owned several pharmacies in Illinois and Michigan. He seems not, however, to be generally known as a traveller or travel writer, and this appears to be the only copy known of his extensive account of his voyaging.Halsey travelled through at least seven countries, Algeria, Spain, Italy, France, Monaco, Switzerland, and Britain. Halsey was a sympathetic traveller with an eye for revealing detail. He reports, for instance, on the ubiquity of telephones in Switzerland (in 1895!). In Italy, he visits the Vatican, and observes that the big toe of a medieval bronze statue of St. Peter has been "kissed away" by the daily kisses of the faithful over six centuries (p. 61). With his wife he purchases a painting done on cobweb, which he notes is a specialty found only among the Tyrolese. He has first-hand encounters with the famous -- hearing, for instance, both Farrar and Wilberforce preach in London, being particularly impressed with the former. Brits come off rather badly at one point, as Mr and Mrs Halsey witness "more drunkenness and wretchedness in London in one day than in all our travel" (p. 180). The fellow Americans that Halsey meets touring in Europe come off rather poorly too, since, he says, "Americans have much to learn in regard of patience, and gentle regard for others, before they will equal the French, German, Austrian or even Italian travelers" (p. 73). Thank goodness times have changed, and every American abroad these days is patient as pie, gentle as a dove. Harold F. Smith, who compiled the standard bibliography of such literature, has not only no entry of this item but none on our author (Harold F. Smith, American Travellers Abroad: A Bibliography of Accounts Published before 1900, 2nd ed., 1999). No other copy located: not in WorldCat, COPAC, KVK, British Library, or the Library of Congress. It is not in Melvyl, nor is it in any of the several Chicago libraries that I have checked.

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Book number: 9047

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Travel Europe prose

HANWAY (Jonas). Mandeville (Sir John). Water (Lionel):

A Compendium of the Travels of Mr. Hanway, Sir John Mandeville. And Mr. Lionel Wafer, and a Description of Greenland.

Dublin: Printed for J. Smith, on the Blind Quay, 1757. 12mo, 170 x 101 mms., pp. [ii], 288, contemporary calf; spine creased and almost about to split, top and base of spine chipped; lacks plate, joints tender; bookplate of Alex M. MacEwen on front paste-down end-paper and contemporary name in ink on title-page, "Benholm", no doubt the settlement in Aberdeenshire, home to Benholm Mill, an area made famous among Scots by the work of that favourite Scottish national novelist Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901-1935). Most of the volume is taken up with Hanway's travels, and some of Mandeville's more curious observations are repeated, e. g., in India: "Strong wine is likewise made there, which the women drink, but not the men; to the end, that the women may have beares, who yet are shave thought the men are not." The surgeon Lionel Wafer (d. 1705) published his A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America in 1699, and the excerpts in thsi "compendium" are taken from that publication.This copy is remarkable for having what appears to be the unidentified bookplate of the first leader of the Scottish National Party: Sir Alexander Malcolm MacEwen (1875-1941). Earlier in his career, he had been a leading Scottish solicitor and Provost of Inverness, after having schooled at Clifton College and the University of Edinburgh. He authored influential works on the present and future of Scotland, and on world-historical politics, including The Thistle and the Rose: Scotland's Problem To-Day (1932), Scotland at School: Education for Citizenship (1938), and Towards Freedom (1938). Surely the motto "Libro pellite curas" on his bookplate is a witty pun on the Horace he likely learned at Clifton or the University of Edinburgh: "Vino pellite curas". Rather than the Horatian approach, "Drive your cares away with wine", MacEwen's motto suggests, "Drive your cares away with book/s". The ESTC finds only one book fitted with the bookplate of "Alex. M. MacEwen", a copy of the 1768 Edinburgh edition of James Thomson's classic Scottish poem The Seasons, held by the University of Virginia. Smith published several of these compendiums, with completely different content by completely different authors; this one is very rare, with ESTC N27822 locating only one copy in the British Isles (British Library), three copies in North America (NYPL, University of Florida, and University of Iowa), and only one copy elsewhere (the Czartoryski Library in Poland).

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Book number: 8986

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Travel topography prose

JOHNSON (Samuel):

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. A New Edition.

Edinburgh: Printed for J. Ogle; M. Ogle, Glasgow; R. Ogle, and T. Hamilton, London; and J. Johnston, Dublin, By Thomas Turnbull, 1811. 12mo, 176 x 98 mms., pp. 186 [187 - 188 adverts], contemporary half calf, marbled boards (rubbed), gilt spine (rubbed); joints cracked, corners worn, contemporary autograph of "Margaret Moir" on top margin of title-page. Fleeman.75.sJ/13.

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Book number: 8695

Catalogue: Travel

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LA MÉSANGÈRE (Pierre de), editor:

Voyages en France, Ornés de Gravures. avec des notes par La Mésangère

A Paris: Chez Chaignieau aîné, Devaux..., 1796 - 1798. FIRST EDITION. 4 volumes. 12mo, 128 x 72 mms., pp. [ii], 194 [195 placement of plates, 196 blank]; [ii],226 [228 blank]; [iv], 225 [226 blank, 267 placement of plates, 278 blank]; [ii], 209 [210 blank, 211 placement of plates, 212 blank], engraved frontispiece and 9 other engraved plates (including three portraits) in volume 1, engraved frontispiece and 9 other engraved plates in volume 2, engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 other engraved plates in volume 3, and 7 engraved plates in volume 4, very attractively bound in full green morocco, gilt borders on covers, spines ornately gilt in compartments to a lyre motif, red morocco labels; slight wear to some corners, but generally a fine and very handsome set. From the BnF listing: " Recueil de voyages de divers auteurs. - Vol. 1, Voyage de Chapelle et de Bachaumont. Voyage de Languedoc et de Provence par Le Franc de Pompignan ; Vol. 2, Voyage de Fléchier en Auvergne. Voyage de Desmahis à Eponne. Voyage de Gresset à La Flèche. Voyage de Paris à Marseille par la Bourgogne et par le Bourbonnais par Bérenger. Voyage à la Grande Chartreuse ; par le P. Mandard, de l'Oratoire. Voyage à La Trappe, par M. de P.***. Lettre sur l'abbaye de La Trappe et sur le château d'Anet, par le chevalier de Bertin ; Vol. 3, Voyage en Bourgogne. La quête du bled, ou Voyage du P. Venance,... Voyage de Paris en Limosin [sic], par La Fontaine. Voyage dans les provinces méridionales de France. Voyage à Ermenonville. Voyage au Fey, en Bourgogne ; Vol. 4, Voyage en Provence. Voyage de Chantilly. Par Damin. Voyage de Normandie, par Regnard. Voyage de Beaune, par Piron. Voyage au Havre de Grace, par C.E. Gaucher. - Titre pris aux faux-titres avec mention d'éd. au verso. - Aux vol. 1 et 2, mention (absente aux vol. 3 et 4) des ill. : "Les gravures sont de Le Mire, Berthault, Gaucher, Duval". - 1ère pièce de chacun des vol. avec la marque des libraires et mention d'impr. ; vol. 1 et 2 datés "an IV" [=1796], vol. 3 et 4, datés "an VI (1798)". - 2e pièce du vol. 1, "Voyage de Languedoc et de Provence. Par Le Franc de Pompignan" avec mention d'impr. ( "A Paris, imprimerie de Chaignieau aîné") et vignette gr.s.c., sig. "Bertaux et Bovinet sculp." au titre. - 8 portraits (vol. 1, Chapelle, Laure, Pétrarque ; vol. 2, Fléchier, Bérenger ; vol. 3, Antoine Bertin ; vol. 4, René roi de Sicile, et Ch.-E. Gaucher gr. par lui-même). - Vol. 3 et 4, en fin de vol., 1 f. avec l'ordre des gravures ; vol. 4, extr. du catal. des libraires (4 p.)" Monglond, III, col. 584-586 ; Cohen-De Ricci, 1049.