Pfeiffer, Ida

A Lady's Visit to California 1853

Oakland, Biobooks, 1950. [ix] 75 [1]p. b/w illus. original cloth. One of 500 copies, printed by Harold Seeger and Albert Sperisen at the Black Vine Press in San Francisco. .

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Book number: 018404

Keywords: California Americana Black Vine Press

PFEIFFER, IDA:

A Lady's Second Journey round the World. From London to the Cape of Good Hope, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Celebes, Ceram, the Moluccas, etc. California, Panama, Peru, Equador, and the United States. Two volumes. London 1855.

. Pp. xii, 451; viii, 423, adv. 24. Publisher's green blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Binding slightly shaken, lightly rubbed, spines faded. First English edition which preceded the first German edition (Vienna 1856). Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858) was the very first woman full-time traveller. She was born in Vienna in 1797 and at the age of 45, after raising two children and with a husband living away from home, she began to travel. The rest of her life she spent either travelling or preparing to travel. Her travels became increasingly adventurous as she ventured further and further off the beaten tourist track. Her books became very popular and translated all around the world. Robinson p. 25.

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Book number: 120769

Catalogue: Travel general

Keywords: Travel general, travel, exploration, lady traveller, far east, indonesia, pacific, america, americana, amerika, south america,

Pfeiffer, Ida. Sinnett, Mrs. Percy (translator and editor)

A Lady's Voyage Round the World: A Selected Translation from the German of Ida Pfeiffer: In Two Parts: Part II

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851. First Thus. Paperback. 8vo. 136pp. (pp.137-272). Part II only. Spine rubbed, parts of spine missing, affecting text, front cover detached, rubbed, grubby and chipped, rear cover missing, name stamp inside front cover. Poor.

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Book number: 22357

Keywords: TRAVEL WORLD INDIA MIDDLE EAST RUSSIA NEAR