De Amicis, Edmondo

Holland and Its People

New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1880. Later printing. Cloth. vii, 484 pp. + map. Illus. with 66 b/w drawings+ foldout map. Sm. 8vo. Trans. by Caroline Tilton. Vandyke Edition. A very good copy with wear to head and heel of spine, owner's signature and tiny chip to endpaper, otherwise tight and crisp.

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Book number: 15691

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Baedeker, Karl

Italien Von Den Alpen Bis Neapel

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1931. Eighth Edition. Limp red cloth with gilt titles. xl, 492 pp. Illus. with 34 maps, 41 plans, and 23 floorplans. 16mo. Hinrichsen D414. A very good or better copy in a worn dust jacket, a few small chips on spine and at corners, fold on rear panel slit.

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Book number: 36432

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Baedeker, Karl

Switzerland

Coblenz, Karl Baedeker, 1870. Fourth Edition, revised and augmented. Limp red cloth with gilt titles. xliv, 418 pp. Illus. with 21 maps, 7 plans and 7 panoramas. 16mo. The 1869 edition with additions and corrections down to the spring of 1870. Includes 1910 newspaper clipping on the Hospice of St. Bernard, one of the featured spots to visit. Hinrichsen E070b. Lacking the spine, front board detached, about half the leaves dampstained on lower half, though noticeable only on a few of the maps, fair to good-.

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Book number: 36429

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Bellin, Jacques Nicolas. Schley, Jacob van der

Carte Des Costes de France Et D'Espagne. Kaart Van de Kusten Van Vrankryk En Van Spanje

[La Haye], [Chez Pierre de Hondt], 1749. 230 x 272 mm. Copper engraving. Map with cartouche and compass. From Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre. - [Hrsg.: Antoine F. Prévost D'Exiles] Nouvelle édition La Haye u.a. Band 6, 1748. A very good copy, some toning at the fold.

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Book number: 37579

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Boulting, William

Four Pilgrims

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. / E.P. Dutton, n.d. Later printing. Green cloth with gilt titles. viii, 256 pp. 8vo. Trubner's Oriental Series. Four travelers examined: Xuanzang (Hiuen-Tsiang) ca. 596-664, traveled to India; Sæwulf, an English pilgrim to Palestine; Muhammad ibn 'Abd Allah, called Ibn Batutah, 1303-1377, traveled to Arabia, Persia, East Africa, India, the Steppes, Constantinople, China, Malaysia, and Spain; Lodovico de Varthema, 15th century Italian, traveled to Damascus, Arabia, India, Malaysia, Banda, and more. Spine tips rubbed els a near fine copy. No dust jacket.

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Book number: 40636

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Brown, Horatio F.; painted by Walter Tyndale

Dalmatia

London, A. & C. Black, 1925. First edition. Blue cloth with a repeated design of shields within double ruled boxes blocked in blind on the front and spine; publisher's monogram blocked in blind on the back; title blocked in black on the front and in gilt on the spine. xii, 187 pp.; index; map. 24 illus. in color; one in b/w. 8vo. (210 x 140 mm). One of "Black's Popular Series of Colour Books." Title page design by R. S. Austin. One of 3000 copies. Contains some new material not found in earlier Black works. Tyndale's watercolors are quite evocative as can also be seen in his work in the volumes on Wessex, Dorset, and Hardy Country among others. Inman 547. A very good copy with minor wear to spine ends and scattered foxing mainly to the edges. Quite a presentable copy. No dust jacket.

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Book number: 19245

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Butler, Frank Hedges

Round the World

London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. 1925. Second edition. Cloth. 269 pp. Illus. with 78 b/w photos. 8vo. Covers Asia, China, Japan, Hawaii, Korea, Kandy Botanical Gardens, Falkland Islands, Panama Canal, Cuba, Tobacco, Java, Bali, Australia, South Seas. Boards rubbed else a very good copy, light scattered foxing mostly to end papers, binding tight, leaves crisp.

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Book number: 28908

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Campbell, Thomas, ed

The Scenic Annual for Mdcccxxxviii

London, George Virtue, 1838. First edition. Cloth. 4, [1], 5-69 pp. Illus. with 36 engraved plates. 4to. This is the only issue of this publication. Most of the plates are by Bartlett (including Niagara Falls from the Ferry, two of the Hudson River, Saratoga, NY, a number of Scotland and Switzerland, Europe), plus a few by Thomas Allom and Clarkson Stanfield. CBEL III, 841. Faxon: Literary Annuals 1128. Gilt lightly rubbed else a very good+ copy, occasional foxing.

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Book number: 35896

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Chapple, Joe Mitchell

To Bagdad and Back

Boston, Chapple Publishing, 1928. First edition. Red cloth decorated in blue and gilt, top edge gilt. v, 298 pp. Illus. with 32 color and b/w plates, b/w drawings and photos. 8vo. Levon West, Chauncy Howard Peters, Saul M. Arkin, Konrad Meindl, illus. Warmly inscribed by the author. A very good+ copy, slight darkening of edges. No dust jacket as issued.

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Book number: 37989

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Comfier, Victoria Bomb

The European Presence in West Africa Before 1800

[Minneapolis], Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, Univ. of Minnesota, 1975. First edition. Paper wrappers. 13 pp. Sm. 8vo. James Ford Bell Lectures, No. 13. A fine copy.

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Book number: 32667

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Livingstone, David and Charles

Le Zambese Et Ses Affluents (1858-1864)" [with] "L'Afrique Australe, Premiers Voyages Du Docteur Livingstone (1840-1856)" from le Tour Du Monde. Nouveau Journal Des Voyages. 1866. XIII

Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1866. First edition. Removed. [113]-176 pp.; [33]-64 pp. Illus. with 54 steel engravings and 4 maps. 4to. Articles nos. 316-317, 321-324. The "Zambese" was published by Hachette in 1866 while "L'Afrique" originally appeared in 1859. Excellent engravings. Scatterd foxing, faint dampstain to upper margin not affecting text or images, overall very good copy removed from a larger volume.

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Book number: 28935

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Society for the History of Discoveries

Terrae Incognitae. The Journal for the History of Discoveries. Volume XV. 1983

Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1985. First edition. Paper wrappers. viii, 256 pp. Illus. with b/w maps. Sm. 4to. Special Columbus issue with articles on the Caicos, the Diario de Colon, passage to Cuba, a transcription of the Diario of Columbus' first voyage, and much more. A near fine copy with minor shelfwear.

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Book number: 28561

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Farineli, Arturo

Viajes Por España Y Portugal. Suplemento Al Volumen de Las Divagaciones Bibliográficas [1921]

Madrid, [n.p.], 1930. First edition. Cloth. 564 pp. Sm. 4to. At head of title: Junta para ampliación de estudios e investigaciones científicas. Centro de estudios históricos. Provenance: Library of Alberto Parreño with his gilt initials on spine plus his bookplate. Palau 83736. Leaves age darkened else a near fine copy.

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Book number: 34208

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Finnemore, John

Peeps at Many Lands: England

London, Adam and Charles Black (A. & C. Black), 1912. Reprint. Cloth. viii, 88 pp. + Adv [4]. Illus. with 12 color plates (including front board) and map. Sm. 8vo. The May 1922 printing of 7500 copies was the fifth printing of this nice little volume in the "Peeps" series. Inman 722. Rear board soiled else a very good copy with scattered foxing.

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Book number: 25272

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Friedenberg, Alberto, et al.

Viaggio Di Nozze

Milan, Stampa Inedita, 1994. Cloth. 146 pp. Illus. with color & b/w photos. Folio. A sumptuous book on Wedding travel with art and excerpts from authors as diverse as Saul Bellow, Giorgio Bocca, D.H. Lawrence, and Paolo Portoghesi. In Italian. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. As new.

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Book number: 28105

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