Hobbes, Thomas.

De Mirabilibus Pecci: Being the Wonders of the Peak in Darby-Shire, Commonly Called the Devil's Arse of Peak. In English and Latine. The Latine Written by Thomas Hobbes of Malmsbury. The English by a Person of Quality.

London: Printed for William Crook at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar, 1678. 1678. - Small octavo, 6-1/2 inches high by 4-1/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in full brown calf titled in gilt, with rules & decorations in blind on the front cover and with decorations in blind between raised bands on the spine. The binding is further enhanced with marbled endpapers. All edges are dyed red. The covers are slightly rubbed & scuffed with a minor chip to the head of the spine. Title leaf, pages [1]-81, 84-85 and a 7-page catalog of books printed for William Crook. Pages (82-83) are skipped in the numbering without any loss of text. The title page is laid down on heavier stock resulting in the loss of the license on the verso. It would have read "LICENSED / Septemb. 3d Rog. L'estrange /1677". The title page is soiled with chips and tears repaired by reinforcing with heavier stock from the verso. There is a tine hole to page one with minor loss. The first page of the catalogue is closely cropped with minor loss to a very few letters and the corners of the last page of the catalog have been repaired with minor loss. Page 3 has been additionally numbered in ink at the top and there are annotations and markings penned at the top of the last blank page. A good attractive book.

From the library of Henry Kirke with his armorial bookplate, "Henry Kirke, The eaves". Henry Kirke of Martinside purchased "The Eaves" estate in 1654. He left it to his son, also named Henry. Good .

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Book number: 98688

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: TRAVEL; ENGLISH; DE MIRABILIBUS PECCI: BEING THE WONDERS OF THE PEAK IN DARBY-SHIRE, COMMONLY CALLED THE DEVIL'S ARSE OF PEAK; IN ENGLISH AND LATINE; THE LATINE WRITTEN BY THOMAS HOBBES OF MALMSBURY; THE ENGLISH BY A PERSON OF QUALITY; WILLIAM CROOK;

Hocken, T. M.

A Bibliographyof the Literature Relating to New Zealand.

Wellington, New Zealand: John Mackay, Government Printer, 1909. 1909. - Octavo, brown cloth titled in gilt. Bumped & rubbed. 619 pp. Some front & rear top page corners lightly creased. From the library of the Winchester Mechanics Institute with its stamp on the front endpapers & on several pages of the text. Good.

The scarce first edition.

Includes a 50-page Maori bibliography. Good .

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Book number: 6475

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: TRAVEL; HISTORY; LITERATURE; NEW ZEALAND; MAORIS; T. M. HOCKEN; BIBLIOGRAPHY; REFERENCE; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION. (Travel & Exploration). (New Zealand). A BIBLIOGRAPHYOF THE LITERATURE RELATING TO NEW ZEALAND. Hocken, T. M.

Hogarth, Paul.

Sons of Adam: A Sketchbook of Southern Africa with a Preface by Father Trevor Huddleston Cr and Excerpts from the Diary of the Artist.

NY: Nelson & Sons, (1960). (1960). - Small 4to, yellow & black pictorial cloth (very lightly bumped) titled in black, in dw (chipped & lightly soiled; dw spine & panels faded; price-clipped). 47 & [1] pp. (page edges slightly darkened). B&W illustrations from drawings by the author. Very good in good dw.

First American edition.

"This artist's visit to South Africa and the Central African Federation was made at a time when controversy about that part of the world seemed at its height..Under the impact of industrialism, the entire African continent, and particularly South Africa, is rising to its feet. Hogarth has vividly caught this turbulent atmosphere; of a changing way of life."--From the dw. Very good .

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Book number: 34688

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: TRAVEL; ART; SKETCHBOOK; DIARY; AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION; RHODESIA; TREVOR HUDDLESTON; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

Hoving, Thomas.

Tutankhamun: The Untold Story.

New York: Simon and Schuster, (1978). (1978). - Octavo, white cloth titled in blue on the spine, in a color decorated white dust wrapper. The dust jacket is soiled and darkened and also slightly chipped along the edges. 384 pages, with color and black & white photographic illustrations. Near fine in a good dw.

The second printing.

The former head of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas Hoving, recounts the story of the discovery of King Tut's tomb. Drawing on untapped sources, he reveals the untold story of those who played a major part: Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon, the French Jesuit Lacau, the Egyptian authorities, and even the directors of the Metropolitan Museum had a hand in the plot. Good .

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Book number: 34059

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: TRAVEL; EXPLORATION; KING TUT; EGYPTOLOGY; THOMAS HOVING; ARCHAEOLOGY; ANCIENT HISTORY; TUTANKHAMUN; THE UNTOLD STORY; BOY KING OF EGYPT; HOWARD CARTER; LORD CARNARVON; FRENCH JESUIT LACAU; EGYPTIANS; METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART; EGYPTIANS.

Howells, William Dean.

Familiar Spanish Travels. W.D. Howells. Illustrated.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1913. 1913. - Octavo, pictorial green cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & the spine with a lovely illustration of a castle on a promontory stamped in gilt on the front cover. The top edge is gilt. The covers are slightly soiled and bumped. [xii], 326 & [1] pages, illustrated with a frontispiece and 31 full-page plates. A discreet early bookseller's label is affixed to the bottom of the rear pastedown. Very good.

First edition. [BAL 9826]. Very good .

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Book number: 19373

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: TRAVEL; ILLUSTRATED; WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS; FIRST EDITION; LITERATURE; FAMILIAR SPANISH TRAVELS; ILLUSTRATIONS; 1ST EDITION; PICTORIAL.

Hunt, William R.

Arctic Passage: The Turbulent History of the Land and People of the Bering Sea 1697-1975.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. (1975). (1975). - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. The extremities are very slightly rubbed & there is an area of slight discoloration to the bottom corner of the front cover at the tail of the spine. There is some minor soiling to the dust jacket; its spine is slightly darkened and its top edge is lightly chipped. xiii, [ii] & 394 pages. Black-and-white photographic illustrations & a double page map. Very good.

First edition. Very good .

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Book number: 30518

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: TRAVEL & EXPLORATION; ARCTIC; ARCTIC PASSAGE: The Turbulent History of the Land and People of the Bering Sea 1697-1975; WILLIAM R. HUNT; ALEUTIAN-COMMANDER ISLANDS; ALASKA; KAMCHATKA; WHALING; COUNT DE BENYOWSKY; GEORG STELLER; WILLIAM HEALY DALL; JOH

Hurlimann, Martin.

Spain. Introductory Essay and Notes.

London: Thames and Hudson, (1962). (1962). - Quarto, tan cloth. The covers are slightly bumped. 224 pages. There is an owner's ink name on the front endpaper. 6 color plates, including a frontispiece, & profuse black-and-white photographic illustrations. Very good.

Later printing. Very good .

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Book number: 8404

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: TRAVEL; PHOTOGRAPHY; SPAIN; MARTIN HURLIMANN.

Tweedie, Ethel Brilliana (1862-1940). Prolific English author, travel writer, illustrator and women's rights advocate who also wrote as Mrs. Alec Tweedie and as Ethel B. Harley.

Autograph Letter Signed by the English Author, Travel Writer and Illustrator Ethel Brilliana Tweedie Suggesting a New Theme for a Lecture Tour.

Chicago, November 10, circa [1901]. [1901]. - Over 50 words penned on 2 attached 6-3/8 inch high by 5 inch wide "5141 Kimbark Avenue" stationery. Writing to the American lecture manager Major James B. Pond, Ethel Brilliana Tweedie informs him that "I have simply been buried here - by all the papers & numerous clubs". She goes on to say that she's refused to speak as "I am thinking of returning on a lecturing tour" suggesting a new subject "Is Marriage a profession?" She closes by saying she's leaving "for Mexico on Thursday". Signed "E. Alec-Tweedie". Major Pond has stamped the word "Book" in blue at the top of the first page indicating that he has sent her a copy of his book "Eccentricities of Genius". Folded for mailing. Near fine.

The English author, travel writer, journalist and illustrator Ethel Brilliana Tweedie (1862-1940) also wrote as Ethel B. Harley and Mrs. Alec Tweedie, sometimes hyphenating the latter. At her father's suggestion, she kept a journal when visiting Iceland in 1886 and subsequently published her account as "A Girl's Ride in Iceland". A few years after marrying Alexander Tweedie, she and her sister traveled to Norway to see her brother who was seriously ill. After returning a second time, she published "A Winter Jaunt to Norway: with Accounts of Nansen, Ibsen, Bjornson, Brandes, and Many Others". Her husband's tragic early death followed by that of her father who had who had lost his moneys when the marine insurance syndicate failed, left her penniless. She turned to writing to support herself and her children, publishing books about her journeys and writing for the popular press in London. She photographed landscapes and people and also painted and illustrated scenes based on sketches she had made during her travels. Soon after the end of the First World War, Tweedie took an extended tour of the Near East. Starting in Europe, she traveled through Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, India, and Southern Sudan. Her travels were subsequently described in "Mainly East". Tweedie was an early advocate of women's rights and suffrage and she felt strongly that both boys and girls should be equally educated and provided for. "Both boys and girls should be treated exactly alike", she wrote. Fine .

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Book number: 96597

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: TRAVEL; EXPLORATION; LITERATURE; ILLUSTRATOR; ARTIST; TRAVEL WRITER; AUTHOR; ETHEL BRILLIANA TWEEDIE; MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE; MRS. ALEC-TWEEDIE; ETHEL B. HARLEY; AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED; SIGNATURE; MAJOR JAMES B. POND; LECTURE TOUR; IS MARRIAGE A PROFESSION?;

Jacobs, George Wayne.

How to Get Along in Portugal and Spain.

New York: Simon and Schuster, (1966). (1966). - Octavo, orange cloth with a vignette in black on the front cover. The spine is slightly faded. [viii] & 278 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings & endpaper maps. Near fine.

First edition. Fine .

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Book number: 14674

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: TRAVEL; TOURISM; GUIDE; EUROPE; HOW TO GET ALONG IN PORTUGAL AND SPAIN; GEORGE WAYNE JACOBS; ILLUSTRATIONS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Jannel, Claude; Lontcho, Frederic.

Sumatra.

(Paris): Editions Errance, (1980). (1980). - Small quarto [approximately 9 inches high by 7-3/4 inches wide] pictorial paper covered boards. The extremities are rubbed and the head & tail of the spine are lightly chipped. 111 pages plus colophon. Illustrations, including maps, in black & white and color. Very good.

The text is in French. Very good .

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Book number: 23519

Catalogue: Travel & History

Keywords: TRAVEL & HISTORY; SUMATRA; CLAUDE JANNEL; FREDERIC LONTCHO; BATAK; MINANG; KABAU; NIAS; ILLUSTRATIONS.

Jigmei, Ngapo Ngawang; et al.

Tibet.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981. 1981. - Quarto, red cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine, in a pictorial dust wrapper. 296 pages. The bottom corner of the half-title is very lightly creased. Profusely illustrated with color photographic illustrations, many full or double-page, by Yang Kelin, Xie Xingfa, et al. Also with black-and-white textual illustrations. Near fine.

First American edition.

Preface by Harrison Salisbury. Very good .

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Book number: 23989

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: TRAVEL; PHOTOGRAPHY; ASIA; TIBET; NGAPO NGAWANG JIGMEI; HARRISON SALISBURY; YANG KELIN; XIE XINGFA; ILLUSTRATIONS; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; 1ST AMERICAN EDITION.

Johnson, Martin.

Safari: A Saga of the African Blue.

NY/London: G. P. Putnam's Sons/The Knickerbocker Press, 1928. 1928. - Octavo, red cloth titled in gilt on spine & front cover. The spine & its gilt titling are faded; the covers are bumped & soiled. x & 294 pp. B&W frontispiece & B&W photographic illustrations. 1 leaf of illustrations is partially detached with the front edge somewhat roughed, else the contents are very good.

First edition.

Martin Johnson and his wife sailed from New York in December 1923 with a view to filming "more completely than it had ever been done before, a record of Africa's fast vanishing wild life.." They explored, and eventually settled in British East Africa. Very good .

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Book number: 1909

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: TRAVEL; EXPLORATION; SAFARI; WILD LIFE; BIG GAME; AFRICA; BRITISH EAST AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; MARTIN JOHNSON; LAKE PARADISE; ILLUSTRATIONS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Kebabian, John S.; compiler.

The Henry C. Taylor Collection.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Library, 1971. 1971. - Octavo, dark blue cloth titled in silver. 88 pp. Near fine.

First edition. Very good .

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Book number: 5804

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: TRAVEL; EXPLORATION; NAVIGATION; REFERENCE; COLLECTION; COLLECTOR; HENRY C. TAYLOR; JOHN S. KEBABIAN; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION. (Travel & Exploration). (Navigation). THE HENRY C. TAYLOR COLLECTION. Kebabian, John S.; compiler.

Kirss, Odette; compiler.

Rakvere Vanadel Fotodel: Fotosid Virumaa Muuseumide Kogust / Rakvere in Old Photos: Photos from the Collection of the Museums of Virumaa Foundation.

Tanapaev, (2006). (2006). - Small folio [11-5/8 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide], pictorial paper covered boards in a matching dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped. 140 & [3] pages. Profuse photographic illustrations in mauve, black & white. Near fine.

The text is in Estonian with an English translation.

Scarce. Fine .

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Book number: 23328

Catalogue: Travel & History

Keywords: TRAVEL & HISTORY; ESTONIA; RAKVERE VANADEL FOTODEL; RAKVERE IN OLD PHOTOS; ODETTE KIRSS; ILLUSTRATIONS.

Knuth, Eigil.

Uafhaengighed: Hundeslaederejsens Filosofi / Kiffaanngissuseq: Qimussimik Angalanerup Isumaliutersuutai / Independence: The Philosophy of a Dog Sledge Journey / Unabhangigkeit: Die Philosophie Der Hundeschlittenreise.

(Nuuk): Atuakkiorfik, (1995). (1995). - Octavo, tan cloth titled in black with a decorative border & a vignette in black on the front cover, in a dust wrapper. 85 & [1] pages plus colophon. Illustrated with black-and-white sketches by the author. Near fine.

First edition.

Eigil Knuth [1903-1996] was a Danish explorer, archaeologist, sculptor and writer.

The text is in Danish with translations into Eskimo, English and German.

Scarce. Fine .

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Book number: 35401

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: TRAVEL; TRAVEL BY DOG SLED; ARCTIC; GREENLAND; DOGS; SLED DOGS; INDEPENDENCE: THE PHILOSOPHY OF A DOG SLEDGE JOURNEY; UAFHAENGIGHED; KIFFAANNGISSUSEQ; UNABHANGIGKEIT; AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. EIGIL KNUTH; DANISH EXPLORER; ARCHAEOLOGIST; SCULPTOR; AUTHOR; F