Ritchie, Leitch

Wanderings by the Seine, from Rouen to the Source

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1835. Octavo. half navy morocco and blue cloth. Top edge gilt. Lower joint with a two inch crack, the occasional minor spot in the text. Corners bumped else a very good clean copy. One of three works generally referred to as Turner's Annual Tours, and this apparently a large paper copy (or at least an untrimmed copy), with plenty of margin for the connoisseur. It was first published in the previous year as India paper proofs before titles. Edward Hodnett, goes so far as to say that the engravers who worked on Turner's landscapes turned his watercolors into "steel engravings of unsurpassed brilliance" (Five Centuries of English Book Illustration, page 141) Gordon Ray says that Turner "achieved his best landscapes on steel in the series" (The Illustrator and the Book in England From 1790-1914, page 18). Ill.: With a frontispiece, title-page vignette, and eighteen other fine steel engraved plates after Turner. Very good .

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Book number: 10680

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Travel, Landscape, Frnce, Seine, Turner's Annual Tours. With a Frontispiece, Title-Page Vignette, and Eighteen Other Fine Steel Engraved Plates After Turner.

Royal Blue Lines

Royal Blue Lines Motor Tours; Seeing Boston, Lexington & Concord... . Free Map & Guide to Boston & Vicinity . .

Boston, Royal Blue Lines, 1925. Wraps. Narrow octavo; pp; 40; illustrated with photographs, centerfold double page map of Boston; original decorated printed blue self-wrappers. (Petroliana) Outines many regional tours as well. very good, a bright copy.

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Book number: 16607

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Ephemera Petroliana

Schaller, George B.

Stones of Silence: Journeys in the Himalaya

New York, The Viking Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. (1980). Octavo (65." x 9.5"), brown cloth and tan boards in dust jacket. 292pp. with index. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with photos in color and drawings in black and white. Jacket is slightly edgeworn. Slight slant. The author spent six years in the montain range in order to study the rare wildlife and the affects of impinging civilization upon it and the culture of the people who reside there. Good +/good +.

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Book number: 14609

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Travel; Exploration; Himalayas, Mountains; Mountaineering Mountains & Mountaineering

Schlag, Hermann

Richters Reisefuher Weimar Und Umgebung, (Weimar and Surroundings)

Hamburg and Leipsig, Richters Reisefuher - Verlag, 1917. First Edition. Wraps. Duodecimo; pp. xii, (i), 64 with index 32pp. illustrated ads; three folding maps colored in outline, two of the larger region, one of the city, printed green wrappers, lettered in black, spines faded. Given the fact that these guides were published during WWI when travel was restricted and dangerous it is not surprising that they are scarce. Very good .

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Book number: 12590

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Germany Maps & Atlases

Seton, Ernest Thompson

The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey of 2000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylmer Lake

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First edition. Cloth. Octavo (9 x 5.75"), green cloth, gilt. Blind stamped caribou horns on cover. 415pp with index and appendices. Frontispiece and 53 plates in black and white. Light wear at the extremities. Top edge dusty. A nice copy. Account of the author's journey down the Athabasca and Slave Rivers to Slave Lake and northeast to the Aylmer and Clinton-Colden Lakes. Very good .

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Book number: 19444

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Natural History Arctic, Arctic Prairies; Caribou; Lake Aylmer; Athabasca

Shea, John Gilmary

Early Voyages Up and Down the Mississippi, by Cavelier, St. Cosme, le Sueur, Gravier, and Guignas with an Introduction, Notes and an Index

Albany, Joel Munsell, 1902. Limited edition of five hundred copies reprinted for Joseph McDonough Albany, N. Y. 1902. Out of Series copy marked "Review Copy" on the limitation page. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xiv, 15-191; Light blue paper covered boards with a cream paper title label paste down on front board. Cream cloth spine with small paper title label. Deckled paper edges. Light shelf wear and edge wear to boards. Howes S 358. This copy bears the bookplate of Henry Gibbes Morgan Jr, a scion of a very prominent New Orleans family. "French exploration of the Mississippi Valley in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Howes S-358. Sabin 80003. Larned 1188: "[French narratives] collected, translated, and annotated by Dr. Shea. Very good .

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Book number: 19043

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Temple, Edward Lowe

Old World Memories; in Two Volumes, Illustrated

Boston, L. C. Page & Company, 1900. Later printing. Hardcover. Two volumes; duodecimo; pp; I; (xii), 345 with index; II; (viii), 327 with index; Illustrated with photogravures; decorated green cloth, gilt, top edges, gilt, in the distinctive Page manor. A Grand Tour. Very good .

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Book number: 13578

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

The Shredded Wheat Company

The Wonders of Niagara: A Visit to America's Greatest Cataract with a Description of the Points of Interest in a Region of Scenic Grandeur and Beauty

Buffalo NY, Printed by Clement Press & Niagara Lithograph Company for the Shredded Wheat Company, 1914. First Edition. Original wraps. 16mo; pp; (52); illustrated with forty black and white photographs and four colored plates of dishes at rear; original color pictorial wrappers with the Falls on the front and the Shredded Wheat Factory on the rear. With recipes at the rear. Trivia note, it appears that the official name for a shredded wheat bisquit is a "Triscuit. Very good .

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Book number: 19036

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Ephemera New York City & State Cookery, Menus, Homemaking

Thomas. Lowell

Beyond Khyber Pass Into Forbidden Afghanistan

New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xi, (iii), 255; illustrated with a frontispiece and six photographs by Harry A. Chase, map endpapers; decorated green cloth lettered in red. The very title connotes adventure and danger. Relates the author's trip to Afghanistan in 1924 when little was known about the country. Colorful slightly inflated descriptions of this "forbidden land" by this indefatigable traveler (1892-1981) who became famous for his book on T.E. Lawrence and his many years as the voice of Fox Movietone News. He also worked for CBS and NBC News and was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1989. Very good .

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Book number: 16293

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Middle East; India; Pakistan; Afghanistan;

(Tourism)

The Northfield, East Northfield Massachusetts, Open All the Year

(Np, No Publisher), 1913. Wraps. Octavo; 9.25" x 6.25"; pp; 16; illustrated with black and white photographs and a map; original string-tied decorated printed paper wrappers lettered in black. Quite scarce, OCLC locates just two copies; Descriptions and views of surrounding attractions; images of: The Northfield; French King; The Northfield ferry; Mill Brook dam; Northfield Seminary buildings and grounds; The old Northfield Street; Frederick Marquand Memorial Hall; Wanamaker Lake. Very good .

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Book number: 17975

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Ephemera New Englandiana

United News Company

Transportation Map of City of Detroit, Highland Park; Hamtramck and Dearborn. .

Detroit, United News Company, National Lithograph Company, 1939. Wraps. Duodecimo; Original printed stiff red wrappers; large folding map, highlighted in color, approx. 29" x 22", street index on verso; some minor splits at folds; else very good. Shows electric car lines, bus routes and railroads. It would flatten and frame nicely. Very good .

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Book number: 15124

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Michigan; Detroit; Maps; Ephemera; Maps & Atlases

Wey, Francis

Rome; New Edition Revised and Compared with the Latest Authorities by Maria Hornor Lansdale

Philadelphia, Henry T. Coates, 1898. A New Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, 510, with index; illustrated, frontispiece and twenty-nine additional black and white plates, a large color folding map at rear; gilt decorated and lettered aqua-marine cloth, top edge gilt. An example of these beautifully produced late 19th, early 20th century travel books from Coates. Previous owner's name on a preliminary else, very good .

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Book number: 16982

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Wilkins, Harold T.

Pirate Treasure

New York, E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc, 1937. First Edition. Cloth. (1937). Octavo (8.25" x 5.5"), red cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust jacket. 409pp. Illustrated with photos and charts by the author. The frontispiece is a photo from the Douglas Fairbanks movie "The Black Pirate". Very good but for a faded spot on the spine. Good dust jacket has moderate chipping at the extremities, and the spine is faded with a triangle shaped loss at the head. From the jacket: "A factual book for the serious-minded treasure hunter witih more glamour and excitement than a dozen tales of romance and enchantment." Wilkins is the author of "Hunting Hidden Treasures" and "Modern Buried Treasure Hunters", etc. A scarce book with or without a dust jacket. Very good/good +.

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Book number: 19477

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Treasure Hunting; Pirates; Buried Treasure;

Wright, J. E. B.

Rock Climbing in Britain

London, Nicholas Kaye, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 142, index; illustrated, thirty-one photographs, twenty-three diagrams; green cloth, gilt in a dust jacket; jacket is lightly toned. At catalogue date one of only three copies in North America. An interesting look at the sport in Great Britain. Very Good/a good or better.

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Book number: 16137

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Philsophy; Mountains; Mountaineering