Man, John

The Survival of Jan Little

New York, Viking, 1987. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First American Edition. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. "What do you do if you are nearly blind and deaf, and suddenly leftalone.in the remotest Amazon jungle?" (from the publisher's blurnb), and complete with several ranges of black-and-white photos, map endpapers. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. x [4], 3-342 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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N° du livre: 351647

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: John Man Jan Little survival

More, Jasper

The Land of Italy

London, B.T. Batsford, Ltd., 1950. Second Impression. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An impressive range of black-and-white illustrations and photographs of the author's travels to and from Italy. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy (but for previous owner's penned inscription at half-title), with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bumping to spine head and foot. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.vii [2], 2-264Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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N° du livre: 349465

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Jasper More|Italy|travel

Morgan, Carol McAfee

Rim of the Caribbean

New York, Friendship Press, 1942. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A woman, the author, her husband, and their two children, travel around and make contact with the peoples and cultures of the Caribbean. A fine and accessible travelogue. Map on blue endpapers. Reading list in Appendix. Extensive survey of missions and missionary work around the Caribbean and including Central America. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of printed, duotone illustrated softpaper wraps, less to text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations and especially sharp photographs. 182 pp. including a full index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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N° du livre: 357184

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Carol McAfee Rim of the Caribbean peoples and cultures of the Caribbean travelogue exploration culture tourism

Nerhood, Harry W., Compiler

To Russian and Return: An Annotated Bibliography of Travelers' English-Language Accounts of Russia from the Ninth Century to the Present

Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Simple printed paper dust wrapper, fully intact, not price-clipped. Published in First Edition state in Columbus, Ohio, by the Ohio State University Press in a solid octavo hardcover format. Bound in red cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. Clean, unmarked interior. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. viii + 367 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,

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N° du livre: 353048

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: bibliography Harry W. Nerhood Russia Soviet Union travel exploration European history

Canadian Pacific

Round the World Cruise: Empress of Britain 1931-1932 (Ninth Annual)

Montreal, Canada, Canadian Pacific, 1931. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Imagine preparing to take a "world cruise" that will span 128 days and visit 81 different ports . . . and in a ship that hadn't yet hit the water . . . In the 1930s, several cruise-ships were traveling globally, but Canadian Pacific’s Empress of Britain outshined them all in promise and potential. The Empress of Britain set new standards of efficiency and luxury. The itinerary is comprehensive: "sight-seeing, pleasure and education considerations have all been taken into account." The ship was to stay in many ports for days on end, giving the passengers a chance to really see the sites and learn from locals. 42,500 tons in weight, 758 feet in length, with luxury options including mail and cables, wireless and telephone, photography, a gift shop, laundry, and entertainment. This brochure was produced prior to the ship sitting water. The brochure was printed before the ship was completed so all the images of the ship are renderings nine altogether. The brochure is a sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Nine illustrations total, one exterior and eight interior. Illustrated, printed wraps, glossy pictorial, at 64 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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N° du livre: 347979

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: cruise brochure|Empress of Britain|cruise ships|ports of call|travelogue

Peterson, Houston

See Them Flying, Houston Peterson's Air-Age Scrapbook, 1909-1910

New York, Richard W. Baron, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fabulous and visual primer in early aviation, both flights and pilots. Handsomely bound exemplar in a textured black cloth, with silver and red lettering inside a red border. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn and a bit chipped along edges, price-clipped, protected by a plastic coat. Bound in a small folio format, measuring 11 1/4" tall and wide. Plentiful black-and-white photographs, diagrams, charts, illustrations. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 261 pp..Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Good,

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N° du livre: 355759

Catalogue: Aviation and Space Travel

Mots-clés: Houston Petersen aviation airplanes W.W.I.

Stenuit, Robert; Francine Barker, translator

Treasures of the Armada

Stenuit, Robert, E. P. Dutton, 1973. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bound in brown cloth, just a bit sunned along edges and to spine. Bumping to spine head and foot. Translated from the original French by Francine Baker. Replete with black-and-white and even full color photographs from salvage operations. Illustrations also of boats and diving personnel. [8], 9-282 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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N° du livre: 349422

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Francine Barker|treasures of the armada|Robert Stenuit|Spanish armada|theft

Mr. Yorick [Laurence Sterne]

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Providence, Rhode Island, Doyle & Hathaway, 1827. . Hardcover. Size: 64mo 3" - 4. This edition of a beloved novel by Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), published first just a few weeks before his death, reproduced an earlier reprinting by Thomas Tegg, London, from 1809, and features two black-and-white engravings on steel by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). A cute little tome, not quite a miniature book, but close, measuring 4 1/4" x 2 5/8" tall and wide, respectively. Bound in light tan cloth, mottled and soiled a bit, spine head and foot bumped a bit, slight cracking of front paste-down, but with paper label to spine still barely abraded. Inside front flap is penned "No. 49" and then opposite is a gift presentation from an T. E. Coopsay (sp. ?) from June 16, 1828 to a B. Noyes (sp.?) and with extreme flourish. Laurence Sterne's class work of fiction helped to establish travel writing in the 18th century as a common and popular genre of writing. The engraving at frontis is of a bemused author, tissue-guarded, foxed, and that at (second) title page is of a downtrodden woman sitting on a bench, a leashed dog at her feet, and a standing man offering his hand to her. 161 pp. and a page's worth of publisher's other offerings.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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N° du livre: 355503

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Laurence Sterne Mr. Yorick Thomas Rowlandson travel novel France Italy

Stevenson, Robert Louis

A la Pagaie, Sur L'Escaut, le Canal de Willebroeck, la Sambre Et L'Oise

Paris, Emile Leciievalier, 1900. First French Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade, there being only one additional copy available on-line. A beautiful copy of the First French Edition of this beloved novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, rebound by Pat Bruno in 2000, now featuring the original covers denoting possession of the volume by the Universite de France, Lycee Condorcet, bound in a hunter-green buckram cloth, little wear thereto, rebacked by master book-binder Pat Bruno of Sacramento, California, in a rich, creamy brown leather, with four raised bands to spine, sharp and distinct gilt-tooled lettering, including four fleurs-de-lis. Beautifully marbled endpapers.Original French language edition of Stevenson's first book: An Inland Voyage, and translated from the original English with permission by Lucien Lemaire. Preface by Auguste Angellier, and then an author's Preface, too. Several black-and-white photographs, including of the author, at frontis, and then a fine engraving by Walter Crane prior to the first page of text, depicting Pan and his pipes, and two outrigger canoes and the terms "arethusa" and "cigarette." Statement of limitation says that this was one of 150 copies printed on papier de Japon. Translated from the original English into French by Lucien Lemaire. Table of Contents at rear of book, along with statement that Bare a Guise did the printing. Age-toning to text-block, even, but clean and unmarked. [5], 6-313 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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N° du livre: 345441

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Auguste Angellier Robert Louis Stevenson|French language |Walter Crane|travel|exploration|navigation|Brussels|Bruxelles

Mrs. L.C. de Tapia

Panama: Where Two Great Oceans Meet

Panama, The Panama National Tourist Commission, 1928. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy of a beautiful Panama travel guide, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Full-color front and rear wraps, and then several score black-and-white illustrations and photographs interior. Sticker from the Henry Miele Travel Service of Los Angeles, California, to front cover. Articles by various travel writers on the glories of "old" and "new Panama, including Mrs. L.C. de Tapia, 51 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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N° du livre: 357081

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: travel guides Panama tourism Mrs. L.C. de Tapia

Titmarsh, Michael Angela [William Makepeace Thackeray]

Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by Way of Lisbon, Athens, Constantinople, and Jerusalem, Performed in the Steamers of the Peninsular and Oriental Company

London, Chapman and Hall, 1846. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Repaired portion of the backstrip at upper spine. Forward cock to spine, previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered, by ink-stamp at first free endpaper, and residue from former bookplate inside front flap and recto. "M[ichael]. A[angelo]. Titmarsh" is the pseudonym of William Makepeace Thackeray. 221 pp., with a publisher's ad regarding another of Thackeray's works. Fine-looking gilt illustration to front cover, blind-stamped designs to covers and spine. Lovely hand-tinted illustration at frontis, "A Street View of Constantinople," protected by a present but detached tissue guard.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Good

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N° du livre: 345529

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: William Makepeace Thackeray|M.A. Titmarsh

Varthema, Lodovico di; Jones, John Winter, translator; Sir Richard Carnac

The Itinerary of Ludovico Di Varthema of Bologna from 1502 to 1508; with a Discourse on Varthema and His Travels in Southern Asia by Sir Richard Carnac Temple

London, The Argonaut Press, 1928. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Two fascinating treatises bound into one: 1) The Itinerary of Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna from 1502 to 1508, by di Varthema himself; 2) With a discourse on Varthema and his travels in southern Asia, by Sir Richard Carnac Temple. The colophon notes that this volume is the fourth publication of The Argonaut Press and is limited to 975 copies on Japon Vellum, numbered 1 to 975, this being unnumbered. Laid in is a retrospectus from the press as to the first three volumes in the series. Printed for the Press by Walter Lewis of The University Press, Cambridge. Bound quite sturdily in a short quarto format, with what appears to be vellum backing and blue denim cloth thereover, with a gorgeous gilt-stamped illustration to cover. lxxxvi to first treatise (Temple's); [1], 1-121 [3] pp. to second (being the original itinerary). Five maps, two illustrations, being of the river Barrage and a facsimile of the title page of the true First Edition, published in 1510, written in Italian. and bound-in silk ribbon bookmark, a bit worn at the ends. Spine head and foot are bumped, backing is worn a bit and mottled a bit, but the binding is uber-solid. Deckle-cut fore-edges, gilt top-edges. Comprises the reissuing of an 1863 translation of the original Italian edition of 1510 recounting di Varthema's "Itinerario." Preface by N.M. Penzer. Interestingly, it claims an eyewitness account of what became known eventually as the United Arab Emirates. di Verthema was also the first "Westerner" to visit Mecca and report on it. He writes sensitively and positively about the natural environs, cultures and (Muslim) peoples of the Arabian Gulf. He wrote as an interested, learned ethnologist, and recorded notes on geography, ritual, social-structure, urban settings, economy and household organization. He was even imprisoned as a "Christian spy," but sought and obtained his release and then traveled on to southwest Arabia. The second treatise, the "Discourse" by Sir Richard Carnac Temple, breaks down Varthema's route and critiques the veracity and accuracy of his account which, with the benefit of several centuries' hindsight, he finds solid. Very nice copy of a scarce item.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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N° du livre: 347978

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna|John Winter Jones|Sir Richard Carnac Temple|Italy|travel|memoir|Arabian Gulf|United Arab Emirates|Mecca|river Barrage

Villard, Henry Serrano

Contact! Story of the Early Birds

New York, Bonanza Books, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sub-title on front cover adds "man's first decade of flight from Kitty Hawk to World War I. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "a" in "number" line present. Big, tall, quarto format hardcover copy, pale green sailcloth over boards, sharp and distinct green lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderate wear and creasing to inside of front flap, else little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Foreword by S. Paul Johnston, Director of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Several score black-and-white illustrations. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Frontis matter, 2-263 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Very Good,

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N° du livre: 355757

Catalogue: Aviation and Space Travel

Mots-clés: Henry Serrano Villard S. Paul Johnston aviation Kitty Hawk Wilbur Wright Orville Wright

[Alexander Wilson?]

Watty's Travels to Carslile, in Search or a Place, to Which Is Added Will Ye Go to the Trosachs, Blue Bonnets over the Border. Down the Burn Davie

Paisley, Printed by G. Caldwell, 1826. . Softcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. The title page is Anonymous as to author, but yet Alexander Wilson (1766-1813) is attributed as this author. 8 pp. Mildly soiled, moderately toned, but easy to read. Alexander Wilson "was a Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator. Identified by George Ord as the "Father of American Ornithology", Wilson is regarded as the greatest American ornithologist before Audubon," according to his Wikipedia entry. Fine black-and-white engraving to title page. 8 pp. including front and rear panels.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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N° du livre: 357056

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: travel exploration Alexander Wilson

Winthrop, Theodore

The Canoe and the Saddle: Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests and Isthmiana

Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1863. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in original publisher's brown cloth over boards, blind-stamped illustration to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, rubbed. Welch, Bigelow & Co. stereotyped this copy for the publisher. Ink-blotch to bottom edge, bumping to, fraying of spine head and foot. From the personal library of a Civil War soldier, Mr. E.W. Rogers, 1st Lieutenant of the 19th N.Y. Battery, having "arrived from home" on December 26th, 1862. Title page says 1863, copyright page says 1862. 375 pp. plus 16 pp. of publisher's advertisements. This is Winthrop's account of his travels in Oregon and Washington in 1853, during which he spent much time among the Native American Indians of the Northwest, and he includes a partial vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon. He then travels to the isthmus of Panama and provides an account of his crossing there, quite perilous.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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N° du livre: 356104

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Theodore Winthrop northwestern rivers travel exploration Isthmusiana