[KIRKBY, CHARLES MAJOR]:

A Forced March from My Home in Old England, to My Home in the Regiment. Bangalore, Printed at the Columbian Press, by Thomas Beare, 1848.

. Small 8vo. Pp. (iv), 203, (1) with errata leaf tipped in. Original cloth, rubbed and spine ends chipped. Rare travelogue of a journey made in 1846 by an officer returning through Europe to his regimental base in India. The authorship is attributed to Charles Foveaux Kirkby, then a captain in the Fourteenth Madras Native Infantry. The account describes the visit to Paris and then is mainly devoted to his stay in Rome. From there he passed through Naples, Sorrento, Malta and Alexandria before taking a steamer from Cairo to Madras. This work is one of only two known from the Colombian Press at Bangalore! The second work is a Tamil language book printed in 1850. See: D.E. Rhodes article in The British Museum Quarterly, vol. 34 no. 3/4 (1970), pp. 83-86. Seems scarce, we've only found two library copies (British Library and Princeton University). Not in Diehl.

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Book number: 99981

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, indian, inde, bangalore, travel, exploration, italy, italian, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

VON BERLEPSCH, HERMANN ALEXANDER:

Alperna, deras natur och folk. Stockholm 1871.

. Pp. (iv), 400. With extra illustrated title and 22 fullpage plates by Emil Rittmeyer. Original brown cloth, richly gilt, top of spine slightly chipped, inner lower hinge split. First Swedish edition of this classical work, first published as "Die Alpen in Natur und Lebensbildern" in 1861. A lovely copy. Cf Perret 398.

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Book number: 99995

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, alps, alperna, france, frecnh, italy, italian, schweiz, switzerland, travel, exploration

BREMER, FREDRIKA:

[Autograph letter signed, to Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, about publication of the American edition of her travel account "Lifvet i gamla världen"]. Dated Athens June 1860.

. The letter comprises 2 1/2 pages on bifolium, old folds. Size: 13.5 x 21.5 cm. Handwritten in English. Fredrika Bremer was a pioneer in the Swedish women's movement and a renowned novelist of her time. This letter was written during her long journey through Europe to the Levant. Her diary was translated into English titled "Life in the old world". This part of the journey is devoted to her stay in Switzerland and Italy. Fredrika writes to the publisher Messrs. Ticknor & Fields and expresses her delight that they will publish her "just finished work on Switzerland and Italy". She requests that copies be forwarded "from the author" to six named persons in the United States, suggesting that the payment be deducted from the agreed sum for the American copyright. However, it does not appear that Ticknor actually published the American edition of her work (?). It was published with the imprint of "T.B. Peterson and Brothers" in Philadelphia.

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Book number: 121484

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, travel, exploration, manuscript, letter, switzerland, italy,

BREMER, FREDRIKA:

Lifvet i gamla verlden. Dagboks-anteckningar under resor i söder-och österland. Six parts in three volumes. Stockholm, Isaac Marcus, 1860 - 62.

. Pp. (iv), xii, 247; (iv), 412; (iv), 239; (iv), 299, (2); (vi), 247; (iv), 299, (1). Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, flat spines richly decorated in gilt, lightly rubbed. Bookplate (second volume). A handsome copy of the first edition. Fredrika Bremer was a pioneer in the Swedish women's movement and a renowned novelist of her time. This is her diary kept during a five-year journey to Switzerland, Italy, Turkey, Palestine and Greece. She visited many famous sites, including Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Jaffa. In Constantinople she visited the old harem at the Topkapi Palace and Aya Sophia. Volume three describes her stay in Greece. She was particularly interested in social life and the development of society in the countries she visited.Cf Röhricht p. 490. Tobler 199. Wäber 87.

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Book number: 121269

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, switzerland, greece, italy, italian, turkey, palestine, holy land, near east, levant, travel, exploration, lady traveller

HOLST, WILHELM / HEGER, HANS CHRISTIAN (Transl.):

Det lille universum eller jordens og dens beboeres markvaerdigheder. Et billedvaerk i intressante staalstik med fortlarende text. (A small universe - a pictorial work). Kjobenhavn, B. Schlesinger'ske Bogtrykkeri, 1842.

. Oblong 8vo. Size: 12 x 16 cm. (iv), 156. With 72 steel engraved plates. Original half calf, spine decorated in gilt, initials H.H.P.R. in gilt on upper cover. Binding rubbed, front hinge cracking. A charming illustrated work translated into Danish from German. Some places described are Athens, Pirano, Neapel, Neuberg, Dresden, Weissen, Predil, Graz, Como, Nazareth, and Triest.

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Book number: 40029

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, athens, greece, greek, france, italy, switzerland, germany, travel, travels, voyagee, exploration, explore,

S:T JOHN ( ST JOHN), F.:

Rambles in Germany, France, Italy and Russia, in search of Sport. London 1853.

. VII, 244 pp. With 4 coloured plates with hunting scenes. Cont. cloth, worn, loose in binding. A nice copy. Westwood-Satchell p.185.

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Book number: 162

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, europe, europa, germany, france, italy, russia, travels, voyages, explore, exploration, allemagne, italie, russie, explorations, expéditions, viajes, viaggio, reisen

KERNELL, PER ULRIK / STENHAMMAR, CHR. (Editor):

Anteckningar under en resa i det sydliga Europa. Utur hans bref och efterlemnade dagbok. Linköping, Axel Petre, 1825.

. Pp. (x), 280 (2). Uncut copy in original printed wrappers, chipped. Old signature on title. Posthumously published letters and diary notes written during an early Swedish journey to southern Europe. Places visited are Gibraltar, Marseille, Nizza, Genua, Rome, Munich, Augsburg, Nürnberg, etc. First edition.

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Book number: 22033

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, spain, france, italy, germany, europe, european, travel, travels, exploration, explore

LUISA SPAGNOLI:

[Sales Order Catalogue of Fashion Clothes]. Perugia 1955, 1956 and 1957.

. This collection of fashion plates consists of 111 chromolithographic plates with multiple images and 74 textile samples pasted in on paper. Each fashion style is numbered and prices are added in pencil. Annotation in German on first leaf. Housed in a paper folder. We believe this manual used to belong to a buyer for a fashion store. The impressive collection includes the typical ultra-feminine and luxurious styles of the mid-1950s. The catalogue contains samples of shawls, stoles, knitwear, jersey wool blouses, summer dresses and skirts, sport wears, jackets, coats, dresses and sweaters decorated with gold and silver embroidery. The textile samples include shantung silk, linen, rustic linen, burlap, artificial synthetic, cotton, hemp etc. In fine condition.The enterprise Luisa Spagnoli was founded by Luisa Sargentini in 1928. Upon her death the leadership was passed on to her son Mario and upon his death to his son Lino Spagnoli in 1953.

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Book number: 121254

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Fashion, fashion, mode, clothes, haute couture, italy, italian, french, design,

TSCHUDI, FRÉDÉRIC DE:

Les Alpes. Description pittoresque de la nature et de la faune alpestres. Berne and Strasbourg 1859.

. Large 8vo. Pp. xiv, (2), 737. With 24 tinted lithographs with tissue guards. Light staining in a few places. Publisher's pictorial cloth, richly gilt, corners and edges worn, upper hinge cracking, g.e. First French edition. Wäber p.81.

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Book number: 20070

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, alp, alpine, france, french, italy, italian, switzerland, swiss, europe, european, travels, travel, exploration, explore