Carey, Edith F.

The Channel Islands

London, A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1924. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound simply in blue cloth over boards, square and tight, with black lettering to spine and front cover, blind-stamped repeating illustrations to both. Missing an endpaper, else complete. Fourteen chapter include: "The Dawn of Civilization," "Fiefs and Feudal Tenures," "Battle, Murder and Sudden Death, Ecclesiastical Affairs," "Privateering and Smuggling," "The Key of The Channel" and The "Garden of Cymodoce." Fine full-color frontispiece, 32 illustrations overall, and a sketch map. Protected now in stiff Mylar. xi [1], 1-226 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: 353588

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Edith F. Carey Henry B. Wimbus travel exploration The Channel Islands

Chapman, F. Spencer (Frederick Spencer)

Northern Lights: The Official Account of the British Arctic Air-Route Expedition, 1930-1931

London, Chatto & Windus, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. An extraordinarily well illustrated and readable account by Frederick Spencer Chapman (1907-1971) of the British Arctic air-route expedition. Foreword by Admiral Sir William Goodenough, an introduction by the late H.G. Watkins, leader of the expedition, and additional chapters by J.M. Scott, Capt. P.M.H. Lemon, and Augustine Courtauld. An apparent First Edition, but not so stated. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean interior but for some foxing at endpapers and page fore-edges and scattered thereafter, mostly in plate margins. Previous owner's bookplate inside front flap, being that of Reginald Mortimer, with an ink inscription, "From J.D.G.M. [?] Xmas 1932." Bound in a bluish linen weave cloth, mildly rubbed and sunned, spine head and foot bumped, bruised but not broken tips, gilt titling over silver label to spine. Sixty-three black-and-white illustrations and photographs, a folding map, notes, bibliography and index. xv [1], 1-304 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: 353508

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Frederick Spencer Chapman British Arctic expedition H.G. Watkins J.M. Scott Captain Lemon Augustine Courtauld

Chapman, Esther, ed.

Pleasure Island: The Book of Jamaica

Jamaica, The Arawak Press, 1952. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly accessible tourist guide to the British West Indies. with period advertisements galore. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Orange card-stock wrappers, dampstaining at gutter of endpapers, dissipating, not intruding on text. Staining of and splitting to a portion of backstrip, else still sturdy. Mildly soiled and worn exterior, clean and unmarked interior. Edited by Esther Chapman, Assistant Editor being Marjorie Thwaites, and with a historical section by H.P. Jacobs and bibliography and geographical sections by Mary M. Carley. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations and photographsMember, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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N° du livre: 357156

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Esther Chapman Jamaica British West Indies Kingston Jamaica Marjorie Thwaites H.P. Jacobs Mary M. Carley

Thomas Frognall Dibdin

A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany

London, Robert Jennings, 1829. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A set of three octavo volumes, a stated Second Edition, a slight abridgement of the First Edition, published in 1821, measuring 8 1/8" tall and 5" wide. Previous owner's notes have it that the three tomes have been rebound in a mid-20th-century half-leather (red Morocco over tips and spines) and with new marbled paper over boards, quite fine, and with bright, matching stiff marbled endpapers front and rear to each volume. Minor rubbing to tips and edges, joints, etc. Four raised bands to spine, gilt-tooled titles and author's names, in gilt-ruled compartments. Fine, neatly affixed bookplates inside each flap (from Walter Lindley), and beneath each is another, smaller, horizontally rectangular bookplate from Francis Haynes Lindley, complete with facsimile signature to each. Fine black-and-white engraving of the author at frontis to Volume I, two additional plates to Volume I, another five in Volume II, and two more in Volume III. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations hors-text. This edition has omitted quite a few plates, although has added an additional seven here. Thomas Frognall Dibdin was born in Calcutta, India, in 1776 and died in London in 1847. He was a co-founder of the Roxburghe Club (a book club), an esteemed bibliographer, among others, of Boccacio and Spencer and of travel and exploration literature (Chisholm, Encycl. Britt.; Stoker, D.L.B.). Volume I: xlii [3], 2-421 pp.; iv [1], 2-428 pp.; Volume III: iv [1], 2- 481 pp. All in, a fine set of exemplars of an antiquarian take on travel to France and Germany, told in a series of letters, biographies and bibliographical entries, augmented with particularly fine engravings.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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N° du livre: 353856

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Thomas Frognall Diddin

Olafsson, Eggert and Bjarni Palsson

Feroabok Eggerts Olafssonar Og Bjarna Plssonar Um Ferdir ã¾Eirra a ã�Slandi Arin 1752-1757

Reykjavik, Iceland, Bokautgafan Orn og Orlygur hf., 1978. Third Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A Fine, nearly As New condition copy, rare in this condition (Fine) and state (the Third Edition) of what translates into English from the Danish as "Travels in Iceland by Eggert Olafsson and Bjarni Palsson Performed 1782-1757 by Order of his Danish Majesty Containing Observations on the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, a Description of the Lakes, Rivers, Glaciers, Hot-Springs and Volcanoes; of the Various Kinds of Earths, Stones, Fossils and Petrifactions; as Well as of the Animals, Insects, Fishes, & c." Sterling condition set bound in brown leatherette, two volumes, both illustrated and lettered at covers in sharp and distinct gilt, housed in an also nearly As New condition slip-case the front of which is quite wonderfully illustrated also in gilt. Eggert Ólafsson (1726-1768) and Bjarni Pálsson (1719-1779) were friends for most of their lives. The two volumes show unbruised tips, tight bindings, and clean internals, showing no appreciable shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Many, many, many score lovely illustrations, including full-color, including full-page, of the flora fauna, people and cultures, housings and vocations the two explorers encountered on their journeys throughout Iceland in the late 1700s. Volumes contain scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Volume I is xxii + 365 pp.; Volume II is viii + 296 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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N° du livre: 345184

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Danish language|Eggert Olafsson|Bjarni Palsson|exploration|Denmark|Iceland

Flecker, James Elroy

Hassan: The Story of Hassan of Bagdad and How He Came to Make the Golden Journey to Samarkand

London, William Heinemann, London, 1924 , 1924. First Illustrated Edition. . Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A particularly nice-looking copy of the First Illustrated Edition, bound in small quarto, and covered in stiff plastic. 155 pp. A dozen tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards by Thomas Mackenzie, including at frontis. Dealer stamp, neatly affixed, inside rear flap at bottom near spine, opposite previous owner's address label, neatly affixed. 155 pp. Handsomely bound in red cloth, with gilt lettering to cover and spine, fine illustration to front cover, duotone illustrated endpapers. Looks stately standing on the shelf.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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N° du livre: 349466

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Thomas Mackenzie|James Elroy Flecker|Samarkand|travel

Forssell, C.; J.G. Sandberg, beskrifne; A. Grafstrom, och

Ett Ar I Sverge [a Year in Sweden]: Taflor Af Svenska Almogen's Kladedragt, Lefnassatt Och Hemseder, Samt de for Landet Historia Mã¤Rkadlig Orter

Stockholm, Johan Horberg, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. This is an unusually attractive copy, and only two copies are currently available in libraries, both in Denmark, according to the O.C.L.C.; a single additional copy is available to the trade. Hardcover, quarto format, with 48 full-page, hand-colored lithographs printed one side only. Stiff paper wrappers and then rebound in three-quarters leather and marbled paper over boards, featuring five raised bands to spine, gilt-tooled fleurs-de-lis, title, author in compartments. A bit of sunning to decorated endpaper edges, ditto to half-title page. There is a hand-colored engraving at half-title, quite striking and colorful. Paginated with difficulty as [4], 137, [3, a blank], + 48 engraved hand-colored posters (including the vignette on title) + 2 engraved music appendices. The author, Carl Gustaf "Gosta" Forssell lived 1783-1848, and was a leading voice regarding travel, exploration, agriculture and international relations. The notes he took and the illustrations of the people he met and activities he witnessed make this a special book.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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N° du livre: 345753

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: art history|Swedish language|J.G. Sandberg|Johan Horberg|C. Forssell|A. Grafstrom|lithographs

Goldring, Douglas

The Loire: A Record of a Pilgrimage from Gerbier de Joncs to St. Nazaire

London, Constable & Company, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean interior, moderate rubbing to extremities, mildly soiled exterior, but a particularly bright interior. Fine illustration in full color at frontis of the Market at Cosne. First Edition, though not so stated. 332 pp. including a full Index and a folding map of the route taken. Eight full-page, full-color plates, 50 line drawings in the text by A. L. Collins, quite fine.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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N° du livre: 352015

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: travel exploration Douglas Goldring The Loire pilgrimage Gerbier de Joncs St. Nazaire

Eckenere, Hugo and Rolf Brandt

Vzducholodi Graf Zeppelin Do Ameriky

Praha, Vydal Dr. Eduard Gregr a Syn, 1929. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Illustrated blue and orange wraps, protected by a stiff Mylar jacket. Moderate wear to wraps, clean, tightly bound, clean, unmarked interior. Many black-and-white photographic plates of Eckener and the Graf Zeppelin, in its hangar and out, on the ground and in the air. [8], 9-111 pp. Polish language text. According to a Wikipedia entry about him, Hugo Eckener (10 August 1868 – 14 August 1954) "was the manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years, and also the commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin for most of its record-setting flights, including the first airship flight around the world, making him the most successful airship commander in history." He was also a prominent anti-Nazi and was persecuted for it.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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N° du livre: 348495

Catalogue: Aviation and Space Travel

Mots-clés: Hugo Eckener blimp|navigation aviation|Led Zeppelin Graf Zeppelin Rolf Brandt

Jackson, Helen (H.H.).

Glimpses of Three Coasts

Boston, Massachusetts, Roberts Brothers , 1887. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; neither highlighting nor underlining. Short octavo in format, bound in moderately rubbed and soiled gray cloth, spine lettered in gilt, rubbed, front cover lettered in red; floral pastedowns and endpapers quite nice and intact fully. Ex- Pacific Union Club library (Shelf 276, Book 8572) with their bookplate at front pastedown; presentation inscription to the Pacific Union Club Library by Mr. W.H. Crocker (13 January 1861 – 25 September 1937), an American banker, the president of Crocker National Bank and a prominent member of the Republican Party. Small clipping from book catalog entry affixed to front pastedown throwing offset to front endpaper. Helen Jackson (Maria Fiske) was born in 1830 and lived 55 years, reared in her native Amherst, Massachusetts, and was born in the same year as her dear friend Emily Dickinson, who became the model for her anonymously penned novel Mercy Philbrick's Choice's heroine. She married E.B. Hunt in 1852 and then began to write under the name "H.H." Once widowed, she later remarried,to Will S. Jackson of Colorado, in 1875. She is most famous for Ramona, about the plight of Native Americans. This work begins with several chapters about California and Oregon and then discourses upon Scotland, England, Norway, Denmark and finally Germany. 418 [2] pp. including publisher's ads.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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N° du livre: 349707

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Helen Jackson|Roberts Brothers

Elisha Kent Kane

Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Childs & Peterson, 1857. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Two-volume set, complete, published in Philadelphia by Childs & Peterson, but with two different title pages for each volume, the first saying 1856 and the other, 1857, as the dates of publication, thus not likely to be a First Edition. Bound in brown cloth boards, blind-stamped titles and illustrations to covers and spines, bumping to spine heads and feet, scuffing to tips, extremities, previous owner's ink-stamps to endpapers of both volumes, torn endpaper to Volume II, some light dust soiling to top edges of both volumes, some light soiling to and smudging of endpapers of both volumes, and with forward cock to both spines. Else and withal, still sturdily bound, clean and bright of interior, and they stand up proudly by themselves and look most handsome on the shelf. Engraved vignettes, tissue-guarded, including a fine engraved portrait of the author at frontis of Volume I, after an engraving by Whitechurch after a daguerrotype by Brady, and then of Henry Grinnell at frontis of Volume II, also after a daguerrotype by Brady and engraved by F. Halpin. The engraved vignette at title page of Volume II by J. McGoffin after an illustration by J. Hamilton, of a ship being tossed about, is just exquisite. Volume I is [4], 5-464 pp.; Volume II is [2], 3-467 pp. in length. Eighteen engraved plates after J. Hamilton, two maps, one of which is folding, one being "Chart Exhibiting the Discoveries of the Second American Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin," the other, being "Folding isothermal chart of Baffin Bay." Publisher's original olive-drab cloth with blocked centerpiece vignette within elaborate blind-stamped borders. Gilt letterings to spines, still moderately sharp and distinct. Even had the Erebus and Terror not gone missing, the Sir John Franklin-led expedition to find a suitable Northwest Passage was a monument of 19th-century navigation. The fine steel engravings depict the Arctic with no little wonder. The author, Alisha Kent Kane, was the Commander of the Advance on this Second Grinnell expedition and was a Chief Surgeon for the U.S. Navy. It is a rip-roaring yarn indeed.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Good

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N° du livre: 346649

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Elisha Kent Kane|The Second Grinnell Expedition|arctic exploration|travel|exploration|Sir John Franklin

Kipling, Rudyard

Des Voyages Et Des Parfums

Paris, Societe Litteraire de France, 1917. . Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. French-language text, translated byRene Puaux, and then beautifully illustrated by Andre Hofer. A bit of staining to the printed, illustrated tan wraps, in gatefold, over original blank wraps, soiling along edges, splitting to a portion of the wraps along spine, chipping there, but still an attractive copy, and with a clean interior. Augmented by the engravings in duotone of Andre Hofer, and translated from the original English by Rene Puaux. Comprises a paper read in 1914 to the Royal Geographical Society in London. #439 of 1150 copies printed, number at colophon.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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N° du livre: 347416

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Rudyard Kipling|French language|Andre Hofer|Rene Puaux

Korff

Korff's Weltreise: 1. Band Amerika

Berlin, Germany, Deutsches Druck- und Verlagshaus, o. J., 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. First Edition hardcover copy, bound in handsomely produced red cloth, with a fancy gilt-lettered and illustrated (with an American flag) at cover, with rubbed gilt lettering to spine. Protected in stiff Mylar. Part of a larger series, the author traveling to New-York, and then Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Niagara Falls, Washington, D.C., Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas, Kansas City, Denver, Utah, Salt Lake City, Yellowstone Park, San Francisco, and then return.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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N° du livre: 346575

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: travel German|exploration|Korff|America|German language

Lawrence, T.E.

Revolt in the Desert

New York, George H. Doran Company, 1927. . 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. Stated First American Edition; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound handsomely in a brick-brown cloth, with black lettering to spine and cover, and a black illustrated likeness of one of his Arab interlocutors to front cover. Bumping to spine head and foot. Folded map present, nearly unused. Illustrated endpapers front and rear. List of illustrations, publisher's note, glossary. Sans dust jacket. This volume is the 130,000-word abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom (in actuality, seven rock formations), his account of his experience of the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918, when he was based in Wadi Rum in Jordan as a member of the British Forces of North Africa. xvi [2], 1-335 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: 348908

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: T.E. Lawrence|The Arab Revolt|British colonialism|maps|Wadi Rum

Locke, David R.

Nasby in Exile: Or Six Months of Travel in England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium

Toledo and Boston, Locke Publishing Company, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Moderately worn, mildly soiled and scuffed of spine head and tail, tips, but still sturdily bound and stands proudly by itself on the shelf. Fine gilt illustration of a traveling Nasby to front cover, stamped black designs to front cover, spine, with gilt lettering and illustration to spine rubbed. Ohio author, the satirist, Petroleum V. Nasby, travels for "Six Months of Travel in England, Ireland, Scotland, France." 289 black-and-white engraved illustrations, quite fine. xvi, 17-672 [2] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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N° du livre: 349538

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Mots-clés: Nasby in Exile|David R. Locke