Travel/Adventure from Leaf and Stone Books

Toronto: Rous & Mann, Ltd.. Good with no dust jacket. c1928. First Edition. Hardcover. ES...[12] pp [17] ff plates. Square octavo. Signed on the title page "A. Y. Jackson." Original pine green textured paper-covered boards with pastedown, hand stitched blue yarn at spine. Covers are quite clean and unfaded, in older Mylar. No date but c1928. Lettering… Read more about this item

Canada: Oberon Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 0887509916 . 160 pages. Frontis b/w portrait of Lacey. Cover portrait by Barker Fairley. Small octavo. Cream DJ with brown/grey portrait of Lacey, bookseller sticker on inside front flap, minor shelf wear on DJ. Book itself is clean, owner sig on first blank… Read more about this item

Milan: Fratelli Treves. Good with no dust jacket. 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. KB 15... Viii,291, [4]; [2] 323, [4]. Indices at the end of each book. Inscribed on the half title, "roma 15 Oct 1911, a Gino Bandini, in memore affetto, Emilio Piovanelli" Very good chance that is journalist, mason and Junior Mayor of Rome, Gino Bandini… Read more about this item

London: G. W. Bacon & Co. , Ltd. Good with no dust jacket. c1905. Hardcover. [iv], 62 pp. Large folding linen-backed map. Folding red cloth covers with brilliant gilt to front. Inside is a double-page ad for Chas Baker & Co, followed by a double page map of central London (scale 9 inches to a mile) ,… Read more about this item

France: Hachette & Cie. Good with no dust jacket. 1909. Softcover. 80, 160 pp. 4" x 6.5", small octavo. Original light brown linen flexible covers with black. Some wrinkling to the covers, Interior paper is browned, sewing showing a bit, otherwise clean and unmarked. Has a nice business card of the period from a Luftkurhotel in Baden-Baden… Read more about this item

London: Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd. Good with no dust jacket. 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. 316, [4] pp. Ads. 38 b/w illustrations and 3 maps, 2 of them folding. Original black cloth with sea-blue ruling, blue square on front board with the image of a ship. Gilt stamp of the Cruising Association Library, blue to spine with… Read more about this item

London: L. Booth. Good with no dust jacket. 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Viii, 336 pp. Original dark red cloth with blind ruling, elaborately gilt spine with gilt title. Covers are faded and worn, some toeing in at the corners, spine cover is quite faded and starting to lift. Interior front hinge cracking, yellow endpapers, title page is… Read more about this item

London: H. Whitridge. Good with no dust jacket. 1748. First Edition. Leather. xxviii, 336 pp (i.e. 344, pp. 89-96 repeated) Folding map at frontis, 9 plates including 5 folding. The map includes Groenland (sic), Iceland, Hudson’s Bay (“A New Discovered Sea”), Nova Scotia and “Parts Unknown” The plates include various animals including pelicans, owls,… Read more about this item

Rome: Marcello Silber. Good with no dust jacket. 1522. Leather. Very scarce post-incunable edition of the famous marvels of the City of Rome, prefaced (as is common) with a work on the indulgences of the churches of Rome. With 7 full page woodcuts, papal arms and large initial. In two parts: [55] (of 56) , + [8]… Read more about this item

Dublin: A. Reilly. Good with no dust jacket. 1751. First Edition. Hardcover. Frontis, xvi, [8], [ii], 186 (misnumbered) , ad; frontis, 27; frontis, 14, [i]. First book has frontis and 6 plates, including 3 folding. A Dialogue concerning some Things of Importance to Ireland, Particularly to the County of Ardmagh, Printed by Oll Nelson for the Author,… Read more about this item

London: T. Bensley. Good in Good dust jacket. 1812. First Edition. Hardcover. half title, folding plate, viii, [iv], 3 plates, 365, [iii] pp. Two full page plates of views of Sicily, one folding plate of antiquities and one full page plate of antiquities. 3/4 calf leather with brown marbled hard boards. Boards a bit scuffed, corners… Read more about this item

London: Jones and Bumford,. Fine with no dust jacket. 1808. Second Edition. Hardcover. This is an extremely scarce set of Golbery’s extensive account of his travels in Africa inThe set is in fair antiquarian condition. It is a married set, with Vol. I slightly smaller than Vol. II, but the title pages and pagination are as… Read more about this item

London: J. Pigot & Co.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1841. Hardcover. Vol. I only. 502pp + 6 unnumbrered pages. 21 maps with 21 facing pictures, as called for, from Bedfordshire to Wiltshire. Book has green textured cloth covers with black text on the spine. Label mostly illegible. Marks on covers and spine, tears along outer hinges… Read more about this item

London: J. Snow. Good with no dust jacket. 1837. First Edition. Hardcover. X, 589, ad. Folding map. Color frontis, engraved vignette on title, all plates and engravings present as called, some plates still have the tissue guard. 1st edition, second thousand. With a very interest Canadian/English provenance: the first free endpaper has a gift inscripted "Presented by… Read more about this item

London: Baily Brothers. Good with no dust jacket. 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. xii + 439 pp. Title page with presentation inscription from the author's sister: "From Miss Baily, Tavistock Place." Original blind stamped ochre cloth and green endpapers, with the binder's sticker "Westley's, London". Boards have minor wear, spine gilt is faded but still legible, spine head… Read more about this item

Warminster: The Library. Fair. 1896. Hardcover. Unpaginated, 16 photographic leaves showing views of Warminster. No date but one source shows 1896 -- street images show only horse and carriage, no automobiles. Ribbed dark brown cloth horizontal octavo with blind ruling, gilt to front cover. Spine is perished and repaired with black library tape, some small faint… Read more about this item

Concord, ON, Canada: Belsten Publishing. Good. 1990. First Edition. Paperback. 091938711x . viii + 134 pp. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Beige card covers with 1880s illustration of war in the mountains of Waziristan. Covers are clean, just a bit of shelf wear. Interior clean and unmarked. Reed spent a year on the North… Read more about this item

Dublin: Hodges, Smith & Co. Fair with no dust jacket. 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. x + 216 pp + [i] Frontis piece and 16 tinted illustrations. Original dark blue cloth covers with brilliant gilt sailing ship to front cover. Covers are worn and faded, back strip coming away, parts of spine gone, spine… Read more about this item

Paris: Libreria De Rosa y Bouret. Fair with no dust jacket. 1866. Hardcover. 360 pp, con indice. En Espanol. Brown ribbed Victorian cloth with blind stamped decoration is chipped and worn at the edges. Spine gilt is bright, spine tips are chipped. Interior has owner's name of Lawrence Waters Jenkins, who was… Read more about this item

London: Hales-Owen. Good with no dust jacket. 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. (iv) + 106 pages. Frontis plate with tissue guard. Including catalogue of Crompton family portraits at Hagley Hall, the seat of Viscount Cobham. A very pretty little book with smooth calf spine and corners outlined with gold ruling, gold title to fc. Spine has 5 raised… Read more about this item