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NY: Grosset & Dunlap, (c. 1927.) Circa 1932 reprint wth a laid-in gift card from that year. A narrative of travels and adventures in the American West. Based on the author's experiences in the summer of 1846 in Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas. Includes an account of weeks spent buffalo hunting with a band of Oglala Sioux. v, 328 pp.… Read more

NY: Oswald Publishing, 1923. 1st edition. Signed association copy. Inscribed by the author, who was editor of The American Printer, to his friend and colleague George F. Trenholm, a Boston artist and type designer. An informal narrative of a seven-week tour of Europe, with visits to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Lucerne, Strasbourg, Antwerp, Louvain, and London. Not surprisingly, the author's… Read more

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1890. 1st edition. A travel narrative by a "chronic invalid" who made two trips to Europe with a stretcher and wheelchair. An uncommon Victorian-era account aimed at "opening the sealed doors of foreign travel" to people with physical disabilities. The author traveled with her daughter and servants, but moving about by land and… Read more

Vologda: Russkiĭ Sever-Partner, 1995. Apparent 1st edition. An illustrated guide to the historic city of Vologda in northwest Russia. Cyrillic Russian text with a one-page summary and list of illustrations in English. Numerous color photographs of art, architecture, icons, crafts, etc. 91 pages. Paperbound with stiff glossy covers. 11.75 x 8.25. VG with minor edge wear.

Concord, NH: The Author, 1912 Self-published in Concord, NH, in 1912. Printed at the Rumford Press, Concord. 1st edition. A scarce book of travel poetry inspired by a trip to England, Italy and Greece. Ten poems and eight tipped-in reproductions of photographs taken on the trip by Mary Ruth Haseltine. The author was an 1896 graduate of Smith College and… Read more

Édition nouvelle adapted by M. L'Abbé Millault. Paris: Plon Frères, 1850. 1st edition thus in an attractive later binding. A history of Spain's discovery, conquest and settlement of the Americas. Based on History of America, a 1777 work by Scottish historian William Robertson. Includes material on the great age of exploration, the voyages of Columbus, the conquest of Mexico by… Read more

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1924. 1st edition. Appears to be signed by the editor, Mrs. [Ethel Brigham] Leatherbee, who added "Author's Copy" below her signature. A posthumous memoir by Peirce of his adventures in Australia in the 19th century. Peirce (1840-1919) was born in Medford, Mass., and arrived in Australia in 1860 as a sailor aboard the Oriental. He… Read more

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1924. 1st edition. A posthumous memoir by Augustus Baker Peirce of his travels and adventures in Australia in the 19th century. Peirce (1840-1919) was born in Medford, Mass., and arrived in Australia as a sailor aboard the Oriental in 1860. He deserted ship and swam ashore, embarking on a series of remarkable exploits over many… Read more

Seoul, Korea: Self-published, 1966. 1st edition. Signed by the author in ink on the title page. 80 pp. Oblong hardcover. 10.5 by 7.75 inches. Good condition with some wear and bumping at the corners and spine ends. No dust jacket. The story of a friendship between a young South Korean boy and an older American woman. Written for younger readers… Read more

London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1945.) Third impression. Historical narrative based on the 17th century travels of a Portugese Catholic priest in Arakan, then an independent kingdom on the Bay of Bengal (later part of Burma / Myanmar.) 259 pages, index. B&W illustrations, plans, and a fold-out map, index. 8vo hardcover. VG in Good dust jacket (some chipping and closed… Read more

(Hong Kong: A Visionary World Ltd., 2000.) 1st edition. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. A beautiful book on the coastal town of Hoi An, a UNESCO World Heritage site in southern Vietnam. Photographs and accompanying text by the acclaimed Dutch photographer Hans Kemp, a resident of Vietnam who has spent most of his career living and working in Asia.… Read more

Boston: Moses King, 1895. Complete with large folding map. A guide for visitors to Boston in the late 19th century. With 250 illustrations, maps and plans, including the colored folding map of the city. Numerous B&W photos of architecture and streetscapes. Detailed text on Boston's history, its businesses, parks, public buildings, landmarks, principal attractions, and much more. 288 pp. Paperbound,… Read more

Dublin: Dolmen Press, (1962.) 1st edition. Historical introduction; material on Sligo and Yeats; Thoor Ballylee and the houses of his friends; place names related to his poems and plays; index of places. Illustrated by drawings throughout the text, map endpapers of Sligo and vicinity, street plan of Sligo town, and map of friends' houses. 47 pp. 8vo pictorial hardcover in… Read more

Paris: Hachette, 1948. A post-war guide to Paris and its attractions. All text is in French. Well-illustrated with maps and plans, including a "Plan de Paris en Quartre Bandes" comprised of four long, color pull-out sections. Two smaller folding color maps: Cimetiere de Pere-Lachaise and Plan D'Ensemble du Métropolitain. xcix, 603 pages with index. Blue clothbound hardcover. 12mo, about… Read more

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1956. 1st edition. A biography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), British journalist and Africa explorer who led the expedition to find Scottish missionary David Livingstone. Stanley created an enduring catch phrase in 1871 and became the butt of constant jokes for his famous greeting, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" This book focuses on how the public ridicule… Read more

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1934. 1st American edition. A narrative of travels and adventures during a holiday in Spain. 195 pp. 8vo clothbound hardcover. VG/VG with moderate wear/tear to the price-clipped dust jacket. Small prior owner bookplate. Sound binding. Jacket protected by a clear archival cover.

NY: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam (2002). 1st edition. 8vo hardcover in dust jacket. Previously untold story from the 1871-1873 Polaris Expedition, one of the strangest tragedies in the history of Arctic exploration. Small remainder mark bottom page edge. Fine/Fine otherwise in a clear archival cover.