Search Results: TRAVEL & ADVENTURE from Pellbooks

London: James B. Knapp No date but ca. 1980's. In ornate brown cloth hardcovers with elaborate gilt and silver blind-stamping and lettering. Book is in Very Good condition. 144 pages with title vignette engraving of Pawn's Leap and many in-text woodcuts. Includes chapters on the following locations. NY and its environs, Long Island, Washington, Boston, Atlanta, West Point, Salt Lake City, american Rivers, Yellowstone Springs, Scenery of California, Some American Ruins, Montreal, The Gulf and River of St. lawrence, Lake Ontario, The Falls of Niagara, Falls of St. Johns, Florida and Views on the Railways. In excellent condition.. Very Good.

Bamako, Mali: Commissariat Au Tourism. Text in French, English and German. Text written by Claude Blacher. With beautiful color photographs . 176 pages.. Fine/Near Fine.

Rutgers University Press, 1973. Lovely dustjacket. Nice and clean copy. 141 pages.. First American Edition. Near Fine/Very Good.

Berlin: Fischer Verlag, 1922. In pale blue paper boards with red lettering on cover and spine. 4. - 9. Auflage includes a black and white tissue-guarded frontis photograph of Altenberg. 280 pages in excellent condition with only a trace of cover wear.. 7. - 9. Auflage. Fine as New.

London: Edward Arnold, 1896. Stated second edition with tissue-guarded frontis photograph of the author and 21 watercolor plates in black and white by Robert Talbot Kelly. 636 pages plus a selection of 32 pages of forthcoming works by Mr. Edward Arnolds. Includes two fold-out maps in the rear in excellent condition, One map shows Khartum and Omdurman and the second map is a large fold-out map, colored, showing the extent of Mhadist influence in 1895. In red cloth Hardcover with gilt illustration of racing camels embossed on cover and spine. Red color of the rear cover has bled out and lookes pale and pink instead of dark red. No damage to the inside of the book. Hinges a bit loose, but overall still a very readable copy of the title. Small research library withdrawl stamp else no markings .. Second Edition. Very Good.

New York: Antiquarian Press Ltd., 1961. Very Good. First Thus. In original blue cloth HC, printed on extra-heavy stock with 10 illustrations. Limited edition of 750 copies. Ex-coll. reference library withdrawal stamps. Very Good.

London: Ward & Lock. In flexible red cloth boards including seventy illustrations. Undated, ca. 1900. 188 pages. Some light cover wear and tears to the front map. this is the Tenth Edition . . Tenth Edition . Very Good.

Budapest: Erdelyi, 1910. Large-format lavish album in embossed red cloth covers with gilt and red ornamental decorations including the Hungarian crown .Front hinge cracked but binding still tight. The book itself is in very good and clean condition. This lavish album contains many black and white photographs of Hungarian landscape, architecture and costumes. A dedication foreword includes photographs of Emperor Franz Joseph I, the late Empress Elizabeth ( Sissi) and Heir Apparent , Archeduke Franz Ferdinand. 400 p. The photos show an impressive cross-section of the Hungarian lands and people with colorful costumes, castles and train-lines. Photos of Budapest, Alföld, Western Hungary (Budapest- Bruck Linie: Budapest - Marchegg Linie, Balaton), Western Carpathians, Central Carpathians, North-Eastern Carpathians, The Sea-Board (Budapest to Fiume). Neat previous owners inscription, dated 1913 on title page. Text in English. Very heavy and extra shipping charges will apply. . First Edition. Good.

New York: Privately Printed, 1933 Near Fine. First American Edition. An exquisitely produced gift book in pale blue illustrated paper over boards depicting and Eskimo Fisherman harpooning a fish from an icefloat. In the year 1723 ther e was founded in Paris the small fur business which has since developed into the firm of Revillon Freres. The book depicts the story of trapping along the great rivers of the Northwest, the collection of sables in Siberia, the bazaars of the East where Persians and broadtail are distributed to all quarters of the world. Illustrated with many linedrawings and frontis photo. 63 pages..

Rikola Verlag, 1922. In yellow paper boards with black and white photo paste-on on cover. Lovely and unread copy, 244 pages including 48 photographs which the author took herself during her travels in India before the outbreak of World War I. . Erstausgabe. Fine.

London: Gay and Bird, 1905. In yellow decorated cloth Hardcover with lovely drawing of Japanese woman on title page. 388 pages. The study of Japanese emotional sense, spirit, courage, resolve, sentiment, affection & inner meaning. The papers composing this volume treat the inner rather than the outer life of Japan - for which reason they have been grouped under the title Kokoro ( heart).. Popular Edition. Very Good.

Paris: Payot & Co. 1951, 1951. Very Good. Authoritative text in French language about Persia and Afghanistan, revised edition with 18 maps and 14 black and white photographs. 336 pages. Quite brittle and browned paper due to cheap French post-war paper quality. Bound in brown cloth Hardcovers.. Very Good.

New York: McGraw Hill, 1965. Exquisitly produced red cloth Hardcover with matching bright red dustjacket. Colored maps on endpapers. 1120 pages, 87 black/white and plans and 44 full-color fold-out maps. In pristine condition with all fold-outs in excellent shape.. First American Edition. Fine/Fine.

Goeteborg: Cagner & Co, 1964, 1964. First Edition. A beautifully produced book in Fine creme-colored leather covers in a stiff illustrated paper dustjacket. Measuring 8 X 14 inches. Text was written by Ernst Manker, Senior Curtor at the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm and idea, design and print by Tre Tryckare. A book about the Lapps and the midnight sun, elaborately illustrated with full-page drawings, prints, photographs and a highly readable text about the people who have exercised a stronger fascination on travellers in Scandinavia than anything else..

Dayton, OH, U.S.A.: Creative Enterprises, 1991, 1991. Fine/Very Good. First American Edition. ISBN:1880675005. SIGNED AND WITH A LONG DEDICATION BY THE AUTHOR.In the summer of 1990 Allen Johnson accomplished a life-long dream by hiking and canoing the en tire 500-mile length of the Wabash River. Illustrated.. Signed by Author. First American Edition. Fine/Very Good.

Dublin, Ireland: Irish Ancestry Guild In flexible green -padded boards with attractive clover leaves , harp and title embossed in gilt on covers. Textile bookmark sewn in. S IGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR IN 1960. Map-illustrated endpapers, not pagianted but ca 130 pages. Fully illustrted with drawings, newspaper clippings and photographs. Includes chapters on Irish Antiquities, Ancestry, Family Stories, irish Treasures. A fairly uncommon and lovely book about the Emerald Isle!. First American Edition. Near Fine.

Santiago De Chile: Imprenta Nacional , Calle De La Moned, 1894. Near Fine in green marbled paper boards and green cloth spine with gilt lettering. Matching brownish marbled endpapers. 194 pages, text is in Spanish , covering ll aspects of statistical information about Chile in 1893. No author listed on the tilte or copyright page but gilt lettering on foot of the spine reads Hayton and neat inscription on title page in black ink reads Robert Hayton. . No listed copy.. Near Fine.

Johannisburg, South Africa: South African Railways, 1937. Beautiful souvenir brochure including 12 full-page colored plates and numerous in-text illustrations and photographs. Title on cover states "Travel in South Africa". 96 pages.. Near Fine.

Berlin, Druck und Verlag von Weichert, nd Red cloth bds with attractive multi-coled illustration of an African Safari Szene on cover. Inhalt: Wie ich Livingstone fand; Quer durch Afrika; Gruendung des Congostaates; im dunkelsten Afrika; unter Kannibalen; Emin Pascha's Erlebnisse. Fully illu strated. Both volumes in G++ shape with some looseness of hinges and browning of paper due to cheap paper quality.. Very Good.

London: London: The C. W. Daniel Company, 1938, 1938. First Edition. VG++ in blue cloth HC and gilt title in script and gold across the cover page. Impressions from Norway and Sweden with many illustrations.. Very Good.