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New York: Crown, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth. Near fine in nicked dust wrapper. Approx. 126 pages. Nearly 100 drawings, eight in color in pen and water color.

London: George Virtue, 1840. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth decorated in blind and gilt, front and back covers with gilt arabesques and lettering at spine. Aeg. Five Vols. Very good. Bartlett, William H. 48, 106, 96, 140 (4), 52, 28 x 22 cm. 117 steel engrave plates with tissue guards. Originally published in Thirty parts at one shilling, or in Divisions, 6s. 6d., cloth gilt. Drawings by William Henry Bartlett one of the most prolific of illustrators for topographical works. "It is almost certain that there are more steel engravings after Bartlett than after any other painter of views," -- [see RUSSELLp.196]. Bartlett made four voyages to America between the years 1836 and 1852. HOWES B209. From the publisher's original announcement: "Like Columbus, at first, we only dream of America. It is yet both a new and an unknown world to us, in regard to its scenes of natural beauty and sublimity. The Proprietors...have sought to produce a series of Select Views, which will form a… Read More

Palo Alto: Lewis Osbourne, 1967. Hardcover. Orig.blue cloth with front cover illustration in gilt. Very good. 92 pages. Illustrated. Foreword by Kenneth Johnson. The voyage of the "Pacific" took 194 days. There were other notable passengers who were to leave their mark on California history: Mark Hopkins, John Ross Browne, and A.S. Marvin. Limited edition, copy 1437 of 1950.

London: Printed For The Author By W. Bulmer And W. Nicol, 1821. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary calf ruled in gilt, raised bands, black leather backstrip title and volume labels lettered in gilt, rebacked with original spines laid-down. Aeg gilt. 3 Vols. Very good. 462 (lxxIx), 555, 621 (lxii). 28 x 19 cm. 83 engraved plates, one hand-colored, two double-page, engraved vignettes (many on India paper), woodcuts within text. Index bound in Vol. I with printed ticket, and Supplement at end of Vol. III. Dibdin's most extravagant work which went a long way toward ruining him, plates alone purported to cost 5000 pounds. This copy with the rare "Diane of Poictiers" plate inserted, which was supposedly destroyed after only 50 copies were printed (LOWNDES II, p. 641). With manuscript letter in ink, signed by Bernard Quaritch, June 17, 1890 attesting to the genuineness of the Poicters engraving, with another Quaritch letter dated Jan. 28, 1881 letter attesting to the collation, noting where three… Read More

Philadelphia: Penn Publishing, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Orig. green cloth. Very good. 332 pages. More than fifty illustrations. Index.

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth, front cover lettered and decorated in gilt. Teg. Very good. 244 pages. 21 x 14 cm, illustrated. Index. List of Subscribers. Publisher adverts at rear. Limited edition, copy 417 of 750. Bevelled edges, backstrip chipped at head, worn at foot. Tight copy.

New York: Random House, 1963. First edition. leather_bound. Full brown morocco. Fine. 341 pages. 21.5 x 15 cm. Bound by The Monastery Hill Bindery in full brown morocco stamped in gilt foot of inside back cover, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, triple gilt cover border panels. Map of Afghanistan endpapers in color.

New York: Random House, 1965. leather_bound. Full brown morocco. Fine. 909 pages. 21.5 x 15 cm. Bound by The Monastery Hill Bindery in full brown morocco stamped in gilt foot of inside back cover, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, triple gilt cover border panels. Endpapers of two maps in color: The Setting and Centennial Colorado.

Np: Np, 1873. Stiff Wraps. Orig. cloth spine, illustrated front cover. Very good. 22 pages. 21 x 14 cm. One of six copies printed on pink paper. Known as the Water Poet. Despite having been one of the most widely read poets in Stuart England, there is a disparity between Taylor's contemporary acclaim and his modern obscurity. Much of his works were published by subscription. John Taylor's development of travel literature, which came into popularity in the 1500s, solidified his career and public image, and his travels were often funded through bets made by the public as to whether he would complete his journey. His humble beginning and lack of grace in language prevented him to enter fully into the world of London's literary elite. Covers dusty with small chips to front cover. OCLC 504602751.

New York: Random House, 1978. leather_bound. Full brown morocco. Fine. 865 pages. 21.5 x 15 cm. Bound by The Monastery Hill Bindery in full brown morocco stamped in gilt foot of inside back cover, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, triple gilt cover border panels. Endpaper maps of The Choptank Area and The Chesapeake Bay Region in color.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1914. Hardcover. Full crimson calf, double gilt border panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Aeg. Very good. 367 pages. 29 x 21 cm. 363 black and white images accompany the history of British coaching and describe some of the major roadways of the Island. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, raised bands, gilt illustrated spine panels. Minor rubbing to extremities.

Riverside Press: Privately Printed, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth nicked at backstrip extremities. Very good. 247 pages. Mostly unopened. Limited edition copy 285 of 350. Extra paper spine label tipped-in at inside back cover. Index. Classic work on the subject. GEPHART 261.

London: William Miller, 1804. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary straight-grain green morocco. Aeg. Very good. IV pages in text. Folio, 37 x 27 cm. 50 hand-colored aquatint plates, two title pages in French and English with text describing the individual plates also in both languages. English text translated by R.C. Dallas, the commentary on the ethnic background of the varied populace of the Austro-Hungarian Empire reflect the social and racial prejudices of the time. ABBEY TRAVEL 71. COLAS, No. 2112. LIPPERHEIDE, No. 831. MARTIN HARDIE p. 151. Internally exceptionally clean, text and plates, a bare hint of offsetting to a few leaves. Extremity rubbing, double gilt border fillets house rectangle of gilt floret designs with those in blind outside the frame, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt.

London: Darton, Harvey, & Darton and J. Harris, 1814. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. brown morocco, backstrip lettered in gilt. Very good. 96 pages. 6 x 6 cm. 47 unnumbered leaves of plates, copper engravings. BONDY, L.W. MINIATURE BOOKS, p.65. OSBORNE COLLECTION, p.87. SPIELMANN (Catalogue of Miniature Books) 367. WELSH, D.V. (Bibliography of miniature books) 367. Owner inscription free front endpaper. Chipping with loss backstrip head and foot.

New York: Harper and Company, 1871. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Near fine. 314 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Twenty four full page black and white illustrations. Eight pages of adverts at rear. Chaillu explored the regions of West Africa in the neighborhood of the equator, gaining considerable knowledge of the delta of the Ogooué River and the estuary of the Gabon, and the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people of central Africa. Interior contents very fresh and bright as is the front cover gilt decoration. Spine faded, slight rubbing to backstrip extremities.

New York: Random House, 1980. leather_bound. Full brown morocco. Fine. 873 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Chapter head illustrations. Bound by The Monastery Hill Bindery in full brown morocco stamped in gilt foot of inside back cover, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, triple gilt cover border panels. Glossary and Genealogical Charts.

London: Gibbings & Co. Ltd, 1894. Hardcover. Orig. decorated navy cloth. Teg. Very good. 2 vols. Brangwyn, Frank. 394 & 387 pages. 18 x 11 cm. Four Four tinted engravings by Frank Brangwyn. Limited edition, one of 500 copies. Chip to heads of both volumes.

New York: G.P. Putnam, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated. Index. Orig. navy cloth. Very good. 295 pages. President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Vermont boy makes good.

London: Henry S. King & Co, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated salmon cloth. Good. XVIII, 468 pages. 19.5 x 14 cm. 16 full page illustrations, lacks the folding map. Appendix of flowerless plants of Greenland. Index. Rink was a Danish geologist, one of the pioneers of glaciology, and the first to accurately describe the inland ice of Greenland. Rink, who first came to Greenland in 1848, spent 16 winters and 22 summers in the Arctic region, and became notable for Greenland's development. Becoming a Greenlandic scholar and administrator, he served as Royal Inspector of South Greenland and went on to become Director of the Royal Greenland Trading Department. Binding worn, chipping and rubbing to corners and backstrip extremities, spine faded.

London: Staples Press, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Very good in worn dust wrapper. 4to, 80 pages in text with eighty-four reproductions (twelve in color) and a new text by R.A. Skelton. General Bibliography. Provides a survey of maps printed from copper plates or wood-blocks. Twenty-two reproductions are new to this work.