Item 2166AAA Official Transcontinental Book No. 2
American Automobile Association, 1920's. First edition. soft cover. very good. Item #2166
Travel
Item 406A Copper Card Souvenir from Keweenaw, Beautiful Keweenaw
Some creases that a thin sheet of metal would take on over the years. Overall in nice condition.
"With Lake Superior's rock bound shore. Mountains, Lakes and Streams galore.
With Brockway Mountain Drive sublime
Unfolding beauty as you climb.
With Lac La Belle so quiet and calm,
Under Mount Bohemia's guiding arm,
And Bete Gris with sandy beach
As far as naked eye can reach,
All add a charm as much admired
As are her trees when fall attired."
Back of card is blank. Item #406
Item 2125The Wonder That Was India
Sidgwick and Jackson, 1956. Many Photos. 2nd printing. orange cloth. very good. Item #2125
Item 2057The Cruise of the "Black Prince" Privateer
Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke and Co., 1886. With black and white frontispiece illustration and spot illustration on title page. 8vo. 7-9/16" x 5-3/8". 314 pp. Decorative pictorial cloth cover stamped in red black and gold. A tight, clean very nice copy with hardly any rubbing. Only a tear and a small hole near the fore-edge of the free front endpaper which also has the previous owner's name in pencil written on the recto side. Also a couple of stains in the margins of pp. 2 and 3. Otherwise a very good to fine copy.
Verney Lovett Cameron was an intrepid explorer in Central Africa who was the first European (1875) to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea. He entered the Royal Navy and was employed for a considerable time in the suppression of the East African Slave trade. Item #2057
Item 594Deck and Port, Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate Congress to California, with Sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco.
New York: A S Barnes & Co., 1850. Engraved frontispiece four lovely hand-colored engravings. First Edition. 8vo. Decorated green cloth, blind stamped and stamped in gold. 408 pp. Endpapers printed with publisher's ads. Fine condition. Item #594
Item 1128Holland
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, (1894). Illustrated with 44 gravure photographs, beautiful in all their richness and depth. Translated from the thirteenth edition of the Italian by Helen Zimmern. Two ovtavo volumes. 8-1/8" x 5-1/2". Red cloth covered boards with charming tulip motif design stamped in gold on the front cover and spine. Top edges gilded. Vol. II has a colored fold out map of The Netherlands. Vol. I has 273 pp. Vol. II has 275 pp. Each volume has a red cloth dust jacket with title stamped in gold on spine. A lovely set, as beautiful as the day it was published 128 years ago! / Dust jackets are sturdy and fine. Item #1128
Item 1772Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Traveller and Plant Collector
Antique Collector's Club. Many illustrations both in color and black and white. 2006 reprint of the 1999 first edition. A beautiful production as all Antique Collector's Club books are. 4to. Dark green paper covered boards textured to look like cloth. Stamped in gold. Color pictorial endpapers. 286 pp. including index. Fine book / In fine dust jacket. Item #1772
Item 1163Around the World in 18 Days and How to Do It
New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936. Stated First Edition. 8vo. 8-3/16" x 5-7/8". Front endpapers are map of the North Pole. Back endpapers are a map of the KNILM Airlines in Connection with World Traffic covering China, Siam, Sumatra and Java. 186 pp. plus 16 pp. of photogravure images of Eakins adventures. Top of spine chipped. A few scattered finger smudges. Overall a tight, clean, unblemished copy with no rubbing. / Top of spine of jacket is chipped. Edges a little worn but overall it is crisp, and attractive.
"H. R. Eakins - Journalist, war correspondent, and holder of the present record for swift circumnavigation of the globe- a record established entirely by means of commercial airlines." Item #1163
Item 1371Among the Wild Ngoni, Being Some Chapters in the History of the Livingstonia Mission in British Central Africa
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1899. With Introduction by The Right Hon Lord Overtoun. Illustrated with 14 photographs. Crisp color 19" x 14" fold out map of central Africa. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial mustard colored cloth covered boards stamped in black and gold. Ink inscription at top of free front endpaper, otherwise fine condition.
"Dr. Elmslie, who with his devoted wife has just sailed for Africa to begin his third term of service, vividly pictures the lofty plateau of Ngoniland, with its native villages and the dark background of vice and cruelty which lies behind the village life, with the horrors of the slave trade which harried peaceful homes, leaving the smoking ruins, while the inmates were massacred, or reserved for a more cruel fate, and how their perils drove the people to live in swamps or inaccessible rocks.
The first advance of the missionaries to Ngoniland was in 1878 in the face of much personal danger. The first interviews with Mombera and his bloodthirsty chiefs, picture not only the danger of the situation, but the faith, courage, and tact of the men who, taking their life in their hands, went as ambassadors of Christ to these bloodstained savages." Item #1371
Item 915From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. Twentieth Edition, Revised. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Green pebbled cloth covered boards stamped in gold and black. 327 pp. Front hinge tender. Overall condition is very good to fine. Item #915
Item 1920The Path to Paris
John Lane, 1908. Hanslip Fletcher. First Edition. Hard Cover. very good - some foxing to the half title. Item #1920
Item 651Scottish Reminiscences
Glasgow: James Maclehose, 1904. Reprint same months as first edition, April 1904. 8vo. green cloth stamped in gold. Deckled fore-edge. 447 pp including index. Former owner's name and a small rubberstamped name on free front endpaper. Otherwise a tight, clean copy, very good to fine.
Stories of Scottish life reflecting the lives, loves, beliefs and character of the Scottish people. Item #651
Item 863Ports of France
New York and London: The Century Co., (October 1926). With 16 pencil drawn Illustrations by Giovanni Petrina. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-3/4". Pictorial blue cloth stamped in gold and black. 317 pp. Fine condition. Item #863
Item 434The Tales of Peter Parley about Africa, with engravings
Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait and Co., 1848. Revised Edition. Blind stamped green cloth covered boards. Spine stamped in gold. 16mo. 4-5/8" x 5-11/16." 137 pp. Previous owner's inscription dated 1852 on free front endpaper. Curious thin thread sewn through front flyleaf with a few stitches, probably to affix a label or note which has long since disappeared. Heavy foxing throughout. The last signature is beginning to loosen a bit. Overall a very nice copy.
Twenty-one chapters of adventure from witnessing the eruption of Mt. Etna to adventure on the high seas and travels through Africa. Item #434
Item 1193Rural Nooks Round London (Middlesex and Surrey)
London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1907. With 87 photo illustrations and one large fold-out map and one fold-out map. 8vo. Green cloth covered boards stamped in gold. 194 pp. including index. Book plate and former owner's name on free front endpaper. Back large fold-out map has one tape repair. Light damp ring (more visible on photo than in hand) otherwise tight, clean, near fine. Item #1193
Item 1409Cosmographie in foure Bookes Contayning the Chorographie & Historie of the whole World and all the Principall Kingdomes, Provinces, Seas, and Isles, Thereof
London: Henry Seile, 1657. Second Edition. 4to. 13-1/8" x 9-1/8". Original blind tooled leather covered boards. Spine re-backed with sturdy calf. 7 raised bands. New endpapers.
198 pp. plus 2 pp. Table of Longitude and Latitude, plus 10 pp Table of some principal things herein contained, not properly reducible to the other two (alphabetically arranged). plus 1 p. Computation of the forein Coins herin mentioned, with the English plus 5 pp. Table of the principal Countreys, Provinces, Mountains, Seas, and Island, contained and described in theis Book, plus Table II, A Table of the ancient names of the Tribes and Nations which are herein Specified; as they are delivered by Ptolomy, Strabe, Pliny and the rest of the old Geographers. Corners of covers rubbed. Corners of back cover repaired. Overall a clean, sturdy very good copy.
This copy has the full typeset printed title page but the original engraved title page is missing. A photocopy of the original engraved page is laid in. Also laid in is the original engraved title page from the 1682 edition which adds extra interest. There are no maps and no pictorial illustrations in this book. Item #1409
Item 1650Dutch Life
Putnams, 1903. photos. 4th printing. hardback. fine. Item #1650
Item 1139Italian Journeys
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1907. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell. Atlantic Monthly Library of Travel, Volume Five. 8vo. 7-15/16" x 5-3/8". Beautifully rebound in forest green leather with gold stamped spine and blind stamped bands at top and bottom of spine. 380 pp. including index. Top edge gilt. Original free endpapers included. Lovely new marbled endpapers done in green and irridescent red. Book is tight, clean and beautiful on the outside. Unfortunate damp stain affects bottom corner of the last 61 pp. Overall a very nice copy. Item #1139
Item 2327London and it's Environs
London: Baedeker, 1898. Maps and Plans. Red Flexable Cloth. Good Plus. Item #2327
Item 892The Russian Shores of the Black Sea in the Autumn of 1852 With a Voyage Down the Volga, and a Tour Through the Country of the Don Cossacks
New York: Redfield, 1854. Embellished with lovely little wood-engraved headpieces. From the Third London Edition. Small 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5-3/16". 266 pp. Green textured cloth. Spine stamped in gold. 10 pp. publisher's ads. Frontispiece fold out map of Russia. A touch of rubbing to extremities. Bookplate on front pastedown. Free front endpaper has a bit of abrasion where a pasted in slip may have been removed. Otherwise a tight, clean very good copy. Item #892
Item 945The Map That is Half Unrolled, Equatorial Africa from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic
New York and London: Century Company, (1925). With Man Illustrations from Photographs by Rexford W. Barton and the Author. 8vo. 8-1/16" x 5-5/8". Green cloth covered boards stamped in black and gold and beige. 355 pp. including index. With two colored fold-out map, both in fine condition. Fine condition.
With wonderful photographs of the people of French Equatorial Africa. Item #945
Item 1975Baltimore Harbor A Pictorial History
Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2005. Photo Illustrated. Third Edition. Soft Cover. Item #1975
Item 1964Cuba with Pen and Pencil
Hartford Publishing Company, 1871. twenty full page illustrations many smaller illustrations. First Edition. nicely rebound in half leather and cloth. fine - rebound. Item #1964
Item 1389Fifty Years on the Skirmish Line
Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Company, (1893). Inscribed on the free front endpaper: "The best wishes of the Author, E. B. Sherwood." 8vo. Blue cloth covered boards. Coated midnight blue endpapers. Spine stamped in gold. 264 pp. plus 8 pp. publisher's ads. Some fraying at top and bottom of spine. Overall a tight, clean very good copy.
Story of a pioneer Presbyterian preacher covering his work in New York, Michigan and Missouri. Includes three sermons. Item #1389
Item 470My Life with the Eskimo
New York: Macmillan Co., 1913. With 60 pp. of b & w photo illustrations, some two to three per page and two fold-out maps. Thick 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-1/2". 537 pp. including extensive index. Blue cloth stamped in gold. Deckled fore-edge.Top edge gilt. Decorated endpapers. Clean, solid, very good copy with a touch of rubbing at extremities. Paper beginning to split on front hinge but it is still strong enough. No foxing. Former owner's name in pencil on front fly-leaf.
Steffanson's experiences as he lived among the Mackenzie Eskimos in 1908, finding them cheerful, self-reliant and admirable companions. "They are people among whom you might possibly have enemies and among whom you were certain to make friends; people very much like you and me, but with the social virtues developed rather more highly than they have been among our own race. In a difficult struggle for existence under hard natural conditions they have acquired the ability to live together in peace and good will." Item #470