Paris: Ve. Panckoucke, An IX [1800]. First Edition. Pelletan served as the director of the Compagnie de Sénégal, the administrative company for the colony, in 1787 and 1788, though the present work was composed from memory while Pelletan was imprisoned in 1793 at the height of La Terreur. The "Mémoire"..... More

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1905. Account of the dealings between the United States navy and the countries along the Barbary Shore. Reprint. Octavo (20cm); royal blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; xiv,354,[2]pp, with frontispiece and 15..... More

Leipsic [Leipzig]: Karl Baedeker, 1876 [but later]. 1889 printing (date printed at base of front pastedown). 12mo (15.5 cm). Original pale brick cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 610pp; illus. Includes 3 folding maps; 5 plates of illustrations, 20 inserted single- and double-page maps; one folding view..... More

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1903. Twentieth Edition. 12mo (15.75cm.); original limp red blind- and gilt-embossed cloth, all edges marbled; xxxviii,537pp.; color folding map frontispiece, 65 plates of which 32 double-paged and 29 folding; additional text illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, map frontispiece has longish closed tear, one folding panorama split along..... More

New York: The Viking Press, 1937. First Edition. Bemelmans's travel narrative of his trip through Ecuador, "winding slowly on horseback toward the head-waters of the Amazon. When he reaches the coast some weeks from now, he will board a small tramp steamer named the Comedian and sail for the Galapagos..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957. First Edition. Collection of writings on the French cities and countryside by a variety of authors, including Colette, Ruth McKenney, Paul Bowles, John Steinbeck, Irwin Shaw, S.J. Perelman, Robert Capa, and others. With contributions by Bemelmans, and his illustrations throughout. First Printing. Octavo; bluish-gray paper..... More

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1926]. First American Edition. Octavo (21.75cm.); original black moiré cloth, pale green printed labels mounted to upper cover and spine; viii,[2],420pp.; photographic frontispiece, 47 leaves of photographic plates. Spine cloth a bit dulled, label toned, else Very Good to Near Fine. Travelogue of a...... More

London: Peter Owen, [1990]. First U.K. Edition. Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 30 of 75 signed copies. Slim octavo (20.5cm.); original simulated cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; 80pp.; illus. Very light rubbing to jacket extremities, else Fine. More

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1867. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); green publisher's cloth, stamped in blind (front) and gilt (spine); vii,542pp+[8pp]. Comprehensive dampstain to lower leading corner; boards have surface wear/rubbing, material loss along corners; heel of spine slightly frayed; top block edge tanned; bindings pulled in places; ownership signature..... More

New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1847. First American Edition. Following the author's separation from her American husband and daughter, the English actress Fanny Kemble spent a year in Italy after which she published this, her diary, in order to raise badly-needed money. Two volumes in one; 12mo (19cm.); publisher's peach..... More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. First Edition. Large octavo (24cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Paul Laune; xxi,[3],405pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, 23 leaves of plates, map endpapers by James Darley. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with a few very short closed tears, spine faded. Fine in Very..... More

Atlanta: Institute Press, [1961]. First Edition. Wrapper issue. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated wrappers; xxi,[1],153pp. Wrapper extremities a bit worn with shallow crease at top fore-edge corner of upper cover, the whole rather foxed and dust-soiled, else Near Very Good, internally fine. Account of the African expedition of John Wesley Gilbert..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1931]. First American Edition. Limited to 300 copies printed on Utopian laid paper of which this is no. 276. Quarto (24.5cm.); original rigid cream pictorial card wrappers, glassine dust jacket, with the original paper-covered slipcase; [2],ix,[1],156pp.; color illus. throughout by Dos Passos. Just a...... More