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

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

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1947. First U.K. Edition. "In six large notebooks and a portfolio of more than a hundred drawings, Ludwig Bemelmans captured for himself the spirit of three trips to South America" (from front flap). The UK edition is preceded by the American edition published by Viking in 1941..... More

New York: Random House, 1963. First Edition. An engaging collection of nine travel essays, covering Bowles travels throughout the remote locations of the Hindu, Buddhist, and Mohammedan worlds. An attractive copy of an easily-worn title. First Printing. Octavo; teal cloth, with titles stamped in gilt and blue on spine and..... More

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889. First Edition. Thick octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's blue gilt-embossed cloth, top edge gilt; xxiv,490pp.; folding color map frontispiece, additional engraved frontispiece and title page, 19 leaves of two-toned (pale yellow and black) plates, additional text illus. throughout. Boards a bit rubbed along extremities, spine gilt..... More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First Edition. First Printing. Thick octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket, blue topstain; xiii,[3],359pp.; photo-gravure portrait frontispiece, 23 leaves of photographs printed on rectos and versos, map endpapers printed on blue stock. Jacket extremities chipped and rather rubbed with some small loss..... More

Cincinnati: Program for Cincinnati, 1981. First Edition. Square quarto (26cm.); original cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; 227pp.; color photo-frontispiece, illus. throughout. Dime-sized loss to top edge of upper jacket panel, additional chips and short closed tears, else Fine in About Very Good jacket. Inscribed and signed by the designer..... More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. First UK Edition. First Issue, with map endpapers. Octavo; navy blue paper over boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 204pp. Faint spotting to text edges, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, with a hint of sunning to spine and faint foxint to flaps;..... More

Evanston, IL: Windiknowe Publishing Co., 1900. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's green decorative cloth embossed in gilt and purple, top edge gilt; 154pp.; illus. printed in orange throughout. Minor shelf wear, corners bumped, spine a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Travelogue of time spent in London and Paris..... More

New York: William Sloane Associates, Inc., 1933 [but 1949]. Second Edition. One of 1,500 copies. Octavo (22.25cm); yellow cloth, with titles stamped in dark red on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; [viii],432pp. Spine ends gently nudged, upper corners tapped (though still sharp); contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is..... More

Paris: Présence Africaine, [1968]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original tan printed card wrappers; 211pp. Near Fine. The last of three semi-fictional travel guides by Bernard B. Dadié, the Ivorian novelist. Preceded by Un Nègre à Paris (1959) and Patron de New York (1964); all three works explore a foreign city..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. First Edition. Thick octavo (22cm.); original scarlet cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket; xvi,262pp. Dampstain at bottom edge of front cloth cover heavily affecting jacket verso with some bleeding to exterior of panel, general toning to spine, small paper flaw at top corner of upper..... More