![Drop title] Memoire sur les Sondages Exécutés dans le Sahara (Compagne 1857 - 1858) [Inscribed...](/pictures/medium/45988.jpg?v=1576080511)
[Paris? E. Noblet, n.d., but 1858?]. First Edition. Octavo (25cm.); original plain blue side-stitched wrappers; 32pp.; folding engraved plan. Wrapper extremities chipped with some loss to spine, else Very Good, contents and plate fine. Inscribed and signed by the author to the Belgian geologist d'Omalius d'Halloy on half title, with..... 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
Bangkok, Thailand: American Women's Club of Thailand, 1971-1975. 14 volumes bound in one; quarto (29.5cm.); maroon library cloth, gilt-lettered spine, original wrappers bound in; illus., many in color, throughout. Publishing sequence as follows: May/April, 1971; July/August, 1973; January/February, 1974-November/December, 1975. Paper flaw to earliest issue upper cover from clumsily removed..... 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: 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
New York: Viking Press, 1955. First Edition. An omnibus collecting four of Bemelmans's travel books: My War with the United States, Small Beer, The Donkey Inside, and I Love You, I Love You, I Love You. Octavo; beige and burgundy cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in peach on spine..... 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
[Moose Lake, MN]: Blacklock Nature Photography, [1993]. First Edition. Large square quarto (32.5cm.); publisher's cloth in thick cream pictorial dust jacket; 192pp.; chiefly color photographs. Tiny paper flaw at bottom edge of upper jacket panel, else Fine. 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
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
![Two Years Beside the Strait: Tangier Journal, 1987-1989 [LIMITED SIGNED EDITION]. Paul BOWLES](/pictures/medium/21190.jpg?v=1534284200)
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
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: 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: Berghahn Books, [2007]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's glossy paper-covered boards; x,270pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Fine condition. Remapping Cultural History Vol. 7. 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, 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
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
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1889. Fourth Edition. Octavo (16cm); light brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind; lxxx, 431+42pp, pull-out maps (tipped-in). Spine tanned and warped; boards dampstained/soiled, toned, and worn, with dented extremities (especially the rear); margins creased, with corresponding split material across front pastedown. Bindings shaken, with exposed joints..... More
![Egypt: Handbook for Travellers; Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt [Two Vols]. Karl BÆDEKER](/pictures/medium/46884.jpg?v=1577146265)
London: Dulau and Co., 1885, 1892. Second revised edition (Lower Egypt), first edition (Upper Egypt). Octavo (16cm); red publisher's cloth, with blind-stamped borderwork and gilt titles; xiv,538pp (Lower Egypt); xxxviii,365pp (Upper Egypt). Spine cocked and sunned, Lower Egypt book has small hole in rear joint; moderate handling wear, foxing and..... 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
San Francisco: Cardinell-Vincent Company, n.d., ca. 1915? Small oblong quarto (20.5x26cm.); publisher's brown pictorial staplebound card wrappers, yapp edges; [48]pp.; chiefly two-toned photographic illus. Light edge wear to wrapper extremities, else Very Good or better, contents fine. Promotional view book of California issued by the Cardinell-Vincent Company, the official photographer..... More
![The River Book: Cincinnati and the Ohio [Inscribed & Signed to Bernarda Shahn by Martin]. Joyce...](/pictures/medium/29903.jpg?v=1529353618)
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
![Panama; or, The Adventures of My Seven Uncles [Limited Edition, Signed]. Blaise CENDRARS, trans...](/pictures/medium/22772.jpg?v=1529353368)
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
![Patagonia Revisited [Limited Edition, Signed]. Bruce CHATWIN, Paul THEROUX](/pictures/medium/20135.jpg?v=1581717013)
Wiltshire: Michael Russell, 1985. First, Limited Edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by both authors, this being copy no.171. Octavo; patterned cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's original glassine overlay; 62pp; illustrated throughout by Kyffin Williams. Fine in a Near Fine glassine, lightly rubbed at extremities..... More
