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

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. First English Language Edition. 12mo (16cm.); original limp red blind- and gilt-embossed cloth, all edges marbled; x,237pp.; color double-page map frontispiece, 16 leaves of plates, including seven folding and one double-paged; additional text illus. throughout. Boards a bit rubbed, front hinge cracked and free endpaper separated... 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: 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

[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: 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

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

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

Mosvka: Akts. Izdat. O-vo "Ogonek" 1926 [but 1927]. First Thus. First Russian edition (abridged) of Charlie Chaplin's memoir My Trip Abroad (1922), recounting the Hollywood actor's return to his native England and travels through Europe after 10 years in the United States. Describes the (by then) universally recognized movie star's... More

[Paris]: Se Trouve Chez l'Artiste, [1930]. First Thus. The French Academy author's travelogue of a trip to Morocco, first published in 1906 and extensively illustrated here by the French painter and illustrator of numerous bibliophilic productions, including Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, Colette's Chéri, and Flaubert's Salammbô. The title page..... More