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 about Mémoire sur la Colonie Française du Sénégal, avec quelques considérations historiques et...

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 about Palestine and Syria. Handbook for Travellers

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 about Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol: Handbook for Travellers

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 about My War With the United States

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 about Holiday in France

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 about A Novelist's Tour of the World

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 about Two Years Beside the Strait: Tangier Journal, 1987-1989 [LIMITED SIGNED EDITION

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1919. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in grey printed dust jacket; [8],190,[2],[8](ads)pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped with a few tiny losses and closed tears, minor toning and small soil spot to upper panel, else Near Fine in an About Very Good... More about Out and About London

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 about Skyward

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 about Of Men Who Ventured Much and Far: The Congo Quest of Dr. Gilbert and Bishop Lambuth

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 about The River Book: Cincinnati and the Ohio [Inscribed & Signed to Bernarda Shahn by Martin

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 about Text in Cyrillic] Moe Puteshestvie v Evropy. Perevod s antgliyskogo P. Okhrimenko [Russian...

[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 about Le Crépuscule d'Islam [Limited Edition