London: Longman's Rees, Lime, Brown & Green, ca 1829. Hardcover. 8vo. Decorated paper-covered boards, crudely rebacked with heavy age wear. Front board almost detached but still holding. Hinges starting. Small plate with printed name "William Lunn, F.R.G.S. and handwritten "from Phyllis, 1926" on inside of front board. Sporadic foxing throughout.....
Paris: NP, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 16mo. Unpaginated. Decorative marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering and decoration on front cover. Book housed in publisher's slipcase, with gold lettering on front cover and spine. For the Exposition Coloniale Internationale de Paris held in 1931, the organizers published a series...
London: Printed for The Hakluyt Society, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XLV, [1], 159, [1]pp. Uncut. Original gilt-, and blind-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. This interesting and important volume tells the details given by the Venetian traveller Alvise da Ca da Mosto in the account of his...
St. Louis, MO: The Patrice Press, 1989. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto. VIII, 196, [2]pp. Original photographic dust-jacket over orange cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Title page inscribed and signed by the author. 18-page Errata Maps of the Santa Fe Trail laid in. Comprehensive collection...
Paris: Challamel Aine, (1878). Fourth edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 108pp. Decorated paper covered boards with red title plate. Title plate faded. Spine sunned. Age wearing to binding. Corners bumped and rubbed. Frontispiece. Heavy worming throughout pages. One loose fold-out map which is also heavily wormed. Text in French. Binding in good...
München: Ludwig Simon, ND [1958]. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [24]pp (Text), 25-239pp (Photographic plates), [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over green cloth, with light brown lettering on spine and front cover. Book housed in its original publisher's slipcase. Splendidly illustrated with 215 striking b/w photographic reproductions by artists such as Ernst.....
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1905. First American edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XLIII, [1], 459pp. Original red cloth with gold-stamped illustration on front cover and gold lettering on spine and front board. Frontispiece protected with a tissue-guard. A "detailed description of the ruins of Great Zimbabwe* - the first...
New York: Putnams, 1877. Hardcover. 8vo. lv, 448pp. Gilt decorated brown cloth with gilt title to spine. Some age wearing throughout. Spine edges and corners bumped. Front fore edge frayed. With the signature and bookplate of Bruce Bryan, the noted author and long time curator of the Southwest Museum of...
Chicago: NP, 1917. Hardcover. 8vo. 102pp. Olive cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. letters on spine faded. White stains to front board. Water staining to upper part of back board. Ex-libris of Arthur S. Wolpe on inside of front board. Frontisportrait of Isaacs. Illustrated with b/w maps. One...
Frankfurt a. M. J. Kauffmann, 1913. Softcover. 8vo. 105pp. Original wrappers. Creasing, pulling and some staining to wraps. Tearing to parts of spine. Small puncture on front wrapper affecting first three pages. Illustrated with one reproduction of a b/w photograph. Fascinating account in letters of Rabbi Dr. Armand Kaminka's journey...
London: Richard Bentley, 1867. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. VI, [4], 330pp. Uncut. Original 3/4 green morocco over black and gilt-stamped green cloth, with gold lettering and tooling on spine. Chromolithograph frontispiece. Publisher's logo on title page. Fascinating account of an eventful and colorful journey to the Holy Land, which the...
Paris: NRF Gallimard, 1951. Later printing (7th edition). Softcover. Large octavo. 533, [3]pp. Full brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Wolf Leslau's ex-libris on inside of front board. Original wraps bound in. Printer's device on title-page. Scarce and fascinating work being an ethnographic diary, in the style of Bronislaw...
Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1964. Second edition. Softcover. Quarto. XI, 621pp. Full brown cloth with black lettering on spine. Wolf Leslau's ex-libris on inside of front board. Original wraps bound in. Scarce work being one of a series of country handbooks designed for use by persons who...
Boston: John P. Jewett, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,9-159,[1],pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine, binding protected by mylar jacket. Hand-colored fold-out map (13 1/2" x 16 1/4") tipped-in on front of book, as published. Heavy staining and age wear on binding. Tail of spine chipped...
New York: Redfield, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 2 vols. (complete). XII + 331 + (4) + IV + 342 + (6). Original green cloth with gold lettering and decoration on spine. Colored endpapers. Publisher' s advertisement at the end of each volume. Fascinating travellers' account of their journey...
Soest: Westf. Verlagsbuchhandlung Mocker & Jahn, ND (ca 1960). First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 56pp. Original photographic wrappers over printed stiff wraps. Captivating photographic work on Soest, capital of the Soest district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. This charming town has a multitude of historical buildings and attractions. The many medieval churches...
Philadelphia: J. Winston Co., (1900). Hardcover. 3 Volumes. 8vo. Gilt decorated red buckram binding. Gilt top edge. Some general wearing to edges. Illustrated with many b/w photos. In very good condition.
Leipzig: Verlag von Karl Baedeker, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. xiii. 636 pp. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Slight age wearing. Decorated page edges. Dual ribbon markers. Index of other books by Baedeker listed on front endpapers. Illustrated with 49 plans and 38 maps of...
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914. Fourth edition. Hardcover. 12 mo. clxxxv, 442 pp. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Age wearing to edges and spine. Hinges starting to crack but holding. Fading illustrated page edges. Index of other travel guides by Baedeker on front endpapers and map...
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1936. Third edition. Softcover. 12 mo. xxxii. 288 pp. Illustrated red stiff paper wrappers. Age wearing to spine and edges. Some penciling to front endpaper. Signature of previous owner on title page. Fold out map on page 144 loose. A travel guide of the Black Forest and...
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1927. Second edition. Hardcover. 12 mo. xixviii. 298 pp. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Minor shelf wear. Decorated page edges. Two silk ribbon markers. Index of other travel guides by Baedeker on front endpapers and map illustrated back endpapers. Small bookmark of...
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XV, [1], 451pp. Uncut. Original green cloth with gold-stamped illustration on front cover and gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece protected with a tissue-guard. Fascinating work in which the author describes the manners and customs of the people of New Britain...
Paris: Sieurs Julien; Boudet, 1774. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 20(36)pp. Original calf with gilt decorated spine. Raised bands. Head and tail of spine and corners chipped. Abrasions, scuffing and staining to boards. Marbled endpapers. Hinges starting. Name of previous owner to front endpaper and to blank page preceding title page...
London: Printed for The Hakluyt Society, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [12], XXVI, [2], 221, [1]pp. Uncut and unopened copy! Original gilt-, and blind-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Decorative head-, tailpieces and initials. Alonso de Espinosa was a Spanish priest and historian of the sixteenth...
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1903. Autorisierte Ausgabe. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Ex library. 8vo. xiv,559pp. x,570pp. Decorated tan cloth and spine. Age wearing throughout binding. Library inventory numbers on spine. Head and tail of spines chipped and frayed. Corners bumped and worn. Staining and discoloration to boards. Hinges starting. Decorated endpapers. Ex.....
