![Item #40093 Republic of Mexico [Tour of the World Serie (sic)]. Oswald Schroeder](/pictures/thumb/40093.jpg?v=1449551670)
Denver; New York: Buedingen Art Publishing Co., 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [2], 56, [2]pp (Text volume), 19 loose leaves (Photographic plates), as issued. Original red string bound illustrated wrappers (Text volume) resting, along with 19 loose leaves, in a red half morocco over burgundy cloth portfolio, with gold lettering..... More
Bologna: Tipografia di Giuseppe Vitali, 1867. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 x 6 1/4"). xii, 283, [1]pp. Original blind-stamped olive cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Tissue-guarded albumin photographic portrait of the author. Title page inscribed by Giuseppe Capellini to the First Secretary of Prince Umberto (who will become King..... More
Detroit: R. M. & S. t. Tackabury, (1873). Hardcover. Elephant folio. iv,162,[54],pp. Three-quarter leather over blind-embossed purple cloth. Title in gold on cover, blind-stamped on rear board. Marbled endpapers. Reinforced with black binders tape along gutter at front and rear endpapers. First atlas of Michigan, including statistics and descriptions of..... More
![Item #33731 Impressions of America [Signed]. T. C. Porter](/pictures/thumb/33731.jpg?v=1434442134)
London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1899. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/150. Quarto. XXIV, 241, [1]pp. Untrimmed. Original white and red cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gold. Top edge gilt. Limitation page numbered (#129) and signed by T. C. Porter. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Decorative head-, tailpieces, and initials. Fascinating account of a...... More
Breslau: Schletter, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [10], 440pp. Original olive cloth with gold lettering and decoration on spine and front cover. Marbled paper edges. Decorative endpapers. Title page inscribed and signed by Ferdinand Wohltmann. Selection of travel studies on Chicago and North America. Moderate shelf wear. Head and tail..... More
Ithaca, N.Y. Spence Spencer, 1866. Hardcover. 12mo. 150pp. Purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Heavy water staining to front cover. Spine sunned. Gilt lettering faded. Head and tail of spine chipped. Corners worn. Some water staining to top part of pages throughout not affecting text or plates. Tipped-in frontispiece..... More
Mexico: Editorial "Cultura" 1926. Limited first edition. Softcover. 1/1000. 24mo. 114, [12]pp. Uncut and unopened copy, protected by modern mylar. Original decorative wrappers. Vignette on title page. Manuel Toussaint is the author of numerous works on architecture and literature of the colonial era. In this book, he deals with the..... More
Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. 134, 85, 102, 114, [2], IV, 64, [2]pp. Original 3/4 leather over marbled paper covered boards. Black lettering on green title-label laid on spine. Fascinating work being the report of Lieut. Henry L. Abbot upon explorations for a railroad..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1852. Ex-Library First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 295pp., 15 plates, incl. frontispiece, with tissue guards, 1 folding map, 1 foldout of thermal curves (17 in total). Rebound in three-quarter black leather with gilt decorative ruling on covers, gilt lettering, tooling and decorative ruling on spine;..... More
Washington DC: Robert Armstrong, 1853. Third Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 496 pp. Original blind stamped cloth, spine gilt. Same age rubbing. Spine sunned, corners worn. Spine ends bumped. Inscribed by previous owner (Oct. 17, 1884). Frontis. Light age discoloration and light foxing to edges of pages, not effecting text. Some browning..... More
![Item #23647 Over Blazed Trails and County Highways: The Story of a Midsummer Journey [INSCRIBED]....](/pictures/thumb/23647.jpg?v=1434441548)
Lisle, N.Y. Self published. Printed by W. M. Storris, 1919. Hardcover. 8vo. 146pp. Brown cloth with lettering in gold on cover. Inscribed on free front endpaper by author: "To. Hon. ? E, Chaplin, Happy New Year (Signed) Frank H. Clark." Interesting account of the author's and his two companions experiences..... More
México D.F. Published by the author, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 x 6 3/4"). 433, [3]pp (Text), [46]pp (Photographic plates), [4]pp (Afterword and Index). Contemporary half calf over blue cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Raised bands. "Cumbres y barrancas: Viajes a pie y a caballo a través de..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. "Autographed December 1916 Edmond S. Meany" on front free endpaper. Octavo. xi, 325 (6)pp.,17 plates including frontispiece. Original blue cloth with blind-stamped ruling on cover, gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Frontispiece. A report of the exploration of Mount Rainier in Washington..... More
(New York: The New Yorker, 1934. First edition). Hardcover. No title page. Folio, 52 pp. Profusely illustrated w/black & white photographs by various artists. Red boards w/paper label across front, title in gold lettering. Cover rubbed at head and tail of spine, peeling slightly at bottom right corner, but basically..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by Charles Cist, No. 104 North Second-street, near the corner of Race-street, 1800. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 167 (1)pp. Original brown quarter leather over marbled boards. Elaborate description of Odgen's travels to Bethlehem and Narzareth, Pennsylvania, in the year 1799, covering religion and way of life of Moravians..... More
Mexico: Talleres Graficos de la Nacion, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. VI, 108, VI, + unumbered pages of plates. Full spotted calf with gold lettering and borders on spine. Original wrappers bound in. Printer's device on front wrap and title page. Title-page inscribed and signed by one of the authors..... More
New York: Greenwich Village Weekly News, 1935. Softcover. 12mo. 112 pp. with a fold-out map at rear. Brown paper wrappers with part of title imprinted on cover in gold. Text printed on green paper. Mentions Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mabel Dodge, Margaret Armstrong, Percy McKaye, "The Tile Club," and "The..... More
Austin, TX: Texas State Historical Association, No date (circa 1942). First edition thus. Hardcover. Octavo. (2), 111, (1)pp. Bibliography. Dark blue cloth, gilt. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Cleland, dated 1942. Very minor wear at tips and extremities of spine, otherwise fine. "A dissertation presented to the Faculty..... More
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1982. Hardcover. Quarto. x (ii), 242pp. Original blue cloth with original color photograph of the Verrazzano bridge laid into debossed frame with gilt lettering on cover and spine; housed in matching slipcase with facsimile plates of manuscripts and color photos pasted to front and back cover. Endpapers..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1887. First American edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xlvi, 514 (2)pp., 1 folding map. Original blue cloth with embossed decorative vignette and gilt lettering on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Brown endpapers. Frontispiece engraving, with tissue guard. Folding map indicating the Toltec Migrations, with..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
(Chicago): Privately Printed (by The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelly & Sons), 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (2), 120pp. Brown cloth with darker brown, gilt lettered spine label. Title within a red border, and with author's woodcut chicken device. Illustrated with a sepia toned, folding frontispiece map (13-1/2" x 8-1/2")..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxxii, 373pp., 32 plates, incl. frontispiece, 1 folding map. Original blue cloth with color illustration, gilt ruling and lettering stamped to cover, gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Color frontispiece photograph with tissue guard. With eight full page..... More