351.[TIBET.] Patterson, George N. Tibetan journey. London: Faber and Faber, [1954]. $50
First edition, 8vo, pp. [3]-232; 2 maps (1 double-p.) and 16 illus. from photographs on rectos and versos of 4 plates; back panel of jacket a little soiled, very small chip out from the top of the jacket spine else fine throughout, with an early Darjeeling, India gift inscription on front free endpaper.

352.TISSANDIER, ALBERT. Six mois aux États-Unis. Voyage d'un touriste dans l'Amerique du nord suivi d'une excursion a Panama. Paris: G. Masson, [1886]. $500
First edition, 8vo, [4], 298, [1]; 8 double-page wood engravings, 2 maps, and 82 other wood engravings in the text, (25 full-page); a fine, bright copy in original decorative maroon cloth elaborately stamped in black and gilt, a.e.g., issued in the publisher's Bibliotheque du la Nature series under the general editorship of Tissandier. A journey westward from New York including Philadelphia, Washington, Louisville (where he visited Mammoth Cave), Kansas City, Manitou Springs (Colorado), Salt Lake City, Arizona, San Francisco, Portland, and eventually Panama, with emphasis on transportation including trams, railroads and ferry boats, and other institutions such as hospitals, stockyards, and agriculture.

353.TOMLINSON, H. M. The sea and the jungle. London: Duckworth & Co., [1912].   $650
First edition of the author's first book, 8vo, pp. [6], 354; frontispiece of the Capella ascending the Amazon; bound without ads in dark green full morocco gilt by Bayntun, a.e.g., with the gilt block on upper cover of a palm tree, sailing ship, and setting sun; gilt vignette from original cloth mounted and bound in at the back; fine. The narrative of a tramp steamer from Swansea to Para in Brazil, and thence 2000 miles along the forests of the Amazon, 1909-10.

354.[TUNISIA.] Martin, Dahris. I know Tunisia. New York: Ives Washburn, Inc., [1943].   $25
Second printing, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 270, [3]; frontispiece and 7 plates; fine copy in the dust-jacket. Woman from Corning, N.Y. goes to live with the natives in Tunisia's holiest town, Kairouan.

355.[UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD CO.] The Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha, Nebraska, across the continent, making, with its connections, an unbroken line from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans. Chartered by the United States. Its construction, resources, earnings, and prospects. New York: Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, [1867]. $650
First edition, 8vo, pp. 16; folding map of the railroad and its connections from Ohio to California; original salmon printed wrappers; some soiling, else generally fine. Not in Graff or Howes; 13 in OCLC.

356.[UNITED STATES EXPRESS COMPANY.] Hand-book for European and Oriental travelers. Washington: Chauncey H. Crosby, 1896.   $175
16mo, pp. 75, [9] illustrated ads; color lithographic plate depicting the flags of the prominent steamship lines; fine in original pebble-grain maroon cloth stamped in black. 6 in OCLC.

357.[UNITED STATES.] Baedeker, Karl. The United States with an excursion into Mexico. Handbook for travellers. Edited by Karl Baedeker. Third revised edition. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904.   $150
8vo, pp. ciii, [1], 660; with 25 folding maps, 32 city plans and 4 building plans, most in color; some maps with crease tears or tears in the fore-margins, the frontispiece map torn, but without loss, at lest 2 other maps separated at folds (no loss); otherwise good and sound in orig. limp red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine.

358.[VENICE.] Guide book to Venice [cover title]. [Venice: printed by F. Earzía & Co., 1903.] $85
16mo, pp. [2], 20; orig. decorative red printed wrappers; some blue pencil marks in text, else good or better. In English throughout, with information on gondolas, steamboats, post offices, telegrams, banks, ticket agents, consulates, theatres, railway time tables, principal monuments and sights of Venice, etc. Not found in OCLC.

359.[VERSAILLES.] Gavard, Charles. Galeries historiques de Versailles. Collection de gravures reduites d'apres les dessins originaux du grand ouvrage in-folio sur Versailles. Paris: chex l'editeur, 1838.   $350
First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 173, [5]; engraved frontis and 120 engraved plates (some with multiple images); later full green morocco, fancy gilt border on covers, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered in 1, marbled edges; with the 1843 ownership signature of Eliza Tiffany; some spotting of the prelims, else a near fine copy throughout. 2 copies only in OCLC.

360.[VERSAILLES.] How to spend a day in Versailles. Illustrated guide to the palace and park. Versailles: L. Bernard, n.d., [ca. 1880s].   $175
Bound with: Illustrated guide to the Trianon palaces and gardens, their history and description; the order of visiting the apartments; catalogue of the objects of art contained therein; and the carriages and hamlet, etc. 16mo, pp. 127, 89, [2, indexes], [5, ads]; illustrated throughout; original red cloth elaborately decorated in silver and gilt, spine gilt, a.e.g., marbled endpapers; very good.

361.[VIETNAM.] Barbier, V. Dictionnaire Francaise-Annamite [-Annamite-Francaise]. 6th edition. Hanoi-Haiphong: Imprimerie d'Extreme-Orient, 1929, 1942.   $475
2 chunky 12mo volumes designed for the tourist, both 6th editions, the first printed in 1929 pages viii, 856; the second pages  vi, [2], 951; both with pages browned, the first in contemporary half black cloth over marbled boards, the second in orig. printed paper-covered boards backed in red cloth, printed paper label on spine.

362.[VIETNAM.] Navelle, A. De Thi-Nai au Bla. Notes et impressions. Saigon: Imprimiere Coloniale, 1887.   $550
8vo, pp. 194; folding salt print of a printed map of the Bla River valley from Kon Tum to the coast, 2 other large folding lithographic maps at the back, one of the central coastline in the vicinity of Qui Nhon and Binh Dinh, the other apparently in the central highlands; very good copy in recent half red cloth over marbled boards, original front green printed wrapper preserved; this copy inscribed by the author on the flyleaf. Account of  journey up the Bla River in central Vietnam, from Qui Nhon to Kon Tum, with notes on the commerce, industry and beaux-arts of the Vietnam interior. Cornell and Yale only in NUC.

363.[VIETNAM.] Truong Vinh-Ky, P.J.B. Guide de la conversation Annamite. Sach tap noi chuyen tieng Annam. Saigon: Nan-in Nha Hanc C., 1885.   $800
Second edition, 8vo, pp. 118, [2];  orig. brown printed wrappers; very good. Not in Cordier; Columbia copy only in NUC. OCLC adds Cornell, Berkeley, and the University of London. Truong Vinh-Ky (1837-98) compiled a number of books on the Vietnamese language, including a grammar (1883); a primer (1884); and a dictionary (1887) which was still in print as late as 1937. His Guide de la Conversation Annamite was first published in 1877.

364.[WALES.] Johnson, Samuel. A diary of a journey into north Wales, in the year 1774 ... edited, with illustrative notes, by R. Duppa, ll.d. London: Robert Jennings, 1816.   $175
First edition, pp. xvi, 226, [2] ads and errata; original blue paper-covered boards, uncut; spine perished, covers loose, stitching unraveling; preserved in a red cloth clamshell box, printed paper label on spine. Fleeman's state (a) retaining the final leaf of ads and errata, but unfortunately lacking the two facsimile plates of Johnson's handwriting. A manuscript note on the half-title reads: "This volume is scarce and contains some additional ana of Johnson. Jan: 21: 1875. S. Coley." "The excursion began on 5 July and lasted until 30 September, 1774. The holograph MS was not published until 1816 ... Duppa's transcription is inaccurate" (Fleeman). This is the last book listed in Fleeman. Another edition was published in Philadelphia later the same year. Fleeman 816.DW/1

365.[WALES.] [London and North-Western Railway.] Tourist guide to North Wales. [Newton-le-Willows, Eng., McCorquodale & Co.], 1906.   $100
12mo, pp. 142; 3 plates (2 in color), folding map, and numerous sepia-colored half-tones in the text; a very good copy in original color pictorial wrappers. NYPL only in OCLC.

366.[WASHINGTON, D.C.] [Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.] G. A. R. Guide to Washington with a brief description of some points of historic interest on and near the line of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. [Baltimore: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 1892.]  $125
8vo, pp. 74; 28 wood-engravings in the text, mostly full-p., folding map printed in 2 colors of Gettysburg, double-p. folding map of Washington D. C.; some wear and soiling but generally very good.

367.[WEST INDIES.] [International Navigation Co.] A winter cruise in the West Indies under the United States Flag. [New York, 1898].   $35
8vo, pp. [16]; folding map tipped inside back wrapper; 25 halftones printed in blue (3 full-p.); original pictorial wrappers a bit soiled, small library withdrawn stamp at the bottom of the front wrap; all else very good. A prospectus for a 31-day cruise of the S. S. New York to the Caribbean beginning March 4, 1899.

368.WILLARD, EMMA. Journal and letters from France and Great-Britain. Troy, New York: N. Tuttle, 1833.   $275
First edition, 12mo, pp. xii, [11] - 391; frontispiece map of Paris; very good sound copy in full contemporary sheep with red morocco label on gilt paneled spine. American Travellers Abroad W-86: "The author was a school mistress traveling for her health. Her trip to Europe in 1830-31 is described in her letters and journals including name dropping in regard to such persons as Washington Irving and Gen. Lafayette." Spiller, The American in England, pp. 254-7: calls this "The only professed travel book by a woman..." American Imprints 22663.

369.[WISCONSIN & MINNESOTA.] Hints to the tourist, where to go - what it costs, in the enchanted summerland ... Second edition. [Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co. Printer and engravers, 1887.]  $85
16mo, pp. 16; full-p. map of the upper Midwest; near fine in original green pictorial wrappers. Hotels, boarding houses, resorts, etc. with addresses, rates, distances from stations, proprietors, etc. for Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Laid in is a folding supplement of railroad routes. Wisconsin Historical Society only in OCLC.

370.[WISCONSIN.] The Penokee iron range of Lake Superior, with reports and statistics, showing its mineral wealth and prospects. Charter and organization of the Wisconsin and Lake Superior Mining and Smelting Company. Milwaukee: Starr & Son, 1860.   $500
First and only edition, 8vo, pp. 55; folding map of the iron range; orig. brown printed wrappers; some browning and staining , small piece missing from fore-edge of back wrapper, else very good. Includes a 14-p. geological report of the region by I.A. Lapham to the directors of the company, and an 8-p. report by H.S. Plumb, civil engineer. Not in Sabin or Howes.

371.WOOD, STANLEY. Over the range to the Golden Gate. A complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great north-west. Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1901.   $25
8vo, pp. 283; numerous illustrations and maps throughout text; library stamp on verso of title page, slight rubbing of corners and spine ends, else fine in pictorial green cloth, gilt lettering on spine and upper cover.

372.[YORKSHIRE.] Radford, George. Rambles in Yorkshire rivers. Leeds: Richard Jackson, n.d.,    $175
Edition ltd. to 150 no. copies, small 4to, pp. 222, [1]; wood-engraved vignette on title, 12 copper engravings; publisher's quarter black pebble-grain morocco, gilt lettering direct on spine, green cloth sides stamped in gilt, t.e.g.; minor rubbing, very good.

373.[YUGOSLAVIA.] Yougoslavie. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1970.   $35
First edition, 16mo, pp. 628; map endpapers, 3 folding maps printed in color, a number of plans in the text; near fine in original blue cloth stamped in gilt, and preserving the original clear plastic jacket. Issued in the publisher's Les Guides Bleus series, published under the direction of Francis Ambrière.

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