Engraved illustration showing Vesuvius erupting with groups of people in the foreground exclaiming and running to escape; 19" x 13"; engraved by Charles Guttenberg after Hubert Robert; light staining mostly to the margins, small chips at edges; very good. Probably from Saint Non's "Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de... More
n.p. publiée par les Compagnies de Chemin de Fer, n.d. [ca. 1890s]. Large chromolithograph panorama approx. 8" x 124", folding into narrow octavo-size stiff pictorial chromolithographic wrappers; spine a bit cracked and chipped (no obvious loss), edges worn; the wonderful panorama itself, with each peak identified in type in the... More
n.p., n.d. [likely Portland: Chisholm Bros.], ca. late 1880s. 24.7 x 16 cm, accordion fold with 18 photo-lithograph panels showing the White House, Capitol, Mt. Vernon, various monuments, the Smithsonian, the Washington Monument, the War and Navy Department, plus interior views of the White House, scenes from Gen. Washington's life... More
Portland, Me: manufactured by Chisholm Bros., manufacturers of Chas. Frey's original souvenir albums, n.d. ca. 1893. 22.7 x 15 cm, accordion fold with 12 photo-lithograph panels tinted blue, showing the landing of Columbus, a bird's-eye view of the Columbia Exposition, Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, Machinery Hall, state buildings, etc.;... More
n.p., n.d. [ca. 1893]. 22.4 x 14 cm, accordion fold with 14 photo-lithograph panels tinted blue, showing a bird's-eye view of the exposition grounds, major buildings at the fair, the pier and casino, a gun boat, etc.; original pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt and black; cover a little soiled... More
[Portland, Maine: Chisholm Brothers, ca. 1893]. 22.7 x 14.8 cm, accordion fold with 12 photo-lithograph panels tinted blue, showing a bird's-eye view of the exposition grounds, major buildings at the fair, state buildings, a representation of the landing of Columbus, etc.; original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt; very good... More
Portland, Me: manufactured by Chisholm Bros., manufacturers of Chas. Frey's original souvenir albums, n.d. ca. 1880s. 15.5 x 24.4 cm, accordion fold with 14 photo-lithograph panels showing the landing of Columbus, a bird's-eye view of the Columbia Exposition, Machinery Hall, The Lagoon, the Administration Building, Art Palace, etc.; original decorative... More
London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund [and] sold by J. Murray, 1829. First edition, tall 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 69, [3]; 9 lithograph plates, 7 hand-colored; original olive green cloth boards, neatly rebacked in matching morocco, gilt lettering direct on spine; a few spots on the back cover and... More
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1970. 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... More
Paris: Société d' Éditions, 1924. First edition, 4to, pp. [8], 194; full-p. map, 44 photographic plates showing 121 illustrations; original gray wrappers printed in black and red bound in; both wrappers reinforced on blank versos at the margins, very good in ca. 1968-75 Vietnamese half red morocco with gilt-lettered spine. More
[Madison]: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, [1982]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 241, [3]; frontispiece portrait; previous inscription (possibly from the author), else fine in dust-jacket. Complete biography of this friend of Samuel Johnson, poet, journalist, biographer, and editor of voyages. More
New York: Bonanza, [1958]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 192; frontispiece; many illus. throughout; very good in worn jacket. More
Keswick: G.P. Abraham, 1923. 8vo, pp. 52; portrait frontispiece of William Wordsworth, 28 additional monogravure plates; contemporary full black morocco, gilt-stamped decorative covers, gilt-lettered spine in 6 compartments, raised bands; front cover badly rubbed, general shelf wear along edges and corners, interior near fine. More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. 1912. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 338; 24 plates; some foxing, else very good in original blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine and upper cover. Abraham's account of his voyage to the East Indies, southeast Asia and Japan as physician on a coastal freighter... More
Birmingham, England: Baker's Great Bookshop, [1929]. 4to, pp. 24; uncut, very good; 5 maps, 2 of which on front and back endpapers. Inscribed by the translator. More
London: David Bogue, 1849. First edition in English of the rare, privately printed German Aus meinem Tagebuche 1842-1843.; 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xvi, 338, [1]; v, [1], 377, [1]; frontispiece in volume I (slightly offset onto title page), vignette titles in both volumes, 4 folding maps (3 hand-colored in outline);... More
San Francisco, California: H.S. Crocker Co., Inc. [1949]. Fourth edition, 8vo, pp. 127, [3]; black & white photographic illustrations, maps in color (one folding); 2 early original photograph postcards of Yosemite, a Yosemite National Park Service list of Naturalist Activities program (dated 1949) & map, and an early tourist letter... More
New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1910. 4to, pp. 111; black and white photographic illustrations; original olive pictorial cloth (some soiling) stamped in 2 shades of green, gilt-lettering to upper clover and spine, ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, general shelf wear, spine head and foot a bit frayed;... More
London: J. Nourse and W. Johnston, 1759. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 337, [1]; engraved folding map (light offsetting); worm track in the lower fore-margin of the first gathering (not touching any letterpress), otherwise a very good copy in modern brown buckram, gilt lettering and fillets on spine. "Although... More
Philadelphia: Taylor & Hessey, 1981. Edition ltd. to 400 copies designed & printed by Henry Morris at Bird & Bull Press (this, no. 222); pp. 28, [4]; 3 facsimiles; original cream-colored wrappers with title printed on front cover in red & black, fine. Based on a talk given at the... More
![Iraçéma the Honey-Lips a legend of Brazil by J. De Alencar [and] Manuel de Moraes the convert. Translated from the Brazilian by Richard and Isabel Burton. Jose Martiniano De Alencar.](/pictures/thumb/30536_1.jpg?v=1511377922)
London: Bickers & Son, 1886. First edition in English of both of these novellas, translated by the Burtons during their stay in Sao Paulo in the late 1860's, but not published until later; 12mo, pp. vii, [1], 138; original printed wrappers; one small chip from the top outer corner of... More
London: Edward Arnold, 1907. First edition, 2 volumes, large 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 358; xi, [1], 420; frontispieces in each volume, 3 folding maps printed in color, 42 plates largely from photographs, plus numerous other illustrtions in the text; original red cloth, gilt lettering on upper covers and spines; bindings... More
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xxxi, [1], 308; xii, 327, [1]; portrait, engraved folding map, 13 engraved or aquatint plates (3 hand-colored), 6 wood-engravings in the text; contemporary full speckled calf, early rebacking with red morocco labels lettered in gilt; tops of... More
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1891. First edition, 8vo, pp. 296, [1]; frontispiece portrait, 4 maps (3 folding), 29 wood-engraved illus. throughout, 12 full-p.; orig. printed wrappers, bound in recent full brown cloth, green morocco label on gilt-decorated spine. Wrapper with some tape residue near gutter, text a bit foxed, all else very good. More
