Tokyo: Taishomyoshozuesha, 1919. Color folding map, 7.5" x approximately 2'8", depicting a bird's eye view of Nikko, Japan, with labels in English and Japanese. The map verso has a description of the area, also in English and Japanese, alongside additional illustrations and a road map. Contained in stiff green illustrated..... 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
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
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
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
New York: published for the Chamber by D. Van Nostrand Co., [1930]. 8vo, pp. xii, 647, [1]; 3 folding maps, numerous illustrations throughout; a fine copy in a slightly worn (and uncommon) dust jacket. More
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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: 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 illustrations throughout, 12 full-page; original 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..... More
[Saigon]: Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group, Agency for International Development, [1961]. Slim 8vo, pp. viii, 72; map, table; original yellow pictorial wrappers, some shelf wear, corners creased; interior mostly fine. Produced under Contract ICA c1126. "It is the thesis of this study that the district chief more than any..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1848. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xviii, 509, [1]; viii, 511, [1]; engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 maps (2 folding, 1 hand-colored in outline), 16 engraved copperplates (1 folding), 2 wood-engraved plates, a hand-colored geological cross-section, and numerous wood engravings in the text; old library rubberstamps on..... More
Kristiania: Jacob Dybwads Forlag, 1912. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [8], 528; [6], 424; 46 leaves (5 double-page or folding) of black and white photographic illustrations, facsmilies, and color plates; contemporary thee-quarter blue morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine in 6 compartments, decorative endpapers; boards a bit rubbed..... More
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1947. 8vo, pp. 211, [1]; 20 plates plus illustrations in the text; previous owner's inscription, slightly cocked, else a very good copy in the dust jacket. Accurate and skillfully epitomized historical survey, well illustrated. More
Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1847. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [24], 283, [3]; [10], 269, [23]; 12 lithograph portraits, 1 woodcut; contemporary black calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered direct on gilt paneled spines; edges stained blue; very good and sound. Lust, 109 (citing the first edition of 1843 which only had..... More
Philadelphia: [privately printed], 1912. Edition limited to 60 copies (this, no. 35); small 8vo, pp. 221, [1]; portrait frontispiece; fine copy in original red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g.; publisher's box. The frontispiece is signed in ink by Andrews, and there is a presentation on the front free endpaper..... More
Honolulu: Henry M. Whitney, 1865. First edition thus, being a second and much expanded version of Andrews' earlier A Vocabulary of Words in the Hawaiian Language, Lahaina, 1836 which is the first dictionary printed in the Pacific; 8vo, pp. xvi, 559; text in double column; full contemporary sheep, worn, and..... More
London: W.H. Allen & Co. Limited, [1893]. Third edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 476, 40 ads; 3 folding map plates tipped in, text illustrations throughout; original green cloth, gilt spine, black glazed endpapers; ex-Hill Library with usual markings; hinges cracked, binding a bit shaken; textblock very good and sound. Publisher's..... More
Bath: John Browne, 1807. 12mo, pp. 106; copper engraved title page, 11 plates; covers lacking, gilt-tooled calf spine, 3 maroon gilt-lettered morocco spine labels completely intact, a.e.g., marble endpapers; interior fine. More
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[London: Tea and Rubber Mail, n.d., ca. 1948]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 368; numerous photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 28 plates; very good copy in original terracotta cloth, gilt lettering on spine. The dust jacket is not preserved. More
Ascona: Artibus Asiae Publishers, 1972. First edition, 4to, pp. 126; 4 full-page maps, 48 photographic illustrationson rectos and versos of 12 plates; dust jacket slightly spotted, else fine. Racing the native pirogues on the Mekong and its attendant cultural traditions. More
New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, [1940]. First edition, 4to, pp. xviii, [2], 206; numerous black & white photographic illustrations, maps, (one folding in color), mapped endpapers; original olive cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; bookseller's ticket on rear fly leaf, extremities a bit worn and..... More
