FIRESIDE TRAVELS
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's purple cloth. BAL 13117: State A. Accounts of travels in Maine, Italy, and elsewhere.
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VOYAGES FROM MONTREAL ON THE RIVER ST. LAURENCE, THROUGH THE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA, TO THE FROZEN AND PACIFIC OCEANS; IN THE YEARS 1789 AND 1793. With a Preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Fur Trade of that Country
London: Cadell & Davies, 1801. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (8-1/4" x 11") bound in attractive modern full tan calf in antique style, with heavily gilt-decorated spine with contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers; [4] viii, cxxxii, 412 pages + errata leaf. FIELD 967: "No writer.....
A NEW AND COMPLETE COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS...
London: Alexander Hogg, [1785]. First Edition. Hardcover. Two folio (9" x 13-3/4") volumes bound in contemporary marbled calf leather with gilt rules and decorated spines and matching gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with 2 engraved frontispieces, 20 maps including 8 large folding maps, and 80 full-page copper engravings.....
NARRATIVE OF THE SECOND ARCTIC EXPEDITION MADE BY CHARLES F. HALL: HIS VOYAGE TO REPULSE BAY, SLEDGE JOURNEYS TO THE STRAITS OF FURY AND HECLA AND TO KING WILLIAM'S LAND, AND RESIDENCE AMONG THE ESKIMOS DURING THE YEARS 1864-'69
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (7-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in the original decorated green cloth; 664 pages. Illustrated with 2 steel-engraved portraits, over 70 wood engravings, photo engravings, and heliotypes, 8 sketches of regional coastlines drawn by Inuits, and 13 maps, including the large.....
THE HOLY LAND, SYRIA, IDUMEA, ARABIA, EGYPT & NUBIA. / AFTER LITHOGRAPHS BY LOUIS HAGHE FROM DRAWINGS MADE ON THE SPOT
London: Day & Son, 1855. First Quarto Edition. Hardcover. With Historical Descriptions by The Revd. George Croly. Six quarto (8-1/4" x 12") volumes bound in three in later half red morocco leather with matching corners and gilt-lettered and decorated spines. Complete with 250 tinted lithographs including the frontispiece portrait of.....
NARRATIVE OF A SECOND VOYAGE IN SEARCH OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE AND OF A RESIDENCE IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS DURING THE YEARS 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. Including the Reports of Commander, now Captain, James Clark Ross, and The Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole
London: A. W. Webster, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (10" x 12-1/2") in the original blue cloth, neatly rebacked retaining the original gilt-lettered and decorated spine, endpapers renewed; [viii], xxxiii, [i], 740 pages. Illustrated with a portrait, 9 hand-colored plates, and 21 views, charts, and maps, including the large.....
THE HISTORY OF LAPLAND WHEREIN ARE SHEWED THE ORIGINAL MANNERS, HABITS, MARRIAGES, CONJURATIONS, &C. OF THAT PEOPLE
Oxford: Theater, 1674. First English Edition. Hardcover. Small folio (7-1/4" x 11") in worn contemporary calf leather with a modern leather spine; vi, 147, [1] pages. First edition in English of a study of the geography, natural history, and inhabitants of Lapland, originally published in Latin the previous year. Cox.....
AMERICAN TRAVELLERS ABROAD. A Bibliography of Accounts Published Before 1900
Carbondale-Edwardsville (IL): Southern Illinois University, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Printed wraps; (vi), 166 pages. Annotated bibiliography with over 1,500 entries with descriptions of the physical book followed by a description of the travel account. Includes bibliography of sources and index of places.
TRAVELS THROUGH GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, ITALY, AND SICILY
London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796-1797. First Edition in English. Hardcover. Two quarto (8-1/4" x 10-1/2") volumes in contemporary calf with gilt rules and gilt-lettered black morocco spine labels, one lacking from the first volume; half-title page present in the second volume only, which lacks a title page; directions.....
ON A MEXICAN MUSTANG, THROUGH TEXAS, FROM THE GULF TO THE RIO GRANDE
Hartford: S. S. Scranton & Company, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated mustard cloth with fancy gilt designs on the front cover and spine; 672 pages. Illustrated with many plates and facsimiles. Sixguns 2174; Adams HERD 2217: "Scarce"; Jenkins BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 201: "the best volume of 19th century Texas humor.".....
THE EMIGRANT, OR REFLECTIONS WHILE DESCENDING THE OHIO. A POEM
Cincinnati: J. Drake, 1872. First Edition. Softcover. Printed green wraps; 48 pages. Reprint of the 1833 edition with an added memoir of the author.
TOMBLESON'S VIEWS OF THE RHINE
London: W. Tombleson and Company, 1832. W. Tombleson. First Edition. Hardcover. Two small quarto (5-3/4" x 9-1/2") volumes bound in gilt-decorated and blind-stamped full black morocco leather. Illustrated with 2 engraved title pages and 137 fine steel-engraved views as well as a long folding panoramic map of the Rhine from.....
STATES OF DESIRE: TRAVELS IN GAY AMERICA
New York: E. P. Dutton, (1980). First Edition. Hardcover. A city by city description of how gay men lived in the 1970s. Review copy with photograph of author laid in.
THE RHINE, ITALY, AND GREECE. In a series of drawings from nature by Colonel Cockburn, Major Irton; Messrs. Bartlett, Leitch, and Wolfensberger
London & Paris: Fisher, Son, & Co, [1840]. First Edition. Hardcover. An early issue with just Fisher listed as publisher. Two quarto (8-1/4" x 10-3/4") volumes bound together in contemporary half green morocco leather and cloth with morocco corners, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 2 engraved title pages and 71.....
IN JAPAN: WITHOUT CLOCK OR CALENDAR
Boston: The Stratford Company, (1935). First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt lettered. With 37 illustrations from photographs. Apparently the only edition of this book, never reprinted.
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