London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1784. First edition. 8vo, recent quarter calf (retaining early red morocco label), marbled boards, ix, [7], 423, [1] pages. Interesting travel and observation of the discursive and anecdotal sort, ranging from explication of Russian exports and customhouses to the superstitions of Swiss shepherds to the... More about Observations on the Present State of Denmark, Russia, and Switzerland. In a Series of Letters

Herowsalem [i.e., Jerusalem]: I Tparani Arak`elakan At`oroy S. Hakovbeants`, 1871. First edition? 2 vols in 1 (as published), original pictorial blue wrappers bound into later black cloth, [16], 168, [4], 157, [3] pages. Inserted plate. Also published at the same press, theh Typographie Arménienne du Couvent de Saint-Jacques in 1871... More about Erkameay pandkhtowt`iwn i Hapeshstan . . . [transliterated from Armenian

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. First edition. Large 8vo, original decorated blue cloth, gilt lettering, xiii, [1], 287 pages, plus 4 pages ads. Frontis, 74 color plates, one folding map. With a gift inscription signed Helen Georgiana Baddeley, Castle Hale, 9 July 1910, at the head of the title... More about The Rivers and Streams of England Painted by Sutton Palmer, Described by A. G. Bradley

New-York: Published by G. & C. Carvill, 1828. Third edition. 12mo, contemporary black half morocco, gilt spine, 403 pages. 19 maps (including one double-leaf map) and 11 plates. A detailed guide of a nation in transition, this revised and expanded guide includes a moderately lengthy account of the Mauch Chunk... More about The Northern Traveller: (Combined with the Northern Tour.) Containing the Routes to Niagara,...

Paris: Challamel Aine, Libraire-Commissionnaire, 1860. First edition. 8vo, lacks front wrapper but rear wrapper present, 79, [1] pages. Folding map tipped to the rear wrapper. Unopened. On exploring the Amour river valley, taken from the June and August numbers of Nouvelles Annales des Voyages. Cordier, Bibliotheca Sinica, 2736 (noting the... More about Les Nouvelles acquisitions des Russes dans l'Asie Orientale. Le Fleuve Amour d'apres les...

London: A. & C. Black, (1927). First edition thus, illustrations reissued in Black's Popular Series with a revised text. 8vo, original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt lettering, viii, 182 + 2 pages. Frontis, 31 plates. Double-page map. Inman 574: "Most books in these series comprise text and illustrations from earlier colour books, mostly the 20s series." More about Somerset . . . with Illustrations by A. Heaton Cooper and Walter Tyndale, R.I

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. Second printing (the first was dated 1903), with some revisions. Large 8vo, original pictorial blue cloth, gilt lettering, xi, [1], 204, [4] pages. Frontis portrait, 80 color plates captioned on the tissue guards. Inman 22. More about Happy England and Painted by Helen Allingham, R.W.S. With Memoir and Descriptions by

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1878. First edition. Large 8vo, original lilac-gray cloth stamped in black, gilt lettering, 163, [1], [4] pages. Illus. Travel writings from Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, printed from the magazine plates and collected here in book form. Includes two pieces by Lanier, “St. Augustine in April”... More about Highways and Byways of American Travel

London: A. & C. Black; Montreal: Cambridge Corporation, [1905?]. First edition, Canadian deluxe issue, stated number 154 of 1000 copies (though see below). 8vo, publisher's gilt-stamped black morocco, watered-silk endpapers with cloth-reinforced hinges (as issued), 254, [1] pages. Frontis, 74 color plates. A Royal Canadian Edition of a number of... More about Beautiful Britain: Bonnie Scotland Painted by Sutton Palmer, R. I. . . . Royal Canadian Edition,...

Paris, France, June 20, 1840. Bifolium, 9.75 x 8 inches, two pages of text plus integral address, approx. 360 words. Sprague appears to be a young man making his first stop on a tour of the Continent; he gives his friend a mixed review of Paris, noting "the general appearance... More about Autograph letter, signed, to Nathan P. Ames of London