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: Adam and Charles Black, 1907. First edition, though there was a second printing in 1907 evidently identical to the first. Small 8vo, original green cloth, pictorial paper label, gilt lettering, viii, 86 pages. Frontis, 11 plates, one map. Bookplate on the front paste-down. Inman 765. More about Peeps at Many Lands: Scotland.

London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1886. First edition. Large 8vo, original pictorial olive-green cloth, xviii, 404 pages. Frontis, 17 plates. Partially unopened. “Railways have killed road travel, and the present generation little knows its loss. England—rural England, that is—away from busy towns, railways, and tourist-haunted regions, where big hotels abound..... More about On the Box Seat from London to Land’s End.

Sendai, Japan: Kaneko Press, August, 1899. First edition. Unbound, 7 x 4.5 inches, [3] pages. From the Japanese mission field, the Pennsylvania-born William Edwin Hoy (1858-1927) here sends six stanzas of verse back to the Reformed Church in America, “O Lord! we hear out of the night / Far China’s... More about Go. Dedicated to the Reformed Church in the United States.

London: A. &. C. Black; Montreal: Cambridge Corporation, [ca. 1906?]. 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), 212 pages. Frontis, 78 color plates. A Royal Canadian Edition of a number of... More about Beautiful Britain: Ireland Painted by Francis S. Walker, R.H.A. . . . Royal Canadian Edition,...

London: Adam & Charles Black, (1907). First edition. Large 8vo, original gilt-stamped blue cloth, ix, 122 pages. Frontis, 19 color plates. Folding map. Inman 134. More about Canterbury . . . Painted by W. Biscombe Gardner.

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.