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
![Dransiluanioy Hayots` metrapolise . . . [transliterated from Armenian]. Armenia, Grigor Govrikean](/pictures/thumb/17778.jpg?v=1481918657)
Vienna: Mkhit`arean Tparan, 1896. First edition. 8vo, original printed pink wrappers (somewhat sunned), 9, [1], 352, [2] pages. Plates, illus. Unopened. Further studies of the Armenian diaspora in Transylvania. Number 19 in the series Azgayin matenadaran. More
![Erkameay pandkhtowt`iwn i Hapeshstan . . . [transliterated from Armenian]. Armenia,...](/pictures/thumb/17773.jpg?v=1481904079)
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
![Sew Tsovu rusakan ezerk`e . . . [transliterated from Armenian]. Armenia, Arhak`el Sarukhanian,...](/pictures/thumb/17777.jpg?v=1481918657)
Vienna: Mkhit`arean Tparan, 1895. First edition. 8vo, original printed pink wrappers (somewhat sunned), 189 pages. Unopened. Travel in the Black Sea region of the Ukraine. Number 18 in the series Azgayin matenadaran. More
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
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
Paris: Librairie d'Éducation d'Alexis Eymery, 1823. Stated second edition, preced by the 1821 edition. 2 vols, 12mo, contemporary tree calf, black morocco labels, gilt spines, all edges marbled. Frontis in each volume, 10 plates. A popular compilation of anecdotes and adventure from well-known voyages; includes accounts of the customs of... More
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
Glasgow: McCorquodale & Co., [ca. 1930?]. Folding map, backed with stiff linen, mounted into a green cloth folder with color pictorial paper labels, the map measuring approx. 32-1/2 x 45-1/2 inches. A fine detailed decorative map of the land around the Gleneagles Hotel (including the golf courses), with nice decorative... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
London: A. & C. Black, (1924). Stated second edition, this edition reissued in Black's Popular Series of Colour Books. Large 8vo, blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt and black lettering, ix, 238 pages. Frontis, 31 plates, 3 maps in the text. Inman 566: "Most books in these series comprise text and illustrations... More
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
