Travel & Exploration from Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

Brussels: Editions Est-Ouest, (1964)., (1964).. Good. FROM THE LIBRARY OF AMERICAN COMPOSER & CONDUCTOR LEONARD BERNSTEIN - Oblong quarto, 11 inches high by 14-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in color pictorial paper boards backed with a tan cloth spine. The covers are bumped and the rear cover is soiled with small brown stains, possibly brown ink or coffee. 131 pages… Read more about this item

Berne, Switzerland: Kummerly & Frey - Geographical Publishers, (1961)., (1961).. Very good. - Quarto, 11-3/4 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in pictorial white cloth stamped in gilt & titled in gilt on the spine with endpaper maps. The book is laid into a dust wrapper featuring a photograph by Toni Hagen. The edges of the dust jacket… Read more about this item

Sydney, Australia: The Library of New South Wales, 1970., 1970.. Very good. - Octavo, 9-1/2 inches high by 6 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine, laid into a pictorial yellow, red, black & white dust wrapper. The book's covers are slightly rubbed and the bottom edge of the front cover is bumped. The… Read more about this item

New York: Baker, Pratt & Co./ London: Sampson, Low & Co., 1875., 1875.. Fair. - Octavo, 8-1/4 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in pictorial dark green cloth with an image of Native Africans stamped on the front cover and titled in gilt with a gilt device on the spine. The covers are rubbed and stained with wear… Read more about this item

Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1907., 1907.. Very good. - Octavo, 9 inches high by 6 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in deep blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover and the spine. The top edge is gilt. The covers are lightly rubbed and the corners and head & tail of the spine are bumped. 479… Read more about this item

London: printed for Alex. Hogg, at the King’s Arms, no. 16, Pater-Noster-Row; and sold by all booksellers and news-carriers, [1784-1786]., [1784-1786].. Very good. - Folio, 15-3/4 inches high by 9-3/4 inches wide. Bound in full dark red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with rough gilt edges, a three line panel in blind and gold, with gold corner ornaments… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868., 1868.. Good. - Octavo, 8 inches high by 5-3/8 inches wide. Brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine with a vignette in blind on the front cover. The covers are stained with evidence of early worming and splitting along the rear joint. The cloth is also splitting along the very top… Read more about this item

Berlin: [Izdatel'stvo E.A. Gutnova], 1923., 1923.. Good. - Octavo, 7-7/8 inches high by 6 inches wide. Bound in black boards backed with a burgundy cloth spine. The covers are rubbed with wear to the edges and spine. There are remnants of an otherwise perished paper label on the spine as well as a hint of an excise or… Read more about this item

Very good. - The autograph of Jacob Wainwright, who served as explorer David Livingstone's attendant from the time he was about 14 years old, penned on 1-2/2 inch high by 2-7/8 inch wide card stock removed from an autograph album. Signed "Jacob Wainwright" by the Black African man who was born "Yamuza" and baptized with an English name after… Read more about this item

Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1897., 1897.. Very good. - Octavo, 6-1/2 inches high by 4-3/8 inches wide. Limp red cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & the spine. The covers are bumped and lightly soiled. xxxiv, 442 & 11 pages, illustrated with 33 maps & 56 plans, including color folding maps. The pages are slightly toned. Very… Read more about this item

New York: The Circumnavigators' Club, 1924., 1924.. Very good. - Quarto, 11 inches high by 8 inches wide. A 4-page program printed in burgundy red on heavy green stock with a cover illustration of a ship on the front cover and vignettes of Christmas trees along the right edge of the inner page. Printed within, under the heading… Read more about this item

Chicago, November 10, circa [1901]., [1901].. Fine. - Over 50 words penned on 2 attached 6-3/8 inch high by 5 inch wide "5141 Kimbark Avenue" stationery. Writing to the American lecture manager Major James B. Pond, Ethel Brilliana Tweedie informs him that "I have simply been buried here - by all the papers & numerous clubs". She goes… Read more about this item

[New York: The Circumnavigators Club], 1938., 1938.. Very good. - Octavo, 10 inches high by 6-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled white wraps, titled and decorated in red with a black & white photograph of "The Potola at Lhassa, in Forbidden Tibet" by Theos Bernard illustrating the front cover. The bottom edge of the front cover is… Read more about this item

[New York: The Circumnavigators Club], 1935., 1935.. Very good. - Octavo, 10 inches high by 6-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled yellow decorated white wraps, titled in black with a black & white illustration titled "In Ole Lunnon Town" by Ray Belmont Whitman pictured on the front cover. The edges of the covers are slightly soiled… Read more about this item

[New York: The Circumnavigators Club], 1938., 1938.. Very good. - Octavo, 10 inches high by 6-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled white wraps, titled and decorated in indigo blue with a black & white illustration of the "Al Fresco Dining Hall in Sequoia National Park" pictured on the front cover. The covers are slightly rubbed with a… Read more about this item

Temple, (London), February 23, circa [1860's], [1860's]. Very good. - Approximately 30 words penned on 6 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide creamy white paper. MacGregor writes thanking the recipient for her "note & the Resolution of the Committee". He goes on to outline the numerous lectures he is scheduled to give at the price of 50 pounds… Read more about this item

London J. Miles and Co., Ltd., circa [1923]., [1923].. Very good. - Octavo, 10 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, self-wraps illustrated with a photograph of a rhinoceros on the cover page. This four-page brochure, advertising a series of lectures by Major A. Radclyffe Dugmore accompanied by showings of his film "The Wonderland of Big Game" is… Read more about this item

Breslau [lower Germany, now Poland]: De l'Imprimerie de Guillaume Theophile Korn, 1801., 1801.. Fair. - Octavo, 8-3/4 inches high by 5-5/8 inches wide. Three-quarter calf & marbled boards. Both volumes are lacking the spines. The corners are worn and the marbled paper covering the boards is heavily rubbed and chipped with damage to the paper at the bottom… Read more about this item

New York: Sotheby's, 1985., 1985.. Very good. - Quarto, red cloth titled in gilt with illustration mounted on front board. Slight soiling to the front board. Unpaginated. Full-page & textual black & white facsimiles. Near fine. <p>43 items are catalogued.

NY: Nelson & Sons, (1960).. (1960).. Very good. - Small 4to, yellow & black pictorial cloth (very lightly bumped) titled in black, in dw (chipped & lightly soiled; dw spine & panels faded; price- clipped). 47 & [1] pp. (page edges slightly darkened). B&W illustrations from drawings by the author. Very good in good dw. <p>First American edition.<p>"This artist's visit… Read more about this item