Travel Narratives from

London: Printed at the Oriental Press by Wilson & Co. for Edward Harding, 1801. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto, pp 205, 217, with two folding hand-colored maps and 47 engraved plates, in a contemporary full calf binding with gilt rules, spine in six compartments, with red and black spine labels and gilt embellisment. Some rubbing to boards,… Read more about this item

London: R. Blamire, 1792. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition. 8vo, pp ix, 152, with 17 acquatint plates, bound in three-quarter leather and marbled boards. Some rubbing and scuffing to leather, two plates trimmed very close to fore edge margin, binding sound, text clean. Conetmporary ownership signature (dated 1794) on title page. Gilpin, an educator and writer on art,… Read more about this item

Boston: L.C. Page, 1911. Hardcover. Near fine. Second impression, 380 pp, with index, folding map and many illustrations (some color) by Blanche McManus. Table of contents page partially detached, else fine, in original grey pictorial cloth binding. Describes an extended and leisurely auto tour of Italy, passing through many small towns and including much local color.

London: Macmillan, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 10" x 6.75", xx, 335 pp, with 24 chromolithographed plates, as well as wood engravings and a folding map. Original blue cloth with color illustrations of a globe and flag on front cover, pennants on rear, spine lettered in gilt. A sound and attractive copy with wear to corners and… Read more about this item

London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1872. Hardcover. Good+. Third edition (issued in the same year as the first edition). x, 388 pp, with folding map (as frontispiece) and 6 plates, in original dark red cloth with decoration in black and gilt. Spine slanted, map has some creasing from being mis-folded, contemporary owner's signature on title page.… Read more about this item

Sydney and Brisbane: A. Hutchison & Son, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 10" x 6.25", pp xxiv, 690, with 22 tissue-guarded chromilithograph plates. Original cloth binding, Moderate rubbing to edges and corners of boards; binding tight, a few pages with finger smudges, but generally clean. Inglis (1845 -1908) ran an Indigo Plantation on the borderlands between India… Read more about this item

New York: John Lane Company, 1910. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 10" x 8", xiii, 202 pp, beautifully illustrated with 40 color plates by the author. Bookplate on front pastedown (with another underneath it), light edgewear to boards, some light discoloration to rear board; binding sound, contents clean. Liddell (1860-1925) was a British landscape painter who traveled… Read more about this item

London: W.H. Allen and Co, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 9" x 5.75", xii, 487 (1) pp, with a mounted real photograph of the Duke as frontispiece, folding map, 8 chromolithograph plates, 4 tinted wood engraved plates, and additional b/w plates and illustrations in the text. Bound without publisher's ads in three quarter leather and marbled boards,… Read more about this item

New York: The Page Company, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. First impression. xiv, 404 pp, with folding map. 8 color plates, and 47 half-tone illustrations from photographs, in lovely pictorial binding, with the scarce dust jacket. Lower corner of front board bumped, small dampstain to lower rear board (not affecting intererio), else a very nice copy. Jacket… Read more about this item

New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xxii, 259 pp, with index, folding map, 66 illustrations from photographs by the author, three color plates by Mrs. A.E. Berry. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering, no dust jacket. Rubbing to corners and spine ends, small indentation and some tiny white spots on… Read more about this item

London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 11.25" x 9", 184, (3) pp, with 24 tipped-in color plates reproducing watercolors, bound in original yellow cloth with red lettering. Mild spine slant, light dust soiling to boards, lower corners bumped, gift inscription dated 1976 on front free endpaper, otherwise clean. Heath says in the Foreword, that… Read more about this item

London: Chatto and Windus, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 9.25" x 7", xv, 275 pp, with 46 color plates and 16 sepia drawings (all by the author), folding map of China. Bound in original green cloth with lettering and decoration in gilt, top edge gilt. Spine is slightly slanted and spine cloth is lightly sunned, with tears… Read more about this item

London: A. & C. Black, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 9" x 6.5", 184 pp, with index, folding map, and 48 color plates. A handsome copy in publisher's pictorial cloth and matching dust jacket, inscribed on the front free endpaper "To W.S. Hallett with all good wishes, Paul E. Vernon Jan 9/31." Very light bump to… Read more about this item

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. Hardcover. Very good. Edition de Luxe, #457of 500 copies, signed by author on the limitation page. 10.25 x 8.5 inches, 253 pp, with 75 color plates. Bound in publisher's white cloth with thistle decoration in green and pink. Corners bumped, scratches (including one causing a partial split) in spine cloth; binding sound,… Read more about this item

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. Hardcover. Very good. Edition de Luxe, #86 of 300 copies, signed by illustrator Henry B. Winbush on the limitation page. 10.25 x 8.5 inches, 293 pp, with 76 colored plates and folding map at rear. Bound in publisher's cream cloth decorated in green, red, and gilt. Corners lightly bumped, minor scuffing to… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Brothers. Hardcover. Near fine. One-volume reprint. Title page undated, copyright 1909. pp xxv, 249, (1), with folding map and numerous illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with black titles and decoration. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners, bookplate Grace Nicholson, Pasadena, California on front pastedown, else fine.

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp. xxiv, 349, with two maps (one folding), 10 color lithograph plates, and additional illustrations in the text. Bound in three-quarter leather and marbled boards, with marbled edges, gilt spine in six compartments with title on black label. Old repairs to joints and hinges, leather well rubbed… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable et al., 1812. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition. Quarto, pp. xv, 491, complete with 3 maps (one folding), 4 folding charts, and 14 engraved plates, of which 8 are lovely hand-colored aquatints. Additional engravings in the text. Rebound in quarter-leather and brown cloth. Approximately 10 text pages with significant foxing, otherwise very clean. A chemist… Read more about this item

Paris: Chez le Jay, 1786. Second edition, two parts in one. 12mo, pp xx, 244, [4], 264 pp, with with four engraved plates after designs by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin. Fine copy in a later full-calf binding with red spine label. Jean Bernard Bossu was a French naturalist who traveled widely in the then-vast territory of Louisiana during several trips… Read more about this item

London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi, 288 pp, with two folding maps and 113 illustrations from photographs. Appendix by Count Dr. Cesare Calciati and Dr. Mathias Koncza, Original dark red cloth with illustration of climbers on a steep slope on front board. Corners lightly bumped, some rubbing to edges of boards, spine… Read more about this item