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Travel - Mediterranean:

(travel) . A WINTER CRUISE AND SOME MENTAL RAMBLINGS
1922 Printed fo Private Circulation, in Great Britain by T. and A. Constable at the Edinburgh University Press. Cruise to Mexico, Majorca, Gibralter, Sardinia, etc. Small octavo, 132pp., blue cloth hardcover with paper label on front. Inscribed but not signed: With the writer's best wishes for 1923. Good plus, 9 pages have stainat top corner (not near text), light foxing. (a68305)
$250.00 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey . FROM PONKAPOG TO PESTH
Boston 1888 6th Houghton. 12mo., 267pp., 12pp. (publisher catalogu), hardcover. Owner bookplate (Edgar A. Buzzell.) Good, smudge on end paper, light cover wear. (a59534)
$29.00 Bennet, James Henry M.D. . WINTER AND SPRING ON THE SHORES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
London 1875 5th J & A Churchill. Covers: Geneoese Rivieras, Italy, Spain, Corfu, Greece, Constantinople, Corsica, Sicily, Sardinia, Malta, Algeria, Tunis, Smyrna, Asia Minor, Biarritz and Arcachon as winter climates. Octavo, 655pp., color frontis, woodcut illustrations, 4 large color foldout maps, original green cloth hardcover. Good, new endpapers, light foxing, spine ends a bit worn. (a68565)
$275.00 Bottome, Margaret . A SUNSHINE TRIP GLIMPSES OF THE ORIENT
NY 1897 Edward Arnold. Mediterranean cruise to Middle East and Egypt. Octavo, 215pp., nice frontis portrait of author, hardcover. Owner signed. VG, spine browned. (a67721)
$105.00 Cook, Joel . THE MEDITERRANEAN AND ITS BORDERLANDS ILLUSTRATED. 2 VOLUMES
Philadelphia 1910 1st John C. Winston Co. From Spain to Italy, Corsica, Sardinia , Malta, Turkey, Middle East and Egypt. Hardcovers. 2 volumes. 8vo., 609pp., 648pp., 50 full page illustrations, red cloth. with brilliant full gilt decoration on front and spine of both volumes. Association copy: Ink inscription in volume one reads: Presented to Elizabeth More from Mary Cook wife of Joel Cook. VG plus, very light wear to corners and spine ends, top corners of a few pages have slight wrinkle, in original red cloth VG DJs, with gilt lettering on spines, light wear on spine ends, spine lettering a bit faded. Ribbons present but frayed. Lovely set. (a51703)
$200.00 DeVine, J. F. . BEATING WINTER
Goshen (1938) Goshen Democrat Printing Company. This is an account of the principal rovings of a Mediterranean Cruise party, and an added appendix of a tour into sixteen countries in Central Europe. Sm.4to., 366pp., 66 photo illustrations, 7 maps, hardcover. **Signed by DeVine. VG plus in Good DJ. (a64872)
$45.00 DeVine, J. F. . BEATING WINTER
Goshen, n.d (c.1935) Goshen Democrat Printing. 'This is an account of the principal rovings of a Mediterranean Cruise party, and an added appendix of a tour into 16 countries in Central Europe. It is a meager description of the world-renowned spots visited, taking up in a brief way the history of the countries, the genesis of the people and our daily doings.' Hardcover. Lg.8vo., 336pp., monochrome photo illustrations, end paper map, hardcover. ** Inscribed and signed by DeVine. VG, no DJ. (a42733)
$39.00 Devins, John Bancroft . CLASSIC MEDITERRANEAN
NY 1910 American Tract Society. Story of author and wife's Mediterranean cruise. 8vo., 255pp., illustrations, hardcover. Good plus, light cover wear, end papers foxed. (a11052)
$25.00 Devins, John Bancroft . THE CLASSIC MEDITERRANEAN
NY 1910 AmericanTract Society. 8vo., 255pp., illustrations, hardcover. VG. (a16627)
$35.00 Grant, Cyril Fletcher . AFRICAN SHORES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
NY 1912 McBride, Nast. Mainly on Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. Hardcover. Large octavo, 504pp., photo illustrations, folding map, index, boards. VG in new glassine cover. Nice book. (a4685)
$75.00 Green, Peter . THE EXPANDING EYE A FIRST JOURNEY TO THE MEDITERRANEAN
NY 1957 1st Abelard-Schuman. 8vo., 211pp., hardcover. Fine in Near Fine DJ. (a58527)
$25.00 Jenkins, Rolland . MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE AN UP TO DATE AND CONCISE HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELERS
NY 1928 4th Putnam. With concise, interesting and unusual notes by George Brownell, Ph.D. Hardcover. Small octavo, 307pp., monochrome and color illustrations, 9 maps, cloth. Good, light wear. (a11458)
$23.00 Lorenz, D. E. Ph.D. . THE NEW MEDITERRANEAN TRAVELLER A HANDBOOK OF PRACTICAL INFORMATION
NY 15th Revell. Seville, Madeira, Malta, Naples, Galilee, Cairo, Samaria, Constantinople, etc. Sm.8vo., 357pp., photo illustrations, large foldout maps, hardcover. Date in ink on endpaper. VG, slight foxing on initial pages. (a29006)
$20.00 Paine, Albert Bigelow . THE LURE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN THE SHIP DWELLERS: THE STORY OF A HAPPY CRUISE
NY 1921 (1910). 8vo., 393pp., illus., illustrated boards. VG, spine faded. (a33617)
$30.00 Rapelje, George . A NARRATIVE OF EXCURSIONS, VOYAGES AND TRAVELS PERFORMED AT DIFFERENT PERIODS IN AMERICA, EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA
New York 1834 Printed for the Author by West & Trow. Rapelje was born in 1771. 'This is a journal kept during a year's voyage to Europe and the Mediterranean in 1821-22. More interesting than most, it captures both the tedium and the excitement of travel' (--Smith, American Travellers Abroad). Sm.4to., 416pp., original green cloth with gilt illustration on front board (very faded) and gilt spine lettering. Owner signed (J M Dyer) on end paper. Good, a few tine spots in text, end papers foxed, corner worn and frayed, some wear and tear on cloth along outer hinges, spine ends worn down slightly and somewhat frayed, small chip in cloth in middle of front board. Rare. (a42422)
$650.00 Roberts, Bobs . THE BOY'S ACCOUNT OF IT: A CHRONICLE OF FOREIGN TRAVEL BY AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD
New York 1909 1st Waterloo Press. Mediterranean tour. 12mo., 70pp., photo illustrations, green cloth with mounted photo illustration of author on front. Signed presentation copy from Bobs Roberts (presented to Mr and Mrs George Banks.) VG. (a58115)
$44.00 Thiebaut de Berneaud, Arsenne . A VOYAGE TO THE ISLE OF ELBA; WITH NOTICES OF THE OTHER ISLANDS IN THE TYRRHENIAN SEA
London 1814 Longman, Hust, Rees, Orme and Brown. Translated from the French of Arsenne Thiebaut de Berneaud by William Jerdan. Octavo, 183pp., large foldout map of Elba, rebound in maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. Small number on back of map. Copy of George Augusutus Sala , signed by him on title page (Brighton, 1883) with a note in his hand that Jerdan was Afterwards Editor for many years of a Gazette and that: I remember him. Good, map frayed on edges with a few closed tears, professionally taped on verso, final text pages also have a few small closed tears taped on verso. Scarce. (a70972)
$650.00 Vanderbilt, W. K. . ACROSS THE ATLANTIC WITH 'ARA', SUMMER OF 1924 (SIGNED)
NY 1925 1st Brentano. Yacht travel to Casablanca, Messina, Venice, Naples, Rabat, Fes and Marrakech. Hardcover. Octavo, 147pp., monochrome photo illustrations, 3 maps, cloth. **Signed presentation copy to Ellen Sturgis from Vanderbilt. VG, some light cover wear and spotting. Binding very secure and text clean. no DJ. (a43484)
$300.00 Vuillier, Gaston . THE FORGOTTEN ISLES IMPRESSIONS OF TRAVEL IN THE BALEARIC ISLES, CORSICA AND SARDINIA
NY 1896. Rendered into English by Frederic Breton. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 390pp., illustrations, pictorial red cloth. Good plus, spine lettering and cover a bit faded, light wear. (a65520)
$122.00 Welsh, Clarence L. and Ethel Watts Mumford . PAGEANT OF THE MEDITERRANEAN: A PICTORIAL OF WORLD TRAVEL
NY 1925 Privately Printed. 4to., photo plates, color illustrations, hardcover, Near Fine, light soiling in covers. (a64859)
$50.00 Wilson, Edward S. . AN ORIENTAL OUTING BEING A NARRATIVE OF ACRUISE ALONG THE MEDITERRANEAN AND OF VISITS TO HISTORIC CITIES
Cincinnati 1894 Cranston and Curts. Corsica, Egypt, Greece, Italy, etc. Hardcover. Sm.8vo., 294pp., olive greencloth with fancy gilt lettering on front board. VG plus. Not a modern reprint. (a42590)
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