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Travel - 2010 Acquisitions:

Smith, William Prescott . THE BOOK OF THE GREAT RAILWAY CELEBRATIONS OF 1857 PARTS 1, 2 (IN ONE VOLUME)
New York 1858 2nd Appleton. Embracing a full account of the opening of the Ohio & Mississippi and the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroads, and the Northwestern Virginia Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad with histories and descriptions of the same; and an account of the subsequent excursion to Baltilmore, Washington and Norfolk (etc). Hardcover. Octavo, 264pp., 178pp., frontis foldout map, woodcut illustrations, numerous advertisements, original embossed brown cloth with professionally remounted original spine lettering. Good inner hinges cracked. (a77409)
$140.00 Carpenter, William W. . TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN MEXICO IN THE COURSE OF JOURNEYS OF UPWARD OF 2500 MILES, PERFORMED ON FOOT
New York 1851 first edition Harper. Adventures of a soldier in the Mexican War. Hardcover. Octavo, 300pp., original green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Good, outer hinges worn, spine ends frayed, occasional light foxing. (a77410)
$100.00 Phelps, Henry P. . THE WORLD'S FAIR VIA BALTIMORE & OHIO R. R. THE SIGHT-SEEING ROUTE TO CHICAGO THROUGH THE GREATEST CITIES, OVER THE GRANDEST MOUNTAINS, WHERE RAILWAY TRAVEL REACHES THE SUBLIME
Baltimore 1893 Passenger Department, Baltimore & Ohio RR. Square octavo, 92pp., maps and numerous text illustrations, original printed wraps. Good, edges a bit frayed, many corners bumped, most pages have crease line where corner was turned down. Complete, binding secure, and no ownership marks. Very Scarce in this original edition. (a77702)
$160.00 de Demidoff, M. Anatole . TRAVELS IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA, AND THE CRIMEA; THROUGH HUNGARY, WALLACHIA & MOLDAVIA DURING THE YEAR 1837 2 VOLUMES
London 1855 2nd John Mitchell, Royal Library. Two hardcover large octavo volumes. Demidoff is described as Of the Imperial Academy of Science and the University of St. Petersburg; of the Academies of Science of Paris, Munich, Stockholm etc etc. xvi, 370p; 335p. Vol 1 has portrait of Nicholas Ist, 1 large foldout map (map taped in places) and 12 illustrations. Vol 2 has one very large color foldout map of Russia (map is VG) , and 11 illustrations. Volumes are 3/4 leather with tan cloth and gilt spine lettering with horizontal gilt lines. College bookplate in each volume with library pockets on rear end papers, blind stamp on initial text page in each volume, a few library numbers written nearby. No spine numbers. Good, two chips one one rear end paper, occasional very light foxing in text, leather on covers worn and rubbed. Scarce. 2 volumes. (a77943)
$1100.00Campenhausen, Baron. TRAVELS THROUGH SEVERAL PROVINCES OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE WITH AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE ZAPOROG COSSACKS AND OF BESSARABIA, MOLDAVIA, WALLACHA AND THE CRIMEA
London 1808 Richard Phillips. Octavo, 136pp., index, removed from larger binding, now in later wraps. Collated complete. VG+. No owner marks. Scarce. (a77974)
$110.00 Armstrong, William Jackson . SIBERIA AND THE NIHILISTS WHY KENNAN WENT TO SIBERIA
Oakland 1890 1st Pacific Press Publishing Company. 112mo., 160pp., a few text illustrations, original printed light greygreen wraps. Two bookseller name stamps. Good, a few small chips from spine. Scarce. (a78140)
$250.00Stratilesco, Tereza. FROM CARPATHIAN TO PINDUS - PICTURES OF ROUMANIAN COUNTRY LIFE
London 1906 first edition. Fisher Unwin. Hardcover. Octavo, 379pp., violet cloth with gilt lettering on front. VG, spine faded, gilt gone from spine lettering but title still easy to read; light foxing on fore-edges. Top spine end lightly frayed. No ownership marks. (a78247)
$200.00Coxe, William. TRAVELS INTO POLAND, RUSSIA, SWEDEN AND DENMARK - VOLUME III (of 5) TRAVELS INTO RUSSIA
London 1792 Fourth edition. T. Cadell. This volume covers Russia. Octavo, 524pp., 4 plates and 2 fine foldout maps, index, full leather. Text near Fine, clean and binding secure; no ownership marks and just very slight rare spotting. Cover Fair, hinges cracked on outside; inner hinges unbroken. Leather quite worn and rubbed. (a78253)
$145.00Coxe, William. TRAVELS INTO POLAND, RUSSIA, SWEDEN AND DENMARK - VOLUME II (of 4) THE THIRD EDITION - RUSSIA
London 1787 third edition. T. Cadell. This volume covers Russia. Octavo, 471pp., 5 plates and Map of St. Petersburgh published in 1776, index, full leather. Text VG with occasional light foxing; binding secure; original boards with later paper backstrip. Leather rubbed and worn. Inner hinges reinforced. (a78254)
$145.00 Colquhoun, James . ADVENTURES IN RED RUSSIA FROM THE BLACK SEA TO THE WHITE SEA (SIGNED)
London 1926 1st John Murray. Printed for Private Circulation only. Author was in Russia in 1916 and witnessed the time before and during the Bolshevik takeover. He travelled to Georgia, Batoum, Dzansoul, Tiflis, Vladikafkas, Tzaritizin, Novgorod, Murmansk, more. Hardcover. Octavo, 193pp., photo illustrations, red cloth with black lettering on front and gilt lettering on spine. ***Presentation copy to John Hays Hammond signed by Colquhoun. VG. Scarce. (a78461)
$500.00 Griffis, William Elliot . COREA THE HERMIT NATION - I. ANCIENT AND MEDIAEVAL HISTORY; II. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL COREA; III. MODERN AND RECENT HISTORY
NY 1897 Scribners. Hardcover. Large octavo, 492pp., illustrations, large foldout map, index, original gilt decorated cloth. Spine numbers removed leaving only faint indication, school stamp on front and rear pastedown, and on rear free blank-no other markings. Good plus, rear large color foldout map has a couple of closed tears and 3 inch long piece of tape reattaching map to book which has left a tape stain along its length on innermost edge of map. Binding tight. (a78515)
$200.00 Norton, Henry Kittredge . THE FAR EASTERN REPUBLIC OF SIBERIA
New York 1923 1st Holt. Hardcover. Octavo, 316pp., illustrations, foldout map, green cloth. ***Signed by Norton. VG plus. In removable protective glassine jacket. (a78517)
$88.00 Erman, (Georg) Adolph . TRAVELS IN SIBERIA INCLUDING EXCURSIONS NORTHWARDS, DOWN THE OBI, TO THE POLAR CIRCLE AND, SOUTHWARDS, TO THE CHINESE FRONTIER 2 VOLUMES (COMPLETE)
Philadelphia 1850 1st Lea & Blanchard. Translated from German by W. D. Cooley. Hardcovers. Octavos, 371pp., 400pp., twentieth century rebinding into full brown cloth with gilt geometric decoration on front and gilt spine lettering and trim. Fine. Two hardcover volumes in matching bindings. Would make beautiful gift! (a78520)
$525.00 Marsden, Kate . ON SLEDGE AND HORSEBACK TO THE OUTCAST SIBERIAN LEPERS
NY 1892 Cassell. Member of Royal British Nurse Association journeys to Irkutsk and Yakutsk, Siberia, to locate an herb that, it is believed, will cure leprosy. Her search was unsuccessful, but her journey brought her in to contact with the exile system (Nerhood No. 397.) Hardcover. Octavo, 291pp., illustrations, grey cloth with gilt picture of horsedrawn sledge and gilt lettering. Institution bookplate and residue from pocket and slip on end papers, slight residue of spine numbers, VG. Nice attractive solid copy. (a78521)
$110.00 Ferreira Reis Thomaz, Luis Felipe . DE MALACA A PEGU VIAGENS DE UM FEITOR PORTUGUES 1512 - 1515
Lisboa 1966 Instituto De Alta Cultura. In Portuguese. Sm.4to., 217pp., original wraps. VG, light wear. Scarce. (a79391)
$125.00 Lindsay, Forbes . CUBA AND HER PEOPLE OF TO-DAY
Boston 1911 1st Page. Hardcover. Octavo, 329pp., many photo illustrations and two foldout maps, light blue tan cloth with attractive glue and green shield on front.Top edge gilt. VG, spine a bit rubbed and soiled. In removable protective glassine jacket. Hard-to-find title on early Cuba. (a79402)
$189.00 Brehm, Alfred Edmund . FROM NORTH POLE TO EQUATOR, STUDIES OF WILD LIFE AND SCENES IN MANY LANDS
London 1896 Blackie. Translated from German by M. Thomson and edited by J. Arthur Thomson. Focuses on wildlife; 2 chapters on Arctic, 3 chapters on Siberia. Author, a German naturalist, 1829-1884. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 502pp., illustrations, index, red cloth with gilt picture on front board of men, animals and yurts. Quite a few library name stamps in text but very tiny and very pale hence not obstrusive. Top edge gilt. Library numbers removed from spine and no longer visible. Good plus, cover worn on edges and corners. (a79637)
$100.00 (Parrish, James Cresson) . SOME ACCOUNT OF THE TRAVELS OF MYSELF AND SON IN THE SUMMER OF NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWO (ORIGINAL BOOK, NOT A REPRINT)
NY (1903) Privately Printed by the DeVinne Press. European travel, mostly France and Italy. Hardcover. Small octavo, 88pp., gilt decorated red cloth. Top edge gilt. This edition of 88pp. differs in content from the Google edition, which has 153pp. Good, head of spine chipped, corners worn. Unusual. (a79664)
$125.00 Mishkowsky, Noach . ETYOPYE: IDN IN AFRIKE UN AZYE
New York 1936. Descriptions of Jews in African and Asian lands visited by the author. In Yiddish. Hardcover. Octavo, 160p., illustrations, red cloth with black lettering and design on front. Good plus, light wear. (a79768)
$125.00 Cravath, Paul D. . LETTERS HOME FROM PERSIA WITH OBSERVATIONS ON PALESTINE AND SOUTHERN RUSSIA 1936
NY 1936 1st Country Life Press. Small octavo, 60pp., hardcover with mounted spine label and mounted printed label on front board. Presented to Mrs. Mahlon Pitney (written in ink on titlepage.) VG, corners worn, no DJ. (a79917)
$95.00McCready, R. H. and H. M. Tyndall. THE CRUISE OF THE CELTIC AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN 1902 SOUVENIR VOLUME (ORIGINAL BOOK, NOT A REPRINT)
New York 1902 1st Winthrop Press. Hardcover. 4to., 432p., many small photo illustrations, white cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Good, inner hinges cracked, cover lightly soiled. Scarce. (a79991)
$200.00 Martin, Percy F. . MEXICO OF THE XXth CENTURY (2 VOLUMES, COMPLETE)
New York 1907 1st Dodd Mead. Hardcovers. Two volumes. Large octavos, 323p., 320p., two large foldout maps, photo illustrations, cloth.Top edges gilt. Owner signed on end papers and on title pages. Good. one map detached, paper inside hinges just beginning to crack but hinges still holding, binding is quite secure, covers gently rubbed and faded. 2 volumes. (a80011)
$250.00 Case, Alden Buell . THIRTY YEARS WITH THE MEXICANS
New York 1917 1st Revell. Hardcover. Octavo, 285p., photo illustrations, cloth. VG, light soiling, no DJ. Not a modern reprint. (a80015)
$125.00 D' Argens, Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis . LETTRES JUIVES , OU CORRESPONDANCE PHILOSOPHIQUE, HISTORIQUE ET CRITIQUE ENTRE UN JUIF VOYAGER A PARIS & SES CORRESPONDANS EN DIVERS ENDROITS (6 volumes bound in 3)
Amsterdam 1736, 1737, 1737 Paul Gautier. Six hardcover volumes bound in three. Thick 12mo volumes, 332p. (10),3 47p. 365p., xvi,, 382p., 400p. (14),, 464p., full vellum with mounted leather spines and rouged fore-edges Volumes have interesting dedications: Vol. 3 "Aux Rabbins de la Sinagogue d'Amsterdam", Vol. 5 is dedicated "au naif et inimitable Sancho Panza" , Vol 6 "A Maitre Nicolas Barbier de l'Illustre Dom Quichotte de la Manche". One hundred and eighty letters are presented in all. A few lines of tiny ink manuscript on end papers of two volumes. No other ownership marks. Spine labels lightly chipped on two volumes, a bit more chipped on third volume but no text missing from the labels. Bindings secure, covers not much worn at all, cover vellum lightly evenly darkened. VG. Scarce set in nice condition. (a80104)
$2700.00 Haight, Sarah R. . THE TRAVELS OF SARAH R HAIGHT THROUGH SWITERLAND, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, BOHEMIA, BAVARIA, PRUSSIA, HOLLAND, DENMARK, NORWAY, SWEDEN, FINLAND AND RUSSIA AS PUBLISHED IN THE NEW YORK AMERICAN 1839-1840
1953. Introductory note states Sarah Haight was born May 21st, 1808 and died June 30, 1881. She lived in Nissequogue on Long Island and on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and travelled widely. 4to., 130 leaves (printed on rectos only), wraps with black cloth spine. VG. Scarce. (a80150)
$150.00 Hosie, Alexander . THREE YEARS IN WESTERN CHINA A NARRATIVE OF THREE JOURNEYS IN SSU-CHU'AN, KUEI-CHOW AND YUN-NAN
New York no date Dodd Mead. Hardcover. Large octavo, xxvi, 302pp., frontis with tissue, one foldout map, index, ads, bright blue gilt printed boards with full gilt panorama on front. Attractive black end papers with full panorama illustration in copper ink. VG plus, light fraying of spine ends and slightest amount of wear on corners. Text clean and binding quite secure. *Seldom seen in such nice condition. In removable protective glassine jacket. (a80275)
$580.00 Andersson, C. J. . NOTES OF TRAVEL IN SOUTH-WESTERN AFRICA (NOT A MODERN REPRINT)
New York 1875 1st Putnam. Hardcover. Octavo, 312pp., brown cloth with gilt lion head in middle front. Good, cover worn, cloth rubbed, spotting on fore-edges. Text clean. Not a modern reprint. (a80313)
$150.00 Taylor, Charles MD . FIVE YEARS IN CHINA WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT REBELLION AND A DESCRIPTION OF ST. HELENA
New York 1860 1st Derby & Jackson. Hardcover. Small octavo, 413pp., brilliant full color frontis illustration of Tau-Kwong, late Emperor of China with tissue guard, original pebbled bluegray cloth. Missionary library blindstamp on title page. Owner signed on title page (Alfred Freeman July 1860). Good, spine ends worn down about halfinch each, corners worn. Nice copy of a hard-to-find title. In removable protective glassine jacket. (a80414)
$285.00 Yeo, I. Burney M.D. . THERAPEUTICS OF MINERAL SPRINGS AND CLIMATES (ORIGINAL BOOK, NOT A REPRINT)
Chicago 1904 1st Keener. Lists and analyzes all known European and American mineral water spas and climatic sites and resorts (e.g, mountain air, sea voyages, etc.) Hardcover. Small octavo, 760pp., green cloth. Good, some tearing at head of spine, light soiling on cover. (a80735)
$90.00 Conway, Derwent . SWITZERLAND THE SOUTH OF FRANCE, AND THE PYRENEES IN MDCCCXXX - VOLUME 1 (OF 2)
Edinburgh 1831 1st Constable. Hardcover. Octavo, 284pp., fine steel engraving on title page, foldout map, cloth with original yellow end papers. School library stamps on titlep age and small paper label on spine and inside front board. Good, light wear, light foxing near page edges. (a80869)
$199.00