Milwaukee Then And Now
San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 144 pages. 24 x 28.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color and black and white plates on glossy stock. Index. More
San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 144 pages. 24 x 28.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color and black and white plates on glossy stock. Index. More
London: John Stockdale, 1795. First edition. leather_bound. 624 pages. 30 x 23 cm. Engraved frontispiece and additional title, two immense folding engraved maps (including one hand-coloured map of country around Manchester, 43 engraved plates and 18 single-page maps and plans, list of subscribers includes Booksellers as a separate entity after..... More
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 244 pages. 21 x 14 cm, illustrated. Index. List of Subscribers. Publisher adverts at rear. Limited edition, copy 417 of 750. Bevelled edges, backstrip chipped at head, worn at foot. Tight copy. More
Paris: Henri Charpentier, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. 64, 62, 42 pages. 19 x13 inches. 90 color lithographs (with descriptive text) and two tinted color maps: all present per Indices in the rear of each volume. Plates after Felix Benoist and Joseph Dessaix, with text by Xavier Eyma and Joseph Dessaix..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Ingleton, Geoffrey C. Hardcover. 176 pages, 35.5 x 25 cm. Limited edition, copy 1289 of 2000 signed by Ingleton and Douglas A. Dunstan. Introduction by Alan Villiers with three full page paintings and 22 line drawings printed in olive green by Geoffrey C. Ingleton..... More
London: Hafod Press, 1807. First English language edition. leather_bound. 336 pages. 24 x 15 cm. Folding map of Tartar. Translated by Thomas Johns, proprietor of the Hafted Press, James Henderson, printer. La Brocquiere offers considerable encouragement in support of a campaign against the Turks, and concludes a force composed of..... More
Rutland: Charles E.Tuttle, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 327 pages. More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. 154 pp. More
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. 360 & 400 pages. 23 x 14 cm. Twenty-seven lithographed plates including the frontispieces, eleven are folding, plus large fold-out color map, and twenty-eight text illustrations. Index. Burton noted this work as a "pot-pourri" on "Unexplored Syria," containing articles by Burton Drake, Mrs..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. First edition. 648 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Two maps, 4 colored lithographic plates; half-title. First edition, second issue, without the suppressed fourth Appendix on female circumcision included in the first issue. In 1849, the East India Company supported an exploration program to present-day Somalia. By 1854, the program was largely..... More
London: John Murray, 1879. First edition. Hardcover. 444 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Four fold-out color maps. Index. 12 pages of adverts. Contains Burton's "Itineraries of the Second Khedivial Expedition: Memoir explaining the New Map of Midian made by the Egyptian Staff-oficers"; and, "A Visit to Lissa and Pelagosa." The..... More
London: W. Faden, 1783. First edition. Hardcover. [XX] 110 pages. 27.5 x 22.5 cm. 2 folding engraved maps of Egypt and Syria/Iraq. This work by Capper is in two parts; one describing the route from India by way of the Red Sea, Suez and Egypt, the other from England by..... More
New York: Harper and Company, 1871. Hardcover. 314 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Twenty four full page black and white illustrations. Eight pages of adverts at rear. Chaillu explored the regions of West Africa in the neighborhood of the equator, gaining considerable knowledge of the delta of the Ogooué River..... More
London: Spring Books, 1967. Hardcover. 182 pages.Color and black and whiteplates. Index. First published 1927. This is the second impression. More
Paris: A. Barbier, 1846. First edition. Hardcover. 490 pages. 27 x 19 cm. Nine hand-colored plates (with tissue guards) and a host of steel engraved plates -- Philippoteaux, T. Johannot, E. Bellange, Isabey, E. Lamy, K. Girandet, Morel Fatio, C. Nanteuil, H. Baron et al. Six pages at end of..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. First American edition. Hardcover. 281 pages. 27 x 21 cm. Color, black and white illustrations and maps. Index. This book a companion to the 12 part PBS series. More
London: Rodwell & Martin, 1820. First edition. leather_bound. Unpaginated. 27 1/2 x 18 1/2 cm. Sixty steel plates engraved by Heath, Owen, Lacey, et al (with tissue guards), including vignette title and frontispiece. Plate Index. Bound without letterpress title. Each plate described in English (recto) and French (verso). "Cockburn, an..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Ingleton, Geoffrey C. Hardcover. 310 pages, 28.5 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 774 of 1500 signed by Ingleton and Douglas A. Dunstan (who designed the color frontispiece after Flaxman). Laid-in are the Monthly LEC Letter, a four page LEC brief biography of Cook..... More
Paris: Saillant & Nyon and Pissot, 1774. First French edition. leather_bound. 502 pages. 19 x 12 1/2 cm. Three engraved folding maps of the South Pacific (some soiling along folds, few old repairs on versos). Wood engraved chapter head and tail pieces. An abridged version of the author's "Historical Collections..... More
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. 128 pages 25.5 x 20 cm. Printed by Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter in 14pt. Perpetua type on Arnold's mould-made paper. Limited edition, copy 90 of 500. An account of the advance of the British Army from the Mediterranean to Baghdad, 1941..... More
London: Printed For The Author By W. Bulmer And W. Nicol, 1821. First edition. leather_bound. 462 (lxxIx), 555, 621 (lxii). 28 x 19 cm. 83 engraved plates, one hand-colored, two double-page, engraved vignettes (many on India paper), woodcuts within text. Index bound in Vol. I with printed ticket, and Supplement..... More
New York: Crown, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Approx. 126 pages. Nearly 100 drawings, eight in color in pen and water color. More
Chicago: Argus Books, 1929. Austen, John. First illustrated edition. Hardcover. 288, 300 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Limited edition, one of 40 copies (this copy out of series) signed by Austen and Douglas with an original ink drawing, "A Clubland Habitué," signed by John Austen. Illustrated by Austen, 15 plates..... More
New York: Cassell Publishing Company, ca1891. First American edition. Hardcover. 301 pages. 18 x 13.5 cm. Illustrated. The author, a British novelist and writer was the epitome of an adventurous modern woman. Carpathian Mountains, second longest in Europe, a chain forming the eastward continuation of the Alps in Central and..... More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854. First edition. Hardcover. 80 pages. 29.5 x 24 cm. 80 wood-engraved illustrations printed recto only. Gordon Ray [THE ILLUSTRATOR AND THE BOOK IN ENGLAND FROM 1790 TO 1914] calls this "Doyle's most personal book with respect to life in the world.....The artist Brown, in whom..... More