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
Travel
Descriptions of The Country from thirty to forty Miles around Manchester
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
Bygone Lancashire
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
A Voyage to the South Seas; Undertake by command of His Majesty for the purpose of conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's Ship Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh
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
The Travels Of Bertrandon De La Brocquiere, Counsellor & First Esquire-Carver To Philippe Le Bon, Duke Of Burgundy, To Palestine, And His Return From Jerusalem Overland To France During The Years 1432 & 1433.; Extracted and put into modern French from a Manuscript in the National Library at Paris,....
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
Men from Under the Sky The Arrival of Westerners In Fiji
Rutland: Charles E.Tuttle, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 327 pages. More
Travel in England, From Pilgrim and Pack-Horse to Light Car and Plane
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. 154 pp. More
Unexplored Syria Visits To The Libanus, The Tulel El Safa, The Anti-Libanus, The Northern Libanus, And The `Alah
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
First Footsteps In East Africa Or, An Exploration Of Harar
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
The Journal Of The Royal Geographical Society. Volume the Forty-Ninth
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
Observations On The Passage to India Through Egypt, and across the Great Desert With Occasional Remarks on the adjacent Countries, and also Sketches of the different Routes
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
Old Ship Prints
London: Spring Books, 1967. Hardcover. 182 pages.Color and black and whiteplates. Index. First published 1927. This is the second impression. More
The Heart Of The Dragon
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
Swiss Scenery From Drawings By Major Cockburn
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
The Explorations Of Captain James Cook In The Pacific As Told By Selections Of His Own Journals 1768-1779; Edited by A. Grenfell Price * Illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton
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
Voyages Dans La Mer Du Sud, Par Les Espagnols Et Les Hollandois
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
The Golden Carpet
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
A Biographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour In France And Germany
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
Alexander Dobkin's Travel Sketchbook
New York: Crown, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Approx. 126 pages. Nearly 100 drawings, eight in color in pen and water color. More
South Wind
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
The Foreign Tour of Messrs Brown Jones and Robinson Being The History of What They Saw, And Did In Belgium, Germany, etc
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
Histoire Des Naufrages Pirateries, Abordages, Famines, Hivernages, Incendies, Delaissements, Taite De Negres, Revoltes, Combats, Desastres Et Aventures Sur Les Mers Et Les Oceans Du Globe
Paris: Fonteney Et Peltier, ca 1860. First edition. Hardcover. 396 pages. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Half title, twelve lithographs by Charles Gaildrau, ten are tinted. History of shipwrecks from the 16th century onward. Intermittent, scattered text browning, plates generally clean, a few with marginal toning. Text in French. Corners worn..... More
A Voyage To Senegal; or, Historical, Philosophical, and Political Memoirs, Relative To The Discoveries, Establishments, and Commerce of Europeans In The Atlantic Ocean, From Cape Blanco to the River of Sierra Leone. To Which Is Added An Account Of A Journey From Isle St. Louis To Galam
London: Richard Phillips, 1806. First English edition. Hardcover. 181 pages, (3). Index. 21 1/2 x 13 cm. Folding map and seven aquatint plates, many with two images per plate. Translated from the French. 18th century account of European activity in West Africa. The English captured Isle St. Louis and Senegal..... More
Egypt Descriptive Historical And Picturesque; Translated from the Original German y Clara Bell With An Introduction And Notes by S. Birch
London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell And Company, Limited, 1898. Hardcover. 314, 388 pages. 32 x 26 cm. General Index. List of Illustrations. List of Artists Employed In This Volume. Numerous black and white full page and illustrations in the text. Interior contents very fresh, and bright, some scattered..... More
Histoire De La Republique De Venise
Paris: Furne, Libraire-Editeur, 1855. Hardcover. 598 pages. 27 x 17 cm. Twenty four full page high quality steel engraved plates with tissue guards. Chapter headings with Initial letters, List of the Doges of Venice Text generally very clean and bright. scattered light toning to margins of front fold-out map of..... More