à Amsterdam: chez E. Maaskamp, près du Palais, 1816. First Edition thus. Half-Calf. Oblong foolscap 8vo (113 x 162mm): [80]pp, with title-page vignette by W. van Senus and 37 finely executed aquatints printed in sepia by L. Portman after G. J. Michaelis, F. A. Milats and others, each followed by..... more
![Travel] [Angkor Wat] The Gentleman in the Parlour : A Record of a Journey From Rangoon to...](/pictures/thumb/BB2334.jpeg?v=1632402483)
London: William Heinemann, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. A superb First Impression (unread) of this account of a journey Maugham made in 1923 with his then lover, the Paris-born American Gerald Haxton (with Haxton's role discretely omitted). Demy 8vo (202 x 145): [4],276pp. Publisher's smooth black cloth, front cover lettered and..... more
![Guide Book] [Louis XIV] A Day in Versailles. Illustrated Guidebook of The Museum, The Park, The...](/pictures/thumb/BB2266.jpeg?v=1605478623)
Paris: Braun & Co., 1950. First Impression. Stiff Wrappers. First English language edition of this Cunard curiosity, as she purportedly translated this guide book. Foolscap 8vo (): 64pp, with 32 full-page illustrations from photographs and 8 plans. Original greyish-beige perfect-bound wrappers printed in green and reddish-brown. A Very Fine copy..... more
![In Search of England [Penguin No. 1431]. H. V. MORTON, 1892.1979 Henry Canova Vollam](/images/noimage.png)
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books in Association with Methuen, 1960. First Printing. First Paperbound Edition of the title that launched Morton's In Search of . . . series. Foolscap 8vo (179 x 107mm): 252pp. Publisher's card covers printed in blue and black. Tightly bound and clean throughout, very faint edge-wear, lightly..... more
![Arctic] Letters from a Globetrotter. Written for Members of the Round-The-World Society. Elmer D....](/pictures/thumb/BB2563.jpeg?v=1632432279)
[various places]: [925]. Travelogue in the form of subscription letters written by Elmer D. Raymond, founder and president of the Round-the-World Society. Demy 8vo (232 x 160mm): frontispiece of clipper ship from sketch by Raymond and title page in red and black, folding map of the world, two-page forward (printed..... more
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition (so stated). 8vo: [4],176,[4]pp. Publisher's turquoise cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge stained gold, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust jacket priced $3.95 with correct 10/64 date of publication on front flap. As New and unread, a...... more
![Bermuda] [Jamaica] [Barbados] The West Indies and the Spanish Main. Anthony TROLLOPE](/pictures/thumb/BB2651.jpeg?v=1637848382)
London: Chapman & Hall, 1860. Decorative Cloth. Fourth Edition (in format identical to the first) of this chronicle of Trollope's travels through Barbados, the Bermudas, Cuba, Jamaica, New Granada, St. Thomas, and Trinidad, written while he was on post office business in the West Indies. Crown 8vo (196 x 118mm)..... more
![Photobook] A Holiday in Iceland [With Original Photographs]. N. L. VAN GRUISEN, active 1870s](/pictures/thumb/BB2375.jpeg?v=1632404103)
London: Elliott Stock, 1879. Decorative Cloth. First (and only) Edition of this travelog with original woodbury-type photographs. 8vo (212 x 136mm): vi,[3]-98pp, with five woodbury-type prints mounted on separate leaves. Publisher's blue-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ornamented in black, front cover decorated and lettered in black. An excellent..... more
![Hotel Morocco] Le Palais Jamai. Jos VATTIER, b. 1884](/pictures/thumb/BB2376.jpeg?v=1628463793)
Paris-Nice: [1921]. Card Covers. Uncommon promotional pamphlet for the deluxe hotel Le Palais Jamai, in Fez, Morocco. In French. Foolscap (150 x 132mm): [16]pp, with numerous line engravings and halftone illustrations (of La grande terrasse, Dan l’eau claire des fontaines, Le mysterieux harem, and the like) String-tied pattern embossed card..... more
![Ottoman Empire] A Modern Pilgrim in Mecca and a Siege in Sanaa. Arthur, ng](/pictures/thumb/BB2303.jpeg?v=1627338422)
London: John Constable, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce First Printing of this clandestine tour of the Near East. Demy 8vo (213 x 138mm): viii,[2],349,[1]pp, with seven plates from photographs (one a map) and large folding map of Arabia in black and blue inserted at rear. Publisher's Prussian blue cloth stamped..... more