![Item #BB2563 [Arctic] Letters from a Globetrotter. Written for Members of the Round-The-World...](/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
London: George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent [through 1881], 1875. Leatherette. First Editions (excepting Santa Croce, which is a second edition, with preface folios in Roman numerals), complete in six parts, of this great classic on Renaissance art. Crown 8vo (172 x 115mm): iv,23,[1]; [4],25-52; [4],57-95,[1]; [4],97-120; [4],121-151,[1]; [4],153-187,[1]pp. Original red..... 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
![Item #BB2353 [Photobook] 24 Choice Photogravure Views of Bombay [Mumbai]. THACKER, Co Ltd](/pictures/thumb/BB2353.jpeg?v=1660772402)
Bombay: Thacker & Co Ltd, n.d. [1914]. Stiff Wrappers. Scarce album of original photographs of Bombay locales from the dawn of the twentieth century. Oblong crown 8vo (148 x 195mm): [48]pp, with 24 postcard-sized photographs, each titled to lower margin and mounted on heavy brown stock to obverse of each..... more
![Item #BB2651 [Bermuda] [Jamaica] [Barbados] The West Indies and the Spanish Main. Anthony TROLLOPE](/pictures/thumb/BB2651.jpeg?v=1650630182)
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
![Item #BB2375 [Photobook] A Holiday in Iceland [With Original Photographs]. N. L. VAN GRUISEN,...](/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
![Item #BB2376 [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
London: Duckworth, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of this omnibus edition, collecting Waugh's best travel dispatches. Demy 8vo (216 x 135mm): 318pp, with color portrait frontispiece of Waugh aged 26 by Henry Lamb and folding map of British Guiana tipped in facing p. 196. Publisher's canary yellow cloth lettered..... more
![Item #BB2303 [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