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London: William Heinemann, 1901. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. "Outstanding work, Superb Primary Resource" Omi-shan is a Sacred Mountain in north-west Szechuan. The description of Omi a high peak within sight of the snowy ranges of Thibet is particularly interesting for its account of life in the mountain monasteries. [TDN] Light blue cloth, sun faded with gilt titles and front decoration. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with bumped upper corners. Erased inscription on front free end page lightly showing; gift inscription on the half-title page. Tissue guard of the frontispiece has age-toned. 8vo; 9 inches tall. vi, 272 pages with an index contains a Sketch Map of Northern and Central Szechuan and fifteen black and white photographs.. This very lengthy tour of 1899 includes commentaries on the various Christian Missions, the land, people, flora, fauna, rivers, mountains, opium, customs, native…
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by Wagner F. & Bodenstedt F.; Wraxall, Lascelles; Shirley Brooks; [A. W. Kinglake]
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Schamyl: The Sultan, Warrior, and Prophet of the Caucasus; The Russians of the South; Eothen: Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
by Wagner F. & Bodenstedt F.; Wraxall, Lascelles; Shirley Brooks; [A. W. Kinglake]
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London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans , 1854. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Three works bound in one volume. "Eothen" is a travel book about the Middle East and Holy Land, the other two cover the mountainous and Moslem areas of southern Russia. "Eothen" is attributed to Kinglake although his name is not present. All three books are somewhat scarce. ---------- Half olive calf, marbled boards. No edition indicated. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. 144, 147 and 256 pages respectively. Hardback 12 mo (about 7 inches tall) ---------- "Eothen: Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East" is a travel book about the Middle East and Holy Land, the other two cover the mountainous and Moslem areas of southern Russia. "Eothen" is attributed to Kinglake although his name is not present. ------- "Eothen" is denominated a new edition but all are dated 1854 on title pages. The binding is contemporary with 1854. ------ Alexander William Kinglake was an English travel writer and historian. His first literary venture was Eothen; or Traces of travel brought home from the East a very popular work of Eastern travel, apparently first published anonymously, in which he described a journey he made about ten years earlier in Syria, Palestine and Egypt, Elliot Warburton said it evoked "the East itself in vital actual reality" and it was instantly successful. .
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Mount Omi and Beyond. A Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border [Mountaineering. Tibet]
by Little, Archibald John
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[17th Century Travel, England] Picturesque Views on the Upper or Warwickshire Avon, ..
by Ireland, Samuel (1774-1800)
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London: R. Faulder and T. Egerton, 1795. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. The Rest of the Title: ...from its source at Nasby to its junction with the Severn at Tewkesbury: with Observations on the Public Buildings, and Other works of art in its vicinity. Burgundy full-leather hardcover with tooled and gilt double fillet borders, inner dentelles, lettered title on black label in gilt with tooled and gilt floral decoration in five bands, new endpages. [Rebound] No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Text lightly toned and minimal offset from the plates. Aquatint extra title, 29 aquatint plates, 2 portraits, map of the course of the Avon, text engravings. 8vo; 23.5 cm, 9.25 inches tall; [v-xviii] -284. First Edition. [Two plates mis-inserted plate p243 at p250 and plate p250 at p253] All plates present.. An important travalogue describing the locations and views along the River Avon from its source at Naseby to its junction with the Severn at Twekesbury.…
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Album of Photographs and Postcards from Travel in Japan and Europe
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Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Issued. Most of the postcards are unposted; some real photo, some printed. Album is dated 1924-1927. The photos and postcards are attached using slits, so can easily be removed. Not all slots are filled. Several pieces of ephemera laid in. Overall good; album pages chipped on edges. Self Published Includes 62 vintage postcards of Japan, including Osaka Castle; Nara; Horiuji; Japanese art and sculpture; the Wedded Rocks at Futami; Ise; Cave of the Sun Goddess; Koyosan (home of the Shinto sect); a Nestorian monument. 35 photographs are of of family and scenery in Japan, including the deer at Nara; Horiuji; going up Mt Koya at Koyosan; public school children at Koyosan saluting; pilgrims at Koyosan; students of the Koyosan Daijuken on way to celebration in 1924; students on the way to Kobo Daishi Temple; monks at Koyosan; Temple of Kobo Daishi, and more. A postcard of the Empress of Canada indicates the family returned to the US in 1924. They then took a train…
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[Travel, Exploration] The Sea and Its Living Wonders a Popular Account of the Marvels of the Deep and of the Progress of Maritime Discovery from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
by Hartwig, Dr. G.
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London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873. Fourth edition; Enlarged and Improved. Near Fine in Half-leather. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Early half red morocco with five spine bands with gilt titles and decoration to marbled boards with matching endpages by W. Worsfold, London with numerous Woodcuts and Chromoxylographic Plates, folded color map; Top edge gilt, 8vo; 8.75 inches tall; xv, 518 pages with an index and 8 unnumbered plates. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with corner rubs. Provenance: Helen Gould Shepard (with her bookplate). A beautifully illustrated and finely bound scientific and historical study of the Marine regions. Written with the intention of conveying 'solid instruction under an entertaining form'.
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Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, in the Years 1853, '54, '55 Volume 1 & 2
by Kane, Elisha Kent
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Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1856. First Edition, First Printing. Publisher's Cloth Hardcovers, complete with maps and illustrations. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrations by J.M Butler; Van Ingen & Snyder. Elisha Kent Kane. Brown cloth covered boards. Stamped gilt spine titles. Boards blind-stamped front and rear with intricate nautical design. Illustrated with 300+ engravings from sketches by the author. Steel plates by J.M Butler and wood engravings by Van Ingen & Snyder. Four maps, two are large folding maps; Engraved frontispiece portrait in each volume, Vignette title-page in each volume, 18 engraved tissue-guarded steel engraved plates. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Minor scuffing on the crowns. Small ownership bookplates in each. All plates/maps present with tissue guards. 8vo; 9 inches tall; Volume 1: 464 pages; Volume 2: 467 pages with nearly half given to appendixes. . As described by the title-pages,…
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Mount Omi and Beyond. A Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border [Mountaineering. Tibet]
by Little, Archibald John
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London: William Heinemann, 1901. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. "Outstanding work, Superb Primary Resource" Omi-shan is a Sacred Mountain in north-west Szechuan. The description of Omi a high peak within sight of the snowy ranges of Thibet is particularly interesting for its account of life in the mountain monasteries. [TDN] Light blue cloth, sun faded with gilt titles and front decoration. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with bumped upper corners. Erased inscription on front free end page lightly showing; gift inscription on the half-title page. Tissue guard of the frontispiece has age-toned. 8vo; 9 inches tall. vi, 272 pages with an index contains a Sketch Map of Northern and Central Szechuan and fifteen black and white photographs.. This very lengthy tour of 1899 includes commentaries on the various Christian Missions, the land, people, flora, fauna, rivers, mountains, opium, customs, native…
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[17th Century Travel, England] Picturesque Views on the Upper or Warwickshire Avon, ..
by Ireland, Samuel (1774-1800)
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London: R. Faulder and T. Egerton, 1795. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. The Rest of the Title: ...from its source at Nasby to its junction with the Severn at Tewkesbury: with Observations on the Public Buildings, and Other works of art in its vicinity. Burgundy full-leather hardcover with tooled and gilt double fillet borders, inner dentelles, lettered title on black label in gilt with tooled and gilt floral decoration in five bands, new endpages. [Rebound] No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Text lightly toned and minimal offset from the plates. Aquatint extra title, 29 aquatint plates, 2 portraits, map of the course of the Avon, text engravings. 8vo; 23.5 cm, 9.25 inches tall; [v-xviii] -284. First Edition. [Two plates mis-inserted plate p243 at p250 and plate p250 at p253] All plates present.. An important travalogue describing the locations and views along the River Avon from its source at Naseby to its junction with the Severn at Twekesbury.…
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Album of Photographs and Postcards from Travel in Japan and Europe
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Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Issued. Most of the postcards are unposted; some real photo, some printed. Album is dated 1924-1927. The photos and postcards are attached using slits, so can easily be removed. Not all slots are filled. Several pieces of ephemera laid in. Overall good; album pages chipped on edges. Self Published Includes 62 vintage postcards of Japan, including Osaka Castle; Nara; Horiuji; Japanese art and sculpture; the Wedded Rocks at Futami; Ise; Cave of the Sun Goddess; Koyosan (home of the Shinto sect); a Nestorian monument. 35 photographs are of of family and scenery in Japan, including the deer at Nara; Horiuji; going up Mt Koya at Koyosan; public school children at Koyosan saluting; pilgrims at Koyosan; students of the Koyosan Daijuken on way to celebration in 1924; students on the way to Kobo Daishi Temple; monks at Koyosan; Temple of Kobo Daishi, and more. A postcard of the Empress of Canada indicates the family returned to the US in 1924. They then took a train…
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An Account of Discoveries in the West Until 1519, and Voyages to and Along the Coast of North America, from 1520 to 1573
by Robinson, Conway
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Richmond, VA: Shepherd and Colin, 1848. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Printed by Shepherd and Colin, 1848. Prepared for "The Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society." Dark brown blinds-stamped boards with gilt spine titles. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning with tanning at the edges not affecting text. . Moderate shelf handling wear. Spine tips rubbed with loss on the lower. 8vo. [1], xv, 491 pages. First Edition.. A summary narration of the important voyages to America, with details of Carter's voyages to Canada, DeSoto's march through Florida and into Mississippi, the revenge of the French under De Gurgles due to the massacre of settlers. Much of importance in description of Native Americans and their culture. REF: Howes R 364; Sabin 72062;
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Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, in the Years 1853, '54, '55 Volume 1 & 2
by Kane, Elisha Kent
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Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1856. First Edition, First Printing. Publisher's Cloth Hardcovers, complete with maps and illustrations. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrations by J.M Butler; Van Ingen & Snyder. Elisha Kent Kane. Brown cloth covered boards. Stamped gilt spine titles. Boards blind-stamped front and rear with intricate nautical design. Illustrated with 300+ engravings from sketches by the author. Steel plates by J.M Butler and wood engravings by Van Ingen & Snyder. Four maps, two are large folding maps; Engraved frontispiece portrait in each volume, Vignette title-page in each volume, 18 engraved tissue-guarded steel engraved plates. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Minor scuffing on the crowns. Small ownership bookplates in each. All plates/maps present with tissue guards. 8vo; 9 inches tall; Volume 1: 464 pages; Volume 2: 467 pages with nearly half given to appendixes. . As described by the title-pages,…
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South American Journals 1858-1859
by Peabody, George Augustus
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Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum, 1937. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 209pp. Marbled boards, black spine, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, slipcase. Corners lightly rubbed, spine lettering mildly sunned, contents are clean and some pages still unopened. Slipcase is lightly edge-chipped. One of 481 copies printed on Hazelbourn paper by The Southworth-Anthoensen Press.
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A Holiday in Italy
by Lucy Andersen
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Walter Scott, London, 1889 revised edition, Very Good Hardcover / no dustjacket, 79 pages, 5" x 7.5", waterstain on front board, otherwise clean and tight, inscribed by author on ffep.
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The Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-west Coast of America, in the Pacific and in New South Wal
by Bishop, Charles (1765?-1810), edited by Michael Roe
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lvi+342 pages with frontispiece, 6 maps including two folding maps, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria embossed on front cover with cover and blind stamped ruled edges with original jacket. Edited by Michael Roe. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, second series, volume 131. First edition.In 1794, Charles Bishop sailed from Bristol as master of the Ruby, a trading ship bound for north-west America. He had instructions to procure otter furs fro the Indians and then to proceed to Canton via japan and sell the cargo. During the years 1794-1802, he rounded South America to reach the Pacific coast, then visited the Pacific islands and the coasts of Asia and Australia. In the Moluccas, he sold the Ruby and purchased the Nautilus; correspondingly, the test is divided into two sections. This narrative is Bishop's journal of his voyages and relates a minor epic of adventure,…
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The Silence Of The North
by Olive A. Fredrickson with Ben East
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Volunteers in the African Bush: Memoirs from Sierra Leone
by David Read Barker
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Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, January 2013. Trade Paperback. Fine. Slight reading wear to corners, otherwise pristine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Not damaged. Suitable for gifting. 163 pages. The 25 authors of this book were volunteers in the first Peace Corps rural community development project in Africa: Sierra Leone, 1965-67. They are also the first group to tell a collective story of Peace Corps volunteers, anywhere. The Peace Corps was in its infancy then, and memories of John Kennedy were strong among the young volunteers. Sierra Leone was also in its infancy in the first few years after independence, before military coups and tribal warfare became common. The authors forthrightly recount their feelings of loneliness and isolation, and their frightening experiences with secret societies and witchcraft, but their uniquely optimistic "can-do" American attitude brought most through a great life experience.
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Emin Pasha in Central Africa, being a collection of his letters and journals. Edited and annotated by Professor G. Schweinfurth, Professor F. Ratzel, Dr. R.W. Felkin, and Dr. G. Hartlaub.
by EMIN. PASHA
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547 pages. Black cloth boards; gilt lettering on spine. Spine detatched on one side. JWSC LLC is listing this property on behalf of a private collector's estate. Documentation on file indicates this book was purchased by the estate in the 1970s from (a UK dealer). Additional photos available.
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TRAVELS IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND
by WILSON, WILLIAM RAE
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1823. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [viii]ix-xii [1]2-544. FIRST EDITION. Bound in brown half-leather over marbled boards, title in gilt within a red title piece. The first edition of the author's first book. William Wilson (1772-1849) inherited a substantial sum from an uncle, and decided to indulge his passion for travel. He travelled throughout Europe and The Middle East and wrote a series of books. This was his first, and it was the most popular, going through several editions. This is a good copy as all plates, including the frontispiece, have been excised. The boards show moderate wear, heavier at the spine ends. The front hinge is cracked. The text block is mainly clean with a few marks of unknown origin.
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BRNSTN BRS GO TO CAMP (First Time Books)
by Berenstain, Stan and Jan
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Berenstain, Stan and Jan: The Berenstain Bears Go To Camp ( A First Time Book) Random House 1982 First Edition. Number line starts with 1. Ex-lib hardcover library-bound edition Brown cloth boards. Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice find for Berenstain Bears fans.
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Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage, 1741-1747: Volumes I & II: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton, 1741-1742; The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith, 1746-1747.
by Barr, William (1950- ) and Glyndwr Williams (editors)
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2 Volumes: Volume 1 subtitled: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton 1741-1742 xii+333 with 8 maps, 3 illustrations including frontispiece, bibliography and index; Volume 2 subtitled: The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith 1746 1747 xv+393 pages with frontispiece, 13 maps, 6 illustrations, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship to front cover. Translated by Anthony Mango. Second Series, volumes 177 and 181. First edition.The eighteenth century saw a resurgence of hope that a Northwest Passage - that elusive target of European seamen over the centuries - might yet be found. Prompted by the Irish MP Arthur Dobbs, the Admiralty sent the Furnace and Discovery to Hudson Bay in 1741 in search of navigable passage to the Pacific. The expedition was commanded by Christopher Middleton, until his resignation in March 1741 a sea-captain in the service of the Hudson Bay Company. With his actions closely scrutinized by his former…
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Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings (1589-1605)
by William Edward David "W E D" Allen (1901-1973) editor
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2 Volumes: xxxii+368 pages with frontispiece, five folding maps and ten plates; ix+[369]-640 pages with frontispiece, two folding maps, six plates, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship to front cover. Translated by Anthony Mango. Second Series, volumes 138 and 139. First edition.By the early sixteenth century the loosely knit kingdom of Georgia had disintegrated from the strong monarch of the middle ages to a number of small states and principalities. This internal disunity made the Georgians easy victims of the power politics of the neighboring Ottoman and Safavid empires, and by the end of the century the southward drive of the Russians intensified the struggle for military and diplomatic control over the whole of the Caucasian isthmus. As a result of this struggle seventeen embassies were exchanged between the Russian tsars and the Georgian kins ruling in Kakheti during the years 1564-1605. W E D Allen and Anthony…
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