Search Results: Travel and Exploration from AARDWOLF Fine Books

Desert Magazine Press, Palm Desert, CA, 1961; First Edition; 8vo, 310 pages; photo illustrated. Fascinating travelogue by Western author and adventurer Nell Murbarger, who together with her 74 year old mother traveled the length and breadth of Mexico, visiting 28 Mexican states from desert, to coast, to interior, driving and living in their 1960 Ford pickup truck equipped with a camper shell, visiting many out of the way places not included in guidebooks. Beautifully written. Very Good Plus, in a clean and bright Very Good dust jacket. Signed on f.f.e.p. by the author. A treasure of a book.

Rand McNally & Company, NY, 1969; First Edition; 4to, 245 pages; photo illustrated. The expedition diaries of Meriwether Lewis & William Clark, illustrated with extraordinary modern b&w photographs of each landscape as it is mentioned in the manuscript. Very Good Plus, in a price-clipped clean, bright, and attractive Very Good dust jacket.

Editorial Porrua, Mexico, 1983; 8vo, 331 pages plus a 12-page publisher’s catalogue at the back; cloth covered boards; black titles. The correspondence of Hernan Cortes, in which he describes his thoughts, actions, and experiences while actively engaged in the Conquest of Mexico. First published in Seville in 1522. Issued by Editorial Porrua as part of the "Sepan Cuantos" line, and hard bound by the publisher in buff-colored boards. Two in-text fold out maps. Text in Spanish. Twenty-three page explanatory preface by distinguished academic Manuel Alcala of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua. Very Good Plus, clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, binding tight, sound, and square. No ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind.

Harper and Row Publishers, NY, 1969; no statement of edition; large octavo (7 1/2" x 10 1/4"), 280 pages; sage cloth; blind stamped front board illustration of the Beagle ; gilt titles; illustrated. Alan Moorehead’s riveting account of 23 year old Charles Darwin’s five-year voyage as naturalist aboard the H.M.S. Beagle to Brazil, Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, Peru, Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, and other countries and islands along the way. Richly and profusely illustrated in both color and b&w with the works of contemporary artists, including the oil paintings and watercolors of Augustus Earle and Conrad Martens, official artists to the expedition. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good Plus price-clipped dust jacket. Clean, crisp, bright, and sharp. No ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind.

Edita, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1966; First Edition; Quarto, 221 pages; red leatherette, ornate gilt titles and decorations; decorative end papers. Fascinating collection of writings by European travelers describing the landscape and people encountered in their journeys across America from East to West during the period between the War Of Independence and the War Between The States. Beautifully and profusely illustrated in color and black & white with reproductions of American scenes drawn and painted from life by early artists, some never published before or heretofore available only to researchers. Two-panel Map Of The United States And Territories In 1857. Painstakingly compiled by Joseph Jobé, literary director of Swiss publishing house Edita. Printed and bound in Switzerland. Absolutely Fine, in like slipcase. A wonderful book which affords a luminous look back at our American heritage. An exceptional copy, complete in all respects.

Editorial Porrua, Mexico, 1983; 8vo, 700 pages plus a 12-page publisher’s catalogue at the back. Legendary first person account of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico, by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, soldier in the army of Hernan Cortes. Transcribed from Diaz’s original handwritten manuscript, not from Fr. Alonzo Remon’s later altered version of 1632. Includes a substantive background preface by Joaquin Ramirez Cabañas, complete bibliography of all editions published to date, lengthy index of proper names occurring in the text, and a handy 16-page chapter summary. An entry in Editorial Porrua’s "Sepan Cuantos" series. Text in Spanish. Very Good, in wraps. Some light external surface wear.

Baukatgafan Reykholt H.F., Reykjavik, Iceland, 1944; First Edition; 8vo, 160 pages; burgundy cloth; gilt titles. "Thoughts of Home," by Icelandic native Rannveig Schmidt. Affectionately inscribed and signed to American friends by the author. Text in Icelandic. Very Good Plus in a Very Good dust jacket with some edge chipping.

Lecturas Mexicanas/ Fondo De Cultura Economica, Mexico, 1983; First Lecturas Mexicanas Edition; 8vo, 308 pages. Story of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico as told by distinguished Mexican journalist and author Fernando Benitez. Text in Spanish. Very Good Plus, in color illustrated wraps. Clean, crisp, bright, and sharp. No ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind.

Henry T. Coates & Co., Philadelphia, 1897; First Edition; 8vo, 226 pages; blue cloth; gilt board decorations; gilt top edges; illustrated. Volume II of the fascinating and frequently shocking first hand account of a state visit to Morocco by Edmondo Amicis as a member of the 1876 Italian diplomatic mission which gave the first view to Western eyes of life behind the veil of the exotic cultures of North Africa. Translated into English in 1897 from the thirteenth Italian edition by Maria Honor Lansdale. Illustrated with 25 beautiful rich photogravure plates of the land and people of Morocco, each with identifying letterpressed guard tissue. Nicely bound in dark blue cloth with ornate gilt Moorish design and red silk marker ribbon. Fine. Clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, binding tight, sound and square, all gilding brilliant. Tipped-in color fold out map of Morocco at the back. Previous owner neat cursive signature on f.f.e.p.

Towarzystwo Lacznosci z Polonia Zagraniczna, Warszawa, 1959; 12mo, 168 pages. Photo-illustrated guidebook to Poland, with sights and services for a large number of Polish cities plus numerous display ads for 1950’s Polish businesses, including nice fold-outs for LOT airlines and Pekao Bank. Individual full-page maps for 17 Polish cities at the back. Text in Polish. Very Good, in card wraps. No chips, tears, ownership signatures, or any other markings of any kind.

Funk & Wagnalls, NY, 1930; First Edition; 8vo, 409 pages; 2 pages of publisher’s ads at the back; green cloth; gilt titles and decorations; color map end papers. Detailed travel guide to England and Scotland by prolific travel writer E.M. Newman. Enchantingly illustrated with over 300 b&w photographs taken expressly for the book. Fine, a brilliant copy, in a Very Good dust jacket that has light chipping at the uppermost edge of the spine panel, not affecting titles or graphics.

S.S. Comayagua, , 1959; Five menus from a voyage on the Merchant Marine freighter "Comayagua" March, 1959. Includes breakfast, lunch and dinner menus. The first"Comayagua" was launched in 1921 at Newburgh Shipyard, N.Y. for Cuyamel Fruit Co., but in May of 1942 was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-125 while on a voyage from Guatemala to Cuba. A new "Comayagua" was rebuilt and re-christened in 1946 and placed in service as an intracoastal refrigerated cargo ship for United Fruit Co. In years past a popular and inexpensive way to travel was to book passage as a civilian on a Merchant Marine vessel bound for any number of ports of call. A common misconception of the uninitiated was that the food on such ships was unappealing, whereas in point of fact the menus on Merchant Marine vessels rivaled those of the best restaurants, and crews and passengers ate quite extravagantly. All menus 5" x 8," printed on stiff card stock. All in excellent condition,… Read More

W.W. Norton & Company, NY, 1964; First Edition; 8vo, 366 pages; Illustrated. Personal observations of San Francisco and the Bay Area by artist/writer/poet Chiang Yee, who established his reputation as a uniquely perceptive travel commentator with publication of his first book on England’s lake district, "The Silent Traveller In Lakeland." Finely illustrated with fifteen color paintings and more than fifty b&w drawings, all by the author, an accomplished draughtsman and water colorist. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket. A crisp, clean, and bright copy of an insightful and beautiful book.

Charles Scribners’ Sons, NY, 1916; Second Edition. 8vo, 420 pages; illustrated. Fascinating account of a series of early twentieth century journeys into the Alaskan interior and Yukon Valley in the dead of winter, traveling by dogsled. Beautifully illustrated with 36 period photographs of the land and native peoples of Alaska, plus frontispiece photogravure portrait plate of the author. Large fold out map of the Alaskan interior at the back, tracking the journeys documented in the book. Very Good, clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, binding tight, sound and square, map fine.

British Columbia Government Travel Bureau, Vancouver, 1939; 5" x 8", 33 pages; illustrated. Early British Columbia travel guide to Vancouver Island, with descriptions of all the major areas, activities, and sights. Illustrated with numerous photos in sepia and a two panel Vancouver Island map at the center. No p.d. (circa 1939). Fine, in color illustrated wraps. Clean, crisp, and bright. No chips, tears, ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind.

Publication Press, Pasadena, CA, 1954; First Edition; 8vo, 181 pages. First hand account of a three month trip in 1954 from Los Angeles, California to Yokohama, Tokyo, Manila, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Calcutta, Delhi, Srinigar, Karachi, Beirut, Istanbul, Athens, Paris, and New York, traveling by boat, train, and airplane. Rear dust jacket panel blurb by Lee Shippey. Nicely inscribed and signed by the author in year of publication on the f.f.e.p. Fine, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket.