Search Results: Travel from Charles Agvent

London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer & Co., 1809. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight offsetting from plates to text, otherwise quite clean and fresh; minor rubbing to joints. Near Fine. Quarto (8-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in full early calf leather with blind-stamped borders to covers, gilt-lettered and blind-stamped spine with five raised bands, all edges decorated; xvi, 287, [1] pages. Complete (despite "Vol. 12" on spine) with 11 (2 colored, 5 folding) aquatint plates and 2 folding copper engraved maps. Extensive travel description of the Kingdom of Morocco where Jackson resided for 16 years gathering information about trade and trade routes to Timbuktu and about the city itself. Covers geography, rivers, climate, mountains, culture, economy, zoology (especially snakes), metallurgy, mineralogy, population, Islam and languages, as well as the pandemic of 1799/1800. Bookplate on front pastedown of Major-General Sir Thomas Munro, 1st Baronet (1761-1827), who from 1820 to 1827 was Governor of Madras.

New York: Random House, (1979). First Edition. Wraps. Publisher's sticker on front cover and author's name in ink on spine. Fine. Uncorrected Proof in red wraps. Publisher's information sheet laid in.

Carbondale-Edwardsville (IL): Southern Illinois University, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Printed wraps; (vi), 166 pages. Annotated bibiliography with over 1,500 entries with descriptions of the physical book followed by a description of the travel account. Includes bibliography of sources and index of places.

Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards. Illustrated with photographs.

New Haven, CT: Published by the author., 1902 [1903]. First Edition. Softcover. Front wrap and endpaper detached. Octavo (6-1/8" x 9-1/2") in original printed green wraps; x, 548 pages. Illustrated with 40 plates and over 250 cuts in the text. A detailed history of the island including detailed accounts of flora, fauna, and climate.

New York: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1928. First American Edition. Hardcover. Short tears to top of spine. About Very Good, lacking a dustwrapper. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Dostoyevsky. An account of a trip from Russia through Germany to Switzerland with her famous husband. Hannah French's copy with her signature on the front endpaper.

Cincinnati: J. Drake, 1872. First Edition. Softcover. Repair to upper front corner; faint old marginal stain. Still Near Fine for this fragile item, housed in a cloth clamshell box. Printed green wraps; 48 pages. Reprint of the 1833 edition with an added memoir of the author.

New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. First American Edition. Hardcover. Bottom of spines a little spotted. Some pencil underlining. Very Good. Two volumes in publisher's blind-stamped green cloth. Kipling in India, the Orient, and elsewhere. Precedes the English edition. Livingston 227. With the error on page 90 of the second volume.

Newcastle upon Tyne: MacKenzie and Dent, [1819]. First Edition. Hardcover. Long tear to map with no loss; text and plates generally clean. Backstrip slightly lifted with minor split to front hinge and cover just a tad loose; small gouge to leather on spine. Very Good. Octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/2") in 19th-century black calf-backed marbled boards; xv, (1), (9)-712 pages. Illustrated with a large folding engraved map, 2 engraved plans of the City of Washington and the Country round Pittsburg, and 6 engraved views: the Capitol, Falls of Niagara, Natural Bridge, Mount Vernon, an American Stage Waggon,and the Bank of the United States. HOWES M-137. Quite scarce when the large map is present.

London: J. Darby and T. Browne, 1729. First Edition. Hardcover. Light, scattered foxing; Leaf L2 (pages 147-148) lacking and supplied in a neat manuscript hand, the same hand that supplied the additional material at the end. Wear to joints, especially the front which is just showing signs of splitting but covers still firm. Very Good. Large octavo (5-3/4" x 9-1/4") bound in 19th Century dark red morocco leather with floral gilt borders to covers, gilt-lettered and decorated spine with five raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, rebacked at an early date; viii, (xvi), 381 pages with 65 pages of manuscript in a neat hand at the end. Complete with Subscriber's List and original blanks. Illustrated with a folding map by John Senex. A spirited work on the contemporary history of Morocco, including a valuable eye-witness account of the expedition of the British Consul-General John Russell through Morocco to recover captives, covering a period between July 1727 and February 1728. The author… Read More

Oxford: Theater, 1674. First English Edition. Hardcover. Occasional foxing or stain; short closed tear to one leaf with no loss. Leather cracked, dry, and peeling, but sound. Very Good. Small folio (7-1/4" x 11") in worn contemporary calf leather with a modern leather spine; vi, 147, [1] pages. First edition in English of a study of the geography, natural history, and inhabitants of Lapland, originally published in Latin the previous year. Cox I, 178; Wing S851. Illustrated with an engraved title page, a folding map, and 26 large woodcut text engravings, including the FIRST DEPICTION IN AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE BOOK OF A PERSON SKIING. Both covers bear the arms of Henry Yelverton (1664-1704), 15th Baron Grey de Ruthyn and Viscount de Longueville. Lapland is the least densely populated area of Finland. The Sami people, traditionally known in English as Lapps or Laplanders, are the northernmost indigenous people of Europe and are widely credited with being the inventors of the ski.

London: Day & Son, 1855. First Quarto Edition. Hardcover. Some foxing, heaviest on the titles and initial leaves, occasionally to the margins of the plates but rarely affecting the images. Public library bookplate with small ink stamps at various places throughout, sometimes in the margins of the plates but never on the images. Hinges repaired with new paste-downs, general scuffing and wear along spine edges but bindings still tight. Very Good. With Historical Descriptions by The Revd. George Croly. Six quarto (8-1/4" x 12") volumes bound in three in later half red morocco leather with matching corners and gilt-lettered and decorated spines. Complete with 250 tinted lithographs including the frontispiece portrait of David Roberts in the first volume, a frontispiece of the temple at Abu Simbel and the map of his tour in the second, as well as all 6 lithographed title pages and print lists at the opening of each volume. In 1838 Roberts traveled to Egypt, which had grown popular both as a travel… Read More

Livorno: Marco Coltellini, 1763. First Edition. Hardcover. Half-title with marginal repair, one leaf (Ll1) with a small repaired hole affecting text, first folding map with repair to verso, some light staining, mostly marginal; binding close to Fine with a little spotting to the leather. Overall Near Fine. Three folio (9-1/2" x 12") volumes bound in twentieth century half green morocco leather with marbled boards and endpapers and matching morocco corners. First Italian Edition of THE AMERICAN GAZETTEER, published in London in three duodecimo volumes by J. Millar in 1762, which Sabin 26814 refers to as "A meritorious work." Illustrated with engraved title vignettes and 78 engraved plates and maps (including engraved frontispiece, 20 folding maps, 19 maps, 35 plates, 3 folding views). This work covers parts of South America, Cuba, New England, and up to Newfoundland. The natural history plates include bison, penguins, and many others. A handsome presentation. Borba, page 347: "This translation of… Read More

Boston: The Stratford Company, (1935). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth is still a bright red with minor fading to the spine. Owner name on the front pastedown. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Red cloth, gilt lettered. With 37 illustrations from photographs. Apparently the only edition of this book, never reprinted.

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Some spotting to the plates, less so than what seems typical for this title; the text clean. Light edgewear. Very Good to Near Fine. George Cruikshank. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards with modern calf rebacking; xii, 259, [1] pages. Illustrated with 2 text engravings after William Gell and 7 etched plates by George Cruikshank after sketches by the author. With Cruikshank's AUTOGRAPH pasted to the verso of the half-title page opposite the title page. Blackmer 56: "A very interesting account of several months' visit, written in a lively style. Nothing seems too trivial for the author's notice; he gives detailed descriptions of costume and of all sorts of manufactures including jewellery, silks, perfumes etc."

Tours: Maison Alfred Mame et Fils, 1930. First Edition. wraps. Minor soiling to some page edges. Near Fine in a slightly worn cloth folder. Obviously scarce. Folio (mostly 9-3/4" x 13-1/4' with some leaves smaller) consisting of loose signatures within printed wraps and in a decorated cloth folder; (viii), 244, (4) pages. Copy #4 of only 5 copies on imperiales du Japon (of a total edition of 25 copies). Illustrated with drawings in the text by Michel Ranjard and 28 full-page heliogravures. Touraine is a region located in the heart of France famous for its castles and wines.

Breslau, Hirschberg und Lissa in Südpreußen: Johann Friedrich Korn, 1799. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean and complete with all endpapers and blanks. Near Fine. Contemporary marbled boards with later cloth tape over the spine; [vi], 260 pages. Scarce account of travels in 18th century Germany.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. The pages are somewhat toned with age and quite clean. Hinges cracked but tight; rubbing to spine and rear. Very Good. Large octavo (7-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in the original decorated green cloth; 664 pages. Illustrated with 2 steel-engraved portraits, over 70 wood engravings, photo engravings, and heliotypes, 8 sketches of regional coastlines drawn by Inuits, and 13 maps, including the large folding linen-backed map in the rear pocket. Hall made three trips to the North. His ship, the Polaris, reached the farthest northerly point then attained by any vessel. This, his second visit and most extended, was published posthumously--Hall never returned from his third trip. Here is a detailed and valuable account of life among the Eskimos in the Arctic.

London: John Murray, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Title page and dedication page with dampstaining and restoration; plates with fine contemporary coloring, one with a closed tear to margin not affecting the image. Hinges starting, covers still firm; rubbing and fading to spine. Very Good. Quarto (8" x 10-1/2") bound in full polished calf leather by Casa Calero Madrid with gilt-lettered spine with four raised bands, all edges marbled; xii, 382, [1] pages. Complete with large folding engraved map and 17 hand-colored lithographic plates after Lyon, by M. Gauci, G. Harley, or D. Dighton. Lyon, disguised as a Muslim, left Tripoli to discover the source of the Niger river. The hand-colored plates depict scenes and traditional Libyan clothes. ABBEY TRAVEL, 404.

Dublin & London: William Robertson/Simpkin, Marshall & Co., [1860]. First Edition. Hardcover. Bright, close to Fine example of a scarce travel book. Oblong folio (14-3/4" x 10") bound in publisher's gilt-lettered and blindstamped flexible bright blue cloth. With illustrated title page and 19 pages, each with multiple illustrations with captions and tissue guards.