Search Results: travel from John Price Antiquarian Books

Burnley Printed by Hortus PrintingN Co. Ltd., Burnlety for J. W. Fife, Amulree, Barnton, Midlothian, 1948. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 4to, 248 x 185 mms, pp. 66, lithographed and liberally illustrated with pictures, at least one on every page, also with amusing drawings in the margins made by Fife, fine quality paper, attractive binding with gilt outline of American on front cover, white paper wrappers (soiled and worn), and inscribed by Fife on recto of front free end-paper, "With my compliments / John W. Fife / Oct. 1948." John Weir Fife (1900-c.1979), British horticulturalist and traveller, was a director then chairman of Dobbie & Co., Ltd, a well-known horticultural firm of Britain. The company is still going strong today as Dobbies Garden Centres. Much of his travelogue is about his horticultural visit. He attended George Watson's College in Edinburgh and travelled extensively. The John Fife Travel Awards were inaugurated in 1979: "The aim is to encourage young people… Read More

Dublin: Printed for J. Smith, on the Blind Quay, 1757. 12mo, 170 x 101 mms., pp. [ii], 288, contemporary calf; spine creased and almost about to split, top and base of spine chipped; lacks plate, joints tender; bookplate of Alex M. MacEwen on front paste-down end-paper and contemporary name in ink on title-page, "Benholm", no doubt the settlement in Aberdeenshire, home to Benholm Mill, an area made famous among Scots by the work of that favourite Scottish national novelist Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901-1935). Most of the volume is taken up with Hanway's travels, and some of Mandeville's more curious observations are repeated, e. g., in India: "Strong wine is likewise made there, which the women drink, but not the men; to the end, that the women may have beares, who yet are shave thought the men are not." The surgeon Lionel Wafer (d. 1705) published his A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America in 1699, and the excerpts in thsi "compendium" are… Read More

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1961. 8vo, pp. xxvi, 268, 12 illustrations, original cloth, fine copy in very slightly worn dust-jacket.

London, Printed for Henry Herrignman..., 1670. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, 163 x 105 mms., pp. [viii], 247 [248 blank], notes in pencil on recto of rear free end-paper, later wrappers; front hinge exposed, but a good to very good copy. This abridged translation of Voyage d'Espagne curieux, historique, et politique (1665) by Antoine de Brunel is also attributed to François van Aerssen, 1572-1641, and to his grandson François van Aerssen, 1630-1658. "Dutch diplomat Antoine de Brunel's Voyage d'Espagne (A Journey into Spain, 1665) tends to burden the reader with intricacies of court politics, but he also inserts here and there superb portraits of political figures - under lining the pettiness of the Spanish nobility - as well as poignant descriptions of a mostly desolate land, its miserable lodgings, its precarious buildings, and other evidence to Spain's low quality of life" (Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza, Anxo Abuín González, César… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed for J. Ogle; M. Ogle, Glasgow; R. Ogle, and T. Hamilton, London; and J. Johnston, Dublin, By Thomas Turnbull, 1811. 12mo, 176 x 98 mms., pp. 186 [187 - 188 adverts], contemporary half calf, marbled boards (rubbed), gilt spine (rubbed); joints cracked, corners worn, contemporary autograph of "Margaret Moir" on top margin of title-page. Fleeman.75.sJ/13.

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. As a translator, Wallace made musicians one of her specialties, and Mendelssohn loomed large among the musicians she translated. As the Oxford DNB notes, "For Longmans she translated the lives and letters of contemporary musicians, publishing the Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847, edited by Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Dr Carl Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1863); Mendelssohn's Letters from Italy and Switzerland (1862); Beethoven's Letters (1790–1826) from the Collection of Dr Ludwig Nohl (1866); and The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791), edited by Nohl (1865). These works were widely reviewed and remained the standard English translations until Emily Anderson's new editions for Macmillan." The recipient of this copy is called "Charlotte St John" in Lady Wallace's warm inscription. This may be a playful nickname, however, as a character of that name features in… Read More

No place Printed by Albert F. Allen [from colophon] [c. 1895]. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 200 x 130 mms., pp. [3] 4 - 184, minimal title-page, bound in sturdy buckram, title on front cover, with inscription on verso of front free end-paper: "With the Compliments of / 'The Pilgrim' / Tappen Halsey / 1895"; small water-stain on front cover, but a very good copy, printed on thick paper. Tappen Halsey was a well-known citizen of Chicago in the late nineteenth century, being a businessman who owned several pharmacies in Illinois and Michigan. He seems not, however, to be generally known as a traveller or travel writer, and this appears to be the only copy known of his extensive account of his voyaging.Halsey travelled through at least seven countries, Algeria, Spain, Italy, France, Monaco, Switzerland, and Britain. Halsey was a sympathetic traveller with an eye for revealing detail. He reports, for instance, on the ubiquity of telephones in Switzerland (in 1895!). In Italy, he… Read More

Te Leyden, By Pieter Vandera Aa...., 1707. FIRST EDITION. Slender 8vo, pp. 37 [38 - 42 Index], folding engraved map, 2 folding engraved plates, engraved vignette on title-page, recently rebound in half calf, spine blocked in gilt, marbled boards. A very good copy. The English civil servant William Method (1590 - 1653) was born in Norfolk; he acquired fluency in several foreign languages, including Latin, Dutch, French, and Persian. He began service for the East India Company in 1616, and this account of his experiences there was one of several reports he made to his employers. ODNB notes, "Apart from forthright letters and reports to the company, partly published, he composed a 'Relation of Golconda', a brilliant description of that part of India, which appeared in the 1626 edition of Samuel Purchas's Purchas his Pilgrimage. It included brief descriptions of the kingdoms of Arakan, Pegu, and Tenasserim, based on trade information, not personal observation." This would… Read More

London: Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis..., 1828. 8vo, 184 x 110, pp. [vii] viii - xii, 445 [446 Directions for placing the Plates], folding engraved map opposite title-page, 5 full-page engraved plates in text, engraved plate of Hebrew opposite page 427, folding engraved plate of The Yafta opposite page 429, folding engraved map of author's route at end of text, with tear in one corner near gutter, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine. A very good copy. The author and sometime curate Robert Walsh (1772 - 1852) published a History of the City of Dublin in 1815 and went on to write several other books, including Notices of Brazil (1830). This is one of three books in which Contstantinople figures, and this one, like the others, was favourably reviewed. The Eclectic Review pronounced it "unpretending and delightful," with" distinct and extensive information," and concludes that "the most interesting people whom the author met with in his journey, are… Read More

A Paris, Chez Saintin, Libraire..., 1813. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. Small, rectangular 8vo, 120 x 88, pp. [iv], 107 [108 blank], xcv [xcvi blank]; [iv], 106 [107 - 108 Table], xciv, engraved frontispiece in volumes and 31 other attractive and interesting engraved plates contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt spines. A very good set. These two volumes, with quite a bit of emphasis on the Aborigines of Australia, have very good engravings, but how much of a contribution to ethnography they make is difficult to assess. All of the plates seem to derive from a great variety of previous images, and one has probably to be slightly sceptical about their authenticity. For example, California is represented by a plate that seems more appropriate to a location in South America.

London. Printed for Ro: Allot, 1632. Folio, 272 x 180 mms., pp. [II], 309 [310 blank, 311 autographs of Sara Moone and Thomas Page 1783, 313 blank],engraved title-page followed by double page engraved map, folding panorama plate between second page of dedication and first page of text, engraved plates within text on pages 24 (map), 30, 33 (full-page), 39, 40, 41, 68, 80, [87; I2r], 95 (full-page), 96, 105, 128, 130, 133, 158 (map), 162 (floor plan), 164, 165, 166, 175, 178, 179, 180 (floor plans), 183, 184, 185, 187, 189, 190, 191, 194, 196. 198, 661 [sic for 199], 201, 231, 261, 265, 266, 258, 271, 279, 285, and 290, bound in early 18th century calf, gilt borders on covers, raised bands between gilt rules on spine, fragment of label; some fore-margins closely trimmed with occasional loss of a letter, a few spots and stains in text, lower and upper joints very slightly cracked, but a good to very good copy with "Thomas Page his Book" inscribed on top margin of the recto of the first free… Read More

Glasgow: McCorquodale & Co. Limited, Printer, 1890. Three works in one volume with general title-page (as above): Address by John Ramsay, Esq., of Kildalton, [Chamber of Commerce, Glasgow], President of the Chamber, on The Opening of the Suez Canal. 11th January, 1879. Glasgow: McCorquodale & Co. Limited, Printer, 1890. 8vo, 210 x 135 mms., pp. [3], 14. BOUND WITH: Diary of a Trip to Egypt on the Occasion of the Opening of the Suez Canal. 1891. 8vo, pp. [5], 6 - 55 [56 blank]. BOUND WITH: Diary of a Trip to America. 1891. 8vo, pp. [3], 4 - 72, bounin thin boards, cloth spine, title of two items on front cover; stain on front cover. John Ramsay of Kildalton (1814-1892) was a Scottish writer, traveller, politician, and whisky-producer. He began his career as a whisky distiller in 1836 on Islay in the Inner Hebrides. He built Kildalton Castle, now in ruins. He became a member of Parliament in 1868. The two travel items are full of information and data. Copies located only in… Read More

Chicago: David C. Cook..., [no date], [?1876]. 12mo, 152 x 94 mms., pp. iv, 179 [180 blank, 181 - 190 adverts for Ward Lock & Co in London], steel-engraved frontispiece, original cloth, title blocked in gilt on spine a front cover; small stain at bottom of frontispiece not affecting image, binding a little rubbed and worn. OCLC lists a copy, located in Cambridge University Library, printed in London in ?1876 by Ward, Lock, and Tyler, but I cannot find any record of this Chicago imprint, which has the same physical description and pagination and perhaps with the adverts. There are several modern paperback reprints. Uncommon.

London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips..., 1821. 8vo, 202 x 117 mms., pp. 124, recent marbled wrappers; text only, lacks plates.

London: Printed for William Stockdale, 1818. 1818. Tall 8vo, 222 x 136 mms., pp. xii, 186, 13 hand-coloured aquatints, one engraved vignette within texts, one outline, contemporary half calf, spine embossed in blind, red morocco label, marbled boards; slight wear to binding, but the plates are fresh and clean, with bright, unfaded colours. A very good copy The Monastery of La Trappe began as a small chapel in 1122; it grew and prospered over the next six hundred years or so, until the Hundred Years War. After the French Revolution, the government sold it as national property. It was rebuilt in the 1880s and re-opened as an abbey imn 1895. Fellowes' splendid illustrations at an unfortunate time impressive represent what happened.

A Dijon, de l'Imrimerie de L. N. Frantin, 1797,. 2 volume in 1. 8vo, 193 x 120 mms., pp. [ii], 251 [252 blank]; [ii], 243 [244 blank, 245 -246 contents, 257 - 258 blank], including half-titles, uncut and largely unopened, a "waste paper" binding, with covers deriving from displaced leaves of the printer. The sort of binding that increases the heartbeat of those of us interested in the history of the book. Louis-Nicolas Frantin was probably one of France's best printers, and certainly the best in Dijon. This appears to be one of only 24 copies printed on Holland paper, but there are several in libraries and on offer in the antiquarian book marketplace that make one doubt that limitation number or the accuracy of various descriptions, including mine and that of a previous bookseller. Sterne's Sentimental Journey was first published in 1768 and translated into French in 1769. The translation here is by Joseph-Pierre Frenais.

A Paris: Chez Chaignieau aîné, Devaux..., 1796 - 1798. FIRST EDITION. 4 volumes. 12mo, 128 x 72 mms., pp. [ii], 194 [195 placement of plates, 196 blank]; [ii],226 [228 blank]; [iv], 225 [226 blank, 267 placement of plates, 278 blank]; [ii], 209 [210 blank, 211 placement of plates, 212 blank], engraved frontispiece and 9 other engraved plates (including three portraits) in volume 1, engraved frontispiece and 9 other engraved plates in volume 2, engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 other engraved plates in volume 3, and 7 engraved plates in volume 4, very attractively bound in full green morocco, gilt borders on covers, spines ornately gilt in compartments to a lyre motif, red morocco labels; slight wear to some corners, but generally a fine and very handsome set. From the BnF listing: " Recueil de voyages de divers auteurs. - Vol. 1, Voyage de Chapelle et de Bachaumont. Voyage de Languedoc et de Provence par Le Franc de Pompignan ; Vol. 2, Voyage de Fléchier en Auvergne.… Read More