Early Travel from Lord Durham Rare Books (IOBA)

Sydney: Published by Hordern House, 2008. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. 174pp. (unpaginated). Burgundy cloth with gilt text, with dust-jacket. Both in near-fine condition. 133 lots described and illustrated with many colour plates, plus index, and price-list. "The Captain James Cook collection of Bob and Mary Anne Parks is a landmark of its kind,… Read more about this item

Sydney: New South Wales Library, 1970. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 2nd edition. 6 x 9-1/2 inches. xvi, 894pp. Original blue cloth covers with gilt text on front cover. Dustjacket mylar protected. Inside pages very clean. Previous owner's name on front endpaper and small bookstore late on other form endpaper. Near-fine condition.The most comprehensive bibliography on… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1883. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Copyright edition. 4-1/4 x 6-1/8 inches. (8),[9]-312pp.Sketches of Italy combines selections from two of Symonds' previous works, Sketches in Italy and Greece (1879) and Sketches and Studies in Italy (1879). This edition of Sketches in Italy was published as volume 2126 in Tauchnitz's Collection of British Authors series.… Read more about this item

Roma: E.N.I.T. (Italian National Tourist Board), 1930. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. First edition. 4-1/2 x 6-1/4 inches. (6)- (128pp.) [Eight 16pp sections, one for each region - Pistoia - Lucca - Volterra - San Gimignano - Arezzo - Perugia - Gubbio - Aquila]. Each region 16 page B&W section with a map and numbers photos. Previous… Read more about this item

1817. Hard & Soft cover. Very Good. Three early classic works on the Italian merchant Amerigo Vespucci, explorer, and navigator from the Republic of Florence who allegedly undertook several voyages to the "New World". In recognition of his explorations, the cartographer Martin Waldweemüller latinized his name as America in Cosmographiae Introductio (1507). • Girolamo Bartolommei già Smeducci (1584-1662). L'America poema eroico di Girolamo Bartolomei… Read more about this item

London: William Blackwood, 1834. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. IMPORTANT EARLY CANADA EMIGRATION BOOK WITH RARE MAP 2nd edition.4 x 6-1/2 inches. [iii]-xvi, 426pp.[1], plus folding map in front pocket.19th-century polished calf, gilt, spine gilt extra, leather label stamped in gilt. Minor soiling, corners worn. Contemporary bookplate. Internally clean. Map backed on linen. Bottom birder small tear… Read more about this item

1843. 1st Edition. Disbound. Poor. Includes years for 1804, 1807, 1818, 1830, 1834, 1837 and 1840. All text in German.Interesting witness of the early days of German-American inhabitants to Maryland and others to Pennsylvania. Illustrations show farmers at work and at rest. Damaged or incomplete and in poor condition.[German-American almanac], 1804[German-American almanac]. Reiche, J.F. Neue Nord-Americanische Stadt und… Read more about this item

London: both books published by L. Hodson & Son, 22, Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn, 1860. 2 volumes in one. 9cm x 14cm, (3-5/8" x 5-5/8"), Backwoods circa 1846 iv,prelims,[1] illust.list, [9]-233pp., [1]blank, 235-242pp.; [Bound with] Oregon 1860, [6]prelims, [7]-237pp., [1]ad.Original soiled blue boards with gilt stamping on type on spine and people in a sleigh on the front cover… Read more about this item