Search Results: Geography & Travel from Uncommon Works

ca. 1965. Facsimile. Very good/none as issued. Sebastian Münster . Unknown publisher, ca. 1960s reproduction of a 1628 double folio leaf. Very Good but trimmed. Map of Cologne, Germany. German fraktur text. Mounted on hardboard. 8.5 x 13.75" wide Sebastian Münster (1488 – 1552) was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and a Christian Hebraist scholar. His work, the Cosmographia from 1544, was the earliest German description of the world, going through 24 editions over 100 years. This reproduction is likely from the 1628 edition, the largest of them.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970. First Thus. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Frederick Catherwood. A near fine first edition thus, newly edited with an introduction by Victor Wolfgang von Hagen. Illustrations by Catherwood. Rust colored cloth boards. . Small smudge on bottom edge of book, otherwise fine. Dust jacket is very good plus, showing mild shelf wear at head and tail, and is price-clipped. Maps, illustrations and index. 473 pp. Octavo. Perhaps best known for his discovery of the Mayan ruins in the Yucatan, lawyer-turned-archaeologist John Lloyd Stephens (1805–1852) was the author of a number of highly praised travel books. The present volume, his first effort in the genre, received wide acclaim from reviewers, including Edgar Allan Poe, who found it ''written with a freshness of manner evincing manliness of feeling.''Conversational and unpretentious, the book is a delightful narrative of the author's year-long journey through the Middle… Read More

New York: Hurst & Co., 1891. First Revised Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good copy in original publishers bright blue ornate book cloth; title and centerpiece in silver with burgundy accents. All wood engravings present. Text block is solid, hinges have been repaired with archival quality white cloth tape. Cover rubbed, head and tail of spine worn. Previous owner's name in pencil. One corner bumped. 197 pp. + index Quarto, 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall.

Portland: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, 1982. Early printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. Kentucky & Kentucky II (Two volume set) 4th and 7th printings. Near fine hardcover, both with fine dustjackets, now protected in clear, removable archival covers. Book shop label on pastedown and first free endpaper. Mild toning to edges of pages of Kentucky II. Beautiful, full color photographs throughout. 160 & 144 pp. Small folio, 10 x 13 1/2 tall. Kentucky" takes you through stately mansions and pastoral horse ranches, as well as the golden rows of tobacco fields and quiet country roads.

Hanover: Ben Nikolaus Förster, 1718. Leather bound. Very good. A lovely old copy of of "A Brief and accurate system of modern geography, By a new and curious method." Translated and expanded by Johann Bernhard Heinzelmann from the sixth edition of Patrick Gordon's "Geography anatomized." Covers countries, customs, religions, and currency of the time and places.Bound in calfskin, with repaired cracking at the joint and wear to leather on front cover. Spine titled in faded gilt lettering. Missing the first free endpaper. Page edges stained with age. Double sheet title page in red and black ink. Part II divided by a double page illustration. Final page of the "Register" missing 1" circular section. Fraktur typeface. Text in German. 964 pp. octodecimo 4" x 6" tall

Las Vegas: Nevada Publications, 1971. First Edition. Cloth. Very good +/very good. A very good plus presumed first edition. Scarce. Bottom left corner heavily bumped, otherwise fine. Brown cloth with deep brown title stamping on cover and spine. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Jacket is bumped and rubbed on bottom right corner, with shelfwear to crown and foot. 181 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits. Quarto. Las Vegas usually is considered as synonymous with lavish gambling and unabashed night life. These have been emphasized in magazine articles and books, while the town's varied and colorful past have been overlooked. Here is the first general history of early Las Vegas ever to be published.During the last century Las Vegas has passed through a metamorphosis from a mere Spanish Trail waterhole in a vast and lonely desert to a religious mission and finally a thriving ranch. After contemporary Las Vegas was founded in May 1905, it developed into a typical Western… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. Early printing. Hardcover. Fine/good +. Fine early printing in a good+ dust jacket. Green cloth boards with green and yellow stamping on cover and spine. Dust jacket has several tiny closed tears and shelf wear, bottom front corner missing small amount of jacket. Profusely illustrated, including a fold-out map of the region. Early printing 1947 (same as copyright date) as determined from ads for current and forthcoming books. 393 numbered pp., incl. index. Octavo, 5 1/2 x 8 inches tall. From the jacket: "the finest collection of photographs", road maps, appendices, and expert-written text. This volume covers Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, and Nevada.

New York: Harper & Row, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. Stated first edition. Near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Orange cloth boards, gold foil title on spine, author's name embossed on front cover. Color photos and narrative throughout. Glossy paper. Printed in Italy. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown or would be fine. Fine, as new dust jacket. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover.88 pp., unpaginated. Small quarto, 9 x 10 inches tall. Author is a National Book Award winner.

Troy, NY: Nims and Knight, 1891. Pictorial boards. Good +/very good. Scarce. A good plus, very early or first edition. Beautifully written gift inscription (not by the author) from 1894 on first free endpaper. Illustrated. Tipped in is a postcard of winter festivities from 1890. Pictorial boards. Binding is soft, joints are worn. Hinges are sound. Cover showing rubbing and shelfwear.314 pp. Octavo.

Hong Kong: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket. Black cloth board, black endpapers. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Illustrated with full color photographs on glossy paper. 112 pp. Quarto, 9 1/2 x 12 inches tall. An award-winning journalist, Scigliano has written for Harper's, Outside, Discover, and many other publications.

Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1938. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. A very good first edition [Zempel & Verkler] in a very good dust jacket. Red cloth boards with black Republic of Haiti motif and black title stamping on spine. map endpapers. Heavy foxing to fore edge and rear edge of dust jacket. Minor loss at foot of jacket. 407 pp. : illustrations . Octavo Driven By A Desire To See The Land Described In The Fragmentary Records Of An 18th Century New England Ancestor Who Transported Negroes From The African Slave Coast, This Modern Young Puritan Visits The Mysterious Voodoo Land Of Haiti. The First Time A Complete Picture Of This Magic Island Was Offered The Public. Here Is The Very Atmosphere Of The Exotic Black Republic, Its Beauty And Horror, Including The Strange, Prehistoric Monster That Is Found Only On The Island Of Haiti.---inside flapTable of contents:Winter wonderlandAttending a dusky dancePort-au-Prince panoramaEast side,… Read More