Category: Exploration/Travel, Geography, Maps/Cartography

A Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy. Part I: Southern Tuscany and Papal States [4th Ed.] / A Handbook of Rome and its Environs; Forming Part II of the Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy [5th Ed.] + A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy; Being a Guide for the Continental Portion of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

Price: $400.00

Publisher: London, Paris, Florence, and Rome, John Murray/A. & W. Galignani & Co.; Stassin & Xavier/Goodban/Piale; Gallarini; Spithover : 1857

Seller ID: 059262

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Two volumes, identically bound in custom-bound full calf, bordered and with spine panel compartments in gilt, 5 raised bands, dentilled edges, marbled text block edges and endpapers. Central Italy consisters of two parts bound in one volume: Part I: 4th ed. (1857); Part II: 5th ed. (1858); South Italy: 3rd ed. (1858) bound separately. Both volumes show similar modest wear with rubbed joints, corners, and bands, spine gilt partially rubbed away, publisher labels and one title label now lacking. Firm bindings, clean interiors. Lacking front blank preceding each first main title, interiors ot...
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A Handbook for Travellers in Northern Italy. Part I: Comprising the Continental States and Island of Sardinia, Lombardy, and Venice. Part II: The Duchies of Parma, Piacenza, and Modena, North Tuscany and Florence

Price: $295.00

Publisher: London, Paris, Florence, Milan, Venice, and Rome, John Murray/Galignani & Co.; Stassin & Xavier/Goodban/Artaria/Munster/Gallarini; Piale; Spithover : 1858

Seller ID: 059261

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Custom-bound full calf, bordered and with spine panel compartments in gilt, 5 raised bands, dentilled edges, marbled text block edges and endpapers. Rubbed joints, corners, and bands, spine gilt partially rubbed away, title and publisher labels now lacking. Firm binding, clean interior. Lacking front blank preceding main title, interior otherwise fully intact. xxx,644 pp. (Parts I and II continuously paginated), (2) maps (1 folding), 7 plans (6 folding). Stated 7th edition. A respectable copy, quite scarce early edition.
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A Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland, and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London and Paris, John Murray/A. & W. Galignani & Co.; Stassin & Xavier : 1858

Seller ID: 059265

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Custom-bound full calf, bordered and with spine panel compartments in gilt, 5 raised bands, dentilled edges, marbled text block edges and endpapers. Rubbed joints, corners, and bands, spine gilt partially rubbed away, title and publisher labels now lacking. Firm binding, clean interior. Lacking front blank preceding main title, interior otherwise fully intact. Stated 8th edition. lxvii,422 pp., (6) folding maps and plans. A respectable copy, quite scarce early edition.
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A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London and Paris, John Murray/A. & W. Galignani & Co.; Stassin & Xavier : 1858

Seller ID: 059266

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Custom-bound full calf, bordered and with spine panel compartments in gilt, 5 raised bands, dentilled edges, marbled text block edges and endpapers. Rubbed joints, corners, and bands, spine gilt partially rubbed away, title and publisher labels both partial. Firm binding, clean interior. Lacking front blank preceding main title, interior otherwise fully intact. Stated 12th edition. xl,572 pp., (8) folding maps/plans. A respectable copy, quite scarce early edition.
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A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to London and its Environs, with Four Section Plans . . . [London with Plans & Index to Streets]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London and New York, Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd./George Edmund Platt : 1910

Seller ID: 047906

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Red cloth, lettered in gilt. Closed 1 1/2" tear along upper front joint has been neatly mended, otherwise minor shelf wear, with mild toning/soiling to text block edges. xi,280,74 pp. Folding frontis. map (London and Twelve Miles Round) shows short mended tear, 6 additional folding maps, other maps and b&w plates in text.
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Atlas of Darke Co. [County], Ohio from actual surveys by D. J. Lake & B. N. Griffing, assisted by F. L. Sanford & F. W. Beardsley, to which is added a Map of the State of Ohio and an Outline and Rail Road Map of the United States

Price: $395.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, Lake, Griffing & Stevenson : 1875

Seller ID: 051959

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Black 1/4 leather, dark brown pebbled cloth, lettered in gilt. 79 pp. + (2) hinged maps (Ohio, US) at rear. Leather is typically rubbed, with tears and some loss at spine extremities, approx. 5" separation along upper front cover joint. Corners rubbed with exposure, some spotting to cover cloth, rubbing along edges with some areas of exposure. Some notations in pencil and ink to front flyleaf, a few ink notations to main title, maps clean and unmarked. Approx. 6 1/2" closed tear along lower binding edge of front flyleaf. Firm binding. Exterior presents as Good due to above issues, inter...
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China Experience

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Pacific Delight Tours

Seller ID: 008411

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: As New

Dark red cloth, overalid with lovely gold and red floral pattern, patterned silk-paper endpapers, in original protective sleeve, publisher's pictorial clamshell slipcase (showing minor shelf wear). Small former owner address label on lower front pastedown, else as issued. 224 pp., fully illus. w/ color plates. Approx. 9.75" x 13". Text in English, with titles also in Chinese. Superlative binding!
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Colton's New Township Map of the Western Counties of Pennsylvania

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, G. W. & C. B. Colton & Co. : 1876

Seller ID: 038778

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Original brown embossed cloth folder, approx. 6" x 4", lettered in gilt. Colored folding map, approx. 28" x 28 1/2", is better than typically found, showing minor separation at numerous fold junctures, partial but minor separation along several folds extending from edges, a few soil marks in central title header, top right corner above map portion, and minor soiling to a section of lower right portion, closed tear on central left portion where glued to backing board (still attached); retains good color, without significant tearing (closed or otherwise) or creasing. Cloth folder shows light s...
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Fenner's Classical Atlas - Classical

Price: $450.00

Publisher: London, Robert Jennings : 1828

Seller ID: 032864

Binding: Quarter-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Black 1/4 leather, spine panel lettered in gilt, marbled paper covered boards. Approx. 6 3/4" x 5 5/8". Leather rubbed along joints and at spine extremities, mild exposure at corners and at several points along edges, minor surface rubbing to boards. Gift inscription dated 1839 on front pastedown, owner's signature dated 1864. Firm binding, hinges intact. Slight dampstaining to top corner of front flyleaf only, interior otherwise nicely intact. 26 full page bordered maps, printed on rectos only: World as known to Ptolemy, Asia Antiqua, Africa Antiqua, Europa Antiqua, Oriens, AEgyptus, Sy...
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Firenze e Dintorni [Guida d'Italia]

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Milan, Italy, Touring Club Italiano

Seller ID: 012995

Binding: Cloth

Condition: VG+

Red flexible cloth, lettered in gilt. Light shelf wear, front board slightly curled along fore-edge. 398,10 pp., 3 carte geografiche, 2 piante di citta, 32 plante di antichita e di antichita. 1950, quarta edizione di 20,000 esemplari. Text in Italian.
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Guam, Today!

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Guam Chamber of Commerce : 1957

Seller ID: 041298

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: VG+

Stiff b&w pictorial wraps, stapled binding. Modest wear with light foxing to portions of front cover, slight rubbing to corners. Clean interior, firm binding. Former owner's signature on contents page, with interior mildly toned (typical of issue). Unpaginated, 100+ pp., well-illus., many local ads. Dated Dec. 1957.
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Guide Through Europe, Presented by the Hamburg American Line [Guide through Germany, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, The United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Spain, Portugal &c. - Souvenir - Hamburg-American Line] [1905]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Berlin, J. Hermann Herz : 1905

Seller ID: 018356

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Red illus. cloth, lettered in black and gilt, flexible boards, with H.A.P.A.G. flag on front cover. Sunned spine panel, frayed at extremities, mild evidence of mending along front joint, rubbed along rear joint. Several small areas of cloth loss on front cover, overall flecking and soiling to cloth. Text block generally clean, somewhat toned, with penciled notes on pp. 128-129. Former owner's signature on title page: Mildred Jones, Leipzig, Germany, 8-21-'05, "Moltke," Hamburg American. 944 pp., illus., color maps and foldouts. The 7-panel foldout on Montreux - the Bernese Oberland at p. 529 s...
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Hawaiian Islands: Report of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, with Accompanying Testimony, and Executive Documents Transmitted to Congress from January 1, 1893 to March 10, 1894. [Volume 2, of 2]

Price: $195.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., GPO : 1894

Seller ID: 016947

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Black cloth, moderately rubbed/soiled, with somewhat curled corners, flecked spine panel cloth. Two former owner signatures and one institutional library stamp on front endpapers, otherwise unmarked. [ii],811-2287, comprising Volume 2 of a 2-volume continuously paginated set, this volume containing the subject index. Text block a bit toned but otherwise intact. This set was published following the 14 Feb. 1893 formal annexation of Hawaii as a U.S. possession. 52nd Congress, 2nd session. Scarce.
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Holiday and Health Resorts Guide: Official Illustrated Guide .[of] Places in England and Wales Served by the London Midland and Scottish Railway

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Newton le Willows, McCorquodale and Co. for London Midland and Scottish Railway : 1924

Seller ID: 028051

Binding: Buckram

Condition: Good

Ex-library copy, bound in dark red buckram, lettered in gilt. Original color illus. wraps retained. Typically marked and stamped, cloth a bit soiled, firm binding, sturdy reference copy. 528 pp., illus., (4) folding maps in rear pocket (North Wales, English Lakes, Lancashire Coast, Isle of Man) as called for, present and intact. Lacks rear flyleaf. Scarce, this copy cosmetically compromised but complete and intact in all of its essentials.
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Natural Science: A Monthly Review of Scientific Progress Vol. VII, No. 41 (Second Editiion, 5 July 1895) - Special "Challenger" Number [Challenger Expedition]

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Rait, Henderson and Co. : 1895

Seller ID: 027993

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Original tan wraps, bound into gray cardstock boards with brown cloth tape binding, retaining printed covers. iv,78 pp., illus. w/ 17 plates, additional illus. in text, b/w "The Harriman Alaskan Expedition," by W. E. Ritter (pp. 225-232, complete as issued). Contents: The Scientific Results of the "Challenger" Expedition [H.M.S. Challenger, 1872-1895], with chapters on hydrography and navigation, oceanic circulation, geology, botany, zoology, and anthropology. Firm binding, clean interior, contents Near Fine, exterior VG with toned covers, frayed extremities. Very scarce.
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Poster Holiday / The Wright Stuff: A Centennial Celebration of Aviation [Poster Auctions International XXXVII - 9 Nov. 2003]

Price: $16.00

Publisher: New York, Poster Auctions International, Inc. : 2003

Seller ID: 048025

ISBN: B01FJ33UMC

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dark blue leatherette, lettered in silver foil, color front cover pastedown illus. 565+ 127 lots, illus. in color throughout. As issued, with clean, unmarked interior.
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The Maritime Provinces: A Handbook for Travellers - A Guide to the Chief Cities, Coasts, and Islands of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, and to their Scenery and Historic Attractions; with the Gulf and River of St. Lawrence to Quebec and Montreal; also, Newfoundland and the Labrador Coast [Sweetser's Maritime Provinces]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co. : 1894

Seller ID: 045725

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Stated 10th edition (revised and enlarged). x,336,[4] pp., 4 maps, 4 plans. Front cover and spine panel somewhat soiled/age-darkened, with rubbing/flecking to spine panel as well, binding lean. Toned endpapers. One folding map rubbed along edges and with closed edge tear.
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Untrodden Fields of Anthropology: Based on the Diaries of His Thirty Years' Practice as a French Government Army-Surgeon and Physician in Asia - Oceania - America - Africa . . . [Two Volumes in One]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Falstaff Press : 1937

Seller ID: 058458

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original copy, rebound in black 1/4 cloth, light blue cloth, with handwritten title label mounted on upper spine. Cover cloth mildly foxed, otherwise only minor shelf wear, text block edges tanned and somewhat soiled from use. Firm binding, clean interior. xl,309,xviii,402 pp.
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Winning Posters [Poster Auctions International XLIV - 6 May 2007]

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Poster Auctions International, Inc. : 2007

Seller ID: 048026

ISBN: B005IDI2T0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Ivory leatherette, lettered in brown, color front cover pastedown illus. 552 lots, illus. in color throughout. As issued, with clean, unmarked interior.
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Until Summer Comes

By: Al Akl, Dr. F. M.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Springfield, MA, Pond-Ekberg Co. : 1945

Seller ID: 052260

ISBN: B0006AQJEK

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Tan-gray linen, lettered in burgundy and gilt, top text block edge stained red. Minor shelf wear, top edge a bit tanned. ix,362 pp., endpaper maps. Signature of economist Herbert R. Northrup on blank verso of front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Color illus. dust jacket shows chiipped spine extremities, sunned spine panel, mild rubbing to flap folds, a few short closed edge tears and creases, now in mylar.
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America Not Discovered by Columbus: A Historical Sketch of the Discovery of America by the Norsemen, in the Tenth Century . . . with an Appendix on the Historical, Linguistic, Literary and Scientific Value of the Scandinavian Language

By: Anderson, R. B.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Chicago and London, S. C. Griggs and Co./Trubner & Co. : 1874

Seller ID: 056832

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Green cloth, bordered in blind, lettered in gilt. Slightly rubbed corners and spine extremities, virtually as issued. Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia) book plate mounted inside front cover, stamp on lower main title. Signature of former owner James Aitken Meigs (whose library was donated to the ANS in 1895) on front blank. viii,9-104,[2] pp. Quite uncommon 1st ed.
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C-SPAN's Traveling Tocqueville's America: Retracing the 17-state tour that inspired Alexis de Tocqueville's poltical classic Democracy in America

By: Anne Bentzel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press : 1998

Seller ID: 054772

ISBN-13: 9780801859656

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dark blue cloth-effect boards, lettered in silver foil. New/as issued, color illus. dust jacket now in mylar. xiii,189 pp., illus. 1st ptg.
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South Sea Folk: Handbook of Maori and Oceanic Ethnology [Auckland Museum Handbook of Oceanic Ethnology]

By: Archey, Gilbert

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Auckland War Memorial Museum : 1949

Seller ID: 060592

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Stiff gray wraps, lettered/illus. in red and black. Minor rubbing to corners and spine extremities, "Maori" inked above title on front cover. 71 pp., illus. Stated 2nd ed.: 1949.
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Oriental and Western Siberia: A Narrative of Seven Years' Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and Part of Central Asia

By: Atkinson, Thomas Witlam

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, John E. Potter and Co. : 1852

Seller ID: 057590

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Rust cloth, decorated in black, lettered in rust. Mild binding lean, a bit rubbed along joints and spine extremities, corners rubbed with very slight exposure to bottom corners. Text block edges typically somewhat dulled by age. Firm binding, clean interior beyond former owner's address inscription penciled on front blank. xii,13-483,12 pp.
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Popular Resorts, and How to Reach Them, Comprising a Brief Description of the Principal Summer Retreats in the United States, and the Routes of Travel Leading to Them [Third Edition, Revised with map]

By: Bachelder, John B.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, John B. Bachelder : 1875

Seller ID: 039498

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth, lettered and decorated in black and gilt. Mild shelf wear, a bit rubbed at corners, toned text block edges. Firm binding, intact hinges with minor evidence of neat repair to rear hinge, clean interior. 364 pp., illus. w/ reproduced engravings. Large color folding map preceding half-title shows light toning along fold lines, minor separation at several junctures, torn and reattached with archival tape along binding edge.
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Category: Exploration/Travel, Geography, Maps/Cartography