Paris: Printemps, 1931. Hardcover. 516 p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Green covers with a faux leather look; gilt spine title: Au Printemps 1932. Gilt decoration and an illustration of a bird on the front cover. All page edges gilt. Illustrated endpapers with a stylized bird and flower illustration in blue. For... More
Philadelphia: Lydia R. Bailey, 1835. Hardcover. [4], 499, [1] p., 1 leaf of a map and 1 folded leaf; 22 cm. Contemporary half calf with gilt-tooled red leather label on spine; marbled paper over boards. Includes index. This volume includes articles about John James Audubon's Birds of America; travel in... More
![Bartholomew's "Half-Inch to Mile" Map of England & Wales: Sheet 8 Merseyside [Liverpool to Manchester]](/pictures/thumb/005309.JPG?v=1487977565)
Edinburgh: John Bartholomew, 1926. Paperback. "Scale: 2 Miles to an Inch." 1 folded color map (76 x 57 cm.), linen-backed; green paper front and back when folded. Hugh Rees, London, bookseller, on front and back. No date of publication; code in upper left-hand corner of map is "A26" meaning printed... More
London, Eng. Edward Stanford, 1900. The Edinburgh Geographical Institute; Copyright John Bartholomew & Co. 1 sheet 53 x 76 cm. Color map, dissected and mounted on linen. Light blue paper attached to front and back, when folded, printed in black. Cover title: Bartholomew's Road Map of England and Wales. Small... More
Edinburgh: John Bartholomew, 1921. Paperback. 1 folded color map (67 x 53 cm.), linen-backed; brown paper front and back when folded. Alfred Wilson, map and bookseller, London, on front. No date of publication; code in upper left-hand corner of map is "A21" meaning printed in the first half of 1921... More
Boston: National Publishing Co. 1902. Black pebble-grain cloth covers with gilt-stamped publisher's emblem on front cover. Attached accordian-style to color, folded, canvas-backed map (91 x 142 cm. [36 x 56 inches]); 13 x 27 cm. folded. Scale: 3 miles to an inch. Includes tables showing the population of Vermont every... More
Munich: Verkehrs-Werbungs-Gesellschaft, 1935. Paperback. 64 p., [6] folded leaves with 12 color maps: black-and-white illustrations; 25 cm. Printed wrappers with color illustration on front wrapper. Wrapper title. No date of publication; latest date in introduction is 1935. Includes some travel-related advertisements. In Very Good- Condition: creasing at wrapper corners with... More
Munich: Hermann Lukaschik, 1899. Hardcover. [4], 39, [1] p.: in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Leather spine with dark brown pebble-grain paper over boards. Green leaf-pattern endpapers. Austrian Arabist and archeologist Eduard Glaser (1855-1908) was one of the first Europeans to explore South Arabia and is still considered the most important scholar... More
Boston: Geo. H. Walker & Co. 1907. Paperback. Ninth Edition. 142 p., folded map attached to inside of front cover: many black-and-white photographs; 18 cm. Card covers printed in red and green with front cover illustration. The map, "New Map of Boston giving all points of interest; with every railway... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839. Hardcover. 4, 366 p.: full-page and in-text illustrations; 16 cm. Brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title, including series title and volume number. First 4 pages contains the publisher's catalog of its School District Library, of which this is vol. 31. Includes index. Inscribed on... More
Japan: 1910. Hardcover. 15 x 20 cm. album containing 52 postcards, 47 of them hand-colored. Black lacquer boards; front board illustrated with scene of a woman and a man painted in gilt and red. None of the postcards have been used and none have dates of publication. Some of the... More
Amsterdam: Héritiers de J. Ratelband & Compagnie, 1734. Hardcover. Title page continued: "Sa splendeur, son commerce, & la description de ses edifices, ruës, ports, canaux, ponts, ecluses, &c. le depart des postes, des chariots, & des barques, &c. Avec Une Description de sa belle Maison de Ville, et de tout... More
![The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction: Containing Original Essays; Historical Narratives; Biographical Memoirs; Manners and Cutoms; Topographical Descriptions; Sketches and Tales; Anecdotes Vol. XXVIII [July 2-Dec. 31 1836 (nos. 785-813)] [provenance: Charles Coleman Sellers]](/pictures/thumb/003925.JPG?v=1472082321)
London: J. Limbird, 1836. Hardcover. Title continued: "Select Extracts from New and Expensive Works; Poetry, Original and Selected; The Spirit of the Public Journals; Discoveries in the Arts and Sciences; New Facts in Natural History &c." viii, 472 p.: frontispiece portrait of Felicia Hemans, many full-page and in-text illustrations; 22... More
Berlin: Grieben-Verlag, 1931. Hardcover. 7. Auflage. 252, [4] p.: 3 floor plans, 12 maps (including 4 folded two-color maps); 15 cm. Brown cloth printed in black; ad for Carl Zeiss binoculars on back cover. Front fixed endpaper (included in page count) bears ad for Commerz- und Privat-Bank. Grieben Reiseführer Band... More
![Official AAA Tour Book: New England [with map]](/pictures/thumb/003343.JPG?v=1472082286)
Washington DC: American Automobile Association, 1927. Paperback. 120 p.: illustrations, maps, 1 large folded map of New England attached to inside of back cover; 24 cm. Grey paper covers printed in black and red. Contents: Descriptive Section -- Routings -- Tourist Camps -- Customs Regulations -- Ferry Schedules. Outside of... More
![Official AAA Tour Book: New York [with map]](/pictures/thumb/003342.JPG?v=1472082286)
Washington DC: American Automobile Association, 1927. Paperback. 140 p.: illustrations, maps, 1 large folded map of New York attached to inside of back cover; 24 cm. Grey paper covers printed in black and red. Contents: Descriptive Section -- Routings -- Tourist Camps -- Customs Regulations -- Ferry Schedules. Outside of... More
![Official AAA Tour Book: Pennsylvania, New Jersey [with map]](/pictures/thumb/003341.JPG?v=1472082286)
Philadelphia: Automobile Club of Philadelphia, 1927. Paperback. 160 p.: illustrations, maps, 1 large folded map of Pennsylvania and New Jersey attached to inside of back cover; 24 cm. Grey paper covers printed in black and red. Contents: Descriptive Section -- Routings -- Ferry Schedules -- Tourist Camps -- Pennsylvania Caves... More
![Pennsylvania Showing Counties in Different Colors--Townships--Cities--Boroughs--Villages Post Offices--Steam and Electric Railways, with Stations and Distances between Stations [map]](/pictures/thumb/001004.jpg?v=1472082193)
Indianapolis, Ind. National Map Co. 1922. One map (approx. 126 x 156 cm.) printed in color. Folded to fit in a black case (21 x 13 cm.) with text inside the front describing the pubisher's National Series of Commercial Maps. Population data taken from 1920 census, indicating publication in the... More
New York: s.n. 1897. Hardcover. 518 p.: many full-page and in-text illustrations; 27 cm. Publisher's red cloth with gilt and black stamped spine and cover titles; black stamped spine and cover illustrations. Title page printed in red and black. No publication information other than the place. Copyright 1897 by C.R.... More
![Rouen--Fontaine de la Grosse Horloge [and] Fontaine Sainte-Marie [2 albumen prints]](/pictures/thumb/005405.JPG?v=1491594324)
1889. 2 albumen prints. The first, Rouen--Fontaine de la Grosse Horloge, is 255 x 199 mm. on a cardboard mount (297 x 239 mm). Caption printed in photograph in lower right: "54. Rouen_Fontaine de la Grosse horloge." Written in ink at lower edge of image: "Rouen, August 25/89." Written in... More
Fred Harvey, 1945. 1 map 36 x 56 cm., which folds to 18 x 14 cm. One side contains a color Rand, McNally map with population and other data for each state in the margins. The other side shows the insignia of the American armed forces, printed in blue. Although... More
![Voyages and Travels: Catalogue 63 [Helen R. Kahn]](/pictures/thumb/001894.jpg?v=1472082217)
Montreal, Can. Helen R. Kahn, 2003. Paperback. [68] p.: 7 full-page illustrations; 21 cm. Yellow wrappers printed in black and red. Bookdealer's catalog containing 122 descriptions of works in the categories of Exploration, HIstory, War, Natural History, Biography, and Politics. In Near Fine Condition: wrapper slightly rubbed; pages are clean and tight. More
![W. & A.K. Johnston's New "Three Miles to Inch" Map of Scotland Colored for Tourists, Cyclists, & General Reference: Sheet 7 [linen-backed]](/pictures/thumb/004358.JPG?v=1472082354)
Edinburgh: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1895. Map. 66 x 53 cm. folded map, backed with linen, of the area running from Forfar to Coldstream, and from Berwick to Kirkcaldy. Dark blue cloth with front cover printed in black. The identification as Sheet 7 is printed in white on a grey... More
Los Angeles: F.W. Wood (Coast Card Co.), 1920. Paperback. 28 p.: illustrations, 1 double-page map; 17 cm. Stapled wrapper; front wrapper is red. Part of the publisher's series Revised Maps 1921, but sadly lackly the large folding map. Complete text with guide to Los Angeles in 1920. Points of interest... More
New York: Sheldon & Co. 1870. Hardcover. 215, [1] p.: frontispiece and 10 additional illustrations, some in-text and others full-page; 17 cm. Original red-orange, pebble-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and cover title, the spine title intricately embellished. Additional black-stamped ornamentation on spine and front cover; back cover has blind-stamped... More