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
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1896. Hardcover. 860 p.; 24 cm. Half black morocco with gilt-stamped spine title and embellishments; black morocco-grain cloth over boards. Contents include: articles by Agnes Repplier: The Fete de Gayant, and Old Wine and New -- The Children of the Road by Josiah Flynt --..... More
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
New York: Leonard Scott & Co., 1846. Hardcover. [2], 776 p.; 23 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Gilt-tooled spine title "Blackwood's Magazine"; blind-tooled decoration on spine. This volume contains fiction (including satire and horror), reviews and other nonfiction including travel, and poetry, all published anonymously, as..... 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
Berlin: Paul Franke Verlag, 1930. Hardcover. "61.-70. Tausend." xx, 332 p.: 296 full-page black-and-white photographs; 23 cm. White linen with green spine title, and green-and-red cover title. Top page edges green. Green endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket in cover. Printed by Spamer in Liepzig. With: folded leaflet containing publisher's advertisements. Gift..... 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
Innsbruck: Wagner, 1914. Paperback. 54, [10] p.: illustrations; 15 cm. Grey paper with color illustrated pastedown on front cover. No date of publication; the lastest date mentioned in the text is 1914. A traveller's guide to Insbruck, Austria, and nearby areas. Entirely in German. Includes a tipped in list of..... More
Paris: A. Taride Editeur, 1915. Map. 1 folded map (70 x 100 cm.) in an envelope 19 x 13 cm. "Carte Routière pour Automobilistes & Cyclists -- Centre de la France, Auvergne" -- at upper edge of map. "Cartes Taride" -- at upper edge of envelope. Map in color showing..... More
Paris: A. Taride Editeur, 1915. Map. 1 folded map (75 x 53 cm.) in an envelope 19 x 13 cm. "Carte Routière pour Automobilistes & Cyclists -- Frontiere des Alpes" -- at upper edge of map. "Cartes Taride" -- at upper edge of envelope. Map in color showing roads, paths..... More
Paris: A. Taride Editeur, 1915. Map. 1 folded map (72 x 93 cm.) in an envelope 19 x 13 cm. "Carte Routière pour Automobilistes & Cyclists -- Centre de la France: Section Sudest" -- at upper edge of map. "Cartes Taride" -- at upper edge of envelope. Map in color..... More
Paris: A. Taride Editeur, 1915. Map. 1 folded map (95 x 75 cm.) in an envelope 19 x 13 cm. "Carte Routière pour Automobilistes & Cyclists -- Sud de la France, Section Est" -- at upper edge of map. "Cartes Taride" -- at upper edge of envelope. Map in color..... More
Paris: A. Taride Editeur, 1915. Map. 1 folded map (66 x 90 cm.) in an envelope 19 x 13 cm. "Cartes Taride" -- at upper edge of envelope. Map in color showing roads, paths, canals, and railroads, with captions in French and Italian. Back of envelope has map of France..... More
Paris: A. Taride Editeur, 1910. Map. 1 folded map (94 x 75 cm.) in an envelope 19 x 13 cm. "Cartes Taride" -- at upper edge of envelope. Map in color showing roads, paths, canals, and railroads, with captions in French and Italian. Back of envelope has map of France..... More
Paris: A. Taride Editeur, 1915. Map. 1 folded map (72 x 91 cm.) in an envelope 19 x 13 cm. "Carte Routière pour Automobilistes & Cyclists" -- at upper edge of map. "Cartes Taride" -- at upper edge of envelope. Map in color showing roads, paths, canals, and railroads. Back..... More
Paris: A. Taride Editeur, 1915. Map. 1 folded map (72 x 91 cm.) in an envelope 19 x 13 cm. "Carte Routière pour Automobilistes & Cyclists" -- at upper edge of map. "Cartes Taride" -- on front of envelope. Map in color showing roads, paths, canals, and railroads. Back of..... More
Pittsburgh: Gulf Oil Corp. 1948. Paperback. Fifth Edition. [5], 134-250, [6] p., 15 loose leaves intended to be inserted at the appropriate places: maps, illustrations; 23 cm. Stapled paperback with cover illustration. This guide to harbors along the northeast coast of the United States provides "descriptions of services and products..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856. Hardcover. Approx. [428] p. in several paginations: illustrations (including fashion), map; 25 cm. 19th-century half calf with marbled paper over boards; gilt-tooled spine title. Marbled endpapers. Leather label on front cover with gilt-tooled inscription: "Maggie From Her Mother." Inscription on blank leaf following front..... More
San Francisco: Hotel Sir Francis Drake, 1930. 1 form (30 x 16 cm.) listing clothing of gentlemen, ladies, and children's. No date of publication, but the Hotel Sir Francis Drake was built in 1928. The form includes "Bloomers" as an option for women, a term that went out of fashion..... More
London: APA Publications; Houghton Mifflin Co., 1993. Paperback. Distributed in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Co. 360 p.: color illustrations, maps; 23 cm. In Very Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; lower corner of front cover creased; clean and tight. More
Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, 1955. Hardcover. Revised April 1955. [2], 147 p., [24] p. of black-and-white photographs: maps; 19 cm. Blue cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Illustrated dust jacket. Publisher's catalog on front dust jacket flap. Commercial advertisements on front endpapers and back fixed endpaper. Gift inscription 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
