Brown's New Plan of Hull
Hull and London: A. Brown & Sons, Ltd. Stapled Binding.
Large fold-out map repaired at one seam with tissue.
Showing at a glance the extended city boundary, parliamentary divisions, municipal wards and new streets.
Travel
The Florence Stories: The English Channel (The Florence Stories, IV)
New York: Sheldon & Company, 1863. Hard Cover.
Small stain on front board, light general wear.
252 pp. 10 pages of publisher ads follow text. Engraved frontispiece, title page and plates. "The Florence Stories is a six volume series written by Jacob Abbott. As with many of Abbott's series, this.....
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
New York: Viking, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A very nice copy. Near Fine.
491 pp. "An account of the actual events surrounding the legendary conflict aboard the HMS Bounty focuses on the court-martial of its ten mutineers, citing the breakdown and exile of Master's Mate Fletcher Christian and Lieutenant.....
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
New York: Viking, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Bottom edge lightly bumped.
491 pp. "An account of the actual events surrounding the legendary conflict aboard the HMS Bounty focuses on the court-martial of its ten mutineers, citing the breakdown and exile of Master's Mate Fletcher Christian and Lieutenant Bligh's navigation.....
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
New York: Viking, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Corners pushed, jacket corners lightly rubbed.
491 pp. "An account of the actual events surrounding the legendary conflict aboard the HMS Bounty focuses on the court-martial of its ten mutineers, citing the breakdown and exile of Master's Mate Fletcher Christian and Lieutenant.....
The Way to Xanadu: Journeys to a Legendary Realm
New York: Knopf, 1994. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. An exceptional copy.
205 pp. The author of One Dry Season describes her wide-ranging odyssey in search of those places that collectively inspired Coleridge's legendary poem, "Kubla Khan," from Inner Mongolia and North Florida, to Kashmir, Ethiopia, and.....
Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Review Press, 2009. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover.
Third printing. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
262 pp. On June 19, 1953, Harry Truman got up early, packed the trunk of his Chrysler New Yorker, and did something no other former president has done before or since.....
Jane's World Railways, 1986-87 (Twenty-Eighth Edition)
New York: Jane's Publishing, Inc., 1986. Twenty-eighth Edition. Large Hardcover.
Twenty-eighth edition. Jacket edges bumped. Page ridges faintly foxed.
935 pp. CONTENTS: Foreword; Manufacturers; Private freight car leasing companies; International rail services; International associations; Consultancy services; Railway systems; Rapid transit, underground and surface railways; Index.
Viaggio da Napoli a Castellammare con 42 Disegni di Achille Gigante
Napoli: Associazione Napoletana per i Monumenti e il Paesaggio / Tipografia Gennaro D'Agostino, 1965. Limited Edition. Trade Paperback.
Limited edition, #398 of 550. Light wear to corners.
310, [5] pp. Plain wrappers, printed dust jacket. Italian text. 1965 reissue of Alvino's 1845 account of 19th century Naples, with 42 illustrations.....
G.I. Tours of Palestine
Palestine: American Red Cross, 1950. Soft Cover.
General light wear, no tears and no chips.
A guide produced by the American Red Cross, intended for distribution to U.S. soldiers on leave, and probably produced at Camp Tel Litwinsky in Palestine. Color fold-out map of Jerusalem with another map and descriptions.....
Viaggio da Milano ai Tre Laghi Maggiore, di Lugano e di Como e ne' Monti Che li Circondano
Milano: Dalla Tipografia di Giovanni Silvestri, 1814. Fourth Edition. Half-Leather.
Fourth edition. Includes fold-out map. Boards lightly rubbed, contemporary owner bookplate (Buri) and modern owner bookplate on front endpaper, lightly foxed.
8, 325, [1] pp. 8vo. Fold-out map follows text. A 19th century travelogue of Milan by the scholar, writer, and scientist who taught ecclesiastical.....
Belgium and Holland: Handbook for Travellers
Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1891. Hard Cover.
Marbled page ridges. Front and rear hinges starting, ink name to front endpaper.
lxii, 401 pp. With 13 maps and 20 plans. CONTENTS: Introduction: A) Belgium, B) Holland; Belgium; Luxembourg; Holland; Maps; Plans of Towns; Abbreviations.
The World is My Oyster, Volume 1: From Iceland to The South Pacific
Rochester: Thomas B. Barker / Mercury Print Productions, 2009. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Includes original jacket. Brand new from author.
100 pp. Oblong. 8 3/4 x 11 3/8. A stunning collection of landscape and wildlife photography taken by the author during his travels.
Observations on Italy.
Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1826. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Rebacked with plain brown cloth, new headband, endpapers, and flyleaves. Boards lightly foxed with minor internal chip to paper on rear board, a few text pages lightly foxed.
xii, 331 pp. 8vo. A 19th century Italian travelogue "[o]n.....
Viaggio Storico e Pittorico Ossia Guida Della Toscana
. Arnaldo Forni Editore, 1975. Rosaspina, Bernardino. Reissue. Large Hardcover.
Owner bookplate on front endpaper.
[6], 16, [2] pp. Italian text. 44 leaves of engraved plates. A 1975 facsimile of the 1830s tour of Tuscany featuring engraved illustrations by Bernardino Rosaspina.
The Monongahela (The Rivers of America Series)
New York: Rinehart & Co., Inc., 1952. Cosgrave, John O'Hara. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed, jacket price clipped, endpapers faintly foxed.
239, [3] pp. 8vo. Illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. "The exciting, awful, dirty, beautiful Monongahela! - that workhorse of American rivers, where more hell.....
Los Angeles: Sunrise to Sunset
Santa Monica, California: Immaginare Press, 2014. Blair, Dain. Large Hardcover.
No jacket, sticker on rear board.
Unpaginated. "A beautiful Los Angeles Photography book. From sunrise to sunset by photographer, Dain Blair."
Scotland
New York: Fall River Press, 1998. 8th Printing. Large Hardcover.
8th printing. Rear jacket faintly rubbed.
256 pp. 12 1/4 x 9 3/8. Color photographs throughout. A pictorial journey through the beautiful country of Scotland.
A Panorama of Rural England
New York: Chanticleer Press. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. No publisher date (circa early - mid 1900s). No jacket. A few pages lightly creased.
318 pp. With 48 plates on colour and 137 illustrations in black-and-white. Introduction by Edmund Blunden. Edited by W.J. Turner. CONTENTS: English Villages; English Country.....
The Hidden Serbia
. Karic Foundation, 2003. Large Hardcover.
A nice copy.
149 pp. "A beautiful photographic expose of the eastern European land of Serbia."
Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson
New York: The Viking Press, 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Spine lightly toned, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper.
xviii, 435 pp. Deckled edge. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. is a travel journal by Scotsman James Boswell first published in.....
Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson (Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle, Isham Collection)
New York: The Literary Guild, Inc., 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Lacks jacket. Bookplate and ink name and address on front endpaper.
xxviii, 520 pp. Edited from the original manuscript, a more informal journal than Boswell's Life of Johnson, and considered by many scholars to be his best.....
Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 1773 (The Yale Editions of The Private Papers of James Boswell)
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1961. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
2nd printing. Jacket corners rubbed, jacket lightly toned, ink name on front endpaper.
xxviii, 520 pp. Edited from the original manuscript, a more informal journal than Boswell's Life of Johnson, and considered by many scholars to be his best work
.....
Ireland
London: Vista Books, 1960. Trade Paperback.
Spine creased, one-and-a-half inch tear to front wrapper along spine, wrappers and pages lightly toned.
191 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Then: When No English Were There - The Agony of the Gaels - The Ireland of Silence - Liberty to Do What? - Foreign Brothers;.....
Strathclyde
Glasgow: Collins, 1985. Large Hardcover.
Price clipped, large tear on right flap.
128 pp. All the varied aspects of Strathclyde have been captured superbly here by Douglas Corrance's camera and Eddie Boyd's pen, but what has, most of all, caught the eye of one and the imagination of the other.....