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Pacific Northwest and Alaska
, Union Pacific System, 1949. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of stiff card-stock covers, less to text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Green covers, gilt lettering in bas relief, inset illustration of Multnomah Falls, Oregon. Sunned along edges, spine, else quite fine of interior. Unpaginated, but roughly 50 pp., replete with black-and-white illustrations and photographs including of train routes up and down the West Coast and extending to Alaska.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 358013
USD 11,20 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 9.75 | £UK 8.75 | JP¥ 1727]
Catalogue: Travel & Exploration
Keywords: Union Pacific System trains railroads travel Pacific Northwest Alaska
Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City
New York, Bloomsbury, 2015. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the The Writer in the City series. Fine-looking stated reprint edition of this fine work of journalistic travelogue. Glossy pictorial covers, tightly bound, clean and unmarked. 244 [2] pp. including a note about the author and the type. Map endpapers front and rear.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine
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Book no.: 361487
USD 12,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 10.5 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1850]
Catalogue: Travel & Exploration
Keywords: John Banville Prague Czechoslovakia journalism travel exploration
The Channel Islands
London, A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1924. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound simply in blue cloth over boards, square and tight, with black lettering to spine and front cover, blind-stamped repeating illustrations to both. Missing an endpaper, else complete. Fourteen chapter include: "The Dawn of Civilization," "Fiefs and Feudal Tenures," "Battle, Murder and Sudden Death, Ecclesiastical Affairs," "Privateering and Smuggling," "The Key of The Channel" and The "Garden of Cymodoce." Fine full-color frontispiece, 32 illustrations overall, and a sketch map. Protected now in stiff Mylar. xi [1], 1-226 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 353588
USD 17,60 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 15.5 | £UK 13.5 | JP¥ 2714]
Catalogue: Travel & Exploration
Keywords: Edith F. Carey Henry B. Wimbus travel exploration The Channel Islands
Northern Lights: The Official Account of the British Arctic Air-Route Expedition, 1930-1931
London, Chatto & Windus, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. An extraordinarily well illustrated and readable account by Frederick Spencer Chapman (1907-1971) of the British Arctic air-route expedition. Foreword by Admiral Sir William Goodenough, an introduction by the late H.G. Watkins, leader of the expedition, and additional chapters by J.M. Scott, Capt. P.M.H. Lemon, and Augustine Courtauld. An apparent First Edition, but not so stated. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean interior but for some foxing at endpapers and page fore-edges and scattered thereafter, mostly in plate margins. Previous owner's bookplate inside front flap, being that of Reginald Mortimer, with an ink inscription, "From J.D.G.M. [?] Xmas 1932." Bound in a bluish linen weave cloth, mildly rubbed and sunned, spine head and foot bumped, bruised but not broken tips, gilt titling over silver label to spine. Sixty-three black-and-white illustrations and photographs, a folding map, notes, bibliography and index. xv [1], 1-304 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 353508
USD 176,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 152.75 | £UK 134 | JP¥ 27139]
Catalogue: Travel & Exploration
Keywords: Frederick Spencer Chapman British Arctic expedition H.G. Watkins J.M. Scott Captain Lemon Augustine Courtauld
Pleasure Island: The Book of Jamaica
Jamaica, The Arawak Press, 1952. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly accessible tourist guide to the British West Indies. with period advertisements galore. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Orange card-stock wrappers, dampstaining at gutter of endpapers, dissipating, not intruding on text. Staining of and splitting to a portion of backstrip, else still sturdy. Mildly soiled and worn exterior, clean and unmarked interior. Edited by Esther Chapman, Assistant Editor being Marjorie Thwaites, and with a historical section by H.P. Jacobs and bibliography and geographical sections by Mary M. Carley. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations and photographsMember, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 357156
USD 14,40 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 12.5 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 2220]
Catalogue: Travel & Exploration
Keywords: Esther Chapman Jamaica British West Indies Kingston Jamaica Marjorie Thwaites H.P. Jacobs Mary M. Carley
Time Well Spent
London, England, The Travel Book Club, 1960. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition (Thus) exemplar of this fine travelogue about traveling, a Travel Book Club monthly selection. Publisher's original blue cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Slight forward cock to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn, some chipping to rear panel bottom, top. A collection of small, "sideline" incidents in travel and culture including an entomologist, the difficulties of keeping/staying in clothing. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [6], 7-224 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Good,
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 358802
USD 16,80 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 14.75 | £UK 13 | JP¥ 2591]
Catalogue: Travel & Exploration
Keywords: travel exploration Evelyn Cheesman travelogues exploration
Loneliness and Time: The Story of British Travel Writing
New York, Pantheon Books, 1992. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to the two-tone, tan cloth over boards, light brown cloth-backed, bright and shiny dust jacket, evocative and pictorial. From the publisher blurb, "'Refreshing, original and eminently readable' (The Literary Review), Loneliness and Time is a pioneering study of travel writing as a literary form and of travel as a cultural phenomenon. Mark Cocker offers a fertile mixture of biography, history, and literary criticism in his portraits of some of the most prominent twentieth-century British explorer-writers - including Wilfred Thesiger, Laurens van der Post, Gavin Maxwell, and Lawrence Durrell - and of the places - Greece, Tibet - that obsessed them." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. ix [1], 2-294 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 361428
USD 9,60 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.5 | JP¥ 1480]
Catalogue: Travel & Exploration
Keywords: Mark Cocker British Travel Writing
Himalaya: A Human History
New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. The author Ed Douglas (born 1966-) has written extensively about India, Tibet and China and the Himalayas and the peoples and cultures involved including a compelling biography of Tenzing Norgay, the Tibetan sherpa who climbed Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953. The author has made over 40 climbs to and up and in the Himalayas. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. ix [2], 2-581 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 361461
USD 14,40 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 12.5 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 2220]
Catalogue: Travel & Exploration
Keywords: Himalaya Himalayas Ed Douglas Tibet Nepal China Tenzing Norgay Sir Edmund Hillary
Feroabok Eggerts Olafssonar Og Bjarna Plssonar Um Ferdir ã¾Eirra a ãSlandi Arin 1752-1757
Reykjavik, Iceland, Bokautgafan Orn og Orlygur hf., 1978. Third Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A Fine, nearly As New condition copy, rare in this condition (Fine) and state (the Third Edition) of what translates into English from the Danish as "Travels in Iceland by Eggert Olafsson and Bjarni Palsson Performed 1782-1757 by Order of his Danish Majesty Containing Observations on the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, a Description of the Lakes, Rivers, Glaciers, Hot-Springs and Volcanoes; of the Various Kinds of Earths, Stones, Fossils and Petrifactions; as Well as of the Animals, Insects, Fishes, & c." Sterling condition set bound in brown leatherette, two volumes, both illustrated and lettered at covers in sharp and distinct gilt, housed in an also nearly As New condition slip-case the front of which is quite wonderfully illustrated also in gilt. Eggert Ólafsson (1726-1768) and Bjarni Pálsson (1719-1779) were friends for most of their lives. The two volumes show unbruised tips, tight bindings, and clean internals, showing no appreciable shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Many, many, many score lovely illustrations, including full-color, including full-page, of the flora fauna, people and cultures, housings and vocations the two explorers encountered on their journeys throughout Iceland in the late 1700s. Volumes contain scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Volume I is xxii + 365 pp.; Volume II is viii + 296 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 345184
USD 252,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 218.5 | £UK 191.75 | JP¥ 38859]
Catalogue: Travel & Exploration
Keywords: Danish language|Eggert Olafsson|Bjarni Palsson|exploration|Denmark|Iceland
Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates
New York, Elisabeth Sifton Books, an imprint of Viking, 1986. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ducks stamped to front cover. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Stated First U.S. Edition. A fine account of the author's 1933 sojourn from Amsterdam to Constantinople, sleeping in barns and monasteries, poor-houses and open fields, hiking and traveling by donkey and train, car and bus, boat and canoe. 248 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 360259
USD 17,60 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 15.5 | £UK 13.5 | JP¥ 2714]
Catalogue: Travel & Exploration
Keywords: Patrick Leigh Fermor travelogue
Hassan: The Story of Hassan of Bagdad and How He Came to Make the Golden Journey to Samarkand
London, William Heinemann, London, 1924 , 1924. First Illustrated Edition. . Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A particularly nice-looking copy of the First Illustrated Edition, bound in small quarto, and covered in stiff plastic. 155 pp. A dozen tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards by Thomas Mackenzie, including at frontis. Dealer stamp, neatly affixed, inside rear flap at bottom near spine, opposite previous owner's address label, neatly affixed. 155 pp. Handsomely bound in red cloth, with gilt lettering to cover and spine, fine illustration to front cover, duotone illustrated endpapers. Looks stately standing on the shelf.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 349466
USD 21,60 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16.5 | JP¥ 3331]
Catalogue: Travel & Exploration
Keywords: Thomas Mackenzie|James Elroy Flecker|Samarkand|travel
Ett Ar I Sverge [a Year in Sweden]: Taflor Af Svenska Almogen's Kladedragt, Lefnassatt Och Hemseder, Samt de for Landet Historia Mã¤Rkadlig Orter
Stockholm, Johan Horberg, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. This is an unusually attractive copy, and only two copies are currently available in libraries, both in Denmark, according to the O.C.L.C.; a single additional copy is available to the trade. Hardcover, quarto format, with 48 full-page, hand-colored lithographs printed one side only. Stiff paper wrappers and then rebound in three-quarters leather and marbled paper over boards, featuring five raised bands to spine, gilt-tooled fleurs-de-lis, title, author in compartments. A bit of sunning to decorated endpaper edges, ditto to half-title page. There is a hand-colored engraving at half-title, quite striking and colorful. Paginated with difficulty as [4], 137, [3, a blank], + 48 engraved hand-colored posters (including the vignette on title) + 2 engraved music appendices. The author, Carl Gustaf "Gosta" Forssell lived 1783-1848, and was a leading voice regarding travel, exploration, agriculture and international relations. The notes he took and the illustrations of the people he met and activities he witnessed make this a special book.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 345753
USD 316,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 274 | £UK 240.5 | JP¥ 48727]
Catalogue: Travel & Exploration
Keywords: art history|Swedish language|J.G. Sandberg|Johan Horberg|C. Forssell|A. Grafstrom|lithographs
The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic
New York, Bloomsbury, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Nicely bound dos-a-dos, "An Anthology of the Finest Writing on The Arctic," edited by Elizabeth Kolbert," being "upside-down" of "An Anthology of the Finest Writing on The Antarctic," edited by Francis Spufford. The I.S.B.N. appears on that "side." Bound simply in a very dark blue paper over boards, sharp and distinct lettering to spine, very slight bumping to two tips. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. From the publisher's blurb, "THE ARCTIC: "Comprising the work of novelists, explorers, and natural scientists, this book is both a look back at the history of this exotic place and a rumination of what it means. With contributions from Robert peary, Barry Lopez, Gretel Ehrlich, and many others, it is an encomium to the vastness and beauty of a lonely continent, a commenoration of a place at risk of disappearing" THE ANTARCTIC: ".Here is a compendiumof leaders of their fields, the likes of Scott and Shackleton as well as such distinguished names as Diane Ackerman and even H.P. Lovecraft, claiming the frozen continent for the fantastic. THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: THE ANTARCTIC is a memorable collection of terrific writing -- and a lasting contribution to the literature it celebrates." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 216 [1] pp.; 208 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 361469
USD 17,60 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 15.5 | £UK 13.5 | JP¥ 2714]
Catalogue: Travel & Exploration
Keywords: Francis Spufford Elizabeth Kolbert arctic antarctic
Picturesque Atlas of Australasia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Picturesque Atlas Publishing Company, 1888. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. This monumental undertaking was designed to commemorate the Centennial of the founding of Australia. An unusually sturdy and attractive set, complete in three folio-sized volumes measuring 17 3/4" tall by 13 3/4" wide, bound handsomely in original publisher's full dark-green leather, rounded edges and tips, gilt-ruled, -lettered and -illustrated quite nicely. Bound by William Detmold, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, this being stamped sharply into rear panel bottoms in miniscule fashion. Lovely gilt-tooling to spines and front boards is particularly sharp and lovely. Extra-fine frontispieces with tissue guards present, one being present but detached, that still protecting the drawn likeness of TÄwhiao (1860–1894), the second Maori King who traveled back and forth including to London in attempt to recover confiscated lands and meeting even with Queen Victoria. He was instrumental in setting up the Kauhanganui (KÄ«ngitanga parliament) and began to engage in poukai (the making of annual visits to KÄ«ngitanga marae) (see entry on nzhistory dot govt dot nz/politics/maori-king-movement-1860-94/). Lovely initials and historiated initials throughout. Duotone title pages quite involved, with the first signs of "civilisation" being depicted in the form of a lighthouse, farm, livestock and houses with chimneys and burning fires, grasslands and meadows. Not surprisingly, the narratives are relatively bereft of the Australian Aborigines displaced by white settler colonisation and the founding of the penal colony; all of the spaces are considered "empty" until the gift of white settler colonialism. Expected rubbings to and scuffings of tips, edges, and there is some shearing to heads of spines of Volume II and Volume III. Rubbing to raised bands, scuffings to some edges and panel bottoms, but still remarkably handsome of binding and artwork, and none of the exterior demerits affect anything interior. Front and rear panels to each volume triply gilt-ruled, and with four fleurs-de-lis inside at each of four corners. Light toning to pages throughout (but evenly so) and still clean and unmarked. Marbled endpapers front and rear to each volume, and all of the expected scholarly and artistic edifice is present in the form of notes and references. The often missing Map to the State of Victoria, full-color, is here present as are seemingly all others; some could use a proper unfolding and tight refolding with a bone knife, there being a few short splits and improper folds thereto. Illustrations both hors-texte and on full-page plates (641, all in), seeming all to be engravings on wood. Collated as complete, as thus: Volume I: half-title, title-page, Table of Contents, Index, Index to Illustrations, Introduction, "To Australia in Commemoration of her Centennial Day, January 26, 1888," fine full-page duotone of Captain James Cook, tissue-guarded, 1-254 pp., plus Index to Map of Victoria; Volume II: diagonal crimp to initial endpaper, else just as attractive of interior as the others, with extensive frontis matter, Index to full-page engravings, Index to figures and illustrations, 256-530 pp.; Volume III: Title-page, Half-title, Index to full-page engravings, Index to Maps, Index to illustrations, a fine frontispiece of "The Maori King," tissue-protected, though detached, 531-800 pp., plus editorial post-script. Third volume devoted near wholly to New Zealand. Of great interest is the inclusion of so many full-color, fold-out maps of railway, postal and telegraph lines, often missing from other exemplars; the maps aren't really maps so much as double-folio renditions of towns by list and location, not really of topography or geography per se. The back-story to the making of the volumes comprising the edition is fascinating. The head editor, the Honourable Andrew Garran (19 November 1825 – 6 June 1901) was an English-Australian journalist (born in London), editor, minister and politician. Previously well educated at multiple colleges and universities, he edited the Sydney Morning Herald from 1873 to 1885, says his Wikipedia entry. He moved in 1850 to Australia, where he settled in Adelaide, South Australia, being employed as a minister, newspaper editor, and gold-miner, then teacher and newspaper editor again. Once married and hving become a father, he and his wife Mary Garran left South Australia in 1856 for Sydney, New South Wales. He studied for and passed the bar exam and earned a Bachelor's and Doctorate degree in Laws. His entry for the Australian Dictionary of Biography notes that Garran took on all manner of new and old positions and became a correspondent for London's The Times for many years, continuing up until his death. The Editorial Postscript provides fascinating backdrop for the manner in which the three volumes were produced. All in, Picturesque Atlas of Australasia is a monumental work of research, writing, illustration, editing, printing, binding and decoration. See entry in adb dot anu edu dot au/biography/garran-andrew-3594). As to provenance, the volumes came allegedly from the great-great-grandfather of the former owner (the truly gifted oil-based paints artist, Richard Murray, of Richland, Oregon, originally Salt Lake City), whose family came originally from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was conveyed to me through the downsizing of his estate upon his passing and through one of his two surviving sisters.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 358313
USD 460,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 398.75 | £UK 350 | JP¥ 70932]
Catalogue: Travel & Exploration
Keywords: Australia Andrew Garran Australia travel exploration Tasmania Southeast Asia Island Southeast Asia Melbourne
The Loire: A Record of a Pilgrimage from Gerbier de Joncs to St. Nazaire
London, Constable & Company, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean interior, moderate rubbing to extremities, mildly soiled exterior, but a particularly bright interior. Fine illustration in full color at frontis of the Market at Cosne. First Edition, though not so stated. 332 pp. including a full Index and a folding map of the route taken. Eight full-page, full-color plates, 50 line drawings in the text by A. L. Collins, quite fine.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 352015
USD 12,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 10.5 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1850]
Catalogue: Travel & Exploration
Keywords: travel exploration Douglas Goldring The Loire pilgrimage Gerbier de Joncs St. Nazaire