Dublin: Printed by Christopher Bentham, 1823. 174pp. plus illustrations. Frontis. Engraved titlepage vignette. 12mo. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt. Hinges tender, spine ends worn. Internally clean and fresh. A very good copy. The further fictitious travels of William Walsh, an Irishman, and Capt. Blisset, of the Royal Navy. Another volume.....
Dublin: Printed by J. Jones, 1823. 180pp. including engravings. Frontis. Engraved titlepage vignette. 12mo. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt. Front hinge cracked, held by one cord; chipped at spine ends, corners worn. Internally neat and clean, and very good. Recounts the fictitious travels of William Walsh, an Irishman, with Capt.....
[Madrid. N.d., ca. 1690]. 92,[2] leaves. Folio. Late 19th-century marbled wrappers. Wrappers chipped at fore-edge. Additional manuscript pagination, the text likely bound in a sammelband at some point. Occasional light tanning and foxing. Small worm track in upper gutter of several leaves. About very good. In a folding cloth case.....
Venice: Nicolo Zoppino, 1528. [10],73 leaves, including four double-page maps and two single-page maps, and numerous woodcut maps and plans in the text. A few leaves misnumbered. Small folio. 18th-century vellum, spine gilt, leather label. Boards and spine moderately soiled, leather label abraded. Titlepage printed in red and black with.....
Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1615. 16pp. Later speckled paper boards. With the bookplate from the stock and reference library of H.P. Kraus on front pastedown. Minor separation of spine paper from rear joint. Very minor foxing. A very good copy. In a half morocco box. The present work is a rare.....
Boston: J. Millet Company, 1897. In fifteen parts, a total of 322pp. "bound in Japanese style," with numerous plates (chromolithographs, handcolored photographs, etc.). Folio. Each part in original cloth-backed printed wrappers. Front wrapper detached from first part only, edges chipped. Some moderate chipping to second part, at lower forecorner of.....
Edinburgh. 1816. 288pp. plus folding frontispiece map. Original blue paper-covered boards, rebacked in linen, original label laid down. Moderate wear to corners, light soiling and ink drops on boards. Internally clean. Very good. Untrimmed. In a brown cloth clamshell case, spine gilt. The scarce first edition of this valuable account.....
Paris. 1727. 8pp. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Very minor foxing. Light soiling along spine edge; minor dampstaining along bottom edge. Contemporary inscription. Very good. A French royal decree establishing two offices to control the inspection of goods from the Compagnie des Indes. "The Compagnie des Indes flourished from.....
Venice. 1543. 40 leaves. 12mo. Modern half morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt. Occasional very minor spots, some leaves expertly restored in lower margin, not affecting text. Leaf C3 bound before C2, leaf C7 bound before C6. A very good copy. The rare third edition of Contarini's account of his.....
Paris: Pierre Rocolet, 1644. [6],1414pp. plus engraved titlepage. Large folio. Contemporary calf, gilt. Hinges partially cracked, head and foot of spine chipped, corners bumped. Minor scattered foxing and soiling. About very good, handsome withal. Extensive geographical and historical compendium written by Pierre D'Avity (1573- 1635), first published in Paris in.....
London. 1797. [2],xi,[1],415,[6]pp. plus ten colored aquatint plates. Quarto. Contemporary diced russia, rebacked in matching style, spine gilt. Very minor soiling, some offsetting from plates. Very good. The author spent over a year in Constantinople as chaplain to the British embassy for the Ottoman Empire, from March 1794 to October.....
London. 1886. Two volumes. xxviii,675; xii,803pp., including several in-text maps, charts, and illustrations, plus fifteen plates (including frontispiece in second volume) and a folding colored map. Thick octavo. Original gilt pictorial cloth, spines gilt, skillfully rebacked with original backstrips laid down, new endpapers. A few scattered light fox marks. Very.....
London: Longman, Hurst [et al], 1810. [2],ii pp., followed by fifty handcolored aquatint plates on thick paper after T. and W. Daniell, each plate with one accompanying leaf of text. Folio. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands. Front joint repaired, light wear to corners, calf.....
Nurnberg: Johann Hoffmanns, 1681. [6],300pp. plus twenty-eight plates (four of them double-page) and a double-page map. [bound with:] Dapper, Olfert: BESCHREIBUNG DES KONIGREICHS PERSIEN IN SICH HALTEND DIE LANDSCHAFFTEN FARS.... Nurnberg: Johann Hoffmans, 1681. [2],170,[5]pp. plus eleven plates (eight of them double-page) and three double-page maps. Text printed in double.....
[New York]. 1885. [5]pp. plus twenty-five heliotype plates and [14]pp. of advertisements. Folio. Modern green cloth spine over original tan cloth boards. Boards lightly soiled. Internaly clean. Very good. Clean copy of a fragile book. An interesting work, this is a combination architectural book / trade catalogue. Mr. de Forest's.....
Manila: Correa de Castro, 1739. [3],61,[1] leaves. Small quarto. Slightly later limp vellum, spine title in manuscript, edges sprinkled red, remnants of two ties at fore-edge. Boards with some ink and damp staining, corners bumped. Small, unobtrusive stamp on titlepage verso. Contemporary manuscript inscriptions on front and rear endpapers. Light.....
London. 1770. [2],706pp. plus frontispiece, fifty-two plates, and three maps (one folding). Also, two plates inserted with the images pasted to another sheet. Folio. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Light scattered foxing and soiling. Occasional offsetting. Closed tear repaired at edge of folding world map.....
Paris: Claude Jombert, 1718. [10],352,[4]pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, gilt medallion on boards, spine gilt extra, gilt leather label. Discreet institutional ownership stamp on titlepage. Some very minor age-toning, otherwise clean and fresh. A very good copy. First edition of this rare collection of travels. Dralsé de Grandpierre was a French.....
Paris: Le Mercier, 1735. Four volumes. Titlepages printed in red and black with engraved vignettes by M. Baquoy after A. Humblot. Sixty-five engraved maps and plates (sixty-two folding, one page of engraved sheet music, two single-page plates) by Delahaye, Desbrulins, and Fonbonne after d'Anvillee, Humblot, Lucas, Le Parmentier, and others;.....
Madrid: Bernardino de Guzman, 1625. [4]pp. In Spanish. Decorative woodcut initial on first page. Small folio. Dbd. Light contemporary annotations in margins of each page. Early folds. Loss, repaired in silk, to gutter and outer margins and along one fold, affecting a few characters of text on p.[4]. Overall very.....
London. [ 1890s]. [4],211,[1]pp. Original pictorial cloth. Head and toe of spine a trifle frayed, private library bookplate. Else very good. A scarce travel narrative, mostly concerning India and the Near East, but also the American West (pp.152-79). The author travelled from New York to Chicago and thence to Wisconsin.....
Philadelphia. 1858. 416pp. plus plates and advertisements. Portrait. Engraved title. Original cloth. Extremities frayed, scattered foxing. Good. Later edition, first published in 1857. A distinguished naval officer and physician, Kane was stationed in the Orient, Africa, and Europe, served as medical officer with the Grinnell expedition in search of John.....
Hartford: Published by Robins & Smith, 1846. [2],504,[4]pp., plus frontispiece and twenty- seven plates. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, both boards embossed in blind with large floral pattern, edges of boards stamped in gilt. Somewhat rubbed, with moderate shelf wear. Interior slightly foxed throughout, heavier in some sections. Contemporary ownership inscription.....
[Almanza, Las Pinas, Rizal, The Philippines. 1959]. 72pp., containing 193 black-and-white photographs, from 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches to 8 x 9 3/4 inches, most with typed captions on the album leaves, plus large hand-painted signs on cardstock laid in. Large folio. Original blue paper-covered boards, brad-bound, hand-painted titles.....
Basel. 1532. [48],584 [i.e. 586],[2]pp. Lacks the map. Folio. Antique-style gilt calf, gilt, spine gilt with raised bands. Slight worming to first hundred leaves, mostly affecting margins. Contemporary annotations throughout volume. Very good. One of the most important collections of New World material issued up to the time. Grynaeus is.....
