Travel Guides

John Bailey. Darlington. nd. [1881] Quarto. 20 litho plates. Original pictorial boards, reinforced to edges with paper tape. Hinges cracked, endpapers chipped. Occasional spotting.

Fourth revised edition. Leipzig. 1909. cxxvi, 447pp. 16 maps, 30 plans, 2 diagrams, panorama of Athens. Original red cloth, gilt. All edges marbled. Double silk bookmarks. Publisher's adverts to feps. Map to rear eps. Pocket to rear with folding map. Lightly sunned to spine. Occasional spotting/light toning. A crisp copy with the maps neatly folded. Signature of F H A Booth dated April 1909 to ffep. Hinrichsen E237.

Saratoga Springs: G.M. Davison, 1825. Second Edition . Hardcover. Good. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. 169pp. Brown marbled boards, black leather backing, gilt lettering to spine. Cover is moderately worn, contents are foxed, front endpaper missing, binding is tight. A compact little tour guide. Howes D-143.

A 1st multilingual ed. near fine paperback, TEXT Italiano, Deutsch, English, Francais.64p. 24x17cm. 250gr.

Pages numbered 1-32 (advertisements); xv, [1 blank], 632 pages; pages numbered 33-62 (advertisements). Cloth a little rubbed and slightly creased on the spine with a small dark mark to the lower spine. Bookseller's(?) pencil notation to the front free end-paper and top margin of page 1 of the advertisements. Internally clean and unmarked. Complete with plans and maps (6 folded) as listed in the "table méthodique". Very small tear to the hinge of the map of Buenos-Ayres. Text in French. Albert Martinez illegally, and seemingly with impunity, used the Baedeker name to sell his guide. More than that he closely mimicked the Baedeker look and feel as closely as he could. That aside, the guide is packed with useful information for the contemporary traveller and is an abundant resource of historical relevance – if you want to know the details of all the early 20th century registered league football clubs in "Buenos-Ayres et dans les environs" you'll find it here.
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New Orleans: Southern Pacific, 1910. Soft cover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Shana Valeska . 59pp. Pictorial stiff wraps. Light wear to cover, small rubber stamp to cover and title page, text is clean. A compact narrative of the attractions and the benefits of visiting New Orleans. A promotional booklet issued by the Passenger Traffic Department of the Southern Pacific. Illustrated throughout.

Clune, Frank. Saga of Sydney. Sydney Halstead Press, 1961 Subscribers Edition with 118 illustrations and 17 maps. 508 pages. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4. Printed in Australia by Halstead Press, Sydney. Presented to beloved 20th Century American actor Edward Everett Horton at the Australia Hotel, Sydney (1891-1971) by his Australian friend Alexander Rentoul at the hotel March, 1962. Full page hand-written statement on the front end-paper. says: Mr. Horton is best-known for his unforgettable portrayal of Mr. Alexander P. Lovett "Lovey" in the timeless 1937 motion picture "Lost Horizon" directed by Frank Capra. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED.

Leipzig 1909.
Near Fine copy of Baedeker's Handbook for Travellers with 72 maps, 19 plans and 12 panoramas with the very scarce original dust jacket.
Book is near Fine. Soft leather boards are in Fine condition having been protected by DJ. Binding is in very good condition.
Edges marbled. Internally clean free of foxing, markings or inscriptions except for previous owner name in pencil on title page and previous sale price and year in pencil on half title.
DJ has age related wear with chipping at extremities and closed tears at folds (see images).
A very scarce title with DJ particularly in such condition. It includes rare publisher's slip on detaching sections, if desired.
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From "Bohn's Illustrated Library". Complete with large Fold-Out Map by Lowry, 35" x 20", at the back. Title page dated 1854. Former Editions of this title were published as "London and it's vicinity exhibited" and "A new survey of London". Frontis. illus. "The Great Conservatory and Grounds at Kew". Very detailed and interesting work, now a Local History. Well illustrated with many Architectural Drawings. Other illustrations include the Times vertical printing press. Intersting section on Observatories (pages 630-697) has illustrations of the instruments and the buildings and includes the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford. Also a section on the Thames Tunnel with technical Drawings. Rebound in Red cloth with dull gilt title on spine. Fore edge of pages up to title page a little ragged at edge. Map has some closed tears along paper folds. repaired from the back, several very small areas of loss to paper along other folds and a triangular piece missing from where map was attached to book (see… Read More