201. Guide de Castro Urdiales et de la région. [Bilbao]: [Escuelas Graficas de la Santa Casa de Misericordia] , [1958].
$65
8vo, pp. 54; numerous black & white photographic illustrations, large folding map at rear; extremities lightly soiled, else very good in original stapled pictorial wrappers.
202. Letters from Europe, in 1828; first published in the New-York Observer. New York: Jonathan Leavitt, 1828..
$375
Small 8vo, pp. 135, [1] errata; original brown cloth over tan boards, printed paper spine label; ex-Framingham Historical Society with small label on spine, bookplate on front pastedown and inkstamp on front free-endpaper, foxing mostly to endpapers, otherwise a very good, partially unopened copy.
Sprague (1795-1876), an American clergyman educated at Yale and Princeton, published numerous books, of which the best known is Annals of the American Pulpit (nine volumes, 1857-1869), a biographical dictionary of American ministers of various denominations. In 1828 Sprague embarked on a trip to Europe for health reasons and he was asked by a friend at the Observer to record his journey for publication. The letters were eventually published in this volume. The better part of the letters concern religious matters.
American Travellers Abroad S-129: "A health trip to Europe is described in a young clergyman's letters."
203. Souvenir of St. Augustine under three flags: pictorial history of Fort Marion [cover title]. St. Augustine: W.J. Harris Company, 1925.
$75
Square 8vo, pp. [20]; hand-colored photographic illustatrations, blue decorative line borders; original white pictorial staplebound wrappers (a bit soiled), light shelf wear, else a very good copy.
204. Letters from golden latitudes [cover title]. [St. Paul: Pioneer Press, n.d., ca. 1885].
$150
Only edition, 8vo, pp.48; 9 full-page wood-engraved illustrations of Minnesota cities and views; very good in original printed wrappers, with a map of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba railroad connections on the back.
Mostly on the interior of Minnesota, with an excursion into Dakota. "The following letters, from a well-known correspondent, who visited the Northwest in May and June, 1885, are presented to the public in their present form, as faithfully setting forth the actual condition and future prospects of the agricultural and other interests of that region."
205. To Mexico by palace car. Intended as a guide to her principal cities and capital, and generally as a tourist's introduction to her life and people. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, & Co., 1884.
$250
First edition, 16mo, approx. 5¾" x 4¾", pp. 95, [1] ads for the author's Frontier Army Sketches; 7 wood-engraved illustrations (5 full-page); original pictorial wrappers folded over a plain inner wrapper; outer wrappers a little spotted and with two small breaks in the spine; all else very good.
206. [Stereographs - Asia.] A collection of approximately 450 stereographs on Asian subjects. Various places: publishers as below, ca. 1900-1915.
$1,250
Stereographs consist of two nearly identical photographs or photomechanical prints, mounted on heavy card stock, and paired to produce the illusion of a single three-dimensional image, when viewed through a stereoscope. Such a stereoscope is included here. Many of them were published with caption information printed under the image or on the back of the mount. Condition varies, but on the whole these are in very good to fine condition.
The views (by country) are as follows. Some are printed in color (and are so identified), others are original photographs and mostly black & white:
Burma (10): Keystone View Co. (4) and Underwood & Underwood (6);
China & Manchuria (115): Keystone View Co. (17), Underwood & Underwood (13), Geo. W. Griffith (1), Stereo Travel Co. (1), Universal Photo Art Co. (1), (32) others, all but one printed in color; plus a complete run from nos. 101 - 200 on "Siege of Port Arthur," all printed in color;
India & Ceylon (40): Keystone View Co. 12), Underwood & Underwood (22), plus 6 others printed (4 in color);
Japan (208): Keystone View Co. (36), Underwood & Underwood (3), Universal Photo Art Co. (1), J.J. Killelea (1), B. L. Singley (1), Strohmeyer & Wyman (1), American Stereoscopic Co. (2), B.W. Kilburn (1), Stereo Travel Co. (1), Geo. W. Griffith (1), and (62) others printed, 58 in color; plus another (50) in a publisher's box (?), captioned but unidentified as to publisher, all in color, plus another (48) identified only as the Japan-Russia Series, all but 15 on Japan;
Java (7): Keystone View Co0. (2), Universal Photo Art Co. (3); Little Chronicle Publishing Co. (1), T.W. Ingersoll (1) in color;
Korea (5): Keystone View Co.;
Philippine Islands (15): Keystone View Co. (6); Strohmeyer & Wyman (2), B. W. Kilburn (1), Underwood & Underwood (1), Cooperative View Co. (1), and (4) printed in color;
Siam (2): Keystone View Co. and one other printed in color.
207. Travels through Spain, in the years 1775 and 1776. In which several monuments of Roman and Moorish architecture are illustrated by accurate drawings taken on the spot. London: P. Elmsly, 1779.
$2,000
First edition, 4to, pp. vii, [15], ix-xv, [1], 427; 19 leaves of wood-engraved handcolored plates and maps, six of which are folding or double-paged; full contemporary calf recently rebacked, gilt-tooled spine; edges rubbed and worn, textblock fine. Heraldic bookplate of Lord Walsingham on front pastedown.
Narration of a Swinburne's journey, accompanied by Sir Thomas Gascoigne and illustrated with the author's excellent, architecturally accurate drawings, here engraved by Francesco Giomignani. Includes the itinerary (pp. xii-xv) of places to which Swinburne and Gascoigne traveled, with the names of the inns (if applicable) and a single comment, such as "bad," "tolerable," "clean," "as bad as any in Spain," "not the best," "wretched," "there is better," "Good wine," "dirty," and "Italian."
Graesse VI, p. 535.
208. Japan today: a pictorial guide. Tokyo: Society for Japanese Cultural Information, [1948].
$50
First edition, 8vo, pp. 370, [1]; illustrated throughout in text; original limp green cloth bound with string, paper label on cover; bookplates, library label on spine, lower outer corner curled; very good.
Depicts many interesting scenes from Occupied Japan. Written as a guide book for occupation personnel and their families.
209. Between the gates. Chicago: S.C. Griggs and Co., 1878.
$50
First edition, 12mo, pp. [2], 292, [8, ads]; frontispiece, wood engravings in the text; original green cloth decorated in black, spine gilt; a good, sound copy with slightly skewed, remnants of a small label to front pastedown, gift inscription on preliminary leaf.
Taylor's reminiscences of a childhood summer spent in California visiting the desert, San Francisco, Chinatown (with a description of an opium den), Mission Delores, the petrified forest, Yosemite, and more.
210. Handbook for rangers & woodsmen. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. London: Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1917.
$125
"First edition, first thousand," 12mo, pp. ix, [1], 420; 242 illustrations in the text, several folding; original limp black cloth, gilt-stamped spine, edges stained black; slightly skewed, else very good. With the ownership stamp of Henry R. Bushong, and ownership signatures of Charles Royer and Carl Fred. Olsen who apparently has drawn lines through the previous two.
Includes a 28-pg glossary at the back. Text deals with Equipment (riding, packing, cooking, provisions, etc.), Construction Work (telephone lines, rock drilling, blasting, etc.), General Field Work (felling timber, land surveys, fire fighting, etc.), Live Stock (shoeing, administrating medicines, brands, etc.), as well as ailments and injuries, poisons, location of camp sites, weights, measures, and "Field Work in the Philippine Islands."
211. Brooklyn city directory and annual advertiser, for the years 1848-9. Containing the usual names, occupations and residences of all persons actually inserted in a city directory. Also a street directory ... also advertisements of a numerous portion of the business public. Brooklyn: E. B. Spooner, printer, 1848.
$275
12mo, 2 parts in 1, pp. 286, [2]; 191, [1]; original cloth-backed printed boards; binding split vertically in two, so the contents obviously shaken, spine partially perished, edges worn and chaffed; all else good. With a tipped-in notice at the title page of appended additional names (which occupies pp. 251-55 of the first part); includes the name of Walter Whitman (Sr.), a carpenter at 71 Prince. Whitman was a delegate from Brooklyn to the Free Soil Convention in 1848. Spear, pp. 64-5.
212. 北支！！天津事情 / Hokushi!! Tenshin jijyou [= North China! The Tianjin situation]. Tianjin: Tenshin Shuppunsha, 1938.
$400
First edition, 8vo, pp. [12], 10, 7, [1], 520, 16, [2], 160, 16, [2], 36, [2], 236, [2], 43, [1], 4, [2]; text in Japanese; color folding map of Tianjin laid in; 16 leaves of plates; full brown cloth, gilt title on spine; light edgewear, corners bumped, text toned but clean and sound; very good.
A directory and reference book for Tientsin (now Tianjin), which was at the time almost entirely occupied by the Japanese. It includes chapters on history, demographics, trade and business, a sort of white pages for residents of the Japanese concession, regulations, and so on. This directory reflects the first year of Tianjin's occupation, which lasted until Japan's surrender. This is the only contemporary edition, and is uncommon.
213. [Thailand.] Welcome to the northern kingdom [cover title]. Chiengmai, Thailand: George's Tours, ca. 1960s.
$45
Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 8vo; photographic illustrations, printed on pink paper; edges and corners worn from handling. Advertisement for sight-seeing tours and car rental services as well as the Railway Hotel Chiengmai, "the best hotel in town, only luxury hotel in Chiengmai".
List of itineraries and rates for 17 different day tours, as well as 2, 3, 4, and 5-day tours.
Not found in OCLC.
214. The Falls of Niagara: being a complete guide to all the points of interest around and in the immediate neighbourhood of the great cataract. New York: T. Nelson and Sons: Toronto: James Campbell and Son, n.d., ca. 1869.
$50
4" x 6½", pp. 45; 11 photo-lithographs printed in color; text in double column and printed in blue, 3 wood engravings in the text; front hinge cracked, extremities worn, else a good copy in original decorative blue cloth stamped in black, and with a color photo-lithograph onlay (slightly scratched) on the front cover.
215. The Maid's Head Hotel: Norwich. Its history and associations [cover title]. London and Tunbridge Wells: Lewis Hepworth & Company, [c 1897].
$60
6½" x 4¾", pp. [44]; full-page text illustrations; ads printed in red and black; green printed paper wrappers; binding string snapped and text essentially loose, owner's note on upper wrapper, text clean bright, good.
The Maid's Head Hotel is the oldest hotel in the UK. This promotional booklet covers not just its history, but amenities such as servants' rooms, a livery yard, bicycle room with suggested routes, and local attractions.
3 copies in the UK, Wisconsin, LOC and Smithsonian in the US.
216. Six mois aux États-Unis. Voyage d'un touriste dans l'Amérique du Nord suivi d'une excursion à Panama. Paris: G. Masson, [1886].
$150
First edition, 8vo, [4], 298, [1]; 8 double-page wood engravings, 2 maps, and 82 other wood engravings in the text, (25 full-page); a fine, bright copy in original decorative maroon cloth elaborately stamped in black and gilt, a.e.g., issued in the publisher's Bibliotheque du la Nature series under the general editorship of Tissandier.
A journey westward from New York including Philadelphia, Washington, Louisville (where he visited Mammoth Cave), Kansas City, Manitou Springs, Colorado, Salt Lake City, Utah, Arizona, San Francisco, Portland, and eventually Panama, with emphasis on transportation including trams, railroads and ferry boats, and other institutions such as hospitals, stockyards, and agriculture.
217. Round the old world, an outline programme guide for the second grand educational European tour, during the summer of 1879 ... Inaugurated by Dr. Eben Tourjée, New England Conservatory of Music ... and carried out under the auspices of Henry Gaze and Son, tourist directors.... London: Henry Gaze and Son, 1879.
$250
Only edition, small 8vo, p. 32; self-wrappers; some soiling; very good.
A proposed tour for Americans organized by the American music educator Eben Tourjée (1834-1891), and made possible through the London agent, Henry Gaze. An extended tour through England, Ireland, Scotland, Holland, Belgium, the Rhine, Germany, the Austrian Tyrol, Italy, Switzerland, and France. With Robert Goldbeck in 1867, Tourjée established the New England Conservatory of Music, still one of the leading conservatories in the United States.
Not in OCLC.
218. Rambles through Japan without a guide. London: Sampson Low, Marston, & Co., 1892.
$500
First edition, 12mo, pp. xiv, [2], 287; woodcut illustrations; original pictorial black cloth stamped in gilt (jinrickshi driver with 2 passengers) and red, floral endpapers; edges rubbed, but generally very good.
Inscribed by the author to "Dr. Maurice H. Stuart with. the sincere regard of his old friend the author, A. L. Sept. 10, '92."
219. The Republic of Panama and the Panama Canal Zone. The land divided and the waters united [cover title]. [Boston: Panama National Tourist Commission, January, 1944.]
$50
Small 4to, pp. [84]; pictorial color self-wrappers; illustrated throughout in black & white; 5 full-page maps; with texts by various authors on the country, on the canal, and on the culture; vertical fold, else near fine.
A heavily illustrated guide book and promotional brochure.
220. El-khuds, the holy; or, glimpses in the orient. Philadelphia: James Challen & Son, 1861.
$300
First edition, 8vo, pp. 475, [1], [4] ads; 10 tinted lithograph plates, including those of Jaffa, Jerusalem, and Malta; some rubbing of extremities, and spine a little dull, but generally a very good copy in publisher's full black morocco, ornately gilt-stamped on covers and spine, a.e.g.
The author was from Petersburg, Virginia. He and two companions, having finished studying in Paris, headed east via Naples and Malta for the Holy Land. "Within ... will be found all that is necessary for the tourist of pleasure, the pilgrim to the shrines, and the curious traveller."
Not in American Travellers Abroad.
221. Hand-book for European and Oriental travelers. Washington: Chauncey H. Crosby, 1896.
$175
16mo, pp. 75, [9] illustrated ads; color lithographic plate depicting the flags of the prominent steamship lines; fine in original pebble-grain maroon cloth stamped in black.
222. Guide book to Venice [cover title]. [Venice: printed by F. EarzÌa & Co., 1903.]
$85
16mo, pp. [2], 20; original decorative red printed wrappers; some blue pencil marks in text, else good or better.
In English throughout, with information on gondolas, steamboats, post offices, telegrams, banks, ticket agents, consulates, theatres, railway time tables, principal monuments and sights of Venice, etc.
Not found in OCLC.
223. [Versailles.] Galeries historiques de Versailles. Collection de gravures reduites d'apres les dessins originaux du grand ouvrage in-folio sur Versailles publiée par Ch. Gavard, et précédée d'une notice par J. Janin. Paris: chez l'editeur, 1838.
$275
First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 173, [5]; engraved frontispiece and 120 engraved plates (some with multiple images); slightly later full green morocco, fancy gilt border on covers, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered in 1, marbled edges; with the 1843 ownership signature of Eliza Tiffany (1803-1858, born in Pawtucket, R.I.); some spotting of the prelims, else a near fine copy throughout.
224. Lake and sea. [St. Louis]: Woodward & Tiernan, [1900s].
$75
16mo, pp. [112]; 3 plates, one a folding map of the Northeast US with a detail of the Detroit-Buffalo rail line, illustrations throughout; green paper wrappers with white embossed details; extremities rubbed, 1 plate loose, good.
A guidebook for summer retreats throughout the US, with information on lodging, sightseeing, and approximate travel costs.
225. A trip to Europe in 1893 ... With a biographical sketch by Rev. C. E. Milliken. Keene: Darling and Co., 1896.
$150
Only edition, small 8vo, pp. [2], 63; original printed wrappers; small crack at the base of the spine, but in all, very good.
A beloved educator, Ware, having lost his wife and two children, ventures to Europe towards the close of his life. This sketch was published posthumously by the local pastor, Milliken, who supplied Ware's biography.
Not in American Travellers Abroad. Connecticut, New Hampshire Histrorical and SMU in OCLC.
226. [Warwickshire.] Black's guide to Warwickshire. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1881.
$100
Sixth edition, 8vo, pp. vi, 218, 112 [ads]; frontispiece, 3 folding maps, illustrations throughout text, title-page vignette; MHS bookplate, ads slightly browned, hinges cracked, sticker removed from spine, small cracks in spine ends, else good in original green cloth, gilt lettering on spine and upper cover.
Of this edition, Edinburgh only in OCLC.
227. [Washington, D.C..] Washington album [cover title]. N.p., n.d.: [likely Portland: Chisholm Bros.], ca. late 1880s.
$150
9¾" x 6¼", accordion fold with 18 photo-lithograph panels showing the White House, Capitol, Mt. Vernon, various monuments, the Smithsonian, the Washington Monument, the War and Navy Department, plus interior views of the White House, scenes from Gen. Washington's life, and art work on the interior of the Capitol etc.; original embossed mustard cloth stamped in gilt and black; very good.
On the rear pastedown are printed descriptions of Brumidi's allegorical picture in the dome of the Capitol, and Trumbull's grand national pictures in the rotunda.
228. [West Indies.] Black Martinique - Red Guiana. Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., [1942].
$60
First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 312; map endpapers, 30 illustrations from photographs on rectos and versos of 16 plates; previous owner's gift inscription and ownership signature on title-page, otherwise a fine copy in a dust jacket with slightly sunned spine
"In the spring of 1941, Nicol Smith traveled to Martinique and French Guiana. He was the only American writer permitted to visit those colonies in 1941. On April 5, 1942, The New York Times printed a short piece on the subject of Smith's book, Black Martinique...Red Guiana" (Wikipedia).
229. The descriptive part of Mr. West’s guide to the lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire. Kendal: printed by W. Pennington; and sold by J. Richardson, Royal Exchange; and W. Clarke, New Bond Street, London, 1809.
$400
12mo, pp. [4], 149, [3]; folding map; original printed blue paper-covered boards; spine chipped and partially perished, joints cracked, light offsetting to map, leaf D2 with folded printer's error, otherwise overall very good and clean.
First edition of this abridgement of West's Guide, containing "the descriptive part of Mr. West's larger work, leaving out the antiquarian and historical researches, most of the notes, and the whole of the addenda."
Cornell, Princeton, Wisconsin, Cambridge, Simon Fraser, BL, and National Library of Scotland in OCLC.
230. From Salt Lake City to San Francisco Bay via the Western Pacific Railway Feather River Canon Route. Chicago: Curt Teich & Co. for the Van Noy Inter-State Co. , [n.d.] (ca. early 1900s).
$35
Oblong 4to, unpaginated; 25 full-pg, illustrations in color and mounted, two pages of text containing illustration descriptions; tan pictorial wrappers lettered in black & gilt, color illustration mounted on upper cover, ribbon-bound; covers a bit toned at edges, corners creased, illustrations clean & bright, overall very good. A picturesque view-book of "the most interesting views seen along the route," of Utah, Nevada and California.
231. An historical description of Westminster Abbey, its monuments and curiosities ... designed chiefly as a guide to strangers. London: printed for A. K. Newman and Co. Leadendhall-Street [by J[ohn] Darling, Minerva Press, Leadendhall-Street], 1827.
$275
12mo, pp. [5], 6-198, [6] index; original printed blue-gray paper-covered boards, title and price printed direct on spine; spine with a few small cracks, but generally a very good copy. Rear board shows Newman ads for "New Publications for the instruction and amusement of Youth" with a list of 30-odd titles, with prices.
A new edition of part 2 of David Henry's Historical account of the curiosities of London and Westminster.
Containing, I. An account of its foundation and consecration. II. The various changes it has undergone. III. A general view of all the monuments erected therein, with an abstract of their inscriptions. IV. Copies of the best English epitaphs, and translations of the Latin. V. Characters, anecdotes, and memoirs of the lives of the Kings, &c. interred in the Abbey. VI. Observations on the beauty and propriety of the respective monuments. VII. A particular description of Henry the Seventh's Chapel, with its ornaments. VIII. A general view of the cloisters, with copies of several inscriptions there. IX. Translations of the Hebrew, Ethiopic, and Greek epitaphs, on the tombs of Sir Samuel Moreland's two wives, never before attempted.
232. An historical description of Westminster Abbey, its monuments and curiosities. Designed chiefly as a guide to strangers. The new monuments are continued down to the present year. London: printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1834.
$150
12mo, pp. iv, 5-189, [5] index; tipped-in bifolium advertisement printed on yellow paper for "Juvenile and Prize Book" offered by A. K. Newman; original printed drab paper-covered boards, vertical title printed direct on spine with the price 2 shillings; near fine.
233. Reminiscences of a trip to Wickford by a Calumeta. Providence: F. H. Townsend, 1889.
$175
First edition limited to 50 copies of which this is an unnumbered, out-of-series copy, 4to, 17 leaves; self-wrappers printed in red and black, text printed on rectos only; paper quite toned, covers separated but present.
A rare example of a fragile but still attractive work. Most likely published for the anonymous author's friends, as the Preface states: "Lest by chance the too tender sensibilities of any reader should be unwittingly wounded by what he might construe as personal illusions, the writer of the following sketch desires to state that while the scenes are real the characters are purely mythical."
Providence Public only in OCLC.
234. The China year book 1923. Tientsin: The Tientsin Press, Ltd., [1924].
$425
8vo, pp. xxxviii, 1243; adverts on endpapers; tables throughout (one folding); original blue cloth lettered in black on upper cover and spine; text toned, cloth cracking at joints, call numbers on spine, bookplate marked withdrawn, all else good and sound.
Inscribed "With best wishes from the President," i.e. His Excellency Li Yuan-Hung (1864-1928), president of the Chinese Republic. A Chinese politician during the Qing dynasty and the Republic of China, he was the president of the Republic of China between 1916 and 1917, and between 1922 and 1923. The inscription is likely secretarial.
History and description, particulars of trade, manufacturing, communication, government, finance, defense, shipping, religions, public health, politics and treaties, who's who, foreigners, and other cultural aspects. Plus sections on Mongolia, labor, currencies, tariffs, the army and navy, imports, etc.
235. Rambles of a physician: or, a midsummer dream. By a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Dunlap & Clarke , [1889].
$150
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. vii, [5], 420; vii, [1], 429; vignette title pages printed in green, red, and black; illustrations in the text, some full-page; original blue cloth, gilt-lettered direct on spines; volume I with a couple of small spots, spines slightly sunned, else a very good, sound set, or better.
With a warm inscription on the front free endpaper of volume I: "To Miss Mary Stuart Townsend with compliments and best wishes of the author and his wife, Matthew and Emily Woods, December 22, 1901." The young doctor's diary of his four-month tour the U.K., Netherlands, Germany, Austria, France, and Italy.
236. [Worcester.] A concise history of Worcester: containing an ample and authentic description of whatever is worthy of remark in that ancient city; together with an account of royal & other visits, and chronological events ... from the earliest period to the present time. To which is added, the tolls claimed by the sheriff and sword-bearer, and a copy of the charter of James I to the city, and various extracts of other charters and by-laws, relating to the qualification of freemen as electors, and government of the same. Also—an account of the posts, mails, stage coaches, wagons, trows, wherries, and other conveyances, to, and from the city. Worcester: printed by T. Holl, forT. Eaton, Sidbury; and sold by all booksellers, 1808.
$150
First edition, 12mo, pp. [4], 156; tinted engraved frontispiece, engraved plan of cathedral and engraved plan of the city; original marbled paper-covered boards, blue paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; boards notched and rubbed, spine rubbed and soiled with bottom inch chipped away; front joint cracked, old taped repair on p. 27-28 and short breaks in the fore-edge of the title page; shaken, but still a good copy.
237. A description of the scenery of the lakes in the north of England. Fourth edition, (now first published separately) with additions, and illustrative remarks upon the scenery of the Alps. London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1823.
$500
12mo, pp. iv, 144, [2]; engraved folding map (Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland & Lancashire. Drawn & Engraved by Sidy. Hall); original printed paper wrappers; light foxing to map and final leaves; spine sunned, worn and with vertical cracks; upper hinge cracked, good or better.
"The distinguished authorship of a considerable portion of the work enables the publisher to hope that he has gained his object. The 'Introduction,' the 'Description of the Lake Scenery,' and much of the 'Directions and Information for the Tourist,' are from the pen of Mr. Wordsworth, a name now inseparably connected with the district of the English lakes" (publisher's Advertisement to the third edition).
On the rear wrapper are ads for Wordsworth's poetical works.
238. Hired furnished. Being certain economical housekeeping adventures in England. Boston: Roberts Bros., 1897.
$75
First edition, 12mo, pp. x, [2], 455, [12] ads; folding frontispiece map; original pictorial brown cloth stamped in black on upper cover and spine; presentation to a camp library by an early owner on the front free endpaper, and a library pocket inside the back cover; but in all, a very good, sound copy.
Smith, American Travellers Abroad, W-141: "This is an account of an American family affluent enough to spend an extended time in Europe by renting an English country home."
239. [Yosemite.] Illustrated guide to Yosemite valley. San Francisco, California: H.S. Crocker Co., Inc., [1949].
$100
Fourth edition, 8vo, pp. 127, [3]; black & white photographic illustrations, maps in color (one folding); minor edgewear, a very good & bright copy in original blue wrappers, spiral bound.
Two early original photograph postcards of Yosemite, a Yosemite National Park Service list of Naturalist Activities program (dated 1949) & map, and an early tourist letter laid in.
240. Yougoslavie. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1970.
$35
First edition, 16mo, pp. 628; map endpapers, 3 folding maps printed in color, a number of plans in the text; near fine in original blue cloth stamped in gilt, and preserving the original clear plastic jacket. Issued in the publisher's Les Guides Bleus series, published under the direction of Francis Ambriere.
241. [Yunnan, Sichuan, & Tibet.] 茶马纸书 / Cha ma zhi shu / The book of ancient tea-horse road. [Kunming: Yunnan Nationalities Publishing House, 2006].
$40
12½" x 9", pp. 79, [1]; text in Chinese; illustrated throughout; printed on Dongba paper, pictorial paper wrappers; fine. A tour guide highlighting the sights, products, and culture of the Ancient Tea-horse Road, a trade route mainly through Yunnan, Sichuan, and Tibet.