Vintage & Antiquarian Travel Books

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Childs and Peterson, 1st, 1856, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two volumes, 464 pages and 467 pages. Publisher's brown decorative cloth stamped in blind, gilt spines. Volume 1 has a frontispiece portrait, added engraved title, 1 folded map and 11 other plates; Volume 2 has a frontispiece portrait, added engraved title, 1 folded map, 1 full-page map (plate), and 7 other plates. Both volumes are also illustrated with appromimately 300 in-text wood-engravings. Both volumes with mild chipping to cloth at top of spine otherwise a clean, bright set.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell , 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 273 pages. B&w photographs. Previous owner's label on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with bright gilt lettering on cover and spine. Illustrated with 56 reproductions of etchings, aquatints, and drawings by John Taylor Arms, each with a captioned tissue-guard.. A delightful travelogue with exquisite artwork of John Taylor Arms. He specialized in portraying the gothic architecture of France and Italy. Traveling the back roads and visiting the then out-of-the-way towns of northern Italy by car, he visually captures the look and feel as his wife provides a charming travelog. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Mercury House , 1st, 2001, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 289 pages. An extraordinary story of a woman's experience among the Athabaskan Indians where she learns to see the visible and invisible world around her. Bump to top outside corner created a light wave to pages. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in gilt, 248 pages. First printing with the publisher's colophon on copyright page. 24 b&w plates, endpapers map. Last 20 pages with loss to paper at bottom of pages, perhaps insect damage. Not affecting text, margin only.

Hardcover. Boston, The Stratford Company, 2nd pr., 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, green cloth with bright gilt lettering, 334 pages. An loving exploration of New Hampshire's country roads with personal anecdotes by the author, 16 b&w plates. Dust jacket with big chip to top of spine, book is tight and clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 436 pages, color photos. The legendary travel writer drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then takes the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind the everyday headlines. Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the histories and peoples that give life to the places they call home. Now, as immigration debates boil around the world, Theroux has set out to explore a country key to understanding our current discourse: Mexico. Just south of the Arizona border, in the desert region of Sonora, he finds a place brimming with vitality, yet visibly marked by both the US Border Patrol to the north and mounting discord from within. With the same humanizing sensibility that he employed in Deep South, Theroux stops to talk with residents, visits Zapotec mill workers in the highlands, and attends a Zapatista party meeting, communing with people of all stripes who remain south of the border even as family members brave the journey north. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Inianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with color decoration on cover. School Edition. 314 pages. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos. Inscription on half-title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Carey and Hart, 1st, 1843-46, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Five volumes bound into one, 537 total pages. Half leather with marbled boards, edgeworn. All first American editions. The final book's full title: The Military Operations at Cabul, Which Ended in the Retreat and Destruction of the British Army, January 1842. With a Journal of Imprisonment in Afghanistan. Condition good with some browning and foxing to paper. Front inner hinge repaired with tape.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - July 1923, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Also includes a fold-out panorama of The Great Wall of China. 680 pages. Clean, bright volume.

Hardcover. US, The Book Service / MacDonald & Co. / Webb & Bower, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 248 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co, 1st, 1893, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 311 pages, frontispiece, dozens of b&w illustrations, bound in green cloth, gilt lettering and design embossed on front cover and spine. Name plate on front endpaper, spine slightly cocked, light wear to cover, previous owner's signature to blank preview page; overall, a very neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, just a bit age-yellowed. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine, bound in red cloth. Other than a slight age-yellow, pages clean and unmarked inside. Touch of foxing to top edge and back of dust jacket. In great shape.

Hardcover. London, England, Karl Baedeker, 2nd Edition, REvised and Augmented, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 444 pages. Hardcover (flexible cloth). "With 17 Maps, 44 Plans, and a Panorama of Jerusalem". B/w and color illustrated maps, some fold out. Red fabric cover boards with gilt title on spine (faded) and front cover board. Banded design blind stamped on boards and spine. Fabric ribbon bookmark attached at top of spine. Age wear to covers (see images). Former library book with expected labels, marks, stamps and other identifying characteristics (see images). Decorated marbled edges. Front cover has bump to top right corner (see image). Charming, old, pocket-sized travel book that will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about turn-of-the-century Palestine and Syria.

Hardcover. Canberra AU, Australian National University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, b&w frontis portrait, 302 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Oxford UK, Penrose and Palmer, 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light tan stapled wrappers, 64 pages with 100 b&w photos. Center spread map. Bright, unmarked copy with bookseller's small sticker on front.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt. 350 pages illustrated with photographs taken by H. A. Chase and the author. Endpapers map detailing the author's travels. Previous owner's inscription on verso of frontis., otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Praeger , 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 303 pages, b&w illustrations, maps. Eight years after the Russian capture of Tashkent in 1865, Schuyler, then American consul in St. Petersburg, set out to tour Russia's newly acquired dominions. Traveling entirely by road under primitive conditions, he managed in the space of 18 months to traverse the Steppe Region and record his observations of the Muslim people. Name, date on front fly leaf, no other markings.

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 2nd pr., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. 320 pages, b&w photo illustrations. The Chapters are: Gambia; Sierra Leone; The Gold Coast; Nigeria: The West; The North; The Southern Cameroons; and The East; followed by an index. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Buffalo, Faxon and Read, 1st, 1841, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Traveller's Own Book, to Saratoga Springs, Niagara Falls and Canada, containing Routes, Distances, Conveyances, Expenses, Use of Mineral Waters, Baths, Description of Scenery, etc. A Complete Guide. with Maps and Engravings. Hardcover, 258 pages, 4 X 6 inches. Ribbed brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. The map of Niagara Falls is missing, the folding map of Saratoga is present, though heavily foxed. The first printing of this popular guide book. Several b&w illustrations. Scattered foxing throughout. Light wear to covers, short tears to spine cloth. Pencil notes on endpapers.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue-gray cloth with white lettering and decoration on front cover, 279 pages, b&w illustrations by the author.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with illustrated pastedown and gilt stamping. 227 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs. Endpapers map. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b&w photos, maps, advertisements. Original yellow and black wrappers, spine with light wear, good to very good. Articles include: Our State Flowers (16 color pages), Our First Alliance, Madonnas of Many Lands.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 280 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with rubbing, short tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 220 pages, color, b&w illustrations by H. Hudson Rodmell. SIGNED BY BONE on front fly leaf. Tight, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. This book celebrates, in words and 44 full-color photographs, the adventure of living in the world's most astonishing city. The author's Venice is at eye level, a labyrinth of impressions, a museum of delights for that vanishing man, the walker. "The mind-boggling gift of Venice," he assures us, "is that it has escaped the tyranny of wheels." Man walks, strolls and dawdles; he does not run for his life. Although only the experience of living in Venice will fully accustom the visitor to a fact so unique, Wright Morris combines words and photographs to recapture the essence of this experience, sharing with the reader impressions of a particular moment in a fabulous place.

Hardcover. Washington D. C, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1930, in a green hardcover cloth binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. 784 pages, 2 color maps. Numerous articles including: 'Seeking the Mountains of Mystery' by Joseph F. Rock; 'Among the Hill Tribes of Sumatra by W. Robert Moore; 'Hunting for Plants in the Canary Islands' by David Fairchild; and 'New Light on Ancient Ur' by M.E. L. Mallowan. Clean, bright volume.

Hardcover. NY, National Travel Club, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt design on front cover, 309 pages. In 1931, Wyndham Lewis travelled to the part of Morocco, known traditionally as 'Barbary'. He set out for the majestic High Atlas and recorded the rich traditional culture of the isolated Berber tribes. Illustrated with 16 photographic plates and a small map. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1ST, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 318 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Author White journeys back to Wales after twenty years away. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 194 pages. The Jordan Rift Valley, stretching from the Red Sea to Lebanon, was ripped open millions of years ago by vast forces within the earth. This geological object has also been a part of human history ever since early humans used it as a path in their journey out of Africa. And for a quarter of a century it has been part of the biography of Haim Watzman, an Israeli journalist. In the autumn of 2004, as his country was riven by a fierce debate over its borders, Watzman took a two-week journey up the valley. Along the way he met scientists who try to understand the rift through the evidence lying on its surface--an archaeologist who reconstructs the fallen altars of a long-forgotten people, a zoologist whose study of bird societies has produced a theory of why organisms cooperate, and a geologist who thinks that the valley will some day be an ocean. He encountered people whose life and work on the shores of the Dead Sea and Jordan River have led them to dream of paradise and to seek to build Gardens of Eden on earth--a booster for a chemical factory, the director of a tourist site, and an aging socialist farmer who curates a museum of idols. And he discovered that the geography's instability is mirrored in the volatility of the tales that people tell about the Sea of Galilee.

Softcover. Omaha NE, Union Pacific System , 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover booklet, 44 pages, stapled green paper covers with embossed design stamped in gilt and red. A travel guide for passengers on the Union Pacific, b&w illustrations throughout. Excellent condition, bright, unmarked.

Softcover. Xlibris, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 318 pages, b&w illustrations. The author describes his three year around-the-world journey on a motor scooter in the 1960s. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Rutland, VT , Tuttle Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages. Light green cloth covers with photo and gilt lettering. Light foxing throughout, all edges. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Black & white photographs. Tight binding. Author was Dorothy Canfield Fisher's mother.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1928, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes: Fold-out illustration by N.C, Wyeth: "The Discoverer". 742 Clean, bright volume.

Hardcover. London, The Colonizer, reprint, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages, b&w photos. SIGNED BY HARRIS under his frontispiece photography in blue ink. Green covers with wear, spotting. Internally good.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 341 pages, b&w and color plates. Light blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover corners. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Book: Very Good, Three folding brochures. 1) Guided Tour of Rockefeller Center, 2-colors, b&w photos/3 panels 2) Rockefeller Center, full-color, 4 panels with a fold-out. 3) Welcome to the City of Times Square, 2-color, 5-panels with one side being an illustrated map. None dated but all appear to be late 1940s, early 50s. Very good condition.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 205 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Some tanning from age to edges, otherwise pages clean. Cover boards bound in blue, marbled cloth, red quarter cloth (some fading at spine, fraying at top and bottom). Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape for its age. Clarke explores a reef and the people of southern Sri Lanka. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Eaton and Means, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 262 pages. An Account of the visitation of Bishop Foss and Dr. Goucher to the Indian and Malaysian Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. This book gives the reader new information as to the needs of the different fields which are under discussion, grasps more vividly the magnitude of the modern missionary movement, and gathers fresh confidence in the final triumph of the Messiah throughout the heathen world. B&w illustrations. Old ink price on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 430 pages illustrated in b&w and color by Yee. "Customs and rituals, dress and language, poetry and drama, painting and sculpture, kites and carp, trees and flowers, everything is revealed to us in Mr. Yee's inimitable text and delightful drawings. Familiar centers and out-of-the-way corners of Japan all come under the Silent Traveller's scrutiny -- Tokyo's Ginza, a Shinto dance at Ise, Kyoto's Phoenix Hall, cormorant-fishing in Gifu, Mt. Fuji, an Ainu village, the five hundred arhats, the beardless hippies of Tokyo, the perennial towel-bearing bathers at a resort hotel, the phenomenon of the marimos, red-crested cranes -- and much more. Clean copy.

Softcover. Sydney AU/New Caledonia, 1942, Book: Very Good, Two stapled booklets, 32 and 24 pages, 1942. B&w illustrations. Very good condition. No markings.

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale yellow boards with black stamping, 196 pages. One of the wonderful series of Chiang Yee's city books where here he describes and depicts aspects of Edinburgh. Illustrated throughout with drawings and 20 full-page color plates. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1991, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 254 pages. Red phono disc of Tuvan throat singing still attached. As a stamp-collecting boy always fascinated by remote places, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman was particularly taken by the diamond-shaped stamps from a place called Tannu Tuva deep within Outer Mongolia. He hoped, someday, to travel there. In 1977, Feynman and his sidekick - fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton - set out to make arrangements to visit Tuva, doing noble and hilarious battle with Soviet red tape, befriending quite a few Tuvans, and discovering the wonders of Tuvan throat-singing. Their Byzantine attempts to reach Tannu Tuva would span a decade, interrupted by Feynman's appointment to the committee investigating the Challenger disaster, and his tragic struggle with the cancer that finally killed him. Tuva or Bust! chronicles the deepening friendship of two zany, brilliant strategists whose love of the absurd will delight and instruct. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with black spine labels with gilt lettering. Six issues from the first half of 1924, 696 pages devoid of ads or inserts. Clean, bright pages, some color, mostly b&w. Include:s 1, Lost Tribes of Islam, Eastern Darfur; 2, Carthage Acheology; 3, Sahara by Automobile; 4, Hawaiian Islands; 5, Sakurajima, Japan volcanic eruption; 6, Norway; and 7, Tunisia. Clean, no markings. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 339 pages, softcover with wire spiral binding. Scarce early proof. The author boarded this Orkney trawler whilst the weather was at its worst. An old trawler , converted for Deep-Sea Fishing , by a young skipper who now has a huge overdraft. The Nortantean is the only boat leaving. O'Hanlon sets off, with the crew of five , on a gut-wrenching, leg-jellying voyage.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1921, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Includes two folding color maps: South America and the Islands of the Pacific. Also illustrated WWI insignia, 16 pages of Japanese scenes in color. Clean, bright volume.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and tanning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Covers the rise of travel thanks to the development of roadways, railways, luxury ocean liners and trains, and eventually the airliner. Wonderfully illustrated with photos, travel posters, luggage tags, and more.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A Stokes, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 215 pages. Red cloth, gilt lettering. Very minor wear to spine. Full illustrated plates by Edwards, some with tissue guard. Frontispiece illustration. Illustrated end papers. Top edge gilt. Some pages uncut.

Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride & Co., 5th pr., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 173 pages. Illustrated with b&w plates. 12mo. Dark blue cloth, gilt titles on spine.