Travel & Exploration

Avigad, Brakha, Water-Colours, Yoel de Angeles & Yoshua Zimra, Text. Negev Flowers - Fleurs du Neguev. Haifa, Israel: Department of Education and Culture, 1968. 2 pages of text and 24 color plates with facing text. Dated, inscribed and signed by the author. Text in English and French. Very good pictorial hardcover. #27220. $10
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Baedeker Handbook for Travelers. Baedeker Travel Guides

Bailey, Elizabeth, Lois Madison Reamy, editor and writer. The World's Best Hotels. No place: Institutional Investor, 1993. 4to (large book). 128 pages. Photographs. Very good hardcover in Very good dust jacket. ISBN 9813018488. #20604. $15
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Explorers Club, New York. Through Hell and High Water, by Members of the Explorers Club. Seward S. Cramer, editor. New York: Robert M. McBride, 1941. 1st edition. xiv, 385 pages. Map. Frontispiece portrait. Endpaper illustrations. Very good pictorial hardcover. Front panel of dust jacket laid in. Former owner's name on half-title page. Some pencil underlining. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #24970. $110
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Gautier, E.-F. Le Sahara: Structure, Climat, Limites, Histoire, La Vie Physique, Les Regions (Egypte, Sahara Tibbou, Fezzan, Sahara Touareg). Paris: Payot, 1950. 3d edition. 231 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Text in French. Pictorial wrappers, spine creased and backstrip partially peeling, covers worn and partially sunned. Some chipping along edges. Good. #21162. $20
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Harrison, Edith Ogden. All the Way 'Round: The Story of a Fourteen Months' Trip around the World. Chicago: McClurg, 1922. 278 pages. Photographs. Good hardcover, spine sunned. #12324. $10
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Johnson, George A. Travel Tales and Other Stories. Photographs by the author. Baltimore, Maryland: Monumental Printing Co., 1930. 166 pages. Photographs. Inscribed and signed by the author. Good hardcover in chipped and torn dust jacket. #16087. $17.50
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Lutfiyya, Abdulla M., and Charles W. Churchill, editors. Readings in Arab Middle Eastern Societies and Cultures. The Hague: Mouton, 1970. xvii, 733 pages. Index. Very good stiff wrappers. #22829. $30
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MacArthur, Robert Stuart. Around the World Due West to the Far East. Philadelphia: Griffiths & Rowland Press, 1900. 532 pages. Map. Presentation copy. Good hardcover, edges slightly worn. #12327. $12.50
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Mackay, Margaret. Angry Island: The Story of Tristan da Cunha, 1506-1963. London: Arthur Barker, 1963. 288 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. On the title page the publishing information has been crossed out in ballpoint and Rand McNally & Co are written as the publisher. No other markings or corrections. #22439. $20
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Malak, photographs, and Ron Corbett, text. The / La Gatineau. Prefaces by Robert Labine and Marcel Beaudry. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing Co.; Erin, Ontario: The Boston Mills Press, 1994. 1st printing. Oblong small 4to (medium-large book). 120 pages. Color photographs. A Boston Mills Press Book. Description and travel in the Gatineau River Valley and Park, Quebec, Canada. Text in English and French. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 1550460900. #25137. $20
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Ontario, Canada. Department of Mines. Ontario's Mines and Mineral Resources. Toronto, Canada: Department of Mines, 1931. 5th edition. Small 8vo (regular size). 108 pages. Maps. Illustrations. Photographs. Good stiff wrappers (soft cover). Covers worn, lower right-hand front corner chipped. Some ink underlining and marginalia. #16034. $25
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Parker, William H., and Nagel Publishers. Nagel's Encyclopedia-Guide: Canada. Text by William H. Parker. Geneva and New York: Nagel Publishers and Cowles Education Corporation, 1968. 3d edition. 16mo (small book). xiii, 485 pages. Index. 22 black-and-white plans, 11 pages of plans in colour, 4 maps in colour. Folding map. Front endpaper map of Canada. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. #26955. $20
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Rosdail, J. Hart. Biking Alone around the World. New York: Exposition Press, 1973. 1st edition. Large 8vo (regular size). 534 pages. Photographs. Account of a one year and seven months, 11,600-mile solo bicycle journey. Good hardcover in chipped, worn, and slightly torn dust jacket. 'Reading Copy' stamped in red on fore-edge. ISBN 0682475416. #11361. $30
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Roys, Willis E. Red Patch and Oriental Travel Stories. New York: Avondale Press, 1927. 228 pages. Photographs. Fictionalized travel accounts. Very good hardcover. #12340. $17.50
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Salagnac, George Cerbelaud. Canada, Alaska, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, the Bermudas. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1957. 1st printing. 16mo (small book). 1109 pages. Index. Folding maps. Hachette World Guides. Good hardcover, top of backstrip has a piece of clear tape. #19772. $20
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Scenes and Incidents of Domestic and Foreign Travel. Scenes and Incidents of Domestic and Foreign Travel. With sketches in natural history, and poetical selections. Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle, 183-? 12mo (small book). 338 pages. Illustrations. Frontispiece. Shaw and Shoemaker 3403. Hardcover binding, gilt edges; front cover detached, text sound. #13468. $160
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Sharples, Alice. Ports of Palm: Haiti, Jamaica, Nassau. / Ports of Pine: Labrador - Newfoundland, Gaspe. Illustrated by Albert B. Browne. Foreword by Wilfred T. Grenfell. Montreal?: Clarke Steamship Co. Limited, 1939. 121, 89 pages. Illustrations. This volume contains two books which are bound back-to-back with inverted text. Very good pictorial hardcover. Former owner's bookplate inside front cover. #26976. $25
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Smith, E. Quincy. Travels at Home and Abroad. (3 volumes). New York: Neal, 1911. 3 volumes. Frontispiece. Green hardcover. Gilt stamping, gilt tops. Fine. #12342. $70
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Stackpole, George F. My Travels through Europe and My Western Trip. Riverhead, New York: County Review Press, 1912. 133 pages. Portrait. Cover title: Recollections of Travel at Home and Abroad. Travel account by a Long Island, New York resident. Good stiff wrappers (soft cover), front cover detached. #16088. $25
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Steindorff, G. Die Blutezeit des Pharaonenreichs. [The Golden Age / Blossoming of the Empire of the Pharaohs.] Bielefeld und Leipzig: Verlag von Velhagen & Klasing, 1900. 170 pages. Illustrations. Map. Monographien zur Weltgeschichte, X. Text in German. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #16726. $17.50
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Van Sinderen, Adrian. The Other Half of the Earth. (2 volumes). New York: Privately Printed, 1959. 1 of 750 copies. 2 volumes. (341 pages). Maps. Photographs. Facsimile folding map. Folding map in envelope. The Printing-Office of the Yale University Press. Very good hardcover bindings. #17019. $15
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Waugh, Alec. The Coloured Countries. London: Chapman & Hall, 1930. 288 pages. Photographs. Endpaper maps. Accounts of travel to Tahiti, Martinique, Siam, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the tropics, New Hebrides, the Caribbean, among others. Good hardcover. Covers slight mottled and worn, lower front cover edge rubbed. Internally very good. #24069. $25
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Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. Sailing Sunny Seas: A Story of Travel in Jamaica, Honolulu, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, Dominica, Martinique, Trinidad and the West Indies. Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, 1909. 1st edition. 248 pages. Photographs. Dated, inscribed and signed on blank front flyleaf by the author, 'Mr. Gallagher - compliments of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Xmas - 1911'. With copyright illustrations [photographs] by the author. 'UNCONVENTIONAL TRAVELS. 'Sailing Sunny Seas' is an unconventional account by Ella Wheeler Wilcox of brief journeys in Jamaica, Porto Rico, Honolulu, the West Indies, and other regions of constant Summer. The sketches are full of the picturesque personality and the ardent temperament of their author and they give vivid and often intimate pictures of the scenes and the varied phases of life in the semi-tropical islands which she visited. It goes without saying that she saw many things whose philosophical aspects interested her deeply and moved her to discussion. The book is fully illustrated with photographs by the author.' - New York Times Book Review February 26, 1910, p. 111. Good original decorative hardcover with small pictorial label pasted on front cover. Covers slightly worn. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. Bookplate has been removed inside front cover. Former owner's name inside front cover. Hinges weak. #23859. $325
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