THE NORTHERN TRAVELLER AND NORTHERN TOUR: With The Routes to The Springs, Niagra, and Quebec and the Coal Mines of Pennsylvania. Also, the Tour of New-England by Editors - 1830

London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. First edition, 1901. Scarce travel guide to the Western Mediterranean, including both southewestern Europe and northwestern Africa. Includes maps and/or plans of: The Western Mediterranean; Lisbon; Andalucia; Seville; Cordoba; The Alhambra; Gibraltar; Morocco; Tangier; Algiers; Malta; Port of Valetta; Sicily; Palermo; Syracuse; Messina; Straits of Messina; Naples; Environs of Naples; Genoa; Marseilles. Includes yachting notes, hotel recommendations, historical notes and other usual travel information. Bright red cloth over flexible boards, gilt lettering, 238 pages plus 22 pages of advertising. Some light cover wear, mainly rubbing to the corners and spine ends, inner hinges lightly cracked (cosmetic rather than structural), pages clean and free from names or other markings. A well-kept copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: James Stratford, 1810. Volume 6 only (of 6). 1810? Contemporary calf and marbled boards. Fair condition. Disbound. Front and rear covers detached. Spine perished. SEE PHOTOS. Frontispiece and final leaf of index present, but separated. Engraved title page is dated 1810. There is no printed title page now, if there ever was one. The text appears to be complete, and is generally clean and free of foxing. Some of the plates have browning, foxing and or damp stain, mostly in the margins. SEE PHOTOS. This is offered as a candidate for rebinding, or as a breaker for the plates (engraved views), of which there are at least 29. (At the time this was catalogued, a Google search revealed that several of these same plates were being offered elsewhere for £25 each). Among the full-page engravings are: Entrance to London at Mile End; Entrance to London at Shoreditch; Bengeo Church, with part of Hertford; Rye House, Herts.; Wormley Bury; Barnet; Column at Hadley, near Barnet; the… Read More

This is a scarce, antique copy of "Taintor's Route and City Guides" - this particular guide is for the "Pennsylvania Coal Regions via Morris & Essex R.R." Published in 1867 by Taintor Brothers in New York. The guide features 4 color maps; the "Map of the Anthracite Coal Regions of Pennsylvania with Connecting Railways" is larger and folds out. "With sketches of the cities, villages, stations, scenery, and objects of interest along the route." There are illustrated advertisements at both the front and back. Please see the photos for the complete list of contents.Condition:The pages are in great condition - mostly clean and white with no writing and only some very sparse light foxing; tiny tear at the outer edge of page 29. The fold-out map is clean and firmly attached. The covers are present, but have detached from the spine and are separated along the right edge of the spine; creases at the left-hand corners of the front cover; there are a few tiny stain spots on the back cover.

This is a scarce, antique copy of "Taintor's Route and City Guides" - this particular guide is for "The Erie Railway and its Branches." Published in 1867 by Taintor Brothers in New York. The guide features 20 color maps in all. "With descriptive sketches of the cities, villages, stations, and of scenery and objects of interest along the route" by H.F. Walling. There are illustrated advertisements at both the front and back. Please see the photos for the complete list of contents.Condition:The pages are in great condition - mostly clean and white with no writing and only some trace foxing at the top margin of pages 11-16, a light stain at the lower-outer edge of pages 6 & 7, and a 1/2" tear at the outer edge of the advertisement page between pages 4 & 5. The covers have detached from the spine; the top and bottom pieces of the spine (about 1" and 1/2" respectively) are missing; light stains at the top-right corner of the front cover; a dime-sized layer of paper has peeled off at the bottom-right corner… Read More

Octavo, paper boards, 22 x 15 cm, [viii], 132 pages; backstrip chipped, paper toned and a little brittle, with torn title page and occasional chipping, decent condition overall. Half-tone photos throughout.A very evocative guide book to "Jewish excursions" in Frankfurt and Hessen, dedicated to "My wife, Bertha Lilienthal, née Fuchs. My hiking companion on rocky roads." The preface is dated almost exactly a year before Kristallnacht. The author was the chief cantor at the main synagogue in Wiesbaden. He and his wife fled to Amsterdam in June 1939. He was transported to Theresienstadt in 1943 and murdered in October 1944. His wife's exact fate is unknown.

Portland, Maine: Chisholm Bros. IN GOOD CONDITION. Circa 1880. With 47 photographic views, accordian folded pages, bound in gilt stamped cloth. One page separated. Photographs still bright, with no foxing. Corner wear to covers.

As new hardcover with fine DJ copy of this rare book. First edition. full of colour pictures

Philadelphia: Sherman & Co., Printers, 1870. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Jesse A Graves. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Corners rubbed. 12mo; xii, [13] - 276 pp. Chromolithograph frontispiece. 2nd edition. [first 1867]. 19th century travel guide penned by a manager of the Kittatinny House resort hotel, during its heyday. It was under L.W. Brodhead's care that the resort expanded to accommodate 250 guests from the original 25. At the time of publishing, there were about a half dozen resort hotels to which the affluent from New York and Philadelphia could retreat for the season.

Mit 21 karten, 84 plänen u. grundrissen und 55 abbildungen. Siebente auflage. cxc+438 pp. 16x11 cm. Verlag von Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1913. The last edition before World War I, when Egypt was still part of the Ottoman Empire. --- Text in german. Clothbound (publishers cloth) with gilt letters on front cover and spine. All edges marbled, pages clean and bright, colored folding maps h.t. Light wear.

Waterway Guide, 2018-11-01. Paperback. Good. 10x9x1. Interior pages and maps are clean and unmarked, no highlighting, underlining or writing. Cover in good condition, some edge and shelf wear from normal use. Binding is solid. Ships in box quickly and with care. Currently OOP (out of print). Waterway Guide Atlantic ICW 2019: Intracoastal Waterway: Norfolk, Va to St. Johns River, Fl. Thank you for shopping with us!