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Houghton Mifflin; Boston, 1906. First thus. Hardcover. Very Good minus/Without dust jacket as issued. Sold as a scarce copy with defects. Duodecimo, 6 1/3" tall, ix + 307 pages + 4 bound-in folding maps (Edinburgh, London, Switzerland, Paris, plus 3 loose pocket maps (Railway map British Islas, Railway map of Central Europe, and Sights of London grouped) +… Read more about this item

Harper and Brothers, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Without dust jacket. A scarce first edition with condition problems. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, xiii + 328 pages with inter-textual black and white illustration, silver and gilt titles and decorations on brown cloth. In good condition over all, generally clean, light exterior soiling with moderate, shelf wear but fraying to… Read more about this item

Dana Estes & Company: Boston, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket. This travelog is a famous fraud, primarily drawn from other contemporary accounts. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 499 pages with 3 fold-out maps and intertextual black and white spot illustrations scattered throughout, gilt top fore-edge, gilt titles on illustrated maroon cloth. A very good, generally… Read more about this item

Boston, Massachusetts: The Stratford Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket. Over five months "My party of four traveled ten thousand miles throughout India in a private railway car." Octavo, 8" tall, 238 pages + black and white plates and fold-out map, blue cloth with gilt titles. A very good, clean hardcover first edition with minor… Read more about this item

London, England: John Murray, 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Single volume--complete. Octavo, 6" tall, 327 pages, fold out maps (including Bank of England!; Houses of Parliament, etc) endpaper ads from Murray dated February 1868; gilt spine titles, embossed brick-red cloth. A good + copy with exterior shelf wear, back strip starting to fray at top and bottom… Read more about this item

Leipzig, Germany: Karl Baedeker, 1914. First thus. Hardcover. Good minus. French text. Sold as a good reading copy only because of the difficult condition. 6 1/3" tall, xl + 563 pages, plus a 22-page 'Plans de Berlin'. Fold-out maps, flexible cloth. A good minus copy overall, spine cloth loose, faded, and frayed at the rear hinge, both hinges… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Penn Publishing, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +/Without dust jacket. Quarto, 11" tall, 337 pages + 40 Illustrated plates ( all present ), gilt decorates, titles and top fore-edge, brown cloth. A good plus, clean, sturdy hard cover with moderate shelf wear, back strip cloth over spine fraying at top and bottom edges; fore-corner tips rubbed;… Read more about this item

Grenoble, France: B. Arthaud, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Without dust jacket as issued. A very handsome volume. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 200 pages, with original color wraps bound in, marbled endpapers, gilt top edge and gilt spine titles, 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Originally published in decorated wraps (still present). Rebound in red leather with banded spine… Read more about this item

Paris, France: Leopold Collin, 1809. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. 2 vols., French text. English edition 1807. Octavo, lxviii + 332 pages and 544 pages, full calf with elaborate gilt-decorated spines, previous owner's bookplates on front-end papers. A good + set overall, interior very good, clean, neat, internal binding tight, paper just moderately yellowed; but exterior leather binding… Read more about this item