Travels & Geography from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Paris: Edition Quatre Vents, 1930 4to (28.5 x 22 cm), 295, [7] pp, bound in original watercolor. Contemporary decorative binding combining morocco and paper, gilt-lettered spine with two raised bends, top edge gilt, fore- and bottom-edge untried, marbled endpapers, original wrappers and spine bound in (Max Fonseque), housed in burgundy cloth box with gilt-lettered leather label (biding slightly rubbed, collector's… Read more about this item

Venice: Vincenzo Formaleoni, 1789 In-8, 240 pp, folding map. Cont. leather-backed marbled boards, spine gilt (binding slightly rubbed, blind collector's stamp on title, two tears of the map repaired, some pages creased, stained or soiled bur overall a good copy). A comprehensive study of ancient geography divided into three sections: Errors in antiquity concerning general description; Errors in applying astronomy… Read more about this item

London: Maggs Bros Ltd, 2003 8vo (21 cm), [28] pp. Printed wrappers. 60 entries.

Lemberg: H. Altenberg, G. Seyfarth, E. Wende & Co., 1916 12mo (17 cm), [8], 266, [14] pp, folding plan. Publisher's boards gilt, top edge painted black, dust jacket (dj slightly rubbed and stained, endpapers somewhat toned, ownership inscription dated 26.11.21 and price at the top of the front free endpaper, folding plan loose). A well-preserved copy in the original dust… Read more about this item

Wrocław, 1982 3 volumes 8vo (23.5 cm & 20.5 cm), 150 pp; 93 pp; 91 pp. Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly rubbed, paper of the first volume toned). In Polish. Bibliography of Polish history of geography and cartography 1976-1990. 983, 536 & 593 entries.

Athens, 1966 4to (25.5 cm), [4], 26 pp, 2 folding maps at the back pocket. Printed wrappers. Facsimile reprint of the third edition published in in London in 1689.

Harvard University Press, 2004 8vo (21 cm), XXII, 460 pp, 2 maps, 10 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (bookplate). "Cyriac of Ancona (Ciriaco de' Pizzecolli, 1391-1452), a merchant and diplomat as well as a scholar, was among the first to study the physical remains of the ancient world in person and for that reason is sometimes regarded as the… Read more about this item

Harvard University Press, 2005 8vo (21 cm), XXVII, 490 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (bookplate). "Biondo Flavio (1392-1463), humanist and historian, was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance recovery of classical antiquity. While serving a number of the Renaissance popes, he inaugurated an extraordinary program of research into the history, institutions, cultural life, and physical remains of the ancient… Read more about this item

Prague : Calve, 1796 In-8, engraved front. [2], 272 (recto 172) pp. Untrimmed in cont. marbled wrappers, label with title in manuscript at the head of the spine, library label with number tipped in top of the front wrapper. From the library of Anton Ritter von Beck (1812-1895) in Plevna/Cilli (Slovenia). Josef Dobrovsky (1753-1829), a Czech philologist, historian, and… Read more about this item

Hordern House, 1995 8vo (24.5 cm), unpaginated. Laminated wrapper. Price list loosely inserted. 152 items.

Hordern House, 1993 8vo (24.5 cm), unpaginated. Laminated wrappers (few marks in the text). Price list loosely inserted. 400 items.

London: Maggs Bros. Ltd, 1996 8vo (24.5 cm), [4], 75 pp. Printed wrappers. Items 651-851.

Rowman and Littlefield, 1972 4 volumes 12mo (19.5 cm), XIV, 408 pp; [6] pp, PP. 409-802 pp; [6] pp, PP. 803-1196; [6] pp, PP. 1197-1587. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spines (bindings slightly stained, tipped in bookplates). The fourth edition of Theodore Besterman's "A World Bibliography of Bibliographies" was published in 1965-66. It's a monumental edition which contains 6664 columns. Rowman… Read more about this item

Harvard University Press, 2006 12mo (17 cm), VI, 382 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). "Strabo (ca. 64 BCE to ca. 25 CE), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BCE at Rome. He became a keen traveller who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black… Read more about this item

Harvard University Press, 2005 12mo (17 cm), XLVI, 529 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). "Strabo (ca. 64 BCE to ca. 25 CE), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BCE at Rome. He became a keen traveller who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black… Read more about this item

Bombay: Bombay Education Society's Press, 1905 8vo (21.5 cm), XIV, 197 pp.Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered front board and spine (endpapers slightly stained). "This work contains a Review of the Papers and Notes on Iranian subjects, read before the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, during the last 100 years (1804-1904)."

Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University, 1990 8vo (23.5 cm), 237 pp. Printed wrappers. Contents include: "The Ruthenian (Volhynian) Metrica: Polish Crown Chancery Records for Ukrainian Lands, 1569-1673" by PATRICIA KENNEDY GRIMSTED; "The First Edition (1651) of Beauplan's Description d'Ukranie by DENNIS F. ESSAR and ANDREW B. PERNAL; "The Social Structure of the Ukraine in 1917" by BOHDAN KRAWCHENKO;… Read more about this item

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2008 8vo (23.5 cm), XIV, 496 pp. Laminated wrappers. "The first narrative history of the Jesuits’ mission from 1579 until the proscription of Christianity in China in 1724, this study is also the first to use extensive documentation of the enterprise found in Lisbon and Rome. The peril of travel in the… Read more about this item

Kodansha International, 1991 12mo (18 cm), VIII, 204 pp. Laminated wrappers.

Yale University Press, 1999 8vo (24 cm), VIII, 340 pp. Publisher's boards. An investigation of tourism and its transforming impact on cities, by urban experts from a variety of disciplines. They examine such tourist meccas as Las Vegas, Orlando and Boston, and take up themes such as the marketing of cities and how tourists perceive places.