Rare books from Gary Menchen

Hardcover, original brown cloth with gold lettering. Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. 308pp. Interesting contemporary bookplate on front paste-down, inked name stamped on verso of flyleaf. Includes plates and fold-out maps. Plate VIII, Map of Located Points near Loweâs Path to Mt Adams has water stains, not effecting surrounding pages.

Dunedin: Stone, Son, and Co., 1894. 106pp. Red cloth binding, spine a bit faded but gold lettering still clear and bright. A remembrance written later in life of the author's traveling out to India in 1845 - before the Suez Canal - to take a position as an engineer.

Two different copies of this pamphlet, both Portsmouth, Beck & Foster, 1816, 32p.1. Untrimmed, wrappers. There is a contemporary note on the bottom of page 28: "Query, then why would not the President even suffer Mr. Burroughs to pray in the Chappell, or [...]"2. A second copy, trimmed wrappers, inscribed at the top: "Parker Cleveland, Esq from his much obliged peer The Author".

A collection of 44 different Voyages and Travels catalogs from Maggs Bros, London, from 1937 though 1972. Collection is not a complete run of Maggs Bros Travel and Voyages catalogs, but the majority are present.[Implied Volume 1] From their first multi-volume series of Travels & Voyages. Part 1 No 638; Part II No. 644; Part V No 695. 1937-1940.Volume 2 Parts I ( 720), II (723), III (727), IV (729), V (732), VI (736). IX (746), X (747). 1940(?) - 1945.Volume 3 Parts I (751), II (758), III (761), IV (766), V (769), VI & VII (777), VIII & IX (788), X (797). 1946-1950.Volume 4 ( Australia and the Pacific) Parts I (755), II (763), III (772), IV (784), V (795), VI (807), VII (821), VIII (836), IX (856). 1946-1958.Volume 5 Parts I (803), II (813), III (818), IV (824), V (827), VI (833), VII (842), VIII (847), X(867), initial parts undated, ending 1959.Volumr 6 Parts II (888), V (924), VI (928), VII (935) VIII (939), IX (943), X (945). 1963-1972.Condition is consistently very good. Minor chipping on the… Read More