History, Travel & Geography from James Cummins Bookseller

London: Faber and Faber, 1939. First edition. Illustrated, folding map at end. 301 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown cloth, spine blocked in yellow and red. Some foxing to endpapers, near fine in very good plus dust jacket (some soiling). First edition. Illustrated, folding map at end. 301 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Auden and Isherwood travelled to China just… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1907. First edition, First Issue with drawings of a dung beetle pushing his load with his front legs rather than his back on pages 65, 337 and 457. Illustrated. by E. Caldwell. 475, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth. Fine, some foxing to edges. Bookplate. First edition, First Issue with drawings… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1930. First edition with Blunden introduction. Portrait frontispiece. xv, 197 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Pink cloth-backed boards. Near fine copy without dust jacket. Sassoon book label. First edition with Blunden introduction. Portrait frontispiece. xv, 197 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed from Blunden to Sassoon. According to Kirkpatrick, the original title page design included Blunden's name Inscribed:… Ler mais sobre este item

London: George Virtue, 1842. Engraved vignette title-pages in each volume, map of Ireland in vol. I engraved by W. Hughes, and 118 engraved plates after William Henry Bartlett's drawings. vi, 170; [iv], 186 pp. Joseph Rickerby, Printer, Sherbourn Lane. 2 vols. 4to. Bound in three quarters contempoary purple Morocco, a.e.g. Bartlett, William. Engraved vignette title-pages in each volume,… Ler mais sobre este item

Montreal: Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research, 1987. First edition. Number 58 of 100 copies signed by Lande. Numerous illustrations and folding facsimile plates. 4to. Publisher's navy cloth, purple gilt inlay on the upper cover, spine lettered in gilt. First edition. Number 58 of 100 copies signed by Lande. Numerous illustrations and folding facsimile plates. 4to. Lande… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. First edition. Illustrated from photographs by the author. 319 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. Very good plus in very good dust jacket with design by Minns. Spine panel toned (rubbed at head), remains of banner at bottom of front flap (price 8/6 in red). First edition. Illustrated from photographs by the author. 319… Ler mais sobre este item

El Paso, Texas: W. H. Horne Co, 1912. Fine, in brown paper envelope Pass City News Co El Paso. Including 3 shots of Triple Execution in Mexico 3 and bodies of 3 men lying as they fell after being executed.

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited 3 York Street St. James 's, 1936. First edition. Illustrated. 254, [2]pp. 8vo. Blue Cloth, map endpapers. Stamp of Esmond Bradley Martin on ffep. First edition. Illustrated. 254, [2]pp. 8vo. Yakushi, S 364

Norwood, Mass: Norwood Press, 1906. The Memorial Edition Number 6 of 100 Copies expressly printed for E. A. Groizier and signed by M.P. Curran on colophon page which is handcolored. 176pp. 4to. Bound in full blue morocco, with full red and blue morocco doublures and silk flyleaves, t.e.g., rest uncut. Fine. The Memorial Edition Number 6 of 100… Ler mais sobre este item

[Tokyo]: Asahi-shimbun-sha, 1950. First edition. Portrait frontispiece, facsimile of Blunden manuscript. [8], 119; [2], 141, [3] pp. Text in English and Japanese. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown boards stamped in yellow and red. Fine in very good plus dust jacket (some toning), in publisher's printed slipcase. Ownership signature of Kenneth Hopkins on front flyleaf. First edition. Portrait frontispiece, facsimile… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1930. First edition, no. 30 of 250 copies printed on India paper, signed and numbered by the editor. 983 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black buckram spine, titled in gilt, marbled boards. Near fine, bright copy (minor rubbing) without slipcase. First edition, no. 30 of 250 copies printed on India paper, signed and numbered by… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston & Tokyo: J.B. Millet and Co, 1902. The Viceroy Edition. "Limited to 50 Numbered and Registered Copies, of which this is #42." Printed on Japan vellum paper. Illustrated throughout with wonderful hand-colored prints as inlaid frontispieces and hand-tinted photographs. Printed at the University Press Cambridge, Mass. 12 vols. 8vo. Bound in full green morocco, gilt spines and elaborate… Ler mais sobre este item

Paris: Plon-Nourrit ert Cie., Imprimeurs-Éditeurs 8, Rue Garanciere, 1910. First Edition. Illus. with 86 engravings in text, fold out map. 341, [2]pp. 8vo. Half orange cloth, leather spine label and original printed pictorial wrappers. Bookplate of Robert Lefevre Pontalis. First Edition. Illus. with 86 engravings in text, fold out map. 341, [2]pp. 8vo.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. First edition. [4], 185 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth, top edge red. Spine ends a bit rubbed. Early ownership signature. Very good plus. Skiff and Doheny bookplates. Red morocco backed slipcase and cloth chemise. First edition. [4], 185 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Doheny Copy. BAL 7916; Perkins pp.12-13

[Paris: Chez Briasson et. al, 1762. Originally included in the first fascicle ("livraison") of Recueil de planches sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques. 2 pp. text (one leaf) + 7 engraved plates illustrating the tools and craft of making fireworks in 146 images. Folio. Removed. Slightly toned at edges, final plate a little ragged at… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Smith., Elder, 1835. First edition, half-titles in volumes 1-3 as called for, ads bound in at the rear as issued. Engraved portrait and 22 lithographed plates.[ iv], x, [ii], 49, [16, ads]; 2pp.; xiv, 492pp.; xvi, 474pp.; viii, 520pp. 4 vols. 8-7/8 x 5-1/2 inches (22.5 x 14 cm). Original green blind stamped marbled cloth, uncut (neatly rebacked… Ler mais sobre este item

Troy, [N.Y.]: Parker and Bliss, 1811. [2], 36pp. Contemporary quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. [2], 36pp.

Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press. First Edition, signed by publisher Jim Rikhoff and author/photographer, #122 of 975 copies . An American Heritage Book. Oblong folio. Bound in full rexine, a.e.g.. Fine in white dropbox. First Edition, signed by publisher Jim Rikhoff and author/photographer, #122 of 975 copies . An American Heritage Book. Oblong folio.

London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1938. First Edition, limited to 300 sets: this set out of series. Illustrated with 90 reproductions from paintings and drawings in his Journals, some in color, those "in colour being specially painted for the edition by hand.". 2 vols. Thin Folio. Original 1/4 white buckram with decorations in gold on spine by Lettice Sanford and… Ler mais sobre este item

Vienna: Friedrich Schreiber, 1873. Chromolithographic title page, three chromolithographic illustrations, and fourteen plates of Westmeyer's musical score, each within a different chromolithographic border, all printed on heavy card. Light wear, some minor foxing internally;. Folio 16 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches (43 x 34 cm). Bound in contemporary Viennese binding of black morocco gilt by Rosenberg (signed in gilt… Ler mais sobre este item