Travel And Adventure from The Owl at the Bridge

Arthus Bertrand, Éditeur, Libraire De La Société De Géographie, 23, Rue Hautefeuille. 1837. "Paris. Imprimerie De C.-L.-F. Panckoucke, Rue des Poitevins, no. 14." on verso of half-title. "Note De L'Éditeur. Cet ouvrage n'était point destiné à l'impression. Ce sont de simples notes recueillies pendant un voyage entrepris dans le but de fonder un établissement au Guazacoalcos.… Ler mais sobre este item

Four bookseller catalogues listing materials on voyages and travel, discovery, exploration. Bennett & Marshall, 202 items, bibliography; Dawson 270, 491 items; Dawson 272, 551 items, index, addenda list; Kahn 24, 146 items. All have some illustration; all in paper covers; all Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0324.

London, Chapman & Hall, 1871. Hard Cover. Two volumes: xii, 282; vi, 277, [2] p., frontispieces (photos); 19 cm. "A small portion of the 'Cruise of the Tern' has appeared in print before" --Prefatory note. Published later, in 1883, under title: The Hebrides Isles. Part of the Saga of Haco the King, Translated by R. Buchanan, vol. 2 pp.… Ler mais sobre este item

N.Y., Prentice Hall, [1983]. Soft Cover. 304 p. 25.5 cm. Folding map. 'More than 200 color photographs and detailed maps.' Gift inscription on title-page. Stock #100,618. Vg/paperback. Austria Travel

Innsbruck/ Wien/Munchen, Verlagsanstalt Tyrolia, 1932. Hard Cover. 199 p. B/w photographs of the Tyrol/Tirol region of the eastern Alps in Germany and, mostly, Austria. Stock #100,800. Good, bound in linen stamped in red; top of spine starting to tear/ no dj. Austria

Pavilion Michael Joseph [1989]. Soft Cover. Text first published in 1889. Three men & a dog travel up the Thames from Kingston to Oxford. 215 p., color llus., endpaper map, 25.5 cm.; color pictorial paper covers; fine. 33238.

Harper & Bros. ['Published September, 1915']. . Hard Cover. 'Crown 8vo.' 294 p., 9 color and 8 black & white plates; green cloth covers stamped in gold, top edge gilt; spine faded, front cover spotted, ink inscription inside front cover; VG. Contents include All the Way to Freemantle; To the Jarrah Bush; A Billy of Tea; The Romance… Ler mais sobre este item

Cleveland, Ohio: Burrows Brothers [1889?]. Hard Cover. 164, 75 p., [16] leaves of plates, illus.; 24 cm. "A considerable portion of this volume is occupied by the history of... attacks on the Matterhorn" (Preface). Edward Whymper is best known for the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. 164 pages of Scrambles + 75 pages of Down the Rhine.… Ler mais sobre este item

John Muir Publications, Santa Fe, N. M. ['Eighth edition. Second printing April 1991']. Soft Cover. 587 p., index, maps, illus., charts, diagrams; color pictorial paper covers, 21.5 cm.; slight edgewear; VG+. Contents include Preparing Your Car; Driving in Mexico; Public Transportation; Hitching; Hotels; Renting a Place; Camping; Restaurants and Typical Foods; Markets and Stores; Cooking in Mexico; Booze… Ler mais sobre este item

Hardcover. 121 pages, illus.; 21 cm. The Mandalay edition of the works of Rudyard Kipling. Contains Around the World with Kipling; Kipling at Home by Irwin S. Cobb; Rudyard Kipling, a Biographical Sketch by A. P. Cooper; Rudyard Kipling's Place in Literature by R. Le Gallienne; Rudyard Kipling by William Lyon Phelps; Rudyard Kipling as a Frenchman sees him by… Ler mais sobre este item

Part history, part anthropology, part guide book to Morocco in the period after World War II. Bonn wrote other books, on Africa and India. Hardcover. 200, [3] pages, many plates both color and black&white, endpaper maps; 22 cm. Bound in green cloth, spine stamped in gold; no dust jacket; Vey Good. Stock#26622/h.

London, Methuen [1956]. The English Donald Hall explored Montecassino, Abruzzi, Molise, and the Marche. Hard Cover. 235 pages, index, plates, endpaper map; 22 cm. Good+/ dj worn. Stock#34823.

Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, 2003. Hard Cover. 271 p., color illus., color maps; 31 cm. Language: Portuguese. Consists of an overall section on the Cape Verde islands and special studies of ten of the islands. ISBN (10): 9722115448. Stock#L207.

Toronto, Brownstone Press, 1982. Hard Cover. Signed. 126 p., illus., 21 x 27 cm. An account of an expedition up 20,000 foot, Mt. Pandim. Copy 51 of 500 signed & numbered by the author; with additional author's inscription. Stock# 41,525. Vg/ dj vg.

N.Y., Simon & Schuster, 1956. Hard Cover. xi, 296 p.; 21.5 cm. Memoir of an American writer who lived on the island for a year. Stock #27,944. Vg/ dj worn. .

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1925. Hard Cover. xv, 493 p., 24 plates, index, 17cm. Written to meet "the requirements of the average traveller making a first or second visit to Itay, and trying to see some of her greatest attractions in a period of three to six weeks." Stock 27,496. Good+/ no dj.

Henry Holt, NY [c1987]. 'First American Edition'. First Edition. Hard Cover. 143 p., color photos. An appealing assemblage of photographs of Tuscany in all weathers and seasons. Planting: Tuscan Roots; Flowering: The Golden Age of the Medicis; Ripening: The Age of Unreason; Harvest: Paradise of Exiles; Tasting: The Recent Years. Dj; fine, new from publisher, gift quality. Stock#24895x.

London, Methuen [1927]. Hard Cover. xii, 221, 8 p., index, 48 plates; 22.5 cm. "To me Florence is not a city, but a beloved being; I think of her as a person." Stock #27,698. Good+, corners worn/no dj.

1945, NY, Viking Press. 'Fifth Printing April 1945'. Hard Cover. 224 p., 4 color double-page plates; 22 cm. "His trips to a jungle hacienda, to the headhunters of the Amazon, to André Roosevelt's newly painted blue ranch house… give Bemelmans a chance to pass in review the high-life of Quito and the home-life of the provinces, before a spectacular… Ler mais sobre este item

Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company / Robert Hale Ltd., London, 1959. Printed in England by Waterlow & Sons Limited. Hard Cover. (including Eritrea, Somaliland, Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Portuguese East Africa, the Congo, Mauritius, Madagascar, Reunion, Seychelles, etc., etc.) with Atlas, Folding Map, Town Plans and Route Maps. Edited Annually by A. Gordon-Brown, F.R.G.S. for the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company… Ler mais sobre este item