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Tourism, Tours, & Souvenirs 1) The complete Scotland. London: Ward, Lock, and Co., Ltd., (ca. 1970). Small 8vo. 448 pp.; maps. $18.00 Sixth edition, revised. Maps; some folding, some in color. Publisher's cloth. Very good. (8083) 2) [cover title] Gettysburg: America's greatest battlefield. Gettysburg, PA: W. H. Tipton, 1899. Oblong 8vo. [32] pp.; illus. $40.00 Souvenir pamphlet of the Gettysburg battlefield, each page illustrated with one or two photographs. Includes pictures of Little Round Top, High Water Mark, Devil's Den, the Peach Orchard, Seminary Hill and Cemetery Hill, Meade's Headquarters, National Cemetery, Pennsylvania College (now Gettysburg College), etcetera. Original wrappers, illustrated on the front, chipped and detached with loss of paper but no loss of printing or illustration. Pages clean, very good. (9936) 3) The hundred and thirty-first anniversary of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Charlotte, NC: D. Hatcher Watkins and Charles G. Mullen (Pr. by Ray Printing Company), [1906]. 8vo. 26, [14] pp.; illus. $40.00 The official souvenir programme of the celebration in Charlotte, North Carolina, from May 21st to 26th, 1906, of Mecklenburg County's declaration of independence from the British crown during the American Revolution. Contents include the text of the declaration; a paper on the declaration by George W. Graham; a brief history of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County; an account of the May 1844 celebration by Dr. J. B. Alexander; an article titled "That Cape Fear Mercury" by prof. Alexander Graham, the "official programme;" and 14 pages of ads in the back. Illustrated with photographs of important local landmarks. Stapled, in original wrappers, lightly chipped at outer edge and loosening. New Jersey Historical Society rubber stamp on the title-page and another rubber stamp ("Acknowledged") on p. 3. Good +. (6159) 4) Italy. History - art - landscape. Florence: Mercury Art Books, 1957. 8vo. 414, [2 (1 blank)] pp.; illus. $35.00 Second English edition. Printed in Italy. "Edizioni Mercurio" stated on title-page. Illustrated on every page with great photographs (in both color and black-and-white) of Italian art from the Etruscan period to the Renaissance, famous architectural sites, and views of the Italian landscape. Publisher's cloth. Spine sunned. Hinge (inside) starting to open between pp. 72 and 73. (5252) 5) Souvenir album. Some portraits of prominent New York clergymen. New York: Sunday School Church of the Strangers, 1894. 8vo. [48] pp.; illus. & facsim. $50.00 On the Church of the Strangers, in New York City (then located on Mercer St.), and its recently deceased pastor Rev. Charles Force Deems. Contents also includes poems by Deems, parishioner Phoebe Cary, and others, brief extracts from his sermons or writings, 22 full-page photographic portraits of clergymen of various churches and temples in New York City, and advertisements interspersed throughout. Original printed wrappers, slightly soiled, shelving number inked on spine and in one corner of front cover. Owner's signature at top of title-page. Very good. (9934)

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6) Turkey. Paris: Hachette, 1960. 16mo. lxxxii, 479, [1] pp.; maps. "Hachette World Guides." Large folding maps, some in color. Publisher's cloth. With silk ribbon placemarker. Near fine. (8088)

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7) Adler, Fred T., & Harry C. Green. The official Dewey souvenir programme. Commemorating the reception by the city of New York to Admiral Dewey, September 29th & 30th, 1899. Issued under the direction of the Plan and Scope Committee. New York: Fred T. Adler & Harry C. Green (Pr. by the Winthrop Press), (1899). Oblong 8vo. 38, [2] pp.; illus. $25.00 Sewn; lacking wrappers. Fold mark down center. Slight tearing along spine. First leaf with a second fold mark down center, shallow tear along fold, and chipped at outer corners. Top right corners a little bumped. Four leaves in middle coming loose a bit. (17974) 16th-Century Tour of Italy — Venice Is an Island 8) Alberti, Leandro. Descrittione di tutta l'Italia & isole pertinenti ad essa. In Venetia: Appresso Gio. Maria Leni, 1577. 4to (21.7 cm, 8.5"). 2 vols. in 1. [303], 503, [1(blank)], 69 (i.e., 96), [4] ff. $2500.00 Early, expanded edition, following the first of 1550: An important and widely read account of Italy, written by a Dominican monk and Bolognese scholar who spoke at length about his home city in addition to the other major regions of the country. The Catholic Encyclopedia (1917) online notes that the work contains "many valuable topographical and archaeological observations." Nicely printed in italic type (without maps), the work has a good index. The separate title-page of vol. II gives Isole appartenenti alla Italia, dated 1576. Venice is treated here, as an island, not as part of "the mainland." Adams A475; Index Aurel. 102.349. Contemporary vellum, worn and darkened, lacking ties. Hinges (inside) with insect damage causing partial opening, text block starting to pull away from spine. Front free endpaper with two inked ownership inscriptions, one dated 1620 and one 1898. Small area of worming to upper inner margins of about 40 leaves, minor and not approaching text. Scattered instances of early inked underlining and a very few marginalia, pages otherwise pleasingly clean. Ready for many more years of use! (26501) 9) Ames, Evelyn. A glimpse of Eden. Boston: Hougton Mifflin Company, (1967). 8vo. [10 (3 blank)], 208, [6 (5 blank)] pp.; illus. $18.00 Second printing. Illustrated. Tourism in Africa. Publisher's illustrated green cloth. Near fine. (8015) 10) Anonymous. Poland. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1831. 12mo. xix, [1 (blank)], 324 pp. $50.00 From "The Cabinet Cyclopaedia" compiled and edited by Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859). From the sub-series "History." From circa 500 A.D. to 1830. Rev. Dionysius Lardner (1793–1859), a prolific science writer and extremely popular lecturer on science and technology who toured the U.S. from 1840 through 1845. Provenance: Bookplate of the Kensington Park Lending Library . Md-19th-century half green morocco with matching marbled paper sides and endpapers and marbling of all edges. Binding scuffed but attractive. (31108) 11) Anstey, Christopher. The new Bath guide: Or, memoirs of the B-n-r-d family. London: Wenman & Hodgson, 1794. 12mo. Frontis., xi, [1], 166, [2 (adv.)] pp. $75.00 "New edition" of Christopher Anstey's popular, good-humored "New Bath Guide," an epistolary poem originally published in 1766 and still in print today. ESTC T88326. Disbound, with some leaves separated. Frontispiece and several pages rubberstamped by a now-defunct institution; first and last few leaves showing imprint from pressure-stamps to now-absent covers. Scattered spots of foxing and staining. (17772)

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12) Aschner, Ernest; & Zachary Serwer. Journey to Israel; a pictorial guide. New York: Monde Publishers, Inc., 1956. Small folio. 128 pp., illus. $25.00 Foreword by Theodore R. McKeldin. With b/w photos throughout, endpaper maps. Publisher's illustrated boards, lightly rubbed, more so at top and bottom of spine. Good+. (24218) Very Crowded Beaches 13) J. C. Bardell (San Francisco, CA). Album: Bardell fototone miniatures: Long Beach [California]. [San Francisco: J. C. Bardell , copyright 1923]. 2.125" x 3.375". 20 photos. $20.00 Although the copyright on the album's case is 1923, the photos are certainly from the 1930s (e.g., the roller coaster on Silver Spray Pier is the "Cyclone Racer" which began operation in 1930). The views are of the beaches, civic buildings, downtown, and the oil field. A wonderful tourist souvenir. "Pub. for Pacific Novelty Co., San Francisco, Callif." (on one flap of the cardboard case). Provenance: Purchased by John Durham of the U.S.S. Arizona and mailed to Mrs. Cora Durham of Florence, NY. Photos are contained in their original cardboard case that could be used to mail them. Very good. (36620) See also #s 15 and 77 14) Bié, Madeliene. The Chateaux of the Loire. Paris: Jean Imbert, 1958. Small 4to. 95, [1] pp. $15.00 Color photos. Publisher's cloth. Covers sunned. Good +. (8031) 15) (Black Hills, SD). Album: Souvenir photo views, Black Hills, S. D. No place: No publisher/printer, ca. 1930s. 1.625" x 2.5". 19 (of 20?) photos. $20.00 These black and white photos bear no information as to the photographer or studio responsible but some closely resemble the work of the Fassbender Black Hills Studio. Images are of famous sites and indigenous fauna of the Black Hills. A wonderful tourist souvenir. Photos are contained in their original cardboard case that could be used to mail them. The "tongue" for closing the album is torn off but present. Very good. (36619) See also #s13 and 77 16) Borum, George E. Guide to the covered bridges of Parke County. Rockville, Ind.: Museum of Covered Bridges, 1971. Small 4to. [30] ff.; illus. $12.50 Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, drawings, tour maps of all four major routes and minitour maps. Original wrappers. Fine. (17088) The Ancient Catacombs, Illustrated 17) Bosio, Antonio; Paolo Aringhi, trans. & ed. Roma subterranea novissima, in qua antiqua christianorum et praecipue martyrum coemeteria, tituli, monimenta, epitaphia, inscriptiones, ac nobiliora sanctorum sepulchra... Arnhemiae: Apud Joan. Fridericum Hagium, 1671. 12mo (13.3 cm, 5.25"). Add. engr. t.-p., [22], 630, [30 (index)] pp.; 41 fold. plts., 11 plts. $1250.00 Early Christian archaeology: the catacombs of Rome, described and illustrated here in a conveniently portable, indexed, abridged edition of Aringhi's Latin translation and reworking of Bosio's great work. Bosio was the first dedicated, scholarly explorer of subterranean Rome, and spent most of his life pursuing archaeological work in the catacombs; the resulting treatise Roma Sotteranea was first published in 1632, three years after his death. Aringhi's Latin version first appeared in 1651, with Aringhi adding anti-Semitic and anti-Protestant commentary not present in the original text. Present here are => a total of 53 plates including an added engraved title-page, an oversized map of the catacombs, 40 tipped-in folding plates largely depicting sarcophagi, and 11 plates showing catacomb interiors, tombs, decorations, etc. There are also numerous in-text representations of grave inscriptions and their motifs. Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of the Charles Holbrook Library, Pacific School of Religion (properly released); back pastedown with California bookseller's small ticket. PRB&M

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Binding: Contemporary vellum, covers framed in gilt double fillets surrounding gilt-stamped book and castle motifs with cherubic supporters and foliate decorations, spine blind-tooled with castle decoration repeated. Cicognara 3586 (for 1651 & 1661 eds.); Graesse, I, 196. This ed. not in VD17 (see VD17 3:301944Y for 1668 Arnheim printing). Binding as above, front cover scraped with design all but completely effaced, front joint partially cracked, ties now lacking, spine darkened with lighter area where once was a paper shelving label (?) and with short crack at foot. Bookplate and ticket as above; front free endpaper and title-page rubber-stamped; back pastedown with affixed pencil-labelled corner pocket for card. First oversized folding plate with old repair along part of inner margin; one plate partially split at fold. One page with small ink drip in outer margin, touching but not obscuring one letter. Occasional small edge chips; a few lower outer corners torn away. => Evidently read and consulted (index of plates with pencilled tick marks), still eminently worthy of study, and a text with noteworthy, engaging illustrations. (36214) 18) Bottineau, Yves. Portugal. New York: The Studio Publications Inc. in association with T. Y. Crowell, (1957). 8vo. 280 pp.; illus. & map. $18.50 Illustrated. Map. Photos by Yan. Translated by Eric E. Smith. Publisher's cloth. Near fine. (8074) Greek Islands 19) Bradford, Ernle. The companion guide to the Greek Islands. New York: Harper & Row, (1963). 8vo. 288 pp.; illus. $10.00 First edition. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth. Near fine. (8042) 20) Bridge, Ann, & Susan Lowndes. The selective traveller in Portugal. London: Chatto & Windus, 1963. 8vo. x, 391, [3 (2 blank)] pp.; illus. & maps. $16.00 Later reprinting. First published in 1949; revised edition published in 1958. With 54 black-and-white photographs. Publisher's cloth. Ink writing on rear pastedown. Magazine cutout (a biography of the author) taped to the front free endpaper. Good-plus condition. (8077) 21) British Museum (London). A guide to the Department of Greek and Roman antiquities in the British Museum. London: Pr. by order of the Trustees, 1889. 8vo. vi, [2 (1 blank)], 198, [2 (1 blank)] pp.; 13 plts. & illus. $37.50 A room-by-room guide to the collection then on display. Profusely illustrated with maps, plans, drawings, and photographs. Original printed wrappers, soiled, spine cocked and torn at bottom, front wrapper chipped at top right corner and creased. First dozen leaves dog-eared and soiled in outer corners. Title-page mostly torn away, with loss. N.J.H.S. rubber-stamp on title-page. Most pages clean. Good. (9194) 22) Bruun, Bertel. The Hamlyn guide to birds of Britain and Europe. London & elsewhere: The Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1972. Small 8vo. 319, [1 (blank)] pp.; illus. $11.50 Reprint. With 516 color illustrations of birds by Arthur Singer and 448 maps. Bruce Campbell is the consultant editor. Paperback. Near fine. (5209) 23) Busch, Harald. Beautiful Bavaria. Frankfurt am Main: Umschau verlag, (1956). 8vo. Frontis., vii, [1 (blank)] pp., [79] ff.; illus. $15.00 Illustrated throughout with full-page photos, with captions. Publisher's cloth. Very good. (8017)

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He Found Himself Liking It 24) Carr, John. The stranger in Ireland: Or, a tour in the southern and western parts of that country, in the year 1805. Philadelphia: Samuel F. Bradford et al. (pr. by T. & G. Palmer), 1806. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). xi, [1], 168, *167/68, 169–339, [1 (blank)], 8 (adv.) pp.; 1 plt. $300.00 First American edition. Sir John Carr enjoyed a great deal of popular success with a series of accounts of his jaunts in Europe, but found himself the target of mockery after printing this Irish-themed sequel to the Stranger in France — Dubois's My Pocket Book, or Hints for a Right Merry and Conceited Tour satirized the Stranger in Ireland keenly enough that Carr filed suit (unsuccessfully) against the publishers. The U.S. edition does not include the hand-colored plate found in some British printings, but does have an oversized, folded chart of the weather in Dublin in 1804. An Englishman through and through, Carr seems sincerely to have liked Ireland and the Irish he met. His book is full of extended and very readable detail — some original, much quoted — on (e.g.) language matters and Irish poetry, Irish agriculture and industry, Irish management of charities, Irish "sights" and ruins, Irish marriage customs — and the implications of a potato-based diet. Provenance: Title-page with contemporary inked inscription reading "Tho.s Wynne. Shaw & Shoemaker 10096. On Carr, see: The Dictionary of National Biography. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped title-label; leather moderately rubbed, joints cracking and spine label dimmed. Title-page with owner's name as described above; title-page and one other stamped. Pages, except for central leaves, with waterstaining in lower margins; two pages with smeared spots of ink. (11960) "The Only Guide Book Sold on the Exhibition Grounds" 25) Centennial Board of Finance. Visitors' guide to the Centennial Exhibition and Philadelphia. May 10th to November 10th, 1876. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1875. 48 pp.; 2 maps. $48.50 Official guidebook for Philadelphia's Centennial Celebration, with engravings of significant buildings. One oversized, folding map of the exhibition grounds, in color and with various international flags; one black and white map of Philadelphia. Fair in printed paper wrappers, spine reinforced, chipping and wear around edges; text block separated but complete. Colored map with small tear at one folded corner and city map with closed tear along one fold, both repaired; "Philadelphia" inked in old-fashioned script to front cover; a few old pencillings. (784) 26) Cleveland (city). Cleveland official souvenir of the thirty-fifth national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. [Cleveland]: 1901. 8vo. [10 (4 blank)], frontis., 97, [5 (4 blank)] pp; illus. $40.00 Illustrated with numerous photographs of Cleveland's Civil War monuments. Original blue wrappers, with a decorated piece of paper in a central panel on the front cover. Cover edges slightly tattered, paper loss at bottom end of spine. Internally clean. Pressure stamp of the New Jersey Historical Society on one of the preliminary pages. About as near fine a copy as you can find. (4445) 27) Curtis, William, & Eugene Fodor. Fodor's Morocco 1969. New York: David McKay Company, (1969). Small 8vo. [12], 340 pp.; illus. & fold. map. $15.00 Illustrations, folding map. Publisher's cloth. Some marks in margins. Very good. (8059) Helpful Guide to Le Chat-Speak 28) De la Barbe, Henri [a.k.a. Henry Beard]. French for cats: All the French your cat will ever need. New York: John Boswell Associates, 1991. 12mo. [96] pp.; col. illus. $25.00 First edition: Everything the savvy cat might want to know how to say in the language of love (and, after reading this book, of hair balls). The text is illustrated in color and black-and-white by Gary Zamchick. Publisher's cream cloth, spine with title stamped in blue, in original dust jacket; wrapper with very faint traces of dust-soiling to outer edges. A nice copy, in giftable condition. (30446)

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Defoe's London, Illustrated 29) Defoe, Daniel. A tour thro' London about the year 1725 being letter V and parts of letter VI of 'A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain' containing a description of the city of London, as taking in the city of Westminster, borough of Southwark and parts of Middlesex. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1929. Folio (39 cm, 15.3"). xxi, [1], 115, [3] pp.; 3 fold. maps, 58 plts. $400.00 Handsome rendition of Defoe's text from the original edition (1724–1726), here edited and annotated by Sir Mayson M. Beeton and E. Beresford Chancellor. The volume is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait done after the 1706 engraving by Van der Gucht, a variety of maps "specially drawn to delineate the London of Defoe's time and his circuit thereof," and "reproductions of drawings, maps, and prints mostly contemporary with the period of [Defoe's] life." The letterpress was composed and printed at the Westminster Press, the photogravure plates engraved and hand-printed by A. Alexander & Sons Ltd., and the collotype plates printed at the Chiswick Press, on Basingwerk parchment paper. This is => one of 350 copies printed, of which only 300 were for sale. Binding: Publisher's brown cloth in remarkably convincing (and therefore rather interesting) imitation of a Cambridge calf binding, covers framed and panelled in gilt double fillets with scalloped gilt roll and gilt-stamped corner fleurons. Spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels. Provenance: Front pastedown with skull and "What Do We Know" bookplate of Dr. Charles W. Burr, the first Chair of Mental Diseases at the University of Pennsylvania. Bound as above, slipcase lacking; joints, extremities, and spine bands rubbed, spine slightly darkened. Pages and plates clean. (33617) 30) Devon, Stanley. The Royal Canadian tour. The complete pictorial study. London: Pitkin Pictorials Ltd., n.d. [ca. 1951]. 8vo. [45] ff.; illus. $12.50 An eye-witness account (with photos on every page) of the Canadian tour of Princess Elizabeth and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, in 1951. Published in association with the daily graphic. Publisher's cloth, gilt-stamped on the front. A bit sunned on the spine and near the edges. Small chip at top end of spine. No dust jacket. Very good. (5848) 31) Dollero, Adolfo. Il Messico d'oggi. Note ed impressioni di viaggio dell'autore durante quindici anni di residenza, poste a giorno degli ultimi avvenimenti svoltisi nella repubblica. Con 300 illustrazioni e una carta itineraria. Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1914. Tall 8vo. xii, 909 pp. Illus. (no map). $70.00 State by state tour, based on 15 years of residence in Mexico: people, history, commerce, agriculture, etc. Appendix has information, again state by state, on business, hotels, etc. Final chapter on the early events and personalities of the Revolution. Contemporary tan cloth with dark brown spine label. Lacks the map, but still a very good copy. (30770) Russia 32) Dvinsky, E. Moscow, a tourist's companion. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1969. Small 8vo. 273, [3 (2 blank)] pp.; illus. $8.00 First printing. Illustrated. Publisher's wrappers. Very good. (8081) 33) Dwight, Theodore; & Henry Dilworth Gilpin. The northern traveller, and northern tour wih the routes to the Springs, Niagra, and Quebec, and the coal mines of Pennsylvania; also, the tour of NewEngland. Eembellished with thirty-two copperplate engravings. New York: Printed by J. and J. Harper, 82 Cliff St. Sold by Collins & Hannay .., 1830. 12mo. Engr. frontis., engr. title, 444 p., 25 of 28 leaves of plates (views and maps); lacking 3 maps. $100.00 "Fourth edition, revised and extended." Based on The Northern Traveller, by Theodore Dwight, Jr., originally published separately in New York in 1825; and Northern Tour, by Henry D. Gilpin, also published separately in New York in 1825. PRB&M

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Views of the northeast — with commentary. Theodore Dwight (1796–1866) was a widely travelling polymath who spent much of his time promoting Americanism, republicanism, and Protestantism in Catholic countries. He wrote a number of travel guides, anti-Catholic propaganda, works on education, and philological works, and was entrusted by Garibaldi with publishing his autobiography in the U.S. By contrast, Gilpin was a quiet Quaker who travelled extensively and was a trusted lawyer. Here the authors give an overview of the natural scenery of much of the northeastern United States and a corner of Canada, intermixed with commentary on the life and manners of the people. Several of the plates were engraved by Peter Maverick. American Imprints 1218. See Sabin 55832. Publisher's quarter red roan in imitation of morocco; gilt spine; marbled paper sides. Binding worn; bottom of spine abraded; top of front joint (outside) starting. Lacks three of the maps. Age-toning and light foxing. Front endpapers sooty at fore-edges. (28048) 34) Etienne de Jouy, Victor Joseph. L'Hermite de Londres, ou Observations sur les moeurs et usages des anglais au commencement du XIXe siècle, faisant suite a la collection des moeurs françaises par M. de Jouy. Bruxelles: Aug. Wahlen, 1821. 12mo. 2 vols. I: Frontis., [2], 300 pp.; fold. plt. II: Frontis., [2], 287 pp.; fold. plt. $80.00 Vols. I and II (of III), only. Description of the topography and social life of London. Authorship variously attributed to Felix MacDonough and Thomas Skinner Surr, translated by Auguste Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret. Both volumes illustrated with a frontispiece engraving and a folding plan of London flanked on each side by three small engravings of important London structures. Scarce title: OCLC locates only four holdings with this imprint. NSTC 2LON6957. Rebound in full black cloth, plain style, but vol. II put on upside down; spine giltstamped with title, author, and volume number; marbled endpapers. Ex-library, with bookplate at front pastedown. Folding plan of vol. I with scrape affecting just a bit of illustration and paper repair along one fold at back (blank) side. Marginal tear to pp. 45–46 of vol. I and pp. 245–246 of vol. II; chip to title-page and pp. 162–163 of vol. II; page repair to pp. 211–212 of vol. II with loss of three or four letters on p. 212. Printing error on title-page of vol. II, with "tome premier" crossed out in ink by an early owner who supplied "tome second [sic]" in ink below it. Light stains. Despite flaws, a nice copy. (14285) Fodor's Modern Guides 35) Fodor, Eugene, ed. Austria 1966. Illustrated edition with atlas and city plans. London: MacGibbon & Kee, Ltd., (1966). 12mo. x, [2], 394, [16] pp.; illus. & maps. $12.00 In "Fodor's Modern Guides" series. With illustrations, 1 16-page four-color road map, and ads for restaurants, hotels, etcetera. Dated, but interesting. Publisher's cloth. Gilt bright. Fine. (8019) France 36) Fodor, Eugene. Fodor's France 1970. New York: David McKay Company, 1970. Small 8vo. x, [2], 468, [16] pp.; illus. & maps. $8.00 Publisher's cloth. Near fine. (8032) Greece 37) Fodor, Eugene. Fodor's Greece 1964. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1970. Small 8vo. ix, [3], 328, [8] pp.; illus. & maps. $8.00 Publisher's cloth. Near fine. (8040) Italy 38) Fodor, Eugene. Fodor's Italy 1966. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1966. Small 8vo. ix, [3 (2 blank)], 432, [16] pp.; illus. & maps. $8.50 Publisher's cloth. Spine slightly sun-faded. A very good copy. (8049)

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39) Furtado, Peter, ed. The ordnance survey guide to castles in Britain. W. W. Norton & Company, 1987. Small 8vo. 255, [1] pp.; illus. $15.00 First American edition. Color photos and maps. Publisher's illustrated wrappers. Fine. (8039) 40) Furtado, Peter, ed. The ordnance survey guide to gardens in Britain. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1986. Small 8vo. 320 pp.; illus. $15.00 First American edition. Color photos and maps. Publisher's illustrated wrappers. Near fine. (8037) 41) Furtado, Peter, ed. The ordnance survey guide to historic houses in Britain. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1987. Small 8vo. 320 pp.; illus. $15.00 First American edition. Color photos and maps. Publisher's illustrated wrappers. Near fine. (8038) Gilt Mosaic Binding 42) [Gavard, Charles]. Souvenir d'une promenade a Versailles. Paris: au Bureau des Galeries Historiques de Versailles, [ca. 1850–55]. Folio (36.5 cm; 14.5"). [6] ff., 50 leaves of plates. $600.00 One of several works with the identical title but from different publishers and with different contents! The present volume contains engravings after paintings in the palace's "Galeries Historiques": the engravers include Leroux, Masson, Thomas, Nargoot, Rebel, Frilley, and many others. Curiously, many engravings bear a faint line of identification reading "Diagraphe et Pantographe Gavard" and they have non-sequential numbering, meaning the images from this source could be and were recombined to form a wide variety of souvenir albums. In this copy all plates are guarded by sheets of heavy paper stock. Binding: In the style of a percaline mosaïquée, but the gilt and mosaic are applied to a textured pebbled cloth. Spine gilt extra with added "mosaic" of green, white, red and blue. Front cover with a blindstamped border incorporating elegant corner-pieces; within this, "Souvenir de Versailles" gilt-stamped in an arc above a large on-laid crowned coat of arms flanked by banners and flags, this embellished in gilt with rich use of blue, white, red, blue, and green. Rear cover with similar blind-stamped border and a different large gilt-stamped center device strikingly incorporating an on-lay of blue stamped in gilt with a military medal. All edges gilt. On this type of binding, see: Morris & Levin, The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings, pp. 94–97. Binding as above, rubbed to the underlying boards at the corners of the boards and top of spine slightly pulled with one bit of rubbing. Scattered pale brown stains mostly on interleaves and sometimes visible on versos of plates; some discoloration in some margins of plates and occasionally into one; overwhelmingly a clean copy, remarkably bright and unfoxed. A strong and nice example of this category of "souvenir" and of a gilt mosaic binding. (30464) A Tour of French Colonial Africa 43) Gide, André. Travels in the Congo. New York: Modern Age Books, Inc., 1937. 12mo. [12], 305, [4] pp. $30.00 "Red Seal" paperback edition of this classic travelogue, translated from the original French by Dorothy Bussy. Publisher's printed paper wrappers, in original printed dust wrapper; dust wrapper partially split along front outer fold and nicked at corners. Pages age-toned. (28931) 44) Gilman, Caroline Howard. The poetry of travelling in the United States. New York: S. Colman, 1838. 12mo. [10], 430 pp. $60.00 First edition, comprising "Notes of a Northern Excursion," "Southern Local Sketches," and "Extracts from a Private Journal Kept on a Tour from Charleston to New-York": a Boston-born, South Carolinadwelling popular author's accounts of her travels up and down the East Coast and throughout the South, interspersed with poetic meditations including "The West-Point Eagle," "The Released Convict's Cell" PRB&M

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(inspired by the Philadelphia Penitentiary), "The Faeries' Song" (dedicated to the Ladies' Archery Club, which practiced on Fairy Isle in the Hudson River), and "The Plantation on Ashley River." The volume closes with the Rev. S. Gilman's "A Week among Autographs." Sabin 27429; Howes G183; Clark, Travels in the Old South, III, 166; American Imprints 50502. Contemporary sheep, rubbed, spine sueded and cracked with label now absent, front joint starting from head. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpapers, title-page pressure-stamped, no other markings. Back free endpaper excised. Occasional lightly pencilled annotations and marks of emphasis; intermittent mild to moderate staining. One outer corner torn away, without loss of text. (29786) 45) Gray, Albert Zabriskie. Mexico as it is. Being notes of a recent tour in that country with some practical information for travellers in that direction, as also some study of the church question. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1878. Small 8vo. Frontis., [7], 10–148 pp.; illus. $38.50 Publisher's light-blue cloth. Binding somewhat soiled and cloth of spine a bit frayed at head and base. Ex-library with paper shelf label on spine, rubber-stamp on front pastedown, and three-digit number on verso of title-page and on dedication leaf. Very good. (19324) 46) Hare, Augustus J. C. Wanderings in Spain. London: Daldy, Isbister, & Co., 1878. 8vo. Frontis., xxi, [5], 274, [2] pp.; 17 plts. (incl. frontis.). $90.00 Third edition. Publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt on the spine; spine with paper call label. Rubber-stamped on the front pastedown by the Maryland [Episcopal] Diocesan Library. A librarian's pencilled notations on verso of title-page and front pastedown; no other markings. Frontispiece (with tissue guard) and title-page separated from binding; fore-edge of title-page with several small chips and tears. (19081) 47) Hare, Augustus J.C., & St.Clair Baddeley. Florence. Seventh edition. London: George Allen & Sons, 1907. 8vo. viii, 310, 10 (adv.) pp.; double-spread map. $20.00 Seventh, revised edition. Publisher's black cloth, front cover and spine stamped in orange and gilt, cloth lightly rubbed over sides and extremities. Front pastedown with Florence bookseller's ticket, reverse of one half of map with inked owner's name, half-title with pencilled ownership inscription. Pages slightly age-toned. (14433) 48) Hare, Augustus J.C., & St.Clair Baddeley. Florence. Sixth edition. London: George Allen & Sons, 1904. 8vo. viii, 310, [2(adv.)] pp.; double-spread map. $20.00 Sixth, revised edition. Publisher's black cloth, front cover and spine stamped in orange and gilt, cloth lightly rubbed over sides and extremities. Front free endpaper with Florence bookseller's ticket; half-title and title-page with inked inscriptions, the latter dated [19]05. Pages slightly age-toned, some corners dog-eared. (14435) 49) Hare, Augustus J.C., & St.Clair Baddeley. Venice. Sixth edition (revised). London: George Allen, 1904. 8vo. Frontis., [8], 227, [1], 10 (adv.) pp.; 1 double map, illus. $20.00 Sixth, revised edition. Publisher's black cloth, front cover and spine stamped in red and gilt; cloth lightly rubbed over sides and edges. Half-title with inked inscription in Italian; title-page with inked owner's name and with Venetian bookseller's ticket. Pages gently age-toned. (14434) 50) Headlam, Cecil. Mediaeval towns: the story of Chartres. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1902. Small 8vo. [2], frontis., (v)–xi, [1 (blank)], 361, [1] pp.; illus. $15.00 Illustrated. Publisher's cloth. Covers buckling. Spine soiled. Good +. (8034) 51) Hibbert, Christopher. Venice: the biography of a city. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989. Tall 8vo. [12], 435, [1 (blank)] pp.; illus. $40.00 PRB&M

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First American edition. Part guide book and part history book. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Publisher's cloth. Fine copy, with a near fine dust jacket. (8090) York 52) Horton, R. W. The city of York. London: Pitkin Periodicals, Ltd., 1978. 8vo. 24 pp.; illus. From the "Pitkin Pride of Britain Books" series. With color photographs. Publisher's wrappers. Fine. (8092)

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O'Brien's "Proinnsías Ó Bríain" bookplate; title-page also with O'Brien inscription and rubber-stamp of another family member. Coats of arms annotated in ink by O'Brien. Publisher's deep red textured cloth in imitation of morocco, front cover with gilt-stamped vignette of a woman playing a harp accompanied by a large dog, spine with gilt-stamped title and decorations; binding dimmed overall, minor rubbing to extremities, small spots of light discoloration to front cover and spine, small nick to back outer edge. All edges marbled. Binding slightly shaken (predictably so for such a massive volume), still very readably solid. Hinges (inside) reinforced with green cloth tape, possibly done at time of binding. Inked annotations as above. Last few leaves with mild waterstaining in upper and lower portions; one page with light offsetting from laid-in clipping; plates and most pages clean. (30056) Africa 57) Kane, Robert. Africa A to Z. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. 8vo. 408 pp.; illus. $10.00 First edition. Endpaper maps. Black and white photos. Publisher's cloth. Front cover slightly soiled. Very good, in mylar. (8014) China 58) Keijzer, Arne J. de, & Frederic M. Kaplan. China guidebook 1980/81 edition. New York: Lippincott & Crowell (Eurasia Press), 1980. Small 8vo. xviii, 446 pp.; illus. $7.00 Second edition. First edition published in 1979. With maps. Publisher's wrappers. Very good condition. (8022) 59) King, Daniel, & Thomas Hughes, ed. The Vale Royal of England, or, the county palatine of Chester illustrated. London: John Gray Bell, 1852. 8vo. 165, [1], 8 pp.; 3 plts. (1 fold.), fold. map, illus. $40.00 Sole edition of this travel and historical guide to Chester, England. According to the title-page, "abridged and revised with notes, historical and explanatory." Illustrated with title-page vignette, three plates (one folding), folding map of the town during the siege, and in-text illustrations. NSTC 2H35432. Publisher's blue textured cloth, spine with gilt title, author, and editor. Small chip to spine at head. Front hinge (inside) separated from text block. Bookplate. Rubber-stamps. Chip at fore-edge of one page. Mild foxing. (14194) 60) Kipling, Rudyard. Souvenirs of France I [with] Souvenirs of France II. Garden City: Doubleday, 1933. 2 vols. $225.00 First edition in book form of these sketches first published in LA REVUE DES DEUX MONDES and the DAILY MAIL. STEWART 600. Cream wrappers, printed in green. Fine, in plain folding cloth case. (6273) A Book Lover's Tour of England, Scotland, & Wales 61) Lewis, Roy Harley. The book browser's guide: Britain's secondhand and antiquarian bookshops. Newton Abbot & North Pomfret, VT: David & Charles, © 1975. 8vo. 184 pp.; illus. $40.00 At this point — nostalgia! Publisher's cream-colored boards in original dust wrapper, cream-colored portions of jacket slightly darkened, otherwise showing only minimal shelfwear. A clean, solid copy. (30365) Scholarly Highlights of Southern Germany, Plus Great Universities of Medieval Europe 62) Mabillon, Jean; & Jean de Launoy. ... Iter Germanicum et Io. Launoii De scholis celebribus a Carolo M. et post Carolum M. in Occidente instauratis liber.... Hamburgi: Christiani Liebezeit, 1717. 8vo (17.5 cm, 6.9"). Frontis., [22], 103, [1], 507, [5] pp. $900.00 Attractive edition of this literary and antiquarian tour of the Swabia, Helvetia, and Bavaria regions of Germany, written by a well-travelled Benedictine monk acclaimed for his scholarship. Originally published in 1683, the Iter Germanicum is here introduced by Joannes Albertus Fabricius and accompanied PRB&M

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by an important treatise on European universities since the time of Charlemagne, by French historian Jean de Launoy (Joannes Launoius). An engraved frontispiece of Ptolemy done by Menzel opens the volume; the main title-page is printed in red and black, with an engraved allegorical vignette. Provenance: Title-page verso with intaglio-printed armorial ex libris, printed directly on the leaf (not a bookplate that was glued on): "Ex Bibliotheca Friederici Roth-Scholtzii." Friedrich Roth-Scholtz (1687–1736) was a prominent Nuremberg printer and publisher, as well as the author of Icones bibliopolarum et typographorum de republica litteraria and the Bibliotheca chemica; there are several reported examples of such bookplates in his books. Recent quarter calf and speckled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped author, title, place, date and gilt-ruled raised bands. Volume a little cocked. Endpapers soiled; some pages with mild offsetting, and text otherwise clean. (25490) Villa Benedetta in Words — A Copy of a RARITY for a Reader 63) Mayer, Matteo. Villa Benedetta. Roma: Per il Mascardi, 1677. 12mo (14.5 cm; 5.75"). 127, [1 (blank) pp. Lacks the 3 leaves of plates. $300.00 First of three editions of Mayer’s architectural description of the Villa Benedetta in Rome. The format suggests that the volume was written for the tourist travelling "to see the sights." WorldCat locates only two copies of this edition. Recent marbled paper-covered boards with leather spine label. Without the plates; light age-toning. (26145) 64) Michener, James. Iberia. New York: Random House, (1968). 8vo. [10 (2 blank)], 818 pp.; illus. $25.00 History Book Club edition. Publisher's cloth. Near fine. (8085) 65) Morris, James. The world of Venice. [New York]: Pantheon Books, (1960). 8vo. 337, [1 (blank)] pp.; illus. $20.00 Illustrated. Endpaper map. Publisher's cloth. Near fine. (8089) 66) Morse, Victor. Windham County's famous covered bridges. Brattleboro, Vermont: The Book Cellar, 1960. 8vo. 43, [1] pp.; illus. $16.00 An illustrated survey of the covered bridges of Windham County, Vermont. Revised and with an introduction by Richard Sanders Allen. Signed by the author and Mr. Allen on the title-page. Original illustrated wrappers. Previous owner's bookplate on inside of front wrapper. Near fine. (7269) 67) Ogrizek, Doré. The world in colour: Greece. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Ltd., (1955). Small 8vo. 416 pp.; illus. $15.00 Illustrated, some in color. Publisher's cloth. Spine sunned. Very good. (8041) 68) Oneida Community. Oneida Community: 1848-1901. [Oneida, N.Y.?: Oneida Ltd.?], 1901. 8vo. 20 pp.. illus., ports. $75.00 History of the community and its silversmithing. Laid in is a fan-fold brochure advertising PanAmerican souvenir spoons, can goods, other products. In paper wrappers, darkened. One panel of the fan-fold is separated, else both are very good to excellent. (34355)

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One of the Earliest Presbyterian Missionaries in Oregon An Early ACCURATE Map of Oregon's Interior 69) Parker, Samuel. Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains, under the direction of the A.B.C.F.M. in the years 1835, '36, and '37. Ithaca, NY: Mack, Andrus, & Woodruff., 1842. 12vo (20 cm, 7.9"). 408 pp.; 1 map, 1 plt. $650.00 Third edition: "A description of the geography, geology, climate, productions of the country, and the numbers, manners, and customs of the natives." The Rev. Samuel Parker (1779–1866) accompanied a furtrading party west into what was then known as either Oregon Country or the Columbia District, under the sponsorship of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Here he describes the voyage (including a brief mention of the Mormons in Missouri), the region's natural history, and the degrees of interest in Christianity expressed by the Native Americans his party encountered — which last was his primary focus. The volume opens with an => oversized, folding map, engraved by M.M. Peabody, which Graff describes as "the earliest map of the Oregon interior with a pretense to accuracy"; includes an account of Parker's => voyage to Hawaii and Tahiti; and closes with a => vocabulary of Indian languages (Nez Perce, Klicatat, Calapooa, and Chenook). The plate depicts "Basaltic Formations on the Columbia River." Flake & Draper, Mormon Bibliography, 6100; Graff 3193; Hill, Collection of Pacific Voyages, 1306; Howes P89; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 2907; Sabin 58729; Wagner-Camp, Plains & Rockies, 70:3. Publisher's charcoal-colored ribbed cloth, covers with blind-stamped arabesque frame, spine with gilt-stamped title; cloth chipped at spine extremities and front joint, corners rubbed. Mild to moderate foxing. Map with faint spotting, a pinpoint hole at one corner, and one very short tear from inner edge; foxing and soiling, never dark/nasty but present throughout. A comfortably solid copy. (29273) 70) Parker, W. H. Historical souvenir programme of New York Columbian Celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, October 14, 1892. New York: Publication Office, 1892]. 8vo. 34 pp.; illus., [2] ff. of ads. $45.00 Interspersed with many advertisements, including two leaves not included in pagination. An uncommon item: OCLC lists only one holding (at the N. J. Historical Society Library). Original illustrated wrappers, rebacked with cloth tape, wrappers moderately soiled. Pencilled signature at top of title-page. Overall, very good. (10316) 71) Paxson, Henry D. Washington Crossing. Brief itinerary of a trip from Philadelphia to Washington Crossing and other points of historic interest in Bucks County Pennsylvania. [Philadelphia]: Washington Crossing Park Commission of Pennsylvania, 1926. 8vo. 55, [1] pp.; illus. & fold. map. $25.00 Inscribed on the front (blank) page: "Presented to Mr. Philip H. Waddell Smith with the compliments of C. E. Godfrey[,] April 27, 1934." Illustrated with photographs. Includes a folding map in the back. Original illustrated wrappers. Covers creased a bit near edges, lightly chipped on spine, and with a few very short tears. Map near fine. Very good. (7282) A Treasure Trove of Information Historical *&* Commercial — BATH, 1884 72) Peach, R. E. Historic houses In Bath and their associations. [Second Series]. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; & Bath: R. E. Peach, 1884. Square 4to (22 cm; 8.75"). Frontis., [2] ff., 158 pp., [11 (ads)] ff. $45.00 Brimming with information on literary and other association information. Old Manor House (Claverton) and Kingston House (Bradford-on-Avon) are illustrated, the latter by a => tipped-in photograph. The eleven leaves of advertisements at the rear are entirely for businesses in Bath. Binding: Publisher's brown cloth, gilt-and black-stamped. A little spotting, a little shaken; a good++ copy. (34001) 73) Peeters, Eugene. Do you know Belgium? Translated by Vernon Mallinson. Brussels: Lumière Publishing Company, [1948]. 4to. [85] ff.; illus. $18.00 PRB&M

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First edition. Lots of photographs of how Belgium looked then. Publisher's quarter cloth. Very good condition, no dust jacket. (8020) 74) Porter, E.G. & H.M. Stephenson. Souvenir of 1775. 1775--Lexington--1875. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., c. 1875. 8vo. 16 pp.; illus. $65.00 History, with numerous woodcuts, printed at the behest of the Lexington Centennial Committee. In printed paper wrappers, chipped at corners and over spine. Text separated from wrappers. (732) 75) Prolix, Peregrine [pseud. of Philip Houlbrooke Nicklin]. A pleasant peregrination through the prettiest parts of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Gregg & Elliott, 1836. 16mo. xv, [17]–148 pp. $40.00 Sole edition. A native Philadelphian's account, in a series of 12 letters, of his leisurely tour through Pennsylvania in July and August of 1835. Nicklin writes for an English audience, describing the roads, rivers, canals, countryside, modes of travel, lodgings, and various locales, including Philadelphia, Lancaster, Bedford Springs, and Pittsburgh. Sabin 55237; NSTC 2P27562. 19th-century library quarter cloth over marbled paper sides, with front cover lacking and spine chipped at head and foot. Ink signature of a previous owner at top margin of titlepage and author's name inked just below the pseudonym. Light foxing. Several pages with edge nicks or tears. Ex-library, with the name of a now-defunct library blind-stamped on cover, librarian's notation on title-page, and several pages with rubber-stamps. (14527) 76) Reichard, M. A descriptive road-book of France; ... together with particular descriptions of Bordeaux, the bathing places of the Pyrenees, Toulouse, Marseille, Lyons, the navigation of the Rhone, from Lyons to Avignon, and other places in the south of France. London: Samuel Leigh, and Baldwin & Cradock (Pr. by W. Clowes), 1829. 16mo. [2], 565, [1] pp. (lacks maps & plans). $75.00 "New edition, entirely re-written. With numerous additions from the notes of recent tourists." NSTC 2R5770. Rebound in later brown cloth. Edges stained red. Bookplate. Rubber-stamps. Lacks illustrations. Very good. (14152) Black Hills, South Dakota 77) Rise Studio (Rapid City, S.D.). Album: Souvenir photographs of Black Hills, So. Dak. Chicago: Process Photo Studios, ca. 1930s. 1.625" x 2.5". 20 photos. $20.00 Most of these black and white photos are bear copyright of "Rise Studio" and the album was "made expressly for The Rise Studio, Rapid City, So. Dak." Images are of famous sites and indigenous fauna of the Black Hills. A wonderful tourist souvenir. Photos are contained in their original cardboard case that could be used to mail them. Very good. (36618) See also #s 13 and 15. 78) Rodriguez, Mario, & Vincent C. Peloso. A guide for the study of culture in Central America. (Humanities and Social Sciences). Washington: Pan American Union, 1968. Small folio. 88 pp. $10.00 Bibliography of reference works, and books and articles arranged by subject and country. The fifth title in the "Basic Bibliographies" series. Original wrappers; light soiling, tear at bottom of spine. Pages clean. (12794) 79) Rudofsky, Bernard. The kimono mind: An informal guide to Japan and the Japanese. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1965. 8vo. Illus. $15.00 First trade edition, later issue. Now rather quaint! Publisher's cloth. Good condition; spine sunned, cloth dusty. (6742) 80) Salem (Mass.). Board of Park Commissioners. A reference guide to Salem, 1630. Forest River Park. Salem, Massachusetts. [Salem, Mass.: Board of Park Commissioners, 1935]. 8vo. 52 pp.; illus. $7.50 Revised and enlarged edition. First published in 1930 under the title _Massachusetts Bay tercentenary: guide to Salem, 1630_. PRB&M

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Original wrappers. Pencilled shelf number on front wrapper. Near fine. (17344) 81) Selous, Henry Courtney. Selous' two grand pictures of Jerusalem. Boston : Elliot, Blakeslee & Noyes, [1872]. Small 4to. 23, [9] pp., 2 leaves of plates. $75.00 Originally published in New York by H.W. Derby in 1872; this copy with a pasteover giving the above publication information, but it is clearly the Derby printing. This is the souvenir booklet one could purchase during the exhibition of the paintings. Original printed wrappers. Some leaves loose. Good copy. (34368) 82) Sepúlveda, Ricardo. Madrid viejo: cronicas, avisos, costumbres, leyendas y descripciones de la villa y corte en los siglos pasados. Madrid: Librería de Fernando, 1888. 12mo. xxviii, 472 pp., [2] ff., plates. $70.00 Second edition, following the first of the previous year. "Con un prólogo de Pérez de Guzmán y cuatro palabras de Julio Monreal," with illustrations by Comba and photogravures by Thomas. An interesting account of manners, customs, social life, and general "travel" information about Madrid, historically and contemporaneously. Evidence of readership: a reader has marked the text where there are passages relating to his/her interest in gastronomy, Catholicism, commerce, inns, industry, and a few other topics; all of which he/she has indexed on the preliminary blank leaves. Provenance: Bookplate and stamp of Miguel Capella. Curiously printed on two different paper stocks, one very acidic. Mid-20th-century marbled brown calf. A good++ copy. (34871) 83) Sichel, Peter M.; & Judy Ley. Which wine? The wine drinker's buying guide. New York & elsewhere: Harper & Row, 1975. 8vo. xii, 276 pp.; illus. $22.00 First edition. What you need to know to purchase wine, with specific wine recommendations categorized by wine-types and price. Also, with a chapter on enjoying wine with food. With a brief article about the authors cut out from a magazine, fastened to the rear free endpaper with a paper clip. Illustrated. Publisher's tan cloth. Some discoloration to binding. Pages clean. No dust jacket. Near fine. (5217) 84) Simon, Kate. Rome: places and pleasures. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. 8vo. xv, [1 (blank)], 442, xvii, [3 (2 blank)] pp.; illus. & maps. $15.00 Walking tours of Rome. First edition. Endpaper map. Publisher's cloth. No dust jacket. Fine, in mylar. (8078) 85) Sitwell, Sacheverell. Spain. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., (1955). 8vo. xii, 148 pp.; illus. Fourth printing. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth. Spine somewhat sun-faded. Very good. (8084)

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86) Steegman, John. Cambridge: As it was, as it is to-day. London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1941–2. 8vo. Frontis., vii, 120 pp.; illus. $25.00 Second revised edition. First edition published in 1940. Illustrated and with maps serving as endpapers. Publisher's cloth. Just a bit of foxing inside. No dust jacket. Very good condition. (8016) An English Quaker Merchant Tours the U.S. 87) Sutcliff, Robert. Travels in some parts of North America, in the years 1804, 1805, & 1806. Philadelphia: B. & T. Kite, 1812. 12mo (17.7 cm, 6.9"). ix, [1], 289, [1] pp.; 1 fold. plt. $375.00 First U.S. edition, following the first U.K. edition of the previous year: A Quaker merchant's account of his experiences in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. Sutcliff, a manufacturer and dealer of cutlery, hailed from Sheffield, England; he travelled extensively in the United States for business, visiting Friends and meetinghouses almost everywhere he went. He did not originally intend this travelogue for publication, which is reflected in the sometimes casual descriptions of socializing PRB&M

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with friends and relatives — but a great deal of substance is recorded here, including Sutcliff's thoughts on the then under-construction capitol, the state of both free and enslaved blacks (the writer is dismayed by the persistence of slavery in the U.S., and by its effects), American Quaker practices, Native American daily life as he witnessed it firsthand in New York state and elsewhere, various aspects of farming and commerce, and such small oddities as "children of five or six years of age . . . in their boots, smoking segars" (p. 88). The volume opens with an attractive oversized, folding => steel-engraved view of Niagara Falls, done by T.S. Woodcock after a painting by T. Cole. Howes S1145; NSTC S4417; Sabin 93943; Shaw & Shoemaker 26833. Contemporary tree sheep, recently rebacked with speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; original leather rubbed with edges chipped, new endpapers. Mild to moderate age-toning and foxing throughout; title-page with inner margin repaired; three leaves with a lower corner or bit of margin torn away without approach to text. Scattered instances of early pencilled underlining and annotations. => Interesting, sensitive observations from a writer concerned with both commercial and spiritual elements of life in the States; here in a very solid copy with the plate in beautiful condition. (36315) 88) Swanson, Leslie C. Covered bridges in Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. Moline, Ill.: Leslie C. Swanson, [1960]. 8vo. 40 pp.; illus. $16.00 A pamphlet on the old covered bridges in the Midwest, focusing on those still standing (as of the date of publication). Directions to some of the most picturesque sites are provided here. With 26 illustrations. Stapled, in original illustrated wrappers. Ownership bookplate of William T. Gotelli on inside of front cover. Lightly creased in bottom corners. Very good. (7035) 89) Sweetser, M. F., & Simeon Ford. How to know New York City. A serviceable and trustworthy guide, having its starting point at the Grand Union Hotel, just across the street from the Grand Central Depot. New York: Press of J. J. Little & Co., 1898. 16mo. 120 pp.; illus. (lacks map). $80.00 12th edition. Illustrated guidebook to New York City, revised to January 1, 1898. With ads for the Grand Union Hotel. Original illustrated front wrapper, soiled, loose, and slightly chipped (without loss of printing or illustration), back wrapper missing. One instance of a blue crayon line drawn across page (without obscuring text), several instances of pencilling, and one marginal tear. Otherwise, pages clean and without chips or tears. Lacks map. (9940) 90) Tabor, Margaret. The city churches: a short guide with illustrations and maps. London: The Swarthmore Press, [1919]. Small 8vo. Frontis., 134, [1] pp.; 15 plts. & 2 fold. maps. $25.00 Stated third impression. First edition was 1917. Architectural history of the churches of London. Publisher's brown paper-covered boards, with paper title labels on spine and front cover. Spine chipped at head, spine label slightly chipped along edges. Front (blank) pages torn at top edge. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Ex-library with white-lettered call number on spine. (21111) An Insider's Guide to Bath 91) Tunstall, James. Rambles about Bath and its neighbourhood. Bath: R.E. Peach, 1856. 12mo (17.5 cm; 7"). Frontis., viii pp., [1] f., 304 pp., 13 plts, fold. map, illus. $150.00 Tunstall was a => Bath booster big-time. A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, he was physician to the Eastern Dispensary of Bath and seven years resident medical officer of the Bath Hospital; his guide book to his city first appeared in 1847, with subsequent editions in 1848, 1851, 1856, 1876, 1888, 1889, and 1900. Besides the locale's follies, Roman ruins, chapels, farms, overlooks, etc., he offers considerable information on the hospitals, baths, and healing wells. This would have been => a definite must for hydrotherapy and other tourists. Nicely illustrated, it bears a great map. Provenance: Ownership signature of Mrs. Edward Brown, Belmont House, 1884. (This may well be the Mr. & Mrs. E. Brown whose "Belmont House" dates from ca. 1880 and is located in Browns Cove, Albemarle County, VA). PRB&M

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Publisher's green cloth, stamped in blind on covers and lettered in gilt on spine; text clean. A nice copy. (33529) 92) Tweedy, Mary Johnson. Bermuda holiday. New York: Crown Publishers, 1954. 16mo. 162 pp.; illus. $15.00 "New revised edition." Fifth printing. An American expatriate's guide on things to do and see in Bermuda. Illustrated with maps, color plates, and 70 photographs; endpapers illustrated with maps. Dated, but still enjoyable. Publisher's cloth. Illustrated dust jacket lightly spotted and soiled, and with a small piece chipped out of lower edge of the front. Fine, in a good+ dust jacket. (7085) 93) United States. 88th Congress. 2nd Session. Compilation of works of art and other objects in the United States Capitol. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1965. 4to. xxiv, 426, [2 (1 blank)] pp.; illus. $45.00 House Document number 362 of the second sessions of the 88th Congress. A complete guide to all the art in the Capitol (at the time of publication). With accompanying illustrations and information concerning the location of each object, the date of acquisition, and the names of the respective painters and sculptors. Prepared by the architect of the Capitol under the direction of the Joint Committee on the library. Richly illustrated. Publisher's buckram, gilt-stamped on the front cover and on a red leather label on the spine. A clean and crisp copy. Fine. (5096) 94) United States. Grand Army of the Republic. A glimpse of Washington in 1892 with pictorial recollections of some of the battles for its preservation. A souvenir of the twenty sixth encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic beginning September 20, 1892. New York: Capitol Publishing Co. (Press of Jos. B. Stilwell & Co.), (1892). Oblong 8vo. [2 (blank)], frontis., 123, [3 (blank)] pp.; illus. $40.00 On front cover: "Grand Army Souvenir 1892." Illustrations include photographs of prominent Washington figures and landmarks, and paintings of Civil War battles. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers chipped and soiled, front wrapper separated. Otherwise, pages clean and free of chipping. (7599) 95) Vaillat, Léandre. Paysages de Paris. Paris: Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, (copyright 1919). 8vo. 143, [1] pp.; illus. $40.00 First edition. Text in French. Profusely illustrated with lovely drawings by Marice Achener. Chapter titles: "Le fleuve;" "L'avenue des traditions;" "Le Quartier latin;" "Le vieil hotel;" and "Une 'folie.'" Publisher's decorated paper-covered boards; spine cloth somewhat rubbed over joints and torn at head and foot. Pages clean and free of chipping. Very good overall. (7894) A Popular 19th-Century Guidebook for Traveling in New York 96) Vandewater, Robert J. The tourist, or pocket manual for travellers on the Hudson River, the western canal, and stage road, to Niagara Falls. Comprising also the routes to Lebanon, Ballston, and Saratoga Springs. New York: Ludwig & Tolefree, 1831. 16mo (14.7 cm, 5.875"). 69, [7] pp., large folding map. $350.00 "It is believed that all the information required by tourists through this state, will be found in the pages of this work," states this popular travel guide, here in its second edition after being first published the year prior. The route, illustrated with a => very large fold-out map that follows the Hudson River from Staten Island to Saratoga Springs, begins in Philadelphia. In addition to historical notes, the guide includes helpful charts documenting up-to-date steamboat routes, lodging options, and rates of fare for hackney coaches. This copy also has four pages of Little & Cummings Booksellers advertisements for other maps and travel guides at the end of the text. PRB&M

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Sabin 98485; American Imprints, 31-10470; Howes V-28. Green paper–covered boards with printed paper label on front cover, rebacked in tan cloth with new endpapers; covers well-rubbed and stained, spine slightly cocked. Light to moderate spotting and age-toning throughout; one leaf with small tear, map attached to new endpaper with one minor repair to border and pencil marking on back, strong at folds. => An early version of an often reprinted travel guide, good and strong. (36009) 97) Virginia. Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. Visitors' guide to Mount Vernon. Washington, D.C.: Gibson Brothers, printers, 1876. 12mo. Frontis., 53, [10] pp., illus. $65.00 Illustrated, including a very handsome view of Mount Vernon Mansion on the front cover. Fifth edition. "Revised and improved." Final ten pages are advertisements. Original printed wrappers with paper label on front cover. Ex-historical society copy with one handsome, armorial pressure stamp and one "deaccessioned" stamp. Very good condition. (675)

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