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"I See No End to Travelling": Fascinating Accounts from the Personal Journals of the Early Australian Explorers and Pioneers, 1813-1876


Millar, Ann

Hardcover. Bay Books, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 287 pages. B&W and color illustrations throughout. Red pictorial dust jacket. Red boards with slight edgewear. Soiling to top edge. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850592


Price: $25.00 

100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American CultureSpears, Mr. Timothy B.
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100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture


Spears, Mr. Timothy B.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. B&w photographs and illustrations throughout. Extensive notes and references. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468341


Price: $25.00 

 

400,000 Miles By Rail: The Reminiscences of a Professional Passenger on All Types of Trains


Blanton, Burt C.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, Howell-North Books, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 183 pages, b&w illustrations, Dust jacket with light soil, edgewear.

Record # 406102


Price: $19.00 

 

A Social Departure, A: How Orthodocia and I Went Round the World by Ourselves


Duncan, Sara Jeannette, Illust. by: F. H. Townsend

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co, 1st, 1891, Dust Jacket: None, 417 pages, 111 b&w illustrations by F. H. Townsend, gilt lettering to cover and spine, duotone illustration on cover. Wear to front cover, water stains to rear half of copy block and rear endpapers.

Record # 803001


Price: $51.00 

 

Ada Blackjack: A true Story of Survival in the Arctic


Niven, Jennifer

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 431 pages. Hardcover. Deckled edges. Dust jacket unclipped. In excellent condition, clean inside and out.

Record # 30737


Price: $15.00 

 

After Africa: extracts from British travel accounts and journals of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries concerning the slaves, their manners and customs in the British West Indies


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Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University , reprint , 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, New Haven, Yale University , reprint , 1983, Book: Good, Dust jacket: None, 444 pages. Softcover. 10 pages of b&w illustrations. Foxing to top and fore edge, otherwise clean, tight copy. . 444 pages. Record # 467521

Record # 467521


Price: $19.00 

 

Alaska - Our Beautiful Northland of Opportunity


Burr, Agnes Rush

Hardcover. Boston, Page Company, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 428 pages. Features fold-out map and fifty-four plates of which six are in color. Minor foxing to some plate edges. Top edge gilt. Light wear overall. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609491


Price: $80.00 

 

Alla ricerca degli itinerari perduti / In Search of Lost Itineraries


Brilli, Attilio

Hardcover. Milan , Silvana Editoriale, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages, folio size, illustrated in color. A pictorial history of travel in Italy. Hundreds of gorgeous vintage illustrations. Italian text. Travel in Italy over routes traveled long ago. A beautiful book. Mild wear to covers.

Record # 408097


Price: $38.00 

 

American Narrow Gauge Railroads


Hilton, George

Hardcover. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 600 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some dust jacket wear, yellowing and minor tears to dust jacket edges. Yellowing to edges of inner textblock. Otherwise a clean copy. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471253


Price: $50.00 

 

American Railroad Passenger Car, Parts I and II, The


White Jr., John H.

Softcover. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 volume set. 690 pages total with illustrations in b&w. Clean, unmarked set with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 458873


Price: $63.00 

 

Angkor;: An essay on art and imperialism


Myrdal, Jan

Hardcover. US, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1970-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463900


Price: $15.00 

 

Army Life On The Western Frontier


Croghan, George

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press , 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 188 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations and photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Includes appendix of author's travel schedule. Decorative stain to top edge. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 613496


Price: $25.00 

Art of Photography: 1839-1989, TheWeaver (Ed.), Mike
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Art of Photography: 1839-1989, The


Weaver (Ed.), Mike

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 472 pages, 480 images (80 in color). Exhibition catalog for a traveling exhibition. Black coth covers in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 405059


Price: $75.00 

 

As Told on a Sunday Run


Bowman (compiler), Harry P.

Softcover. Jeannette PA, privately printed, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages, heavy orange stock wrappers. This is a notable book of circus history that lists most, if not all, the important circus companies and related entertainment shows that performed across the United States from 1800 through 1942. The compiler was an agent for many traveling shows which are listed here.

Record # 850031


Price: $50.00 

 

Astonished Traveler, The - William Darby, Frontier Geographer and Man of Letters


Kennedy, J. Gerald

Hardcover. Baton Rough, Louisiana State Univ., 1st, n .d., Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 55526


Price: $20.00 

 

Australian Pictures Drawn With Pen and Pencil


Willoughby, Howard

Hardcover. London, Religious Tract Society, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Many fine B&W line engravings. Pristine fold-out color map of Australia. Brown cloth with black and gilt decoration. all edges gilt.

Record # 300921


Price: $100.00 

Baedeker's United States with an Excursion Into Mexico, TheBaedeker, Karl
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Baedeker's United States with an Excursion Into Mexico, The


Baedeker, Karl

Hardcover. Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 3rd Revised Ed., 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 660 pages, gilt-stamped flexible red cloth. Illustrated with twenty-five maps and thirty-five plans. Frontispiece fold-out map intact and whole as are other maps. Several with crimping to edges as they extend slightly from copy block. No marking.

Record # 411156


Price: $225.00 

 

Barbarians & Mandarins - Thirteen Centuries of Western Travelers in China


Cameron, Nigel

Hardcover. NY/Tokyo, Walker/Weatherhill, 1st , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 443 pages.

Record # 58494


Price: $15.00 

 

Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America, The United States National Museum Bulletin 230


Adney (Curator of Transportation), Edward Tappan, Howard I. Chapelle

Hardcover. Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Historical overview of Native American water transportation. Some soil to front cover, Endpapers, edges, and pages lightly yellowed with age,

Record # 30214


Price: $38.00 

 

Beautiful Brandon


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Softcover. Brandon, VT, Brandon Improvement Association, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Softcover. Staple binding. B/w illustrations (plates) throughout. Brown construction paper wrapper (agewear), orange title and decoration on front cover. Formerly on exhibit at Shelburne Museum, with stamp of proprietorship on front flyleaf. Just a touch of tanning to pages and edges, otherwise clean and unmarked. Beautiful photo-illustrated promotional travel book highlighting the sites of downtown Brandon, VT, circa 1910. Collector's delight.

Record # 32280


Price: $44.00 

Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of SteelScott, John
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Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel


Scott, John

Softcover. Bloomington, [Ind.], Indiana University Press, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages, b&w photos. Light wear to pictorial wrappers, minor crease to spine not affecting binding. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453556


Price: $12.00 

Bitter Waters: America's Forgotten Naval Mission to the Dead SeaBain, David Haward

Bitter Waters: America's Forgotten Naval Mission to the Dead Sea


Bain, David Haward

Hardcover. New York, The Overlook Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471686


Price: $19.00 

Bliss' Magazine - Volume VI - July, 1900 - Number 1 - Guide to Pensacola - Facts for Tourists, Pleasure Seekers, Sportsmen, Home Seekers and Investors Bliss, Chas. H.
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Bliss' Magazine - Volume VI - July, 1900 - Number 1 - Guide to Pensacola - Facts for Tourists, Pleasure Seekers, Sportsmen, Home Seekers and Investors


Bliss, Chas. H.

Softcover. Pensacola, Chas. H. Bliss, 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Small format magazine measures: 6.5" H X 5" W. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Scarce.

Record # 614176


Price: $188.00 

 

Book of Balloons, The


Norgaard, Erik

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st English, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Balloon history and developments. 400 illustrations in color and black-and-white. Fading, as well as rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Bumping to fore edges. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952548


Price: $19.00 


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