No place listed [Portland, Maine]: No publisher listed [Chisholm Bros.], No date [c. 1880s]. Boards. [VIEWBOOK] [SOUVENIR] [ADVERTISING]. The New Album of New York, No place, publisher, or date listed [c. 1880s]. 12mo (6 1/4" x 4 3/4"); concertina folded [12 panels]; gilt-stamped pebbled green paper over board, elaborate gilt border..... More
New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 131 Nassau Street, 1858. Washington FRIEND. Cloth. 12mo; 64pp; red cloth over board, blind stamped borders and design, gilt-stamped floral wreath surrounding title; ownership to front pastedown; 12 Nelson plates on thick stock with tissue guards; light wear to boards, scattered foxing; custom slipcase..... More
New York: A. Wittemann, 67 & 69 Spring Street, 1893. Cloth. The Albertype Co., N.Y., printer. 16mo oblong (5” x 7 1/4”); [42]pp; blue cloth over board, gilt-stamped title to front, color pictorial scene of a lake with a pleine-aire artist’s scene; decorative twisted silk cord binding; grey and white..... More
New York City: Robert M. McBride & Company, Inc., 1918. Staplebound. Folio; 40pp; color pictorial stiff wrapper, 2 staple binding, b&w photographic portrait of a young girl to front, Aetna Life Insurance ad to rear; light shelf-wear, inner leaf detached from staples; very good plus. Black and white photographic illustrations..... More
East Stroudsburg, Pa. Robert M. McBride & Company, Inc., 1937. Staplebound. Folio; 58pp; color pictorial stiff wrapper featuring an illustration titled, “Philosopher in Holland”; 2 staple binding; b&w photographic illustrations; light shelf-wear and hand soiling; very good plus. Black and white photographic illustrations and advertisements throughout. Contents include: How it..... More
New York City: Robert M. McBride & Company, Inc., 1917. Staplebound. Folio; 48pp; color pictorial stiff wrapper featuring a photographic illustration of A Side Street in Seville, 2 staple binding; b&w photographic illustrations; light shelf-wear and hand soiling; very good plus. Black and white photographic illustrations and advertisements throughout. Contents..... More
East Stroudsburg, Pa. Robert M. McBride & Company, Inc., 1936. Staplebound. Folio; 58pp; color pictorial stiff wrapper, 2 staple binding, advertisement for Italian Line [cruise ship] to rear; light vertical fold, scuffing to spine; very good plus. Black and white photographic illustrations and advertisements throughout. Contents include articles on New..... More
No place listed: No publisher listed, 1884. Leather bound. [PHOTO ALBUM]. Folio; 64 cream-colored mat board leaves; three-quarters black pebbled-leather over dark green textured cloth, gilt-stamped title to front board, beveled edges; 5 raised band spine, blind-stamped ornaments, gilt-stamped date “1884”; all edges gilt; gray marbled endpapers; 161 albumen and..... More
Boston, Massachusetts: G.E. Beekman, 293 Washington Street, Corner of School Street, No date [1907]. Wraps. Fold out map: Summer Resorts of the Coast, Lake and Mountain Regions Along the Boston and Maine Railroad and Connections, Inset of: “The American Switzerland.”, Boston: Beekman Tourist Company, 293 Washington St. The Matthews-Northrup Works..... More
Lancaster, N.H. The Bisbee Press, 1939. Stiff wraps. 8vo; [26pp]; pictorial stiff red wrapper, 2 staple binding; map of important Points of Interest to verso front wrapper; b&w photographic illustrations; split to 3" at head of spine along fold, staples have separated from wrapper; very good minus. Interesting look at..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1880. Cloth. 12mo; ix [iii] + fold out map, 299pp; gilt stamped green cloth, fern decoration with title to front cover, gilt stamped spine; fold-out map; 2 engraved illustrations with tissue guard; light scuffing to cover corners, head and tail; very good plus. In 1877, George Chaney..... More
London: Thomas Cook & Son, Ltd., No date [1931]. Wraps. [TRAVEL] [ADVERTISING] [EPHEMERA.] 8vo; 287 [1]pp; stiff glazed color pictorial wrapper; b&w photographic illustrations; ads; chipping and creasing to wrapper; very good. Interesting look at the early 20th century British travel industry. Leicestershire cabinetmaker Thomas Cook founded an agency in..... More
New York: Beautiful Bermuda Publishing Company, Inc., 1947. 10th edition. Cloth. Fold-out Map: Map of the Bermuda Islands, Alias Somers Islands, with insets of the City of Hamilton, the Town of St. George and a distance map from various cities on the east coast of the U.S.A. 8vo; lxiv, 735 [4]pp;..... More
Strasbourg: De Derniers Nouvelles de Strasbourg, 1961. Half-bound leather. 4to ; [xvi], 224 + [10]pp ; half-bound in leather over marbled boards; title gilt-stamped to 4 banded spine; pictorial endpapers in sepia; printed on heavy glazed stock; text with photographic illustrations of scenery both in b&w and color; scuffing to board edges;..... More
London: Strahan & Co. Publishers, 56 Ludgate Hill, 1871. First British Edition. Cloth. First British edition. Two volumes. 8vo; 371pp, 368pp + 4pp ads; binding variant A (ABL 7635), blind-stamped blue cloth over board, gilt-stamped title to spine; navy blue endpapers; scuffing to edges, book plate to front pastedown both..... More
1930-1931. Wraps. [TRAVEL PHOTO ALBUM] [MIDDLE EAST] [EUROPE] [AUTOMOBILE TOUR] [GERMAN LANGUAGE]. 4to oblong; [7] leaves in the 1930-1931 album and [10] leaves in the 1931 album; glazed faded blue paper (now brown) wrapper with two brad binding; 192 glossy black & white photographs mounted recto & verso; age-toning of..... More
Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1879. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 12mo; xviii, 646pp + [1 ad]; gilt-stamped sailing ship vignette to front rust-colored cloth over board, black stamped border and lettering; ownership to ffep in pencil dated 1879; engraved portrait of Eben Tourjée frontispiece with tissue guard; 32 full-page b&w..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910. JOHNSON, Clifton. 1st Edition. Cloth. First edition. xi [iii], 8vo; 279pp + 4pp advertisements; stamped green cloth with two color design to front cover and title in gilt on cover and spine; gilt top edge, untrimmed fore edge and bottom; decorative endpapers; b &..... More
Philadelphia: B.B. Hopkins & Co., 1807. Half Bound Leather. Map: A Chart Extending from 25 degrees to 60 degrees N. Lat. and from 5 degrees E. to 25 degrees W. Lon. Laid down according to Mercator’s Projection. First edition. 8vo; xxiii [i], 275 [1], 40 + 220pp of Tables, [2 Directions to..... More
Augusta, Maine: Maine Development Commission, 1955. Stiff wraps. 4to; [34pp]; color pictorial stiff wrapper with title on front and back; two staple binding; both black and white and color photographic illustrations; light shelf wear and soiling; very good plus. This edition located in only two WorldCat libraries. Colorful tourism pamphlet..... More
Haddington: D. & J. Croal,18 and 19 Market Street, [1902, December]. Stiff Wraps. Dean Engraving Company, London, printing of illustrations. [SIGNED]. 4to; 83pp; mottled dark green stiff wrapper, gold quatrefoil with illustration of a church, title and author initials to front; all edges deckle; gift inscription from author dated 1902 to..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1892. Half Bound Leather. 8vo; [1] 2-300pp; half-bound in brown leather with brown speckled paper over board, five raised band and gilt stamped spine; brown and yellow marbled endpapers; gilt top; 2 maps present; scuffing and peeling of cover leather; very good. Map: Stanford’s Geography Established. A...... More
New York: R. Martin, 170 Broadway and 66 Beekman St. 1847 and 1851. James SMILLIE. 4to; viii, 93pp + 22 engraved plates with tissue guards including map and facing half-title; and 119pp + 22 engraved plates with tissue guards including map and facing half-title; decorated red morocco, 5 raised bands..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. Cloth. 4to; xii, 133pp; olive cloth over board; pictorial label with title and author to front board, gilt-stamped spine; top edge gilt; deckle fore-edge and bottom; color duotone frontispiece with tissue guard and 82 b&w illustrations; light sunning to spine and part of rear..... More