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Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Front board with light blue lettering and linear design.The first edition of Lady Elizabeth Thompson Butler's travel accounts of Ireland, Egypt, the Cape, and Italy, illustrated profusely throughout with colour plates. 28 illustrations from watercolors and 21 smaller sketchesLocale: Egypt; Ireland; Italy; South Africa. (Travel, Travel and Adventure)The first edition of this work. A travel work looking at the turn of the century in Ireland, Egypt, the Cape, and Italy. With a colour frontispiece, twenty-seven colour plates, and numerous in-text monochrome engravings. Written and illustrated by Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler. Thompson was a famed painter of history paintings, one of the only female painters of her time who found fame with her scenic paintings, such as battle scenes. With six pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. Collated, complete. Condition: In the original publisher's cloth binding. A little bumping to the tail of the spine and extremities.… Leer más

Near Fine in fine unclipped dust jacket in protective mylar. Hardcover first edition - First printing. A debut novel, originally published in Arabic in Lebanon, which discusses frankly the " social, romantic and sexual tribulations of four young women from elite classes of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia." Translated by Rajaa Alsanea and Marilyn Booth. Includes glossary of names, 286 pp. Originally banned in Saudi Arabia, the tale of four young women university students from Riyadh follows their struggles to navigate the precarious paths between desire, fulfillment, and Islamic tradition while witnessing the ways in which the Arab world is being changed by new economic and political realities

Tight copy with slight spotting on one inside page Signed by the author to previous owner 1953. Price not clipped.Slight damage to dust jacket.Incidents and Interviews on a leisurely journey by air from Australia to Britain.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: VG+. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Blue Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. Contents: 1). Introduction. 2). Summer in Capri. 3). Summer in Capri - by Gillian Mais. 4). Winter in the Italian Alps. 5). Winter in the Italian Alps - by Gillian Mais. 24 b/w plates.

Original brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and designs on cover and along spine; very light rubbing along spine and tips. Binding and hinges tight and square; contents clean and unmarked except for previous owners inscription dated 1892.

Hardcover book with brown coated cloth over boards., gilt-stamped lettering on spine; pp. vi, 294, plus frontispiece and 15 beautifully engraved full-page plates. Spine tips and corners gently rubbed, else a clean, tight copy. Design stamped in black on cover and spine; lettering stamped in gold on cover and spine. Book is in very good condition. Cover has light, expected wear -- some light shelf wear.

First edition. With a photogravure frontispiece and 12 lovely tissue-guarded plates by E. C. Peixotto. Publisher's original dark green cloth beautifully decorated on the upper cover and spine after designs by Margaret Armstrong. The lettering on both the cover and spine is in gilt. A handsome and bright copy of this lovely book, internally very fresh and clean. The pages are uncut pages to side and bottom and gilded to top.The Armstrong binding is fresh, vivid and clean with minor evidence of age damage to the top and bottom of spine. A BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED ITALIAN TRAVEL BOOK by a Pulitzer Prize winning author. Though the less famous then her collaboration with Maxfield Parrish this collection of nine essays is none-the-less appealing. Mr. Peixotto's art was far more familiar then his name, he had been a extremely successful illustrator of magazines and periodicals. Scribner's sent the young artist to Italy with Mrs. Wharton and then kept him at various points of the Mediterranean for over a year.

These iconic pocket-sized, ultra-savvy concertina guides are housed in this gorgeous World Grand Tour Box featuring a deep purple velvet covering with gilt lettering. Included are Bangkok, Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. There are 12 matt-laminated fold out guides that have never been used. LUXE City Guides in this elegant handmade box make a fantastic travel gift. Some first editions are included e.g. New York

A presentation copy from Lady Brassey's widower, inscribed on a leaf of thin paper pasted on the left margin to the half title page 'Madame de Falbe from Brassey'. 2 folding maps, frontispiece, pictorial title page, 19 plates, illustrations to the text. Includes illustrations from photographs Wood engravings executed by Whymper E. et al. Original dark blue buckram gilt, pages untrimmed, gold trimauthor's monogram in gilt to the spine and upper cover. Hardcover 1st Edition. Lady Brassey died on this voyage, and was buried at sea, at the age of 47 in 1887. Brassey, who finished the manuscript, was a man with the sea in his blood, and is still remembered as the founder and first editor of 'Brassey's Naval Annual', and in 1876 to 1877 is said to have made the first circumnavigation of the world by a private yacht, the steam-assisted three-masted topsail-yard schooner 'Sunbeam', the same vessel used in this journey. Madame de Falbe was Australian by birth and published late in her life a memoir of her… Leer más

MORBIHAN - Bretagne Editions Alépée & Cie - Paris Collection "Les documents de France"
Printed on high quality papier. Photos B/W et couleurs, Fold out Map, Place Ribbon, Inset card Gaston Villager Paul ?huel President du Conseil General
Etat : très correct (petites taches sur la couverture, trace d'arrachage d'une étiquette en 1ère page)
Couverture rigide
Dimensions :940 grDepartemental du Tourisme

Hardcover. Near Fine. First Edition. First Printing. Ivory/light blue/light green pictorial spine with red and blue text. Near Fine Dust jacket in protective Mylar covering.

A very clean, tight and rare copy in original brown cloth in very good condition. Very slight bumps to spine and covers. Title in gilt lettering on spine and upper boards, incl. gilt tooled hieroglyphs between a gilt border also on upper cover. Red marbled endpapers and marbled edges. (xxi), 955pp. 2 full-page maps as a double frontisp., many plates, of which plans of temples, text-figs. and ills, diagrammes, full-page coloured maps and plans, index, list of contents, and important notice on Bakshish, list of Egyptological words.This work represents far more information to the tourist than the usual tourist-guide. Originally drawn up in 1886 in accordance to the suggestions of his [Wallis Budge's] friend Mr. J.M. Cook with vast information on ancient monumental Egypt.

Index, b/w plates, original cloth boards, Rural and urban walking tours of VictoriaWith 8 Illustrations and etchingsSigned by the Author

Karl Baedeker Publisher, 1911.Condition: Excellent 17th Edition. With 60 maps and 59 plans. All maps are in the book, 554 pages with decorative edges and endpages. Red cloth in VG condition with gilt title at the front and the spine.

Hardcover. Very Good+ 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Clipped Dust Jacket with minor wear : D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.
A gastronomic, historic, and photographic guide to Rome, with selected recipes." Drawings by the author & black-and-white photos by her husband throughout.

Folding maps, v, xi, 414p. dj. 24cm. Facsimile of the rare 1857 edition with a New Introduction (2 1/2p.) by Robin Bidwell.

Pale green boards with gold Lettering to spine. In original dust jacket unclipped which is now in a mylar protective covering. First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a near fine, clean copy.Gerald Durrell helped establish a model zoo on the Isle of Jersey, an experience that caused him to reconsider the whole question of wild animals in human hands. On one level, the book is about zoos. More profoundly, however, THE STATIONARY ARK is about the misuse of wild animals in captivity. Durrell's material reveals a fascinating blind spot in modern zoological though.

Stephanie Alexander's facsimile signature on title page. Illustrated and colour photography. There are detailed instructions on the numerous recipes, a bibliography and an index. "A passionate book of adventure and invention, a travel-cookery book in which French, Italian, Oriental influences and others are fused into a highly personal expression; the flavours and shapes of the food are often unusual and surprising, but fancy is always ruled by common sense and native refinement." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. X, 306 pages. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; ISBN: 0043202071. ISBN/EAN: 9780043202074.Weight 1.2kg

London, John Murray, 1950. First edition, xii, 346pp, with double-paged map, 24 illustrations, wood engravings by Reynolds Stone, index, original cloth with slightly damaged dust jacket in mylar. Uneven bottom edges from when the uncut edges were separated.Very good condition.

First Folio Society edition. Hardback binding in publisher's original British racing green buckram covered boards, printed archive sepia photographs to the front side, gilt back, photographic end sheets. Near Fine condition in slip case. Includes bibliographical references and index.Subjects:Frith, Francis, 1822-1898 Travel Great BritainGreat Britain History 19th centuryGreat Britain Social life and customs 19th centuryLiterary journeys Great BritainPhotography, Artistic