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1877. Original manuscript. Very Good. 4pp, octavo, written in sepia ink on a single, folded leaf; top few lines of first page are cross-hatched as the writer finishes up her message. In the original mailing envelope (torn open) addressed to Hannah Pancoast, Mount Holly, Burlington Co., New Jersey, with a three-cent stamp postmarked at Philadelphia. Addressed to "My dearest H.", the writer says she received her letter when she was about to leave Paris, but is writing her a less "hurried" reply now that she's aboard ship, although "it seems impossible to give thee an idea of the joy of the whole summer." The rest of the letter is rhapsodic in its report of the beauties of Italy and Switzerland. The writer, who notes that only 8 of "our party...went through Italy entirely," mentions seeing Naples, Pompeii, taking "lovely rides on the Bay of Naples", and "days at Rome sightseeing." She then spent "day after day at Venice...riding in those gondolas, a lazy dreaming life...", and including a trip from… Leer más

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1877. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: viii, 474, (6) publisher's ads. Brown grained cloth, gilt spine lettering; old signature at top of title-page, bookplate removed from pastedown. 8" x 5.5" [Smith, American Travellers Abroad, G68: "The author was a famous newspaper editor of his day. He was an inveterate and dedicated traveler. His account of a six-months' trip in the 1870s is both a catalog of things to be seen and a how-to-do-it book for other tourists. (England, Italy, Austria, Germany, Holland, France)].

Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co, 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Map in color, opens to 21" x 28". Folded into gray stiff wrappers, 9.25" x 4.25" Inset of the Aleutian Islands.

Portland, Maine: Chas. Frey, 1890. First Edition. Pictorial Stiff Wrappers. Very Good. Contains 12 panels of views based on photographs, leporello (accordion-fold format); b&w Quebec City map inside back cover. Views include: City of Quebec from the St. Lawrence River; Dufferin Terrace; Island of Orleans; Drill Hall; Lunatic Asylum, Beauport; St. Louis Hotel; J.S. Laubert's Fur Establishment; St. John's Gate; Kent Gate; Grand Battery & Laval University; Caleche; Frontenac Hotel; &c. Bound in gilt-decorative red boards; spine cloth deteriorating, otherwise bright and clean 7.5" x 5.75" [OCLC locates only one physical holding of this viewbook at the University of Victoria (B.C.).].

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. Fourth Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. 243pp; color map. 8.25" x 5" [Smith, American Travellers Abroad, F11: "Gives the panegyric of the man of the cloth having the experience of retracing the footsteps of Jesus in the Holy Land." First published in 1884.].

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1878. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: 213, (3)publisher's ads; 14 illustrations on text stock, decorative chapter headpieces. Bound in brown cloth, decorated in black and gilt. 6" x 4.25

Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co, 1933. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Map in color, opens to 21" x 28". Few small, archival repairs on verso of folds. Folded into gray stiff wrappers, 9.25" x 4.25" [WorldCat locates five library holdings: Syracuse, U Chicago, Florida State, U Arizona, UCLA.].

NY: Hastings Pavement Co, 1911. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 12pp; nine (9) illustrations from photographs. Bound in pictorial white wrappers, the cover showing folks in an early automobile speeding down a paved country road. 6.75" x 4.75" Photographs show men at work, paving rural roads with concrete blocks and the resultant "dustless roadways." [WorldCat finds only the Smithsonian holding.].

Bouqueron: Hydrotherapic Establishment, 1915. First Edition. Decorative Wrappers. Very Good. 48pp; 16 full-page views from photographs, few smaller. Text in English, begins with the history of Bouqueron, then segues into facilities for visitors seeking the curative waters, the efficacy of those waters, turpentine vapor baths, beautiful scenery, etc. Views include: The Chateau; Promenade on the Bastion; Mount Saint-Eynard; Pont de Claix; Grenoble; View over Isere River; &c. Pale-blue wrappers, embossed seal on cover, red lettering. 4.5" x 6.5

s.l.: s.n., 1888. First Edition. Decorated Boards. Good. 18 Albertype, photographic views on 18 plates, accordion format, folding into gilt-decorated blue boards, cloth spine; 16pp text at back; boards somewhat soiled and rubbed. Contains exterior and interior views of: The Cathedral; The Necropolis; The University; Free Church College and Park Church; New Stock Exchange; George Square; St. Enoch's Hotel & Station; The Broomielaw, Preparing to Start; Exhibition Buildings, 1888; The Bishop's Palace; &c. 5" x 7" [Some similar titles found in WorldCat, not this one.].

San Francisco: AT&SF Railway, 1931. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 28pp; 38 views from photographs. Contains hotel rates in many different cities. Typically, $1.50 in Bakersfield ($2.00 with bath), and $8.00 in Beverly Hills ($6.00 with bath). Includes views of various hotels. Bound in pictorial self-wrappers, 8" x 4". Laid in is a supplement showing new and lower California hotel rates.

NY: D. Appleton, 1891. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: (ix) hotel ads, viii, 270, (11) railway and publisher's ads; complete with 37 plates after photographs, and three colored, folding maps in rear pocket. Bound in pictorial red cloth, stamped in black and gilt; some mottling of spine cloth, otherwise near fine condition. 7" x 4.75

London: W.H. Allen & Co, 1884. First Edition. Original Cloth. Fair. pp: xiv, (ii), 150, (2)publisher's ads; 8 plates, tissue guards. Bound in gilt-decorated black cloth, all edges gilt; head of spine chipped, piece torn from lower portion of spine, front joint cracked and holding. Prior owner's pencilled underlinings in text, and an extensive homemade (actually useful) index on the rear endpapers, showing all page numbers for Towns, Mts, Rivers, Lakes, Falls, Towns in Bavaria, Passes, and Valleys. Plates are clean. 10" x 7.25

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1928. First edition thus. Cloth-backed boards. Very Good. pp: (xiii), 85 with colophon; frontispiece and four plates, ruled borders on all text pages. Bound in half brown cloth and tan boards, gilt spine title, top edges gilt, others rough-trimmed. Modest gift inscription on front endpaper, else near fine. 9.25" x 6" One of 1000 copies, 800 for sale. Letters written by Howell on his three-year grand tour of The Netherlands, France, Spain and Italy.

Frederick, MD: Coast-Coast Tourist Service, 1935. Tenth Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 48pp, including strip maps and illustrated ads. Tipped at the front is a folding map of Virginia which opens to a 17" x 22" map of the east coast from Pennsylvania to Florida, west as far as Birmingham, printed in red and blue. On the verso of the map are illustrated ads for Endless Caverns, Virginia Caverns, Massanutten Caverns, etc. Photo-illustrations in the text include historical sites, cotton pickers, hotels, taverns, etc. Bound in printed pink wrappers. 9" x 4

NY: Negro Universities Press, 1970. First US Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: (xviii), 680, (24). Brown cloth, gilt spine lettering. 10.25" x 7" First published at London in 1731.

[David Ramsay], 1793. First Edition. Good. Folded as issued, with scattered foxing, opens to 7.5" x 9" + margins. Removed some time ago, probably from Neele's New Gazetteer, or Modern Geographical Index. Labels the large territory of Amazonia, bounded by Guyana, Brasil, Paraguay and Peru.

Toledo, Ohio: Blade Printing and Paper Co, 1884. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: (xiv), 298; engraved frontispiece portrait, tissue guard. Bound in brown cloth, spine lettering and rules in gilt, cover rules in black and blind, floral-pattern endpapers. 8" x 5" The author was a member of the Central Ohio Conference, Methodist Church. His book includes chapters on his experiences as a circuit-rider in Michigan Territory, Indians and Moravian Missionaries, Wyandotte Mission, Fort Findlay, Banditti of Northern Illinois, travels in Ohio, Passage down the Ohio River and up the Mississippi, &c. [Decker 39-306. Eberstadt 106:120.].

Philadelphia: Sherman & Co, Printers, 1870. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. 276pp; frontispiece view in color, tissue guard. Green cloth, gilt decorated spine, covers decorated in blind. 7.5" x 4.75" First published in 1867, this edition is revised and expanded. It explores the natural scenery and resources of the Delaware Water Gap, 13 different carriage drives in the vicinity, early settlements and settlers, local legends, etc. [Decker 24:55].

London: Printed for Newbery and Carnan, 1770. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Set of 10 volumes, octavo; complete with 240 copper plates and vignettes in the text. Bound in contemporary calf, green and red spine labels, gilt rules, decorations and lettering. Edges of several boards lightly rubbed. 7" x 4" This is quite an elaborate county-by-county treatment of the 18th-century English and Welsh countryside with its small towns, castles, monuments, Roman ruins, cathedrals, &c., with handsome copper-engraved plates of views and buildings.