Category: Travel

12 Photographic Snapshots. Evangeline Land Nova Scotia

Price: $97.50

Publisher: Montreal, Novelty Mfg. Co.

Seller ID: Books015150

Condition: Very Good

No date of issue specified - 1920s - (later than 29 July 1920 as there are 3 views of the Evangeline statue at Grand Pre, and no later than 1926 when the publisher ceased operations). The 12 small black & white photos, in original paper holder stamped: Williams & Co.... Wolfville. 3.9 x 3 inches.
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69 Photographic Views. Round and about Southampton [H. Rose & Son adverts]

Price: $162.50

Publisher: Portsmouth, J. Welch & Sons

Seller ID: Books014436

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

[32] pages; with ads for Henry Rose & Son to verso front and rear. No stated date of issue; no motor cars pictured. 7.25 x 9.75 inches.
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A Collection of Plans of the Principal Cities of Great Britain and Ireland, with Maps of the Coast of the Said Kingdoms

Price: $3,789.85

Publisher: London, A. Dury : 1764

Seller ID: Books013253

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

Dury's pocket atlas 'designed as a second volume' to his Universal Pocket Atlas. Complete: engraved title, engraved dedication, catalogue of maps & plans, 40 illustrated leaves (3 folding). Also bound in: Dury's (folding at foot) A Chart Shewing the Seacoast of England & Wales, with the Fortifications Royal Docks Harbours Sands &c at front, and a double of the Plan of Bath. Contemporary mottled calf; sound unrestored binding; customary offsetting; foxing/offsetting to the two blank leaves at front and at rear. Short closed tear to front free endpaper.
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Image for Bartholomew's Street Index Plan of London, Showing the Postal Districts. 4 maps: North East-Section, South-East Section, South-West Section, North West Section

Bartholomew's Street Index Plan of London, Showing the Postal Districts. 4 maps: North East-Section, South-East Section, South-West Section, North West Section

Price: $447.89

Publisher: Edinburgh & London, John Bartholomew & Son

Seller ID: Books009286

Binding: linen backed paper

Condition: Very Good

Set of four large linen-backed maps. No stated date of issue. Each measuring 9.2 x 5.5 inches, and folding out to 36.5 x 43 inches. Scale is 3.25 inches to one mile; the plans are divided into half mile squares. Pasted-on paper price strip of 6/- Net. Faint stamp to rear cover of one: Sold by George Philip & Son, Ltd. / 32 Fleet ST. London, and same stamp more boldly in the other three on linen at first fold. Minor soiling to front cover of South-West; minor tideline with bleeding to rear cover left edge of North West [please consult photos for both these issues]; and a few faint drops to rear...
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Besley's Eighteen Views of Devonshire

Price: $172.26

Publisher: Exeter, H. Besley

Seller ID: Books006683

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Eighteen engravings bound in green embossed cloth with title in gilt to front. No stated date; presumably 1860s. Each engraving published by H. Besley, Exeter, with respective number and title. In order of appearance in the volume they are: No. 196 : Teignmouth _ Public Rooms, &c : S.R. Ridgway del. April 5 (?) illegible. No. 195 : Teignmouth _ The Den, Pier, &c : S.R. Ridgway del. No. 155 : Teignmouth, from the East Cliffs : G. Townsend del. No. 156 : Teignmouth, from Shaldon : G. Townsend del. No. 109 : Teignmouth Beach : G. Townsend del. No. 108 : East Teignmouth Church : G. Townsend del. A...
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Image for Canadian Pacific Railroad Soo Line, "The Mountaineer" Dining Car Service Menu: Mount Assiniboine, Indian Days at Banff, "The Mounted". [breakfast, luncheon, dinner]

Canadian Pacific Railroad Soo Line, "The Mountaineer" Dining Car Service Menu: Mount Assiniboine, Indian Days at Banff, "The Mounted". [breakfast, luncheon, dinner]

Price: $97.50

Publisher: Canadian Pacific : 1958

Seller ID: Books014241

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Good

Three menus: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Date/publishing code M.J. 13-14-58 on each. Foxing and stains to each.
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Common words in five languages : English, French, German, Spanish, Italian.

Price: $162.50

Publisher: : 1897

Seller ID: Books012501

Binding: Saddle Stapled Pantasote

Condition: Very Good

57 pages, and 5 pages of ads at rear. No compiler, printer, or place specified. Copyright 1897 by Frank E. Bacon. Gilt faded, with "This Cover is PANTASOTE" at foot. The first ad at rear is for Pantasote. An attractive ad for Lowney's Chocolate Bonbons appears on page 3.
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Image for Description of the Napoleon The First's Tomb and of the Chapel of the Hotel of the Invalids. With a notice concerning the gallery of the plans in relief of a certain number of fortified places and the artillery museum.

Description of the Napoleon The First's Tomb and of the Chapel of the Hotel of the Invalids. With a notice concerning the gallery of the plans in relief of a certain number of fortified places and the artillery museum.

Price: $162.50

Publisher: Paris, Charles Noblet : 1875

Seller ID: Books009483

Binding: Printed wrapper

Condition: Good

16 pages. 8.3 x 5 inches. Publisher's printed wrapper. Curling along top and lower edges. Sadle stitched binding secure. Colportage stamp of Seine to front and faintly to rear, with date 187?: possibly 4, but note verso of rear cover is an 1875 imprint. Text is in English.
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Falmouth, Truro and the River Fal. Ordnance Map; With Detailed Rambles. [Homeland Handbook]

Price: $130.92

Publisher: Covent Garden, London, Homeland Handbooks / Homeland Association

Seller ID: Books007187

Binding: wraps

Condition: Very Good

Vol. 83 of the series. Fourth Edition. 7.25 x 5 inches. 76 pages plus xi of ads and large fold-out ordnance map. List of Homeland Handbooks at rear lists to Number 88 [Bognor, Sussex] and is dated May, 1917. Clean and unmarked with splitting along front exterior upper spine panel for an inch. Binding is sound and titled spine uncreased.
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Image for Guide to the Appalachian Trail. From the Connecticut - New York State Line by way of the Hudson River at Bear Mountain, Deleware Water Gap and Lehigh Gap to the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.. Third Edition. [Signature of Albert Schatz]

Guide to the Appalachian Trail. From the Connecticut - New York State Line by way of the Hudson River at Bear Mountain, Deleware Water Gap and Lehigh Gap to the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.. Third Edition. [Signature of Albert Schatz]

Price: $310.08

Publisher: New York, New York - New Jersey Trail Conference : 1948

Seller ID: Books007297

Binding: Stiff card w/ metal fasteners

Condition: Very Good

6.7 x 4.7 inches. xi, 305 pages plus six November 1951 yellow revision leaves at rear. A pleasing, clean example: former owner Albert Schatz name to spine, front cover, and first title page. Probably the noted microbiologist and environmentalist of that name, discoverer of the antibiotic streptomycin, of whom, with his wife Vivian Rosenfeld, wikipedia notes: "enthusiastic naturalists and environmentalists and they enjoyed the wilds of Vermont". Military "Important Notice" pasted inside front cover. All eight folding maps present and appear always to have been correctly folded. Unobtrusive penc...
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Harwood's Views of the Lakes

Price: $172.26

Publisher: London, J. & E. Harwood

Seller ID: Books006685

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Good

Fifteen engravings bound in decorative card covers with cloth spine. Each engraving published by J. (and sometimes E.) Harwood, London, with respective number and title. In order of appearance in the volume they are: No. 508 : Kendal ~ Jan. 1, 1843 (general heavy foxing). No. 355 : Greta Hall and Keswick Bridge ~ W. Westall / E. Francis (margins foxed & hint to plate). No. 597 : Skiddaw & Bassenthwaite Water ~ June 1, 1845 (heavy at edges, plate not bad. Unnumbered : Crummock Water & Buttermere ~ August 17, 1842 (hints to edges and one shadow above date). No. 715 : Borrowdale from Stye Head / ...
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Image for Les Delices de Windsore; or a Description of Windsor Castle, and the Country Adjacent [with: A Plan of Windsor Castle showing alphabetically at one view the several appartments in the Royal Palace as shown to the Public with sundry other appartments]

Les Delices de Windsore; or a Description of Windsor Castle, and the Country Adjacent [with: A Plan of Windsor Castle showing alphabetically at one view the several appartments in the Royal Palace as shown to the Public with sundry other appartments]

Price: $516.80

Publisher: Eton, Joseph and Thomas Pote : 1755

Seller ID: Books013054

Binding: leather

Condition: Fair

[8], 140, [4] pages, frontispiece, folding plate of the North View, two other plates, and the large folding map, NB: lacking two leaves of text: pages 83-86. Old paper repair - upper board holding because of it but hinge basically blown, and frontispiece nearly detached, toned, and chipped along edges. An unappealing example, somewhat redeemed by the inclusion of Joseph Pote's 1748 'A Plan of Windsor Castle, shewing alphabeticaly at one view...', dedicated to Charles, Duke of St. Alban's, Published at Eaton 1749 [15.5 x 8.8 inches, R. Biggs delin.; R. Parr & J. Smith sculpt., left margin worn;...
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Map of Tokyo & surrounding districts : including Yokohama, Kamakura, Nikko, Atami, Hakone, Mt. Fuji

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Occupied Japan, Japan Travel Bureau : 1951

Seller ID: Books014937

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

Large double-sided map; in excellent condition. 7.4 x 4.2 inches folded; 28.5 x 20.5 inches open.
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Official AAA Road Map : New York and Adjacent Canada, 1933

Price: $172.26

Publisher: Washington, DC, American Automobile Association : 1933

Seller ID: Books014435

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good

One sheet, printed recto and verso. 8 x 3.8 inches folded; 24 x 38 open. "one inch equals approximately 11.5 miles". Undated, but 1933 inferred by: "This map published annually, Next edition Spring 1934". Light toning, and a few unobtrusive stains. Includes pictorial ad encouraging travel to Nova Scotia "Land of Evangeline / Canada's Ocean Playground" [Maritime provinces are not pictured on the map].
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PAIGNTON : Glorious South Devon. Official Guide, published for the Paignton Urban District Council, 1931

Price: $62.01

Publisher: : 1931

Seller ID: Books006832

Binding: Card Cover

Condition: Very Good

196 pages plus large 14 x 18 inch fold-out map. A pleasing example of this publication, profusely embellished with photographs and ads of the period. Includes Outstanding Events and Band Engagements for 1931 as well as supplements in French, Italian, Spanish and German. Two photos are in colour. The large fold-out street map has two short closed tears (no loss of paper). Covers and binding secure; interior clean and unmarked; spine not creased or cracked.
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Photographic Snapshots of Cabot Trail Cape Breton, Canada. Unspoiled Summerland of America

Price: $97.50

Publisher: Montreal, Novelty Mfg. Co.

Seller ID: Books015155

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

No date of issue specified - no later than 1926 when the publisher ceased operations. The ten small black & white photos, in original paper holder with McLeod's Studio Scenic Views of Cape Breton Sydney N.S. to rear. 3.25 x 4 inches.
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Port Royal Habitation Nova Scotia Canada. 10 Snap Shot Views for Your Album"

Price: $97.50

Publisher: Ottawa, PE Co. LTD.

Seller ID: Books015158

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

No date of issue specified. The ten small black & white captioned photos, in original paper holder with light scuffing. 3 x 7 inches.
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Raccolta di Vedutine Antiche e Moderne della citta di Roma e sue vicinanze. Incise da Francesco Rinaldi

Price: $310.08

Publisher: Roma, G. Antonelli : 1839

Seller ID: Books009703

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Good

Original side sewn cloth spine [somewhat perished] blue paper over card. Engraved title and 50 engraved plates. Oblong, measuring 8.6 x 5.5 inches [22 x 14.5 cm]. No stated date of issue. Signature and date to front and rear covers: Robert Wallace Rome January 8 1839. Covers stained and creased. All leaves with at least light soiling, though mostly marginal [not intruding to the image]. Happy to forward more photos. Despite some loss of cloth spine panel binding is secure. Insured shipping overseas will be more costly than the default: please inquire.
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Rankvedis Francuzu Kalbos [French to Lithuanian phrase book]

Price: $172.26

Publisher: Worcester, MA, "Amer. Lietuvio" : 1918

Seller ID: Books014231

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

110 pages. Cloth soiled; staples rusted, and textblock pulling away from pastedowns - but still firmly attached. No inscriptions. 6 x 3.25 inches.
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Red Star Line canvas ticket pouch / passport wallet

Price: $206.72

Publisher: Belgium, Red Star Line

Seller ID: Books014010

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Canvas ticket pouch, Antwerpen - Amerika and Antwerpen - Canada in four languages. 7 x 4.9 inches closed. Stain dripping from flag on front panel; light general soil; extremities rubbed. "Printed in Belgium" stamp to inside spine panel.
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Category: Travel