Search Results: Travel & Exploration from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

Ottawa: (Roger Duhamel, F.R.S.C.), 1962. Illustrated by color map, b/w photographs. Assumed first edition. 39-612-EL-T-7-P. Color stapled wraps. 8vo. pp. 40. Very Good+. Rubbed spots to cover, faint rear corner crease. Reprinted through the 1970's, wonderfully done. Dawson Creek to Whitehorse 918 miles; Whitehorse to Beaver Creek 262 miles; Beaver Creek to Fairbanks 323 miles..

Troy, NY: Nims and Knight, 1891. Illustrated by Tissue port frontis and 26 tissue plates of photographs. First edition. Illustrated moss green cloth decorated in gilt and black, thick gloss paper issue, top edge gilt. Super Royal 8vo. pp. 198. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Rebacked and cleaned in our bindery with new acid free endpapers. England, France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Greece, Turkey, Eygpt, Arabia and India, China, Japan..

Anchorage, Alaska: Dept. Natural Resources, 1963 Edition; ca.1960's. Illustrated by maps and b/w photos. Stapled pamphlet, uncut, white pictorial cover navy print of Malaspina. 8vo. pp. 28. Very Good. light wear, 3 pen numbers on rear cover..

[Denmark]: Kandrup & Wunech; Dyva & Jeppesens (2); J.A. Hansen; Det Berlingske Illustrated by M Bodecker; b/w and color; line drawings; photographs. 5 volumes. Folded maps, brochures and card wraps. Very Good to Near Fine. Light toning to several and one lightly stained, no tears, nice 50's collection of five. Four by National Travel Association of Denmark: 1-We Danes and You by Mogens Lind and Herluf Jensenius (illustrator) 1950 pp. 29, [3]; 2-Picuresque Denmark (6-section) acordian fold (1952); 3-Denmark (A Five-Day Tour Through) 6-folded sections n.d.; 4-Short Guide to Copenhagen (5-section) acordian fold. 5-Copenhagen The Graceful Capital of Denmark published by the official Copenhagen Tourist Association (illustrated by M. Bodecker), 4 folded sections with cut-out. (Post as one book)..

New York: George P. Putnam, 10 Park Place (T.B. Smith), 1852. Illustrated by 9 in b/w: 2 maps, text drawings, one fold-out plate is inserted at pp. 320 (labeled pp. 318). Stated third edition. c.1849. Dark Green blind-stamped and gilt embossed topboard illustration, gilt spine print, yellow eps. Large Post 8vo. pp. [4] blank, [iv], xvi, [2], 503. Appendix. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Foxing starting and some removed pressed flowers, one board nick, one section slightly pulled. Contains original preface of December 1849 and third edition preface of March 1852. Though this edition is revised and corrected, it unfortunately dispensed with the full page lithographs and kept nine illustrations pertinent to the text..

Firenze: Benechi Editore, (1979). Ristampa edition. (c.1967) No.9. Pictorial stitched wraps with issued plastic cover. 4to. pp. 127, [1] blank. Near Fine. Back strip reglued. Included is colored street map of Firenze laid in..

Fairbanks, Alaska: Commercial Printing, ca.1960's. Illustrated by color and b/w photos by Frank Whaley and others. unspecified edition. tri-fold pamphlet. 9x3.75-inches folded. pp. [2]. Very Good. Vintage cover prospector, Eskimos, gold dredges, riverboats, University of Alaska, Mt. McKinley..

Boston: D. Lothrop, (1886). Illustrated by b/w plates and text drawings throughout, folding map, orange map eps. First (NAP) edition. Decorated cloth, beveled boards. 4to. pp. 388. Very Good. Five Little Peppers author. Through the Year with the Poets publisher insert advertisement with "December" poem verso. Married to Daniel Lothrop, publisher..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. Illustrated by b/w tissue ports, text engravings and maps . First Edition Maps, Second US edition. c.1890. 2 volumes. Original decorated green buckram, brown eps. 8vo. pp. xiv, [2], 547. Appendix; xvi, 540. Appendices, Index. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Light cap and corner wear to cleaned covers. Hinges and all three 1890 maps in rear pockets have been archivally repaired and reinforced in-house by our binder KTB resulting in a handsome functioning working copy from books to maps, each of which is inserted in plastic in respective volume rear pockets. (Oversize: 6.25lb/2.83kg before packaging)..

Berkley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, (1994). Translated by author with annotations and introduction by. Illustrated by "abundant paintings, portraits, maps and drawings" in 64 b&w figures. first & printing (N1) edition. Illustrated wraps, PUR binding, alk. paper. Super Royal 8vo. pp. xxv, [2] map, 580. Notes, Bibliography, Index, Glossary. Near Fine. Light corner bump, unread copy. ISBN: 0520085809. Acclaimed as the only comprehensive collection to date in English of Chinese travel writing from the 1st-19th centuries, from Professor of Chinese at UCLA..

London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd. (R&R Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh), 1923. Edited by [E. C.]. First separate edition. Much serially appearing in in various forms in: The Times, The English Review, The Rangoon Times, The Blue Peter. [First produced in limited addition of 125 large paper copies]. Burgundy blind-stamped cloth, gilt print spine, thick paper issue. Large Post 8vo. pp. xxi, [1] blank, 224. Very Good/No jacket. Faint foxed spotting to pastedowns and eps, small stain in bottom margin page 79, quill ink owner and date (L. F. Percival, October 1923), trace corner rub, tiny frayed tear at head, heel lightly crushed..

Marathon Shores FL: Agnew Printing, 1965. Illustrated by b/w line drawings, maps and charts throughout. First edition. Stiff-wraps, color pictorial cover. 8vo. pp. 63, [1] Sponsors. Very Good. Light soil and stains to covers, short gift inscription, near fine internally. Period Key West guide with a plethora of facts and wonderful hand drawn illustrations on every page ..

Key West, FL: The Welcome Service, Key Lodge, 1953. Illustrated by Lemon yellow illustrated cover. Stapled pamphlet. 8vo. pp. 18, [2] map. Near Fine. Piracy, cigars, rum runners U.S. Navy, shrimp fishing, Ernest Hemingway house, period advertisements, rear fold-out map..

Valuz: Buchbinderei Thony, July 1967. Illustrated by color map, port and crest, b/w photos throughout. first edition. H.H. John Adam Pius Crown Prince of Lichtenstein and Marie Aglae Countess Kinsky to their wedding in Vaduz, the 30th of July, 1967, dedicated with devotion, the autor.. Blue cloth, pictorial paste-on, color map pastedown and ffep. Inscribed by "To my friend Born, in remembrance of his happy and successful stay in Liechtenstein, Baron Von Falzfein, 6 Oct 1983". 4to. pp. 87, [3] blank. Fine/No jacket. Prefaces and photo captions in German, English and French..

Washington, DC: GPO, 1907. Illustrated by Fold out map frontis. Stated 5th edition. No. 64 Hydrographic Office. Original Blue blind-stamped cloth, marbled edges. 8vo. pp. 626. Very Good. Pencil owner, Rubbed caps and corners, internally near fine. [Note: Volume I published separately as No. 86 starting in 1888]..

Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, (2004). Edited by Josh Leventhal. Illustrated by one map and compass vignettes. First (N1) edition. Royal paper covered boards. Cr.8vo. pp. 139, [1] Acknowledgments. Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Canoeist in Northwest Canada with then and now perspective. ISBN: 978089658560..

Italy: Edizioni Plurigraf, (1978). Illustrated by 115 color plates. Gloss pictorial wraps. 4to. pp. 79, [1] colophon. Near Fine. Traces of wear..

Paris: Editions Ode, n.d (ca.1944). Illustrated by Beuville, Firscsa, Pilon, De Sainte-Croix, Grau Sala in color and b/w. German edition. Full brown calf, gilt and embossed print, pictorial eps. 16mo. pp. 408. VG+/No jacket, as issued. Traces of wear to leather binding. Text in German..

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, (1953*). Illustrated by Lynd Ward Jacket, author [16 pp.] centerfold photographs, text maps. True First edition. Cloth backed grey pattern boards. 8vo. pp. xviii, 366. Appendices (7), Index . Near Fine/Very Good ($5.00)/Unclipped price in mylar. Spots of foxing on top edge of binding, shallow edgewear to jacket with small puncture mark. Acknowledgments, Foreword, Introduction, Historical Note. Peru: Gran Pajonal, Seven Cities of Cibola. Col. Clark's father brought the first reindeer from Iceland to Alaska during the Gold Rush and was himself a 'junkie' of the difficult and dangerous from military intelligence and reconnaissance to aircraft pilot and American OSS...leaving it all to lead expeditions from Asia to the Americas, dying on a diamond-mining expedition in Venezuela at barely 49 years, an under discovered Indiana Jones!..

: Fotorapidacolor, 1971. Illustrated by 170 color photgraphs. Color pictorial wraps. 8vo. pp. 128. VG/In mylar protector. Light soil. Beautiful color illustrated travel guide..