Mexico, 1922. Hardcover. Very good. 36, 66 p. 27 cm. 66 p. of b&w illustrations. Black spine with marbled paper boards, tiny cloth corners now worn. Lower spine a bit faded or discoloured. Ink inscription on title page. Pages mostly clean and neat with only an occasional mark. Spanish text.
London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1823. Hardcover. Good +. Originally published 1821 as per second title page. Plate 1 has imprint: Pub'd by Harvey & Darton, Jan. 1, 1823. 12, [22], 346, [2] p. 19 cm. Frontispiece plate and title page vignette. 2 other engraved plates. Bound in blue buckram with new endpapers. Tape-repaired title page. Some spotting to rear of plates, ink signature at top of second title page. "Designed for the use of young persons." Various descriptions of Canada, U.S. and Mexico.
Toronto: Miln-Bingham Printing Company, 1924. eighteenth edition. Good. xcvi, 678 p. 23 cm. Numerous maps and some b&w illustrations in advertising. Soft cloth cover with gold print. Some wrinkling and light wear. Pastedowns are starting to separate from covers. Some marks to front free endpaper. Pages browning but neat and clean. Index to advertisers, routes, maps, and places. List of golf clubs in Ontario, fishing in Ontario, customs information, motor vehicle laws, etc. Advertising for many now vanished hotels, tire shops, garages, museums, dance halls, and so on.
Ottawa: National Parks Service, Lands and Development Services Branch, Department of Mines and Resources, nd. ca. 1941. Staplebound. Very good. 32 p. 26 cm. B&w photos. Maps at rear. Staplebound booklet. A few faint marks to exterior and faint stain inside front cover. Story and photos for Banff, Jasper, Waterton Lakes, Yoho, Kootenay, Glacier, Mount Revelstoke.
London: Rowland Ward, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. ex library- fair. xiv, 259, [9] p. 23 cm. 61 b&w plates, fold-out plan, and fold-out map. Brown cloth with gold print. Ex library with label on front cover, call number on lower spine, bookplate and stamp on front pastedown, labels and stamps on rear pastedown, ink notation title page verso. Spine ends torn and chipped, discolouration to spine, worn corners and bottom edges, dent in edge of front board. Occasional thumbing, large tear in rear map. The author describes Petersburg, Moscow, the Obi River, Altai Highlands, Mongolia, wild sheep, etc. Appendix on fitting out for Mongolia. Index.
Sevenoaks, Kent: J. Salmon Ltd, nd. Eleventh impression. Softcover. Near fine/Good +. Unpaginated. 24 cm. 12 watercolour plates. Softcover in wrapper. Small tears to wrapper (removed for photo). Includes illustrations of St. George's, Hamilton, an ancient buttery, an Easter Lily field, Paget shore, etc. Copyright the authors in Hamilton, Bermuda.
Glasgow: Printed at the University Press for Hurst, Robinson, & Company, London, 1823. Hardcover. ex library-fair. 2 vols.: xvi, 333; xii, 384 p. 19 cm. 8 maps in vol. 1 and 6 in vol. 2. Quarter red cloth with red paper boards. A little discolouration to spine cloth. Ex library with ink stamps on title pages, last pages, and within. Former owner's labels and ink notations on front endpapers, half titles, and titles. Mark on vol. II half title. A few spots inside. Many ink and pencil underlinings, notes, messy erasure marks within. Descriptions of the voyage, New York, Boston, New Haven, Yale College, Princeton, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Alexandria, Mount Vernon, River Hudson, Albany, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, American Indians, Niagara Town, Lake Ontario, St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec City, Lake Champlain, New York State. Interesting sections on a procession of free Blacks, slave auction, early universities, an attempt to steal the body of George Washington, the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, advice about emigration, prospects of the United States, etc.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1841. Hardcover. Fair. 474 p. 24 cm. 46 engraved plates. Cloth hardcover with gold impressing. Torn front hinge, chips in spine ends and rear hinge, some scuffs to cloth, worn corners. Foxing throughout and dampstains to margins. The author visits Palenque, Copan, Uxmal, Merida, etc.
San Diego: G. F. Wolcott, 1935. Softcover. Good +. 84 p. 22 cm. B&w illustrations. Double-page colour illustration for Firestone in centre and colour Ford ad inside front cover. Softcover. Moderate wear to covers. Includes map of the site, calendar of events, article on the architecture of the exposition, description of the exhibit buildings and exhibits, directory of buildings and exhibitors, alphabetical directory of exhibitors.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1957. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. 287 p. 22 cm. B&w photos and illustrations. Maps on endpapers. Grey cloth hardcover in mylar-covered dustjacket. Front flap of jacket price clipped, some faint soiling to its rear. Long Christmas gift inscription on page opposite title. A little wear to bottom edges. Signed by authors on half title.
Philadelphia, 1904. Hardcover. Good. 186 p. 24 cm. B&w photos. Brown spines with brown paper boards. Black marks on spine, some soiling to boards. Foxing, especially to tissue guard over frontispiece, and some thumbing. The author described his impressions of Algiers, Genoa, Taormina, Amalfi, Rome, Venice, Mont Blanc, Geneva, Paris, London, etc.
Moncton, NB: Intercolonial Railway of Canada, 1913. Hardcover. Very good. 310, [6] p. 23 cm. Numerous b&w photographs and designs by the author. Half black leather with blue leather boards. Marbled endpapers and red text block edges. A few small marks and scuffs to outside. Some marks to tops of Contents and Title leaves as well as pp. 289-297. Title continues: "A Description of the Vacation Resources of Eastern Quebec and the Maritime Provinces of Canada, in the territory served by the Canadian Government Railways:- Intercolonial Railway, Prince Edward Island RailwayHistory and sightseeing in the Maritime provinces in 1913." The author recommends trains, enjoyable water outings by steamboat, pleasant walks and drives. This practical information is interspersed with historical details and local folklore, from the days of the "Indians" to more recent settlers.
London: Edward Stanford, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. x, [2], 316 p. 22 cm. 3 fold-out colour maps and 8 b&w illustrations. Half leather with marbled boards. New spine label. Corners a little worn, some scuffs to leather, gold wearing thin on spine. Some label residue on front pastedown. Light foxing. The first half of this book details the author's impressions during his third visit to Canada, in which he reaches the West on the Canadian Pacific Railway through the Rockies to Vancouver and Victoria. Chapters VII to IX describe farming conditions and prospects for emigrants in Manitoba. Barneby returned home to his native Herefordshire via San Francisco, Japan, China, Ceylon and Egypt.
New York: The Viking Press, nd. Accurate facsimile of 1957 first edition. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. As new/As new. 309 p. 21 cm. Black cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket.
New York: New Directions, 1970. Softcover. Near fine. 58 p. 21 cm. B&w drawings. Paperback. Inscribed by author on title page.
Edinburgh: Cadell and Co, 1829. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 3 vols.: iv, ii, 421; 432; vii, 436 p. 20 cm. Hand-coloured fold-out map of Canada and U.S. in vol. I and fold-out table at rear of vol. III. Half black leather with marbled boards. Light wear to extremities. Bookplates for Humphrey St. John Mildmay on front pastedowns with overlying ones for Francis Reynolds Dickinson and Alice May Dickinson detached. Some foxing, mainly to first pages and last. After retiring from the British Navy, Captain Hall (1788-1844) spent much of his time in private travel, visiting North America in 1827-8 and publishing this account in 1829. He visited the major cities of the eastern and southern states, commenting on education, politics, government, slavery, the judicial system, and manufacturing. His criticism of American customs, including "ungraceful" snake fences (Vol. I, p. 129), the treatment of African-Americans, even in the north (Vol. II, p. 77), and the lack of safety on steamboats (Vol. III, p. 312), caused much indignation in the U.S. Of the Americans he writes: "there is always a solemn sort of enigmatical assumption of the intricacy and transcendent grandeur of their whole system, not to be comprehended by weak European minds" (Vol. I p. 212). Chapters VI to XIV in Vol. I contain Hall's account of Upper and Lower Canada, describing military defences, canals, immigration, and settlement. He writes that "a more loyal or determined people never existed than the Canadian settlers" (Vol. I, p. 249). Former owner Humphrey St John Mildmay (1794–1853) was an English merchant banker and politician and Francis Reynolds Dickinson and his daughter Alice May were members of a prominent Chicago family.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1937. Second impression. Hardcover. Very good +/Fair. 183 p. 26 cm. Numerous b&w and partial colour illustrations. Red cloth hardcover in brown dustjacket. Chipped and torn edges to jacket as well as some soiling. A few spots inside.
London: Dean & Son. Fourth Edition; "Popular Edition". Softcover. Good. xvi, 310, [2] p. 19 cm. 35 b&w illustrations. Yellow card covers with dark spine. Boards soiled and edges worn. A few spots and some thumbing inside but overall neat and clean. The author discusses his trip to Africa, Cape Town, Kimberley, diamond fields, the Orange Free State, Zulus, crossing the Drakensberg, Natal, Durban, Transvaal, Pretoria, etc. Line drawings of Port Elizabeth, a Zulu war dance, Umgeni Falls, Inquita Mountains, Boer prisoners, use of the heliograph, etc.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1882. Hardcover. Good. ix, 167, 44 p. 20 cm. B&w illustrations. Green cloth hardcover. 1884 Book Club label on lower front. Some light wear to bevelled eges. Bumped corners. Front hinge cracking. Book club label attached to front free endpaper. Some foxing and thumbing. Small chip bottom of p. 3. Five Victorian friends do Switzerland: Travelogue includes Basel, Zurich, mountain ascents, Lucerne, Interlachen, Grindelwald, glaciers, Bern, Lausanne, Geneva, Martigny, Zermatt, etc.
Auckland: MOA Publications, 1985. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. 224 p. 30 cm. Colour and b&w illustrations. Green cloth and paper hardcover in pictorial dustjacket. Inscribed by authors on title page. Mourie is a rugby player, Dingle a mountaineer. Foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary
