Other Places and Other Times

The Achievements of Stanley and Other African Explorers, Comprising all of the late and really great achievements won in the exploration of the vast unknown re3gion of equatorial Africa… and solving the great mystery of proving Livingston’s Luabala verily the headwaters of the mighty CONGO…, by Hon. J. T. Headley.  Philadelphia:  Hubbard Bros., 1878.  Dark green clothbound octavo; decorative, illustrated gilt title on spine.  605 pages, with numerous illustrations.  Edges foxed.  Beautiful addition to your travel library.  $85

Across Madagascar, by Olive Murray Chapman.  London: Burrow, n.d. (WWII era).  Map and photographs by the author.  144 pages with index.  Cover poor, text clean.  $20

The American Universal Geography, or, A View of the Present State of All the Empires, Kingdoms, States, & Republics in the Known World & of the United States in Particular, Vol. II, by Jedidiah Morse.  Boston: Isiah Thomas & Ebenezer T. Andrews,  June 1796, 2nd ed. (first pub. 1784).  This is the second volume of a two-part work and covers Europe, Asia and Africa.  Full leather, 692 pp., many maps.  Worn with chipped spine ends.  All original 18th-century binding.  $200 

The Best in Eric Mann’s Travel Report.  NY: Ardlee, 1965, first edition.  Softcover, 172 pages.  Army Specialist training instructor during World War II and, after the war, the first American professor at the University of Paris, Mann had interesting contacts all over the world.  This book takes him from Finland to Japan.  Period advertising.  VG.  $25

The Book of New York, by Robert Shackleton, illus. by R. L. Boyer.  Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Co., 1920.  377 pages, with drawings, photographs, illustrated front board.  Front hinge cracked.  $22

Ethiopia, by Jean Doresse.  London:  Elek Books & NY: Putnam’s, 1959.  239 pages, with bibliography, index, numerous illustrations.  $25

The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History, trans. from Arabic by Franz Rosenthal.  Three volumes. Bollingen Series XLIII.  NY: Pantheon, 1958.  Critical introduction and annotation; index; plates; biblio- graphy.  Dust jacket spines are sun-darkened, and the jacket spine of Vol. 2 is missing a small piece at the top.  Owner initial stamp on front-facing end- papers.  All three volumes VG/G+.  Set $275 

Norway Through the Stereoscope: Notes on a Journey Through the Land of the Vikings, arranged by M. S. Emery, edited by Julius E. Olson, with introduction by the Hon. Knute Nelson of the U.S. Senate.  NY and London: Underwood & Underwood, 1907.  365 pages plus index.  The slides are missing, but this is an extremely scarce title, and the word pictures alone are irresistible.  VG.  $110

Pencillings By the Way, by N. P. Willis.  London:  John MaCrone, 1835.  3 vols.  Three-quarters leather, marbled boards.  Notes from travels through Europe, Mediterranean and Near East.  Worn but tight.  $150

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The Picturesque St. Lawrence River: A Souvenir of the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence River from Kingston and Cape Vincent to Morristown and Brockville….  Watertown, NY: Jno. A. Haddock, under the Patronage of the Thousand Island Club of Alexandria Bay, 1896, second edition, revised and corrected.  Clothbound, 256 pages, with index, numerous photographs, foldout map.  Spine ends worn; some dampstaining to edges; front hinge cracked.  $125

Story of China and Japan, Embracing their geographical positions, enormous resources, wealth, emperors and courts, etc., etc., Together with a sketch of Corea [sic] and the Coreans [sic], and the causes leading to the Conflict of 1894, by James Hyde Clark, assisted by Chang Wong and K. Tatoni.  Oriental Publishing Company, 1894; printed in Philadelphia.  416pp, with many photographs.  Decorative boards are chipped and worn; original spine cloth has been somewhat clumsily replaced.  Good. $125

Ten Years Old and Under: The Story of a Boyhood in the Old South, by Buckner Magil Randolph.  Boston: Ruth Hill, 1935.  Subtitle is as above on front board; on title page the subtitle reads: The Recollections of a Childhood Spent on a Farm Which Lay in the Battle Ground of the War Between the States, and is Covered by the Period of 1873-1880.  Bound in red cloth with illustrated dust jacket.  Edges foxed; otherwise VG/VG. $50 

Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, divided into journeys.  Interspersed with useful observations; particularly calculated for the use of those who are desirous of traveling over England and Scotland, by Rev. C. Crutwell.  London: 1891.  Three volumes of 6-vol. work.  Three-quarters leather. $100 for one volume or all for $275

A Teasury of Mexican Folkways: The Customs, Myths, Folklore, Traditions, Beliefs, Fiestas, Dances and Songs of the Mexican People. By Frances Toor, illus. Carlos Merida.  NY: Crown, 1947.  566 pages, with index.  Inscribed by author.  $80

The Whalers of Akutan: An Account of Modern Whaling in the Aleutian Islands, by Knut B. Birkeland.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926.  First edition.  Green cloth.  VG.  $80

William H. Seward’s Travels Around the World, ed. by Olive Risley Seward.  NY: D. Appleton & Co., 1873.  Blue octavo with gilt title, portrait, globe and decoration on spine and front board.  Numerous wonderful illustrations and maps, along with economic and political information.  VG.  $200