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Sansom, William
AWAY TO IT ALL
DJ with slight edgewear and with light tape repair. Rough spot on front free endpaper from removed price sticker; Author Sansom describes his impressions in a general sense in various ports of call in Europe; 8vo; 224 pages
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Papp, Antal
HUNGARY Guide Book
Detailed guide to travelling in 1970s Hungary ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 351 pages
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Kaplan, Robert D.
EASTWARD TO TARTARY Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
Top corners bumped. Slight wear to DJ ; author Kaplan journeys into the heart of what was once the Ottoman Empire; 8vo; 364 pages
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Maass, Peter
LOVE THY NEIGHBOR A Story of War
An unsparing account of the nightmarish civil war in the former Yugolsavia. Author Maass is in Bosnia during the worst of the strife ; 8vo; 305 pages
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Jankowski, Stanislaw & Ciborowski, Adolf
WARSCHAU 1945, Heute Und Morgen
Light wear to DJ; Outstanding photogravures of Warsaw at the time of publication - ' then and now' photos as well. Text in German; B&W & Color Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 208 pages
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Kunsky, Josef
HOMES OF PRIMEVAL MAN Wandering in the Caves of Czechoslovakia
Boards foxed and browned; Outstanding photogravures ; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall
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Krzisnik, Zvone
SLOVENIA
Slight wear to DJ; Slovenia occupies the northwestern area of the former Yugoslavia and this book offers essays and photos of its past and present history; Color Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 224 pages
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Various
RIGA
Chipping and small closed tears to DJ ; Preface and photo captions in English and Latvian (? ) Unpaginated; Color Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall
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Stark, Freya
TRAVELLER'S PRELUDE
Spine a bit sunned; Family history in the form of reminiscences and letters, sketching the early life of one of the top travel writers; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 346 pages
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Stark, Freya
TRAVELLER'S PRELUDE
Endpapers browned. Small bookseller's sticker to rear endpaper; Family history in the form of reminiscences and letters, sketching the early life of one of the top travel writers. stated first edition; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 346 pages
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Stark, Freya
BEYOND EUPHRATES Autobiography 1928-1933
Wear with small open tears to price clipped DJ. Original price sticker to DJ; Yet another volume of autobiography from Stark, this follows Traveller's Prelude. Stated first edition ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 341 pages
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Warner, Charles Dudley
SAUNTERINGS
Slight wear to extremities and boards. Occasional pencil notations. ; Handsome copy! Author Warner wanders about Europe, including Paris, the Low Countries, Italy, and Bavaria ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 289 pages
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Baedeker, Karl
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY Including Dalmatia and Bosnia
Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Edges browned. Else a unusually well preserved copy with bold gilt lettering. ; With 33 maps and 44 plans. ; 16mo - 6" to 7" tall; 468 pages
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Baedeker, K.
THE EASTERN ALPS Including Bavarian Highlands, Tyrol, Salzburg, Upper and Lower Austria, Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola
Boards worn, spine sunned, edges darkened. Hinges gapping but holding together. Small hole on first few pages. Internally VG+ with binding tight and all maps fully intact; 34 Maps, 9 Pans, and 7 Panoramas ; 16mo - 6" to 7" tall; 504 pages
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Olsen, Harvey S.
MOTORING GUIDE TO FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, & ITALY
Boards with light wear to extremities. Small crease to front board; Ex-Library; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 964 pages
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Baedeker, Karl
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY Including Dalmatia and Bosnia
Light soiling to boards. Former owner's name on half title page. Internally a very neat copy with NF maps ; With 33 maps and 44 plans. ; 16mo - 6" to 7" tall; 468 pages
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Holland, Clive
CZECHOSLOVAKIA The Land and its People
Including rear folding map in color ; B&W Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall
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Hazen, Charles Downer
FIFTY YEARS OF EUROPE 1870-1919
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Two small spots to back board. Binding could be tighter; Europe's history until the end of WWI ; 8vo
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Fremantle, Anne; Holme, Bryan
EUROPE A Journey with Pictures
DJ with light chipping and with one open tear to top spine. ; Profusely illustrated with photographures. A forerunner of a coffee table book; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 248 pages
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Tuckova, Anna; Svoboda, Alois
PREGUE DE NOS BALADES
DJ with light rubbing to extremities. Faint waterstaining to front board ; A profusely illustrated book - photogravures, drawings, sketches ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 324 pages
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Judson, Harry Pratt
EUROPE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Chautauqua Reading Circle Literature; B&W Illustrations; 8vo
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Baedeker, Karl
THE MEDITERRANEAN Seaports and Sea Routes. Including Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Coast of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Handbook for Travellers
Top spine darkened. A very handsome and tight copy; 16mo; 607 pages
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Baedeker, Karl
THE MEDITERRANEAN Seaports and Sea Routes. Including Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Coast of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Handbook for Travellers
Outer hinge separating (but holding together). Former owner's name on front endpaper. Else a very nice copy; 38 maps and 49 plans. Describes the coastline of the mediterranean sea including Spain, Gibraltar and along Northern Africa to the Black sea. Additional chapter on popular sea routes in the eastern Meditarranean. One of the highlights of the book are the detailed typical colored Baedeker citymaps of Athens, Venice, Genoa and Constantinople (among others) ; 16mo; 607 pages
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Baedeker, Karl
THE MEDITERRANEAN Seaports and Sea Routes. Including Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Coast of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Handbook for Travellers
Front hinge professionally repaired. First few pages frail and with light chipping ; With 38 Maps and 49 Plans ; 16mo; 607 pages
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Sepic, Dragovan
A GUIDE TO ISTRIA
Boards with light rubbing to extremities ; Color Photographs; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 256 pages
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Mackinder, H. J.
THE RHINE
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. ; Blindstamped decorative green boards with gilt letterings and gilt spine lettering. Numerous watercolor drawings; Color Illustrations; 8vo; 383 pages
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Thomes, William H.
THE GOLD HUNTERS IN EUROPE Or, the Dead Alive
Boards with moderate wear to extremities. Bottom spine professionally repaired. Back hinge a bit gapping; Juvenile novel with recurring characters, this time hunting mineral riches in Europe; The Gold Huter's Library; 8vo; 384 pages
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Baedeker, Karl
THE EASTERN ALPS Including Bavarian Highlands, Tyrol, Salzburg, Upper and Lower Austria, Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola
Former owner's name on front free endpaper. One map with edgewear, rest in NF condition; With 73 Maps, 16 Plans, and 11 Panoramas; 16mo - 6" to 7" tall; 682 pages
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Rybar, Ctibor
PRAGUE Guide Renseignements Faits
A profusely illustrated guide in French in the design of the 50ies or 60ies. The book is not that old but represents a totally different time when you still needed a visa to enter Czechoslovakia ; B&W Illustrations; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 392 pages
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Kaljuste, J.
VILJANDI
Profuesly illustrated brochure with photogravures in blue tone. Picture legends are in Estonian and in Russian (in laid-in sheet as issued) ; 8vo
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Ostrowski, Jan K.
WAWEL Castle and Cathedral
8vo
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Stark, Freya
TRAVELLER'S PRELUDE
Endpapers browned. Small bookseller's sticker to rear endpaper; Family history in the form of reminiscences and letters, sketching the early life of one of the top travel writers; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 346 pages
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Stark, Freya
THE COAST OF INCENSE Autobiography 1933-1939
Light wear and very small open tear to DJ. ; The third installment of the self-penned life story of Freya Stark, covering the years 1933-1939; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 287 pages
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Cristu, Virginia
PELES The Peles Museum
Boards with light rubbing to extremities; Color and b&w photographs. ; 8vo; np pages
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Ripley, Alexandra
SCARLETT [TWO VOLUMES, POLISH EDITION] Ciag Dalszy Przeminelo Z Wiatrem Margaret Mitchell
This Polish translation in two volumes is in a custom made 1/2 calf leather sturdy slipcase in NF condition, with gilt lettering and gilt linear design. ; 8vo; 311, 491 pages
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Meurer, Julius
A HANDY ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO VIENNA AND ENVIRONS With 48 Illustrations: Maps of Vienna and the Semmering; and Plans of Schönbrunn and Laxenburg
Very small spots to front board. Former owner's name on front free endpaper ; A rare "Baedeker-clone" including VG+ rear fold out map ; 16mo; 128 pages
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[Murray's]
A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS ON THE CONTINENT Part 1: Holland, Belgium, Rhenish Prussia, and the Rhine from Holland to Mayence
Spine darkened and with light chipping to spine ends. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Bookseller sticker. Title page top 1/2" cut off. Hinges gapping but holding strongly together. ; With copious information about travelling to the various countries listed, several maps, and an advertising section in the rear; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; xl, 329, 10, 72 pages
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[Murray's]
A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS ON THE CONTINENT Part 2: North Germany from the Baltic to the Black Forest. the Hartz, Thürignerwald, Saxon Switzerland, Rügen, the Giant Mountains, Taunus, Odenwald, and the Rhine Countries from Frankfurt to Basle, & C, &c.
Boards with moderate wear to extremities. Spine sunned and with spine ends chipping. Hinges gapping but holding strongly together. ; With copious information about travelling to the various countries listed, several maps, and an advertising section in the rear. VG map in rear pocket; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; xl, 329, 10, 72 pages
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Lockwood, Mary S.
AFOOT AND AWHEEL IN EUROPE
Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and gilt shields. Tissue guarded frontispiece of "the Jungfrau". Numerous b&w plates. ; 8vo; 233 pages
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Baedeker, Karl
THE MEDITERRANEAN Seaports and Sea Routes. Including Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Coast of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Handbook for Travellers
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Faint dampstaining to front free endpaper. Internally one of the best copies we have ever seen. ; With 38 Maps and 49 Plans ; 16mo; 607 pages
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Baedeker, Karl
THE MEDITERRANEAN Seaports and Sea Routes. Including Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Coast of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Handbook for Travellers
Ex-library with minimal markings. Hinges started; With 38 Maps and 49 Plans ; 16mo; 607 pages
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Monroe, Will S.
BOHEMIA AND THE CECHS The History, People, Institutions, and the Geography of the Kingdom, Together with Accounts of Moravia and Silesia
Boards with very light shelfwear. Spine and gilt spine lettering a bit faded. Bookplate; Grey decorative boards with gilt lettering and colorful shield to front board. Top edge gilt. Numerous b&w photographs. Large fold out map on japon paper ; 8vo; 488 pages
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Fetridge, W. Pembbroke
HARPER'S HAND-BOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN EUROPE AND THE EAST Being a Guide through Great Britain and Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy, Siily, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Switzerland, Tyrol, Spain, Russia, Denmark, and Sweden
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's name on first blank page. Maps missing. ; Bound in full black leather with closing latch. Gilt spine lettering. Extensive rear ad section. A very handsome and tight copy with marbled edges ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 637 pages
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Hare, Augustus J. C.
SKETCHES IN HOLLAND AND SCANDINAVIA
Bookplate. Front free endpaper detached but present. Spine ends a bit frayed; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 134 pages
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Halsey, Francis W.
SEEING EUROPE WITH FAMOUS AUTHORS [VOLUME VIII] Italy, Sicily, and Greece. Part Two
Rubbing to extremities. Binding cracked ; Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Cullen Bryant, and Percy Bysshe Shelley are some of the authors whose writing about Europe enliven this collection; B&W Photographs; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 192 pages
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Osborne, Albert B.
PICTURE TOWNS OF EUROPE
DJ a bit darkened and with light chipping. Pages browned. Tape residue on page opposite title page ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; viii, 246 pages
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Shackleton, Robert
UNVISITED PLACES OF OLD EUROPE
Bookplate; Numerous tissue guarded halftone photographs. The less known towns throughout Europe; Copper plate; 8vo; 320 pages
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Osbourne, Albert B.
PICTURE TOWNS OF EUROPE
Boards with moderate wear and with spine lettering faded. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; xii, 247 pages
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Greenwood, Grace
EUROPE: ITS PEOPLE AND PRINCES. - ITS PLEASURES AND PALACES A Graphic and Interesting Narrative of a Distinguished American Woman's Tour of One Year Among the Leading Attractions of Europe; Sketching Her Visits to Various Countries, Her Experiences in Humble Homes and Royal Palaces, and Her Full Share (...)
Occasional faint foxing. Some pages darkening ; Beautiful victorian boards with a bit tanning ; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 437 pages
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[Macmillan and Co. ]
MURRAY'S HANDBOOK OF TRAVEL-TALK Being a Collection of Questions, Phrases, and Vocabularies in English, French, German, & Italian
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Former owner's name on front free endpaper; "Intended to serve as interpreter to English travellers abroad and foreigners in England"; 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 688 pages
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