Philadelphia: Christopher Sower Company, 1933. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's green cloth lettered in dark green; viii,9-192pp.; photographic illus. throughout, map endpapers. Extremities rather rubbed with brief exposure and fraying at corners and spine ends, contemporary ex libris to front pastedown (with "Withdrawn" rubber-stamp); overall Good to Very Good, internally clean..... More
![Item #26216 The Holy Cities of Arabia [Two volume set]. Eldon Rutter](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26216.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1681764318)
London & New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, Ltd., 1928. First Edition, first impression. Two octavo volumes. 303; 288 pp. Frontispiece with lettered tissue guard to each volume; eight maps, complete. Green cloth boards decorated in gilt; top edges gilt. No dust jackets. Very slightly ex-library with paper label call numbers..... More
![Item #25583 [Drop title] Eli A. Smith: Noted U.S. Mail Carrier and Musher [With Original...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25583.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1676407134)
Washington? s.i., 1907. Presumed First Edition. Photo-illustrated broadsheet flyer (23x15.5cm) printed entirely in brown, text on verso in double columns; accompanied by original photograph (10x18cm) of Smith and his team. Old mail folds to flyer with bottom third entirely split, three small losses to right-hand margin from biopredation not affecting..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition with "A" and publisher's seal to copyright page. Large octavo. 295 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.75 price present. Light green cloth stamped in black and gilt; topstain. Dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with some fading to spine and..... More
Galata, Istanbul: Cituri Biraderler Basimevi, 19511. First French Language Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's grey pictorial cloth stamped in black; 630pp.; folding map plates, text illus. throughout. Some shelf wear, corners bumped, textblock rather toned due to poor paper stock, a couple map plates with closed tears, else Very Good and..... More
Buenos Aires: Editorial Viau SRL, 1943; facsimile of volume originally published by R. Ackermann in London in 1820. Limited Reprint Edition of 3470, of which this is No.1489. Quarto; xxviii + 115pp. Twenty-five full-color watercolors reproduced on 24 bound-in plates, including four landscape-format fold-out plates. Broché in cream cardstock, with..... More
![Item #000908 Yugoslavia [Signed by Maclean; Ambassador William Leonhart copy]. Fitzroy Maclean,...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/000908.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1616531280)
London: Thames and Hudson, 1969. First Edition. Signed by Maclean on front free endpaper with brief inscription "With best wishes Fitzroy Maclean, May 1970." Personal library stamp of Ambassador William Leonhart at bottom of front free endpaper and on back pastedown. Tall quarto; 296pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with £3..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1883. Presumed First American Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's decorative blue cloth embossed in gilt, black, and silver foil, all edges gilt; vii,[8]-511pp.; chromolithographed frontispiece and added title page, four leaves of plates, more than one hundred woodcuts throughout text. Boards rather scuffed with significant..... More
![Item #11784 This Was Potomac River [Signed]. Frederick Tilp](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11784.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1640032803)
Alexandria, VA: Frederick Tilp, 1978. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xv,[1],358pp. & [5]ll. photographic illus., additional illus. throughout. Light shelf wear and wrinkling to jacket, jacket extremities a bit toned, especially spine panel, contemporary ownership label to front free endpaper verso, else Very Good and..... More
[Cairo]: Gabriel Lekegian and Zangaki Brothers, n.d., ca. 1880s. Large oblong folio (25x34cm.); original brown cloth album with binder's ticket of the Parisian establishment Anc. Mon. Martinet to front pastedown; [50]ll. thick blue card stock filled nearly to completion with eighty-six (86) albumen photographs (mostly 20.5x27cm or the inverse) captioned..... More
New York: William Pearson, 1833. First Edition. 12mo. 216 pp., collated and complete. Bound in modern brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt and new endpapers. Boards sturdy and square. Light spotting and some occasional smudges to pages, but overall text unmarked and legible throughout. Satirical travel narrative..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. Second Edition. Two octavo volumes. 336 pp. 326 pp. + 10 pp. publisher's advertisements. Two hand-colored frontispieces, plate of Tauk Kisra, eight in-text woodcuts, and folding map of the author's route from Bussorah to Kizliar on the Borders of the Desert of Astrakhan with route in..... More
New York and London: Prestel, 2011. First Edition. Quarto; 2 vols in publisher’s custom case 30x31x12cm. Vol I 484pp, with 441 color images; Vol II 597pp, with 565 color images. Pictorial case, designed by Gilbert and George themselves, with built-in handles, so you can lug it around as luggage..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. First Edition. 16mo. 304 pages. Green blind-stamped cloth stamped in gilt. Brown endpapers and all edges stained red. Boards worn at extremities with brief exposure. Front boards shows rippling and bit of warping presumably from exposure to damp. Binding is sound..... More
![Item #12772 The Sea and the Jungle [Signed Limited Edition]. H M. Tomlinson, Clare Leighton](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/12772.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1647970778)
London: Duckworth, 1930. Limited Edition. Signed by Tomlinson without inscription and numbered 239 of 515 copies on title page verso. Octav0; 343pp. Woodcuts by Clare Leighton throughout. Green buckram with gilt lettering to spine. Gilt to top page edges, with deckled fore-edge. A few pages at back still uncut. Boards..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886. First Edition. Octavo. 418 pages plus advertisements. Green cloth stamped in red and gilt. Leafed endpapers. Poet and novelist Jackson was also an activist for Native American rights, and this volume of travel writing includes her essay, "The Present Condition of the Mission Indian..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. First Edition. Octavo. 401 pages. Purple cloth with bevelled edges. Stamped in gilt at spine with "Osgood" imprint. Brown endpapers. Boards a bit worn at extremities with brief exposure. Spine toned. Binding is sound. Light foxing to edges of text block and..... More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. First Edition. Signed by McCurdy to front free endpaper with inscription, "With Deepest Appreciation, Howard McCurdy." Bookplate of Republican statesman Caspar W. Weinberger to front pastedown. Octavo. 286 pp. Photographic dust jacket. Pale blue boards stamped in white. Jacket rubbed along..... More
Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1930. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 428 pp. Color frontis with tissue guard and black and white photographs. Illustrated dust jacket with $4.00 price present. Orange boards stamped in black. Color endpapers. Purple topstain. Dust jacket worn along edges with slight and shallow chipping. General..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894. First American Edition, after the Fifth English Edition. Octavo; publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in dark green and gilt; xv,[1],423pp.; photographic frontispiece, sixteen leaves of plates including folding map, additional illus. in text. Light shelf wear, corners rather bumped and spine cloth a shade..... More
Tokyo: Japan Foreign Trade Federation, 1945. [Printed June 15 & 20, 1945 via Japanese text on copyright.] First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cream pictorial cloth embossed in black and red; [4],239pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, seven leaves of photographic illus., maps and line drawings throughout text. Text in English. Ex-Library of Congress..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1936. First Edition, Limited to 790 copies of which this is no. 470. Large octavo; publisher's red cloth over paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label, housed in matching paper-covered slipcase; xviii,435pp.; five leaves of plates including four die-cut facsimiles tipped in and one folding map. Spine..... More
Kansas City, MO: R.M. Rigby Printing Co., [1904]. First Edition. Octavo. [18] pp., "Monument of James Bridger" plate present, though lacking initial frontis photo of Bridger. Printed wraps, inscribed though not signed by Grenville Dodge and "With compliments of" to front wrap. Light wear to edges of wraps..... More
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1955. Deuxieme Edition Revue [second revised edition]. Large, thick quarto; publisher's cream pictorial wrappers printed in brown, teal, and black; [6],554pp.; ten leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos, numerous maps and plans throughout. Wrappers a bit worn and quite toned, substantial dampstaining..... More
Lyon: Chez J.F. Rolland, Libraire. 24mo (5.25" x 3.5"); ii, 220pp. Illustrated frontis. Contemporary leather with red title card to spine and gilt lettering and decoration. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Concave warp to boards, with rubbing along edges and corners. Bottom inch of spine backing separated but present..... More