Travel Guides
Les Vosges et l'Alsace: Guide du Touriste. [3e ed.]
Strasbourg & Paris: Librairie Istra, (1950). 3e. edition. maps (folding map as frontis), 493p. Hardcover. dj. 18cm. Very Good/Very Good. French text. Travel guide. More
Guia Automovilistica del Valle de Mexico (Rutas e Itinerarios Turisticos)
Mexico: Asociacion Mexicana Automovilistica, 1940. Paperback. maps (1 folding), 284p. Wrapper. 17cm. Some cover spots. Ink and pencil notes on first blank leaf. Two leaves have a light stain on the upper right portion. Spanish text. A travel guide. More
La Cote d'Or: Guide du Touriste, de l'Archeologie et du Naturaliste
n.p. Imprimeries Reunies de Lyon, n.d. [pre-WWII?]. Hardcover. folding map, xlvii, 444p. Yellow paper-covered boards backed in brown cloth. Small printed photo on front cover of Hotel Chambellan in Dijon. 18cm. Moderate general wear. Pages browned. French text. This appears to be pre-WWII although OCLC lists guides with this title..... More
The Practical Guide to Algiers
London: Thomas Cook & Son, 1902. 10th edition. Hardcover. index, xix, 188p. Original flexible blue cloth. 16cm. Spine sloped. Some cover wear. No Jacket. This was the last edition of this guide to Algiers to be issued as a separate guide. More
The Practical Guide to Algiers
London: George Philip & Son, 1897. 7th edition. Hardcover. index, 74, xvii, [2], 2-176, 75-86p. Original flexible red cloth. 16 cm. Modest cover soil. No Jacket. This was the last edition of this guide to Algiers to be issued as a separate guide. More
Baalbek. [cover title]
n.p. n.d. [ca. 1922?]. Paperback. (8)p. introductory material plus 36p. photos and (2)p. adverts. Original tied wrapper. Oblong 18cm. Head of backstrip chipped. SIGNED by Harriz (signature dated Nov. 22, 1922). Souvenir Booklet. More
Souvenirs - What and Where?
Tokyo: Board of Tourist Industry. Japanese Government Railways, (Dec. 1935). (Revised Edition). Paperback. illustrations, folding map, 50p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19 cm. Cover chips and tears reglued here and there leaving some small gaps on narrow backstrip and in upper right corner of front cover. Internally sound with some..... More
The Official Guide to Japan with Preparatory Explanations on Japanese Customs, Language, History, Religion, Literature, Fine Art, Architecture, Music, Drama, Etc., Etc. A Handbook for Travellers
Tokyo: Japanese Government Railways, 1933. Hardcover. frontis (folding map), photos, maps (11 folding), illustrated endpapers, index, xxii, ccx, 506p.Original flexible red cloth. 16cm. Page edges lightly marbled. Fraying and a tear at base of backstrip. Name on endpaper. No Jacket. More
An Official Guide to Eastern Asia ... Vol. II: South-Western Japan
Tokyo: 1914. Hardcover. photos (most in text), 15 maps and plans (some folding), index, cciv, 370p. Original reddish brown cloth. 16 cm. Corners bumped. Extremities rubbed. Some stains on front cover. Contents sound and clean. No jacket. Five volumes were published: Vol. 1 on Manchuria and Korea; Vols. 2 &..... More
Madrid
Madrid: Libraria de la Viuda de Hernando, 1895. Hardcover. portraits, illustrations, 305p. Flexible red cloth. 20cm. Minor cover spotting. Text browned. Last text leaf pasted down making one suspect that some text is missing at end. Guias-Jorreto (series). Spanish text. A travel guide. Guias-Jorreto (series). More
Recollections of the Salzkammergut, Ischl, Salzburg, Bad Gastein, with a Sketch of Trieste
Trieste: Favarger, 1850. Hardcover. viii, 241p. Contemporary boards. 16cm. Backstrip chipped at ends and heavily rubbed (as are cover extremities). Former owner's name. Relatively light stain in upper right corner throughout along with some foxing. Page 178 refers to an illustration which, according to the Introduction, had to be omitted..... More
Guide to Salzburg and its Environs. Dedicated to Visitors at the Gd. Hotel de L'Europe by G. Jung Proprietor
Salzburg: G. Jung, n.d. (ca. 1900?). 60th and 70th Thousand. Paperback. illustrations, 110p. plus 32 numbered pages of advertisements. Original pictorial wrapper. 17 cm. Cover creased. Some chipping around edges. Text browned and has a small stain on fore-edge of several leaves. A most uncommon travel guide (despite the alleged..... More
Visit Java: Information for Travellers
Amsterdam: n.d. [ca. 1921]. Paperback. 2 folding maps, photos (in text), 40p. Pictorial wrapper. 20cm. More
Touring in Sikkim and Tibet
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co, 1943. Paperback. index, folding map (laid in), 126p. Softcover in original gray wrapper. 18cm. Backstrip darkened. Former owner's name on front cover. More
Sights in Boston and Suburbs, or Guide to the Stranger
Boston: John P. Jewett; Cleveland: Jewett, proctor & Worthington, 1856. Hardcover. frontis, folding map, 225p. plus [14]p. advertisements. Original cloth. 17 cm. Former owner's name in pencil on endpaper. Short tears on a couple of leaves. Scattered foxing. An attractive copy of a rather uncommon book. More
Terreiro da Lucta, Madeira. Terreiro da Lucta, Madeira
Madeira: n.d. Paperback. illustrations, [16]p. Wrapper. Oblong (17 x 13cm.). One could return by mount, by rail, or by sleigh. More
Handbook for Travellers in India, Ceylon & Burma. 1894. Second edition
London: John Murray, 1894. Second edition. Hardcover. maps, (around 34 folding, including all 9 folding maps at the end as well as the railway map in the cover pocket), lxiii, 484p. Hardcover in original red cloth which had been rebacked in matching modern red leather. 18 cm. Ex lib. with..... More
Handbook for Travellers in Japan Including the Whole Empire from Saghalien to Formosa
London: John Murray, 1907. Eighth Edition, revised and partly rewritten. Hardcover. maps (mostly folding, including frontis and pocket), index, ix, [1], 570p. plus 32p. adverts. Original (and still bright) red cloth. 18 cm. The original owner of this volume was from Waterford, Maine and used this for a 1910 trip..... More
How to See Kansai Area: Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Nara
Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, 1949. Hardcover. photos, maps (some double-page), index, 6, (1), 160p. Original red boards. Pictorial dj. 18cm. Slightly bowed. Jacket has modest edge-wear and a couple of small chips. Text somewhat browned. More
Take This Guide with you and Travel First Class: 1947-8 Edition
n.p. United States: Quality Courts United, Inc, 1947. 1947-8 ed. Paperback. color illustrations, index, (82)p. Softcover in original pictorial wrapper. 14 cm. OCLC locates 2 holdings (U of Miami and Hagley Museum & Library). 82 locations are pictured and described -- two to a page -- in this little vest-pocket-sized..... More
Artistic and Inexpensive Tours in Egypt Conducted by A. Meguid Semeda
[Cairo?]: n.d. [ca. 1920?]. Paperback. photos, 37p. Pamphlet. 16cm. More
Povolzh'e: Priroda, Byt, Khoziastvo: Putevoditel' po Volge, Oke, Kame, Viatke i Beloi
Leningrad: Izdanie Volzhskogo Gosudarstvennogo Parakhdstva i Transpechati NKPS, 1928 [date on backstrip]. Hardcover. photos, folding maps (some color), viii, 591p. Thin red cloth covers. 17cm. Cover fading (also has a couple of white paint spots). Moderate general wear. No Jacket. Russian text. Travel Guide to the Volga River region of..... More
Handbook and Guide (Foreign Edition), Containing Lists of C.T.C. Hotel Head-Quarters, Recommended Inns, Consuls, Places for Repairs, etc., etc.
London: s' Touring Club, June, 1889. Hardcover. 194p. plus diary and index. Thin flexible brown cloth. 17cm. Bound in at the front is a printed four-page supplement titled "Amendments and Additions for Season 1890." A travel guide. More
Time Table & Itinerary of Seven Days' Tour (DL) from London to Devon & Cornwall
Brighton: Southdown Motor Services Ltd., n.d. [ca. 1938?]. Paperback. Illustrated. 39p. Wrapper. 19cm. Scattered pencil notes in margins. Minor dog-earing. Small corner chips on cover. More