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The first monograph in book form on Saint Helena

New listing
[Dr. Francis DUNCAN]
A Description of the Island of St. Helena, first edition, and very rare on the market.
$800

Canada - 1911 Coronation Souvenir

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$100 or less
Canada - 1911 Coronation Souvenir
$95

FLY CANADIAN PACIFIC.

New listing
$100 or less
FLY CANADIAN PACIFIC. FOUR-ENGINED - FULLY PRESSURIZED EMPRESSES OF THE AIR - CANADA - AUSTRALASIA - FAR EAST.
$25

Rocky Mountain Gold

New listing
Morris, Maurice O'Connor
Rambles in the Rocky Mountains, With a Visit to the Gold Fields of Colorado
$175
New listing
$100 or less
Pre-Statehood Hawaii The Big Island Brochure and Map
$40

NELLIE BLY PORTRAIT - 1890

$100 or less
PORTRAIT of JOURNALIST NELLIE BLY pn PROSPECTUS for APRIL 1890 ISSUE of DEMOREST'S MAGAZINE
SOLD

excellent maps of the Americas inter alia

[Herman MOLL (d. 1732, engraver)]. – Thomas SALMON (1679-1767)
Modern History: or, the Present State of all Nations, 1755 Dublin edition, 5 volumes bound in six
$3200
$100 or less
Small Photograph Album Featuring Ostriches and a Trip to Catalina Island
$50

Early Travel to the West

$100 or less
Two Beautiful Tourism Booklets: Southern California and Southwest, Golden State Railroad
$100

20th Century High Point of Western Americana

Kern, Edward M (Commentary by Seymour Dunbar)
[California] Fort Sutter Papers--A Transcript Together with the Historical Commentaries by Seymour Dunbar
$3750

A VERY FINE COPY

Huang Shou fu und Tan Zhong yue yuan zhu; Dryden Linsley Phelps, (translator)
Mount Omei Illustrated Guide
$175

Early Oil and Gas Import Report South America

John A. Hendricks
Original Geological Report for Citgo in 1920s Guatemala: A Reconnaisance of the Oil Possibilities of the Departments of Alta Verapez and El Peten
$950

Yosemite! 44 Real Photo Postcards. Many Pillsbury.

Pillsbury et al.
Yosemite Real Photo Postcards
$200

Shasta Springs Siskiyou California Post Card Album

Mix Lot Different Publishers
110 Post Cards Siskiyou County Collection, Mostly Printed Views, Some Photo
$150

American Board of Commissioners Foreign Missions

$100 or less
Langdon S. Ward
1866 Missionary House Boston - Missionary Packet Morning Star - 1 Share $1, The Morning Star was built for missionaries working in the Hawaiian islands
$75
[CUBA] Vintage Lot c1940s Travel Broadsides MIAMI BEACH TO HAVANA CRUISES Paramount
SOLD

Good Times

$100 or less
Quaint Old New Orleans
$65

Paris

$100 or less
54 Photogravures de N.D. Phot.: Paris, St. Cloud, Versailles & Trianons
$65

SIGNED by All 3 Contributors

Combs, Jack Beckham; Jennifer L. McCoy; Julia E. Sweig
The Cubans
$250

Describes his travels and botanical observations.

Sir Spenser ST JOHN
Life in the Forests of the Far East: Or, Travels in Northern Borneo - 2 vol. with numerous illustrations (1862)
$625

Kingdom of Ava ruled upper Burma from 1365 to 1555

Michael Symes
An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, sent by the Governor-General of India in the Year 1795.
$1790

Extraordinary condition. Undamaged map and pages

Marco Polo, W. Marsden (translation)
The Travels of Marco Polo, A Venetian, in the Thirteenth Century ..... (1818), RARE FIRST EDITION of Marsden's translation and the second edition in English overall.
$2250

Red Bluff Colorado Mines Stage Coach Photo Album

Lawrene F. Culver SR - Relative to William Andrew Caldwell ,Oakland CA Deaf & Dumb School
Lawrene Culver Trip to Colorado with his father then to Veedersburg Indiana Principia School - 113 Photographs,most Identified -Trip Album - St Louis MO, Garden Of The Gods - Ouray Colorado Rail Road Caboose mounted photo group of men and woman, Cliff House Manitou mounted photo , Veederburg Indiana Building Chimney & Brick Wall - Building
$600

Colman's CA Line for San Francisco Clipper Ship

WM T. Colman
The Extreme A 1 Clipper Ship Neptune's Favorite - Multi Color, Colmans Flag , Dolphins pull Neptune, Nesbitt & Co. Printers imprint, some wear corners, Paper label Nov 1859.
$750

New York Clipper Ship Ladoga for California

Sutton & Company
Ladoga Sutton & Cos Dispatch Line Clipper Ship Multi-Color Card Willey Master New York, Splendid small sharp clipper ship and Nesbitt & Co. imprint, minor corner wear, colorful card.
$750

Maui on My Mind

$100 or less
Scrapbook of a Mid-Century Maui Vacation
$55

Texas Camping Women in an "RV" Court at the Border

Small travel record of two independent women taking a month long RV'ing vacation at Samson's Orange Grover Trailer Court in McAllen, Texas
$145

Promo Booklet Ox Yoke Ranch Emigrant Montana 1940s

$100 or less
Souvenir Promotional and View Booklet from Ox Yoke Ranch in Emigrant Montana c1940s
SOLD

original wash drawing

Sir Joseph BANKS and George DIXON
['Dish and Daggers' original pen and wash drawing], objects from Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands).
$1500

Pedder's paddler (in Canada)

John PEDDER RI, RBC (1850-1929, artist).
“W.S. and Hannah Caine on the Bow River - Rocky Mountains – Canada”, a tarific image in the Canadian Rockies
$300
THE HOLLADAY OVERALND MAIL AND EXPRESS CO. 186_ RECEIPT- STAGE COACH ILLUSTRATION
$225

Amazing Detail of Real Seagoing Life!

Trip of the S.M.S. Ship Charlotte 1907-1908, Travel Album illustrated with 185 Real Photographs
SOLD
1834 Handwritten Journal of a Grand Tour to Italy, with 5 Hand-drawn Color Maps
$375

An Edison Executive's Correspondene Archive

John I. Beggs
1896 – An archive of letters from an Edison Company executive to his daughter who was touring France and Italy to learn French and Italian and receive treatment for her chronic rheumatism, List price has been discounted for this show.
$550

America's First Political Campaign Rally

B. F. Fuller
1840 – A political letter describing America’s first major nation-wide campaign rally, held in Erie, Pennsylvania for William Henry Harrison, the Whig candidate for president in the 1840 election, List price has been discounted for this show.
$800

Wisconsin Territorial Economy

Eph Perkins
1837 – Letter from an interstate exporter to his partner in New York discussing the status of their shipments to the recently established Wisconsin Territory, List price has been discounted for this show.
SOLD

Report on the Erie Canal

John Staats
1837 – A letter from the first Collector of Tolls for the Erie Canal reporting its poor state of repair, navigational issues, and other significant problems, List price has been discounted for this show.
$120

St. Louis Land Agents Help Find a Relative

Aaron T. Crane and Abraham Beck
1819 – Reply by two early St. Louis land agents to a man in Ohio searching for a relative who had gone west, List price has been discounted for this show.
$750
[LGBTQIA+] GAY BARS Original 1983 COLORFUL PEOPLE AND PLACES For Persons of Color/Lesbian & Gay TRAVEL GUIDE
SOLD

1864 Expedition--Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon

M. le Duc de Luynes (Posthumously) and M. le Comte de Vogüé (Editor)
Voyage d'exploration à la mer Morte, à Petra et sur la rive gauche du Jourdain--3 Volumes plus Atlas
$15000

New York to San Francisco Travel Letter

William Wallace Hanscom
1857 – Young man's letter describing his voyage from New York to San Francisco,which included crossing the Isthmus via the Panama Railroad to join his father, a construction supervisor at Vallejo, List price has been discounted for this show.
$450

Lead Miner's Letter from Galena, Illinois

Joseph Mace
1829 – Letter from an early lead miner encouraging friends to join him in Galena, Illinois via St. Louis where he could receive assistance from the not-yet-famous gunsmiths, Jacob and Samuel Hawkens, List price has been discounted for this show.
SOLD

LAKE GEORGE, N. Y. HOTEL RESORT

T. E. Roessle
Fort William Henry Hotel, Season of 1887
$125
[LGBTQIA+] Rarest 1980 PROVINCETOWN BUSINESS DIRECTORY Business Guild – First Known Publication
$250

Currier & Ives "Peoples Line" Steamer Card

Private Design Printed by Currier & Ives - 19th Century Victorian Business Advertising Card
SCARCE: Steamboat Currier & Ives Peoples Evening Line 1881 Ship SR.208 Trade Card, Advertising: "People's Evening Line - M.B. Waters, Gen. Pass'r. Agent."
$550

1st circumnavigation to start from the Americas

Pedro ORDONEZ de Ceballos (1556-1636)
[CIRCUMNAVIGATION:] Viage del Mundo, a John Carter Brown copy
$2800

Egypt as a Bzritish Protectorate

Weinthal, Leo, F.R.G.S., and Philip Taylor
Egypt 1907-1908. Special to "The African World and Cape Cairo Express..", Supplement to "The African World and Cape-Cairo Express," Saturday, November 30th,
$180
1950's Monte Carlo Travel Brochure w/ Illustrated Map- Cover by Rene Gruau
$132
$100 or less
1931 Long Beach California Travel Booklet w/ Lots of Old Photos
$82

With Four Folding Maps

Six Tourist Guides to Jamaica, ca. 1900-1915
$175
$100 or less
William G. Standard
Notes of a Journey on the James (River), together with a Guide to Old Jamestown
$50

Rare collection of decorated skulls from Melanesia

Dr. Jacques Faivre
“Cranes Melanesiens et des Nouvelles-Hebrides” (Skulls from Melanesia and New Hebrides), decorated skulls from the collection of Dr. Jacques Faivre, Paris
$395

Description of Jerusalem, published in 1517

Wanckel, Nicolaus
Ein kurtze vermerckung der heyligen Stet des heyligen landts, in und umb Jerusalem. (1517)
$3750

Zion, Bryce Canyon, Cedar Breaks and Grand Canyon

$100 or less
Utah--Its People, Resources, Attractions and Institution
$45

Instant Ephemera Collection for 1950's Mexico

$100 or less
Let's Go to Mexico! Collection of 78 Items of Ephemera from Trip to Mexico circa 1950's
SOLD

First Person Narrative Crossing the Plains in 1845

$100 or less
Chambers, Andrew Jackson
[Washington and Oregon Territories] Recollections
$75

Rare Unused Windshield Decals Death Valley NP

[National Parks] Death Valley National Monument Entrance Pass Windshield Sticker 1936 through 1940
$500

A.S. Hughes Association Copy

Root, Frank A., And Connelley, William Elsey
The Overland Stage to California, Personal Reminiscences and Authentic History of the Great Overland Stage Line and Pony Express from the Missouri River to the Pacific Coast.
$300

Victorian Herbarium in Full Morocco Binding

Mary Matilda Howard
Ocean Flowers And Their Teachings
$750

TEDDY ROOSEVELT

The Explorers Club, Mr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, President
Theodore Roosevelt, Memorial Meeting of The Explorers Club
$125

Exploration in Africa

Faria y Sousa, Manuel De
Africa Portuguesa
$1100
$100 or less
Lovely 1955 RARE Pan AM Airline Menu - Art by "Lillian Sader" *
$88
$100 or less
1947 United Aircraft and Pratt & Whitney Pictorial w Early Sikorsky Helicopters
$55
$100 or less
1979 TWA First Class Passenger Menu w/ Colorful Covers
$57

Very Early and Rare National Park Ephemera

[National Parks] Yellowstone National Park Entrance Pass Windshield Sticker 1929
SOLD

SCARCE FARNHAM IN CALIFORNIA

Farnham, Thomas J.
Life and Adventures in California and Scenes of the Pacific Coast
$350

THE FARAWAY LAND NEARBY

[Mexico]
10 Brochures / Booklets on Travel to Mexico
$150

Map of Early Expedition to the Rocky Mountains

Kearny, Stephen
Map of the Route Pursued by the Late Expedition under the Command of Col. S. W. Kearny, U.S. 1st Dragoons By W. B. Franklin, Lieut. Corps Topl. Engrs. attached to the Expedition 1845
$165
1896 AMAZING,RARE Hotel Del Coronado, San Diego CA Vacation Booklet
$260
$100 or less
1910's New York Schenectady Railway Company Travel Brochure for Hudson Valley
$85
Amazing 1917 Hotel Chamberlin Old Point Comfort, Virginia Travel Brochure- Great Color Illustrations!
$205
$100 or less
1939 Travel Booklet "Chicago & North Western Union Pacific" - Summer Tours *
$76
$100 or less
1920's Booklet "Atlantic City" Color Photo Book "The Playground of the Nation" *
$73
$100 or less
1931 Gorgeous Color Art Deco Covers Travel Booklet "Alaska and the Yukon" *
$75
$100 or less
1950's Air France Travel Brochure w/ Old Pictures
$82
$100 or less
Lovely Cover 1910 Travel Booklet "Nantasket Beach Plymouth" w/ Historic Info *
RESERVED
$100 or less
1915 Glimpses of San Diego Picture Book- Great Old San Diego Pics
SOLD
$100 or less
Stunning 1943 Travel Picture Booklet "Hawaii" w/ 20 Pages of Gorgeous Color Pics *
$73
1920's Royan, France A Seaside Resort Travel Brochure- Great Cover Image!
$105
$100 or less
1946 Pasadena California Travel Brochure- Great Old Pics of Pasadena
$58
1933 Travel Booklet "Vacationland" - Maine Central Railroad w/ Color Cover *
$110
$100 or less
1941 Miami Florida Travel Brochure w/ Lots of Pictures
$72
$100 or less
Lovely Mid-Century Travel Brochure for Sicily w/ Beautiful Color Pics & Map *
$85
$100 or less
1927 Miami By the Sea Travel Brochure w/ Color Pages
SOLD
$100 or less
Stunning 1940's Travel Brochure "Mesa Arizona" w/Pic. of Woman Picking Oranges *
$83

Colorful Bird's Eye View Map Boulder Dam, Nevada

$100 or less
Facts Concerning Boulder Dam--On to Salt Lake It's Up to U-tah
$100

Mohonk Mountain House Photo

$100 or less
unknown
Mounted photograph of woman in garden, a guest of the Hudson River resort
$85

Presentation by the Author

$100 or less
Lister, W.B.C.
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MURRAY'S HANDBOOKS FOR TRAVELLERS, and Biographies of Authors, Editors Revisers and Principal Contributors.
$45

Presentation by the Author

(Curtis, George William)
NILE NOTES OF A HOWADJI
$200

Souvenir Album Produced at St. Lazare

Anonymous Photographer; Lord Byron (interest)
Souvenir de St. Lazare. Venise 10., Early color photography
$225

INDONESIA, CHINA, JAPAN, JAVA, SUMATRA, CEYLON

$100 or less
(Travel Brochures)
3 Travel Brochures for Asia, Indonesia & the Pacific: Visit Java and Sumatra, Dutch East-Indian Government Railways; Asia Via Honolulu, Pacific Mail Steamship Co. ; Miss Philippines is Calling You
SOLD

MEDITERRANEAN SEA CRUISING IN THE 20'S

[Mediterranean Ocean Travel]
(Four Items) Mediterranean Cruises: Hamburg-American Line; Thos. Cook, 2 White Star Line; Cosulich Line.
$125

SCARCE TRANS-CONTINENTAL NEWSPAPER

SCARCE TRANS-CONTINENTAL NEWSPAPER
SOLD
THE PEOPLE ARE A SETT OF FAWNING OBSEQUIOUS EMPTY HEADED, DULL BRAINED WOULD BE SNOBS…
$295

Sailing For Mauritius

SAILING FOR MAURITIUS: THE DIARY OF AMERICAN CONSUL GEORGE FAIRFIELD
$4795

Wyoming

SOME VIEWS OF WYOMING
$175

Ohio Promotional in Welsh

YR AMERICAN, YR HWN SYDD YN CYNNWYS NODAU AR DAITH O DDYFFRYN OHIO I GYMRU, GOLWG AR DALAETH OHIO
$295

1901 Collection of Poems on the Alaskan Frontier

$100 or less
Dunham, Sam C
Goldsmith of Nome (Signed and Inscribed)
$70

Olympic National Park Lake Crescent Pamphlet--Rare

$100 or less
Rosemary Inn Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park
SOLD

Rare Orcas Island Washington Travel Pamphlet

$100 or less
Salmon Bight Lodge--The "Casa Mar Solva" of Orcas Island Queen of the San Juan Group, Washington
$35

Rare San Juan Islands Washington Travel Pamphlet

$100 or less
Kwan Lamah San Juan Island-- A Summer Camping Resort that is Different
$45

LANGWITH'S MICHIGAN

$100 or less
LANGWITH'S MICHIGAN - THE WORLD'S GREATEST MAP SERVICE
$95

Quebec - Montmorency Falls

$100 or less
QUEBEC. MONTMORENCY FALLS AND ST. ANNE DE BEAUPRE
$65

Boston, Massachusetts Cabinet Card. c. 1890's.

Boston, Massachusetts Cabinet Card. c. 1890's.
$245

On the road and off in colonial Algeria

Anonymous
Two photo albums of colonial Algeria, Documenting the Algerian Centennial of 1930 and a road trip
$750

Kennebunk, Maine Tours

HALF HOUR DETOURS IN THE 4 KENNEBUNKS
$195

Louisiana - Land Claims

$100 or less
Louisiana - Land Claims
$50

Fall River Line

Evolution Of The Fall River Line
$115

Three Years' Residence In Washington Territory

The Northwest Coast; Or Three Years' Residence In Washington Territory
$495

NORTH - TO ALASKA, SING IT NOW

(Alaska Travel)
[7 Travel Brochures] Alaska Steamship Company; the Alaska Railroad
$150

Maine Central Railroad

Maine Central Railroad - Time Table No. 88, June 17, 1883
$120

Klondyke Country - Alaska

OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE KLONDYKE COUNTRY AND GOLD FIELD OF ALASKA
$495

Alaska and the Yukon Territory

Alaska and the Yukon Territory
$195

Notes By The To The Pacific Coast

Notes By The To The Pacific Coast - The Mountainer
$195

Kansas Highway Map

$100 or less
HIGHWAY MAP – KANSAS.
$65

Indexed Pocket map of the Pacific Northwest - 1911

Indexed Pocket map of the Pacific Northwest - 1911
$495

Wagon Road From The River Missouri....1824

PETITION OF LEWIS A. TARASCON. (AND OTHERS) PRAYING THE OPENING OF A WAGON ROAD, FROM THE RIVER MISSOURI, NORTH OF THE RIVER KANSAS, TO THE RIVER COLUMBIA.
$750

Chicago, Alton and St. Louis - Texas Short Lines

CONDENSED TIME CARDS OF CHICAGO, ALTON AND ST. LOUIS, CHICAGO, KANSAS CITY AND DENVER AND TEXAS SHORT LINES AND CHICAGO, MEMPHIS, MOBILE AND NEW ORLEANS LINE.
$225

Northern Pacific Railroad

The New Northwest...7-30 Gold Loan of the Northern Pacific R.R. Co. - 1871
$285

Burlington Route Time Table

OFFICIAL TIME TABLES. BURLINGTON ROUTE B. & M.R.R. BURLINGTON & MISSOURI RIVER R.R. IN EFFECT SEPT. 14, 1884.
$165

The Ascent of Mount Conness, 1890

George Davidson, Carleton E. Watkins, or J.J. Gilbert.
Mount Conness from the Southeast – Summit of Mountain and Camp.
$750

Yosemite Albumen of Stage Coach by I. W. Taber

Taber
#3068 Washburn's Stage Below Artists Point
$150