Cambridge: at the University Press, 1926. Hardcover. New Edition, with a Memoir by Sir E. Denison Ross. A sympathetic portrayal of Persian society, first published in 1893. It is widely regarded as a classic of..... More
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. 50 illustrations. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1910. First edition. "The narrative opens with the islands off the Mediterranean entrance, and gradually..... More
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1896. Hardcover. Translated from the Fifteenth Italian Edition by Maria Hornor Lansdale. Two volumes. Frontispieces, with 48 illustrations and a folding map. De Amicis (1846-1908) was an Italian journalist..... More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. "The author was the correspondent of 'The Times' in Tangiers from 1887 to 1933 and travelled widely. His route in Persia takes him to Tabriz, Maraghe..... More
New York: Ivan Obolensky, Inc., 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. The first trade edition. Inscribed by Rockwell Kent to antiquarian bookseller and autograph specialist Doris Hamilton (later Harris, 1918-2005) on a prefatory blank leaf. Additionally inscribed..... More
New York: Burt Franklin, Publisher, circa 1965. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of the 1897 first edition, which was issued by The Hakluyt Society. The first English translation of Cosmas Indicopleustes' description of his travels to India..... More
Sioux City, Iowa: Printed for the author, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Account of the author's 13,581-mile cruise (12,602 miles steaming and 979 miles by rail) to Palestine as part of the World's Fourth Sunday School..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. After two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. This classic work of..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. "A detailed account in the form of a diary of travels in Persia in 1881 by a member of the Bengal Civil Service returning home after..... More
The personal photographic album of Eppes Bartow Hawes Williams (1902–81), a St. Louis debutante and U.S. Senator’s daughter, who married five times and traveled annually to Europe. The album dates from the mid 1930s and..... More