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Versailles: Palais, Musee, Jardins

By: N/A

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Paris, Imprimerie D'E. Duverger: 1850

Seller ID: 000344

Condition: Good

4to. 47 plates (steel engravings mostly), with text interspersed. Probably was published as souvenir of the Palace and Trianons, with attractive pictures and concise historical and architectural explanations. Leather spine scuffed a bit, gilding fairly bright. Rubbing to joints. Binding tight. Gilded foreedges. Ribbon placemark intact. Foxing mostly on blank back sides of plates, but gives the interior a certain quality of grubbiness. Overall, good.
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La Certosa Di Pavia

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Bergamo, Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche Editore: 1910

Seller ID: 000856

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

4to - over 9¾. N.d., circa 1910, with early color photos, 15 in all, of historic monastery in Padua. Vellum binding, with pretty floreate decoration under title, and stiff stock of paper used to mount photos. All photos with tissue guard. Trivial wear of binding. Fine condition overall.
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Souvenir Du Lac Des Quatre Cantons

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Price: $50.00

Publisher: Lucerne and Interlaken, Prell & Eberle Editeurs:

Seller ID: 000958

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Oblong 8 by 5.5 Inches. Also entitled "Album vom Vierwaldstaettersee". Circa 1900. 24 colorized postcard-like photos of Lucerne, Weggie, Vitznau, Schnurtobelbrucke, Rigi, Pilatus, Beckenried, Gersau, Treib, Brunnen und die beiden Mythen, Rutli, Axenstrasse, Fluelen, Burgerstock Stanserhorn, Engelberg, and Alpnach-Stad. Plus pretty lake view on cover with Art Nouveau gilt frame ornamentation.
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Tyrolese Scenery: Or, Continental Travels, Illustrated with Fine Steel Engravings, with Descriptive Letter Press

By: N/A

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Black & Armstrong:

Seller ID: 000993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - over 7¾. N.d. Circa 1840s. 72 pp with 6 full page plates. Some soilage on green decorated boards. Rubbing along gutters and corners. Generally clean inside. Tissue guards intact. A very good copy.
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Histoire des Missionnaires dans le Midi de la France. Lettres d'un Marin a un Hussard. Bound together with second volume Histoire des Missionnaires dans Le Midi et L'Ouest de la France.

By: N/A

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez Plancher: 1819 and 1820

Seller ID: 001298

Binding: Quarter morocco

Condition: Very Good

112, 144 pp. 8vo, measuring 20 by 13 cm, or 8 by 5 inches. With two exceptional hand-colored fold-out plates (16 by 12 inches each). Quarter morocco over silk moire boards. Edge tear of silk in lower half of front edge. Some wear to spine. Some minor light foxing. Minor close tear in each plate not affecting image and by where bound in (thus predictable). Very good overall of very rare title.
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English Scenery. One Hundred and Twenty Chromo Views

By: N/A

Price: $500.00

Publisher: London, Edinburgh and New York, T. Nelson and Sons: 1891

Seller ID: 001457

Condition: Near Fine

8vo, 8 by 6 inches, 20 by 15 cm. Two chromolithographic postcard-sized images per plate, with fine views of the most memorable buildings, landmarks, natural wonders and views of England. Moderate foxing of preliminaries, otherwise generally clean, with all tissue guards intact. Re-cased with very attractive archtypal Victorian styled decorated morocco spine. Marbled boards.
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Lumiere et Beaute. Revue Mensuelle Editee Specialement Pour Les Laboratoires Laurencon Janvier 1931 a Juin 1933 (30 issues from the 1st to 3rd year of this publication)

By: N/A

Price: $65.00

Seller ID: 002058

Binding: QuarteCalfr

Condition: Very Good

Square, measuring 7 by 7 inches. Each issue runs six pages, including the covers, and is virtually entirely photographs of travel through France or of interesting ads as well (not necessarily related to travel). Some light spotting appearing occasionally. Otherwise clean, with minor wear of binding along edges.
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White Mountains Leporello with Twelve Views

By: N/A

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Wittemann Bros.: 1880

Seller ID: 002262

Binding: Blindstamped cloth leporello

Condition: Very Good

Early White Mountain viewbook, with no copies on OCLC. The leporello closed measures 5 by 3.25 inches. The slightly tinted views are of the Valley of the Saco and P. & O.R.R., the Frankenstein Trestle, Crawford House by the Notch, Mt. Washington Range, the railroad junction at the base of Mt. Washington, Jacob's Ladder at Mt. Washington, Summit House, Glen House, Echo Lake, Profile House at Franconia Notch, the Flume, and Lake Winnipeseogee. Minor rubbing to the blindstamped cloth covers. The endpaper is chipped by the spine.
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Watercolor Album of European Views

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Price: $2,000.00

Seller ID: 002066

N.d., 1905-1932. 43 leaves, with 86 watercolors of different views from England, France, Italy, the Lowlands, Switzerland, all done by a very accomplished hand during the first third of the 20th century. The views of both panoramic and close-up, natural scenery and architectural, with bridges, castles, cottages aplenty. The artist was concerned with capturing the beautiful and rendering it so -- this was not the effort of a modernist cynic wallowing in irony, the sordid, the underside of things -- and so there is a dream-like quality to the art. That all was done by one artist contributes ...
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[Album] European Tour Circa 1890s

By: N/A

Price: $240.00

Seller ID: 002405

Binding: Half Leather

Condition: Very Good

N.d, circa 1890s. Assembled probably during an European Grand Tour that took the compiler to England, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and back to England. Posted on each page is one or two items, generally photos that were sold like postcards would later be and about the same size as the typical postcard or larger. There are 32 card leaves, or 64 pages, of these images. Rebacked in green morocco.
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A Handbook of New England. 1916. An Annual Publication Sargent's Handbook Series

By: N/A

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston, Porter E. Sargent: 1916

Seller ID: 003123

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 18.5 by 12 cm. 843 pp. Detailed tour guide and town glossary. Also interesting classified ad sections on summer camps, New England schools, famous products of New England, hotels, ferries and steamships. Hard to come by book in its original form. Ex-lib, with markings not obtrusive. Scuffed and soiled binding. Clean within.
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Album of 37 Oil Paintings and Watercolors of Primarily England [D.L. & A.C. Miller. June-July 1920]

By: N/A

Price: $800.00

Publisher: 1920

Seller ID: 002605

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Very Good

By various hands. The album bears the date of 1920 but the artwork presumably would probably have been collected over time, either before or after that date, or a bit of both. The name of Miller is on the front cover, but that is probably the name of the owner and compiler of the album and does not explain much beyond that. The quality is various, as is the style, with the unifying element that they are all relating to lovely scenery of the countryside, the small town, the seaside in the South of England, Yorkshire, perhaps elsewhere in England, and at least one or two from the Continent (F...
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"The Vanderbilt System" for Shippers and Travellers between the Atlantic Seaboard and the West, Northwest and Southwest. 1887

By: N/A

Price: $400.00

Publisher: New York, F. B. Miller: 1887

Seller ID: 002910

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Oblong, 22 by 30 cm. [3], 112, [2], 21 pp. Eight photographic plates, including two of the original Grand Central Station, completed in 1871, and the remainder of Niagara Falls, which the New York Central promoted successfully as a tourist destination to augment ticket sales. Many other illustrations of tourist points of interest along the various railroad routes, plus ads with illustrations of hotel accommodations and the like. One folding map of New York State and its railroad lines. The emphasis of the book is on the New York Central, its trunk line and subsidiary lines between New Yo...
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Album of Taste and Fashion and Book of Commercial & General Information 1878 Golden Guide to London

By: N/A

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: London, George Hennelle: 1877

Seller ID: 003261

Binding: Decorated Blindstamped Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Folio-sized, 40 by 31 cm. 73 leaves are numbered (not pages), followed by an almost equal number not accordingly numbered. This is the antithesis of a pocket tourist guide, and not just in size. While the part that is not overtly paid-for advertisements is full of useful information, the size and heft of the book meant that it was more likely to be a courtesy reference one might have found at hotels or on ships, or perhaps as a souvenir for the visitor. The reference part has all the expected useful information -- hotels, restaurants, transportation info, sights, museums, neighborhood desc...
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Erinnerung an die Ostsee-Bäder

By: N/A

Price: $135.00

Seller ID: 004372

Binding: Leporello. Paper pastedown. With original glassi

Condition: Near Fine

Chromolithographic views, sights and buildings of Swinemünde, Heringsdorf, and Ahlbeck, three Pomeranian resorts. Swinemünde is now part of Poland, while the latter two resorts were part of East Germany and now a Unified Germany. Scarce, with no copies located on OCLC or elsewhere. N.d., circa 1890. Oblong, 9 by 13.5 cm. Twelve panels, with one or two images each. Rebacked, with light leather that doesn't clash with original paper. Light rubbing of the raised edges on the cover. With original loose tissue guards remaining.
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Leporello of Ten Photos Depicting the Chinese Royal Family and the Dowager Empress Cixi

By: N/A

Price: $150.00

Seller ID: 004519

Binding: Leporello

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1900. Closed, 15.5 by 11.5, and ten panels, so when fully stretched, about 110 cm. The photos are all dark or darkened, and are photos of photos. The leporello was the type created and sold to tourists as a souvenir.
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Standard Guide to Havana. A Complete Handbook for Visitors, With Maps, Illustrations, Historyu, and an English-Spanish Manual of Conversation

By: N/A

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Havana and New York, Foster & Reynolds: 1907

Seller ID: 004603

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 19 by 12.5 cm. 144, 70 pp. With many photos of sights and people of Cuba, and a fold-out map. Also an abundance of ads for Cuban businesses and services as well as mainland U.S. hotels. Wear to the spine, with lower two inches of it missing. Internally tight and clean. Fold-out map in lovely condition.
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Fan with College and Preparatory School Names along with Place Names, Restaurant Names, Hotel Names, Monograms, Crests, Emblems, etc. Labels Pasted On

By: N/A

Price: $240.00

Publisher: 1900

Seller ID: 003618

Binding: N.A.

Condition: Very Good

Quirky homemade souvenir fan with many stickers pasted on from New England towns, colleges (Dartmouth, Wellesley, Mt. Holyoke College, New England Conservatory of Music, Williams College), prep schools (Phillips Exeter, hotels, and other points of interest. While there is no definitive dating, there is one sticker with the date of 1900 and another for "The Aegis: Dartmouth College Class of 1901. The stickers are on both sides of the fan, and the effect is same as on luggage with stickers from all the places the owner has traveled, except on the fan the stickers are much smaller. Given ...
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Fan with College and Preparatory School Names along with Place Names, Restaurant Names, Hotel Names, Monograms, Crests, Emblems, etc. Labels Pasted On

By: N/A

Price: $240.00

Publisher: 1900

Seller ID: 003779

Binding: N.A.

Condition: Very Good

Quirky homemade souvenir fan with many stickers pasted on from New England and New York State towns, colleges (Yale, Harvard, Boston University, Amherst), fraternities, Prep Schools (Andover, Exeter), restaurants, hotels, clubs and other points of interest and monograms. While there is no definitive dating, this kind of fan was a popular hobby at the turn of the twentieth century. The stickers are on both sides of the fan, and the effect is same as on luggage with stickers from all the places the owner has traveled, except on the fan the stickers are much smaller. Given the preponderance of...
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Peeps at Bermuda

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Price: $75.00

Publisher: Hamilton, Bermuda. Printed in England, The Bermude Book Stores. Printed by Vulcan Press:

Seller ID: 004749

Binding: Wraps.

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1930s. 4to. 25.5 by 30.5 cm. Unpaginated, 16 leaves, with twelve mounted color plates depicting typical lovely views and scenery of Bermuda, including boating, a country road, the quintessential, much copied architecture of the place, the harbor, the trees and flowers, the beach, etc. With facing pages containing breezy information about the pictures. With a highly decorative, wallpaper-like dust jacket showing cottages with green roofs and blue trees amid small rolling hills. This DJ has edge chipping. Otherwise, clean and crisp.
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