Places & Travel (Bibliographies) from Wykeham Books

R. R. Bowker Company, New York, first edition, 1954. Cloth, 8vo, 26 cm,. x, 656 pp. 11,450 entries. First edition of this classic bibliography, which includes an indication of the relative scarcity of each title described and in many cases annotations commenting on the work's significance. From the introduction - "Complete coverage could be aimed at only for books… Read more about this item

Oak Knoll Press, HES & DE GRAAF Publishers BV and Kotinos S.A. Editions, New Castle, Leiden and Athens, first edition, 2004. Imitation leather, mounted cover illustration, gilt and blindstamped decoration, 4to,. xxxix, 526 pp, colour ills. 825 entries. From a review by Dennis Rhodes: "Mr Dimitris Contominas..has not chosen to collect the earliest examples of printing in Greek,… Read more about this item

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1912. Cloth, tp edge gilt, 8vo,. xiii, 282 pp. Approximately 10,000 entries. John Willis Clark began collecting literature connected with Cambridge in the 1860s and built up his splendid library both by acquiring other collections en bloc and by determinedly hunting down individual items to fill the gaps in his holdings shown by… Read more about this item

UCLA Latin American Center Publications, Los Angeles, revised and enlarged edition, 1983. 2 vols, cloth, blindstamped cover device, large 8vo,. xxviii, 502, [1] + 503-1074, [1] pp. Over 10,000 entries. From the blurb: "Since 1958 the Bibliographia Brasiliana by Rubens Borba de Moraes has been the standard reference source for libraries, scholars, and the book trade on rare books… Read more about this item

Govt Print Office, Washington, first edition, 1904. Cloth, 8vo, 28 cm,. 74 pp. An ex-library copy with a removed spine sticker and a taped library label on the rear board, and a label on front pastedown endpaper; spine-ends worn and contents slightly spotted.

Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, [first edition, 1973. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 8vo,. 64 pp, plates, ills. 598 entries. From the introduction: "The bibliography covers books, newspaper and periodical articles, reports, manuscripts, deeds, maps, plans and charts relating to the Fame Islands from the earliest times to the present day. Wrappers… Read more about this item

Clarendon Press, Oxford, first edition, 1912. Cloth, 8vo,. xvi, 712 pp, plates. 2065 entries. The second volume in Madan's 3- volume bibliography - extremely valuable not only for the detailed bibliographical descriptions but also for Madan's notes on content and significance. The second volume was published on Feb. 14, 1912, covering from 1641 (but in some sense from earlier… Read more about this item

Maurizio Martino, Staten Island, n.d. but c.1997 facsimile reprint of the 1904 second revised edition. Vols 1-4 stated to be limited to 100 copies; vols 5-6 stated to be limited to 50 copies (noting that an earlier Martino reprint was in an edition of 100 copies). 6 vols in 3, cloth, 8vo,. xvi pp, approximately 4428 columns (2 per… Read more about this item

Nabu reprint of the 1931 first edition, [c.2010]. Laminated wrappers, 4to,. xlvii, 621 pp. 1,148 entries (2,150 -3,297) . A reprint of the third volume in Madan's 3- volume bibliography (following Vol 1, 1895 and Vol 2, 1912) - extremely valuable not only for the detailed bibliographical descriptions but also for Madan's notes on content and significance. "..[T]his is… Read more about this item

The University of Washington, Seattle, mixed editions, 1938 - 1950, Volume I is 1948 reprint of 1935, Volume 2 is 1950 reprint of 1938; Volume III is 1949 first edition. 3 vols, cloth, 8vo, 26 cm,. vii, 404 + vii, 591 + xiii, 732 pp. Approximately 10,500 entries in all. Vol I: The Old World; Vol II: The New… Read more about this item

Martino Fine Books, Mansfield Centre, undated reprint (c. 1990?) of 1969 first edition. Stated to be a limited edition reprint of 200 copies. Cloth, 4to,. vii, 567 pp. Over 160 entries. A valuable bibliography especially as it includes facsimiles of title pages of all books described, together with detailed description of pagination and collation, and analyses of the contents,… Read more about this item

Musee de l'Homme, Paris, first edition, 1967. Limited edition of 1,000 copies in all. Cloth, gilt cover-title, gilt device on rear board, 8vo,. xv, 1046 pp. 10,501 entries. An astonishingly detailed work (in French) providing bibliographic details and often extensive commentary on over 10,000 books or contributions to books and some periodicals. Covers all aspects of Tahiti and French… Read more about this item

Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre, undated (c.2000?) reprint of 1910 first edition. 2 vols, cloth, 8vo,. lxxii, 1008 + 1139 pp. Approximately 7,000 entries. Musiker: "The Bibliography contains about 7000 items and is arranged alphabetically by author or by title when the author is not known. The entries are very full, with full author's name, title, imprint and descriptive annotations… Read more about this item

Printed for the subscribers, Gloucester, first edition, 1915 -1916. Limited edition of 75 large-paper copies (there were also 110 small-paper copies). 2 vols, later cloth, large 8vo, 26 cm. xlviii, 284 + viii, 285-639, [3] pp, plates. Copy No. 5 of the large-paper issue, initialled by the authors on the limitation page. A mildly ex-library… Read more about this item

Hordern House, Potts Point, first edition, 2006. Cloth, silver cover-titles, 4to, 28 cm,. unpaginated, colour ills. 138 items. Near Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper. Printed price-list laid in.

Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 11th - 13th October 1989. Cloth, cover illustration, 4to, 28 cm,. [16], 636, [18] pp, numerous ills, many in colour. 1515 lots. With a biography of Blackmer and an introductory essay: 'The lure of Greece and the Orient for European travellers.' Blackmer - a retired American banker living in Athens… Read more about this item

British Library, London, first edition, 1996. Cloth, skiver spine-label, 4to, 26 cm,. xxxi, 395 pp, facs. 3212 entries. Entries are listed alphabetically by year of publication, under the actual, the attributed or the assumed author... Where the work was first published in North America, a cross reference is provided to Evans or Bristol and to the date and place… Read more about this item

Clarendon Press, Oxford, first edition, 1968. Cloth, 8vo,. xxvii, 809 pp. 8868 entries. An essential reference which identifies a mass of difficult-to-trace material. Aims to record all items of intrinsic interest irrespective of their size or provenance. From the blurb: "This is an enumerative bibliography classified under some 500 headings. It embraces all aspects of University and College life… Read more about this item

Hordern House, Sydney, first edition, 1987. Cloth, large 8vo, 26 cm,. x, 468 pp. plates, ills., tipped-in frontispiece. From the blurb: "Jonathan Wantrup has written what will undoubtedly prove to be for many years to come the definitive work on collecting Australian rare books. He introduces the subject with an examination of the nature and methods of book… Read more about this item

E. P. Publishing, Wakefield, 1976 reprint of 1881 first edition. Cloth, 8vo,. xx, 472 pp. From the introduction: "..the present work, which, although professedly only a catalogue of the books in one particular collection, nevertheless, owing to the great richness of the [British] Museum in Topography, is virtually a general catalogue, and by far the most comprehensive hitherto… Read more about this item