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guidebook: The Capitals of the World introduced by H.D. Traill, in 4 volumes — Samson Low, Marston, 1892, 1st edn, in blue buckram with gold line-block of the Arch of Trajan on front board, pages gilded on all three edges; Vol 1 in near-mint condition; viii+184pp on Paris, St Petersburg, New York, Constantinople, Rome, Geneva, with 91 illustrations; Vol 2 in near-mint condition except that a spider has grazed 1½" at the base of the spine; 181pp on Athens, Tokio, Vienna , Lisbon, Pekin, Bucharest, with 79 illustrations; Vol 3 in near-mint condition except that the spider grazed the bottom ¼"; 174pp on London, Cairo, Berlin, Stockholm, Algiers, Amsterdam, Calcutta, with 89 illustrations; Vol 4 in near-mint condition except that the spider grazed on the bottom 3"; 158pp+8pp index to illustrations, on Mexico City, Christiania, Rio de Janeiro, Brussels, Madrid, Copenhagen, Washington (DC) with 77 illustrations; total shelf space 3½"; 12x9". $106 Add to Shopping Cart (cit001)
guidebook: Alden's Guide to Oxford — 1932; 236th thousand; 160pp with numerous illustrations and fold-out map; 6x5". $9 Add to Shopping Cart (cit002)
directory: The Bradford Exchange Directory & Diary, 1954 — spine slightly torn at bottom, otherwise fair cond; 8½x5½". $8 Add to Shopping Cart (cit003)
guidebook: The City of Gloucester — the Official Guide — Gloucester Development Committee, 1935; 96pp with fold-out map; paperback with 4-colour woodblock cover; numerous photos of a once-beautiful city, since officially vandalized; 8½x5½". $12 Add to Shopping Cart (cit004)
Benson, George: York with paintings by E.W. Haslehurst — Blackie, Beautiful England Series, 1911; 64pp with 12 colour plates, plan of York Cathedral; cloth with inset colour pic; 9¼x6¾". $22 Add to Shopping Cart (cit006)
Buchanan, A. and Neil Cossens: Bristol — David & Charles, Industrial History in Pictures, Series, 1970; 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; green cloth; 112pp with c150 photographs, lithographs, old maps, etc; 9½x7¼". $28 Add to Shopping Cart (cit007)
Charleton, R.J.: A History of Newcastle on Tyne from the earliest records to its formation as a city — Walter Scott, Ltd, London & Newcastle, undated but c1895 (it mentions Esther Waters, published 1894, as "George Moore's important new novel"), with illustrations by R. Jobling; cloth in fair condition, spine slightly faded; vi+444pp; 7½x5". $46 Add to Shopping Cart (cit008)
Gray, James S.: Brighton Between the Wars — Batsford, 1976; 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition, price excised: blue cloth; 88pp with 120 old photographs; 10x7½". $18 Add to Shopping Cart (cit009)
Law, Margaret C.D.: The Story of Bradford — S&R, 1972 facsimile reprint of 1912 edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; red cloth; xii+306pp; 3 plates, 70 engravings; 7½x5". $11 Add to Shopping Cart (cit012)
Willis, Ronald: York As It Was — Hendon Publishing, 1973; trade paperback in laminated pictorial card covers, in fine condition; 44pp of old photos; landscape format 5½x8½". $13 Add to Shopping Cart (cit015)
Cain, Georges: Walks in Paris — Methuen, 1909; 1st edn; blue buckram in poor condition, spine loose in several places, contents in mint condition; xl+334pp with index and 10 maps or plans+32pp ads, colour frontis by Maxwell Arnfield and 118 other illustrations, 10 plans of quartiers mostly from the 1774 survey by Jaillot each with a transparent paper overlay to show the modern (1909) street layout of the identical area, describes 27 walks; 9x6". $28 Add to Shopping Cart (cit018)
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Edwards, Stewart: The Paris Commune, 1871 — Reader's Union / Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1971, with dust cover in near-mint condition; brown cloth in mint condition; xiv+480pp with index; 8¾x5½". $12 Add to Shopping Cart (cit020) |
Gosling, Nigel: Paris, 1900-1914, The Miraculous Years — Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1978; 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; green cloth; 240pp with more than 150 b/w illustrations and 16pp colour; 11x7¾". $21 Add to Shopping Cart (cit021)
Macdonald, John F.: The Amazing City — Grant Richards, 1918; green buckram stained but complete and undamaged; 304pp, a selection of his writings about Paris 1907-13; 9x6". $22 Add to Shopping Cart (cit023)
Moss, Arthur and Evalyn Marve: The Legend of the Latin Quarter — Henri Mürger and the Birth of Bohemia — W.H. Allen, 1946; 1st edn; blue buckram, undamaged but has 3 stains; 182pp with index and 11 plates; 8½x5¾". $9 Add to Shopping Cart (cit024)
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Raphael, John N.: Pictures of Paris and some Parisians — Adam & Charles Black, 1908; 1st edn; grey pictorial buckram in fair condition, contents in near-mint condition; viii+136pp with 45 drawings by Frank Reynolds, 13 being halftones on art paper, articles from The Sketch, Pall Mall Gazette, Evening Standard, St James's Gazette, and Daily Mail; 7¾x5½". $38 Add to Shopping Cart (cit025) |
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Rudorff, Raymond: Belle Époque, Paris in the Nineties [obviously the 1890s!] — Reader's Union / Hamish Hamilton, 1972, with dust cover spine slightly faded; blue cloth in mint condition; 366pp with index and 32 plates; 9¼x6¼". $21 Add to Shopping Cart (cit026) |
de Tours, Constant: Guide-Album du Touriste — Vingt Jours à Paris — Deux Cent dessins d'après nature — Maison Quantin, Paris, 1891; blue cloth with a silver-engraved drawing of the Panthéon, spine faded else in very fine condition; 176pp with index+8pp ads, 200 superb line drawings in the text, slight edge oxidation; landscape format 5½x8¾". $45 Add to Shopping Cart (cit027)
photo archive: Ricordo di Venezia — red cloth with gold lettering in very fine condition; 24 gravure-printed views measuring 4½x6", of Venice pasted on stiff card, c1885; landscape format 6x7½". $47 Add to Shopping Cart (cit030)
anon: La Certosa di Pavia — Instituto Italiano d'Arti Graffiche Editore, Bergamo, c1920; white buckram with gold lettering and ornamentation in fine condition; contents in very fine condition; fourteen 4- colour gravure views of the Cathedral and its surroundings, each tipped-in on stiff card with protective captioned overlay; 10x7½". $42 Add to Shopping Cart (cit031)
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Williams, Egerton R.: Plain-Towns of Italy — the Cities of Old Venetia — John Murray, 1912; sage-green cloth with intaglio- pictorial front cover and spine, in fine condition; xiv+604pp text with index, 48 illustrations in gravure; 8½x6". $65 Add to Shopping Cart (cit032) |
Broadbent, Ellinor Lucy: Under the Italian Alps — Brentano's, NY, c1920; red cloth in fine condition, spine faded; xii+252pp with 13 letterpress photos and a map, some uncut, with index, also a geographical essay by Marian I. Newbiggin; 7½x5½". $32 Add to Shopping Cart (cit033)
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Lorimer, Norma: By the Waters of Italy — A Tragedy in Sunshine — Hutchinson, London, 1910; 1st edn; blue cloth with picture on front in fine condition; vi+328pp with 4-colour frontis and 16 letterpress photos; an odd mixture of travelogue and love-story (indeed, a dozen or so love stories) by a mature woman who is both emotional and world-weary; 8½x6". $22 Add to Shopping Cart (cit034) |
Murray, A.H. Hallam: Sketches on the Old Road through France to Florence, accompanied by Henry W. Nevinson and Montgomery Carmichael — John Murray, London, 1904; 1st reprint; pale buckram, heavily embossed, spine has ½" tear; xxx+328pp with index (with misprinting in which p327 is substituted by prelim page vii); 48 full colour reproductions of water-colours, presumably Nevinson's (reproduced `by our new three-colour printing process' with a whole page of explanation; the plates, nonetheless, use 3 colours and black), 18 excellent pen sketches in text, also a map; 9½x7". $38 Add to Shopping Cart (cit035)
Dändliker, Dr Karl: A Short History of Switzerland — translated by E. Salisbury — Swann Sonnenschein / Macmillan, 1889; 1st edn; green cloth in poor condition, physically undamaged but stained and spine faded; xvi+322pp with index, with two coloured maps; 9x6". $18 Add to Shopping Cart (cit036)
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Alsop, Susan Mary: The Congress Dances — Vienna, 1814-1815 — Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984; 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; orange cloth; xii+228pp, 18 plates; 8¾x5¾". $23 Add to Shopping Cart (cit037) |
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Morton, Frederic: A Nervous Splendor, Vienna 1888-89 — Atlantic Monthly Press / Little Brown, 1979; 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; indigo boards with decoration in gold and yellow cloth spine; x+340pp with 28 integrated b/w illustrations; 9½x6½". $23 Add to Shopping Cart (cit039) |
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Liddle, Rev William and Mrs Liddle: Peeps at Many Lands — Sweden — Adam & Charles Black, 1911; red cloth with pictorial cover, one small blemish, faded spine, otherwise in fine condition; vi+88pp with 12 pp in colour by Anders Zorn, Carl Larsson, and others (+8pp ads); 8x5½". $20 Add to Shopping Cart (cit040) |
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Gallichan, Walter M.: Old Continental Towns — T. Werner Laurie, Clifford's Inn, c1904; blue cloth with pictorial cover in very fine condition; vii+292pp+4pp ads, describing 25 cities between Prague and Cordoba; 15 plates; 8¾x5¼". $19 Add to Shopping Cart (cit041) |
Treves, Sir Frederick: The Riviera of the Corniche Road — Cassell, 1923, new edition; green buckram in very fine condition; x+303pp+12pp index, some pp slightly foxed, 16 plates; 9½x6½". $21 Add to Shopping Cart (aua102)
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White, William and Gerhard Masur: Imperial Berlin — Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974; trade paperback in laminated pictorial card covers, in very fine condition; viii+354pp with index; 9¼x6". $11 Add to Shopping Cart (cit043) |
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