World Travel- antiquarian books- collection of six.
Includes a world tour via ocean and boat, one across land from Egypt to Asia, plus three books about northern France coast and England. Several are illustrated, most are in attractive decorated gilt bindings. Two bound in period 1/2 leather.
Profusion of illustrations, views, maps and plates throughout. The gilt pictorial India elephant procession binding is a work of 19th century book art.
Natural History of Selborne & Observations on Nature, in 2 vols., by Gilbert White.
1895, New York, D. Appleton & Co.
Oxford, by Andrew Lang M.A.
1906, London, Seeley & Co Limited. Period leather.
A Voyage in the Sunbeam, our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months, by Mrs. Brassey.
1881, New York, John Wurtele Lovell.
Highways and Byways in Normandy, by Percy Dearmer, M.A.
1900, London, MacMillan and Co., Ltd. Period 1/2 leather marbled boards and end papers, top edge gilt, profusion of illustrations by J. Pennell.
Our New Way Round the World, by Charles Carleton Coffin.
c.1880, Boston, Estes and Lauriat. Outstanding pictorial gilt elephant binding.
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