Viaggi e geografia

The Map Thief

BLANDING, MICHAEL · 2014 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

New York, Gotham Books. 2014. (ISBN: 9781592408177). Paper covered boards, 8vo. 300 pages; illustrations, color and b&w. Stunning story of deceit. Bibliography; endnotes. Fine/Fine.

Bartholomew's Revised "Half-Inch" Contoured Maps (5 Maps)

JOHN BARTHOLOMEW & SON · 0 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Edinburgh, John Bartholomew & Son Ltd.. No dates. Corwall, sheet 1, paper; Dartmoor, sheet 2, paper; Exmoor, sheet 3, paper; Dorset, sheet 4, cloth; North Somerset, sheet 7, cloth. Clean and crisp. Very Good.

Walker's Provence in a Box

WOODFORD, ADRIAN; VARIOUS CONTRIBUTORS · 2009 · Ultramarine Books

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

Northampton, MA, Interlink Books. 2009. (ISBN: 9781566568975). Laminated cards, 6" x 4". 35 walks guided via pocketable cards. Most walks are easy to moderate; half-day to one day. Seeing, passing through historic sites, rarely visited places, vinyards on foot; what can be bet...

The Roof at the Bottom of the World: Discovering the Transantarctic Mountains

STUMP, EDMUND · 2011 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New Haven, Yale Un iversity Press. 2011, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780300171976). Deep blue cloth, 10" x 8 1/2". 254 pages; well-illustrated with color photos and b&w map drawings. The fifteen hundred mile wide continental mountain belt. The author also retraces, with "unpreceden...

The Appalachian Trail

FISHER, RONBALD M.; BENTON MACKAYE (FOREWORD) · 1972 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Washiington, D.C. The National Geographic Society. 1972, First Edition. (ISBN: 087044106X). Green Cloth, 10"x 6.5". Ill.: Dick Durrance II (photographed by). 200 pages; color illustrated throughout. Northern Georgia to northern Maine: 14 states, 8 national forests, 2 national ...

Old Glory, an Amercan Voyage

RABAN, JONATHAN · 1981 · Ultramarine Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

New York, Simon and Schuster. 1981, First Edition. (ISBN: 0671250612). quarter-cloth / paper boards, 8vo. 408 pages. Endpaper maps. The author living a Huckleberry Finn dream travels down the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans in a 16-foot boat. Gift inscription...

The Spanish Temper

PRITCHETT, V.S. · 1955 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 1955, Second Printing. quarter-cloth w/ paper boards, 8vo. pp. 270; i-vii. Author, a long familiarity with Spain. This: politics, economics, religion, sex, art, geography, and literature. Clean throughout; tight binding. Dustjacket with light damping...

Italy: The Places in between

SIMON, KATE · 1984 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Harper & Row. 1984, Revised and Expanded Edition. (ISBN: 0060153105). quarter-cloth / paper boards, 8vo. 384 pages; maps. Excellent descriptions of place; how to get there; personal views on what you'll find. Clean throughout; tight binding; dustjacket is price-clipp...

Kate Simon's London, Places and Pleasures: An Uncommon Guidebook

SIMON, KATE · 1968 · Ultramarine Books

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1968. Cloth, 8vo. 348 pages. Then; compare to today. Clean throughout; pages flat; binding tight, maybe unread. Jacket worn at the edges, in a Brodart poly cover. Very Good/Good.

Carte Routiere Pour Automobilistes & Cyclistes - Sud-Ouest de la France, Bordeaux - Toulouse, No. 20

TARIDE, A. · 0 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Paris, Cartes Taride. Cloth, 28 " x 36 " open. Linen-backed 4-color maps, scale of 1/250,000. Folded the map is 7" x 5" with paper labels front and back, the linen backing providing covers. The map clean and bright; the covers modestly soiled. Very Good.

Carte Routiere Pour Automobilistes & Cyclistes - Centre de la France, Section Ouest, No. 12

TARIDE, A. · 0 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Paris, Cartes Taride. Cloth, 28 " x 36 " open. Linen-backed 4-color maps, scale of 1/250,000. Folded the map is 7" x 4 1/2" with paper labels front and back, the linen backing providing covers. The map clean and bright; the covers modestly soiled. Very Good.

Carte Routiere Pour Automobilistes & Cyclistes - Est de la France, Section Nord, No. 6

TARIDE, A. · 0 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Paris, Cartes Taride. Cloth, 27 1/2" x 36 1/2" open. Linen-backed 4-color maps, scale of 1/250,000. Folded the map is 7" x 4 1/2" with paper labels front and back, the linen backing providing covers. The map clean and bright; the covers modestly soiled. Very Good.

Brazil

ROITER, FULVIO (PHOTOGRAPHS); HUGO LOETSCHER; ANTONIO CALLADO; OSCAR NIEMEYER; [ET AL] (TEXT) · 1969 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York, The Viking Press. 1969. (ISBN: 0670187704). Cloth, Oblong 4to. 252 pages; numerous photographs. Historical, economic and social background; Indian population; racial integration; politics; football; architecture. Clean throughout; tight binding; dustjacket torn. Very...

Praha, Prague, Prag, Praga (Praha Destem Omyta)

REZÁC, JAN (TEXT); JIRI SOUREK (PHOTOGRAPHS) · 1999 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Praha, Artfoto. 1999. (ISBN: 8086085368). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Square 8vo. not paginated. Numerous b&w photos of Prague: Praha Destem Omyta, chvala cernobile fotografie ( Rain-Washed Prague, in praise of black-and-white photography. Text in Czech, English, German, Fr...

The Charm of the Scott Country

BAIKIE, JAMES, REV., F.R.A.S. · 1927 · Ultramarine Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

London, A & C Black Ltd. 1927. Pictorial Cloth Boards, 4to. Ill.: Gordon Home. viii; 128 pp.;24 illustrations, reproductions of exquisite pencil drawings by Gordon Home.Blue duo-tone boards with gilt titles, bright, on the backstrip. The homes of Scott; the mountains, the abbe...

Florence As Described by Great Writers

SINGLETON, ESTHER (COLLECTED AND EDITED BY) · 1910 · Ultramarine Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.62 | ¥8,784)

New York, Dodd, Mead, & Company. 1910, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo. 358 pages; 42 illustrations, photographs. The author is responsible for more than a dozen travel books with the same perspective, as well as others, such as A Guide to the Opera. Previous owner's name on the hal...

A Wanderer in Rome

LUCAS, E.V. · 1926 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York, George H. Doran. 1926. Cloth, 8vo. Ill.: Harry Morley. 260 pages; 16 color illustrations, 32 b&w; endpaper maps. An enthusiastic and thorough walking tour of Rome. Clean throughout; tight binding. Very Good/No Jacket.

The Stones of Paris in History and Letters

MARTIN, BENJAMIN ELLIS AND CHARLOTTE MARTIN · 1906 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1906. Cloth, 8vo. 582 pages; 62 illustrations. The history told from and up to the turn of the 19th-century. The letters of Moliére, Voltaire, Balzac, Dumas, Hugo. A very good read. Clean throughout; t.e.g.; the binding is tight but cocked. P...

The Four Continents Being More Discursions on Travel and Life

SITWELL, OSBERT · 1954 · Ultramarine Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

London, Macmillan. 1954, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo. 282 pages; twenty-four duo-tone photo-reproductions. Discursions of excursions post-WW II, including a couple stops in the United States. Clean throughout. Save for light age-darkening to page edges, fine condition. The jacke...

Index to Topographic and Other Map Coverage

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY · 0 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Dept. of the Interior. 3 Inices: New York; New Jersey; Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Fine.