Catalogues & Occasional Lists

WOMEN TRAVELERS, 1692-1941

WOMEN TRAVELERS, 1692-1941

Women Travelers: Fact, Fiction and Verse. A selection of books by women travelers, 1692 to 1941, to places as far flung as India, Africa, Brazil, Hawaii, North America, the Middle East and . . . Wales, Scotland, the English coast, and over the Thames and St. James Park in a hot air balloon.  After reading a manuscript of Mary Wortley Montagu’s Letters in 1724, Mary Astell wrote that women were better travelers than men. And indeed, particularly before 1815, women were more enlightened, perceptive and entertaining travelers than men, and the books in our catalogue Women Travelers & Travel Writers, 1692-1941, prove her point.

THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

A collection of over one hundred books of Language of Flowers, from 1655 to 1900, unusal for its scope. For sale as a collection.

ALBERT AND MARY STEVENS ARCHIVE

ALBERT AND MARY STEVENS ARCHIVE

Archive of the British watercolorists Albert and Mary Stevens, who flourished as commercial artists in Europe and Britain between the later years of the Victorian era and the early 20th century.