London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. First edition. ESTC T64790; Robinson, pages 249-50; ODNB. Like Mary Wortley Montagu, Jane Ward (1699-1783) became a traveler when she accompanied her husband Thomas Ward on a diplomatic mission, this one to Russia between 1730 and 1739. Also like Montagu she did not intend.....
London: John Murray, 1842. First edition. Robinson, pages 96-7; Pine-Coffin 838-2. In the summer of 1838 Augusta Holmes and her husband set out from Liverpool with the intention of riding all the way to Italy on horseback. The equestrian venture, described in detail in Holmes' narrative, took eight months, during.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1826. First edition. Colbert; Robinson, page 87; NCBEL II, 832; ODNB. Playwright and confidante of Horace Walpole, Lady Elizabeth Craven (1750-1828), began her famous travels through the Crimea to Constantinople in 1783 and traveled constantly the remainder of her life, visiting almost every country in Europe, often.....
London: Printed for John Murray, 1815. First edition. Colbert; NCBEL II, 694. The final work on France by Helen Maria Williams, first English woman to write about the upheavals of the French Revolution when she traveled there in 1790. She later became repulsed by Robespierre and the reign of terror.....
London: John Murray, 1820. First edition. Colbert; ODNB; Robinson, pages 194-95; Pine-Coffin 792-5. Mariana Starke (1762-1838) was a budding playwright when she moved to Italy in 1792 to care for an ailing relative. Her stay there inspired Letters from Italy Between the Years 1792 and 1798 (1800; revised 1815), a......
London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher; New York: Reprinted for the Booksellers, 1832. First American edition. NCBEL III, 769; Robinson, pages 197-98; Sabin 97028; American Imprints 15041; Clark, Travels in the Old South, vol. 3, 112; Colbert; ODNB. Frances Trollope (1780-1863) traveled to America in 1827 with several children in tow.....
London: Printed for J. and A. Ach, 1816. Second edition, enlarged; the first edition was published in 1813. ODNB; Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (1788-1856) visited the famous abbey Port-Royal in France, where she was attracted to the serious study, Jansenist piety, their theories of philosophy.....
New York & Washington: Neale Publishing, 1909-1912. First edition, limited issue, one of 250 copies signed by Bierce; this one out of series. BAL 1129; Krick, Neale Books, page 16. The famous collected works of Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?), and the most ambitious and elaborate publishing project of Walter Neale's publishing.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811. Fourth edition; the first was published in 1806. NCBEL III, 772. A sequel to the popular Letters to a Young Man on His First Entrance in Life (1801), by the poet, novelist and playwright Jane West (758-1852), a series of.....
A letter from 21-year-old Julia White Peck (1829-1859) to her future mother-in-law, Mrs. Henry Marsh of St. Louis, Missouri. Julia was about to travel to Turkey to serve as a Christian missionary with her fiancé, Rev. Dwight Marsh, who was stationed in Mosul (then part of Turkey). Her knowledge of.....
London: Longmans, Green, 1873. First edition. Robinson, pages 12-13. ¶ An account of the mountainous region of Northern Italy known as the Dolomites, by the intrepid Amelia B. Edwards (1831-1892), English novelist, poet, journalist, and Egyptologist, as well as a traveler and travel writer. Edwards and her female companion Lucy.....
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Philadelphia: E. Claxton, 1881. First edition, probable second printing. Smith, American Travellers Abroad, W-126 (this printing); OCLC 526862 describes a copy with an 1880 date (three locations); this 1881 issue is described under OCLC 15215249 in nine locations. An epistolary, lively and highly literate travel narrative in 126 letters from.....
London: Whittaker, Treacher, 1834. Second edition, published the year following the first. Sabin 10937; Ragatz, Guide for the Study of British Caribbean History, page 221; Colbert, Women Travel Writers, 1780-1840; Robinson, pages 297-298. A "remarkably unsentimental" (Robinson) account of life in St. Vincent and Trinidad between the years 1820 to.....
Cincinnati: W. E. Dibble, 1883. First edition. Not in Smith, American Travellers Abroad; OCLC 4751344 records 11 copies. An epistolary account of Eliza Conner's trip to Europe in the summer of 1882, originally publilshed in the Cincinnati Commercial in installments of two letters per week. Ms. Conner notes in the.....
Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Charles T. Dillingham, (1882). First edition. Smith, American Travelers Abroad, B10. ¶ Detailed descriptions of life and culture in the Azorean islands by a resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and one of the earliest American travel narratives dedicated to the Azores. "The author presents the.....
(Greenwich: H. Richardson, 1885?). First edition, privately printed. Not found in OCLC or elsewhere. A travel diary kept by Mary J. Unite detailing her trip to France and Italy in 1880, dedicated to her son George as an apology for leaving him behind during her journey! It depicts the standard.....
Paris: Société d'Editions Géographiques, Maritimes, et Coloniales, 1927. First edition. Hill, Pacific Voyages, 652 & 649. ¶ An account of an important French voyage to South America and the Pacific from 1817 to 1820, sponsored by Napoléon. This version is unusual for it was written by the wife of the.....
San Francisco: D. P. Elder and Morgan Shepard, 1902. First privately printed edition, one of 300 copies. ¶ An elaborately and expensively produced account of a extended sojourn by Katharine Putnam Hooker (1849-1935) and her daughter, Marian Osgood Hooker, in Italy. Putnam became well known for her books about Italy.....
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. First edition. ¶ Observations about English speaking expatriates in late 19th-century Europe from an Australian's perspective. Susan Gavan Duffy was the daughter of Irish-Australian writer and politician Sir Charles Duffy. Inscribed on the half-title "Madame Dracopoli / With love from / the Author / Oct.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1895. First edition. ¶ The perspective of a French woman journalist, Marie Therese Blanc (1840-1907), on the state of women in the United States, based on her travels here. Blanc writes about women's clubs in Chicago and Boston, women's colleges, prisons for women, homes and clubs for.....
London: Macmillan, 1941. First edition. NCBEL IV, 770. ¶ One of the great historical and cultural accounts of Eastern Europe prior the Second World War, by author, journalist, literary critic, and travel writer, Cicily Isabel Andrews (1892-1983), who famously wrote under the pseudonym Rebecca West. She was realistic about what.....
Fair copy manuscript, no place, circa 1806. There are six fair copy manuscripts of Psyche held in institutions that have been found: National Library of Wales, Morgan Library, Beinecke Library, two at the British Library (one incomplete), Wilson Library at North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and one is listed in OCLC.....
San Francisco: The Lantern Press, Gelber, Lilienthal, 1924. First edition, number 165 of 500 numbered copies, printed by the Grabhorn Press. Grabhorn Press Bibliography 68. The third collection of poetry by Hildegarde Flanner (1899-1987). The Lantern Press was the imprint of San Francisco booksellers Gelber, Lilienthal. Frederick Monhoff was an.....
New York: Privately Printed, 1933. Second edition, considerably rewritten. OCLC 20222941 records three copies (Harvard, La Salle and Brown). A three-act operetta by American author Owen Wister (1860-1938) on the follies of prohibition. Macmillan published the first edition in 1923, as it had been performed at the Tavern Club in.....
Leo Wyatt (1909-1891) was a British engraver who was famous for his calligraphic wood engravings, particularly of alphabets, like this one. He was also highly regarded as a designer of bookplates.