Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1838. First edition. American Imprints 53696; Sabin 104774; Howes W-560. An iformed perspective on Boston in 38 letters originally published under the pseudonym "Peter Peregrine" by Enoch Cobb Wines (1806-79), clergyman and prison reform advocate. Wines visited Boston to educate himself about the.....
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1886. First edition, second printing (the first was dated 1885). A thorough and sympathetic examination of life and culture in Korea by Percival Lowell (1855-1916), a descendant of the Boston Lowells, who traveled extensively in Japan and Korea, serving as a foreign secretary and as an.....
London: John Murray, 1880. First edition. Robinson, Wayward Women, page 81; Theakstone, Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers, page 35. The extraordinary account by Isabella Bird (1831-1904) of her first trip to Japan, which she undertook alone in 1878. Upon arrival she hired a servant to accompany her and purchased a......
London: Printed for Joseph Wilde, at the Elephant at Charing Cross, 1700. First edition, one of two variants. In this one the dedication is signed "E. L." ESTC R223814 records nine copies (Durham, Oxford Bodleian, National Trust, Folger, UCLA, Illinois, Kansas, Tennessee, Beinecke); Wing A226C. Informed and lively observations on.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1863. Second edition, published shortly after the first. BAL 19258; cf. Smith, American Travelers Abroad, S200, which records an 1887 edition. A popular travel narrative about Rome by the American sculptor William Wetmore Story (1819-1895), who was a talented writer, as well. The title of "Roba,".....