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.....
Yarmouth: Printed and Sold by M. Alexander; Sold Also by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and Johnson, London, 1812. First and only edition. Colbert; COPAC records four copies (BL, Cambridge, Durham and V. & A.); OCLC adds Boston Athenaeum and New England Historic Genealogical Society. A pocket-size stranger's guide.....
London: Printed for D. Browne, A. Bell, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, J. Pemberton, [et al.], 1717. The eighth edition in English, preceded by editions beginning in 1691; all the 17th century English editions are very scarce. ESTC T79450. This English edition is a testament to the success and resiliency of.....
La Haye: Chez Henri van Bulderen, Marchand Libraire, dansle Pooten, à l'Enseigne de Mezeray, 1692. Second edition; first published in 1691, also in The Hague. The popular and colorful Relation du Voyage d’Espagne by Marie-Catherine Aulnoy (1650-1705), also known as Countess d'Aulnoy, the prolific French author of fairy tales, stories.....
London: John Murray, 1819. First edition. Colbert; Robinson, page 275; Pine-Coffin, page 175; ODNB. The first of two travel narratives by English poet Marianne Baillie (1775-1831), written with a "ladylike attitude to touring" (Robinson), in which she extols the beautiful, but is easily uncomfortable with surroundings to which she is.....
London: John Murray, 1824. First edition. Colbert; Robinson, page 275; ODNB. In 1821 Marianne Baillie accompanied her husband on his diplomatic assignment to Portugal, where she wrote the second of her two travel narratives. "In her letters the trials of the new constitutional government of Portugal and its eventual overthrow.....
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.....
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. First edition. In 1783, Mary Berry (1763-1852), author and friend and editor of Horace Walpole, went on the Grand Tour of Europe with her father and sister Agnes, and returned there, particularly to France, many times. Her richly woven Comparative View represents.....
London: Printed by J. Plymsell; for T. N. Longman, 1797. First edition. Colbert; ESTC N12984. Rachel Charlotte Biggs was acquainted with France when she traveled by herself there in 1792 to aid an aristocratic lady friend, during which time she witnessed the Revolution during its grim climax. Out of concern.....
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: Printed by William Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Printing Office; for John White, 1805. First and only edition. Colbert. Topographically inspired poetry about Turkey, Syria and Greece by Joseph Dacre Carlyle (1759-1804), posthumously edited by his sister Susanna Maria Carlyle (1752-1833), handsomely printed by William Bulmer and illustrated with two.....
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.....
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.....
Paris: C. Painparré, Libraire, 1821. Second edition, "revue et augmentee." Preceded by the first edition of 1819, of which OCLC records only one copy. OCLC and COPAC record this second edition in six locations. A perspective on London and England by minor French author Madame D'Avot (or Davot), who spent.....
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.....
London: Printed for John Murray, 1817. First edition. Colbert; Robinson, pages 261-62; ODNB. An eyewitness account to the Battle of Waterloo and surrounding events by novelist Charlotte Eaton who traveled to Belgium with her sister to accompany their brother to war. He survived and she wrote about it, another example.....
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.....
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.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. First and only edition. Colbert. Another colorful travelogue by Catherine Hyde Govion Broglio Solari, written in the same vein as her work on Venice, and a further installment in what became a series by the author of secret memoirs and histories, all based on pirported travels.....
London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1824. First edition. Pine-Coffin 792-8; Colbert. The first travelogue by Catherine Govion Broglio Solari (circa 1755-1844), an entertaining narrative about Italy by an author whose biography is filled with so many inconsistencies and ruses that fact and fiction become difficult to differentiate.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1820. First edition. Colbert; Pine-Coffin 819-3; Robinson, pages 44-45; ODNB. A travel narrative revealing of the adventurous and fearless nature of its author, Maria Graham (1785-1842). In the summer of 1819, she, her husband, and the artist.....
London: Printed at the Minerva Press for A. K. Newman, 1813. First edition. NCBEL III, 734 (which cites the date as 1825); Blakey, Minerva Press, page 241 (but apparently did not locate a copy to examine); OCLC records nine copies; Colbert; ODNB. The first of several imaginary travelogues for young.....
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.....
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.....