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 was..... More
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..... More
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 scarce. ESTC T79450. This English edition is a testament to the success and resiliency of Countess..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
Frankfort: Printed for Charles Jugel, at the German and Foreign Library, 1837. First separate edition. NCBEL III, 1289; OCLC records three copies (Sutro, Harvard and Toronto); COPAC adds three (BL, Senate House and V. & A.). An interesting German edition of the chapters about Germany from Anna Jameson's Visits and..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1826. Second edition, published the same year as the first, but under a different title. Colbert; ODNB; NCBEL III, 1288; not in Wolff, Block or Garside, Raven and Schöwerling. A novel in the form of a travel diary by Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860) which she states in..... More
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Reese and Orme, 1805. First edition. Pine-Coffin 778-7; Colbert; ODNB. Novelist and poet Cornelia Knight (1757-1837) lived for several years in the 1790s in Rome and other parts of Italy, where she mastered numerous languages, drawing, painting and writing, the latter which she put to..... More
London: Saunders and Otley, 1838. First edition. Clark, Travels in the Old South, vol. 3, 205; Sabin 44939; NCBEL III, 949; Robinson, pages 143-44.; Colbert; ODNB. The second travel narrative about America by political economist and journalist Harriet Martineau (1802-76), in which she recounts her two-year tour to New York..... More
New York: Published by J. & J. Harper, 1833. First edition. Hill, Pacific Voyages, 1185 & 1186; American Imprints 20220; Sabin 50776; Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography, 862. In 1829, Abby Jane Morrell accompanied her husband, Benjamin Morrell, on his fourth voyage from New York to the Pacific. "They embarked... More
London: Saunders and Otley, 1834. Second edition, first published in 1833. Colbert; Robinson, pages 189-90; ODNB. Julia Pardoe (1806-1862), an aspiring novelist and poet, traveled to Portugal in 1832 for her health and wrote this engaging travel narrative about her experiences there. It combines the descriptions and stories behind the..... More
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..... More
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832. First and only edition. Letters from France, Belgium and Germany between 1814 and 1816 by a highly cultivated and connected young lady who writes to various friends about adventures and intrigue in high places. The author of the letters is perhaps autobiographical or..... More