London: John Walker and Company, 1880. First printing. Hardcover. Small 4to. 47 pp., with each plate accompanied by a free leaf separating it from the text. Illustrated with twenty-five chromolithograph plates from drawings by A.F. Lydon. Bound in green cloth stamped in black and gilt, beveled edge boards, all edges... More about English Lake Scenery
Philadelphia: Reading & Company, Publishers, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xv, 278 pp. Illustrated with numerous plates (steel engravings and photographs) and two maps, including a chromolithograph of French colonial currency used in turn-of-the-century Western Africa. The illustrations include portraits of native peoples, Mrs. Reading, several different churches in... More about The Ogowe Band; A Narrative of African Travel
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux (1984), 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 149 pp. Bound in grey cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $12.95 on front jacket flap. First printing of the first edition. Ahearn APG 023c. An attractive copy of McPhee's account of Switzerland and the Swiss... More about La Place de la Concorde Suisse
London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. xiv, [2], 532 pp. 292 illustrations engraved on wood by G. Pearson and J. Cooper after drawings by R.T. Pritchett. Original publishers cloth with decorations stamped in blue, brown, green, and gilt on the front and rear boards and... More about In the Trades, the Tropics, & the Roaring Forties
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 252 pp.; 1 - (publishers catalogue dated December 1864). Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine, coated brown endpapers and pastedowns. BAL 20115, binding C (sequence not determined). A nice copy of this collection of... More about Cape Cod