Costume of Candelario, Salamanca, from colour plates in the collection of the Hispanic Society of America
[12] p. illus. (map) VI col. pl. 32 cm
The Hispanic Society of America is a museum and reference library for the study of the arts and cultures of Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. Founded in 1904 by Archer M. Huntington, the institution is free and open to the public at its original location in a Beaux Arts building on Audubon Terrace (at 155th Street and Broadway) in the lower Washington Heights area of New York City in the United States. The campus was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2012.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_Society_of_America
Issued in portfolio
Markings:Imprint(inside)
Features: Inscribed Anderson
1932
b28834173
GT I212.C3.H55
Paris, Frankreich Nord und West. Text von Roger Roumagnac gastronomischer Teil von Pierre Andrieu. Deutsche Bearbeitung von hans Banger Übersetzung von Alfred Fraude. Illustrationen von Georges Beuville, Lazlo Fircsa ... [et al.]
413 p. illus. (part col.) col. maps. 18 cm
German language version of a guidebook to Paris and the surrounding region, published during the German occupation in WWII. A similarly named volume was published in France under the name Paris and the Provinces. For a review of that work, see: http://www.unz.org/Pub/SaturdayRev-1948may01-00035
Inscribed: To my dear Greta, in memory of our 3rd wartime Christmas celebration, experienced together in France, from yours, Charlotte Heinrich.
[Beauvais] 24 December 1941.
b29123264
DC16 .O35
Siam, the land of the white elephant, as it was and is. Compiled and arranged by George B. Bacon
v. 347 p. front., plates, ports., fold. map. 20 cm
A volume in the Illustrated Library of Travel series published by Scribners beginning in 1871, compiled and arranged by Bayard Taylor (1825 – 1878), an American poet, literary critic, translator, and travel author.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Taylor
Series title also at head of t.-p
Added t.-p., illustrated
1889 [c1881]
b1428022x
DS565.B13 1881
Life on the Bosphorus: doings in the city of the sultan. Turkey, past and present, including Chronicles of the caliphs from Mahomet to Abdul Hamid II. By William J.J. Spry
xix, 244, 330 p. front., illus., plates, ports., fold. map. 26 cm
Part II, Chronicles of the caliphs, has special half-title and separate paging
Boards(separated) Spine(separated)
1895
b29214282
DR441 .S77
Venetian life / by William Dean Howells with illustrations from the original water colors
2 v. (volume 1 missing.) 287 p. : col. plates 18 cm
William Dean Howells, (1837 - 1920), U.S. novelist and critic, known as the dean of late 19th-century American letters, the champion of literary realism, and the close friend and adviser of Mark Twain and Henry James. Howells grew up in various Ohio towns and began work early as a typesetter and later as a reporter. Meanwhile, he taught himself languages, becoming well read in German, Spanish, and English classics, and began contributing poems to The Atlantic Monthly. His campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln (1860) financed a trip to New England, where he met the great men of the literary establishment, James Russell Lowell, editor of The Atlantic Monthly, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Hawthorne, and Emerson. On Lincoln’s victory he was rewarded with a consulship at Venice (1861–65), There he wrote the essays collected in his first major Venetian Life (1866).
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/273557/William-Dean-Howells
For an essay on his work as an American Consul in Venice, see this article in "American Diplomacy" (June, 2014):
http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2014/0612/ca/sommers_diplomatswho.html
Illustrators are Child Hassam, Ross Turner, Rhoda Holmes Nicholls and F. Hopkinson Smith
Title vignette
1892
b29126575
PS2029 .V4 1892a
The Pictorial tour of the world : comprising pen and pencil sketches of travel, incident, adventure, and scenery in all parts of the globe / embellished with upwards of one hundred first-class wood engravings by eminent English and foreign artists
iii, 508 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) 25 cm
Added t.p. with illustration
Sold as part of THE PICTORIAL STANDARD LIBRARY - A Series Of Illustrated Volumes Forming A Compendium Of Interesting And Useful Knowledge. Advertisement for the series. From the 1890s.
[18--?]
b24876604
G463 .P5 1800
Travels in the track of the ten thousand Greeks being a geographical and descriptive account of the expedition of Cyrus, and of the retreat of the ten thousand Greeks, as related by Xenophon. By William F. Ainsworth
xv, 248 p. incl. front. (fold. map) 20 cm
This volume by English surgeon, traveller, geographer and geologist, William Francis Ainsworth, is a geographical and descriptive account of the expedition of Cyrus the Great and of the retreat of his Greek mercenaries after the death of the Persian prince.
William Francis Ainsworth (1807–1896) was an English surgeon, traveller, geographer and geologist, known also as a writer and editor. In 1836 Ainsworth, after studying under Sir Edward Sabine, was appointed surgeon and geologist to the expedition to the River Euphrates under Francis Rawdon Chesney. Shortly afterwards he was placed in charge of an expedition to the Christians of Chaldaea, which was sent out by the Royal Geographical Society and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. He went to Mesopotamia, through Asia Minor, the passes of the Taurus Mountains, and northern Syria, reaching Mosul in the spring of 1840. During the summer he explored the Kurdistan mountains and visited Lake Urimiyeh in Persia, returning through Greater Armenia; and reached Constantinople late in 1840. This expedition had financial troubles, and Ainsworth had to find his way home at his own expense.On his return from the Euphrates expedition he published his observations under the title of 'Researches in Assyria, Babylonia, and Chaldsea.' In 1842, he published an account of the Mesopotamia expedition entitled 'Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldsea, and Armenia,' London, 2 vols. Two years later, in 1844, he produced his major work, the 'Travels in the Track of the Ten Thousand Greeks,' a geographical and descriptive account of the expedition of Cyrus the Great and of the retreat of his Greek mercenaries after the death of the Persian prince.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Ainsworth
1844
b24878492
DF231.32 .A7 1844