First American edition. A very good first edition of this travelog inscribed by Naipaul to his American editor, Robert Gottlieb. This book reports on Naipaul's travels in Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. As a young editor, Gottlieb acquired Joseph Heller's Catch-22 when he was at Simon and Schuster; he spent.....

A 1-1/2 page manuscript letter from a former governor of the Leeward Islands expressing interest in succeeding Thomas Shirley in the position. The Leeward Islands include Antigua, St. Kitts, the Virgin Islands, and other British colonies. The writer had been governor from 1766 to 1771, governor of Antigua for twenty.....

A manuscript calendar of legal actions concerning a plantation in Jamaica consisting of "several Penns Lands Mess'ges Tenem[en]ts Slaves & real Est[at]e in Jamaica under the Will of Alger Pestell deceased. The list of dates and events begins in 1763 and continues through 1777, encompassing several generations of Bryan Edwards's.....

A three-page manuscript letter (on a single large sheet folded to make four pages) responding to a request for information about the family and land holdings of the ancestors of one Anthony Browne (of London). The letter is densely written with more than forty lines per page in a very.....

First Edition. An attractive promotional book illustrated with more than fifty views of Rio de Janeiro and the surrounding countryside printed in duotone; each image is faced with a decorative ad page for a Rio-based business. The album presents a very interesting snapshot of the commercial culture of Brazil's primary.....

First Edition. The limited edition, featuring an original watercolor, of this travelog of a trip to Ecuador made on commission from magazines. Illustrated with four double-page color plates by the author (who is probably best known for his Madeline series of picture books). There were 175 signed copies of.....

First Edition. A Christian missionary provides an illustrated travelog of the Holy Land, Europe, and the United States for Japanese audiences. Gulick, born in Hawaii (1830–1923), was stationed in Japan from 1870 to 1892. In the early 1880s, he made an extended tour of the West, speaking widely on the.....

First Edition. A privately printed version of the diary kept by Otani Kahyoe, the president of the Japan Central Tea Traders' Association. "Mr. Otani visited America and Europe in 1899–1900, when he represented both the Tokyo and Yokohama Chambers of Commerce at the Philadelphia Commercial Convention" (William Harrison Ukers, All.....

First US edition. Fonseca and Carolino’s inadvertent masterpiece has been called many things... "Perhaps the worst foreign phrasebook ever written" ... A book of "miraculous stupidities." "The most ludicrous foreign attempt ever made to teach our language." Most often under the title English as She Is Spoke...the mid-nineteenth-century Portuguese phrasebook.....

A short travelog of a Japanese Christian minister's visit to the United States to attend the World Sunday School Convention, in July 1928. Miura gives a brief report on the convention and then details his travels, visiting cities and natural landmarks, as well as Japanese communities. [4], [10 leaves, each.....

First Edition. Travelog of the author's cruise through Monte Carlo, Portofino, Leghorn, the Bay of Naples, Capri, and Corsica. Illustrated throughout the text and with four full-color plates. Bemelmans, best known for his Madeline series of picture books, also wrote novels and nonfiction books. First edition (first printing). A very.....

First Edition. Scottish-South African explorer Archibald Colquhoun "traversed through the unknown lands of western China and scampered along the jungle-covered middle stretches of the Mekong River. When he returned to London he lectured widely and wrote... Burma and the Burmans... He had one message: All that stood in the way.....

This is one of many guides to studying and immigrating to the United States by Katayama Sen published under a variety of similar titles with somewhat different content. Katayama spent a dozen years in the United States, returning to Japan in 1896. He discovered socialism while in America and became.....