Travel literature seeks to communicate information about newly discovered lands or those little known to the reader; it may be the history of an imaginary journey presented as a real one but important chiefly in terms of ideological and literary content, as in adventure stories, utopias, and philosophic works.
Recommended Books
Chester Cathedral. 1952
£7.00[ANON]. Chester Cathedral. 44pp. Monochrome photos in the text, period adverts. 8vo. Gloucester: The British Publishing Company Limited, 1952.
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Over the Pyrenees Into Spain. 1865.
£45.00EYRE, Mary. Over the Pyrenees Into Spain. PROVENANCE: Partly erased signature of previous owner in brown ink inside on half title. Chapters include: “The Eastern Pyrenees”, “San Julia”, “Calaf to Barcelona”, “Madrid to Granada”, “Alicante to Barcelona”, Barcelona to Perpignan and Paris”. 8vo. London: Richard Bentley, 1865.
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Adams Illustrated Guide Rye and District. 1960.
£9.00FOSTER, Jim. Adams Illustrated Guide Rye and District. Monochrome photographs/illustrations throughout, folding map at the rear. 96pp. Interior: light age toning to pages, top right corners of pages creased. Binding: publisher’s red/orange and white pictorial wrappers (creasing, previous owner’s name partially erased at top right hand corner, spine chipped with minor loss, light wear to covers). 8vo. [Rye]: Adams of Rye Limited, 1960.
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The Ideal Guide To London For Visitors and Londoners… [c. 1947.]
£7.20GROSS, Alexander. The Ideal Guide To London For Visitors and Londoners Complete Revised Edition With Maps of Cinemaland Theatreland, Central London & Underground Railway. 80pp. Interior: Age toning, some tearing to last few pages with loss to blank margins-not affecting text. Binding: Publisher’s pink wrappers (staples rusted, some staining and creases). 12mo. (Size). Geographers’ map Co., LTD., [no date c. 1947].
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Abbey of Blessed Mary of Dene [,] Flaxley.
£7.20[ANON]. Abbey of Blessed Mary of Dene [,] Flaxley. 8pp. (With 4pp: Monochrome photographic plates). Interior: generally clean, pages lightly age toned. Binding: Cream wrappers with armorial crest in gilt and red, wrappers lettered in red. (Light soiling, creasing to edges, staples rusting a little). 8vo. [No place]: [Flaxley Abbey], [no date. c.early/mid 20th century].
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London Old & New. Thackeray & Kingsley Hotels. [c. 1928]
£7.20[ANON]. London Old & New. Thackeray & Kingsley Hotels. 32pp. Interior: generally clean with some light marks. Binding: Publisher’s green pictorial wrappers (light rubbing, some marks/minor chipping). Small 8vo. [London]: [Kingsley and Thackeray Hotels], [no date, c.1928].
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Holidays on High Lands… 1869.
£45.00MACMILLAN, Rev. Hugh. Holidays on High Lands; or, Rambles and Incidents In Search of Alpine Plants. (Pages age toned, occasional spotting and foxing). Publisher’s blue pictorial cloth, gilt (wear to cloth, corners bumped, spine cocked). 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co. 1869.
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Hacky & Markey: Being The Adventures of Hacky Daniel & Markey Retchatts… 1855.
£54.00SIGNATURE next to the printed sentence: ‘’N.B. Every genuine copy is signed by the Author” is presumably the signature of TREGELLAS. TREGELLAS, L.T. (1792-1863 ). Hacky & Markey: Being The Adventures of Hacky Daniel & Markey Retchatts, Two Cornish Miners, Who Went Further To Sea Than They Intended and Encountered A Floating Regiment of What They Called….To Which Are Adde Their Extraordinary Confessions. [4], 22, [2] pp. Frontispiece (Pages soiled and a little grubby, some pages detached, sporadic spotting). Contemporary blue wrappers with white (now browned) title label (wrappers torn with loss, worn). 8vo. Penzance, F. T. Vibert, 1855.
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