[Rarebooks] F/S The Library Of Travel, Exploration & Adventure 7 vols complete

[Garry Austin]

For your consideration we offer the following net to all and postpaid at $600

The Library Of Travel, Exploration & Adventure Edited by Bayard Taylor; Seven Volumes, Complete; Each volume bears the bookplate and signature of Leon G. Bagley of Rutland Vermont. Bagley was a prominent citizen and manager of the Western Union Telegraph Office. The volumes are uniform in their bindings and condition, they are very good to near fine and appear to have never been read. A remarkable relic of Gilded Age publishing offering a look at the unknown places of the World and the newly created Yellowstone National Park filled with plates and folding maps.

Bayard Taylor, Editor. Japan In Our Day. New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co. 1873.
 Small octavo; pp; xvi, 280, (vi), ads;  folding map, frontispiece and thirty-seven black and white plates; original pictorial terra-cotta cloth, stamped in black and gilt; Taylor compiled and arranged this volume.

Bacon, George B. Compiled & arranged; Bayard Taylor, Editor. Siam, The Land Of The White Elephant. New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co. 1873.
 Small octavo; pp; viii, 347, (iv), ads;  folding map, frontispiece and thirty-two black and white plates; original pictorial terra-cotta cloth, stamped in black and gilt;

Bayard Taylor, Editor. Travels In Arabia. New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co. 1874.
 Small octavo; pp; iv, (ii), 325, (iv), ads;  folding map, frontispiece and thirteen black and white plates; original pictorial terra-cotta cloth, stamped in black and gilt; Taylor compiled and arranged this volume.

Cumming, Roualeyn Gordon. Bayard Taylor, Editor. Wild Men And Wild Beasts Or Scenes In Camp Or Jungle. New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co. 1873.
 Small octavo; pp; xiv, (ii), 372, (iv), ads;  frontispiece and seventeen black and white plates; original pictorial terra-cotta cloth, stamped in black and gilt;

Bayard Taylor, Editor. Travels In South Africa. New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co. 1873.
 Small octavo; pp; (x), 336, (iv), ads;  folding map, frontispiece and twenty-two black and white plates; original pictorial terra-cotta cloth, stamped in black and gilt; Taylor compiled and arranged this volume.

Richardson, James, Editor. Wonders Of The Yellowstone. New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co. 1874.
New edition with new map & illustrations; Small octavo; pp; xii, (ii), 256, (viii), ads;  two folding colored maps of Yellowstone, frontispiece and nineteen black and white plates; original pictorial terra-cotta cloth, stamped in black and gilt; Contains the Hayden Geological Survey Map by Julius Bien at rear and the Map of the Park & Its Perspective Railroad Connections With The Eastern States at the  front.

Bayard Taylor, Compiled & Arranged, Editor. The Lake Regions Of Central Africa. New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co. 1873.
Small octavo; pp; (xii), 397, (vii), ads;  folding map, frontispiece and twenty-nine black and white plates; original pictorial terra-cotta cloth, stamped in black and gilt; Taylor compiled and arranged this volume and was the Editor of the Series..


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