Early Auto Travels Abroad
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NEVILLE, C. ROUND FRANCE IN A MOTOR CAR.
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Dublin/Birmingham: Cambridge & Co.; London: Simkin, Marshall & Co., 1906. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth with paste-down photo on cover. 146 pages, with 9 photographic plates inserted.
Scarce automobile travel journal with only five copies listed on OCLC, and only one copy in the US. Binding is a bit worn.
$225.00
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(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL ‑ PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM) (TREVELYAN?). Photographic Album of Auto Trip from Pyrenees to the Alps 1909, plus Manuscript account of Trip.
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(France? April 1909. Oblong 8vo. Red cloth. (37) pages each with mounted photograph, with manuscript in ink of auto journey in France. (10 1/2 x 7 inches) (2) leaves cover; 11 leaves; 9 leaves, and 31 leaves.
Special personal photographic album of a trip along the southern coast of France starting at the Pyrenees and ending in the Alps. Ink inscription in the front is written by Trevelyan(?) to G. Constable and dated April 1909. Each photograph is identified in ink "The start from Bordeaux," to the last one "Fontainbleau." Numerous images of the automobile in transit as well the natural scenery, historic sites, monuments, castles, ancient ruins and hotels where they stayed. The unidentified ink manuscript is divided into three sections, each held together with clip, giving different portions of the trip through France which were written after finishing the trip.
$850.00
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(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL ‑ AMERICA) (EDDY, Arthur Jerome). TWO THOUSAND MILES ON AN AUTOMOBILE.
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Philadelphia/London: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1902.8 vo. Decorated cloth. 329 pages. First edition.
"Being a desultory narrative of a trip through New England, New York, and the West by 'Chauffeur.'" With 18 illustrations by Frank Verback. The trip starts in Kendallville, Indiana to Buffalo and eventually makes its way around upper New York to Massachusetts through New England. They even go into Canada. Although the author never got farther than Ohio, this is usually described as the first book-length account of an automobile trip in the United States. Bliss calls it "A fine early account of travel in the Eastern U.S. and Canada." Early owner's signature on front end leaf. Remarkably bright and clean copy in very good condition.
$250.00
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MOTOR TALLY‑HO COMPANY. Promotional Travel Pamphlet for Automobiles.
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(New York: circa 1910). 16mo. Oblong printed wrappers. 48 pages.
Scarce travel promotion pamphlet printed for the Motor Tally-Ho Company in New York - a company that specializes in planning and conducting private auto tours from New York, to Havana, Cuba. Illustrated with photographs of many of the sites they tour such as Atlantic City, Lyndhurst in Tarrytown, the Florida coast, to Havana.
$175.00
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(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL ‑ RIVIERA) MILTOWN, Francis, and Blanche McManus. RAMBLES ON THE RIVIERA.
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Boston: L.C. Page & Co., 1906. 8vo. Decorated cloth. xiii, 434 pages, 33 plates. First edition.
"Being some account of journeys made en automobile and things seen in the fair land of Provence." An early auto trip along the Riviera with descriptions of the scenery, people, towns and sites. With text drawings and the 33 plates "reproduced from paintings made on the spot by Blanche McManus." Early owners ink inscription on front end papers.
$50.00
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(AUTOMOBILE TOUR BOOK PROMOTION PAMPHLET) FISHER, Harriet White. JUST ISSUED; MRS HARRIET WHITE FISHER'S A WOMAN'S WOULD TOUR IN A MOTOR.
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippencott Company, (circa 1910). 8vo. Printed four-page flyer.
Printed illustrated book promotion with order form for a book just published by Lippencott Company for Mrs. Harriet White Fisher, "A Woman's World Tour in a Motor, a Breezy, Straightforward Narrative." With table of contents on back leaf.
$55.00
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(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL ‑ RUSSIA) COUNTS, George S. A FORD CROSSES SOVIET RUSSIA
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Boston: Stratford Company, (1930). 8vo. Red cloth. Frontispiece map, (ii), xii, 223 pages. First edition.
"The observations, experiences and impressions of the first American to motor across Soviet Russia." The author, a professor of education at Columbia University, drove 6,000 mile during the summer and autumn of 1929 in order to compile his "intimate close-up of the soul of Soviet Russia." He got a lot of mileage out of his book in other ways, too: following its publication he was frequently quoted in the press as an expert on the USSR, and after World War II became a harsh critic of its educational system. He was later a founder and chairman of the New York Senate Liberal Party, and even ran for the U.S. Senate on its ticket in 1952. (He lost.) Very good.
$140.00
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(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL TOURS ‑ EUROPE) RAYMOND‑WHITCOMB COMPANY. THE RAYMOND‑WHITCOMB AUTOMOBILE TOURS THROUGH EUROPE.
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Boston/New York/Philadelphia/Chicago/San Francisco/Los Angeles/London/Paris: 1914. 8vo. Printed decorated wrappers. 47, (1) pages.
Scarce travel booklet not found on OCLC. A travel booklet promoting seven automobile tour options in Europe. Each tour itinerary is listed with price and photographs of some of the sites to be visited starting June 2 to July 12 to the final tour package from July 12 to September 24.
$45.00
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(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL ‑ ALPS) FREESTON, Charles L. THE HIGH‑ROADS OF THE ALPS; A MOTORING GUIDE TO ONE HUNDRED MOUNTAIN PASSES.
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., (1910). 8vo. Green illustrated cloth. xv, 388 pages, 7 plates of maps, some folding. First edition.
Charles Freeston published several books about auto travel in and through the Alps The text is filled with many in-text half-tone photographs and maps as well as the full-sized plates. He gives detailed information about auto travel in the Alps especially about the individual passes and road conditions. The one important guide you would need to make the drive. Bookplates, else very good.
$125.00
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(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL - EUROPE) MERIWETHER, Lee. SEEING EUROPE BY AUTOMOBILE.
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New York: Baker & Taylor, 1911. 8vo. Green decorated cloth. (xii), 415 pages, 32 photographic illustrations. First edition.
"A five‑thousand‑mile motor trip through France, Switzerland, Germany, and Italy; with an excursion into Andorra, Corfu, Dalmatia, and Montenegro." Her itinerary went from Rouen to Paris, and from there to Normandy and the Chateau country as well as Rheims and Nancy. She then traveled into Germany and the Rhine country into Switzerland and over the Alps. She then traveled into Italy down to Rome and the coastal cities, across the Adriatic and ended in Montenegro. Illustrated with photographic plates of the various sites, monuments and scenery she saw. End pages are a detail map of her journey. With printed folding advertisement for her books, including this one with photograph of her and her automobile. Fine.
$95.00
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