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Travel Books

Travel books can offer the perfect armchair getaway. However, vintage travel books offer something even better: the ability to visit not only different places but different times. Leningrad, Yugoslavia, Edo, Burma... they may no longer exist in the same form and we may not want them to, but vintage travel books let us walk the streets and see the sites as if they still do.
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The Charm of Scandinavia (1914)
$75.00
the first edition of Yates' The World Is Your Oyster (1939)
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The World Is Your Oyster (1939)
$175.00
First edition of Alois Fischer's Vienna (1946)
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Vienna (1946)
$55.00
First edition of Ernest Peixotto's Through the French Provinces (1909)
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Through the French Provinces (1909)
$120.00
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On a Scottish Island (1949)
$40.00
Travel souvenir book of Napoli e Dintorni (circa 1895)
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Napoli e Dintorni (circa 1895)
$95.00
First edition of Bennett Arnold's Mediterranean Scenes (1928)
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Mediterranean Scenes (1928)
$100.00
First edition of Leningrad (1984)
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Leningrad (1984)
$60.00
First edition of Edward Penfield's Holland Sketches (1907)
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Holland Sketches (1907)
$400.00
First edition of the guidebook Blackpool (1939)
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Blackpool (1939)
$75.00
Cover of the rare 1920s book Album Krakowa featuring a cut out with a color image of Krakow showing through
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Album Krakowa (circa 1925)
$125.00
First edition of Edwards' Vanished Towers and Chimes of Flanders (1916)
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Vanished Towers and Chimes of Flanders (1916)
$140.00
The Capital of Scotland (1940)
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The Capital of Scotland (1940)
$50.00
First edition of Alice Leslie's We Do Europe in Two Weeks (1937)
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We Do Europe in Two Weeks (1937)
$50.00
Rare first edition of Libushka Bartusek's Happy Times in Finland (1941)
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Happy Times in Finland (1941)
$75.00
Cover of the rare souvenir travel album book Album of Dublin Views (circa 1895)
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Album of Dublin Views (circa 1895)
$150.00
First edition of William Griffis's The American in Holland (1899)
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The American in Holland (1899)
$100.00
Extremely rare first edition of Cracow (1929)
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Cracow (1929)
$650.00
Rare first edition of this souvenir album book advertising Edinburgh circa 1900
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Edinburgh (Circa 1900)
$175.00
First edition of Wieliczka (circa 1930)
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Wieliczka (circa 1930)
$50.00
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