Walkabout Books
Specializing in Nineteenth-Century Americana, California and the West, Exploration, Travel and Tourism, Alaska, Africa, Middle East, Historical Manuscripts and Archives
About
Walkabout Books is an online antiquarian bookstore located in Southwest Washington. We specialize in nineteenth and early twentieth century Americana and the literature of travel and adventure, including travel narratives, travel and tourism ephemera (travel diaries, vintage brochures, guidebooks, etc), exploration, mountaineering, and other outdoor pursuits. We also deal in manuscripts and archives of historical interest and carry interesting and unusual books in many other fields. We offer IRS-qualified appraisal services, maintain client want lists, and are always interested in offers of interesting books, ephemera, and manuscript material. We welcome visitors by appointment.Terms of Sale
All books are subject to prior sale. We accept all major credit cards, checks, money orders, and PayPal, as well as purchase orders from institutions. California residents who are not exempt will be charged sales tax. If you prefer not to order online, you are welcome to call us with your order at 949-218-4966. Advance payment is requested for most orders. Established customers, institutions, and booksellers known to us may request shipment with invoice (net 30). We offer reciprocal courtesies to the trade. All books are returnable for any reason within 21 days of receipt, as long as they remain in the original condition. Walkabout Books will pay return shipping if a book is misdescribed. The buyer is generally responsible for return shipping if the book is returned for other reasons. Please let us know if you are sending a book back so we will be on the lookout.
Appraisals
Available for appraisals
Members
- Elizabeth K. Svendsen
Available by appointment only
Recently Added Books
![The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley and of California [Rare Edition with 20 Mounted Photos]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/896/578/1737578896.0.m.jpg)
![Arctic Zoology, Vol. I. Introduction. Class I. Quadrupeds; Vol. II. Class II. Birds [with] Supplement to the Arctic Zoology](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/464/946/1701946464.0.m.jpg)
Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Ferndando Po
by A F.R.G.S. [Burton, Richard Francis]
La Expedicion Malaspina 1789-1794, Tomos I-V: Circunstancia histórica del viaje; Diario general del viaje (Vol. 1 & 2); Diarios y trabajos botanicos; Trabajos cientificos y correspondencia de Tadeo Haenke; Antropología y noticias etnográficas
by Malaspina, Alejandro; Ricardo Cerezo Martínez; Félix Muñoz Garmendia, María Victoria Ibáñez Montoya, Juan Pimentel Igea
The Gulistan or Rose Garden of Sa'di
by [Burton, Richard Francis]
Recently added catalogues
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45 eye-catching travel brochures dating from 1900-1940
Twenty-five items relating to crime, criminals, and trials in the United States
112 items--most new arrivals and many uncommon or unique--in the fields of general and western Americana and world travel and exploration. Included are archives, manuscripts, photograph collections, ephemera, and, of course, books, dating from as early as 1649 to as late as 1984.
A selection of items by or about T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)--including some ephemeral rarities, some "must-have" titles for any Lawrence collection, and a few oddball items such as a Dutch comic book history of Lawrence in the Arab Revolt.
A selection of 32 interesting and uncommon books relating 19th and early 20th century photographic methods. The earliest book on the list is a first edition of Robert Hunt's Popular Treatise on the Art of Photography (1841). Included are several trade catalogues, manuals on daguerrotype, calotype, collodion, albumen, ferrotype, and dry plate processes, books treating chemistry and other scientific aspects of photography, and two of the first American scientific books to be illustrated with real photographs.
A selection of 88 items printed in or about the United States between 1787 and 1925. Included are our usual assortment of items relating to travel and places, but also trade catalogues, broadsides, and works on health and medicine (popular and academic), social reform (prisons, temperance, vice), native Americans, women, religion, technology, architecture, abolition, philosophy, and other topics.
A selection of 36 books by women travelers dating from 1776 to 1940, covering most parts of the globe, and involving travel by foot, horseback, motorcycle, automobile, yacht, rail, and rickshaw.
<p>Books on Africa through the Eyes of Explorers, Missionaries, Ethnologists, Soldiers, Traders, Tourists, and other Adventurers, 1750-1950</p>