Catalogue Search Results for Walkabout Books

Fifty catalogues offering a wide range of goods and services.

Books, Photographs, and Ephemera on the Display, Promotion, and Sale of Merchandise in the United States, 1886-1973

48 Recent Arrivals

40 items on police, policing, and protest, 1865-2009

45 eye-catching travel brochures dating from 1900-1940

42 items recently cataloged. Books, Ephemera, Photographs.

An eclectic gathering of 26 items related to California, including books, pamphlets, and photographic material

An eclectic gathering of 120 items, dominated by Americana (broadly defined), but also including items pertaining to Europe, South America, the Middle East, and Asia, dating from the early nineteenth century to the 1970s. Among the subjects to be found here: land and real estate promotion, early motor travel, cycling, the Haymarket Riot, the Lincoln assassination, peace, immigration, labor, popular entertainments, American religion, sideshows, medicine (quack and otherwise), education, engineering/construction, suffrage, trade catalogues, World War I, Cold War diplomacy, and more.

Twenty-five items relating to crime, criminals, and trials in the United States

An eclectic mix of 40 items of Americana

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.

Books and ephemera, with an emphasis on place

<p>Books on Africa through the Eyes of Explorers, Missionaries, Ethnologists, Soldiers, Traders, Tourists, and other Adventurers, 1750-1950</p>