Skip to main content
Account | Cart

Ian Brabner, Rare Americana, LLC (ABAA)

Ian Brabner, Rare Americana, LLC (ABAA)

Main Navigation

Toggle main navigation
  • Inventory
    • Abolitionism
      Abraham Lincoln
      Advertising
      Africa
      African American Writers
      African-Americana
      Agriculture
      Alabama
      American Broadsides
      American Civil War
      American Enterprise
      American Law
      American Literature
      American Medicine
      American Poetry
      American Presidents
      American Revolution
      American West
      Ante-Bellum America
      Anti-Slavery
      Architecture
      Art
      Autobiographies
      Baltimore
      Boston
      Boston Imprints
      California
      Chicago
      Children's Books
      Chromolithography
      Civil Rights
      Confederacy
      Connecticut
      Crime
      Delaware
      Dime Novels
      Ephemera
      Firsts London Rare Book Fair
      Food and Drink
      Georgia
      Graphics and Original Art
      History of Education
      Illinois
      Labor
      Law
      Maritime History
      Maryland
      Massachusetts
      Military
      Missionaries
      Mississippi
      Music and Musicians
      Native Americans
      New Jersey
      New York City
      New York State
      Newspapers
      North Carolina
      Ohio
      Pennsylvania
      Philadelphia
      Philadelphia Imprints
      Photography
      Politics
      Popular Culture
      Popular Fiction
      Printing History
      Prisons
      Publishing
      Racism in America
      Railroad
      Reconstruction
      Reformers
      Religion in America
      Sheet Music
      Slavery
      South
      South Carolina
      Sports
      Texas
      Theatre
      Trade Bindings
      Trade Catalogs
      Travel
      Virginia
      Washington DC
      Women
      Women Writers
      Women's History
      World War (1914–1918)
      World War (1939–1945)
      Browse All Categories
      Recent Acquisitions
  • Inventory Mobile
    • Recent Acquisitions
    • Abolitionism
    • Abraham Lincoln
    • Advertising
    • Africa
    • African American Writers
    • African-Americana
    • Agriculture
    • American Broadsides
    • American Civil War
    • American Enterprise
    • American Humor
    • American Law
    • American Literature
    • American Medicine
    • American Poetry
    • American Presidents
    • American Revolution
    • American West
    • Americana
    • Amusements
    • Ante-Bellum America
    • Anti-Slavery
    • Architecture
    • Art
    • Autobiographies
    • Banking
    • Boston
    • California
    • Caribbean
    • Chicago
    • Children's Books
    • Chromolithography
    • Civil Rights
    • Connecticut
    • Crime
    • Ephemera
    • Expositions and World's Fairs
    • Featured
    • Firsts London Rare Book Fair
    • Food and Drink
    • France
    • Georgia
    • Graphics and Original Art
    • History of Education
    • Illinois
    • Investments and Schemes
    • Labor
    • Louisiana
    • Maps
    • Maritime History
    • Maryland
    • Massachusetts
    • Military
    • Missionaries
    • Movies and Film
    • Music and Musicians
    • Native Americans
    • Naval History
    • New Jersey
    • New York City
    • New York State
    • North Carolina
    • Ohio
    • Pennsylvania
    • Philadelphia
    • Philadelphia Imprints
    • Photography
    • Politics
    • Popular Culture
    • Prisons
    • Publishing
    • Racism in America
    • Railroad
    • Reconstruction
    • Reformers
    • Religion in America
    • Sermons or Orations
    • Sheet Music
    • Slavery
    • South
    • South Carolina
    • Sports
    • Texas
    • Theatre
    • Trade Catalogs
    • Travel
    • United Kingdom
    • Victorian America
    • Virginia
    • Washington DC
    • Women Writers
    • Women's History
  • Catalogs
    • Short Lists
    • Print Catalogs
    • For Collectors
    • Recent Acquisitions
  • Sell To Us
  • About
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Search
Travel

Travel

Travel

Refine search results

Skip to search results
Refine Search
Results 1 - 18 (of 18)
Travel
1884 Autograph Letter Signed by Alvan S. Southworth, former Secretary to the American...

1884 Autograph Letter Signed by Alvan S. Southworth, former Secretary to the American Geographical Society, Travel Writer, Journalist.

Autograph letter signed by Alvan S. Southworth, travel writer, journalist, and former secretary of the American Geographical Society, to Philadelphia printers and publishers Sherman &..... Read More about 1884 Autograph Letter Signed by Alvan S. Southworth, former Secretary to the American...

Add to Cart

Price: $50.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
Visitors’ Guide to the Centennial Exhibition and Philadelphia. May 10th to November 10th, 1876....

Visitors’ Guide to the Centennial Exhibition and Philadelphia. May 10th to November 10th, 1876. … The Only Guide-Book Sold on the Exhibition Grounds. [with folding map and plan]

Official guide book to the exhibitions and grounds of the 1876 Centennial International Exhibition, the first official World’s Fair to be held the United States..... Read More about Visitors’ Guide to the Centennial Exhibition and Philadelphia. May 10th to November 10th, 1876....

Add to Cart

Price: $35.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
The Black Man of the South, and the Rebels; or, the Characteristics of the Former, and the Recent...

The Black Man of the South, and the Rebels; or, the Characteristics of the Former, and the Recent Outrages of the Latter.

Stearns was a Massachusetts abolitionist who spent six years in “Bleeding Kansas.” After the war he became a teacher, missionary, and plantation owner in Columbia..... Read More about The Black Man of the South, and the Rebels; or, the Characteristics of the Former, and the Recent...

Add to Cart

Price: $300.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of South...

Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of South Carolina broadside].

Broadside advertising regular performances of African American “Plantation Spirituals” at South Carolina’s Cypress Gardens and sung “...entirely by local colored people connected with Dean Hall..... Read More about Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of South...

Add to Cart

Price: $50.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
1890 Woman’s Autograph Letter Signed describing Her Being “Poisoned” and Fearful of Being...

[1890 Woman’s Autograph Letter Signed describing Her Being “Poisoned” and Fearful of Being Murdered and Imprisonment during Travels in Jerusalem and the Middle East].

Lengthy and peculiar letter by a woman traveler, E.W. Carpenter, written to her nephew and niece in Lebanon Springs, New York, recounting a 7,000-mile journey..... Read More about 1890 Woman’s Autograph Letter Signed describing Her Being “Poisoned” and Fearful of Being...

Add to Cart

Price: $225.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839. Frances Anne Kemble

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839.

Pierce Butler was a Georgia-born Philadelphian whose marriage to British actress Fanny Kemble was in discord as his ownership of Southern slaves clashed with her..... Read More about Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

Add to Cart

Price: $450.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
Autograph Letter Signed by James Augustus St. John (1795–1875), British Writer and Traveler to...

Autograph Letter Signed by James Augustus St. John (1795–1875), British Writer and Traveler to Editor of the Forget Me Not.

Brief undated autograph letter signed sent to a literary editor by British writer and traveler, James Augustus St. John (1795–1875). St. John writes to the..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed by James Augustus St. John (1795–1875), British Writer and Traveler to...

Add to Cart

Price: $40.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
Letters from the Slave States. James Stirling, 1805–1883

Letters from the Slave States.

Observations on American slavery by a British traveler in the South, first published in London in 1857. “[Stirling] gave a critical and sometimes biased picture..... Read More about Letters from the Slave States

Add to Cart

Price: $35.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
The Spotlight. Hotel William Penn. [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]. James W. Trullinger, Pittsburgh...

The Spotlight. Hotel William Penn. [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]

C. 1950s hotel guest room guide book to Pittsburgh attractions issued by the Hotel William Penn, part of the “Statler” chain of luxury hotels. The..... Read More about The Spotlight. Hotel William Penn. [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Add to Cart

Price: $50.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
Ghana Welcomes You. Janice Nesbitt

Ghana Welcomes You.

Illustrated guidebook to the African nation of Ghana, prepared for the expatriate, English-speaking community there. Includes a shopping guide to the capital and largest city..... Read More about Ghana Welcomes You

Add to Cart

Price: $25.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
Emancipation in the West Indies. A Six Months’ Tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the...

Emancipation in the West Indies. A Six Months’ Tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the Year 1837.

First hand reports of travels in the Caribbean and the effects of the abolition of slavery there by authors Rev. James A. Thome and J...... Read More about Emancipation in the West Indies. A Six Months’ Tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the...

Add to Cart

Price: $75.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
New York in Ten Tours, Including Hoyt’s A Trip to Chinatown. Jno. Henry Martin, H. Pruett...

New York in Ten Tours, Including Hoyt’s A Trip to Chinatown.

Rare title ostensibly offering travelers’ advice on visiting and organized coach itineraries of New York City, but whose main purpose was to promote performances of..... Read More about New York in Ten Tours, Including Hoyt’s A Trip to Chinatown

Add to Cart

Price: $150.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
The British Traveller In America, 1836-1860. Max Berger

The British Traveller In America, 1836-1860.

From the Introduction: “This work is intended to reveal what the British traveller saw in America during the period 1836-1860 and to analyze his viewpoint..... Read More about The British Traveller In America, 1836-1860

Add to Cart

Price: $35.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
Incidents of a trip through the Great Platte Valley to the Rocky Mountains and Laramie Plains,...

Incidents of a trip through the Great Platte Valley to the Rocky Mountains and Laramie Plains, with a Statement of the various Pacific Railroads….

Full Howes: “As Consulting Engineer for the Union Pacific Railroad, Silas Seymour describes his trip with Jessie Williams, Government Director, and Gen. Dodge, in 1866..... Read More about Incidents of a trip through the Great Platte Valley to the Rocky Mountains and Laramie Plains,...

Add to Cart

Price: $250.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
TAOS—-worth a trip across a continent! The Don Fernando Hotel. Taos, New Mexico. [cover title]....

TAOS—-worth a trip across a continent! The Don Fernando Hotel. Taos, New Mexico. [cover title]

C.1930s travel brochure for Taos, New Mexico issued by The Don Fernando Hotel, named for late 17th and early 18th century Spanish Conquistador, Don Fernando..... Read More about TAOS—-worth a trip across a continent! The Don Fernando Hotel. Taos, New Mexico. [cover title

Add to Cart

Price: $40.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
Crystal Park Auto Trip. Colorado Springs and Manitou. Unkwn

Crystal Park Auto Trip. Colorado Springs and Manitou.

1915 Photographic souvenir of an autobus tour of Colorado Springs and Manitou. The folding photo brochure contains two mounted photographs, one depicting a sweeping roadside..... Read More about Crystal Park Auto Trip. Colorado Springs and Manitou

Add to Cart

Price: $50.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
Through Afro-America. An English Reading of the Race Problem. William Archer

Through Afro-America. An English Reading of the Race Problem.

Clark, New South (t.p. illustrated) II:6 — “[Archer] seemed unable to divest himself of certain English attitudes. His position on race is indicated by his..... Read More about Through Afro-America. An English Reading of the Race Problem

Add to Cart

Price: $50.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
My Diary North and South. William Howard Russell, 1820–1907, Sir William Howard Russell

My Diary North and South.

Anglo-Irish war correspondent’s published diary of his visit to the United States during the first year of the American Civil War; issued with map showing..... Read More about My Diary North and South

Add to Cart

Price: $350.00

Item Details
Ask a Question
Results 1 - 18 (of 18)

Info

  • Email:
  • Call (302) 998–2886
  • Ordering & Guarantee
  • About Ian Brabner

Browse

  • Buying & Selling Rare Books
  • Rare Book Catalogs
  • Short Lists
  • Recent Acquisitions

We Buy

  • 18th to 19th century rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, antique diaries, journals, handwritten letters, business & family archives. Read more

Subscribe

Periodic updates for short lists, catalogs and news

Member: ABAA, ILAB, Manuscript Society – Est. 1995

  • Contact
  • Privacy
  • Accessibility
  • Hours: M–F, 10am–6pm, EST
  • © 2021 Ian Brabner, Rare Americana, LLC (ABAA). All rights reserved.
  • Site Map
  • Site by Bibliopolis

I'd like to be notified of new arrivals in the following categories.

Check all categories that are of interest to you.

Advanced Search