London: Thomas Cook & Son, 1911. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —While Baedeker dominated the European market, Thomas Cook & Son leveraged their position as the premier travel agency of the British Empire to create handbooks that were uniquely tailored to their clientele. By commissioning Sir E. A. Wallis Budge to write their.....

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc, 1967. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Sir Wilfrid Edward Le Gros Clark was a British anatomist, surgeon, primatologist and palaeoanthropologist, today best remembered for his contribution to the study of human evolution. He was Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy at the University of Oxford.....

New York: Horizon Press, 1961. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE --Edward Dahlberg, often called the 'Job of American Letters,' was famous for his uncompromising, archaic prose style and his refusal to bow to the literary fashions of his time. In Herbert Read, the distinguished British.....

New-York: H. Dayton, Publisher, 1859. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —Sir John Franklin was a veteran British Royal Navy officer whose early overland and maritime expeditions mapped vast, uncharted stretches of the Canadian Arctic coast. His disappearance on his 1845 expedition triggered one of history's greatest rescue efforts, reshaping global knowledge of polar.....

London: J. Burrow and Comp, 1931. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A well-planned and delivered travel guide book with easy to read maps of day-trips that would be possible with details of places of interest. REF: OCLC: 1487634.

New York: Random House, 1955. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Sir Harold Scott, the former Commissioner of Police and head of Scotland Yard, was an early advocate for effective public relations. Recognizing its significance, he established a dedicated department for this purpose. Though retired now, his enduring concern for Scotland Yard.....