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HANDSOME MONUMENTS TO AN HEIR'S PROFLIGATE TRAVELS (TRAVEL.) Vanderbilt, William Kissam Jr. Group of 3 travel memoirs recording the events and natural history of various sea voyages. Extensively illustrated. Two 4to volumes (330x255 mm), publisher's 1/4 morocco over gilt-lettered boards; one 8vo (230x152 mm), publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth; second folding map loose in 15,000 Miles, negligible spots here and there, otherwise fine. [New York:] Privately Printed for the Author, [1927; 1928]; 1929
To Galápagos on the Ara. 31 beautiful color plates after drawings by Belanske. Fifteen Thousand Miles Cruise with Ara. Bookplate of William Emil Belanske and Christmas presentation slip from William Kissam Vanderbilt. Taking One's Own Ship Around the World. 19 beautiful color plates after drawings by Belanske. Ink presentation inscription from Vanderbilt to Belanske.
with--Four original photographs matted with calligraphic titles: The "Ara" at Tagus Cove, Albermarle Id's., Galapagos Islands, 1926 "Beachcomber Bill" and Charlie "Whale-shark" Thompson, Galapagos I'd's., Pacific Ocean, 1926 "Some Dolphins" [The same] with some trophies of "Ara's World Cruise of 1928-9 Commodore and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt and Crew of the "Alva" at Monte Carlo, Monaco, on completion of world cruise of 1931-32.
