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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.
London: Longman, 1855-56. FIRST EDITION. In three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xvi; 388; pp.[2]; iv; 426; pp.[2]; x; 448. With four maps and plans, three folding; and 13 lithographic plates, five coloured. Recently re-bound without adverts in burgundy full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spines..... More
Sindh, and the Races That Inhabit the Valley of the Indus.
London: William H. Allen and Co., 1851. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.vii; 422. With fold-out frontispiece map on pale blue paper as issued. In an exquisite later binding of half polished calf with full gilt back over marbled sides, edges untrimmed. Some expected toning to paper and uncut edges, light and..... More
The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. [American Travel]. SECOND EDITION, identical to the First. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xii; 707. With 10 wood engraved plates including a frontispiece and two folding maps. Nine further illustrations in-text. In publisher's blue pebble grained cloth, re-backed during the twentieth century, with original..... More
A Ticket to Manila.
Boston, MA: The Christopher Publishing House, 1940. [Far East Travel] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.232. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to half-title: 'To the Battershills - | may our paths cross often - | Hazel with a kindred knee | and Tom a kindred football..... More
The Discovery of Australia.
London: Dean and Son, 1902. [Australian History] SECOND EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.xii; 184 [8]. With 60 illustrated plates, largely maps, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. All edges gilt. Bookplate of Lancaster, Massachusetts Town Library to front pastedown, with..... More
The Martyr of Erromanga. Or, the Philosophy of Missions, Illustrated from the Labours, Death and Character of the Late Rev. John Williams.
London: John Snow, 1842. [South Pacific Missionary] FINELY BOUND, the Second Edition. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[4] xii; 526 [2]. With a hand coloured frontispiece and a wood engraved title page vignette. Contemporary brown full calf with raised bands and gilt titles to black label, and further gilt decoration to..... More
Unknown Mongolia. A Record of Travel and Exploration in North-West Mongolia and Dzungaria. With Three Chapters on Sport by J. H. Miller, F.Z.S,
London: Hutchinson and Co. 1913. [Travel and sport]. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, quarto (24 x 18 x 10cm), pp.659. With 168 illustrations, panoramas and diagrams. Six maps. Blue buckram titled in gilt, top edge gilt. A little toning/spotting to edges, occasional foxing within, cloth rubbed to spine tips and corners..... More
In Patagonia.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. [South America]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15 cm), pp.[4]; 204. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket, map endpapers. Head and tail of spine slightly rolled. An excellent near fine copy, with none of the usual fading to the spine. More
The Seven Wonders of Southern Africa.
Johannesburg: South African Railways and Harbours, 1929. [African Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 386 [14]. With 18 colour plates and frequent black and white plates and maps. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Maps to endpapers. A large tear to the first..... More
Such is the Antarctic.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. [Polar Exploration] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, second state binding. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.265; [3]. With 45 photogravure illustrations including a frontispiece and maps and plans, some folding. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine, and maps to endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Spotting..... More
First Journey.
London: William Heinemann, 1964. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xiv, 225. With 36 b/w photographic illustrations. Maps printed to end-papers. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title, dated 8/11/66. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust jacket. Top edge red..... More
The Marching Wind.
London: Hutchinson, 1955. [Tibet Travel] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.347 [3]. With eight double-sided black and white photographic plates, a frontispiece, and five maps. Publisher's lilac cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Michael Rose, priced at 21s. Small blue ink..... More
My Flight to the Cape and Back.
London: A. and C. Black, Ltd., 1926. [Aviation] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[6]; 70. Publisher's orange boards printed in black, matching dust-jacket priced at 1/6 net. Illustrated with forty five images from photographs and a map. Slight spotting to textblock and edges, boards lightly rubbed to extremities, some..... More
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Topographical And Statistical Description Of The County Of Sussex [together with] Topographical And Statistical Description Of The County Of Surrey.
London: C Cooke, [c.1820]. Duodecimo. Two volumes in one. pp.180; 168. Bound in original red morocco-backed marbled boards, ruled in gilt to spine, later/replacement title labels. Illustrated with a map of the county to each title, and further including a table of information concerning the principal towns of the county..... More
The Indian Police.
London: Faber and Faber, no date [circa 1933]. [Indian Policing History] FIRST CHEAP EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.353 [1]. With a folding map at rear. Publisher's light blue cloth with yellow titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket priced at 5s. Spotting to edges and preliminaries. A browned newspaper..... More
Wanderers: Episodes from the Travels of Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley and her daughter Victoria 1849-1855.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.364 [4]. With a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Heavy pencil ownership to flyleaf. Light offsetting to preliminaries. Light rubbing and bumping to boards. Very good. More
"Castelli Romani", an account of certain towns and villages in Latium, with an appendix containing short notices of Tivoli, Anzio, and Nettuno, illustrated with original sketches by Roman artists.
Florence: Alinari Brothers, 1904. FIRST EDITION. Small quarto, pp.158 [2]. With many monochrome reproductions of paintings by various artists. In publisher's cream cloth with red titles to upper board and significantly raised relief-decoration. Top edge green, others untrimmed. Some marks to boards and bumped corners, otherwise very good... More
A Ramble Round the World, 1871.
London: Macmillan, 1874. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo. pp. xi, 463; viii, 491. Brown end-papers. In publisher's green leather-effect cloth with gilt titles to spines. Wear to all edges and corners; slight reading leans. Barely-legible black ink prize inscription to front free end-paper of vol. I dated 1877..... More
Nyasaland: The Land of the Lake. The Corona Library.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1955. [Colonial History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 239 [1]. With a colour photographic frontispiece and 19 further double-sided black and white photographic plates, as well as numerous drawings, maps and diagrams. Illustrated endpapers. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With..... More
Kalahari Sand.
London: G. Bell and Sons, 1953. [African Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.189; [3]. With four double-sided black and white photographic plates, frequent vignette illustrations and five maps. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the yellow photographic dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Bookseller's ticket to rear..... More
Len Deighton's Continental Dossier. A collection of cultural, culinary, historical, spooky, grim and preposterous fact compiled by Victor and Margaret Pettitt.
London: Michael Joseph, 1968. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm). Publisher's glazed photographic boards with all-over design in colour. Printed on glossy paper stock, folding cloth map at rear. A particularly fine example of an unusual 'sixties reference book, without the heavy fading to the spine that affects this title..... More
Len Deighton's Continental Dossier. A collection of cultural, culinary, historical, spooky, grim and preposterous fact compiled by Victor and Margaret Pettitt.
London: Michael Joseph, 1968. [European culture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), unpaginated. Publisher's glazed photographic boards with all-over design in colour. Printed on glossy paper stock, folding cloth map at rear. Lightly handled, top corners bumped, some fading to spine; a very good copy. Book Collector No.287 (pp.32-62) 'The..... More
The Egypt Flight L.Z. 127 - Graf Zeppelin. A Philatelic Handbook No. 8.
[Maryland, MD]: Germany Philatelic Society, Inc., 1981. [German Stamps] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 80 [2]. With black and white illustrations throughout, and four in colour. Publisher's blue card covers, with darker blue titles to spine and front cover. Light rubbing and toning to spine. Near fine..... More
Travels In North-Western Arabia and Nejd.
Published for the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society by Edward Stanford, 1884. [Arabia] FIRST PUBLISHED APPEARANCE of Doughty's own account of his travels in Arabia, read at the evening meeting of the RGS, November 26th 1883. Pp.381-408, Extracted from the above Proceedings, with large fold-out map printed in colour..... More
North from Malaya: Adventure on Five Fronts.
New York, NY: Double and Company, 1953. [South-East Asian geopolitics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.352. With eight double-sided black and white plates.Maps to endpaper. Publisher's turquoise cloth with blue and white titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Rafael Palacios, priced at $3.95. Booksellers ticket to pastedown..... More