"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke
Travel & Topography
Things Japanese, Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected With Japan, For the Use of Travellers and Others. Reprint of the 1905 Fifth Edition Revised, to which two appendices have been added.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.; Japan: J.L. Thompson & Co., 1927. [Japanese Encyclopaedia] VINTAGE COPY, a stereotyped reissue of the fifth edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[12] 591 [5]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author, and Japanese publishing information and a large coloured folding map at rear..... More
Patagonia Revisited.
Salisbury: Michael Russell, 1985. [Patagonia] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Small octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.62 [2]. With occasional in-text woodcuts by Williams. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and light blue endpapers. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Williams, priced at £4.50. Light handling, with a few marks to..... More
Anatomy of Restlessness. Uncollected Writings.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1996. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.x; 205 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £15.99. Some light handling. A fine copy. A collection of previously unpublished short stories, sketches, essays, articles and criticism from one of..... More
The Seven Lost Trails of Africa. Being a Record of Sundry Expeditions, New and Old, in Search of Buried Treasure.
London: Cassell and Company, 1930. [Colonial Exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 242. With eight black and white half-tone plates, including a frontispiece, and eight maps. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Heavy spotting to edges, with occasional heavy spotting internally. Light rubbing and some marks..... 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
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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
"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
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
A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany.
London: Printed for the author, by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakspeare Press, and Sold by Payne and Foss, Longman, Hurst and Co., 1821. [Bibliographical Travel] FIRST EDITION. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (27 x 18cm), pp.[6] xxxii; 462; lxxx [2]; pp.[6] 555 [3]; pp.[6] 622; lxii [2].With a total..... More
A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany.
London: Printed for the author, by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakspeare Press, and Sold by Payne and Foss, Longman, Hurst and Co., 1821. [Bibliographical Travel] FIRST EDITION. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[8] xxxii; 462; lxxx [4]; pp.[8] 555 [5]; pp.[5] 622; lxii [4]. With a...... More
Three Women of Herat.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. [Middle East Travel] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, with personal letters. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xii; 225 [3]. With illustrated head pieces by the author, and six double-sided colour photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf: 'Teo Best wishes | love Veronica. | October..... 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
The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. With an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill. An Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David.
London: William Heinemann, 1909. [Antarctic Exploration] FIRST EDITION, in two volumes. Quarto, pp.xlviii; 372; pp.xvi; 419; [1]. Portrait of E. H. Shackleton as frontispiece to first volume, with portrait of the Northern Party at the South Magnetic Pole to second volume. Both are protected with captioned tissue guards. Generously illustrated..... More
Our Sister Republic: A Gala Trip Through Tropical Mexico In 1869-70. Adventure and Sight-Seeing in the Land of the Aztecs, with Picturesque Descriptions of the Country and the People, and Reminiscences of the Empire and its Downfall.
London: Trubner and Co., 1871. [Central American Travel] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.518. With 64 wood engravings, including a frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed. A couple of small pen marks to pastedown, edges a little toned..... More
With Gilbert & George in Moscow.
London: Bloomsbury, 1991. [Art and Russia] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.191 [1]. With frequent black and white and occasional colour photographs. INSCRIBED by Gilbert & George to Michael Barnett in red ink to half-title. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper, and red..... More
Brazilian Adventure.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2010. [Travel] LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, being one of 150 copies. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.364. Finely bound in the publisher's gilt decorated cloth, to the design of the original first edition binding. With photographic plates and illustrated map endpapers. A fine, as-new copy. Out of print..... More
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News From Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir [together with] Brazilian Adventure.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2010. [Travel] LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, being one of 150 copies. A matching pair, both numbered 148. Octavo (22 x 15cm), two volumes. Finely bound in the publisher's gilt decorated red and green cloths, to the design of the original first edition bindings. With photographic plates and..... More
News From Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2010. [Travel] LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, being one of 150 copies. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.382. Finely bound in the publisher's gilt decorated cloth, to the design of the original first edition binding. With photographic plates and illustrated map endpapers. As new. Out of print for many..... More
One's Company — A Journey to China.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. [Travel] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.319; [1]. With 16 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding map. Contemporary tan half morocco by FOX of London, with raised bands, gilt titles to brown labels, further gilt tooling to spine..... More
One's Company — A Journey to China.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.319; [1], blank. With sixteen black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding map. Publisher's green cloth with orange titles to spine and upper board. Discreet ink name, a little spotting within and a few light..... More
The Thessaloniki Photographs.
Thessaloniki: Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, 2008. [Greek Photography] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (22 x 23cm), pp.104. A collection of colour and black and white photographs accompanying the contemporaneous exhibition, recording life in Thessaloniki between the late 1960's and the mid 1990's. Publisher's plain paper-covered boards with titles in red and..... More
Tramping with a Poet in the Rockies.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1922. [Canadian Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 279 [5]. Illustrated with numerous head and tail pieces by Hill. Publisher's light blue quarter cloth with a plain printed paper title label to spine, and grey paper over boards. Toning to fly-leaves, otherwise a clean..... More
'twixt Sand and Sea: Sketches and Studies in North Africa.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., no date [1911]. [North African History and Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xii; 504. With 58 black and white plates, including a frontispiece, as well as a folding map. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Fore and lower..... More