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Oriental Assembly.
London: Williams and Norgate Ltd., 1939. [Travel / Adventure] FIRST EDITION, publisher's file copy edited by A.W. Lawrence, with his SIGNED notes for a later printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 291. With four illustrations including frontispiece, as well as 111 photographic images on plates. In publisher's brown cloth with..... More
Oriental Assembly.
London: Williams and Norgate, 1939. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 291;[1]. With four illustrations including frontispiece, as well as 111 photographic images on plates. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge tinted black. Edges of text block toned (not to plates), trivial wear to covers..... More
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. [Arabian Travel] FIRST TRADE EDITION, following the privately published edition of 1926. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.672. With 54 plates and four folding maps. Complete with appendices and index. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, gilt scimitars and motto motif to upper board, top edge..... More
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. [Arabian Travel] FIRST TRADE EDITION, following the privately published edition of 1926. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.672. With 54 plates and four folding maps. Complete with appendices and index. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt crossed scimitar motif to upper board reading..... More
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. [Arabian Travel] FIRST TRADE EDITION, following the privately published edition of 1926. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.672. With 54 plates and four folding maps. Complete with appendices and index. Recently bound in tan half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to a navy label, and further..... More
Allemagne. L'Univers, ou Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples, de leurs Religions, Moeurs, Coutumes, etc.
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1838-39. [German history] EARLY EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 495; [1]; pp.[4]; 480. All text in French. With 100 steel engraved plates at the rear of each volume, and two folding maps to volume II. Contemporary tan quarter calf with gilt titles..... More
Adventures in Fanti-Land.
London, Griffith Farran. New York E.P. Dutton. n.d. [1881]. [Africa] First Edition. Small octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.190 [34]. Publisher's polychrome cloth binding, bearing the Dutton imprint. Slight edgewear and rubbing, very good. A pleasant little volume of juvenile Africana. More
Modern Sons of the Pharaohs: A Study of the Manners and Customs of the Copts of Egypt.
London: Hodder and Stroughton, 1918. First Edition of a Scarce Title. Octavo. pp. xvi, 355. With 16 photographic plates, including double-page frontispiece of a Coptic wedding and a portrait of the author. Featuring minor addenda, bibliography and index. In publisher's tan cloth with yellow, green and blue decoration to upper..... More
I Left My Roots in China.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1953. [Far East Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.176. With eight black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth over boards with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at 16s. Very light spotting to edges and endpapers..... More
Return to Malaya.
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1936. [South-East Asian travel] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[6] 376 [2]. Publisher's light green cloth with dark red titles to spine and upper board. Maps to endpapers. Top edge green; others untrimmed. With the red and green dust-jacket, priced at $3.00..... More
Orient Line Guide. Chapters for Travellers by Sea and by Land, Illustrated. A New Edition, Revised and Augmented, with Maps and Plans for the Voyage between England and Australia.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1885. [Travel Guide] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (21 x 18cm), pp.xxiv; 309. Liberally illustrated with numerous lithographic plates, maps (many folding), charts, and plans of ships. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. All edges red; advertisements to endpapers. Sewing almost..... More
Twenty Years in Tibet. Intimate and Personal Experiences of the Closed Land among all Classes of its People from the Highest to the Lowest.
London: Seeley, Service and Co., 1932. [Far Eastern Travel] FIRST EDITION, PUBLISHER'S FILE COPY. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.318; [10]. With a folding map at rear, and 24 black and white plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's yellow cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge yellow. With the black and..... More
History, Topography, and Directory, of Westmorland; and Lonsdale North of the Sands, in Lancashire; Together with a Descriptive and Geological View of the Whole of the Lake District.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1849. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.465 [5]. Lacking maps, but with a watercolour of Mallerstang and Pendragon Castle to verso of front free endpaper, dated 1899. Roughly re-backed with black leather-effect cloth and a later strip of maroon leather-effect cloth, with black ink MS titles to..... More
Meeting With Japan.
London: Hutchinson, 1959. [Travel] FIRST UK EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.467; [1]. Hardcover in dust-jacket. Translated from the Italian by Eric Moshcacher. Map of Japan at the end of the XVIIth century printed as the front endpaper; map of the Japanese islands printed as rear endpapers. 32 Plates..... More
The Children of Africa. Written for all English-Speaking Children.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1886. [Christian-Colonial Ethnology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.viii; 262 [2]. With frequent engraved illustrations, and a large folding map of Africa to preliminaries. Publisher's blue cloth with elaborate gilt, orange and black titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt; dark brown..... More
The Arctic Forests.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924. [Arctic Travel and Hunting] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 320. With 53 half-tone plates, including a frontispiece of the author, and two folding maps at rear. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a gilt illustration stamped to upper..... More
Bugles and a Tiger. A Personal Adventure.
London: Michael Joseph, 1956. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.335; [1]. With two double-sided black and white photographic plates, occasional small illustrations and a map. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the brown and red illustrated dust-jacket titled in black and white, priced at 16s..... More
The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. Illustrated in colour and black and white, also with maps.
London: William Heinemann, 1915. [Antarctic Exploration] FIRST UK EDITION. Two volumes. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.xxx; 349 [3]; pp.xiv; 338 [2]. With numerous half-tone photographic plates, including frontispieces and a number of colour plates. With the three folding maps in a pouch at the rear of volume II. Publisher's navy..... More
Saints of Sind.
London: John Murray, 1956. [Religion and Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 200. With a black and white photographic frontispiece, and a sketch-map to preliminaries. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Wildsmith, priced at 18s. Heavy spotting to edges and preliminaries..... More
Journey into Malaya.
London: China Inland Mission, 1956. [Christianity in Malaysia] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.190 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and green map endpapers. With the green dust-jacket, priced at 6/6. Spotting to edges. Light rubbing to jacket edges with a few closed tears. Very good..... More
Far Away Up the Nile.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1924. [African Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.xii; 254 [4]. With 50 lithographic plates after illustrations by the author, H.R. Millais, and from photographs. Recent green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and green cloth over boards. Light occasional spotting..... More
Highlands and Backwoods: The Legend and the Hero. With a foreword by Chief Scout Lord Rowallan.
London: Christopher Johnson, 1957. [Pedagogy and Travel] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.183 [1]. With seven half-tone plates, including a frontispiece, as well as a few in-text maps and illustrations. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf: 'with the author's | every..... More
A Traveller in Italy.
London: Methuen and Co., 1964. [Italian Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.636 [4]. With 16 double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to black backing on spine. Endpapers illustrated with maps, and top edge pink. Colour illustrated dust-jacket by Cecil W. Bacon, priced..... More
A Traveller in Rome.
London: Methuen and Co., 1957. [Italian Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.432. With four colour illustrated plates including a frontispiece, and seven further monochrome double-sided plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Endpapers illustrated with maps, and top edge blue. Colour illustrated dust-jacket by Cecil W...... More
Heroes of Discovery: Livingstone, Park, Franklin, Cook, Magellan.
Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1886. [Travel and Exploration] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 349 [3]. With an engraved portrait of each explorer. Contemporary red full calf for Beaconsfield School by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to black label and further gilt decoration..... More