"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
Travel & Topography
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
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 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
The Desolate Antarctic.
London: Lutterworth Press, 1950. [Antarctic exploration] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION WITH TLS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 172. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, cartographic endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of 12s. 6d. net. Illustrated with photographic plates. Warmly inscribed by the author to W.G. Whincop to the half title..... More
Farthest North. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram. About One Hundred and Twenty Full Page and Numerous Text Illustrations and Coloured Plate in Facsimile from Dr. Nansen's Own Sketches. Portrait and Maps.
London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. [Polar Travel] FIRST EDITIONS. 2 volumes. Quarto (25 x 18 x 12cm) Numerous illustrations and 4 folding maps, several in colour. Publisher's blue/green cloth with gilt illustration to upper. A used but presentable set; contents shaken within case, owner inscription to first volume, bindings..... More
Belgium.
London: A. and C. Black Ltd., 1928. [Travel] SECOND EDITION, REVISED. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.x; 250; [2]. Publisher's blind stamped blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and in blind to upper, blue top edge, dust-jacket. With thirty two plates in colour and a sketch map of the country. Ownership..... More
Sindh Revisited: A Journey in the Footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Burton. 1842-1849: The India Years.
Toronto: Harper Collins, 1996. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto, pp.351; [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title-page. Filled with colour illustrations. In publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Jacket lightly sunned to spine, otherwise very good indeed. More
Malaya Upside Down.
Singapore: Printed by Jitts and Co., April 1946. [South-East Asian History] SECOND EDITION, the seventh-thousand. Octavo, (23 x 16cm), pp.[8] 208 [14]. With an appendix including a map and glossary. Publisher's simple illustrated turquoise paper-covered boards, with titles to spine and upper. Blue stamp of the Commercial Trading Co. to..... More
East of Croydon.
London: Michael Joseph an imprint of Penguin Books, 2018. [Travel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 382; [4]. Publisher's black cloth, titles in metallic blue to spine, blue endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Kate Barsby with printed price of £20. Signed by the author to the title page. Slight..... More
The Railway Panoramic Guide. Complete Midland. A Panoramic Decription of the Principal Objects of Historic Interest, Sacred Edifices, Chief Cities, Towns, Villages, Country Seats, Pleasure Resorts, Natural Objects, Engineering Works, Roads, Rivers, Canals, etc., Inviting the Attention of Passengers over the Main Line and Chief Branches of the Midland Railway.
London: Bembrose and Sons, n.d. [1873]. FIRST EDITION PAMPHLET. (295 X 190mm), pp.i, 56 [10]. First page of adverts dated 1873. With an illustrated map of the railways and steam boat routes of England, Wales and southern Scotland to verso of front cover. In publisher's yellow paper covers with black..... More
A Busy Time in Mexico. An Unconventional Record of Mexican Incident.
London: Constable and Company, 1913. [Hunting and Revolution] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.viii; 243 [1]. With 16 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's yellow cloth with gilt titles to spine, black to upper, and colour decoration blocked to spine and upper. Fore and lower edges..... More
Among the Sioux of Dakota. Eighteen Months Experience as an Indian Agent.
New York, NY: D. Van Nostrand, Publisher, 1881. [Native Americans] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.235 [3]. Recently re-backed in red calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the original red calf boards with gilt and blind ruling to margins. Lightly trimmed to all edges..... More
"Through Samaria" to Galilee and the Jordan: Scenes of the Early Life and Labours of Our Lord.
London: Thomas Nelson, 1889. FIRST EDITION. Quarto. pp. 330. With 123 in-text engravings and an engraved frontispiece, all from the author's drawings. In publisher's dark green cloth with black and gilt stamping to spine and upper board. All edges gilt; brown end-papers. Blind stamp of G.D. Croker, Waterford, to front..... More
Antiquarian, Architectural, and Landscape Illustrations of the History of Java.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1844. [Javanese History] FIRST THUS, Ex Libris ADMIRAL SIR JAMES ALEXANDER GORDON. Quarto (34 x 27cm), with 92 illustrated plates, including 10 fine hand-coloured aquatints and a very large folding map. No text. Recently re-backed in red cloth to match the original publisher's red cloth over..... More
African Game Trails. An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter Naturalist. Edited by Hermann Hagedorn, under the Auspices ofThe Roosevelt Memorial Association..
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. [Big Game Hunting] FIRST EDITION. Large Octavo, pp.xvi, 529 [1]. With illustrations, including a photographic frontispiece of the author, a map, and various photographs and sketches. Elegantly bound in full brown morocco, gilt to spine with 'big game' decoration to compartments, and gilt..... More
Through the Brazilian Wilderness. With Illustrations from Photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and other Members of the Expedition.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. [South America] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.383; [1] blank. Illustrated. Smartly bound in brown half morocco, gilt titles to spine, over original gilt-stamped cloths sides, top edge gilt. Internally clean and bright in a smart modern binding. Fine. Wheelock p12. Listed..... More
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Villes Anseatiques [Hanseatic Towns]: L'Univers, ou Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples, de Leurs Religions, Moeurs, Costumes, etc.
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1844. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.398. With 22 engraved plates to rear. Text in French. In contemporary quarter tan calf with gilt titles to black labels on spine. Marbled boards and end-papers. Black ink ownership inscription to title page. Gilt nearly all worn from labels. Spine head..... More
Scott's Last Expedition. Vol. I being the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, R.N., C.V.O., Vol. II being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition. Arranged by Leonard Huxley. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. [Polar Exploration] FIRST COLONIAL EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 497; [11]; pp.x; 431; [1]. With eight photographic plates including a frontispiece to each volume, and a folding map at the rear of each volume. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles and..... More
Scott's Last Expedition. Vol. I being the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, R.N., C.V.O., Vol. II being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition. Arranged by Leonard Huxley. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1913. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xxvi, 633 [3]; pp.xvi, 534 [2]. Title page printed in red and black. With eight photogravure plates, including a frontispiece portrait for each vol.; 18 coloured plates; and 260 photographic plates taken..... More
The Voyage of the Discovery.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1913. [Polar Exploration] RARE DUST-JACKETS, the first pocket edition. Two volumes. Duodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.478; [2]; pp.477; [3]. With eight photographic plates, including a frontispiece to each volume, and a folding map at the rear of volume I. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles..... More