Travel & Topography
Trouble Cargo [in] the Wide World. The True Adventure Magazine for Men.
London: George Newnes, October 1956. [Travel / Adventure Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.vi; 327-388; vii-xxiv. With frequent black and white in-text illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, priced at 1/6. Internally clean, with moderate wear to covers, including some creasing and a few closed tears. Rubbing and chipping..... More
The American Gun Club.
New York, NY: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1874. [Science Fiction] FIRST THUS, a partial reprint of 'From the Earth to the Moon.' Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] viii; 142 [4]. With 24 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Brown-coated endpapers. Some..... More
Taken on Trust.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. [Hostage Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 370. With two suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine and cream endpapers. With the..... More
Taken on Trust.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. [Hostage Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 370. With two suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine and cream endpapers. With the..... More
Greater London. A Narrative of its History, its People, and its Places.
London: Cassell & Company, no date [1889-1890]. [London Topography] PUBLISHER'S CLOTH, later printings. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.xvi, 576; pp.xii, 560. Illustrated with numerous in-text engravings. With the large folding map loose to a pouch in volume II. Volume I coded 03.90 to advertisements at rear..... More
Memoirs of India: Comprising a brief Geographical Account of The East Indies; a succinct History of Hindostan, from the Most Early Ages, to the end of the Marquis of Hastings' Administration in 1823. Designed for the Use of Young Men Going Out to India.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. [Indian Colonial History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6] xii; 504 [4]. In a slightly later full calf binding for Glasgow Highschool, by CARRS & GOY of Glasgow (binder's label to verso of fly-leaf). with blind tooling to..... More
The Modern Malay.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1928. [Malaysian History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.300; [4]. Illustrated with eight photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth with dark brown titles to spine. With the brown dust-jacket illustrated in blue and brown to front cover, priced at 15s. Heavy spotting to edges and..... More
The Brontës came here.
Halifax: Fawcett Greenwood & Co. Ltd., no date [1963]. [Guide Book] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[x];178. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of 15s to flap. SIGNED by author to flyleaf. Preface by Donald Hopewell. Illustrations by A. E. Whitehead. Minor..... More
[ALPINE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM].
[Hand-made], [c.1930]. HAND-MADE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM. Large Quarto (38 x 28cm), unpaginated. Twenty two thick leaves with official tourist black and white photographs pasted to both sides. Eight leaves blank to rear, with one loose photograph showing vendor's stamp to reverse. Most images neatly labelled in black ink, from the late..... More