"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "
— Oscar Wilde
Travel & Topography
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. Absolutely fine/As new. Out of print for..... 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
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
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Handbook to British Malaya [1937].
London: The Malayan Information Agency, no date [1937]. [Malaysian History] LAST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.[6] 201 [7]. With frequent in-text photographic illustrations and two folding maps dated 1937, one loose to pouch at rear. Light spotting to endpapers. Rubbing to boards; upper with a vertical crease. Very good..... More
Interval in Indo-China.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1956. [Vietnam and Cambodia] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 164. With 16 double-sided black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece, as well as a folding map at rear. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf: 'For Victoria Durham | with..... 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
The Lawless Roads. A Mexican Journey.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939. [Travel] FIRST EDITION, second state cloth. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.306; [2]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine (first state has gilt titles), map endpapers. With ten black and white photographic illustrations to eight plates. Small repaired tear to edge of page..... More
Warriors and Strangers.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1971. [Autobiography and African Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[6] 320 [2]. With a large folding map. Publishers brown with gilt titles to spine. Top edge red. With the orange dust-jacket designed by George Mayhew, priced at £2.75. Jacket bruised and lightly chipped to edges..... More
Nigerian Days.
London: John Lane the Bodley head, 1925. [Colonial History]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 255 [9]. With 32 black and white plates including a frontispiece and a map. In publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original green dust-jacket with black titles. Top edge red, others..... More
Jungle Trails in Northern India.
London: Methuen and Company, 1938. RARE FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[10], 278. With 24 photographic plates including a frontispiece. In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With rare original dust-jacket. Maps printed to endpapers. Some damage to head of spine. Jacket spine sunned, with loss to head and tail..... More
Diversion in Malaya: A incidental account of five years' residence in the Federated Malay States 1937-1942.
London: Collins, 1948. [Malay Archipelago] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.186 [4]. Publisher's green quarter cloth with black titles to spine and cream paper over boards. Ink ownership roughly erased from front pastedown. Heavy wear and bumping to boards, with some ring marks and other splashes. Spine sunned. Good..... More
Warwickshire.
London: A. and C. Black Ltd., 1922. [Travel] SECOND EDITION, REVISED. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.xii; 260. Publisher's blind stamped blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and in blind to upper, dust-jacket with printed price of 7s. 6d. With thirty two plates in colour and a sketch map of the..... More
The Ascent of Everest.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. [Mountaineering] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[2] xx; 300 [2]. With eight colour photographic plates, including a frontispiece, as well as 24 double-sided black and white plates arranged in suites through the text. In recent navy half calf with raised bands, gilt..... More
Peeps at Many Lands: Holland.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. [Netherlands] THIRD IMPRESSION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.viii; 82 [10]. With 12 colour-illustrated plates by Nico Jungman, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt tiles to spine, green titles to upper, and a colour illustration laid over upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, not..... More
Peeps at Many Lands: South Africa.
London: A. & C. Black, 1927. [South Africa] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 87 [1]. With eight colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, by A.M. Goodall, and a sketch-map of the country. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced..... More
Brazil and the Brazilians, Portrayed in Historical and Descriptive Sketches. Illustrated by One Hundred and Fifty Engravings.
Philadelphia, PA: Childs and Peterson, 1868. Eighth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Octavo, pp.630. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine Frontispiece engraving of Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil. Illustrated throughout. Edges a little toned, internall clean, sticker pull to flyleaf. Cloth expertly recased, corners rubbed. Shows well. Sabin..... More
Eothen.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1904. [Middle East Travel] FINE PRIZE BINDING, an new edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxxviii; 371 [3]. With a black and white half-tone portrait of the author as a frontispiece. Including a biography of the author, and the preface to the second edition. Contemporary..... More
Eothen.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1904. [Middle East Travel] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a new edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxxviii; 371 [3]. With a black and white half-tone portrait of the author as a frontispiece. Including a biography of the author, and the preface to the second edition. Contemporary..... More
An Account of the Manners and Customs of Modern Egyptians, Written in Egypt during the years 1833-35.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1890. [Egyptian Travel] FINELY BOUND, reprinted from the Third Edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 552 [2]. With 16 full page plates, including a frontispiece, and numerous in-text engravings, all from drawings by the author. Contemporary red full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles..... More
Espagne, depuis L'Expulsion des Maures jusqu'a L'Annee 1847 [Spain, from the expulsion of the Moors until the year 1847]; Iles Baleares et Pithyuses; Sardaigne; Corse: L'Univers, ou Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples, de Leurs Religions, Moeurs, Costumes, etc.
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1850. EARLY EDITION. Octavo, pp.413; 27; 49; 144. With 55 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..... More
A Sketch of some Late Arrangements, and a View of the Rising Resources, in Bengal.
London: John Stockdale, 1792. First Edition; 8vo. Uncut in original grey boards with a recent cloth spine, paper title label and end papers; edges untrimmed. Markings to boards, corners bumped and frayed. Red stamp to verso of title page. A clean and sound copy. More
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