"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
Travel & Topography
Danemark: L'Univers, ou Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples, de Leurs Religions, Moeurs, Costumes, etc.
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1846. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.415. 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. Light external..... More
Between The Woods and The Water. On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to The Iron Gates.
London: John Murray, 1986. [Travel]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] 248 [2]. With a map printed on turquoise paper. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour illustrated dust-jacket by John Craxton. Some light rubbing to lower edge of jacket. Near-fine. More
Between The Woods and The Water. On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to The Iron Gates.
London: John Murray, 1986. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.248. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board, in a pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by John Craxton. Neat, single name 'Everett' to flyleaf otherwise a very good copy in a similar jacket, sunned to spine panel. The..... More
Mani. Travels in The Southern Peleponnese.
London: John Murray, 1958. ADVANCE COPY. Octavo, pp.xiii [5], 320. With 24 plates featuring photographs by Joan Eyres Monsell and a map drawn by John Woodcock. Title page illustrations and dust-jacket designs by John Craxton. In original green paper wraps with title to front cover. Also with original illustrated dust-jacket..... More
A Time To Keep Silence.
London: Queen Anne Press 1953. FIRST EDITION, limited to 500 copies of which this is number 422. This copy additionally SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR via bookplate to pastedown. Slim octavo, pp.cvii; 92; [1], imprint. With colour frontispiece and other designs by Robert Harling. Bound in black buckram with publisher's monogram..... More
'Where Shall John Go? -Jamaica' contained within 'Horizon' Magazine. Edited by Cyril Connolly Vol.16, No.96, December 1947.
London: Horizon, 2 Lansdowne Terrace, London WC1. Printed at the Curwen Press. 1947. Price 2s 6d. Magazine format, printed covers. Contains the first appearance of Fleming's article on Jamaica, issued as the thirteenth part of a travel series run by Horizon, which was later expanded and collected in book-form as..... 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. Absolutely fine/As new. Out of print for..... More
One's Company — A Journey to China.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.319; [1]. With 16 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding map. Publisher's green cloth with orange titles to spine and upper board. Top edge green. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Minns, priced at 8s..... 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 advertisement leaf on yellow paper tipped in at rear. Elegantly hand-bound in green half calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered..... More
Antarctic Adventure. The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58.
London: Cassell, 1959. [Polar exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15 cm), pp.[16]; 189; [3]. Sixteen pages of photographs taken by George Lowe and Jon Stephenson. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 12/6. Toning to the textblock with spotting to edges, dust-wrapper a little..... More
Arctic Trader. The Account of Twenty Years With The Hudson's Bay Company.
London: Putnam, 1935. FIRST UK EDITION, WITH DUSTJACKET. Octavo, pp. xiv; 304. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth, titled in silver to spine, in striking blue and silver dustjacket (scarce). Minor discolouration and edgewear to cloth, otherwise clean. Rarely-surviving dustjacket in very good condition, with some marginal fraying and two..... More
Geography Anatomiz'd: or, the Geographical Grammar. Being a short and Exact Analysis of the whole Body of Modern geography, After a New and Curious Method. Comprehending I. A general View of the Terraqueous Globe, Being a Compendious System of the true Fundamentals of Geography; Digested into various Definitions, Problems, Theorems, and Paradoxes; with a transient Survey of the Surface of the Earthly Ball, as it consists of Land and Water. II. A particular View of the Terraqueous Globe, Being a clear and pleasant Prospect of all remarkable Countries upon the Face of the whole Earth; shewing their Situation, Extent, Division, Sub-division, Cities, Chief Towns, Name, Air, Soil, Commodities, Rarities, Archbishopricks, Arms, Religion. Collected from the best Authors, and illustrated with divers Maps.
London: Printed for A. Ward [etc.], 1744. [Maps]. FINELY BOUND, the Eighteenth Edition, corrected, with new maps. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[24]; 432. With 16 folding maps depicting most parts of the world known at that time. Contemporary brown calf, recently re-backed with original brown calf spine with gilt titles..... More
The Mikado's Empire. Book I: History of Japan from 660 B.C. to 1872 A.D. Book II: Personal Experiences, Observations, and Studies in Japan, 1870-1874.
New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1876. FIRST EDITION of a much reprinted text. Octavo, pp.625 plus catalogue, two books in one. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to upper board and spine, brown e.p.s. With illustrations throughout. Internally clean, inner joints starting, label to paste down. Head and foot..... More
Travels on Foot through the Island of Ceylon. Translated from the Dutch.
London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1821. FINELY BOUND. Small quarto, pp. 118. Complete with 3 engraved plates including 2 folding. Bound in recent burgundy half calf with gitlt titles to spine, marbled boards. Some 25 leaves have been added at the end to give the book a...... More
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Account Of A Voyage Of Discovery To The West Coast Of Corea [Korea], And The Great Loo-Choo Island [Japanese Ryukyu Islands].
London: John Murray, 1818. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO A NATIONAL HERO. Quarto, pp.xvi; 222; cxxx, (Appendix); [70], Vocabulary and language comparison; [2], blank. Includes half-title, hand-colored aquatint frontispiece of 'Sulphur Island', 8 further plates by Havell (7 of which are hand-coloured), 5 engraved maps (2 of which..... 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
High Adventure. With Maps by A. Spark and Sketches by G. Djurkouic.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1955. [Exploration] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.224. SIGNED by Edmund Hillary to half title. Illustrated with maps, sketches and photographs. Frontispiece in colour. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust jacket with printed price of 16s net. A clean, bright..... More
The Ascent of Everest.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1953. [Mountaineering] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xx; 300. With 48 photographic plates (several in colour). Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper. Autographed in blue ink to the title page. Some spotting to edges, ink name to flyleaf, spine toned/sunned, one tear..... More
The Ascent of Everest.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1953. [Mountaineering] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xx; 300. With 48 photographic plates (several in colour). Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper. A fine copy of the book in attractive wrapper, slightly toned to spine with one chip to crown and a couple of short tears..... More
Harvest of Journeys.
London: Collins, 1960. [Intrepid travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.319; [1], blank. With numerous duo-tone photographic plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket illustrated by H. Bridgeman Grindley with printed price of 18s. net. Trivial spotting, jacket a little worn to crown; near fine. Travel..... More
Sea and Islands.
London: Collins, 1967. [Yachting Travel] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.288. Twelve double-sided photographic plates showing both colour and black and white images, and occasional in-text diagrams and maps. Signed by the author in black ink to the title page. Also inscribed on the flyleaf to a sailor..... More
Sea and Islands.
London: Collins, 1967. [Yachting travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.288. Twelve double-sided photographic plates showing both colour and black and white images, and occasional in-text diagrams and maps. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket illustrated by Frank Francis with printed price of 36s. net. Cloth..... More
The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1859. Octavo. Bound in contemporary full blue calf, gilt ruling to boards, with raised bands, brown label and extra gilt to spine; all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece. Binding shows some wear to extremities and spine ends, some scuffs to boards. Foxed to..... More