Travel & Topography
Harvest of Journeys.
London: Collins, 1960. [Intrepid travel] FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. 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. Author's lengthy inscription to flyleaf; For Christina Foyle /..... More
The Abominable Snowman Adventure.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1955. [Mountaineering/exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.302. Green cloth hardback, cartographic endpapers, illustrated dust-jacket. Ink name to front blank, price clipped to front flap. Some light dampmarks to margins, jacket chipped to base of spine and upper. Very good. During World War II, Izzard..... 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
Lonesome Traveller.
London: Pan Books Ltd., 1964. [Short Essays] FIRST UK PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo paperback (18 x 11cm), pp.158 [2]. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced at 2/6. Heavily toned, as usual, otherwise remarkably bright and crisp, with minimal wear and creasing to covers. Near fine. A collection of essays by the Beat..... 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
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
The Wilderness of Zin. With a Chapter on Greek Inscriptions by M.N.Tod. Introduction by Sir Frederic Kenyon.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Near East Archaeology] NEW EDITION, the First Trade Edition, preceded only by the scarce printing by the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, which was solely obtained through their offices. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[2] 166. With 40 photographic or illustrated plates at rear, as..... More
T.E. Lawrence To His Biographer, Robert Graves [and] Liddell Hart. Information about himself, in the form of letters, notes and answers to questions, edited with a critical commentary.
London: Faber and Faber, 1938. [Letters and Biography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITIONS. Two volume box set. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[2] x; 187 [1]; pp.[2] x; 233 [3]. Each with a black and white frontispiece, and printed on fine, handmade paper. Both being copy 172 of 1000 thus, SIGNED by Graves..... 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. Typographic dust-jacket with titles in black to spine and upper, showing printed..... More
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.
Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press, 1997. [Travel] DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, the complete 1922 text. Three volumes and a portfolio of illustrations. Quartos (30 x 22 x 16cm), pp.[4] xxii, 434 [4]; pp.[4] x, 435-880 [4]; pp.[8] 82. Main volumes in navy full goatskin, with gilt titles and raised bands to spines..... More
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. [Arabian Travel / History] LEATHER-BOUND 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 mid brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to red..... 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
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
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
A Person From England. and other travellers to Turkestan.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. [Travel] FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.384. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket and matching endpapers, top edge tinted blue. Illustrated with a map and eight double sided two tone photographic plates. With signed inscription to half title: "Momo /..... More
The Island of the Fisherwomen.
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1962. [Travel] FIRST US EDITION. Large octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.95; [1], blank, illustrated with 71 numbered photographic plates, some of which are double-page. Map of the Japanese islands printed as endpapers. Photographs in black and white or colour. Bound in publisher's green cloth, photographic dust-jacket..... 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
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
Shigurf Namah-i-Velaët, or, Excellent Intelligence Concerning Europe: Being the Travels of Mirza Itesa Modeen, in Great Britain and France.
London: Published for John Taylor, 1827. [Middle Eastern and European Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii; 233 [3]. Advertisements at rear dated June 1827. With a colour frontispiece engraved by R.J. Laine and printed by C. Hullmandel. Contemporary brown half calf, with gilt titles and ruling to spine..... 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