"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
Travel & Topography
The Whispering Land.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961. [South American Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.235; [1]. With frequent illustrations by Thompson, including a frontispiece and a title page vignette. Publisher's brown cloth with silver titles to spine, dust-jacket illustrated by Thompson priced at 18s net. Some spotting to edges. Very slight..... More
The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. With an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill. An Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David.
London: William Heinemann, 1909. [Polar exploration] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, quarto (24 x 18cm), pp.xlviii; 372; pp.xvi; 419; [1]. Portrait of E. H. Shackleton as frontispiece to first volume, with portrait of the Northern Party at the South Magnetic Pole to second volume. Both are protected with captioned tissue guards..... More
The Orchid House. Splendours and Miseries of the Kingdom of Oudh, 1827-1857.
London: Cassell, 1960. [India] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 216. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Val Biro with printed price of 25/- net. Illustrated with eight double sided black and white plates, one genealogical table, and two maps. Ownership stamp and inscription to..... More
The Book of Polar Exploration.
London: George G. Harrap and Company, 1930. Second Edition. Octavo, pp. 302. Ornately decorated green cloth with yellow titles, endpapers showing map. In a pictorial dustjacket. Volume includes numerous plates and in-text illustrations. School prize bookplate attached to front pastedown. Some spotting to prelims and to edges, with slight dustiness..... More
Narrative Of A Tour Through Hawaii or Owhyhee; with observations on the natural history of the Sandwich Islands, and remarks on the manners, customs, traditions, history, and language of their inhabitants.
London: H Fisher, Son, and P Jackson, 1828. Fourth Edition. Octavo. Bound in calf, with extensive gilt and blind panelling to boards, and decorative gilt to spine with red label and gilt titles. Includes frontispiece portrait of Ellis, two maps and eight plates, and bookplate. Maps in fine condition, bright..... More
Our Sister Republic: A Gala Trip Through Tropical Mexico In 1869-70. Adventure and Sight-Seeing in the Land of the Aztecs, with Picturesque Descriptions of the Country and the People, and Reminiscences of the Empire and its Downfall.
London: Trubner and Co., 1871. [Central American Travel] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.518. With 64 wood engravings, including a frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed. A couple of small pen marks to pastedown, edges a little toned..... 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, priced at £13.95. Very lightly handled; a clean fine copy. 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
Abducting A General. The Kriepe Operation and SOE in Crete.
London: John Murray, 2014. [History / Military Intelligence] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxx; 206; [4], blank. Illustrated with maps and half-tone plates. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, plum-coloured endpapers, photographic dust-wrapper priced at £20. Absolutely fine/as new. Fermor was an Irish Guards officer and..... More
Gibraltar.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. [European Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[2] xii; 139 [7]. With 12 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Top edge gilt; blue endpapers. Hinges split, but not loose at..... 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: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Travel Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.384. With 32 photographic plates including a frontispiece, and a fold-out map. Recent burgundy half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to black morocco label on spine, and original publisher's burgundy cloth over boards, with "Fu Lei-Ming" in..... 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
The Crossing of Antarctica. The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58.
London: Cassell, 1958. [Antarctic Exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6] xviii; 338 [2]. With eight suites of four double-sided photographic plates, some in colour, as well as nine maps. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at 30s. Some spotting to edges..... 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
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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
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
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
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
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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
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
From Libyan Sands to Chad.
London: Museum Press Limited, 1960. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.208. Ten pages of photographs and a map frontispiece. Publisher's yellow cloth with red titles to spine, endpaper maps of the Sahara, dust-jacket with printed price 27s 6d. Clean pages with toning to edges, slight rubbing to edges..... 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