Travel & Topography
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
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. [Mountaineering Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.224. Illustrated with maps, sketches and photographs. Frontispiece in colour. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Purple ink bookseller's stamp to fly-leaf. Black ink ownership to half-title. Some light toning to..... 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] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xx; 300. With eight colour photographic plates, including a frontispiece, as well as 24 double-sided black and white plates arranged in suites through the text. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue dust-jacket illustrated..... More
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
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
Salamina.
London: Faber and Faber, 1936. [Greenland] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.352 [2]. With 22 full page illustrated plates, a folding illustrated map, and numerous woodcut headpieces, all by the author. Publisher's tan cloth, with black titles and decoration to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 15s..... 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
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
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
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. [Arabian Travel / History] 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 green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to red label, further..... 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
Adventures in Fanti-Land.
London, Griffith Farran. New York E.P. Dutton. n.d. [1881]. [Africa] First Edition. Small octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.190 [34]. Publisher's polychrome cloth binding, bearing the Dutton imprint. Slight edgewear and rubbing, very good. A pleasant little volume of juvenile Africana. 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
Twenty Years in Tibet. Intimate and Personal Experiences of the Closed Land among all Classes of its People from the Highest to the Lowest.
London: Seeley, Service and Co., 1932. [Far Eastern Travel] FIRST EDITION, PUBLISHER'S FILE COPY. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.318; [10]. With a folding map at rear, and 24 black and white plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's yellow cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge yellow. With the black and..... More
Forbidden Journey. From Peking to Kashmir.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1937. [Travel] SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fourth printing of the first UK edition, printed within the publication year. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 312. Publisher's dark red cloth, gilt titles to spine. Three maps, one folding, and numerous black and white photographic plates. Signed boldly by..... More
History, Topography, and Directory, of Westmorland; and Lonsdale North of the Sands, in Lancashire; Together with a Descriptive and Geological View of the Whole of the Lake District.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1849. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.465 [5]. Lacking maps, but with a watercolour of Mallerstang and Pendragon Castle to verso of front free endpaper, dated 1899. Roughly re-backed with black leather-effect cloth and a later strip of maroon leather-effect cloth, with black ink MS titles to..... More
Meeting With Japan.
London: Hutchinson, 1959. [Travel] FIRST UK EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.467; [1]. Hardcover in dust-jacket. Translated from the Italian by Eric Moshcacher. Map of Japan at the end of the XVIIth century printed as the front endpaper; map of the Japanese islands printed as rear endpapers. 32 Plates..... 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