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— Bertolt Brecht
Travel & Topography
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
The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. [The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville], which treateth of the way to Hierusalem, and of marvayles of Inde, with other ilands and countryes. Reprinted from the edition of A.D. 1725. With an introduction, additional notes, and glossary, by J.O. Halliwell.
London: Edward Lumley, 1839. FIRST THUS. Also including the editor's preface to the 1727 edition. Octavo. pp. xvii, xii, 326 [2]. With wood-cut frontispiece, and frequent further in-text wood-cut illustrations. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, gilt crest to upper board and further blind decoration. All edges..... 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
The Land of the Pharoahs, including a sketch of Sinai drawn with Pen and Pencil.
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1887. Quarto. Bound in publisher's brown cloth, decorated with Egyptian motifs in gilt and black including a mummy, a mosque, an arab boy and a raft on the Nile; with titles in gilt to spine, and gilt detail of a minaret; all edges gilt, floral..... More
American Pictures. Drawn with Pen and Pencil.
London: The Religious Tract Society, c.1876. "New Edition". Large Octavo. Bound in publisher's green cloth, with pictorial decorations in gilt and black to front board, those primarily in gilt showing George Washington, a Native American riding a horse, a train, the Capitol building, and Niagra falls; gilt titles to spine..... 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 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
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
Far Away Up the Nile.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1924. [African Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.xii; 254 [4]. With 50 lithographic plates after illustrations by the author, H.R. Millais, and from photographs. Recent green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and green cloth over boards. Light occasional spotting..... More
An Account of Denmark: As it was in the Year 1692. An Account of Sueden: As it was in the Year 1688. With several Pieces relating to those Accounts. [Being, 'Observations Upon a Pamphlet Called, An English Merchant's Remarks upon a scandalous Jacobite Paper published in the Post-Boy of the 19th of July 1716, under the Name of a Memorial presented to the Chancery of Sueden, by the Resident of Great-Britain'; and 'A Short Narrative of the Life and Death of John Rhinholdt Count Patkul, a Nobleman of Livonia, Who was broke alive upon the Wheel in Great Poland, Anno 1707. Together with the Manner of his Execution: Written by the Lutheran Minister who assisted him in his last Hours. Faithfully translated out of a High-Dutch Manuscript, and now published for the Information of Count Gyllenborg's English Friends'].
London: Printed for Thomas Longman, 1738. [Scandinavian Travel]. FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING, later editions. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[10]; xxiv; 432 [2]. Contemporary brown full speckled calf, re-cased with repairs to joints. Raised bands, gilt titles to red label on spine, and further gilt tooling to spine. All edges flecked red..... More
No Room in the Ark.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1959. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15 cm), pp.xii; 227 [1]. With eight colour plates, 25 black and white plates, including a frontispiece and a folding map. In publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. Green endpapers showing a map of Africa. With original pictorial dust-jacket..... 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
The Desolate Antarctic.
London: Lutterworth Press, 1950. [Antarctic exploration] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION WITH TLS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 172. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, cartographic endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of 12s. 6d. net. Illustrated with photographic plates. Warmly inscribed by the author to W.G. Whincop to the half title..... More
Malaysia in Pictures. Visual Geography Series.
London: The Oak Tree Press, 1965. [South East Asia] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.64. Heavily illustrated with black and white photographs. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket priced at 9/6. Purple ink bookseller's stamp to front pastedown. Light wear..... More
In Northern Mists. Arctic Exploration in Early Times.
London: William Heinemann, 1911. FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes. Quarto, pp.xi; 383. Quarto, pp.415. Publisher's decorated blue cloth, with artistic sunset motif in gilt adorning front board, with borders stamped in blind, gilt titles to spine. Tipped-in colour frontispiece with tissue guard at front of each volume, illustrated with several maps..... More
The First Crossing of Greenland.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1919. [Arctic Exploration] FINE PRIZE BINDING, later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 452; [2]. Illustrated throughout with numerous wood engravings. Contemporary green full calf prize binding for Monoux Grammar School, Walthamstow, with raised bands, gilt titles to red label on spine, futher gilt decoration..... More
"Farthest North", Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-96 and of fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram. About One Hundred and Twenty Full Page and Numerous Text Illustrations and Coloured Plate in Facsimile from Dr. Nansen's Own Sketches. Portrait and Maps.
London: George Newnes, 1898. [Arctic Exploration] SECOND EDITION. Two volumes. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 480; pp.viii; 456. Illustrated throughout with numerous photogravure illustrations and photographs, and a large folding map to the rear of volume I. In a secondary binding of green cloth with gilt titles to spines..... More
Farthest North. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram. About One Hundred and Twenty Full Page and Numerous Text Illustrations and Coloured Plate in Facsimile from Dr. Nansen's Own Sketches. Portrait and Maps.
London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. [Polar Travel] FIRST EDITIONS. 2 volumes. Quarto (25 x 18 x 12cm) Numerous illustrations and 4 folding maps, several in colour. Publisher's blue/green cloth with gilt illustration to upper. A used but presentable set; contents shaken within case, owner inscription to first volume, bindings..... More
After Everest, An Autobiography.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1977. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.184. Illustrated with numerous photographs. Bound in publisher's green cloth with titles in silver to spine. Pictorial dust-jacket showing Everest and orange titles to upper, orange spine, and photograph of Tenzing at the summit of Everest to lower cover, unclipped..... More
The Springs of Adventure.
London: John Murray, 1958. [Travel and Exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 240. With eight double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to navy background on spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Maurice Bartlett. Spotting to edges and preliminaries. Price-clipped jacket rubbed and..... More
The Shoals of Capricorn.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1952. [Indian Ocean] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 322; [2]. Publisher's blue cloth, titles in silver to spine, cartographic endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Graham. Four double sided black and white photographic plates. Bookseller's stamp to rear endpapers. Neat ownership to flyleaf, some..... More
Sindh Revisited: A Journey in the Footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Burton. 1842-1849: The India Years.
Toronto: Harper Collins, 1996. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto, pp.351; [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title-page. Filled with colour illustrations. In publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Jacket lightly sunned to spine, otherwise very good indeed. More
Malaya Upside Down.
Singapore: Printed by Jitts and Co., April 1946. [South-East Asian History] SECOND EDITION, the seventh-thousand. Octavo, (23 x 16cm), pp.[8] 208 [14]. With an appendix including a map and glossary. Publisher's simple illustrated turquoise paper-covered boards, with titles to spine and upper. Blue stamp of the Commercial Trading Co. to..... More