Travel & Topography
Belgium.
London: A. and C. Black Ltd., 1928. [Travel] SECOND EDITION, REVISED. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.x; 250; [2]. Publisher's blind stamped blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and in blind to upper, blue top edge, dust-jacket. With thirty two plates in colour and a sketch map of the country. Ownership..... 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
Guide to Kuala Lumpur, the Federal Capital.
Singapore: Papineau Advertising, July 1963. [City Guide] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.202. Filled with advertisements and illustrations, some in colour. Publisher's colour-illustrated card wraps. Blue ink inscriptions to front and rear pastedowns. Heavy rubbing to joints and cover edges. Good. More
East of Croydon.
London: Michael Joseph an imprint of Penguin Books, 2018. [Travel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 382; [4]. Publisher's black cloth, titles in metallic blue to spine, blue endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Kate Barsby with printed price of £20. Signed by the author to the title page. Slight..... More
The Railway Panoramic Guide. Complete Midland. A Panoramic Decription of the Principal Objects of Historic Interest, Sacred Edifices, Chief Cities, Towns, Villages, Country Seats, Pleasure Resorts, Natural Objects, Engineering Works, Roads, Rivers, Canals, etc., Inviting the Attention of Passengers over the Main Line and Chief Branches of the Midland Railway.
London: Bembrose and Sons, n.d. [1873]. FIRST EDITION PAMPHLET. (295 X 190mm), pp.i, 56 [10]. First page of adverts dated 1873. With an illustrated map of the railways and steam boat routes of England, Wales and southern Scotland to verso of front cover. In publisher's yellow paper covers with black..... More
A Busy Time in Mexico. An Unconventional Record of Mexican Incident.
London: Constable and Company, 1913. [Hunting and Revolution] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.viii; 243 [1]. With 16 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's yellow cloth with gilt titles to spine, black to upper, and colour decoration blocked to spine and upper. Fore and lower edges..... More
Among the Sioux of Dakota. Eighteen Months Experience as an Indian Agent.
New York, NY: D. Van Nostrand, Publisher, 1881. [Native Americans] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.235 [3]. Recently re-backed in red calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the original red calf boards with gilt and blind ruling to margins. Lightly trimmed to all edges..... More
"Through Samaria" to Galilee and the Jordan: Scenes of the Early Life and Labours of Our Lord.
London: Thomas Nelson, 1889. FIRST EDITION. Quarto. pp. 330. With 123 in-text engravings and an engraved frontispiece, all from the author's drawings. In publisher's dark green cloth with black and gilt stamping to spine and upper board. All edges gilt; brown end-papers. Blind stamp of G.D. Croker, Waterford, to front..... More
Malaya: Outline of a Colony.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1946. [Malay Archipelago] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 151 [1]. With six illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the red and white dust-jacket priced at 6s. Blue ink ownership to front pastedown. Light spotting to..... More
Antiquarian, Architectural, and Landscape Illustrations of the History of Java.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1844. [Javanese History] FIRST THUS, Ex Libris ADMIRAL SIR JAMES ALEXANDER GORDON. Quarto (34 x 27cm), with 92 illustrated plates, including 10 fine hand-coloured aquatints and a very large folding map. No text. Recently re-backed in red cloth to match the original publisher's red cloth over..... More
Somewhere South of Suez.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. [African Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.428; [4]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge blue, dust-jacket priced at 12s. 6d. Bookplate of G, Lillywhite to flyleaf. Spotting to preliminaries, edges toned and marked. Jacket darkened to spine with some small chips..... More
Rambles Round Eton and Harrow.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xi, 290. With 52 engraved illustrations including frontispiece. In contemporary prize binding for Hanley Castle Grammar School, by BICKERS. Full tan calf with raised bands, gilt titles to navy morocco label and gilt school stamp to upper board. All edges..... More
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Villes Anseatiques [Hanseatic Towns]: L'Univers, ou Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples, de Leurs Religions, Moeurs, Costumes, etc.
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1844. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.398. 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. Spine head..... More
Scott's Last Expedition. Vol. I being the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, R.N., C.V.O., Vol. II being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition. Arranged by Leonard Huxley. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. [Polar Exploration] FIRST COLONIAL EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 497; [11]; pp.x; 431; [1]. With eight photographic plates including a frontispiece to each volume, and a folding map at the rear of each volume. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles and..... More
Scott's Last Expedition. Vol. I being the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, R.N., C.V.O., Vol. II being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition. Arranged by Leonard Huxley. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1913. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xxvi, 633 [3]; pp.xvi, 534 [2]. Title page printed in red and black. With eight photogravure plates, including a frontispiece portrait for each vol.; 18 coloured plates; and 260 photographic plates taken..... More
The Voyage of the Discovery.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1913. [Polar Exploration] RARE DUST-JACKETS, the first pocket edition. Two volumes. Duodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.478; [2]; pp.477; [3]. With eight photographic plates, including a frontispiece to each volume, and a folding map at the rear of volume I. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles..... More
The Conquest of The Arctic.
London: Harrap, 1939. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 284. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth titled in pale silver to spine, in a pictorial dustjacket depicting modes of transport heading towards the North Pole. Cloth in excellent condition with limited signs of wear. Endcaps a little pushed, with superficial rubbing..... More
Two Lives.
London: Little, Brown, 2005. [Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 503 [1]. With three suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black ink to titles page. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine, a gilt device to upper, and..... More
William H. Seward's Travels Around the World.
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. [World Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[2] xii; 730 [10]. With 200 engraved illustrations, including a steel portrait frontispiece of William Seward, and a folding map at rear. Contemporary brown full morocco over bevelled boards, with decorations stamped in black..... More
Qanoon-e-Islam, or the Customs of the Mussulmans of India; Comprising a Full and Exact Account of Their Various Rites and Ceremonies, from the Moment of Birth Till the Hour of Death.
Madras: J. Higginbotham, 1863. RARE SECOND EDITION. Octavo, pp.[2] xxiv, 296, cxliv [2]. With a total of 21 lithographic plates, two being portrait frontispieces and seven appearing consecutively at rear. In contemporary, possibly publisher's half tan cloth with navy leather-effect paper-covered boards. No external titles. Light even browning throughout; occasional..... More
Spain.
London: B.T. Batsford, 1950. [Travel Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 148. With four colour plates, including a frontispiece, and 32 double-sided black and white photographic plates, as well as two sketch-maps at rear. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge blue. With the dust-jacket..... More
Skelton's Engraved Illustrations of the Principal Antiquities of Oxfordshire, from Original Drawings by F. Mackenzie. Accompanied with descriptive historical notices.
Oxford: J. Skelton, 1823. FIRST SUBSCRIBERS EDITION. Large Quarto, pp.[6] iv, 10; 8; 4; 12; 10; 22; 10; 10; 4; 2; 2; 8; 10; 26 [6]. With separate pagination for each Hundred region. 50 large steel engravings on india paper pasted to thick plates, including a frontispiece, as well as..... More
Temiar Jungle: A Malayan Journey.
London: John Murray, 1958. [Malay Archipelago] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 176 [2]. With eight double-sided black and white photographic plates, an illustration to each chapter head, and a double-page map on green paper, all by the author. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the..... More
Sinai and Palestine, In connection with their history.
London: John Murray, 1889. [Holy Land Topography] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a new edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lviii; 560. With eleven maps, six printed in colour, and a colour frontispiece showing the elevation of the country. Contemporary burgundy polished calf for Leeds Grammar School, with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More