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Travel & Topography
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
Bugles and a Tiger. A Personal Adventure.
London: Michael Joseph, 1956. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.335; [1]. With two double-sided black and white photographic plates, occasional small illustrations and a map. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the brown and red illustrated dust-jacket titled in black and white, priced at 16s..... 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
Balkan Roads to Istanbul.
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1960. [Eastern Bloc travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.189; [3]. Publisher's light blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Eisner with printed price of 18/- net. Illustrated with six double sided photographic plates and a sketch map of Macedonia. Slight offsetting to..... 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
The High-Road of Empire. Water-Colour and Pen-and-Ink Sketches in India.
London: John Murray, 1905. [India] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (24 x 18cm), pp.xxix; [1]; 453; [1]. Publisher's ornatley blind stamped orange cloth, gilt titles and tooling to a blue cloth panel to spine, blue endpapers, top edge gilt. Illustrated with forty-seven plates in colour with captioned tissue guards and numerous in-text..... 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: 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. Publisher's silver and gilt pictorial green/blue cloth, bevelled edges, black endpapers, all..... 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
A Galloway Childhood.
London: Heinemann, 1967. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[10], 182. With five illustrations by Tunnicliffe. In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original green pictorial dust-jacket. Jacket edges a littled rubbed, spine very lightly sunned. Very good indeed. 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 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
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
Travels through the South of France, and in the Interior of the Provinces of Provence and Languedoc, in the Years 1807 and 1808, by a Route Never Before Performed, Being along the Banks of the Loire, the Isere, and the Garonne, through the Greater Part of their Course. Made by Permission of the French Government.
London: Printed for T. Purday, 1809. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp.vi, 282. In contemporary half tan calf with gilt titles to black label on spine. Black marbled boards. Light spotting to prelims. Spine sunned; some edge-wear, otherwise a very good copy. 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
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
Peaks and Precipices. Scrambles in the Dolomites and Savoy. Translated from the Italian by J. E. C. Eaton.
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1914. [Climbing / Mountaineering]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto. With 76 illustrations. Publisher's full burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and pictorial board. Top edge gilt. Spine faded, boards discoloured, some occasional light foxing; bookplate. Very good. 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