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Travel & Topography
Orient Line Guide. Chapters for Travellers by Sea and by Land, Illustrated. The Fourth Edition, Revised, with Maps and Plans.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1891. [Travel Guide] REVISED FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (21 x 18cm), pp.xliii; 439. Liberally illustrated, with a decorated title page by Kate Greenaway, 46 lithographic plates, 19 maps (many folding), 18 charts, five colour plates of flags and funnels, and eight plans of ships..... 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
Vienna.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1957. [Austria] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Small quarto (24 x 23cm), pp.96. Heavily illustrated with black and white photographs. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device to upper. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at 25s. With a small..... 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
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 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
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
Derbyshire.
London: A. and C. Black Ltd., 1927. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.viii; 239; [1]. Publisher's blind stamped blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and in black to upper, dust-jacket with printed price of 7s. 6d. With thirty two plates in colour and a sketch map of the..... 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
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
Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea During 1875-6 in H.M. Ships 'Alert' and 'Discovery.' With Notes on the Natural History.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878. [Arctic Exploration] FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xl; 395 [3]; pp.[2] viii; 378 [2]. With six very fine photographic plates, including a frontispiece to each volume, seven full page illustrated plates, 38 in-text illustrations, and two..... 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
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
Bruges and West Flanders.
London: A. & C. Black, 1906. [Flemish History and Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.x; 187 [5]. With 37 half-tone colour plates, including a frontispiece, each with a tissue guard. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles and blue and green decoration to spine and upper. Top edge gilt..... 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