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Travel & Topography
In Darkest Africa, or, The Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. With Two Steel Engravings and One Hundred and Fifty Illustrations and Maps.
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1890. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Two volumes, octavo. Illustrated, with three folding maps housed in pockets to the rear of each volume. Publisher's green cloth, pictorially stamped in gilt and black. Some edgewear and rubbing to extremities, spine tips frayed, loose maps with some expected wear..... More
In Darkest Africa, or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890. [African Exploration] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 529; [1]; pp.xvi; 472; [2]. With 150 woodcut illustrations and maps, including three folding. Also with a copy of John Speke's map of eastern equatorial Africa loose to preliminaries of..... More
In Darkest Africa, or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890-1891. [African Exploration] FIRST US EDITIONS. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 547; [1]; pp.xvi; 540; With two steel engravings, and one hundred and fifty illustrations and maps, pockets containing loose maps to the rear of each volume.Elegantly hand-bound in mid-green half calf..... More
Alexander's Path. From Caria to Cilicia.
London: John Murray, 1958. [Travel literature] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 283 [1]. With 21 black and white photographic plates, as well as vignette title page illustration by Reynolds Stone, in-text illustrations by the author, maps, and an index. Recent blue half morocco with raised bands..... More
Baghdad Sketches.
London: John Murray, 1937. [Iraqi Travel] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xiv; 269 [3]. With 23 of the 25 double-sided black and white photographic plates, and the green folding sketch map at rear. In a contemporary or slightly later library binding of brown quarter morocco, with gilt titles..... More
Ionia: A Quest.
London: John Murray, 1954. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xxiv]; 263; [1] blank. Publisher's blue cloth titled in gilt to spine and upper board, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 30s net, sketch map drawn by E.G. Morton, photographic plates and in-text drawings by the author. Spotting to endpapers, toned..... More
Don Gypsy: Adventures with a Fiddle in Barbary, Andalusia and La Mancha.
London: John Murray, 1936. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xvi, 525 [3]. With six photographic plates, a map, and a frontispiece and title-page vignette by Arthur Rackham.In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. Light spotting to prelims and edges. Spine sunned and rubbed. Good overall. More
This is Malaya.
Kuala Lumpur: Caxton Press Ltd., 1948. [Far East Photography] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto portfolio (28 x 23cm), pp.[6] 89. With an index at rear, printed with black and white photographs and captions to the recto of each leaf only. Publisher's plain paper-covered boards, bound with a sturdy rope, with green..... More
My Sudan Year.
London: Mills and Boon, Limited, 1912. [African Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.x; 305 [35]. With 40 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Light spotting and some dustiness to edges, with some offsetting to endpapers..... More
Orientations.
London: Ivor Nicholson, 1937. [Colonial Biography] AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM AUTHOR. First edition, fourth printing. Octavo (27 x 17cm), pp.[2]; xviii; 624. With seventeen illustrations including a frontispiece, and four maps, some folding. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt device stamped to upper. Top edge blue..... More
Sidelights on Peking Life.
Peking: China Booksellers, 1927. [China] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.xviii; 135 [5]. With a (very rough) map of the city and 25 double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Illustrated bookplate of George H. Danton to front pastedown. Quite..... More
Malay Sketches.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head. 1895. [Malaysia] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xii; 289 [19]. In recent brown half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to red morocco label on spine, and brown cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A small paper note pasted to..... More
Some Nigerian Fertility Cults.
London: Humphrey Milford [Oxford University Press], 1927. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xii; 140. With 48 illustrations including a frontispiece, some on clay paper plates. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Small illustrated bookplate of Adam A. Chalmers to front pastedown. Slight reading lean, otherwise very good indeed... More
Byzantine Architecture; Illustrated by Examples of Edifices Erected in the East During the Earliest Ages of Christianity. With Historical & Archaeological Descriptions.
London: Day and Son, 1864. [Byzantine Architecture] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Folio (44 x 31cm), pp.xii, 218. Illustrated with 70 tinted lithographic plates (including 12 in colour), each with a tissue guard, and many woodcuts. Rebound with the original publisher's purple cloth boards, decorated liberally in gilt to upper and blind..... More
The Light Side of Egypt.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. [Illustrated Satire] FIRST EDITION with fine colour plates. Oblong quarto (23 x 30cm), unpaginated. 36 chromolithographic plates, each with a facing leaf of explanation. Publisher's cream buckram, with titles and decoration blocked to upper in black, white, red, blue and gilt. Heavy spotting to..... More
In Siberia.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1999. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.287. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with silver titles and publisher's imprint to spine, grey map endpapers, showing map of Siberia. Pictorial dustjacket shows snowfield, with titles in white to front cover and spine, rear cover displays quotations from prominent reviewers;..... More
Malaysia.
Melbourne: F.W. Cheshire, 1964. [Malay Archipelago] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 98 [4]. With a frontispiece photographic portrait of Tengku Abdul Rahman. Publisher's green cloth with titled and decoration in black and white to spine and upper. Green map endpapers. With the green dust-jacket illustrated by Vane..... More
Cambridge.
London: A. and C. Black Ltd., 1922. [Travel] SECOND EDITION, REVISED. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.x; 220. 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 to..... More
The Innocents Abroad. The Innocents abroad: a book of travel in pursuit of pleasure.
London: John Camden Hotten, 1870. [Travel literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[iv]; 256; [xxviii]. Publisher's green cloth, neatly rebacked with the original spine laid on, with some loss, blind stamped design to boards, brown coated endpapers. Advertisements at front pp.i-ii and rear pp.i-xxviii; 'Very Important New Books..... More
Hours of Exercise in the Alps.
New York, NY: D. Appleton & Company, 1871. [Alpine Climbing and Mountaineering] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 473 [9]. With seven engraved plates, including a frontispiece, and occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and black panelled decoration to boards. Lightly toned throughout..... More
The Heart of the Hunter.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1961. [Anthropology]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Maurice Wilson. Illustrated with numerous drawings by Maurice Wilson. Very occasional spotting, cloth slightly rubbed to extremities. Dust-jacket shows very well with slight rubbing at..... More
Twentieth Century Impressions of Orange River Colony and Natal: their History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources.
Natal: Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company, 1906. [South African Topography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.667; [1]. Printed on clay paper with frequent photographic illustrations. Contemporary red full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Light sunning to spine, with..... More
Cape Colony (Cape Province): Its History, Commerce, Industries, and Resources.
London: The Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Co., 1910-1911. [South African Topography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.792. Printed on clay paper with frequent photographic illustrations. Contemporary dark green full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. A large gilt motif showing four national..... More
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Landscapes in Caria [in] The Geographical Journal. Volume CXXIV, parts I and III.
London: John Murray [for] The Royal Geographical Society, March and September 1958. [Travel Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Two volumes. Octavo magazines (25 x 16cm), pp.x; 150; pp.xii; 299-438. With occasional black and white photographic plates, plans and maps, some folding. Publisher's blue card wrappers with dark blue titles to spines and..... More
The Tourist's Illustrated Hand-Book for Ireland; with numerous engravings, from drawings by Cruikshank, Crowquill, Lover, Mahony, etc., and a profusion of minor illustrations. Great Exhibition Year.
London: John Cassell, 1853. [Irish Travel Guide] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[84] 248 [64]. With a frontispiece engraving, a folding map of Ireland / plan of the Irish Industrial Exhibition building, and numerous in-text engravings by various artists. Publisher's blind-decorated 'pea' green cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More