Travel & Topography
The Modern Malay.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1928. [Malaysian History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.300; [4]. Illustrated with eight photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth with dark brown titles to spine. With the brown dust-jacket illustrated in blue and brown to front cover, priced at 15s. Heavy spotting to edges and..... More
Coney Island and Brooklyn, N.Y., Illustrated.
New York, NY: Manhattan Post Card Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Coney Island] EARLY POSTCARD IMAGES. Octavo pamphlet. Dichromatic printing on clay paper, with colour-illustrated card covers, stapled. 16 double-sided black and white photographic plates, totalling 64 individual images. Some small losses to edges of first and last leaves. Rubbing..... More
Travels in Arabia Deserta.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Arabia Travel] NEW 'DEFINITIVE' EDITION, First Thus. Complete in two volumes. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.674; pp.696. Complete with a frontispiece and illustrated plates to volume I, and a large folding map to each volume. Publisher's brown buckram with gilt titles to spines. Top edges..... More
A Time of Gifts. On foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube.
London: John Murray, 1977. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.291. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with crane in gilt to front board, titles in gilt to spine. Pictorial dust wrapper depicts Fermor striding past ruins and castles into the sunset, continued to spine, blue rear cover with crane..... More
News From Tartary. A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Travel Literature] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] 384 [2]. With 32 photographic plates including a frontispiece, and a fold-out map. Recently re-bound in burgundy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge burgundy; lower edge..... More
A Person From England. and other travellers to Turkestan.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. [Travel] FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.384. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket and matching endpapers, top edge tinted blue. Illustrated with a map and eight double sided two tone photographic plates. With signed inscription to half title: "Momo /..... 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
Greater London. A Narrative of its History, its People, and its Places.
London: Cassell & Company, no date [1889-1890]. [London Topography] PUBLISHER'S CLOTH, later printings. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.xvi, 576; pp.xii, 560. Illustrated with numerous in-text engravings. With the large folding map loose to a pouch in volume II. Volume I coded 03.90 to advertisements at rear..... 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
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
People of the Veil: Being an Account of the Habits, Organisation and History of the Wandering Tuareg Tribes which inhabit the Mountains of Air or Asben in the Central Sahara.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1926. [North African Ethnology] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.xvi; 504. With 51 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and 11 maps and plans, several folding. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to the half title: 'John Loder | 1905-1926 |..... More
Allemagne. L'Univers, ou Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples, de leurs Religions, Moeurs, Coutumes, etc.
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1838-39. [German history] EARLY EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 495; [1]; pp.[4]; 480. All text in French. With 100 steel engraved plates at the rear of each volume, and two folding maps to volume II. Contemporary tan quarter calf with gilt titles..... More
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
Sand and Canvas; a Narrative of Adventures in Egypt, with a Sojourn Among the Artists in Rome.
London: Charles Gilpin, 1849. [Travel Memoirs] FIRST EDITION, an association copy. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] xii; 370 [2]. With eight engraved plates, including a frontispiece, after drawings by the author, six being hand-coloured, each with a tissue guard. Pencil note to verso of fly-leaf stating: 'Wm. Bevan - my..... More
Etruscan Bologna: A Study.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1876. [Italian Travel and Archaeology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii, 275. Illustrated with folding frontispiece lithograph showing a Synoptical Table of the Paleo-Ethnological Remains of Central Italy. Also with occasional in-text wood engravings. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, decorative friezes..... More
Harris of Japan. The Story of Townsend Harris and his Amazing Adventures in Establishing Relations with the Far East.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1939. [Asian History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2]; 310; [2]. Publisher's red cloth with green titles to spine, blind ruling to front and rear boards, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price 12s 6d to flap. Frontispiece of Townsend Harris. Illustration plates in black and white throughout..... More
My India.
Bombay: Geoffrey Cumberlege at the Oxford University Press, 1952. [Indian Travel] FIRST INDIAN EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 190; [2]. With maps in red to endpapers and a further map at rear. Publisher's light brown cloth with dark brown titles to spine. With illustrated dust-jacket priced at Rs 6-12..... More
'Where Shall John Go? -Jamaica' [in] 'Horizon' Magazine. Edited by Cyril Connolly Vol.16, No.96, December 1947.
London: Horizon, 2 Lansdowne Terrace, London WC1. Printed at the Curwen Press. 1947. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6] 299-369 [3]. Publisher's typographic paper covers priced at 2s 6d. A little creasing/toning to spine. Near fine. Contains the first appearance of Fleming's article on Jamaica, issued as..... More
One's Company — A Journey to China.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. [Travel] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.319; [1]. With 16 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding map. Contemporary tan half morocco by FOX of London, with raised bands, gilt titles to brown labels, further gilt tooling to spine..... More
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. [Arabian Travel] FIRST TRADE EDITION, following the privately published edition of 1926. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.672. With 54 plates and four folding maps. Complete with appendices and index. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, gilt scimitars and motto motif to upper board, top edge..... More
Heroes of Discovery: Livingstone, Park, Franklin, Cook, Magellan.
Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1886. [Travel and Exploration] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 349 [3]. With an engraved portrait of each explorer. Contemporary red full calf for Beaconsfield School by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to black label and further gilt decoration..... 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
Three Years in Tristan Da Cunha.
London: Skeffington & Son, 1910. [South Atlantic Islands] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii; 280. Complete with 37 black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece, and a map. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and a black and white photographic image to..... More
The Heart of the Hunter.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1961. [Legends and fables from the African bush] 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. A particularly fine copy with a hint of toning to..... More
An Idler in the Near East.
London: John Milne, 1910. [Ottoman travel] FIRST EDITION, first issue binding. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 279 [1]. With 40 black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Spotting to edges and preliminaries. Spine sunned with some light rubbing to..... More