Travel & Topography
The Brontës came here.
Halifax: Fawcett Greenwood & Co. Ltd., no date [1963]. [Guide Book] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[x];178. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of 15s to flap. SIGNED by author to flyleaf. Preface by Donald Hopewell. Illustrations by A. E. Whitehead. Minor..... More
The Niger Explored.
London: Oxford University Press, 1968. [African Colonial Exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii; 263 [1]. With six black and white plates, and numerous maps. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to a blue background on spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated with a detail from a painting by Captain..... More
The Seven Lost Trails of Africa. Being a Record of Sundry Expeditions, New and Old, in Search of Buried Treasure.
London: Cassell and Company, 1930. [Colonial Exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 242. With eight black and white half-tone plates, including a frontispiece, and eight maps. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Heavy spotting to edges, with occasional heavy spotting internally. Light rubbing and some marks..... 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
Saints of Sind.
London: John Murray, 1956. [Religion and Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 200. With a black and white photographic frontispiece, and a sketch-map to preliminaries. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Wildsmith, priced at 18s. Heavy spotting to edges and preliminaries..... More
An Affair of the Heart.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1957. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp. 279 [1]. Illustrated maps to endpapers. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With the blue and white patterned dust-jacket, priced at 21s. Pencil ownership of Professor William St Clair to flyleaf. Light toning to edges..... More
Japan To-Day.
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1905. [Japanese History and Ethnology] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.323 [5]. With a colour frontispiece and 27 black and white photographic plates. Publisher's red pictorial cloth, with gilt titles to spine and white titles to upper. Top edge gilt. Illustrated bookplate to front..... More
The Minaret of Djam. An Excursion in Afghanistan.
London: John Murray, 1970. [Middle East Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[16] 99 [1]. With 24 double-sided black and white photographic plates, a blue sketch map of the location, and numerous drawings, by the author and her two travelling companions. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine..... More
A History of the Orient.
Boston, MA: Ginn and Company, 1926. [Asian History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; 469 [1]. With numerous coloured maps and black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with black titles and decoration to spine and upper. Illustrated bookplate of Santa Barbara Girls School to..... More
Nepal Himalaya.
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1952. [Himalayan Mountaineering] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 272. With a photographic frontispiece and 20 double-sided black and white photographic plates through the text, as well as 7 sketch maps. Publisher's light blue cloth with white titles to spine. With the red photographic..... More
Lonesome Traveller.
London: Pan Books Ltd., 1964. [Short Essays] FIRST UK PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo paperback (18 x 11cm), pp.158 [2]. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced at 2/6. Heavily toned, as usual, otherwise remarkably bright and crisp, with minimal wear and creasing to covers. Near fine. A collection of essays by the Beat..... More
A Peak in Darien.
London: John Murray, 1976. [Travel Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.109 [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket, priced at £3.50. Bookplate of Jessie Strachan to front fly-leaf, quoting Milton. An associated newspaper clipping loose to preliminaries. Toned throughout with occasional..... More
Perseus in The Wind.
London: John Murray, 1948. [Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.x 169 [1]. With wood engraved vignettes by Reynolds Stone to chapter headings. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and facsimile signature stamped in gilt to upper. With the dust-jacket designed by F. Quilter, priced at 12/6..... More
Trouble Cargo [in] the Wide World. The True Adventure Magazine for Men.
London: George Newnes, October 1956. [Travel / Adventure Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.vi; 327-388; vii-xxiv. With frequent black and white in-text illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, priced at 1/6. Internally clean, with moderate wear to covers, including some creasing and a few closed tears. Rubbing and chipping..... More