"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway
Travel & Topography
The Holy War In Tripoli.
London: Edward Arnold, 1912. [Military History/Travel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Large octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.333 [11]. Illustrated throughout with photographic plates. Publisher's green cloth pictorially blocked in black and gilt, edges untrimmed. With the green printed dust-jacket priced at 15s. Edges slightly dusty, spine of jacket a touch sunned..... More
The Narrative of Robert Adams, A Sailor, who was Wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa, in the year 1810, was Detained Three Years in Slavery by the Arabs of the Great Desert, and Resided several months in the city of Tombuctoo. With a Map, Notes, and an Appendix.
London: Printed for John Murray by William Bulmer and Co., 1816. [African Travel] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 22cm), pp.xl; 231 [1]. With a large folding map. Rebound in the mid twentieth century in tan half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper over..... 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
Sketches in Portugal. During the Civil War of 1834.
London: James Cochrane and Co., 1835. [Memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[ii]; xvi; illustrative plate of a map; 328; [2], blank. Fully bound in tan calf lettered in gilt to spine, embossed patterning to front and back boards, gilt ruling to boards, spine with raised bands and gilt..... More
Tunbridge Wells and Its Neighbourhood, Illustrated by A Series of Etchings, and Historical Descriptions.
London: William Miller and Edmund Lloyd, 1810. [Topography] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Folio (35 x 28cm), pp.[4] 87 [5]. With 31 engraved plates, and 12 vignettes. Contemporary brown half morocco with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Also with original printed paper title label to upper board. Black..... More
Tunbridge Wells and Its Neighbourhood, Illustrated by A Series of Etchings, and Historical Descriptions.
London: William Miller and Edmund Lloyd, 1810. [Topography] EXPANDED SUBSCRIBERS' EDITION. Folio (33 x 26cm), pp.[4] 183 [3]. With 31 engraved plates, and 12 vignettes. Contemporary brown diced full calf, recently re-backed in matching calf, with gilt titles to red labels on spine. All edges and endpapers marbled. pp.172-183 misbound..... More
Tunbridge Wells and Its Neighbourhood, Illustrated by A Series of Etchings, and Historical Descriptions.
London: William Miller and Edmund Lloyd, 1810. [Topography] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Folio (37 x 30cm), pp.[10] 87 [3]. With 31 engraved plates, and 12 vignettes. Contemporary brown half morocco with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Also with original printed paper title label to upper board, priced..... More
The South Pole. An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912. Translated from the Norwegian by A. G. Chater.
London: Hutchinson and Co., 1912. [Arctic Exploration] FIRST EDITION in English. Two volumes, octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxxv; 392; pp.x; 449. Illustrated with frontispiece and ninety-nine plates, six maps (three of which are folding), one folding diagram, further charts and tables within the text. Collated and complete. Bound in dark..... More
Farthest East, and South and West. Notes of a Journey Home through Japan, Australia and America.
London: W. H. Allen, 1892. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. xii, 343. With 12 photographic plates including frontispiece. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, as well as black/white illustrations. Navy end-papers. Black ink prize inscription to verso of front free end-paper. Reading lean. Clean 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
Sinks of London Laid Open: A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, To Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, With a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves, the Whole Forming a True Picture of London Life, Cadging Made Easy, the He-She Man, Doings of the Modern Greeks, Snooking Kens Depicted, the Common Lodging-house Gallants, Lessons to Lovers of Dice, the Gaming Table, etc. Embellished With Humorous Illustrations by George Cruikshank.
London: J. Duncombe, 1848 [circa 1885]. [London] VINTAGE COPY, a later reprint. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.131 [1]. With an advertisement for 'Annals of Fashionable Gallantry' (1885) at rear. With a folding colour frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text woodcuts, by Cruikshank. Publisher's crocodile skin-effect tan cloth with gilt titles..... 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
Sport and Exploration in the Far East: A Naturalist's Experiences in and Around the Kurile Islands.
London: Methuen and Co., 1933. [Far Eastern Travel] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 246 [2]. With 24 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and a map to front endpapers. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. Blue ink ownership stamp to half-title. Light..... More
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[Autograph Letter Signed].
The Banks, Mountfield, Nr.Robertsbridge, Sussex, 2nd Sept. 1970. [Autograph Letter] Manuscript letter signed. To Miss Eileen Cond, thanking her for her recent letter, sending condolences, discussing novel writing and a forthcoming research trip to Nigeria. One sheet of note paper, fifteen lines written in black ink. Folded once, near fine..... 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
Peeps at Many Lands: South America.
London: A. & C. Black, 1928. [South American Travel] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 88. With eight colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and a sketch-map of the continent. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, re-priced by the publisher..... More
The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. [American Travel]. SECOND EDITION, identical to the First. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xii; 707. With 10 wood engraved plates including a frontispiece and two folding maps. Nine further illustrations in-text. In publisher's blue pebble grained cloth, re-backed during the twentieth century, with original..... More
The Martyr of Erromanga. Or, the Philosophy of Missions, Illustrated from the Labours, Death and Character of the Late Rev. John Williams.
London: John Snow, 1842. [South Pacific Missionary] FINELY BOUND, the Second Edition. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[4] xii; 526 [2]. With a hand coloured frontispiece and a wood engraved title page vignette. Contemporary brown full calf with raised bands and gilt titles to black label, and further gilt decoration to..... More
Patagonia Revisited.
Salisbury: Michael Russell, 1985. [Patagonia] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Small octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.62 [2]. With occasional in-text woodcuts by Williams. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and light blue endpapers. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Williams, priced at £4.50. A clean, fine copy. A collection of..... More
Such is the Antarctic.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. [Polar Exploration] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, second state binding. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.265; [3]. With 45 photogravure illustrations including a frontispiece and maps and plans, some folding. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine, and maps to endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Spotting..... More
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure.
London: John Murray, 2012. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 448. With two suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine, and tan endpapers. With the cyan dust-jacket, priced at £25. A crisp, fine copy... More
Sailing Tours: The Yachtman's Guide to the Cruising Waters of the English Coast. Part II. The Coasts of Kent, Sussex, Hants, the Isle of Wight, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, and the Scilly Isles. Containing Descriptions of Every Creek, Harbour, and Roadstead from the Nore to Tresco, Isles of Scilly.
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1893. [Sailing] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xxviii; 365 [3] 12 [4]. With 26 coloured charts including a frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy cloth, pictorial decoration stamped in gilt and black to upper board and spine. Gilt titles to upper and spine. Green patterned endpapers. Advertisements to..... More
The Abandoned Islands of the Venetian Lagoon: how they were and how they are now. Isole abbandonate della laguna veneziana: com' erano e come sono.
Teddington: San Marco Press Ltd., 2008. [Venetian History] SECOND EDITION. Square quarto (22 x 22cm), pp.240. With frequent illustrations in black and white and colour. Publisher's blue soft covers, priced at 30 Euros. Illustrated bookplate of John and Sheila Turner to fly-leaf. Light general wear to covers. Very good... More
"Castelli Romani", an account of certain towns and villages in Latium, with an appendix containing short notices of Tivoli, Anzio, and Nettuno, illustrated with original sketches by Roman artists.
Florence: Alinari Brothers, 1904. FIRST EDITION. Small quarto, pp.158 [2]. With many monochrome reproductions of paintings by various artists. In publisher's cream cloth with red titles to upper board and significantly raised relief-decoration. Top edge green, others untrimmed. Some marks to boards and bumped corners, otherwise very good... More
Siren Land and Fountains In The Sand.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1957. [Travel] FIRST COMBINED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.vi; 345; [1]. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with sticker price of 35/- to front flap. Toning and spotting to textblock edges, light spotting to preliminaries, toning to dust-jacket spine, spotting to..... More