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 It's 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
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
The Okavango River: A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1861. [Colonial Exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxii; 364. With 17 wood engravings by Zwecker and Pearson, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary red full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to a navy label on spine, further gilt decoration to spine..... More
Colombia: Being a Geographical, Statistical, Agricultural, Commercial, and Political Account of that Country, adapted for the General Reader, the Merchant, and the Colonist.
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1822. [South American Colonial History] FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.cxxiv; 707 [3]; pp.[2] vi; 782 [4]. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, being Zea and Bolivar respectively, and a large folding engraved map to volume I. Recently re-bound..... 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
An Art Tour to Northern Capitals of Europe.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1873. [Russian and Scandinavian Museum Tour] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 455 [3]. Contemporary dark brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and blind decoration to spine, and lighter brown cloth over boards, with a gilt institutional device to upper..... More
Six Months at the Cape. Or Letters to Periwinkle from South Africa.
London: James Nisbet and Co., 1879. [African Colonial Topography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 256. With 12 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'Mrs. Aveling | with kind regards from | The Author.' Publisher's red cloth with gilt..... 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 Deep.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1964. [Diving novel] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.252. Publisher's blue cloth cloth with gilt titles to spine, pale blue endpapers, illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £3.25 A very good copy in a lightly used jacket with a little sunning to spine. Shipwreck mystery set in..... 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
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
The Orient Flight L.Z. 127-Graf Zeppelin.
Maryland: Germany Philatelic Society Inc., 1980. [German Postage] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.135, illustrated. Publisher's blue leather-effect boards with gilt titles to the spine and upper. A fine copy. One of only 1000 copies published. An unusual diversion from the master thriller writer; a collaboration between Deighton (writing..... 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
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
The Road To Oxiana.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1937. [Travel literature] First Edition. Octavo, pp.341 [2]. publisher's light blue cloth (presumed second binding), with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Age toned to spine. Very good indeed. Byron, who died young in the Second World War, was one of the Brideshead..... 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
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 Seven Wonders of Southern Africa.
Johannesburg: South African Railways and Harbours, 1929. [African Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 386 [14]. With 18 colour plates and frequent black and white plates and maps. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Maps to endpapers. A large tear to the first..... More