"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
Travel & Topography
The Holy War In Tripoli.
London: Edward Arnold, 1912. [Military History/Travel] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.333; [1], blank; [2], advertisements; 8, Catalogue. Illustrated throughout with photographic plates. Publisher's green cloth pictorially blocked in black and gilt, edges untrimmed, printed dust-wrapper priced at 15s. Edges slightly dusty, spine of jacket a touch sunned..... 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
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
Neues Panorama Des Rheins Von Mannheim Bis Coln; and, The Rhine From Maynece To Cologne.
Mainz: Verlag von D Kapp, and Mainz: Joseph Halenza, n.d. [c.1880]. Leporello, or concertina map, in tall octavo boards (30 x 17.5cm; map extends to 242cm). In stiff paperboards with recent red cloth spine, decorative foliate border with titles in black to front board, reproduced to rear board with alternative..... 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
The Polar Adventure: The "Italia" Tragedy Seen at Close Quarters.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1929. [Arctic Exploration] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.158 [2]. With 24 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. Light spotting to endpapers. Upper board slightly bowed; some wear to cloth. Very good. First..... 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
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] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp.135, illustrated. SIGNED 'From Len Deighton' in blue ink to half-title. Publisher's blue leather-effect boards with gilt titles to the spine and upper. A fine copy, but for a little sunning to the extremities. A collaboration between Deighton..... 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
Peking: A Historical and Intimate Description of its Chief Places of Interest.
Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1931. [China] REVISED THIRD EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 571 [3]. With 29 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and seven folding maps and plans. An appendix and index at rear. Publisher's yellow cloth with gilt titles to spine. Fore and lower edges..... More
The Story of Africa and its Explorers. With Two Hundred Original Illustrations.
London: Cassell and Company, no date [1892-95]. [Colonial Exploration] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes bound as two. Large octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.viii; 312; pp.viii; 312; pp.viii; 312; pp.viii; 312. With frequent half-tone vignette illustrations, as well as occasional maps and full-page illustrations. Contemporary red half morocco with raised bands..... 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
Scenes and Sights in the East.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., no date [1856]. [India and Egypt] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[8] 252 [4]. In contemporary red full morocco by SETON AND MACKENZIE of Edinburgh, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine. All edges gilt, and white silk-effect doublures with gilt-tooled turn-ins..... More
The Search for the Western Sea. The Story of the Exploration of North-Western America.
London: Alston Rivers, Ltd., 1908. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Illustrated with 51 plates and 6 folding maps. Publisher's green cloth with bright gilt titles to spine and upper, top edge gilt. Rubbing to extremities, wear to corners, bookplate, faint yellowing to pages, first free end paper's edge frayed, archival repair to..... More
The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton. With numerous portraits, illustrations, and maps.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1893. [Travel Biography] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxvi; 606; pp.x; 664. With 36 illustrated plates, including a frontispiece to each volume and five maps. Publisher's dark green cloth, recently re-backed with the original cloth laid over spines. Gilt titles to spines; yellow..... 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
Unknown Mongolia. A Record of Travel and Exploration in North-West Mongolia and Dzungaria. With Three Chapters on Sport by J. H. Miller, F.Z.S,
London: Hutchinson and Co. 1913. [Travel and sport]. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, quarto (24 x 18 x 10cm), pp.659. With 168 illustrations, panoramas and diagrams. Six maps. Blue buckram titled in gilt, top edge gilt. A little toning/spotting to edges, occasional foxing within, cloth rubbed to spine tips and corners..... More
Things Japanese, Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected With Japan, For the Use of Travellers and Others. Reprint of the 1905 Fifth Edition Revised, to which two appendices have been added.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.; Japan: J.L. Thompson & Co., 1927. [Japanese Encyclopaedia] VINTAGE COPY, a stereotyped reissue of the fifth edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[12] 591 [5]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author, and Japanese publishing information and a large coloured folding map at rear..... More