"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
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
Penang. Illustrated Guide.
George Town: The Municipal Council of George Town, Penang, 1952. [Travel Guide] ORIGINAL GUIDE. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.100. With in-text black and white photographic illustrations, and a large folding map at rear. Publisher's silver moire silk-effect card covers with blue titles to upper. Matching endpapers showing a price of..... More
Arctic Island Hunter.
London: George Ronald, 1961. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.136. With 12 black and white photographic plates and two maps. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to front free endpaper: 'To Mary, / with the warmest Baha'; / greetings / Paul Adams'. In publisher's light blue cloth with red..... 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
Warlords of Oman.
London: Robert Hale, 1967. [Arabian Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.191; [1]. With four double-sided photographic plates and a map. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by C.W. Bacon, priced at 25s. Textblock unevenly toned. Jacket a little bruised to edges, some..... More
My Polar Flight. With 45 illustrations and 2 charts.
London: Hutchinson and Co., no date [1925]. [Arctic Exploration] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[8] 292. With 29 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Orange typographic bookplate of John Lloyd to front pastedown. Tape burns to both..... 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
Pictures of Sweden.
London: Richard Bentley, 1852. [Scandinavian Travel] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.iv; 324. Publisher's green blind stamped cloth, gilt titles to spine, yellow coated endpapers. All edges untrimmed. Neatly rebacked with the original cloth laid on. Textblock lightly toned throughout, some marking and a small area of loss to..... 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
The Light of Asia or The Great Renunciation. Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1908. Deluxe Edition. Octavo, pp.xv; 158. Illustrated with thirty two pictures of Indian scenery from photographs taken by Mabel Eardley-Wilmott. Bound in cream vegetable parchment boards with gilt titles to spine and upper board, and illustrated to the upper and lower boards. Top..... 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
K.K.K. Sketches. Humorous and Didactic. Treating the more important events of the Ku-Klux-Klan movement in the South. With a Discussion of the Causes which gave rise to it, and the Social and Political Issues emanating from it.
Philadelphia, PA: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1877. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] 192 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and a monogram to upper; brown end papers. Lightly browned as expected. Front free endpaper brittle and nearly detached. Heavy rubbing to outer edges, especially spine..... 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
A Residence in France, During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795; Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: With General and Incidental Remarks of the French Character and Manners.
London: T.N. Longman, 1797. SECOND EDITION. In two volumes. Crown Octavo. pp. xxxiv, 448; 464. In contemporary full mottled calf with gilt titles to red morocco labels on spines. Upper joints split; corners bumped, with heavy wear to edges. Head and tail bands loose or damaged. Front free end-paper to..... More
Rock of Exile: A Narrative of Tristan da Cunha.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1957. [Wartime Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] x; 196. With seven double-sided photographic plates and a frontispiece, as well as an illustrated map and vignette illustrations to chapter headings, all by Foster. Publisher's yellow cloth with black titles to spine. With the..... 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 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
Simla: Past and Present.
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, 1904. RARE FIRST EDITION. Large Octavo, pp.xiv, 270 [2]. With 51 b/w illustrated plates including frontispiece (actually facing p.1), and a folding map to prelims. In publisher's brown cloth (formerly green) with b/w stamped illustrations to upper board. Vestiges of stamping to spine. Decorative textured end-papers. Cloth..... 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
Etruscan Bologna: A Study.
Smith, Elder, and Co., London, 1876. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii, 275. Illustrated with folding pullout frontispiece, sepia tone lithograph illustration: Synoptical Table of the Paleo-Ethnological Remains of Central Italy', wood block illustrations throughout text. Bound in Publisher's blue cloth with decorative friezes in black relief to top..... More