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1853e8260London: John Mitchell. G: in good condition. Covers rubbed with chipping to spine ends. Inner hinge cracking. Some foxing and marks within. 1853. First English Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 260mm x 180mm 10" x 7". xvi 370pp; 335pp. 24 b/w plates 2 hand coloured fold-out linen maps. Faculty of Procurators embossed stamp on front boards. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . John Mitchell hardcover
BIB321884London: The Folio Society. 2013. Large octavo size 18x28cm approx. Two volume set plus mapcase. Fine condition in Near Fine slipcase. Limited edition of 780 numbered copies - this is copy no. 232. Limitation plate mounted on front pastedown of map-case. Illustrated with 50 plates plus text drawings. Half-bound in Indian Goatskin over Marbled Papered boards by Jemma Lewis. The map is mounted in panels on Atlantic Cloth and case-bound in Arbelave Library Buckram. Typeset in Miller type printed on Abbey Wove and the Duotones on profisilk. Preface by Rory Stewart. Introduction by T.E. Lawrence. Photographs by Felix Bonfils and others. Reproduces photographs taken between 1860 and 1895 sourced from the Fine Arts Library at Harvard University and drawings from the first edition of 1888. Two portraits of Doughty are used for frontispieces. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 610 644 pages. This book was originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1888 and reprinted a number of times. The text of this edition follows that of the 1936 edition by Jonathan Cape. Volume III is a sketch map itinerarium of part of North Western Arabia and Negd by Charles M. Doughty. Facsimile of that printed by Chiswick Press Ltd presented to the Royal Geographical Society in 1883. Mounted in panels on cloth and bound in brown buckram. . As New. 1st thus. Hardback. The Folio Society hardcover
1943d2329aLondon: Jonathan Cape. G: in good condition without dust jackets. Covers rubbed. Spines faded. Closed tear at fold out map of volume one no loss. Ownership stamps on prelims and title page. 1943. New Edition. Brown hardback cloth cover. 260mm x 190mm 10" x 7". 674pp; 696pp plates & maps. 9 b/w plates 1 fold-out 2 fold-out colour maps. New and definitive edition. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . Jonathan Cape hardcover
18481801London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1848. 1st U.K.edition . Hardcover. Vg/No Jacket. Full leather contemporary bindings with gilt decorated spines marbled edges and matching endpapers. xi 495; ix 536 pgs. Folding map at the end of volume 2. Contemporary gift inscription to the first blank page of volume 1 and bookplates to the front pastedown endpapers of each volume. Weakened outer hinge at the top of vol.1. This is the first English edition and account by German scientist and explorer Adolph Erman of the 1828-29 Norwegian expedition to Russia and Siberia to study the north magnetic pole. The American edition; Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard 1850 does not include the map of this edition. An excellent clean set. Additional photos available if required. Inquiries welcome. <br/> <br/> Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans hardcover
1814EXP016New York: Van Winkle and Wiley 1814. 1st American. LibraryBound. Good. Van Winkle and Wiley 1814. 1st American. Good. Translated from the French by F. Shoberl. A memoir of the author's life while he was researching and writing a religious history called Les Martyrs ou le Triomphe de la Religion Chretienne. The introduction includes the history of Athens and Sparta and an inquiry into religious traditions related to Jerusalem-specifically the authenticity of claims made by religious tourists such as visiting the actual tomb of Christ. The text of the diary is full of literary references and adventure. Unlike other travel diaries the narrative flow is more like a novel and the entries are not just lists of weather reports food pretty sights and some funny anecdotes. Since the author had a research purpose during his time there Travels in Greece has a protagonist with a purpose. <br /><br />1814 Good Ex-Lib copy considering almost 200 YEARS OLD 1814. Pages & maps are not torn aside from library markings the text & pages are VERY GOOD. 471 pp. 46 pp. Appendix. Rebound to burnt orange in 1953 by library w/gold gilt lettering on spine. Embellished w/a map and 3 copper & 4 wood engravings. Light bumping on corners yellowing edges & page foxing. There are signs of visible wear which may include markings bookplate or authors name bumping small tears non-major spine or binding defects but book is still wholly intact. SEE PICTURES for any wear or defects. Condition based on age of book. To ensure you receive the quality of book expected we provide pictures of NOTICEABLE WEAR for ALL books we sell with marked conditions of GOOD . If you have any questions at all don't hesitate to send us an email. Van Winkle and Wiley
r0280London: Chapman & Hall Ltd. Worn condition. Cover rubbed and marked. Spine faded. Some closed tears to fold out maps 1 map detached. Ex-lib. Newcastle-upon-Tyne Reference Library. 1898. First Edition. Red/gilt hardback cloth cover with gilt palm tree motif. 230mm x 160mm 9" x 6". 774pp. Maps and Illustrations. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Chapman & Hall Ltd hardcover
198946174Antique Collector's Club 1989. 1st edition. V.g./V.g. Hard covers dust jacket Handwritten letter from the author loosely inserted. Antique Collector's Club hardcover
198946702Antique Collector's Club 1989. 1st edition. V.g./V.g. Hard covers dust jacket .1784 Italian map of China on end papers. 516 1 pp. Antique Collector's Club hardcover
198927031Antique Collector's Club 1989. 1st edition. V.g./V.g. Hard covers dust jacket 1784 Italian map of China on end papers partly covered at front but not at rear by owner's bookplate. 516 1 pp. Antique Collector's Club hardcover
179515008London: A. Strahan. Very Good. 1795. First Edition. Hardcover. Early cloth binding is poor with soiling rubbing & splitting. However the contents are near fine to fine. All plates are present with varying degrees of foxing . The pages are not foxed at all although I do find one short closed tear on the edge of one page. Interior hinges are tight. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 311 pages . A. Strahan hardcover
19754688Bokaugafan Orn og Orlygur 1975. Reprint of English translation first published in 1805. V.g. Hard covers in slip case. Near fine in slightly marked slip case. A very detailed account of the natural history and topography of Iceland by two Danish visitors who were commissioned to write this account by the Danish Scientific Society Det kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Their visit took place between 1752 and 1757 and the book was edited for publication in Danish by an Icelander Jon Eirikson and a Dane Gerhard Schoning. Historic map of Iceland on end papers; well illustrated in colour and with line drawings taken both from the original work and from another travel book written by a French explorer Paul Gaimard who visited Iceland in 1835 and 1836. Pagination begins on p. 8 but there are 13 printed pages and two blank ones preceding that page. The final page is numbered 186. Bokaugafan Orn og Orlygur hardcover
19140036921914. Book. Very Good. Cloth Hardcover. First Edition. First edition. Saint Louis Christian Advocate 1914. Very good blue cloth hardcover with gilt lettering. Binding firm. Text free of any writings. Palmore was a Confederate veteran member of General John Marmaduke's Escort Company a graduate of Vanderbilt University a Southern Methodist and for many years editor of the St. Louis Christian Advocate. The book relates his turn of the century travels in the Muslim Arab world. Hardcover
1831050920-M011London: C. F. Cock 1831. Very Good Leatherbound with marbled boards 209ppsads small book-3 1/2" x 5 1/2" early edition 1831 previous owner's inscription from 1854. Leatherbound. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. C. F. Cock Hardcover
1893010253London: Adam and Charles Black 1893 Book. Illus. by F. Border et al. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Brown cloth on boards. Previous owner's name in pencil. Hinges cracked. A native of Scotland Mungo Parks was employed by Sir Joseph Banks to explore the Niger River. After two years in preparation during which he learned the Mandingo language he set out in 1795. During a second trip in 1805 he was killed by natives. 392 pp. Note: Cover shows name as Parks while title page omits the "s". Adam and Charles Black hardcover
1877006210London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. 1877. x 300pp index 28 bw plates facsimile page of ms 2 maps one folding. Or green cloth with gilt decoration bevelled edges all edges gilt. Minor shelf wear to edges varying amounts of foxing some early pages shaken. Plates VIII onwards appear to have water stains ranging from 1/8" to 1"at fore-edge margin becoming worse towards the back not affecting subject of plates except in the case of the last plate the plates would certainly wash if so desired. Text pages first 7 plates and folding map unstained. Stamp on 1/2 title "BSR Sold". Author of many books on North Africa LT Col Playfair based this work on extensive examination of Bruce's explorations and drawings. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Later presentation notation also. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good. Folio. C. Kegan Paul & Co. Hardcover
19351130507.09S.A.V.I. - Sociedade Anonima Viagens Internacionais Rio de Janeiro ca. 1935. Paperback. Very Good. Folio paperback. Vg condition. Covers age-toned binding solid and tight. 198 pp. many illustrations. S.A.V.I. - Sociedade Anonima Viagens Internacionais, Rio de Janeiro paperback
199839454Hakluyt Society 1998. 8vo. First Edition with coloured plates and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth upper boards framed in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt gilt backs a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Hakluyt Society Second Series No. 189. Hakluyt Society, hardcover
1971010320Toronto: Macmillan of Canada 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 342 pgs. Several b/w maps. Chronology. A fine unmarked copy and an edited version of young Thompson's journals and reports as he mapped Western North America. <br/> <br/> Macmillan of Canada hardcover
1795e5320London: F & C Rivington. Worn condition. Covers rubbed and scuffed. Boards detached and spine missing on volume I. Plate II volume IV missing. Some foxing. but content in overall good condition. 1795. Second Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards. 200mm x 120mm 8" x 5". xii 317pp xviii; 316pp xv; xiii 285pp xv; xxiv 293pp xvi plates. 10 of 11 b/w plates 1 fold-out. Volume I: Containing a voyage to the southern parts of Europe and to the cape of good hope in Africa in the years 1770 1771 1772 1773. Volume II: Containing two expeditions to the interior part of the country adjacent to the Cape of Good Hope and a voyage to the Island of Java; performed in the years 17731774 and 1775. Volume III: Containing a voyage to Japan and travels in different parts of that empire In the Years1775 and 1776. Volume IV: Containing travels in the empire of Japan and in the islands of Java and Ceylon together with the voyage home. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . F & C Rivington hardcover
19775William Blackwood Edinburgh & London 1913. Plates. 8vo 9 x 6 inches 193-pages. Original grained blue cloth blocked in white and lettered in gilt top edge gilt others uncut. Foxing to edge of text block and occasionally lightly within corner bumped. Contemporary signature on front free endpaper and date on front pastedown. William Blackwood, Edinburgh & London, 1913. hardcover
1820L0820London: Archibald Constable & Co. G : in good condition. Modern rebind with new eps. Some foxing and darkening to plates. 1820. First Edition. Brown hardback cloth cover with brown leather spine. 220mm x 140mm 9" x 6". xxii 399pp; xiv 437pp plates. 20 b/w plates 2 fold-out. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Archibald Constable & Co hardcover
18111841London: Longman Hurst ReesOrme and Brown 1811. An Extract - Reprinted Edition . Soft cover. Vg/No Jacket. 4to. This copy of Bell's travel journal has been extracted from the 1811 edition of John Pinkerton's 'A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in all Parts of the World' Volume VII. Pages 271-516 2 plates The Great Wall of China and A Mandarin's Garden Bound in tan lightly creased paper wraps. Very clean and bright overall but expect some light foxing age toning and typical off setting from the plates. John Bell 1691-1780 was a Scottish physician & traveller appointed as a medical attendent to Persian diplomat Artemy Petrovich Volynsky; with whom he travelled extensively through Russia and China in the early 18th century. <br/> <br/> Longman, Hurst, Rees,Orme, and Brown paperback
1793000559Dublin: Printed for Messrs. R. Cross P. Wogan L. White P. Byrne A. Grueber J. Moore J. Jones W. Jones W. MKenzie and J. Rice. 1793. Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. 2 vols. Vol. I. pp. Vol. II. pp. With 3 maps one of which is colored. First printed in 1792. According to Cox this Dublin 1793 printing was probably a pirate edition. The official second edition appeared a year later. Re-bound in modern half calf with gilt spine labels and marbled boards. An ink shelf number is handwritten on the verso of both titles with miniscule bleed through on the title of volume II. A shelf number is also written on the bottom margin of p. 101 in both volumes and on the final blanks in volume II. The map in volume II is re-hinged and contains a tear professionally sealed along the inner margin and crossing one printed corner tip. The interior shows some marginal foxing mild staining and age-toning. Pages 431-432 folio 3I4 in volume II contain a manufacturing tear through a large part of the leaf. The tear is carefully sealed; however due to paper slippage during printing some words of text near the tear are skewed out of place. Arthur Young 1741-1820 was one of the foremost British agriculturalists in his day. According to Edward Coxs bibliography Young " is unexcelled in relating personal adventures in observations of the agricultural situation and in descriptions of the many friends he met. He was near enough to the outbreak of the French Revolution to perceive that something unusual was astir and even experienced some personal contacts with the disordered state of affairs." See Cox Ref. Guide to the Lit. of Travel I p. 161. De Tocqueville said that Youngs book "is one of the most instructive works which exist on the former state of society in France See De Tocqueville "On the state and society in France " London 1888. p. 84. ESTC T121339; Cox I p. 161; Brunet V 1510; Lowndes p. 3020; Graesse VII p. 496 . <br/> <br/> Printed for Messrs. R. Cross, P. Wogan, L. White, P. Byrne, A. Grueber, J. Moore, J. Jones, W. Jones, W. MKenzie, and J. Rice. hardcover
21893J. Cundee Albion Press 1812. title continuedand: a circumstantial account of the manners customs government religion history & c & c of that country : being the substance of the original work.9 engraved plates. Portrait & extra engraved title. 8vo 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches 486-pages. old half calf over marbled boards; upper cover detached spine badly cracked and chipped. The plates browned and foxed. J. Cundee, Albion Press, [1812]. hardcover
1890j4864caLondon: Ward Lock and Co. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover lightly rubbed. 1890. Reprint. Green hardback cloth cover. 180mm x 120mm 7" x 5". xviii 548pp ads. B/w illustrations. . Ward, Lock, and Co hardcover
