Index to the Victoria History of the County of Bedford.
London: Dawsons, (1972). 4to, (viii), 61, (1) pp, red cloth, a fine copy. More
Travel
Journal of a Political Mission to Afghanistan, in 1857, Under Major (Now Colonel) Lumsden; with an Account of the Country and People.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 480 pp. Contemporary tan full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered black label, gilt decoration to the other panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, school prize bookplate from St. John's Collegiate School to the front pastedown. Frontispiece and 7..... More
Sussex. Painted by Wilfrid Ball.
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1906. First edition. 8vo. (x), 198 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board which also feature cream and green decoration, top edge gilt, loosely inserted is a copy of an original uncompleted publisher's order form for the book, this with..... More
Belzoni's Travels. Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries in Egypt and Nubia by... Edited by Alberto Siliotti.
London: The British Museum Press, 2001. First British edition. 4to. 336 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Numerous colour illustrations to the first 78 pages, black and white illustrations in the text throughout the rest of the volume. Slight sunning to the jacket spine, very..... More
Old London Churches. With... paintings by Arthur Garratt. Introduction by the Bishop of London.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. Limited edition, no. 362 of 500 copies, signed by Garratt, 4to, xxiii, (i), 181, (1) pp. 25 colour plates tipped in with captioned tissues. Original gilt titled vellum, covers slightly bowed and marked. More
Mediterranean Scenes. Rome - Greece - Constantinople.
London: Cassell and Company, (1928). First limited edition, no. 405 of 1,000 copies, large 8vo, 83, (1) pp. 40 plates, some light foxing. Original gilt titled buckram, extremities slightly rubbed. More
Genoa. How the republic rose and fell.
London: C. Kegan Paul, 1881. First edition, 8vo, xx, 420 pp. Frontispiece and one plate plus illustrations in the text, first and last page browned, W.H. Smith Library blind stamp to the fly leaf. Original cloth, spine ends and the top of the lower joint slightly worn. More
Southern Arabia.
(Reading: Garnet Publishing, 1994). 8vo, (xxii), 455, (1) pp. Frontispiece, 24 plates and 6 maps. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. A facsimile reprint of the 1900 first edition. More
Cornwall. A Shell Guide.
London: Faber and Faber, (1965). 8vo, 142, (4) pp. Coloured frontispiece and a coloured map over 3 leaves plus numerous black and white photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, mild browning to the lower wrapper otherwise a very good bright copy. More
The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn.
London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1906. First English edition, two volumes, 8vo, (xii), 476; (vi), 554 pp, frontispieces and 14 plates, booklabel partly removed from both paste downs, original dark green cloth, a little rubbed, t.e.g. Perkins p56. More
The Pyrenees: a Description of Summer Life at French Watering Places.
London: Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1867. First edition, large 8vo, xvi, 326, (2), 4 advertisement pp. Frontispiece, engraved title and engravings in the text, some full page, plus a map, contemporary inscription to the top of the engraved title, armorial bookplate. Original gilt titled cloth with bevelled edges, spine..... More
Brighton and Its Coaches. A History of the London and Brighton Road, with some account of the Provincial Coaches that have run from Brighton. With... Illustrations... by J. & G. Temple.
London, 1894. First edition, large 8vo, xx, (ii), 354 pp, 20 hand coloured plates, press prospectus for two other works by Blew tipped in at the front. Original gilt and black decorated cloth, spine ends and corners rubbed. More
A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship's Boat. From Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies.
London: Printed for George Nicol, 1790. First edition. 4to. iv, 88 pp. Later dark brown half calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt rules and lettered to the compartments. A folding plate and 3 folding charts. One of the latter shaved to the neatline along the lower edge, all the..... More
Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates. Edited, with a preface and some account of the Arabs and their horses, by W.S.B. [Wilfrid Scawen Blunt].
London: John Murray, 1879. First edition, two volumes, 8vo. 12 plates and a folding map plus a folding genealogy. Bookplates of Bath Municipal Library to paste downs, with accession numbers to the fly leaves and title versos, plus blind stamps to the frontispieces, titles and several other preliminary leaves in..... More
A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab race. (A visit to the court of the Arab Emir, and "Our Persian Campaign").
Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1996. 8vo, 273, (1, v-xii), 283, (3) pp. Black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w., an excellent copy. A facsimile of the 1881 second edition. More
Isfahan: Pearl of Persia. Text by Wilfred Blunt. Photographs by Wim Swaan.
London: Elek Books, 1966. First edition. 4to. 208 pp. Publisher's oatmeal cloth, brown lettered to the spine and upper cover, dust jacket, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper and further annotated by him on the title page. Illustrated throughout, including some colour photographs. Wear to the edges..... More
The Perambulator in Edinburgh. With Pictures by E.S. Lumsden.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1926). Limited edition, no. 135 of 200 copies signed by the Author, large 8vo, 179, (1) pp. 16 plates, free endpapers browned. Original half vellum, t.e.g., some minor marks, very good. More
The West Coast of Scotland. Skye to Oban. Shell Guide by...
London: B.T. Batsford, [1939]. First edition, 8vo, 44 pp. 8 pages of tinted photographs plus 4 coloured maps and numerous further black and white photographs. Spiral bound in the original photographic card covers, mild rubbing to corners. More
The Bible in Spain, or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the peninsula.
London: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1890. Third edition thus, 8vo, xx, 394 pp. Engraved illustrations, light foxing at the beginning and end, marbled endpapers and edges, prize label of Elizabeth College, Guernsey, to paste down. Contemporary tree, gilt arms, borders and spine, red spine label, a few minor scuffs, a...... More
Monsoon Traders. The Maritime World of the East India Company.
London: Scala Publishers Ltd in association with the National Maritime Museum, 2011. First edition. Small 4to. 192 pp. Publisher's boards, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Colour illustrated throughout. An excellent copy. More
Boyle of Cairo. A Diplomat's Adventures in the Middle East.
Printed by Titus Wilson & Son Ltd., Kendal, 1965. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 244 pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece plus 11 further photographic plates, all black and white. A little wear and tear to the jacket edges with slight loss at the..... More
The River Column. A Narrative of the advance of the river column of the Nile Expeditionary Force, and its return down the rapids. With maps by Major the Hon. F.L.L. Colborne.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 291, (1), 4, 24 advertisement pp. Three folding maps, one with closed tears to the inner margin, slightly later inscription to half title, some occasional foxing. Original maroon cloth, spine slightly sunned and rubbed, with an old ink..... More
Highways and Byways in North Wales. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell and Hugh Thomson.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1905. Third reprint, 8vo, (xvi), 474 pp. Black and white illustrations, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of Lindisfarne College, Westcliff-on-Sea. Contemporary tree calf, gilt spine with a black label, gilt arms to upper cover, some rubbing to spine and extremities. More
A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam'. Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1886. Tenth edition. 8vo. xvi, 511, (1) pp. Publisher's blue-grey cloth, ornate decoration in gilt and black to all sides, a slightly later gift inscription to the front flyleaf. Frontispiece and 8 plates plus 2 folding maps, 2 full pages maps and a further four..... More
Delineations, Historical and Topographical, of the Isle of Thanet and the Cinque Ports: Illustrated with engravings by William Deeble.
London: Printed for the Proprietors, 1817. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo. Vignette title pages, a map and 104 engraved plates, lacking a plate ("Ancient Brass in Birchington Church") listed in volume I but with an extra plate ("East Cliff, Thanet") not listed at page 96 of the same, marbled endpapers..... More