London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1935. First British edition. 8vo. xvi, 272 pp. Publisher's purple cloth, pale blue lettering to the spine, map endpapers, loosely inserted is an illustrated first day cover featuring the signature of Terris Moore, stamped January 1978 in Anchorage, an unrelated early ownership inscription to..... More
[n.p.]: Published on Behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem by the World of Islam Festival Trust, (1987). First edition, no. 1588 of 3,000 copies. 4to. 623 pp. Publisher's blue leatherette, gilt lettered to spine and decorated to boards, dust jacket, housed in original matching slipcase. 32 colour..... More
London: Darf Publishers, 1986. Two volumes, 8vo. Black and white illustrations and a folding map. Cloth, d.w.'s, spine to volume I sunned otherwise very good. First published 1855, this is a facsimile of the Memorial edition originally published in 1893. More
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1876. First edition, 8vo, xii, 275, (1) pp. Folding frontispiece plus a few illustrations in the text, Errata slip tipped in, minor loss from the top corner of the fly leaf, monogrammatical bookplate of C.J. Peacock. Original grey cloth, gilt title and vignette, decorative black..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1856. First edition, 8vo, xl, (ii), 648, 24 advertisement pp. 4 fine coloured lithographs and 2 maps, the plates with some mostly marginal soiling, original endpapers with advertisements bound in. Modern red half morocco, black spine label. A famous account of Burton's journey to..... More
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. First edition, two volumes, 8vo. Folding map and 11 (of 12) 'chromoxylograph' plates plus 22 vignettes in the text, also lacking the folding map, armorial bookplates of Major-General Sir Edward Northey, late owner's booklabel pasted to the title versos. Mid-20th century boards, spines..... More
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. First edition. Two volumes. xxviii, 338; viii, 319, (1) pp. Contemporary brown full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red labels, blindstamped decoration to the panels and an ornate border to the boards, marbled endpapers, prize bookplates from the Royal Masonic Institution..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, [c.1896]. Fifteenth edition, 8vo, (xii), 386 pp. Folding coloured map and 6 plates, prize inscription to front blank, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary wine red calf, double gilt rules, gilt spine with slight sunning else a lovely copy. General Butler travelled from Lake Superior..... More
London: The Architectural Press, (1935). First edition, 8vo, 62, (2) pp. 8 plates plus photographic illustrations and a coloured double page map. Original spiral bound wrappers, some rubbing to the extremities. More
[London]: Macmillan and Co., 1933. First edition, large 8vo, xvi, 328 pp. Coloured frontispiece after a painting by the Author and 24 black and white photographic plates, signature to fly leaf. Original cloth, some light staining and sunning. Travels from Moscow and Leningrad through the Ukraine and Himalayas... More
London: Duckworth, 1928. First edition. 8vo. 292 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, the ownership inscription of an Ianthi Zygounas dated July 1928 to the front free endpaper. Frontispiece and 32 black and white plates, mostly photographic and including many taken by the author. The..... More
London: Printed... by Rouland Hall for Humfrey Toye dwelling in Paules Churche yearde at the signe of the Helmette, 1562. First English edition. Small 4to. (10), 32, 32-68, 99-100, 1-42, [3] ff. Six leaves (D3-E4) with slight loss to the lower corners just clipping the text, now sensitively repaired and..... More
London: Printed for the Author, by W. Bulmer, 1811. First edition, 4to, (iii)-xl, (600) pp, bound without the half title. Contemporary owner's inscription to title, modern booklabel to fly leaf. Recent green half morocco, marbled sides, a lovely copy. More
Huntingdon: Printed by and for A.P. Wood, 1824. Sole edition. 8vo. xii, 338, (44) pp. Later blue buckram, gilt lettered to the spine. Frontispiece view of the town hall plus the town's crest to the title page. Very good. More
Cape Town & Johannesburg, (1962). Limited edition, no. 39 of 500 copies, 4to, (viii), 340 pp. Black and white illustrations, bookplate. Original full red morocco, extremities a little worn. More
London: John Murray, 1881, 1903. "New edition" and "Fourth impression" respectively. Two volumes. 8vo. xiv, 438; xii, 351, (1) pp. Partially unopened in publisher's ribbed white cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to the spines, blind ornamentation to the boards 10 frontispieces and illustrated sectional titles, 11 plans (Gloucester having two)..... More
London: The Argonaut Press, 1927. Limited edition, no. 655 of 975 copies printed on japon vellum, small 4to, xxx, 287, (3) pp. Two facsimile title pages, 3 plates and 3 further illustrations. Original quarter vellum, outer edge of covers damp stained, internally fine. First published in 1686, with this edition..... More
London: Trigraph for the A.G. Leventis Foundation, (1984). Limited edition, no. 13 of 200 copies. 8vo. xii, 244 pp. Publisher's green morocco, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board. Frontispiece portrait of the author plus 19 full page illustrations and 2 double page. Fine. Taken from Charlemont's hitherto unpublished..... More
London: F.M. Blake, (1909). First edition, 8vo, (viii), 141, (1) pp. 14 plates. Recent gilt titled half morocco over the original boards. More
(Chambray-lès-Tours: Editions C.L.D., 1983). No. 1,034 of 2,100 copies, 8vo, 343, (5) pp. Black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w., a few marks, very good. More
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1930. First edition. 8vo. (xiv), 239, (1) pp. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. 8 plates and 8 maps. Neat old reinforcements on the jacket verso along the top and lower edges, imperceptible from the recto, a few marks, two leaves..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1900. "New" (i.e. second) impression, 8vo, xiv, 498, (2), 32 catalogue pp. 4 maps - 1 coloured and 3 folding. Complete but with the preliminaries and the first 16 pages supplied from another copy, with an inscription dated November 1981 on a piece of the..... More
Boston: Congregational Publishing Society, 1876. Sole edition. 8vo. 326 pp. Publisher's russet cloth with black horizontal rules, gilt lettered to the spine, contemporary ownership inscription to the front flyleaf. Some mild rubbing to the spine ends, very good overall. The first dozen chapters provide a potted history of the near..... More
Tenby: R. Mason, 1880. First edition, 8vo, (iv), 132 pp. 6 plates, bookplate of Exeter City Library with a cancellation stamp to the rear paste down. Original gilt titled cloth, handwritten spine title, light rubbing to extremities. More
London: Phoenix House Limited, (1951). 8vo, xvi, 630 pp. 209 black and white illustrations, patterned endpapers. Handsomely bound by the Wigmore Bindery in contemporary red morocco, t.e.g., with a series of horizontal gilt and blind lines to the upper cover and spine, spine slightly sunned otherwise a lovely copy. First..... More