London: John Murray, 1994. First edition. 4to. (ii), 285, (1) pp. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board, dust jacket. Colour photographs throughout. Sight fading to the jacket spine, an attractive copy. More about Corfu. The Garden Isle. Presented by... Edited by Frank Giles
London: Henry T. Wood, 1933. First edition, folio, (114) pp. Etched frontispiece titled and signed by the author plus 50 plates. Original gilt titled red buckram, very slight fading of spine, a few marks, very good. More about Changing London
Leicester: De Elarge, [n.d.]. Folio, 8, (2) pp, with 26 plates including the title, two toned cloth, gilt label to upper cover, d.w. with some soiling and a few minor tears. A modern facsimile edition of a now very scarce work originally published c.1830. More about Views of Ancient Buildings in the Town and County of Leicester
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1843. First edition. Large 8vo. x, 424, (4) pp. Recent plain cloth, gilt lettered to the spine. 9 lithographic plates, 9 "topographic sketch" maps over another 9 plates plus a full page map to the front of the book and the striking large folding map... More about Travels Through the Alps of Savoy and Other Parts of the Pennine Chain. With Observations on the...
London: Cassell and Company, (1925). First edition, large 8vo, xii, 368 pp. Frontispiece and 59 black and white photographic illustrations plus a folding map at the end. Original light green cloth, spine slightly dull otherwise an excellent copy. A journey inland from the coast to Addis Ababa, including a meeting... More about From Red Sea to Blue Nile. Abyssinian Adventures
London: B.T. Batsford, (1933). First edition, 8vo, x, 67, (3) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations plus line drawings in the text, later booklabel to front blank, patterned endpapers. Handsomely bound in two tone leather, most of the boards and the foot of the spine being light brown calf, with... More about The Landscape of England. Illustrated from drawings by Brian Cook... With a foreword by G.M....
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1982. Four volumes, 8vo. 43 illustrations and maps. Gilt titled cloth, d.w.'s, three spines a little sunned, very good. Hakluyt Society, second series, volumes 152-155. More about The Resolution Journal of... 1772-1775. Edited by Michael E. Hoare
London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1925. First edition, 8vo, (xiv), 335, (1) pp. 24 plates, inscription partially erased from the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w. with some fading and mild wear to edges. More about A Tropical Tramp with the Tourists
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1870. 8vo, 510 pp. Portrait frontispiece of Kane and 7 plates plus a folding map, the latter with two closed tears to the inner edge, later signature to front blank, marbled endpapers. Handsomely bound in contemporary calf with blind stamped rules and decoration, red spine... More about Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55
London: Cassell and Company, 1910. First edition, large 8vo, xx, 295, (1) pp. Coloured frontispiece, folding map, and 150 plates, faded owner's inscription to paste down, library label to the rear paste down with remnants of another to the opposing free endpaper. Original gilt and red decorated dark blue cloth... More about In the Heart of Africa. Translated by G.E. Maberly-Oppler
London: J.F. for John Williams at the signe of the Crown in Pauls Church-yard, 1650. First edition. 4to. Recent panelled calf, spine with raised bands, old gilt lettered red label preserved, all edges red. Frontispiece, engraved title, folding map of Palestine and 27 double plates comprising 19 maps (unusually many... More about Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament...
London: Chapman and Hall, 1882. First edition. 8vo. xii, 426, (11) pp. Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, the Russian imperial crest to the upper board. Folding map. Some light rubbing to the extremities and a little foxing to the front and rear, very good overall. More about A Summer Tour in Russia
Princeton University Press, (1979). First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 265, (3) pp. Publisher's compliment's slip loosely inserted. Cloth, d.w. with some minor edge wear, very good. More about The Rulers of Belgian Africa. 1884-1914
Lugduni Batav. [Leiden]: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, (1640). Second edition, two volumes, 16mo, (xvi), 408; 382, (2) pp. Engraved title in volume I, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplates of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the... More about Respublica et Status Imperii Romano-Germanici
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London: R. Ackermann, 1820, 1821. First editions. Two volumes bound in one. 4to. xvi, 178; viii, 177, (1) pp. Contemporary tan full calf, spine with raised bands, olive gilt lettered labels expertly renewed, gilt device repeated to the other compartments, gilt and blindstamped borders to the boards, endpapers and all... More about A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne... [bound with] SAUVAN, M. Picturesque...
(Tel Aviv): Steimatzky Ltd., (1985). Folio. (24) pp. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. 44 full page illustrations reproducing fine original photos of the city in the closing decades of Ottoman rule, further illustrations set into the text. Excellent condition. The first edition was published in German five years earlier, this being... More about Eternal Jerusalem 1840-1917
Bruxelles: Ad. Stapleaux, 1817. 12mo, viii, 143, (1) pp. Folding frontispiece. Uncut in contemporary red half morocco, boards a little worn, some other rubbing. More about Nouvelle Description Historique, Topographique et Critique de Bruxelles, ou le Guide du...
Large 8vo, (20) pp. 3 maps. Printed wrappers, stapled as issued, the staples now rusty otherwise fine. Loosely inserted is a tls. to the Author from the University enclosing complimentary copies and making further copies available at cost. Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1986), popularly known as "Glubb Pasha", Commander of... More about The Mixture of Races in the Eastern Arab Countries. The Fourth J.L. Myres Memorial Lecture......
(Tiptree: The Anchor Press, 1980). Limited edition, no. 61 of 100 copies signed by the author, 8vo, 371, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 53 photographic illustrations, map endpapers. Gilt titled calf, a.e.g., spine slightly dull, slipcase, a near fine copy. More about The Story of the Arab Legion
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, [1928]. Sole edition. 8vo. viii, 114 pp. Contemporary brown half morocco over marbled boards, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and 15 plates plus numerous illustration sin the text. A literary history of this famous London street. More about The Ghosts of Fleet Street. With illustrations by Joseph Pike
London: Macmillan and Co., 1920. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 315, (1, 6 advertisement) pp. One photographic plate. Original cloth, spine ends and corners rubbed. An account of African-American society, parts of which were initially published in Harpers Magazine. More about Children of the Slaves
Bideford: W. Crosbie Coles, [1883]. First edition, small 8vo, viii, 110 pp. Original gilt titled blue cloth, minor rubbing to spine ends and corners, spine slightly darkened otherwise a very good bright copy. More about The History of Bideford. Compiled from various sources by... Reprinted with various additions and...
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903. First edition thus, 8vo, (xvi), 397, (5 blank) pp, a mostly unopened copy in the original cloth, inner hinges strained, covers marked, ends of spine and tips of corners rubbed. Comprehensive volume with Author and Subject indexes to the books and recording more than 800... More about A List of Books (with reference to periodicals) on the Philippine Islands. in the Library of...
Abidjan: Art et Edition, 1988. First edition. 4to. (iv), 2, 220 pp. Glossy printed card covers. Hundreds of black and white reproductions of original postcards, generally featuring ethnographic or topographical illustrations. Slight tanning to the spine, else very good. More about Centenaire de la Côte-d'Ivoire 1887/1888-1988 en Cartes Postales. Répertoire de la Carte...
Bangalore City: Karnataka Publishing House, [1931]. First edition. 8vo. (iv), 141, (3) pp. Publisher's white cloth, black lettered to the spine and upper board, matching devices to both covers, gift inscription to a Sir Richard Gregory to the front free endpaper dated "Bangalore 8-2-33". 30 black and white photographic plates... More about All About Mysore. A Comprehensive Handbook Up-to-Date & Illustrated