Ashford: Kentish Express, 1898. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 328 pp. Frontispiece and 26 plates, including 2 double page maps, contemporary inscriptions to paste down and frontispiece recto, tissue guard foxed with slight offsetting to the frontispiece and title page. Original gilt titled blue-grey cloth, silver crest to upper cover, spine..... More
Ashford: Kentish Express [and] London: Houlston and Sons, 1895. First edition. 8vo. (viii), 95, (1) pp. Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt lettered to the upper board. Double page map and two full page plates. Some very light rubbing to extremities, a little wear to the front hinge though it remains..... More
Staplehurst: Spellmount, (1995). Four volumes, first editions, 8vo. Signed by the author in each volume, numerous illustrations in both colour and black and white, map endpapers. Cloth, d.w.'s, light sunning of spines otherwise an excellent set. More
London: T. Werner Laurie, [1907]. Second edition, 8vo, (xvi), 272 pp. Frontispiece and 36 plates, owner's name to fly leaf. Original decorative cloth, spine dull with mild rubbing to the lower joint. More
London: Heinemann, (1977). First edition. 8vo. x, 310 pp. Publisher's grey cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. 16 pp. of black and white photographic illustrations and 5 maps. A fine copy. More
Paris: Au Siège Social du Club Alpin Français, 1884. 8vo, (xii), 503, (1) pp. 55 illustrations, including a folding panorama, and 2 maps, some occasional light foxing. Later purple half cloth, marbled sides, t.e.g., spine faded otherwise very good. Including 15 topographical and 6 scientific papers. More
New York: John G. Wells, 1857. Small 8vo, 162 pp, with a frontispiece of the Capitol building, engraved portraits of the Presidents and illustrations of the seals of the (then) 31 states, some foxing, fly leaf removed, modern bookplate, original gilt titled blind stamped cloth, spine ends bumped. More
London: David Bogue, 1851. Sole edition. Folio. Contemporary black half morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, circular blind tooled device repeated to the other compartments, marbled endpapers, the armorial bookplate of Arthur G. Soames to the front pastedown. 37 plates. Occasional light spotting, very good. More
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Printed by J.M. Carr, 1874. Sole edition, 8vo, (iv), iv, 176 pp. 2 maps - one coloured, a plan and 3 plates, plus one illustration in the text, presentation inscription (not from the author) to title, slightly trimmed, ink stamps of the Gateshead Literary Institute to the contents leaf..... More
London: J.E. Hawkins & Co., (1893). First edition, 8vo, viii, 150, (2 advertisement) pp. Frontispiece plus a few illustrations in the text, 2 folding maps at the end. Original cloth backed boards, slightly browned and marked. More
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1911. First edition, 8vo, xx, 208 pp. 32 colour plates plus 37 black and white illustrations in the text, slight cracking of the upper hinge, small piece torn from fly leaf. Original gilt title decorative green cloth, t.e.g., d.w. with slight loss to the spine..... More
Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1938. First edition, large 8vo, (xvi), 286 pp. 6 plates and a folding map plus folding tables at the end. Unopened in the original printed wrappers, a little rubbing to spine otherwise a very good copy. More
London: W. Thacker & Co., 1911. Fifth edition, large 8vo, (x, 78) pp. Pictorial second title and 39 coloured plates, small closed marginal tear to the second title. Original cloth, recently recased. More
Sherborne: Dorset Publishing Company, 1980-82. Three parts plus the index in two volumes, each from their respective first subscription editions of 595 copies. 4to. 600; (601)-1143, (1) pp. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettered to the spines and with a gilt portrait of the author to both of the upper boards..... More
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1877. Tenth edition, small 8vo, xxiv, 365, (1) pp. 20 maps and 20 plans plus a general map to the rear endpapers, contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Original gilt titled red cloth, spine sunned, wear to joints. More
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1900. Twenty-second edition, small 8vo, xl, 458 pp. 35 maps and plans. Original gilt titled red cloth, spine slightly sunned, very good. Hinrichsen D283. More
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1905. Fourteenth edition. Small 8vo. lxx, 474 pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board, early ownership inscription to the half title, dust jacket. 15 maps and 30 plans. Slight wear at the spine ends and corners of the jacket, an excellent copy..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913. 8vo. xxvii, (1), 499, (1) pp. Publisher's dark green blindstamped cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board, early ownership inscriptions of the same owner to the front pastedown and the opposing front free endpaper, the latter dated "Khartoum / April 1925". A...... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. 8vo. (xx), 413, (1) pp. Contemporary buckram for W.H. Smith & Sons' Subscription Library whose bookplate appears to the front pastedown. Colour frontispiece map plus another folding map and 24 illustrations. Some light wear, a decent copy overall. First published in 1867. More
London: J. Madden & Co.; Edinburgh: C. Smith and J. Braidwood. 1845. Second edition. 8vo. (ii), 20, (4), 28, (48) pp. Publisher's brown cloth, original printed title label to the upper board with the handwritten note "Royal and Military Academy" to the lower edge, old pencilled ownership inscription to the..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1888. First edition, 8vo, vi, 322 pp. Later bookplate. Original grey cloth, spine dull, light rubbing to extremities. Travels through India and China. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1908. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece portrait and folding map of the Sudan in volume I. Original gilt titled green cloth, remains of a small label to both upper covers. More
London: John Murray, 1913. Sixth impression, 8vo, x, 316 pp. Portrait frontispiece. Original gilt titled blue cloth, some light marks and rubbing. More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857-58. First English edition. Five volumes. 8vo. Contemporary tan full calf, spines with raised bands, original red title labels with sympathetically renewed green author and volume labels, loss of gilt to the other compartments, all edges and endpapers marbled. Gift inscription to the..... More
Gillingham, (1934). First edition, small 8vo, 40 pp. 3 plates, light spotting to early leaves. Original printed wrappers, signed by Major W.W. Grantham, who contributed a Foreword, on the upper wrapper, some light marks otherwise very good. Adams served aboard a Dutch merchant fleet, and found favour with the Shogun..... More