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East of Kathmandu


WEIR, TOM

Octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: The Travel Book Club (N/D)

KEYWORDS: travel nepal mountains mountaineering

$12.50
xxqga145450

Livingstone the Liberator: A Study of a Dynamic Personality


MACNAIR, JAMES I.

Folding map to rear, duodecimo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Collins Clear-Type Press n/d

KEYWORDS: exploration Livingstone biography travel memoir

$15.00
xxqga145454

The Complete Notes: Notes From a Small Island & Notes From a Big Country


BRYSON, BILL

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Doubleday 2000

KEYWORDS: humour travel humour omnibus Bill Bryson

$40.00
1y13/46

Notes on the Customs of Cambodia


TA-KUAN, CHOU & PELLIOT, PAUL (Trans) & PAUL, J. GILMAN D'ARCY (Trans)

Square super octavo, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, 41pp, illus, VG+ (light scuffing/soiling to board edges, light tanning to eps) in d/w, VG- (light creasing to edges, light soiling to covers, 1cm closed tear to spine, 3cm closed tear to bottom, moderate scuffing to front, archival tape to top spine area)

PUBLISHER: Social Science Assoc. Press 1967

KEYWORDS: Cambodia travel illustrated history culture

$45.00
1y16/47

Argyll and Bute


TRANTER, NIGEL

FIRST EDITION, octavo, forest green heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, 396pp, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) in d/w & removable protective plastic cover, VG, (light chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, 5cm closed tear to top of spine, price clipped)

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1977

KEYWORDS: first edition illustrated Scotland maps travel exploration history culture

$140.00
1y18/12

Heart and Thought Memories of Eastern Travel


HOLMES, T.

scarce; octavo; dark blue cloth boards; gilt lettering & decoration on spine & cover; dark maroon eps; top edge of pages coloured black; tissue paper fold-out map of lands of the Bible and Lands adjacent; xv+325pp; VG (sl. rubbing, soiling & bruising to covers & edges; pages & prelims sl. foxed; eps are sl. soiled with a little surface loss; spine faded) Very sound overall.

PUBLISHER: J. W. Glesdale 1887

KEYWORDS: travel East bible Egypt Greece Suez history Thebes Luxor

$14.00
xxqgl146023

Provence: A Country Almanac


JONES, LOUISA

Quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 1993

KEYWORDS: provence france photography travel countryside

$14.00
xxqgl146050

Maui Handbook


BISIGNANI, J.D

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Moon Publicatiosn 1986

KEYWORDS: hawaii maui travel guide island united states

$60.00
1y19/35

Coffee Encounters: Adventures to Origin


HUNTER, TONY ET AL

Large quarto, illus heavy card boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims/terminals 540pp, illus, VG (light soiling to half title page, moderate creasing to random pages throughout, sl mouldy smell, otherwise near fine)

PUBLISHER: Smudge Books 2013

KEYWORDS: coffee illustrated beverages drinks history explorarion travel beans farming Latin America Indonesia

$65.00
1y19/40

Egypt Lost and Found: Explorers and Travellers on the Nile


SILIOTTI, ALBERTO

Folio, white heavy card boardsm gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, illus title page & prelims, 359pp + 9pp, illus, VG (light scuffing & soiling board edges, light foxing to boards & page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & soiling to edges, light tape residue to top front corner, 6cm closed tear to top edge with sellotape repair, 2cm closed tear to bottom edge)

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1998

KEYWORDS: art ancient Egypt illustrated heiroglyphics antiquities pictorial exploration travel

$9.50
xxgdb146269

The Last Pink Bits


RITCHIE, HARRY

large octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Sceptre 1997

KEYWORDS: travel adventure humour wry British Empire imperial power

$60.00
1y21/5

The Giant Cities of Bashan and Syria's Holy Places


PORTER, Rev. J. L.

Octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt & black tooling to front board, blind rule & stamp to rear board, frontispiece with tissue guard, illus half title page, v + 371pp, VG- (heavy chipping & moderate chafing to spine extrems, light scuffing to spine & board corners, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, crack to fulll length of gutters, pgs 1-10 missing, pgs 11-12 completely detached but present, boards sl shaky)

PUBLISHER: T. Nelson and Sons 1881

KEYWORDS: religion exploration travel history Syria Jerusalem Jordan Galilee northern border

$40.00
1y22/27

Bali, Sekala & Niskala: Essays on Religion, Ritual & Art


EISEMAN, FRED B. JNR. & EISEMAN, MARGARET ( two chaps)

two vol set, super octavo, illus, light card covers, black lettering on spine, vol 1: xv+376, vol 2: xv+383pp, illus, VG+ (sl. sunning to covers of vol. 1, mod. sunning to vol 2)

PUBLISHER: Periplus 1996

KEYWORDS: autobiography travel Bali Indonesia Balinese culture dance art geography gamelan Hinduism music pageants rituals ceremony

$100.00
1y22/36

Summer in Egypt: Illustrated Guide of the Egyptian State Railways


n/a

octavo, illus. light card covers, red lettering to fr. cover, frontis, 101pp, illus. incl 2 colour fold-out maps, VG (well-read but sound; sl. wear & tear to covers, with sl. surface loss to spine, which has been sealed with sellotape; sl. foxing to prelims; sl. tanning to pages; binding a little shaky; prvious owner's name, in pencil, on fep)

PUBLISHER: Egyptian State Railways c.1912 (reference on p.95 to sailings to be in 1913)

KEYWORDS: Egypt holidays holiday brochure information tourists tourism travel Nile history

$75.00
1y22/43

Travelling Artists in Cyprus 1700-1960


SEVERIS, RITA C.

square quarto, emerald green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus. eps, frontis, 278pp, illus, Near FiNE, in d/w Near FINE.

PUBLISHER: Philip Wilson 2000

KEYWORDS: travel art history Cyprus influences imperialism orientalism colonialism Ottoman Greece Malta Britain artists painting monuments ethnography

$145.00
1y25/22

Sketches in New Zealand with Pen and Pencil: From a Journal Kept in That Country From July 1846 to June 1848


POWER, W. TYRONE

Octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering & tooling & raised bands to spine, page edges stained red, frontispiece with tissue guard, xlviii + 290pp, illus, VG- (heavy chippping & scuffing to spine & extrems, heavy scuffing to boards & corners with some surface loss, moderate tanning & heavy foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals, moderate water staining to page edges, 6cm tear to tissue guard & moderate wrinkling, owner's name in ink to fep, light cracking to gutters, all illus present but moderately water stained)

PUBLISHER: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans 1849

KEYWORDS: New Zealand illustrated journal history exploration travel culture

$8.50
xxrba146528

Circle of Ra


WEBB, FORREST

paperback (VG-): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Corgi 1982

KEYWORDS: literature fiction Egypt time travel thriller supernatural

$40.00
1y28/25

Drums of Mer


IDRIESS, ION L.

Octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering & rule to spine & front board, printed front eps, frontispiece, xviii + 378pp + 8pp adverts, illus, VG (light creasing to spine extrems, light discolouration to spine, light scuffing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, owner's name in ink to verso of frontispiece)

PUBLISHER: Angus & Robertson 1936

KEYWORDS: travel exploration Mer culture illustrated

$40.00
1y29/11

Russell and the Bay of Islands: A Guide to the Chief Places of Interest, With Brief Historical Notes etc


RUSSELL, MONTAGU

Octavo, illus stapled covers, 47pp + 16pp adverts, illus, VG- (heavy creasing to edges, archival tape repair to spine, moderate foxing & staining to covers)

PUBLISHER: M. Smethurst (Printer) 1931

KEYWORDS: New Zealand illustrated travel Russell Bay of Islands history culture guide

$245.00
1y29/46

The Eastern Traveller's Guide: Diary and Souvenir of Voyage For Passengers to Egypt, India, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania


CHARLTON, FRANK

FIRST EDITION, duodecimo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, xv + 95pp + unpaginated diary pgs to rear- no entries made/pgs clean, illus, VG- (heavy discolouration to spine & front board, moderate chafing to rear board, moderate tanning to page edges, previous owners' names in ink to eps)

PUBLISHER: William Clowes and Sons 1901

KEYWORDS: first edition travel exploration guide souvenir diary journal

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