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$15.00
xxrkk175362

Near East


BEATON, CECIL

Lacks d/w, reprint. Super octavo 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Batsford 1943

KEYWORDS: travel journey egypt alexandria cairo desert

$40.00
1y27a/19

Arminus Vambery: His Life and Adventures Written by Himself


VAMBERY, ARMINUS

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt & black lettering & illus to spine & front board, aeg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xix + 350pp, illus, VG (light chipping & scuffing to extrems, light staining to front board, presentation plate to ffep, light foxing to prelims, some moderate cracking to gutters throughout)

PUBLISHER: T. Fisher Unwin N/D (c.1890s)

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Arminus Vambery travel exploration

$22.50
xxrnk175511

The Southern Journey: A History of the Travelling Routes Along the Coast of Westland


PICKERING, MARK

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Mark Pickering 1993

KEYWORDS: New Zealand exploration travel westland hiking tramping south island

$19.50
xxpac175537

Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings


STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS & ROBINSON, ROGER (Selection, Introduction and Commentaries) & WENDT, ALBERT (Fore)

Super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Bess Press 2003

KEYWORDS: Robert Louis Stevenson writings prose literature collection anthology Pacific travel exploration

$35.00
xxpbb175613

Memories of Travel


BRYCE, VISCOUNT

FIRST EDITION, octavo 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1923

KEYWORDS: travel exploration first edition anecdotes writings

$47.50
1y33a/21

Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel


JARVIS, ROBIN

Octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, x + 246pp, VG+ (light fading to spine, light scuffing & soiling to cover edges, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan Press 2000

KEYWORDS: English literature 19th nineteenth century history literary criticism travel Britain walking

$45.00
1y33a/26

A Winter in Arabia


STARK, FREYA & CORNWALLIS, Sir KINAHAN (Fore)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, teal cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, deckled page edges, frontispiece, xii + 328pp, VG (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1940

KEYWORDS: first edition exploration travel Arabia Freya Stark

$55.00
1y33a/38

Siam


LOTI, PIERRE & BAINES, W. P. (Trans)

Octavo, deep orange buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black lettering & illus to front board, frontispiece, xi + 182pp, illus, VG (ligth bruising & scuffing to extrems, ligth fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: T. Werner Laurie Ltd N/D

KEYWORDS: Pierre Loti literature travel exploration

$40.00
1y33a/39

Jerusalem


LOTI, PIERRE & BAINES, W. P. (Trans)

Octavo, deep orange buckram boards, gilt lettering & black illus to spine & front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, vii + 212pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate tanning & foxing to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: T. Werner Laurie Ltd N/D

KEYWORDS: Pierre Loti literature travel exploration

$60.00
1y33a/40

Japan (Madame Chrysantheme)


LOTI, PIERRE & ENSOR, LAURA (Trans) & ROSSI & MYRBACH (Illus)

Octavo, deep orange buckram boards, gilt lettering & black illus to spine, black lettering & illu to front board, frontispiece, 334pp, illus, VG- (moderate chipping & bruising to spine extrems, light bruising & scuffing to board corners, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, spine cocked, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: T. Werner Laurie Ltd 1925

KEYWORDS: Pierre Loti literature travel exploration

$1250.00
1y37a/15

Four Years in the Pacific in Her Majestys Ship Collingwood from 1844 - 1848 Vol I & Vol II


WALPOLE, Lt. Hon. FRED.

2 VOLUME SET. Super octavo, marble heavy boards, half bound in tan leather, 2 dark green title plates with gilt lettering, gilt rule and decoration to spine, marbled page edges, marbled eps, frontispiece, xiv + 432pp, ix + 415pp, illus, VG+ (sporadic rubbing to boards, crack to front gutter Volume 1)

PUBLISHER: Richard Bentley 1849

KEYWORDS: collingwood ship travel pacific history fred walpole autobiographical

$140.00
1y38a/10

On the Eaves of the World


FARRER, REGINALD

2-VOLUME SET, 2ND IMPRESSION. Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering + gilt rule to spine, gilt lettering + blind rule to boards, frontispiece, 1: xii + 311pp + 33 plates + folding map to rear, 2: viii + 328pp + 29 plates, VG- (moderate bruising to spine + extrems, moderate staining/soiling to boards, light foxing + moderate tanning & creasing to page edges, prev bookseller's label to front pastedown of vol. 2, light to moderate foxing throughout, light soiling to rear eps)

PUBLISHER: Edward Arnold & Co. 1926

KEYWORDS: mountaineering exploration travel travelogue tibet china tibean himalayas himalayan reginald farrer

$185.00
1y38a/27

Through Tibet to Everest


NOEL, J.B.L.

Octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 302pp + 2pp adverts at rear + 25 plates, VG (light bruising to spine + extrems, light rubbing/bruising to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, moderate foxing to eps, prev owner's name in pencil to fep, mild foxing sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Edward Arnold & Co. 1927

KEYWORDS: everest tibet mountaineering j.b.l noel memoir travel exploration adventure nepal mount everest

$85.00
1y38a/35

Magical Malaya


PRATT, AMBROSE

FIRST EDITION, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, gilt lettering & decoration to front board, frontispiece, 278pp + 14 plates, VG- (mild bruising to spine + extrems w/ some fraying at foot of spine, light tanning to page edges, crack running length of front & rear gutters, prev owner's name in pencil to fep, moderate foxing to both eps, occasional v mild foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Robertson & Mullens Ltd. 1931

KEYWORDS: first edition malaya thailand southeast asia travel colonialism british malaya singapore dredging water management china

$20.00
xxpcb175684

Twenty Years A-Growing


O'SULLIVAN, MAURICW

Lacks d/w, first edition, second impression. Super octavo (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 costs

PUBLISHER: Chatto& Windus 1933

KEYWORDS: autobiography irish ireland coming of age youth travel

$8.50
xxpdi175702

Dinosaur Planet


MCCAFFREY, ANNE

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Orbit 1984

KEYWORDS: dinosaurs science fiction outer space travel pulp

$325.00
1y41a/39

The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; a Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature


WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL

FOURTH EDITION, FRONT HINGE WEAK, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt tooling & black rule to spine & front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, illus title page, folding map to front, illus, VG- (moderate scuffing & bruising to extrems & spine, moderate cracking to hinges- boards shaky, heavy cracking to some gutters, light foxing & moderate tanning to page edges, ex-libris plate & prev. bookseller's label to front pastedown, ocassional light pencil marking to margins, light foxing to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co 1872

KEYWORDS: Malay archipelago nature animals history exploration travel anthropology apes birds Alfred Russel Wallace

$25.00
xxpeh175769

Around the Southern Coast


BELMER, ROY (WAYFARER)

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) jacket heavily wrinkled; 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Times Printing Service 1973

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Roy Belmer Wayfarer south island travel

$15.00
xxpei175786

Conquerors of the Antarctic


DE LA CROIX, ROBERT & FITZGERALD, EDWARD (Trans)

EX-LIBRARY, 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Frederick Muller 1958

KEYWORDS: Antarctic exploration travel history maritime nautical south pole

$15.00
xxpel175791

A Fabulous Kingdom: The Exploration of the Arctic


OFFICER, CHARLES & PAGE, JAKE

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2001

KEYWORDS: exploration Arctic north pole travel maritime nautical history

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