Books - "travel"
Showing 3281 to 3300 of 4396 results.
Near East
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
Arminus Vambery: His Life and Adventures Written by Himself
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
The Southern Journey: A History of the Travelling Routes Along the Coast of Westland
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
Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings
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
Memories of Travel
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
Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel
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
A Winter in Arabia
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
Siam
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
Jerusalem
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
Japan (Madame Chrysantheme)
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
Four Years in the Pacific in Her Majestys Ship Collingwood from 1844 - 1848 Vol I & Vol II
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
On the Eaves of the World
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
Through Tibet to Everest
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
Magical Malaya
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
Twenty Years A-Growing
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
Dinosaur Planet
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
The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; a Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature
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
Around the Southern Coast
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
Conquerors of the Antarctic
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
A Fabulous Kingdom: The Exploration of the Arctic
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