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$27.50
xxdqb186884

The History of the Tahitian Mission 1799-1830


DAVIES, JOHN & NEWBURY, C. W. (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society / Cambridge University Press 1961

KEYWORDS: first editions hakluyt society travel literature exploration Tahiti history

$25.00
xxdqb186885

Prutky's Travels in Ethiopia and Other Countries


ARROWSMITH-BROWN, J. H. (Trans & Ed) & PANKHURST, RICHARD (Annotated by)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 1991

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society travel literature exploration Ethiopia Africa history

$25.00
xxdqb186887

The Cabot Voyages and Bristol Discovery Under Henry VII


WILLIAMSON, JAMES A. & SKELTON, R. A. (Cartography)

FIRST EDITION, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society / Cambridge University Press 1962

KEYWORDS: first editions hakluyt society travel literature history exploration cabot voyages

$25.00
xxdqb186889

Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth: Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society 1846-1996


BRIDGES, R. C. & HAIR, P. E. H. (Eds)

FIRST EDITION, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society 1996

KEYWORDS: first editions hakluyt society travel literature history exploration studies

$35.00
xxdqb186890

The Travels of Leo of Rozmital; through Germany, Flanders, England, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy 1465-1467


LETTS, MALCOLM (Trans & Ed)

FIRST EDITION, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society / Cambridge University Press 1957

KEYWORDS: first editions hakluyt society travel literature history exploration Leo Rozmital

$20.00
xxdqc186898

Further Selections From the Tragic History of the Sea 1559-1565


BOXER, C. R. (Trans & Ed)

FIRST EDITION, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society / Cambridge University Press 1968

KEYWORDS: first editions hakluyt society exploration travel literature history shipwrecks Portuguese 16th sixteenth century

$22.50
xxdqc186899

The Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-West Coast of America, in the Pacific and in New South Wales 1794-1799


BISHOP, CAPTAIN CHARLES & ROE, MICHAEL (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society / Cambridge University Press 1967

KEYWORDS: first editions hakluyt society travel literature exploration journal diaries letters correspondence America Australia late 18th eighteenth century history Captain Charles Bishop

$30.00
xxdqc186900

Jerusalem Pilgrimage 1099-1185


WILKINSON, JOHN & HILL, JOYCE & RYAN, W. F.

FIRST EDITION, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society 1988

KEYWORDS: first editions hakluyt society travel literature exploration Jerusalem history pilgrimages

$16.50
xxdqh186945

Peaks, Passes and Glaciers


BLAKENEY, E. H. (Annotated by)

Sm 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: J. M. Dent & Sons c.1926

KEYWORDS: everyman's library books travel literature alpine journal E H Blakeney

$20.00
xxdrn187010

The Itinerario of Jeronimo Lobo


LOCKHART, DONALD M. (Trans) & DA COSTA, M. G. (Ed) & BECKINGHAM, C. F. (Intro & Notes)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society 1984

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society books exploration history travel literature Jeronimo Lobo

$17.50
xxdsk187024

The Journal of Rochfort Maguire 1852-1854: Volume II


BOCKSTOCE, JOHN (Ed)

THIS VOL ONLY, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society 1988

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society exploration history travel literature Rochfort Maguire

$20.00
xxdsn187035

Juan Maria Schuver's Travels in North East Africa 1880-1883


JAMES, WENDY & BAUMANN, GERD & JOHNSON, DOUGLAS H. (eds.) & [SCHUVER, JUAN MARIA]

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: The Hakluyt Society 1996

KEYWORDS: juan maria schuver africa exploration explorer dutch holland netherlands sudan egypt travel explorer

$45.00
2g37a/37

On the Bus: The Complete Guide to the Legendary Trip of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and the Birth of the Counterculture


PERRY, PAUL et al

Square super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, orange & blue lettering to spine, xxvii + 195pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing & curling to covers, moderate fading to spine & cover edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Thunder's Mouth Press 1996

KEYWORDS: travel literature popular culture Ken Kesey merry pranksters biography memoir autobiography swinging 60s sixties Ken Babbs psychadelic

$65.00
2e10b/12

Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corsico and Cameroons (Second Edition, Abridged)


KINGSLEY, MARY H.

Octavo, red textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to boards, frontispiece with tissue guard, xx + 541pp, illus, VG (moderate scuffing & bruising to extrems, light fading & scuffing to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prize presentation plate to front pastedown, ex-libris plate to verso of half title page, light foxing to pages throughout, moderate cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1900

KEYWORDS: travel literature anthropology culture West Africa exploration Mary H Kingsley

$55.00
2e16a/27

Interplanetary Flight: An Introduction to Astronautics


CLARKE, ARTHUR C.

FIRST EDITION, LACKS FEP, octavo, blue buckram boards, dark blue lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + 164pp, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate fading & foxing to spine, light foxing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ffep missing, minor foxing sporadically throughout, light cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: Temple Press 1950

KEYWORDS: first editions Arthur C Clarke astronautics space travel flight rockets stations physics

$40.00
2f17a/19

Log-Letters From The Challenger (Fourth Edition, Revised)


CAMPBELL, LORD GEORGE

EX-LIBRARY- REBACKED, FOURTH EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, white handwritten lettering to spine, folding map frotnispiece, 512pp + 36pp catalogue to rear, VG (usual library markings, light scuffing to extrems, light chafing to spine & boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning to eps & prelims/terminals, occasional foxing to prelims & terminalslight cracking to rear gutters)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1877

KEYWORDS: exploration The Challenger maritime nautical history logs letters correspondence travel

$75.00
2f17a/45

Footprints of Travellers: Europe - Asia - Africa - America (2 Vols Bound as One)


N/A

2 VOLS BOUND AS ONE, sm octavo, red/brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration with black handwritten lettering to title plate to spine, deckled page edges, 142pp + 144pp, VG- (moderate bruising to extrems, heavy soiling to spine & boards, heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, ffep missing, light soiling to eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: John Cassell 1850

KEYWORDS: travel literature culture anecdotes

$15.00
xxdva187069

Mountains of the Moon


SYNGE, PATRICK M.

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Waterstone 1985

KEYWORDS: patrick synge botany flowers africa gardening travel britain british nature

$15.00
xxdvd187088

Alone and Loitering: Pages from an Artist's travel-diary (1938-1944)


BAKER, SILVIA & WILLIAMS-ELLIS, CLOUGH (comment)

LACKS FEP; 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: Peter Davies 1946

KEYWORDS: slivia baker travel travelogue drawing drawings art artist malta maltese britain british

$350.00
2f17a/65

Glimpses of New Zealand; Being a Collection of High-class and Perfectly-finished Views of the Beautiful Britain of the South


N/A

Oblong quarto, brown textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, blind stamp illus/decoration to boards, patterned eps, frontispiece, 192 black & white plates & 22pp index to rear, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, light to moderate scuffing & soiling to spine & boards, light soiling & foxing to page edges, light to moderate cracking to some gutters, light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Glimpses of New Zealand Publishing Co 1896

KEYWORDS: New Zealand travel literature culture scenery photography photos

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