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$22.50
xx54pol201945

Terra Australis to Australia


WILLIAMS, GLYNDWR & FROST, ALAN (eds)

Imp 8vo 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: Oxford University Press 1988

KEYWORDS: Australia discovery exploration voyages travel

$30.00
xx54pol201958

Looking for La Perouse: D'Entrecasteaux in Australia and the South Pacific 1792-1793


HORNER, FRANK

Super 8vo 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 Miegunyah Press 1995

KEYWORDS: 18th century voyages travel exploration pacific Australua Oceania

$32.50
xx54pol201959

Racundra's Third Cruise


RANSOME, ARTHUR; HAMMETT, BRIAN (ed)

Super 8vo 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: Fernhurst Books 2002

KEYWORDS: 20th century cruise voyage travel River Lieupe Riga Latvia Jelgrava 1920s

$45.00
2s12a/8

Harold Nicolson: A Biography 1886-1929, 1930-1968 (2 vols)


LEES-MILNE, JAMES

2 VOL SET. 8vo, heavy blue card boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, frontis. (vol 1 only), vol 1- xii + 429 pp., vol 2- xii + 403 pp., plates, VG+ (minor scuffing to boards, sl scuffing & bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, light tanniing & soiling to pg edges, light taning to eps, light soiling to reps & terminals (vol 1)), in d/ws, VG+ (sl tanning to edges, light fading to spine (vol 1), light soiling to front cover & spine (vol 2), light creasing/bruising to edges (vol 2)).

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1980-81

KEYWORDS: Harold Nicolson biography life lives 19th 20th century travel diary diarist diplomat

$25.00
xx55pol201996

The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave Levant Merchant (1647-1656)


BARGRAVE, ROBERT & BRENNAN, MICHAEL G (Ed)

Super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) 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 c/o The Map Library 1999

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society history historical exploration voyages maritime nautical travel diaries journals Robert Bargrave 17th seventeenth century

$35.00
xx55pol201997

Four Travel Journals: The Americas, Antarctica and Africa 1775-1874


BEALS, HERBERT K et al (Eds)

Super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) 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 / Ashgate 2007

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society history historical exploration voyages maritime nautical travel diaries journals 18th eighteenth century Americas Antarctica south pole Africa

$18.50
xx55pol202016

Holy Places of the British Isles: A Guide to the Legendary and Sacred Sites


ANDERSON, WILLIAM & HICKS, CLIVE (Photo)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Ebury Press 1983

KEYWORDS: Great Britain British isles travel guides sacred sites ancient history spirituality religious

$845.00
2s7a/10

Syria: The Holy Land and Asia Minor, Illustrated (3 Vol Set)


CARNE, JOHN (Text) & BARTLETT, W H (Illus) & PURSER, WILLIAM (Illus) & ALLOM, THOMAS (Illus)

3 VOL SET, imperial octavo, green textured buckram half leather bound boards, gilt lettering to leather title plates to spines, gilt tooling/decoration to spines & boards, marbled page edges & eps, frontispieces with tissue guards to vols 1+2, unguarded frontispiece to vol 3, folding maps to prelims of vol 1, maps to prelims of vol 3, plates, mixed pagination, illus/plates - all counted & present with tissue guards, G+ (v heavy chipping/scuffing/bruising to spines & board extrems/edges with some moderate loss, moderate tanning to spines, moderate to heavy staining/fading/discolouration to boards, heavy tanning to page edges, sm ex-libris plates to front pastedowns of all vols, moderate fading & water staining to eps, minor cracking to front and/or rear gutters to each vol, light to moderate tanning and/or foxing throughout with moderate water staining to top edges of most pages of each vol)

PUBLISHER: Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son & Co 1842

KEYWORDS: history culture travel writing literature Syria illustrated Asia Minor religion religious land

$40.00
ak2/6a/12

Wanderings and Memories


MILLAIS, J G

8vo, red buckram blind paneled bds, gilt lettering & rules to spine, frontis. with tissue guard, xii + 298 pp., plates, VG (light scuffing & soiling to bds, moderate fading to spine--esp lettering, moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, light to moderate soiling/tanning & foxing to pg edges & eps, minor foxing throughout).

PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green and Co. 1919

KEYWORDS: history travel hunting guns firearms travelling fishing adventure birds

$35.00
xx33pol202203

Express to Hindustan: An Account of a Motor-Car Journey from London to Delhi


ELLIS, M H

FIRST EDITION, ex-library- minimal markings, 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: John Lane / Bodley Head 1929

KEYWORDS: first editions travel writing literature car road trips M H Ellis history historical

$25.00
xx32pol202236

The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania and Mutiny in the South Pacific


PRESSER, BRANDON

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: Icon Books 2022

KEYWORDS: history historical travel writing literature South Pacific region Pitcairn Island mutineers HMS Bounty maritime nautical crime

$20.00
xx32pol202247

Touring in New Zealand


HARROP, A J

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: George Allen & Unwin 1935

KEYWORDS: first editions travel writing literature New Zealand touring road trips

$17.50
xx31pol202277

Eating India: Exploring the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices


BANERJI, CHITRITA

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: Bloomsbury 2008

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature food cuisine India Indian culinary culture

$20.00
xx31pol202280

Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors


COLLINGHAM, LIZZIE

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: Oxford University Press 2006

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature history culture India Indian curry curries food cuisine recipes

$19.50
xx31pol202282

Old Polish Traditions, in the Kitchen and at the Table


LEMNIS, MARIA & VITRY, HENRYK

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: Hippocrene Books 1998

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Poland Polish food cuisine customs culture family

$17.50
xx36pol202356

Darkness Over Tibet


ILLION, T

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: Adventures Unlimited Press 1991

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature mysticism eastern adventure esoteric Tibet

$19.50
xx36pol202396

The Hike, and the Art of Onedownmanship


SHAW, DON

INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED, 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: Tideswell Press 2004

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Peak District English countryside Don Shaw signed

$15.00
xx37pol202414

The Devil's Picnic


GRESCOE, TARAS

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: Macmillan 2005

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature culture Taras Grescoe

$15.00
37pol202432

The Book Smuggler


AL-KHAMIS, OMAIMA; ENANY, SARAH (transl)

8vo 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: Hoopoe 2021

KEYWORDS: anicent Arab Arabian book Middle Ages Arabic travel writing Islamic Golden Age

$90.00
2s20c/5

An Account of the Discoveries Made in the South Pacific Ocean


DALRYMPLE, ALEXANDER & FEWSTER, Dr KEVIN (Fore) & COOK, Dr ANDREW (Essay)

Octavo, quarter leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, frontispiece, (47pp) + xxxi+103pp, folding maps throughout- not counted presumed all present, Near FINE (v sl chafing/fading to boards)

PUBLISHER: Hordern House 1996

KEYWORDS: facsimile reprints exploration history historical voyages travel south Pacific ocean Alexander Dalrymple maritime nautical

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